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Progressive activist KIMBERLY ELLIS made a mad dash to San Jose Monday to administer the oath of office for Santa Clara County’s newest supervisor. Ellis— hailed as the most powerful unelected Democratic in California politics—packed the day’s schedule with swearing-in ceremonies of Gov. GAVIN NEWSOM , state Controller BETTY YEE , Superintendent of Public Instruction TONY THURMOND and the state’s first female Lt. Gov. ELENI KOUNALAKIS Don’t before the hour-andforget 47-minute jaunt from to tip! the capitol to the county chambers for SUSAN FLY@ ELLENBERG’s.“Luckily, METRONEWS. the highway patrol were COM otherwise engaged this evening,” Ellis quipped, “and I was able to get here with no delay.”

Like the commencement of the 116th Congress, Ellenberg’s officiation was marked by cameos of children, heartfelt embraces and a gajillion selfies.

After glowing introductions from her three grown children, daughter-in-law and beaming husband, STEVE ELLENBERG , the newest addition to the five-member county board thanked the team that helped her arrive at that moment, namely, campaign staff-turned-District 4 hires ANGELICA RAMOS-ALLEN , STEVE KLINE and DAVID FERNANDEZ , as well as newly hired Chief-of-Staff DERRICK SEAVER and Communications Director MAYRA FLORES DE MARCOTTE .

And especially, Ellenberg added, her partner of 30 years.

“I have to admit that never have we had more fun together than running political campaigns in 2014 for school board and over the past two years for this seat,” she said. “It is an incredible bonding experience.

And truly, I feel overwhelmed with love and gratitude every time I think about him knocking on 20,000 doors to tell people one by one why he thinks I’m amazing and should be elected to serve our community.”

The audience laughed.

“Whoever said politics aren’t romantic,” Ellenberg continued, “clearly has not met the two of us.”

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FREE SPEECH ‘The Patriot Act’ host Hasan Minhaj mocked the futility of the Saudis censoring a show that’s readily available elsewhere online.

Netflix Bows to Saudi Censors Pundits routinely conflate clapback with censorship, claiming persecution when private companies like Facebook, Apple and Twitter police their platforms by ousting racists and conspiracymongering trolls. But one Silicon Valley giant came under fire in recent days for ceding to actual civil rights-violating suppression of free speech.

Netflix bowed to an autocratic government’s order to silence a critic.

According to a Jan. 1 Financial Times report, the Los Gatos-based streaming service yanked an episode in Saudi Arabia of “The Patriot Act” over host Hasan Minhaj’s condemnation of the kingdom’s murderous monarchy.

In the show’s second installment, which first aired Oct. 28, the Californiabred Muslim-American comedian rebuked Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the slaying of renowned columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war in Yemen.

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I guess he’s not really a reformer,’” Minhaj observed of 33-year-old bin Salman, who’s accused by the U.S. Senate and the CIA of orchestrating the gruesome killing.

Minhaj also slammed Silicon Valley for choosing money over morals.

The crown prince has famously cozied up to tech industry elites as oilfueled Saudi wealth became the biggest funding source for U.S. companies, including Uber, Twitter, Tesla, DoorDash, Slack and Nvidia, among others. Last year, bin Salman touched down in East Palo Alto to hobnob with bigwigs from Palantir, Clarium Capital, Valar Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Y-Combinator.

“WeWork won’t let you expense meat,” Minhaj remarked about the startup going vegetarian over environmental concerns, “but you take money from Saudi Arabia? So you’re against slaughterhouses unless they’re in Yemen?”

The show’s commentary—which should resonate with the South Bay

politicos and business boosters who joined a delegation to Riyadh last spring—prompted a legal warning from Saudi officials who claimed it violated the kingdom’s cybercrime statutes.

Netflix downplayed its decision as benign. “We strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and removed this episode only in Saudi Arabia after we had received a valid legal demand from the government—and to comply with local law,” the company insisted.

That same broadly worded local law has been used by Saudi prosecutors to justify the jailing, torture and death of people who dare to speak out against the royal regime.

In a tweet, Minhaj scoffed at the futility of the attempt to silence him considering that Saudis can still find the offending episode free of charge on another popular platform.

“Clearly,” he wrote, “the best way to stop people from watching something is to ban it, make it a trend online and then leave it up on YouTube.”

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LAW AND DISORDER John Mlnarik, the former president of the Santa Clara County Bar Association, is barred from practicing law for a year.

Cal Bar Suspends Santa Clara Lawyer’s License BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH John Mlnarik—the attorney who represented disgraced Santa Clara Councilman Dominic Caserta before sexual harassment claims drove him to resign—is barred from practicing law for a year after admittedly fleecing a pair of clients.

The California State Bar Association placed Mlnarik, a former president of the Santa Clara County Bar Association, on a one-year suspension and three-year probation starting Nov. 7 after reviewing two of his cases.

In one instance, Mlnarik charged clients Ludette Storozinski and Kia Freidman for loan modification services he never actually completed.

According to state bar records, Mlnarik billed Storozinski’s credit card for nearly $14,000 on July 30, 2016, after she fired him and though he never completed the work.

In the second case, Mlnarik

tried to charge $6,200 to a client, Aro Ebenhahn, after he already terminated the attorney’s services.

According to the state bar, Mlnarik committed an intention act of “moral turpitude, dishonesty, or corruption.”

Mlnarik’s penalty reportedly could have been worse, but the state bar considered some “mitigating circumstances,” like his eight-year run in the field without any discipline, his service on various industry association boards and to his church, St. Justin Parish Community, in Santa Clara.

In addition to working for Caserta last year after Metro exposed the councilman’s long-standing pattern of alleged sexual misconduct, Mlnarik also represented Shaian Mohammadi, another local politico at odds with this news outlet, in a lawsuit that was ultimately dismissed with prejudice in 2017.

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ENLIGHTENED VIEWPOINT Diana Pasulka offers entertaining insight into the mythology of UFOs in her new book, ‘American Cosmic.’

Looking Up New book by religious studies professor explores the church of the UFO

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UBLISHING THIS WEEK on Oxford University Press, a new book by Diana Walsh Pasulka, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, begins with Pasulka riding in a car from San Francisco to Silicon Valley. Jacques Vallee, perhaps the most well-known UFO researcher over the last 50 years, is behind the wheel.

On the way, Vallee tells her, “These are the hills of Silicon Valley. There are many secrets in this valley.”

Pasulka, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will speak about American Cosmic on Jan. 17 at Cubberley Theatre in Palo Alto, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club-Silicon Valley, at 7pm. She is not a current or former government agent or conspiracy theorist. Instead, she analyzes the UFO phenomenon from an academic religious studies perspective, meaning she studies the resulting effects rather than whether or not anything is true.

She also takes the approach of a media archaeologist in that she uses examples of forgotten media from previous

eras to help examine how the current media landscape of cinema, TV and social media exacerbates and distorts the phenomenon. More than anything, American Cosmic suggests that with the UFO phenomenon we are witnessing the initial stages of a new flavor of religiosity. Like Jung suggested, we’re in the middle of a new myth as it’s being created.

“I think of the Protestant Reformation and how it was kind of instigated by the printing press,” Pasuka tells me. “So technology impacts religion, and it changes religion and creates new religious forms. So I realized that the digital environment was creating a new form of religion and it was taking the form of this kind of UFO religiosity.”

But what separates American Cosmic apart from the current UFO hysteria is that Pasulka spends entire chapters with world-famous scientists, academics and/or high-profile public figures who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence and have been studying it for years, but who operate

underneath the radar, out of the public eye. In the book they remain anonymous because of the stigma associated with UFOs. They fear being ostracized or losing their reputations.

Someone going by the name of Tyler, for example, whose public identity would most likely be known to everyone, invites Pasulka to a supposed crash site in New Mexico—not Roswell, but another site—and requires her to arrive blindfolded, only to then discover alloys and artifacts that later cannot be identified by scientists as anything created by the laws of physics. Other chapters provide specific examples of true believers whose lives are changed by their experiences with nonhuman intelligences, much in the same way that Catholic apparitions have functioned over the centuries. Yet this is a religiosity with no borders and no defined denominations.

“There are people who believe in a higher intelligence that has contacted us, or is in contact with us, or has given us these artifacts, these parts, UFO crashed parts, and we’re back engineering them and they’re somehow helping us evolve,” Pasulka says. “So it’s linked also to this concept of the evolution of the species, the survival of the species into space— this type of thing that’s really, really big in Silicon Valley.”

All of which, to Pasulka, seems similar enough to the early stages of Christianity in that certain people in positions of power have an interest in shaping the narrative for future’s sake, and specific communities are declaring that their version of the religion is the universal version.

The difference is that the UFO phenomenon can be articulated as something characterized by technology we don’t yet fully understand but which many scientists are actively studying, so it feels like hanging out in Judea 2000 years ago, with researchers on board striving to prove that these events did in fact happen.

“In most religions, you have things that guide the people, faith in something unseen or unknown,” says Pasulka. “And faith is what we call that relationship to something you can’t prove. Well, we could possibly prove this. So there is a semblance of truth here. And since there is a semblance of truth, it gives this kind of religiosity a bit that the other religions just don’t have. So we’re in a new territory.” commonwealthclub.org

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America's fiber optic network lags behind Asia and Europe—and that’s a big problem

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N AN AGE cluttered with Instagram influencers, YouTube stars and Russian Twitter bots, it may feel as though we’ve reached peak internet. There is more on-demand content to consume than ever before, and it is possible to access from just about anywhere—as long as there is decent WiFi or cellular service.

But in her new book, Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—And Why America Might Miss It, Susan Crawford argues that we are only scraping the surface of the web’s

potential. Furthermore, the John A. Reilly clinical professor at Harvard Law School says there is much more at stake than crystal-clear 4K television.

In fact, Crawford argues, if the United States continues to lag behind on its adoption of direct-to-consumer fiber optic networks, this country could miss out on “the next phase of human existence.”

Bold words indeed. But Crawford stands by her predictions. “This poses a gigantic structural problem for the U.S., which is as important as electrification was in the ’30s,” Crawford says, speaking from her home in New York—her voice transmitted across the country via a network of cell phone towers, copper wire and pulses of light.

To put things simply, Crawford’s new book is really about light. A universal constant, nothing in the known universe can travel faster. As such, burst of colored, encoded light can carry more information more rapidly than any other method of data transmission currently available.

Fiber optic cables are made up of miles-long, hair-thin strands of synthetic glass, capable of carrying light across long distances without any interference or loss of information. Occasionally, these arteries of information require boosts along the line, but the transfer of data is still virtually instantaneous. This means that devices running on end-to-end fiber optic networks have the potential to exchange

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SYSTEM FAILURE Author Susan Crawford warns of grave consequences if America fails to focus on fiber connectivity. innovation, our country’s dearth of last-mile fiber connectivity means that unless we act fast, the next generation of disruptive technology will not come from the United States but from countries like China, South Korea, Singapore and Japan.

Even in Silicon Valley, fiber-to-the-home connections are uncommon. Though our region’s two major providers of internet service—Comcast and AT&T—are tapped into our nation’s fiber optic mainlines, most individual consumers are still connected to the large web by copper lines.

Some of Silicon Valley’s most cuttingedge technologies will only be improved by faster internet connections everywhere.

For example, autonomous vehicles will “require tsunamis of data in order to navigate themselves and persistent reliable connections,” Crawford says.

A lack of fiber connections to individual homes may not hinder the viability of self-driving cars. However, until all cell towers and public WiFi nodes are plugged directly into the broader fiber network, autonomous vehicles won’t be operating with up-to-the-microsecond information.

In her book, excerpted at right, Crawford makes the case that total fiber adoption is essential to the U.S. economy, and argues that the federal government needs to get involved in order to ensure this country doesn’t fall further behind than it already has. —Nick Veronin

F THE information-carrying capacity of copper wire is like a two-inch-wide pipe, fiber optic is like a river 15 miles wide; you wouldn’t even try to download a 4K movie using a copper connection, but using fiber you could download 10 movies in a second—or run your own business remotely, or see your doctor or members of your family, when needed, as needed.

Most of the phone calls going on throughout the world at any moment could be carried simultaneously across a single hair-thin strand of fiber. (The submarine cable connecting China and the United States contains just eight strands.)

But because people send and receive information from where they physically are, fiber optic cables need to be physically distributed to reach individual buildings in order for fiber’s capacity across all the parts of the network—middle-mile, long haul and undersea cables linking continents—to be fully harnessed.

In many developed countries, that last mile is the weakest link in the network, its materials (copper or coaxial cable) serving to throttle communications just as they are starting on their journeys from individuals to the rest of the world, and slowing incoming data just as it is about to arrive in those individuals’ lives. Once the fiber cable reaches an individual living unit—that is, a home— data can be sent over the air to devices we wear or hold in our hands. The plan is for 5G wireless to allow for the sending of enormous amounts of data over the air across very short distances, to reach humans, handsets, sensors or anything else capable of receiving or transmitting data.

In the United States—because of decades of political maneuvering by the enormous

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data in essentially real time—even when the devices are connected via a near-field wireless signal at each terminus.

Unfortunately, while most of the world’s major communication lines—America’s included—are now fiber optic, Asia and Europe are leagues ahead in adopting “lastmile” or “fiber to the home” connections.

Americans subscribing to home internet service may be happy with 50 megabits per second of data downloading power and somewhere around 20 megabits per second of data upload. But there are countries in Asia where a majority of consumers can purchase internet service with download and upload speeds of 1,000 megabits per second—a “gigabit”—for less than Americans spend for their so-called “high-speed” connections.

When Netflix is working, emails load instantly and you can engage in a grainy video chat with mom and dad over the holidays, it may not seem like that big of a deal, but Crawford says it definitely is.

“People used to say, ‘Why would you ever need more electricity?’” Crawford explains, reaching for an analogy she uses to great effect in Fiber—the painstaking but essential process of electrifying America. “It was viewed as a luxury, and people couldn’t even imagine refrigeration.”

Right now, American consumers are happy with their internet speeds because it’s hard to imagine just how transformative gigabit internet access might be, but Crawford has at least one theory. While great strides have been made in video chatting in recent years, it is still impossible to achieve anything like personto-person eye contact over digital devices, she observes. When we’re video chatting, we never really feel like we’re in the same room with another human being. And we never will, until we are all plugged in to an ultra-fast, all-fiber network.

“I think human presence is really the killer app,” Crawford says. Virtual human presence would be revolutionary in so many fields, including healthcare, education and all kinds of business.

Indeed, having a remote, yet genuine, connection with a doctor, a professor or a cross-country colleague—with real eye contact—would be a game-changer, but there are even more applications that are impossible to envision at this stage. And given America’s track record as a hotbed of

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private companies that sell internet access to American consumers, a lack of leadership at the federal level, and the invisibility of this entire policy area— we have failed to make the upgrade to cheap last-mile fiber connectivity.

All the policies important to us as a country—becoming the most advanced healthcare nation in the world, the most energy efficient, the most innovative, the most resilient—depend on having last-mile fiber and advanced

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The cable and telephone monopolies that dominate access have no particular incentives to upgrade to fiber. wireless services available cheaply to everyone. We must do better.

The submarine cables between continents are all fiber, the lines between American cities are almost all fiber, and the data centers run by companies like Google and Akamai are all fed by fiber. But there’s an enormous distribution bottleneck close to you and me: Fewer than 10 percent of Americans have “fiber to the home,” or FTTH. The FTTH distribution issue isn’t easy to fix. Although several countries have made installation of FTTH an industrial policy priority and have steadily upgraded their “last-mile” networks, a series of federal- and state-level policy missteps over the past 10 years has left America with awful fiber adoption. The completely deregulated private companies on which we depend for wired communications have systematically

divided markets, avoided competition and established monopolies in their geographic footprints. The results are terrible: very expensive yet second-rate data services, mostly from local cable monopolists, in richer neighborhoods; the vast majority of Americans unable to buy a fiber optic subscription at any price; and many Americans, particularly in rural and poorer areas, completely left behind.

You can think of wireless as the endpoint of a fiber connection, the place where the pipe bringing water into your home is transformed into a shower head—except that it is spraying not water but data.

This fiber-plus-wireless combination is alluring: With fiber to every cell site and every WiFi access point, you could be constantly connected and never think about it.

However, only about 10 percent of Americans are connected to fiber optic lines, mostly in the very richest parts of the country, and they pay skyhigh subscription rates; where fiber last-mile connections do exist, they are often extraordinarily expensive compared with international benchmarks. The problem is worst in rural areas, but it is awful in most cities as well.

The cable and telephone monopolies that dominate access have no particular incentives to upgrade to fiber. These local monopolies are largely unconstrained by either competition or oversight.

For services providing what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) now labels highspeed access, defined as 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload, almost 90 percent of Americans have at most one choice of high-capacity provider. (Why the FCC chose to privilege downloads over uploads in setting this standard is a mystery to me; this standard fits the plans of the giant companies that control internet access in America, most of which themselves also sell packages of TV channels and thus have a business interest in ensuring that consumers think of the internet as a means for consumption of entertainment rather than for use in education, healthcare or work, through video

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That’s why the densest areas with the most reliable potential returns got service first. There was also little or no public oversight of these companies’ activities, and what oversight existed was largely ineffective.

There is a problem, and a large one. Although the copper-line phone system in the United States was the envy of the world when it was installed, and provided Americans with the same high-quality service at roughly the same price wherever they were sitting, we are falling far behind when it comes to upgrading that set of lines to fiber optic internet connections to homes and businesses—the modern-day standard if you live in most parts of Asia or northern Europe.

We are amplifying and entrenching existing rural and urban divides and, even more starkly, inequality of opportunity.

This state of affairs didn’t come about by accident. It happened because of lapses in policy and an uninformed, vague belief that the private market could be relied on to give Americans great communications infrastructure.

That mindset hasn’t brought us the economic growth or social justice the country needs.

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calls—all of which require symmetric connections, with equal upload and download speeds.)

Residents of South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong can subscribe to gigabit access (offering 10 times more capacity than a 100 Mbps subscription) for between the equivalent of $30 and $50 a month; in Sweden, which has announced plans to have 98 percent of its residents connected to gigabit fiber by 2025, the 100 Mbps symmetrical fiber connections already available to more than 70 percent of residents cost between $35 and $40 a month.

Singapore’s connectivity is simply astonishing: You can buy gigabit last-mile fiber access from any one of a large number of providers for prices ranging from $40 to $60 per month.

By contrast, Verizon New York … charges a ridiculous $305 a month for symmetric access speed of 500 Mbps for both uploads and downloads, and doesn’t offer gigabit fiber access at all.

Right now, not enough people around the country understand the fundamental importance of fiber, just as in the 1920s they might not have understood the fundamental importance of electricity. Often we squabble over things that are not nearly as important to the success of the United States.

When electricity was young, it was a luxury, sold by private companies following a “demand-driven” model.

Where investors saw the possibility of a reliable stream of revenue, they would borrow or put up the initial sum of money necessary to wire businesses and homes with electricity.

But they didn’t foresee that their product would be everywhere. For instance, even though San Francisco’s streets were first lit with electric light in 1876, the first home to get electric lighting in San Francisco had to wait until 1899. The electrification of America, by and large, followed a set pattern: municipal buildings and businesses first, wealthy urban dwellers next, then poorer urban dwellers, and last of all, rural homes and farms. This was the demanddriven model in action.

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RING OF POWER In addition to offering a bevy of toppings, Grub Burger Bar fries up crispy onion rings for its hungry patrons.

Top This Choose your own topping adventure at Grub Burger Bar in Santa Clara

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EMEMBER BACK IN the day, when the only choice anyone had for topping their burger was cheese or no cheese? I do. It was awful.

I mean, sure, there were some options you could order up, like extra “special” sauce, hold the pickles, and no onions—but c’mon. Let’s get real.

Fortunately for us, we now live in a time when burger options are in abundance, and the only limitation is your imagination. From PB&J burgers to burgers with ramen noodle buns and everything in between, chefs have taken the classic beef patty and made it their playground.

One of the newer chains to jump into the creative burger game is the Texasbased Grub Burger Bar. Though they’ve only been in business since 2012, they already boast 20 locations across seven states. Their latest shop in Santa Clara is the first in Northern California.

As their name suggests, Grub is more than just burgers; they also have quite the selection of adult beverages—including a dozen draught beers (with two rotating local brews), wine, signature cocktails and even spiked milkshakes.

They also have a generous happy hour, which features $5.50 beers, cocktails, wines and apps and runs Monday through Friday from 11am to 7pm and 9pm to close.

They also have a great menu of house burgers, including a mac ’n’ cheese burger ($9.50) for the kid in us; Trinidad Moruga Scorpion burger ($9.25) for the chili heads; and even a basic lettuce, tomato, mayo and mustard burger ($7.95), aptly named The Front Porch, for the grandpa in us.

My girlfriend couldn’t resist shroomin’ out on their Voodoo burger ($9.25), but I had my sights set on their wagyu burger ($15.95), which comes out with their signature Shiner Bock-battered onion rings. I feel it’s also important to note that all their burgers are served medium-well by default, but they will happily cook it to diner’s preferences upon request.

I needed something to wash all that down, and one of their handspun milkshakes sounded about right. Grub has a nice assortment of classic flavors (strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, etc.), and some fancier ones that involve candy, gummy worms and the like. The fancier ones looked like a bit much, so I opted for a classic Nutella milkshake ($5).

I had heard quite a bit about their rings and we both dove in right

away while they were still warm.

We ended up being split on the two textural components of said rings; while I enjoyed the onion interior being slightly firm and toothsome, she wished it was a bit softer. And while I thought the crunchy exterior was a bit too crunchy, she felt it was just right. Go figure. However, we did both agree that the batter was delicious and that these were some of the better rings we’d had.

To help aid the ring debate, I had lined up cups of their freely available house-made sauces that include jalapeño ranch, chipotle ketchup, honey mustard and their patented Grub sauce. I particularly enjoyed the honey mustard, as its sweetness was nicely offset with their sharp, vinegary mustard. The other spice-infused sauces could’ve used more zing, as I could barely taste the peppers.

After the ring tête-à-tête, we started in on our burgers, and the first thing we noticed was their fresh, house-made buns. They had a nice gloss and feel to them, as they were soft but sturdy enough not to fall apart under the weight of the burgers and their toppings.

It was interesting to note the differences in their standard beef vs. their wagyu beef; their standard beef has a bit of an understated flavor, while the wagyu was way more bold, assertive and juicy. Not to say the standard beef was overcooked, as it came out perfectly medium with just a bit of pink in the middle, but the way they grind their meat is a bit chunkier than what we’re used to.

The toppings of the burgers were the clear winners in all this, as the absinthe-sautéed mushrooms on the Voodoo burger and the arugula and roasted garlic mayo on the wagyu were a hit. I also enjoyed the Frenchfried onions on the wagyu, as it gave the burger a nice textural contrast.

A quick word on the Nutella shake: friggin’ delicious. The Nutella flavor was evident, and the shake itself was the perfect smoothness and consistency.

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Fri, 10pm, Free Branham Lounge, San Jose

Fri, 9:15pm, $9 Fujitsu Planetarium, De Anza

Fri-Sat, Various Times, $30 The Improv, San Jose

Sat, 7pm, Free Kaleid Gallery, San Jose

Sat, 9pm, Free BackBar SoFa, San Jose

All the cool kids living on The South Side know that The Ritz isn’t the only place in San Jose to throw back a few and get down to Depeche Mode, The Smiths and New Order. The Branham Lounge has its own first Friday ’80s party led by DJs David Q and Otrebor. This dynamic duo will be in the mix all night, spinning up your favorite big-hair jams from The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, B-52s and Madonna. Put on your dancing shoes and cruise through. (NV)

Attention to all who have never been able to get into Pink Floyd but still have an interest in the retro pastime of sitting back and taking in a laser light show programed to pop music. Also… attention to all fans of Queen Bey. This weekend you’ll be able to watch complex laser patterns synchronize with some of Bey’s greatest hits, including “Single Ladies,” “Run the World” and “Formation.” You can make it a double feature by picking up tickets to an earlier show— simply titled Laser EDM—which features music by Skrillex, Kaskade, Avicii and more. (TM)

Originally from Mercer Island, Washington, Joel McHale first tasted success as part of Seattle’s Almost Live! sketch comedy group. That led to appearances on network television shows and eventually to The Soup—a satirical popculture news show that ran from 2004 to 2015 on E! From The Soup, McHale went on to star in the on the cult comedy hit Community, as well as CBS’s The Great Indoors. More recently, he’s been seen on the Santa Clarita Diet, and as the host of his own Netflix program, The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale. (TM)

Local community worker and photographer Abraham Menor celebrates the release of Digging Sound Collect—a book of photography focused on vinyl collectors, producers and DJs. Stemming from Menor’s own love of wax, it is a passion project about a passionate pursuit. The photographs capture vinyl junkies digging through dusty crates, in the recording studio and dropping the needle at home. Every collection is unique and speaks to the personality of the subject in front of the lens. A number of selectors, including Cutso and That Girl, will be spinning at the artist reception this Saturday. The exhibit runs through Jan. 25. (NV)

The short bio on El Guapo’s Facebook page goes a long way toward explaining the band’s aesthetic: “We were sent here by the gods of rock to destroy cities and melt faces.” Indeed. Formerly known as The Red Phantom, this San Jose experimental metal outfit deals out spastic bursts of heavy guitars and lively drums, bringing the heat on their monstrous 2015 album, Whips Chains Whistles Yo-yo's, Dracula Riding Around on a Tricycle Giving me the Finger—which thrashes and bashes its way through nine Tera Melos-esque instrumental assaults, all punctuated by horror flick audio samples. Watsonville jazz-punk duo aurora beam open the show. (NV)

* concerts LOWRIDER HISTORY HARLEM QUARTET

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

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

BONE THUGS Sat, 9pm, $26 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Originally hailing from Cleveland, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony found success through a mix of raw talent and a heavy-hitting West Coast connection—Eazy-E. The founding member of N.W.A. put them on his own Ruthless Records, releasing their Creepin on ah Come Up EP in 1994. That was followed by the iconic E. 1999 Eternal, which featured classics, like “Crossroads” and “1st of Tha Month.” The group, known for its unique blend of gangster swagger, potent lyricism, rapidfire rhymes and rich harmonies, is still grinding. (TM)

*sun ART + SCIENCE Sun, 3pm, Free San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Science. It really is a compelling discipline—if only you can wrap your mind around the concepts.

That’s where art comes in. Two exhibits at the intersection of art and science—Primordial Soup, an immersive installation inspired by marine microbiology, and Tender Exchanges, which presents sculptural representations of neural networks and tree roots—are currently on display at SJICA. Come check them out and sample kombucha beer, grow bacterial art in a petri dish, catch to a presentation about albino redwoods, learn about The Music of Trees and more at Talking Art: Art + Science Social Hour.

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JOAN & THE RIVERS LOWRIDER Sun, 9pm, Free HISTORY Caravan Lounge, San Jose Joan and the Rivers is one of San Jose’s most prolific and business-savvy punk bands.

Instead of brooding in the studio for years, the local trio has kept the music coming in steady bursts. In 2018 they dropped three short EPs to satiate fans. Lost somewhere between the garage and the bar, JATR send dirty howls through the dead-end streets of the suburbs like a midnight transmission from KFJC. Part Rocket From the Crypt, part Doctor Demento, they don’t care much about the rules of genre or taste. And we love them for it. (MH)

Tue, 6:30pm, Free King Library, San Jose

It’s little wonder that Lowrider Magazine, the world’s authority on bouncy Buicks, chopped Chevy’s and dropped Dodges, came out of San Jose. From Cesar Chavez to freestyle music, the South Bay has long been a hub of Chicano culture.

In conjunction with “Story and King: San Jose’s Lowrider Culture”—on display through March 31 at the King Library—“Out of the Past: San Jose’s Lowrider History” is one of several events celebrating the art of these tricked-out cruisers.

This panel discussion will feature a number of lowriding pioneers along with those who are carrying the tradition into the 21st century. (NV)

BOOMBOX CARTEL

Mar 1 at City National Civic

CINEQUEST

Mar 5-17 Downtown San Jose

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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NOODLING NEURONS Lorrie Fredette’s new show, ‘Tender Exchanges,’ is now on display at the San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art.

Shadow Work ‘Tender Exchanges’ at the SJICA uses light and its absence to pull viewers in

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INTRY PENDULOUS branches cast corresponding shadows against the gallery walls in Lorrie Fredette’s “Tender Exchanges.”

Trunkless, they extend themselves in every direction, entangled around the metal air ducts and track lighting.

One looks fit to burst through the skylight on the roof. A single, benign white pod— suggestive of a giant insect’s egg sac—dangles in front of your face at eye level.

The gnarled, ungainly shapes are at odds with the lack of pigment. On real trees, these branches could be claws reaching out to harm strangers lost in an enchanted forest. But here they’re bleached out to the pale color of something mild and antiseptic.

“In this particular show, I'm working with plaster and gauze bandage, which are the traditional materials for casts for broken bones, for things that need mending,” Fredette explains. And while her sculptures may resemble the leafless limbs of deciduous trees or some spare, bare shrubbery that’s been whitewashed, the artist discloses what that pregnant, lonely pod actually is.

“It's not uncommon for neurons

to have a little bulbous form at the end or within their structure, as is also true for plants to have a root bulb,” she says. Fredette has turned a group of microscopic neurons into a sculpted, bleached out forest that’s so disinterested in the laws of gravity it’s decided to float up the gallery walls, not unlike the way thoughts drift through and then out of the mind.

“Beauty is a really good word that I assign to my work,” Fredette adds.

“It’s something I'm always working toward, because I believe we walk toward beauty, and we will turn away from things that are upsetting or repulsive or we deem ugly.”

She’s spent at least a decade observing people and how they interact with works of art. That’s a major part of why she does installations like this one, as well as, she says, “to give them the sense of awe. ‘Tender Exchanges’ is an obvious inversion of micro and macro. But we have so few immersive experiences that just make us stop.”

One aspect of the exhibit that makes you stop is the placement of the structures and how their

silhouettes multiply when the light hits them from various angles. After Fredette graduated from college with an art degree, she went into theater, which, she says, is a great place for someone with a background in sculpture to go. “I could take all the skills that I learned and apply them in the properties department.”

In the scene shop, she was able to do mold-making and casting. During technical rehearsals, she would listen to the conversations between the director, the designers and the actors and saw how lighting “played a huge part in that emotive quality that brings out a little something extra in the experience.”

Lighting, in this case, adds another dimension to the physical objects suspended from above. Their shadows are of equal weight to the piece as a whole because they suggest a contrasting set of emotions. Fredette had a clean slate when she first visited San Jose to see the gallery space where her work would later be displayed. But she had been reading the autobiography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), a Spanish scientist who, in some circles, is considered to be the father of neuroscience.

At the same time as she was reading about his life and work, Fredette had also been reading about the root structures of plants and trees. “I was trying to make some kind of parallel, and I was hoping that the space might lend itself to work something out,” she says. Her practice is a way for her “to try to understand what I don’t know or don’t understand.”

Pursuing scientific topics like these hybrid neuron-roots came to her in an organic way. On the hour-long train ride to a job in New York City, Fredette noticed that most of the commuters would leave the science section of the newspaper behind and unread. She would take it with her and read it on the commute back home. “I was curious as to why it was being left behind,” she says. “Then I quickly realized that I really wasn't understanding what I was reading, and the best way I know to gain some kind of comprehension is to take it into the studio and noodle it out.”

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The Lovers ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ is a story of love and prejudice in the ’70s

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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T MAKES SENSE to think of If Beale Street Could Talk as a Romeo and Juliet story in which white repression is the force keeping true lovers apart.

The 22-year-old Fonny, short for Alfonso (Stephan James) is a young man with little money and the desire to be a sculptor. His lover, 19-year-old Tish (Kiki Layne) has just discovered she’s pregnant. It all begins with Fonny in jail, wrongly accused of a violent rape. There’s little or no

money for the defense, the victim has fled to Puerto Rico and the New York politicians want the case prosecuted, no matter how fishy it is.

When director and adapter Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) gets the lovers together, everything works. He seeks old-fashioned romantic movie intensity as they make love for the first time during a rainstorm and Fonny tries to make a warm, clean spot for her in the basement where he lives. Looking at each other in the grimy, graffiti-scrawled subways— very evocative photography by James

Laxton throughout—Fonny has a sensual gaze as he studies Tish’s slenderness and slightness. They’d known each other since they were children, neighbor kids bathing in the same bathtub: “There had never been any occasion of shame,” Tish recalls, as if the relationship had been hallowed since the beginning.

Which is thick, I know. But when the lovers are silent and just look at each other, it quiets the narration.

Tish is underwritten, just as she is in James Baldwin’s 1974 source novel. The teenage girl mask didn’t fit snugly on a sophisticated essayist like Baldwin. The book has a young adult quality, despite the explicit sex scene and the language that would evict it from nine out of 10 high schools. Heroines in YA are always right, and they’re always omniscient, too. Describing events to which she wouldn’t have been privy, Tish says “They don’t tell me this, but I know it.” That makes any suspicious reader ask, “How?”

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You could almost get an entire good movie—it might be something like 1978’s Killer of Sheep—about Tish’s parents. The longshoreman Joe (Colman Domingo, who is great) hasn’t let hard work beat the life out of him. He shows a lopsided smile with some disbelief in it when he hears the news that his unmarried daughter is pregnant. His formidable wife Sharon (Regina King) takes over and orders him to toast his daughter’s unborn child with a bottle of cognac they have stashed away. Joe goes along with it, but his bemusement is visible. The strife comes when Fonny’s parents show up to join the party. Fonny’s mom (Aunjanue Ellis) is a venomous church-lady with two conceited daughters. Calling on her Jesus, she precipitates a bad fight between the families.

It’s tough inside, and it’s tough outside, between jail and the threat of jail. In flashback, Fonny talks of his struggles with his just-out-of-prison friend, Daniel (Brian Tyree Henry): Fonny laments, “This country really do not like n---rs, man.” Having just got out of two years in the lion’s den, Daniel answers with one powerful monologue about the terrors he faced being in prison.

Through Daniel’s lines we get, indirectly, what Fonny is going through as he languishes behind bars.

Fonny doesn’t ever scare Tish with the details, even when he talks to her through the heavy jailhouse glass, with the marks of a fight on his face.

Indirect scenes are what Jenkins does best, as when Sharon gears up to go meet Fonny’s accuser in Puerto Rico, studying herself in the hotel mirror, getting her look just right for this delicate mission.

If the emotional force of If Beale Street Could Talk is blunted by the flashbacks, the scenes between the young lovers always work. Scene by scene, Jenkins’ very considerable skills as a romanticist bear you away. James and Layne emote the kind of pure ethereal love that was there at the beginning of the movies and will be there at the end of them.

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JAN 12, 1976 | AGATHA CHRISTIE DIED. I WAS BORN. Presence over presents. Experiences over tangible gifts. I’m taking a look around, smelling everything, listening better. Communication over talking. Let’s have good communication over hot beverages sometime.

SAT JAN 12 | SCREENING | MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO The Hayao Miyazaki classic is a fantastic way to celebrate life. 3pm. Sunnyvale Public Library, 665 W Olive Ave, Sunnyvale

SAT JAN 12 | STEELY NASH, STEREO RV (PORTLAND), AEZY @ ART BOUTIKI Steely’s soulful vibe and R&B aesthetic is really something to cherish in the South Bae. She’s making something so unique in a genre that doesn’t always give much space for self-powered engineers. With a renewed line-up, she’s coming out swinging. Supported

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campus. 255 W Julian St, Ste 100, San Jose

CAFE LIFT JANUARY OPEN MIC + CANVAS 7:45pm. Cafe Lift, 5883 Eden Park Place, San Jose

SAM'S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Blue House. Tue, 1/15, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. Wed, 1/16, 6pm: Fred McCarty. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

KARAOKE | WINTER WEEKLY KARAOKE CONTEST 8pm. 7 Bamboo, 162 Jackson St, San Jose

COMEDIAN | MIKE QUU 8pm. Also Thu. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St, San Jose

DANCE | SAN JOSE HIP HOP HISTORY W/JOSEPH "SCOOBY" AGUILERA POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: The Legendary Ron Thompson & Sid Morris Gang feat. New Belgium. Thu, 6pm: Thursday night blues jam with The Royals! Fri, 7pm: Laurie Morvan Band.

Sat, 6pm: Nick Moss Band ft.

Dennis Gruenling. Sat, 10pm: Sharks After Party w/James Michael Day. Sun, 11am: New Orleans Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: Tebo’s Tribute to Howlin’ Wolf.

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

SCREENING/Q&A | CREATV PRESENTS "STAND" 6:30pm. The making of the iconic statue on the SJSU

9pm. FutureArtsNow! @ Alum Rock Youth Center, 137 N White Road, San Jose

THU 01/10 STAGE | STARTING ARTS DREAM TEAM PRESENTS “SWEET CHARITY” 5pm. Various times through 1/12. Starting Arts, 525 Parrott St, San Jose

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Dorfan. 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

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT 7:30pm. Hosted by Nick Peters. Freewheel Brewing Company, 3736 Florence St, Redwood City

“NOW TESTING” MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT 7:30pm. Chromatic Coffee, 17 N Second St, San Jose

SPEAK EASY: A STAND-UP COMEDY AFFAIR 8pm. Clandestine Brewing, 980 S First St, Ste B, San Jose

COMEDIAN | MOSES STORM 8pm. Various times through 1/13. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

EXHIBIT | OPENING RECEPTION • OUT OF TRADITION: SACRED & PROFANE 7pm. de Saisset Museum, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC 7pm. Featured poet Rachel

SHERWOOD INN Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

8:30pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

ROCK | THE SEVEN FIVE, MOST VIOLENT SPECIES, MNPC 7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

CABARET | DIANE MILO: WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

7:30pm. Also Sat, Jan 12. Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St, Mountain View

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Thu, 9–11pm: Stereo RV (Portland), followed by DJ DVS Dave. Fri, 10pm: The Heat–Live Band. Sat, 10pm: Superbad. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon: Darts & Sports.

Tue, 7:30pm: PubStumpers.

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

POP | THE CHANGING SAME W/ PARTY PUPILS, PAT LOK 9pm. Continental Bar & Lounge, 349 S First St, San Jose

BENTON STREET BLUES BAND

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

COMEDY SPORTZ

8pm. 3Below, 288 S Second St, San Jose

GRAMMY WINNER | TONY LINDSAY’S BLACK MAGIC

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

SMOKING PIG BBQ

THE RITZ

Thu, 9pm: (The Front Bar) Artie Glitter & the Glitterarti, Sit Kitty Sit. Fri, 8pm: Necrot, Coldclaw, Wolf King, Dissidence. Sat, 8pm: Dead Man's Party: Oingo Boingo/ Danny Elfman Tribute. Wed, 1/16, 7pm: Ana Popović. 400 S First St, San Jose

EDM | 2HRD PRESENTS: THE MOVE 9pm. Enso Nightclub, 97 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

Fri, 9pm: Aki Kumar. Sat, 9pm: Otilia Donaire & the Back Alley Boys Live. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

SLAMROCK | THIS ONE GOES TO 11: THE WYATT ACT, NO SMALL CHILDREN

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

ACOUSTIC ROCK NIGHT WITH JOHNNY NERI

9pm. San Pedro Square, 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

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

STAGE | NOISES OFF

7pm. Through 1/19.

Archbishop Mitty High School, 5000 Mitty Way, San Jose

DJ/DANCING | REGGAETON VS HIP HOP FUNCTION

7pm. Free before 10:30pm.

Aura Kitchen and Bar, 389 S First St, San Jose

STORYTIME WITH SAMANTHA R. VAMOS

11am. Author of The Piñata that the Farm Maiden Hung.

Books Inc. 317 Castro St, Mountain View

EXHIBIT | ART 101: STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

1pm. San José Museum of Art, 110 S Market St

FAMILY MAGIC SHOW

2pm. Terra Amico, 460 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

SCREENING | MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO

SONGWRITER SATURDAY SHOWCASE

5pm. Crema Coffee Co. #3, 1202 The Alameda, San Jose

PIANO | CHOPIN COMPETITION MEDALIST KATE LIU

7:30pm. Trianon Theatre, 72 N Fifth St, San Jose

POWERVIOLENCE | MENACING GLARE (L.A.), WORLD PEACE, HECKDORLAN, TBA

FARMERS' MARKET SUNNYVALE

9am. Murphy and

Led Kaapana & Fran Guidry

7:30pm • $25 adv/$30 Door Fri. Jan 11 Dr. Rock & LRI Present An Evening w/ Hip Spanic Allstars

Los Luv Daddys Sat. Jan 12

Haulin’ Oats w/STUNG

A Tribute to The Police, & CHEAPER TRICK • 8pm • $17 adv/$19 Door Sun. Jan 13

The Joe Cannon Show: 5:30pm • $17 adv/$20 Door

2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

Dave Stamey

Wed. Jan. 9 Thu. w/ Annie Lydon Jan. 10 7:30pm $17 adv./$20 door seated <21 w/parent Fri. Jan. 11 5pm HAPPY HOUR / NO COVER Fri. Jan. 11 8pm

Ten O’clock Lunch Band w/ Tammi Brown $10 adv./$10 door Dance– ages 21 +

PUNK/HARDCORE | EL GUAPO, NAM THE GIVER, EXPLODING LIKE SPIDERS, AURORA BEAM

SAT 01/12

Thur. Jan. 10

Jazz The Dog

DJ/DANCING | ’80S CULTURE CLUB

10pm. Pure Nightclub, 146 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

7pm • $7

ALT ROCK | LEVI JACK

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

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

DJ | FERRY CORSTEN

Nancy Wright

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

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

Wed. Jan 9 CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

[EYE] R&B/SOUL | STEELY NASH, STEREO RV, AEZY

ROCK/AMERICANA | ERIC MORRISON & THE MYSTERIES

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

FOX

8pm • $15 adv/$20 Door.

3pm. Hayao Miyazaki classic.

Sunnyvale Public Library, 665 W Olive Ave, Sunnyvale

8pm. the elegant pub, 3273 S White Rd, San Jose

FRI 01/11 CENTRAL PARK NIGHTS | LEOMELE HAWAIIAN DANCE & MUSIC

Washington avenues, Sunnyvale

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

JAZZ | MIKE OLMOS QUINTET

Sat. Jan. 12 2pm

THE LOUISIANA PICNIC & DANCE 2pm Matinee

Blake Miller & the Old-Fashioned Aces $12 adv./$15 door (Children <13 Free) <21 w/parent Sat. Jan. 12 8pm

Achilles Wheel plus The Puffball Collective $10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 +

Grateful Sunday

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

Sun. Jan. 13 5:30pm GRATEFUL DEAD TUNES/NO COVER Fri Jan. 18 Sat Jan. 19 Tue Jan. 22 Wed Jan. 23

COMING UP

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Saturday, January 12 • Ages 16+

CLASSIC ROCK | I’M SO GLAD! • ERIC CLAPTON TRIBUTE

Bone Thugs-n-harmony Saturday, January 12 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

9pm. Quarter Note, 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale

ILLEAGLES

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 1 Lil Xan (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 19 Flogging Molly (Ages 21+) Mar 21 Eli Young Band (Ages 16+)

DANCING | SATURDAY NIGHTS WITH SMOOVGROOVS

10pm. SP2 Communal Bar, 72 N Almaden Ave, San Jose

SUN 01/13

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

STORYTELLING | TENDER TABLE WITH SHE WHO HAS NO MASTER(S)

2pm. San José Museum of Art, 110 S Market St

Thursday, January 31

CREPE PLACE OPEN LATE - EVERY NIGHT!

WEDNESDAY 1/9

PAT HULL

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THURSDAY 1/10

THIRSTY THURSDAY

FANTASTIC NEGRITO 1/11 01/09 Good Times/Metro Ad,FRIDAY Wed.

COME IN FOR SOME FANCY COCKTAILS

MOES 2/7

STEVE GUNN MOES 2/10 DEAD MEADOW MOES 2/19

SAM AMIDON SANTA CRUZ 3/1

VETIVER + FRUIT BATS

(SOLO) BIG SUR 3/2

DIGGIN’ IN THE CREPE

PROFESSA GABEL, KHAN, IAM STEEZY SINS, ALWA GORDON, DJ LOS 9PM - $8 DOOR

SATURDAY 1/12

LEROY GHOST

2 SETS OF HONEST SOULFUL TUNES EARLY SHOW 8PM - $7 DOOR

MONDAY 1/14

WOOD BROTHERS 3/5 RIO

OM RIO THEATRE 2/27

GREEN LEAF RUSTLERS BIG SUR FRI/SAT MARCH 15 & 16

LILACS

w/ SUBPAR & DIRT BUYER SHOW 9PM - $8 DOOR TUESDAY 1/15 FUNK NIGHT XL

7 COME 11

9PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT THURSDAY 1/17

FERNWOOD TAVERN!

CASS McCOMBS BAND MOES THURSDAY, APRIL 4

TRIVIA | TRIVIOLITY PUB QUIZ

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

TRIVIA | PUBSTUMPERS

TRIVIA @ UPROAR BREWING

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

DANCING | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS

PUNK/SKATEBOARDING NIGHT W/ DJ TEST, DJ BIT & ROBERT MORTIS

7pm. 439 S First St, San Jose

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

10pm. Spinning punk & metal. Skate video premiere by ydmc. Cinebar, 69 E San Fernando St, San Jose

RED ROCK MIXED OPEN MIC

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

TRIVIA @ 7 STARS

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

JAZZ CENTER

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

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

KUUMBWA

MON 01/14

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MARBLED EYE

w/ PRACTICING SINCERITY & DAY TRIP SHOW 9PM - $7 DOOR MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ

1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 429-6994

TALKING ART | ART + SCIENCE SOCIAL HOUR

3pm. Institute of Contemporary Art, 560 S First St, San Jose

EXHIBIT | NANETTE WYLDE: ON LONGING AND OTHER STORIES

4pm. Through 1/27.

Community School of Music and Arts, Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Cir, Mountain View

LIVE MUSIC | THE JOE CANNON SHOW

4:30pm. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

COMEDIAN | J.F. HARRIS

7pm. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St, San Jose

PUNK/ALT | JOAN AND THE RIVERS, PRY, THE BRANKAS

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

DJ/DANCING | CULTURE INDUSTRY HIP-HOP SUNDAYS 10pm. Avery Lounge, 399 S First St, San Jose

7pm. 201 Castro St, Mountain View

TRIVIA NIGHT AT STEPHEN'S GREEN

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

COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ

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

LMNOP COMEDY MONDAYS

9pm. Hosted by Coral Best.

Lilly Mac's, 187 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

TUE 01/15 TRIVIA @ FOUNTAINHEAD

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

TRIVIA TUESDAYS

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

WELL-RED POETRY OPEN MIC

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

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

PIANIST DENNY BERTHIAUME & VOCALIST LETITIA BURTON 7:15. Angelica's Bistro, 863 Main St, Redwood City

WILLOW DEN

Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Sun: Service Industry Night = 1/2 off drinks with your industry card! 803 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

WED 01/16 TRIVIA NIGHT

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

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM 13TH ANNIVERSARY 6:30pm. The Blue Rocket Record Revue & the Karen Lovely Band. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

COMEDY OPEN MIC

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

TALENT SHOW | GO GO GONE SHOW

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

CARAVAN LOUNGE COMEDY SHOW WITH MR. WALKER

9pm. 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I'm a big proponent of authenticity. I almost always advise you to be yourself with bold candor and unapologetic panache. Speak the truth about your deepest values and clearest perceptions. Be an expert about what really moves you, and devote yourself passionately to your relationships with what really moves you. But there is one exception to this approach.

Sometimes it's wise to employ the "fake it until you make it" strategy, to pretend you are what you want to be with such conviction that you ultimately become what you want to be. I suspect now is one of those times for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The students' dining hall at Michigan State University serves gobs of mayonnaise. But in late 2016, a problem arose when 1,250 gallons of the stuff became rancid.

Rather than simply throw it away, the school's sustainability officer came up with a brilliant solution: load it into a machine called an anaerobic digester, which turns biodegradable waste into energy. Problem solved! The transformed rot provided electricity for parts of the campus. I recommend you regard this story as a metaphor for your own use. Is there anything in your life that has begun to decay or lose its usefulness? If so, can you convert it into a source of power?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you grow vegetables,

fruits, and grains on an acre of land, you can feed 12 people. If you use that acre to raise meat-producing animals, you'll feed, at most, four people. But to produce the meat, you'll need at least four times more water and 20 times more electric power than you would if you grew the plants. I offer this as a useful metaphor for you to consider in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should prioritize efficiency and value.

What will provide you with the most bang for your bucks? What's the wisest use of your resources?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Modern kids don't spend

much time playing outside. They have fun in natural environments only half as often as their parents did while growing up. In fact, the average child spends less time in the open air than prison inmates. And today's unjailed adults get even less exposure to the elements. But I hope you will avoid that fate in 2019. According to my astrological estimates, you need to allocate more than the usual amount of time to feeling the sun and wind and sky. Not just because it's key to your physical health, but also because many of your best ideas and decisions are likely to emerge while you're outdoors.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): NASA landed its robotic

explorer Opportunity on Mars in January 2004.

The craft's mission, which was supposed to last for 92 days, began by taking photos and collecting soil samples. More than 14 years later, the hardy machine was still in operation, continuing to send data back to Earth. It far outlived its designed lifespan. I foresee you being able to generate a comparable marvel in 2019, Virgo: a stalwart resource or influence or situation that will have more staying power than you could imagine. What could it be?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1557, Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde invented the equals sign: =. Historical records don't tell us when he was born, so we don't know his astrological sign, but I'm guessing he was a Libra. Is there any tribe more skillful at finding correlations, establishing equivalencies and creating reciprocity? In all the zodiac, who is best at crafting righteous proportions and uniting apparent opposites? Who is the genius of

balance? In the coming months, my friend, I suspect you will be even more adept at these fine arts than you usually are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There's a modest,

one-story office building at 1209 North Orange St. in Wilmington, Delaware. More than 285,000 businesses from all over the U.S. claim it as their address. Why? Because the state of Delaware has advantageous tax laws that enable those businesses to save massive amounts of money.

Other buildings in Delaware house thousands of additional corporations. It's all legal. No one gets in trouble for it. I bring this to your attention in the hope of inspiring you to hunt for comparable situations: ethical loopholes and workarounds that will provide you with extra benefits and advantages.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): People in the

Solomon Islands buy many goods and services with regular currency, but also use other symbols of worth to pay for important cultural events like staging weddings and settling disputes and expressing apologies. These alternate forms of currency include the teeth of flying foxes, which are the local species of bat. In that spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I'd love to see you expand your sense of what constitutes your wealth. In addition to material possessions and funds in the bank, what else makes you valuable? In what other ways do you measure your potency, your vitality, your merit? It's a favorable time to take inventory.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1984, singer-

songwriter John Fogerty released a new album whose lead single was "The Old Man Down the Road." It sold well. But trouble arose soon afterward when Fogerty's former record company sued him in court, claiming he stole the idea for "The Old Man Down the Road" from "Run Through the Jungle."

That was a tune Fogerty himself had written and recorded in 1970 while playing with the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The legal process took a while, but he was ultimately vindicated. No, the courts declared, he didn't plagiarize himself, even though there were some similarities between the two songs. In this spirit, I authorize you to borrow from a good thing you did in the past as you create a new good thing in the future. There'll be no hell to pay if you engage in a bit of self-plagiarism.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Rudyard Kipling's The

Jungle Book is a collection of fables that take place in India. Three movies have been made based on it. All of them portray the giant talking snake named Kaa as an adversary to the hero Mowgli. But in Kipling's original stories, Kaa is a benevolent ally and teacher.

I bring this to your attention to provide context for a certain situation in your life. Is there an influence with a metaphorical resemblance to Kaa: misinterpreted by some people, but actually quite supportive and nourishing to you? If so, I suggest you intensify your appreciation for it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Virginia Woolf thought

that her Piscean lover Vita Sackville-West was a decent writer, but a bit too fluid and effortless. Selfexpression was so natural to Sackville-West that she didn't work hard enough to hone her craft and discipline her flow. In a letter, Woolf wrote, "I think there are odder, deeper, more angular thoughts in your mind than you have yet let come out." I invite you to meditate on the possibility that Woolf's advice might be useful in 2019. Is there anything in your skill set that comes so easily that you haven't fully ripened it? If so, develop it with more focused intention.

Homework: I've gathered all of the long-term, big-picture horoscopes I wrote for you: https://bit.ly/YourGloriousStory2019

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Computer-generated special effects used in the 1993 film Jurassic Park may seem modest to us now, but at the time they were revolutionary. Inspired by the new possibilities revealed, filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas and Peter Jackson launched new projects they had previously thought to be beyond their ability to create. In 2019, I urge you to go in quest of your personal equivalent of Jurassic Park's pioneering breakthroughs. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may be able to find help and resources that enable you to get more serious about seemingly unfeasible or impractical dreams.

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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 March 18, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 13 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: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, 95110. Tel No.: (408) 758-4217. (Pub Dates: 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09/2019)

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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)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): FRANCISCO R. CHAVEZ CASE NUMBER: 18PR185028 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): 408-7584217(Pub Dates: 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649761 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sunshine Garden/ Tennis/Golf, 1144 North 2nd St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Clarus Lyons. 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/Clarus Lyons. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/28/2018. (pub Metro 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649840 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Salgado The Window Washer, 1617 Whitton Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Jose Javier Salgado. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/02/2019. /s/Jose Javier Salgado. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/02/2019. (pub Metro 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649885 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: H HVAC Services, 5875 Charlotte Drive #347, San Jose, CA, 95123, Vong Hy Nguyen. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein

on 01/01/2019. /s/Vong Hy Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/03/2019. (pub Metro 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30/2019)

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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 #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 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. /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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649612 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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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hi Def Audio Video, 1610 Monterey Hwy., San Jose, CA, 95112, Sulee Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/26/2008. Refile in facts from previous filing #576136.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Stuart Lee. President. #C0660936. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/02/2019. (pub Metro 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30/2019)

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)

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Montalvo Arts Center

15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga, CA 95070 408-961-5858 (M-F, 10am - 4pm)

munromontalvo.org

THE VALLEY

F O U N DAT I O N

George & Judy Marcus

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