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THIS MODERN WORLD

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In normal circumstances the professional relationship between the sheriff and the district attorney is a cozy one. Something is terribly amiss here.

STEVE VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE RE: DA TARGETS SHERIFF’S INNER CIRCLE IN APPARENT CORRUPTION PROBE, NEWS, AUG. 7 Okay … let’s break this down, shall we? Rosen is an adept politician. With Smith’s long tenure and political standing, Rosen would only attempt such a maneuver if he was certain it was enough to take Smith down. Warrants were served, which means there is probably cause to believe a felony has been committed. Now it’s only a matter of time until Smith’s admin cannibalizes itself in an attempt to get the best plea deal. Time to sit back and watch the drama unfold!

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All’s Quiet

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Well over a week has passed since the Santa Clara County DA served a search warrant on Sheriff LAURIE SMITH’s Younger Avenue HQ. Officially, no new details have been confirmed beyond what we gleaned at the outset—that the probe has something to do with Smith’s command staff, the way concealed-carry permits are issued and a suspicious political contribution to an independent expenditure committee.

Considering how many times Smith been scrutinized for concealed-gun permits over the years, it would be pretty shocking if she, or anyone close to her, was dumb enough to offer some kind of quid pro quo for the privilege of secretly packing heat. But DA JEFF ROSEN must have some basis other than their deteriorating relationship to target the county’s top cop.

A review of the 100 or so permit-holders in this county as of December 2018 shows that most seem to have a reasonable argument to arm themselves. Judges, private eyes and, ironically in this case, prosecutors are wellrepresented on the list. Some on the roster donated money to support the sheriff’s reelection, albeit years after they first obtained a concealed-carry right.

But what of MARTIN NIELSEN, a veteran bodyguard for an executive protection firm called AS Solution, whose name surfaced because of a $45,000 donation he made last year to a pro-Smith committee? Was he expecting—or promised—something in return for the conspicuously generous contribution?

What we know is that Nielsen represents an industry that’s booming in Silicon Valley, a region They that, as AS Solution CEO Did CHRISTIAN WEST pointed What? out in a 2018 blog, “is known for a lot of things, SEND TIPS TO but not a pro-gun culture.”

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METRONEWS. Sources familiar with COM AS Solution say the firm counts Facebook’s MARK ZUCKERBERG and SHERYL SANDBERG among its clients. Could it be that pressure to maintain and attract that kind of A-list patronage prompted some kind of dubious pact? Officials at AS Solution say they’re looking for answers, too.

CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT The stylists at San Jose’s black-owned beauty salon Nefertiti say they welcome the Crown Act, which outlaws discrimination against traditional black hairstyles.

Hair to Stay New California law aims to prevent hairstyle-based discrimination

BY ERIKA RASMUSSEN

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UST MONTHS BEFORE his graduation from Archbishop Mitty High last year, Miles Lawson showed up to campus with a freshly braided head of hair. According to Lawson, not two days passed before a school dean asked that he remove them.

The administrator’s rationale, as Lawson recalls, was that the traditionally African-American style was not something “we’re trying to push for at the school.”

“It didn’t fit the ‘Mitty aesthetic,’” says Lawson, who ranked among the 3.5 percent of pupils comprising the institution’s black student population.

Yabsera Grum, one of Lawson’s classmates, says that while school

officials never went so far as to ask her to take her own braids out, she experienced similarly troubling treatment. After hearing about what happened to Lawson, Grum says she marched into the dean’s office with a friend to voice their concern.

Rather than hearing them out, Grum says the dean came off as defensive—hostile, even. Grum says he told them he only meant to help Lawson, “that the kid was embarrassed of his hair and he was encouraging him to fix it,” she says. “That was his point of view of what happened.”

The school’s officials didn’t return Metro’s requests for comment by press time. But its policy speaks volumes.

And, at least as of last month, it may very well violate state law.

In her meeting with the dean last

spring, Grum came armed with a copy of the Archbishop Mitty dress code, which included a ban on students wearing their hair more than four inches from their scalp. While ostensibly penned to discourage mohawks, Grum says it’s undeniably discriminatory toward students of color.

She says the dean claimed he would determine if it would be “necessary” to change it. And a year later, the school policy has actually regressed. Mitty’s website clearly states, “natural hair that stands out from the head more than three inches” is not allowed.

Over the last year, then, a whole inch has been taken off the length of “permitted” natural hair.

It’s a policy that sort of policy that the newly enacted Crown Act aims to prevent.

Introduced by state Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) and signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on July 3, SB 188 aims to counter hairstyle-based racial discrimination.

With the Crown Act, which stands for Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural hair, California became the first state in the union to enact such a standard.

New York has since followed suit, passing its own version just weeks

wore their tresses “coiffured” to fit the archetypal Eurocentric aesthetic.

Around that time, people largely viewed natural black styles as a political statement. Black Panther Party member Angela Davis’ puffed curls helped popularize the Afro, inspiring cultural icons like Diana Ross, Jimi Hendrix and the Jackson 5.

Morrow recalls it was more or less after the Civil Rights movement—once people of color were entering the workforce without legal segregation— that black Americans started experiencing discrimination based on less overt barriers to advancement such as natural black hairstyles. “That definitely was not one of the main looks in corporate America,” says Morrow, with a chuckle. Albeit, she adds, “It was alright on the assembly lines.”

From the 1970s through the 2000s, Morrow’s clients busted their locks to achieve styles that fit within exclusionary Anglo definitions of beauty. “I’ve had men and women that do certain things to their hair, and they can’t go to work like that, so they’d buy wigs and wear wigs to work to be accepted at their jobs,” Morrow says.

Jasmin Oliver, the newly appointed salon manager at Nefertiti, says her family can relate. Her husband, who works at a wireless retailer, was promoted twice in 2017—but each time on condition that he change his hair, which he’d worn in dreads for years. At first, he was asked to change the color because his dreads were dyed at the tip. So, Oliver dyed her husband’s hair completely black. The second promotion entailed assuming more of a face-of-the-company persona—so they asked him to cut the dreads off entirely. To the Olivers, the underlying message was clear: Your hairstyle isn’t welcome here.

“A little bit is allowed, but not this. You want to be in this position?

You have look like this,” Oliver says, explaining the mandate. “Well, why can’t I be in this position and look the way that I want to look? Because I’m still going to be able to deliver everything that you ask me to do. You see something in me; you just don’t like the way I look.”

Clearly, black hair isn’t just an aesthetic. “Embracing the natural hair is like a statement of the mind,” Nefertiti founder Neal says.

Thankfully, the law has affirmed as much by linking hairstyles to a deeper sense of identity.

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after SB 188 became law on the opposite coast.

Specifically, the Crown Act expands definitions of race-based discrimination in the California Education Code and Fair Employment Housing Act to include traits historically associated with race—traits including, but not limited to, hair texture and styles such as braids, locks and twists. The language of the bill explains how American history has been “riddled with laws and societal norms that equated ‘blackness’ and the associated physical traits, for example, dark skin, kinky and curly hair to a badge of inferiority, sometimes subject to separate and unequal treatment.”

The landmark legislation adds to a growing body of laws, rules and administrative guidance about dress codes and grooming standards.

Employers trying to create an “image” or “brand” must carefully consider the legal protections afforded to workers.

If the rules have a disparate impact on a protected class—age, gender, religion, race or national origin—it could be considered illegal. For example, according to case law, companies that require men to be clean-shaven could be held liable because AfricanAmerican men are more likely to have a skin condition called pseudofolliculitis barbae that’s inflamed by razors. The Crown Act takes that idea a step further by enshrining hairstyles and hair texture in California’s statutory definition of racial discrimination.

Traditional black hairdos trace back to the earliest human history and the most influential ancient civilizations, including ancient Egypt. A bust of 13th-century BCE Queen Nefertiti was rediscovered in 1913 sporting a sky-high hairdo; braids emerged in African grooming practices as early as 3500 BCE, signifying various social statuses and life stages. Different cornrow designs were used by slaves in the United States to map out escape routes.

San Jose’s culturally diverse Alum Rock neighborhood has its very own Queen of the Nile in Gwendolyn Neal, who opened Nefertiti Beauty and Hair Salon in 1993 and only retired this past May. When she opened her business, she says, the closest stores that really catered to African-American beauty were 50 miles north in Oakland and San Francisco.

When Joan Morrow, a Nefertiti stylist with hair coiffed into an elegant icy blue crown, started in the hair industry in 1962, she says black Americans mainly

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An inside look at San Jose politics

PLAN OF ATTACK In the aftermath of the Garlic Festival shooting, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo wants to require gun owners to have liability insurance.

SJ Mayor Unveils Plan to Combat Gun Violence

BY GRACE HASE Just a few weeks after a gunman opened fire on the Gilroy Garlic Festival, killing three and wounding more than a dozen others, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has announced a “comprehensive” proposal to combat gun violence.

The initiative, which was unveiled Monday morning, would require firearm owners to carry liability insurance for their weapons.

Those unable to acquire such insurance would instead pay a fee to compensate the public for the cost of gun violence.

The insurance would cover

accidental discharges, as well as the intentional acts of someone who stole, borrowed or acquired the gun. It wouldn’t, however, cover the liability of the gun owner for their own “intentional conduct.”

“The state of California paid $1.4 billion last year in medical expenses for victims of gun violence,” Liccardo said at a press conference Monday.

“Those costs were borne by the public—not by the gun industry, not by gun owners. It’s important for us to allocate the cost of gun violence for those who choose to take the risks.”

Liccardo compares his initiative to

other “harm reduction strategies,” like insurance, that have helped lower smoking rates and injuries and deaths from car collisions. Similar to auto insurance, the proposal would be enforced if someone was caught with an uninsured gun on them.

“We don’t expect the bad guys to go and buy insurance,” he said. “We do expect, however, that they may be involved in an incident where they’re packing.”

In addition to the insurance or fee requirement, Liccardo proposes mandating a sales tax on guns and ammunition to help fund gun safety

classes, gun violence prevention programs and victim assistance services. With the approval of the City Council, officials would conduct citywide polling on the potential ballot measure and work with the county and other nearby cities to pursue a regional tax measure.

Liccardo also plans to explore a “consent to search” program for juveniles that would allow parents to give law enforcement the go-ahead to search their child’s property. He’d also like to create a program that would offer cash to tipsters who share information about people with unlawfully obtained guns or weapons.

“With this measure, we won’t suddenly end gun violence,” Liccardo noted, “but we’re going to stop paying for it.”

The insurance or fee requirements would require approval from the San Jose City Council, while the gun-andammunition tax would be left up to the voters.

San Jose Vice Mayor Chappie Jones says he supports his colleague’s proposal.

“We must do something to change this violence, he said. “We can’t wait for the federal government to take action. As someone who was a victim of gun violence, I know the pain and the terror of being shot at.”

Jones was 19 years old when a man tried to cut in front of him at a drive-through. The incident led to a car chase that left Jones fleeing while bullets hit the back of his car.

“It really hit me what that impact would be on my parents if they lost their son and how they would never be the same,” he said. “I know there is going to be a lot of strong opposition to the proposal. This is one step in a very long journey to adopt commonsense gun regulations.”

Liccardo plans to reach out to other mayors throughout the state and the nation to help pass similar local laws. “Just like restrictions against smoking in offices and restaurants started in cities and spread widely,” he said, “we hope by this effort we can promote a national model of harm reduction to reduce gun violence.”

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FAR BEYOND The Sons of Kemet tore through a blistering brass and rhythm set at the Jazz Beyond Stage on Saturday.

Jazzed Up Three decades in, SJZ Summer Fest delivers with tradition, genre transgression

BY GARY SINGH

S

AN JOSE JAZZ celebrate the 30th anniversary of it’s yearly Summer Fest last weekend, drenching fans in a huge array of musical surprises that outshined all ethnic and gender disparities. Plus, if one wanted to contemplate the long history of the festival, well, that kind of vibe was unavoidable.

But first, the music. From the opening moment, sound was everywhere. At Cafe Stritch, the

Otonowa Project played modern jazz arrangements of classic Japanese folk tunes, including one by The Peanuts, the female duo known for the Mothra Song. Moments later, Wally Schnalle’s SJZ Collective played Mingus tunes on the Silicon Valley Stage, aka the Fairmont’s Club Regent Room. Over on the main stage, The Family Stone— including Sly’s daughter Phunne and original founding member Jerry Martini—should have headlined over En Vogue, for crying out loud. The Family was spirited, jumping and musically in the pocket. The songs are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago. At the same time, over

in the Hammer Theatre, Bay Area hero and Giants fan Marcus Shelby presented his orchestra for a capacity crowd, including a song inspired by the Brooklyn Dodgers back when they were called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. Back at Stritch, Marquis Hill’s Blacktet, a group of master musicians, took the likewise capacity crowd all over the emotional map, from highs to lows, from intensity to subtlety. All of this was just in the first three hours.

Historically speaking, Metro is inseparable from the initial germination of the San Jose Jazz Festival, as it was called in 1990, when this paper was the first sponsor. Metro writer Sammy Cohen started the San Jose Society a few years earlier and saw the future. He understood the potential. Over the course of last weekend, I met several people still around from those days—original festival organizers, interns or even musicians who were on the periphery.

Along the fence near the main-stage exit, large photos from every previous festival since 1990 were on display, depicting a three-decade journey.

Now back to the music. Surprises exploded out of nowhere all weekend.

Las Chollas Peligrosas, an all-female six-piece from Phoenix, crushed it on the Sonido Clash Stage, combining all sorts of Latin influences, including Mexican folklórico music, ranchera and old world gypsy troubadour stylings. Accordion, violin, double bass and percussion accompanied deep emotional harmonies.

Moments later in the Fairmont, SJSU’s Aaron Lington led a jazz combo through meditative swirling versions of the Led Zeppelin tunes “No Quarter” and “Ten Years Gone.”

Even the loud parts were relaxing.

It was like getting one of those Shirodhara Ayurvedic brain massages, where warm oil is dripped onto one’s forehead, opening up the third eye.

From England, Sons of Kemet tore up the Jazz Beyond Stage on Post Street, a scene that seemed like a separate-yet-related sub-festival.

The band featured two drummers, tuba and sax, somehow threading influences from jazz, house, jungle and whatever else into a gorgeous anarchicimprov tribal-noise-terror display of pure freedom. The vibe reminded me of those ’90s warehouse shows in San Francisco, with Crash Worship employing brutal layers of percussion and flame throwers while the audience poured red wine on each other.

Back at Stritch, the urban vibe played out all weekend, with many people appearing on other stages after their gigs. San Jose’s Jackie Gage held court Saturday night, switching from voice to piano to guitar and back, performing a smoking tribute to songstress Nancy Wilson, but not before vocalist Kim Nalley and saxophone pyrotechnician James Carter jumped in at the end for a mind-blowing, star-studded moment.

Now, it bears repeating ad nauseam that such moments are a regular part of any real urban place. Musicians from a larger gig down the street come over to the smaller bar and sit in. San Jose Jazz should build on this. Of course, everything boils down to more venues and more residents that actually care about music instead of idiotic “shared workspace” corporations. As always, we can only hope.

In any case, the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, despite some lastminute logistical challenges and signage problems, provided a true global experience, just like San Jose itself. Here’s to another 30 years.

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Science Fest Snarky comics, superheroes and astronauts in the flesh at Silicon Valley Comic Con

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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OW IN ITS fourth year, the Steve Wozniakbacked Silicon Valley Comic Convention is the place for nerds of all stripes to run into old friends and encounter long-time idols. My favorite moments have all come as surprises: scoring an old silver age comic book for an insignificant sum and stumbling upon an flabbergasting panel discussion. For instance: Jackie Brown star Pam Grier’s 2017 appearance and her spellbinding talk about her life.

After a previous expansion to Plaza de Ceasar Chavez made the main floor feel a bit lonely. This year’s festival will be centered on the McEnery Convention Center in downtown San Jose—a one-stop shop for comics and ideas.

“We listened to everybody,” says Trip Hunter, SVCC’s co-founder and chair. “We polled the audience, scaled it down, and made it a little more interactive and tight. We’re not trying to be a 100,000 person show.”

By phone from Dallas, Hunter runs down his favorite events for SVCC 2019, though it’s tough for him to pair it down. Topping his list: Adam Savage, Andy Weir, Monica Baccarin and of course the Terminator himself.

“I’m a huge Terminator fan, and it’s super exciting to have Arnold

Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick here.” A late addition is filmmaker John Milius, who wrote Schwarzenegger’s early hit, Conan the Barbarian; Milius was also a key writer on Apocalypse Now, which, in a new cut, is coming up shortly as part of a series of epics at the Pruneyard Theater.

Hunter, who met Wozniak working at the Utah-based tech company Fusion-io, says his favorite characters from science fiction and fantasy are only part of the equation.

“What makes this show really different is the emphasis on science and technology,” he says. “NASA has a home at the SVCC. We have a women-in-space panel, plus Colonel Chris Hadfield is coming. I’m imagining what it’ll be like for a kid in the audience, seeing him.”

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MAN & MACHINE On ‘Savage Builds,’ Adam Savage’s new TV show, he uses a massive 3D printer to fabricate a real-life Iron Man suit.

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Adam Savage, star of ‘MythBusters,’ has built a career out of building his fantasies BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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AR MORE THAN an emcee presiding over a series of fiery explosions, the man of all berserk trades, Adam Savage, is a frequent guest at Silicon Valley Comic Con.

A San Franciscan with a selfdescribed “cave” of a workplace in The Mission, Savage is known to many as the co-host of MythBusters—the long-running Discovery Channel program dedicated to flamboyant, and

often flammable, science and tech experiments.

MythBusters aired its final episode in March 2016, and Savage now has a new show on the Discovery Inc. network’s Science Channel. Savage Builds gives the host a chance to take deeper dives with some of his favorite builders. Unlike MythBusters, which split various experiments into multiple segments across a single episode, Savage will focus on one ambitious project per episode. Generally speaking, Savage re-creates a fictitious or failed weapon.

In the debut, Savage showed how an Iron Man suit could be built with 3D printed titanium. To make it fly, he took lessons from Gravity Industries’ Richard Browning, who has created a jet pack that uses 5,000 HP of thrust, and which takes a certain amount of acrobatic discipline to keep upright.

In other episodes, Savage teams with Lord of the Rings trilogy director Peter Jackson to refit WWI fighter planes, and seeks out the aid of Gary Oldman in developing a working version of the flame-throwing, rocketlaunching gat his evil character Zorg wielded in The Fifth Element.

A particularly intimidating build involves re-creating an experimental World War II-era weapon known as the Panjandrum, or “Wheel of Death.”

Wing Commander C.R. Finch-Noyes’ bunker-buster was intended to be deployed on D-Day but never survived the testing stage.

This mechanical suicide bomber was made of a large explosive mounted on a pair of 10-foot-tall Catherine Wheels. The idea was to set the thing rolling in the right direction and detonate it once it rolled over a Nazi position. Unfortunately, the Panjandrum careened and spun in unpredictable directions. It was less suited for war than for the annual fireworks fiesta in Tultepec, Mexico—or Burning Man. At this year’s SVCC, Savage will engage in a solo panel as well as moderate the appearance of a friend, astronaut Chris Hadfield. “We’ll be talking about space travel,” Savage says, “one of my favorite subjects.”

METRO: Are you a Burner?

ADAM SAVAGE: I am in my soul,

but I’ve never been to Burning Man. I have hundreds of friends who go, and I love making art, but events conspire against me. I always seem to be filming right around that time of year.

Did your work in fabrication begin with model work in the movies?

The broad facts are linear, but the actual path wasn’t. Star Wars (1977) changed my life. I read in magazines that there were people who built models, and I really wanted to do that. But meanwhile I was an actor, an assistant animator, a theater technician, a welder and a set builder.

I got a rep as someone who could handle challenging special effects, and worked in dozens of commercials.

I also directed research and development for a small toy company.

When I heard they were starting up Episode 1, I called Industrial Light and

Magic twice a week for three weeks until I got the job.

Are there certain films where you can look at the screen and say, “This was all mine?”

On Space Cowboys (2000) I worked with a team of seven people. My particular focus was the payload bay for a shuttle—every nut and bolt. It was such fun when Clint Eastwood steps out of the airlock into my set—going from a 12-inch model to something 75 feet wide. I have some work in the Matrix sequels, and I made Nute Neimoidian’s shuttle in the 1990s Star Wars episodes. I got to paint it, ‘wright it and light it. Even if a movie’s a dog, all the memories of building this stuff brings me joy.

Has CG completely destroyed the market for miniature making?

More like late-stage capitalism than CG! The fact is that they’re still doing models for big water effects and big explosions. But the cost of preparing models drives the bean counters nuts. A model person takes 500 square feet to work in, a CG artist 60 square feet or 30.

CG allows us to do things a model couldn’t do, but there's veracity to the frame that’s only seen in the best CG. I’ve watched CG get better and better, but I lament that there’s not a burgeoning industry for models. I’m happy that there’s still some studios left, among them Legacy Effects and WETA in New Zealand, part of a hallowed tradition—all run by friends of mine, and I love going to see what they get to work.

I was coming out of a science fiction film with a friend and he said, “Look at Blade Runner, 35 years ago. We haven’t made anything that looks that good.” Every shot in Blade Runner is all in camera—no composites, no overlays. There are still directors who prefer model work: Jon Favreau, Peter Jackson, Neil Blomkamp and Guillermo Del Toro among them. Directors seem to prefer CG because it allows them to change things at the last minute, whereas it’d cost millions to change model work after it was done. I lament this culture of late changes in films…but all this is way above 14 my pay grade.

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Wikipedia claims that you always wanted MythBusters to prove natural selection over creationism, but “MythBusters has a policy against trying to disprove supernatural phenomena.”

It’s not that; it’s just that it’s just not very visual. You need an organism iteration that could change quickly, and that kind of organism is too small— fruit flies, mites, bacteria. It would have been bad television. It’s quite easy to do this in an experimental format, but the time scales were too long. We also tried not to prove a negative—if you don’t find Bigfoot, it doesn’t mean that he, or she, isn’t there. It just means you might not have found the right way to look.

Imagine an unlimited budget— was there some other particular myth you yearned to disprove?

We could have gone to the moon in one unbroken, several weeks-long take, going right to the landing spots to prove it happened.

There was a terrific Vox article by Brian Resnick about how it’d be worth retrieving the diaper bags that the astronauts left behind on the moon.

We left a lot of shit on the moon!

Yes, we should reconstitute astronaut poop. Supposedly, the crashed Israeli probe may have left tardigrades— water bears—on the lunar surface.

It’s not unreasonable to argue that life came to Earth in the form of something that tough yet tiny.

A common question, I’m sure. The MythBusters’ team was working with highly explosive and corrosive materials. Were you or the team ever injured?

Never. We never got hurt by the explosives or the shrapnel. The other question is, “Is it really fun blowing up stuff all day?” No. Live explosives are fucking terrifying. We worked with bomb squads, some of the most competent people I’ve met. Jaime Hyneman and my crew trusted them to keep us safe. But what we really liked were watching the high-speed film of the detonations; we’d go back seven or eight times in a row to watch them.

On the episode where you and the team were comparing the emissions

of motorcycles and cars, it was good to see you not dignifying the controversy about climate change with a mention.

One of my favorite moments of being on TV happened during the second year we were filming MythBusters. Fox called us up to be on the show to talk about the unusually strong hurricane and tornado season.

We put the little earbuds in our ears, and we could hear a Fox News executive telling us, ”Now, this is just going to be a fun little segment.

We don’t have to talk about global warming, and in fact, we’d like you not to mention it.”

We went on the air.

“Adam and Jamie, can you explain the phenomena we’re seeing?”

Jamie was, like, ‘“Yes, it’s caused by global warming.”

METRO: Do you find it disheartening that so much makebelieve has taken hold of the government in regard to science?

It’s not make-believe. That comes in second. Outright venal cruelty is what’s leading here.

Does that make you pessimistic?

I get very disheartened and discouraged, but I like that Angela Davis quote: “Optimism is never warranted, but it’s completely required.” I meet lots of young people, and although it’s a self-selected group of young people, who are fans, they have some of the most awake, aware and beautifully inquisitive minds I’ve ever seen. That makes me hopeful.

They’re how we’re going to get through this, if we get through it.

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Life on Mars

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T WAS THE British astrophysicist Sir Reg Dwight who once observed, “Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it’s cold as hell.”

Almost 34 million miles from here at its closest, this potential target for human exploration is not going to be an easy ride. Under current propulsion technologies, the effort requires an eightmonth trip each way, plus a year-and-a-half stay on Mars to wait while Earth and Martian orbits align.

The South Bay’s Andy Weir (author of The Martian) will be at Silicon Valley Comic Con all three days. Another guest, J.R. Skok, PhD has been studying the matter of how to turn Weir’s smart fiction into fact.

Skok was on the team that created the Mars Rovers. Today Skok’s company AstroReality creates detailed (and quite beautiful) models of the solar system’s planets, including what he claims is the best replica of the moon ever made.

“It’s a way to put the planets into people’s hands, to get them to turn a point of light in the sky into a place where we could imagine going,” Skok says. AstroReality also has a VR component, updated with new info from NASA and the various international space agencies, showing topography and landing sites information.

“I am a Mars geologist,” Skok says by way of introduction. He credits his interest in space to the fact that his mother was a big Star Trek fan. She stenciled glow-inthe-dark stars on the ceiling of his bedroom and took him to the local planetarium, where he worked as a

teen. After studying at Cornell, Skok traveled to places analogous to the unforgiving Martian landscape. These include the McMurdo dry valleys in Antarctica: “It’s the coldest, driest place on Earth, and yet it’s warmer and wetter than Mars.” In Iceland, Hawaii and Chile’s Atacama desert, he explored volcanically active areas and glaciers to study what such extreme geological activity does to microbes.

Skok is a member of SETI, a group listening for potential alien chatter. Hope of hearing something is encouraged by the equation of UCSC’s Dr. Frank Drake, which sifts through the factors that might give us hope for an encounter with alien intelligences. But they also search for habitable worlds. “If we can find that life rose independently on Mars, we can double the number of planets in this solar system where this happened,” Skok says. Such news would affect the calculations of how many planets might be able to harbor humans.

The current presidential administration is interested in going to Mars, but so far this interest hasn’t made money talk. Skok says, “I don’t work for NASA, but my understanding is that priorities are changing, shifting from climate change and Rovers to the Artemis project,” the plan to return humans to the moon.

“The year I hear a lot for the return to the moon is 2024. It’s an easy number to say; it’s an election year. This all may be more politically driven than scientifically driven. I’d be surprised if that were doable by then.”

NASA’s exhaustive “Twins Study” contrasted the effects on astronaut Scott Kelly’s body during his year at the International Space Station with the health of his twin brother Mark on Earth. Though there were some encouraging results, the news is that space can be hard on a person’s eyes, muscles and DNA. “It’s enlightening to understand what the challenges are,” said Skok, “and that’s the first step to solving them. We have some very personal data now on what space does to humans. Certain people will have genes that handle it better, with more resistance to cancers and radiation.

We need a better sense of the kind of genes that do well in space.”

A high school student, class of 2020, wants to go to Mars more than anything. What sort of training should he get? “Probably the most useful jobs would be doctors and engineers.

They’re the first people I would send.”

If Skok arrived on Mars, the first experiment he’d want to do would be to break down the chemical composition of the dust to check its toxicity. Just as important would be a chance to study the sterility of Mars “before it is overwhelmed and lost forever” as he says. “Human beings will contaminate it with the microbes we’ll be bringing with us.”

Once travelers land on Mars, they’re going to need entrenching tools. “Mars doesn’t have an ionosphere, and radiation on the surface is going to be tough. In the long term there’s the danger of solar or magnetic flares. The most likely hypothesis is that a half-meter layer of sand or rocks would almost be equivalent to an ionosphere. I’m a fan of landing them where the resources are, where there’s sand, and rather than finding caves, having them dig into an area using local materials.”

As for the timeline for such a trip: “That’s a good question. It depends on when we get the money to go. Under the current climate, there is no date.

If SpaceX gets a commercial reason to go to Mars, or if there’s a national push, that’ll be different. There is talk of a Chinese colony on the moon by 2049.” Like 2024, this too may be a political date; it would be a coup to have it by the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic in 2050. “Skipping the moon to go to Mars is an expensive path. As things are, we’re on a steep road, and there’s no time frame. I hope things change, and I want to make it change.”

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GIRL POWER ‘Nancy’ comics have always challenged traditional funny papers conventions.

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Three.

The Gertrude Stein-like perfection of the 81-year-old comic strip Nancy has been heralded by cartoonist Bill Griffith of Zippy the Pinhead in just that visual zen koan: “Three rocks.”

See, the exterior of almost any house drawn by the auteur of Nancy, Ernie Bushmiller, will have a stack of three balanced rocks outside it, one big, two small. “It's an ontological statement utilizing minimal ideograms,” Griffith has his version of Nancy explaining. (Besides, Griffith personally saw just such an

artistic boulder display right outside the picture window of Bushmiller’s Connecticut home.)

The Tennessean artist Guy Gilchrist, who continued the strip for 22 years, will be signing at SVCC. As a born-again Christian, Gilchrist occasionally witnessed to his faith in the strip, while also updating Nancy’s leggy aunt Fritzi Ritz into the kind of bouncy, tight T-shirt wearing gal you’d see in a Garth Brooks video. (Gilchrist is an accomplished Nashville country and western musician as well as a cartoonist.) The pseudonymous “Olivia James” draws the current syndicated strip. While she’s been flamed to a crisp online

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for her tendency to trendiness and modernization, she does understand the nonplussed quality of the character Nancy.

But there was only one Bushmiller. One, not three. Three rocks, one Bushmiler. Classic-era “Nancy” was the focus of an analysis

by Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik, whose Eisner-award winning How To Read Nancy is currently in its second edition.

Newgarten says Gilchrist and James’ continuations have a purpose: They “serve to directly illustrate how great a cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller really was, as well as how misunderstood the magic of the strip was by it’s corporate gatekeepers.

Charitably speaking, they are of zero interest beyond that.”

Karasik adds: “Comics is a reductive art. Bushmiller’s drawing is as pared-down as his writing to deliver the maximum punch with minimal fuss.” Anthologies of Nancy show how Bushmiller repeatedly worked a gag—in one selection, five different strips about a rubber sink plunger, ranging from reasonably puckish to really funny.

“We know that he agonized over language and usage,” Karasik

continues, “writing and rewriting until satisfied that every character supported the gag.”

Compared to Bushmiller’s use of archetypes, even a stick figure drawing with an arrow pointing to it to explain what it is (“Horsey”) seems overdone. Girl-brat, rich kid, poor kid, thug, or goof: Bushmiller’s small cast of players are as existentially pure as the figures in a Becket play. Bushmiller (1905-1982) aimed to create a Joe Lunchpail comic, but with a porous fourth wall. Nancy and Sluggo’s lives were like the kind of life Daffy Duck had in “Duck Amuck” (1953): a character protesting as it is manipulated by a faceless creator. Writing a New Year’s Day strip when he was allegedly too hungover to draw, he has Nancy writing an excuse to the readers.

Repeatedly, he honored Labor Day by not drawing the characters at all, or obscuring them down to the ankles with smoke clouds.

Bushmiller began with the strip Fritzi Ritz—a long-legged glamour girl, a common figure in 1920s comics, who had a dorky boyfriend named Phil Fumble to string along.

(Gilchrist married Fritzi and Fumble in his last strip.)

In 1933, Bushmiller likely introduced the plump and curly haired Nancy to siphon off some gravy from the hugely successful Little Orphan Annie. (Bushmiller’s reversal: black India-ink dot eyes instead of Annie’s horrifying blank circles.) Nancy took over her aunt Fritzi Ritz’s strip with ease. While the funny papers were chock full of pudgy bad boys, Nancy was the girl anarchist: a spiller of ink, a thief of cookies, a vandalizer of signboards.

She was unruly, even of hair: that was the first thing you’d try to copy when drawing her as a child, and the first indicator you were never ever going to get it right.

There’s an Egyptian-tomb art stiffness in the walking postures, and something formidable in Nancy’s cavernous grimace, her head bristling with sweat drops in outrage. Anger was a great part of classic Nancy.

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Her fight-prone pal Sluggo with his shaved head and the weirdly piglike pug nose was always slightly scary. It’s possible the scalp was a signifier—as in the case of Curly Howard—that Sluggo was one of those poverty-stricken kids who had his head shaved to conquer lice. Despite the perfectly blank suburban landscapes of Bushmiller, Sluggo was a Brooklynite, complete with cloth cap and accent, always talking of boids and doibies. His was a comedy of poverty. Sluggo dwelt in a crapshack, his wardrobe a thing of shreds and patches. Class conflict was a reliable source of laughs.

Karasik and Newgarten break Bushmiller’s seemingly irreducible craft down to the ground lines, the negative space and the shape of the panels. Their study is being used as curricula at Columbia and Cambridge, to teach in fields ranging from game theory to English lit.

“Ernie would have never seen it coming,” says Newgarten.

Bushmiller was resolutely antiintellectual, a Phillistine’s philistine on the subject of the fakers who splattered paint on a canvas and called it “modern art”—this was a subject he pummeled over the years.

And yet he created a cartoon of such powerful graphic fist that Andy Warhol couldn’t wait to copy it.

In the early version of their book-length essay, quoted in a few pages of Brian Walker’s 1988 collection, The Best of Nancy, Karasik and Newgarten wrote that trying to explain Nancy was like trying to explain how to read a stop sign. In their new book, they repeat their diagramming of just one amazing strip by Bushmiller from Aug. 8, 1959, involving Sluggo’s unprovoked assaults with a squirt gun, and Nancy’s rejoinder. One of the earliest of all narrative movies is the Lumiere Brothers’ 1895 L’arroseur arrose (“The Hoser Hosed”), a one minute snippet where a gardener sprinkling his plants finds his water cut off. He peers inside the hose to see what’s wrong… at which, a neighborhood kid lifts his foot, and splat right in the face. That’s the sort of irreducible quality Bushmiller

trafficked in, in this one strip anatomized by the scholars.

Bushmiller had worked in the movies; he was a gag man for Harold Lloyd in the early sound days. Former Stanford extension instructor and film noir programmer Elliot Lavine admires the cinematic simplicity of Nancy. “I read Nancy religiously… I don’t remember laughing at this strip, but it didn’t stop me from developing a lifelong obsession with Bushmiller.

The simple, almost predictable arrangement of objects in the panel, meticulous details offered in some panels, barely any in others, the seemingly effortless and endless parade of gags... sometimes wonderful, sometimes awful.”

Cinematically clear as Nancy was, there never existed a moving-image franchise to sell it. Cartoonist Daniel Clowes once noted that there is an essential nature to a comic strip that cannot be duplicated in other media.

Something to mull over at the diversions at SVCC, among the lectures and the celebrities and MCU costumes and the battalions of Funko figures, is why comics survive.

As Clowes says, they should have been made extinct by newer hotter media. Yet they persist, likely because there is nothing else like them. And Nancy was so perfect a comic strip that it resisted franchising either in TV or movies.

“It never really got much of a shot,” Newgarten says. “The 1940s cartoon shorts were produced by Terrytoons, which was probably the least equipped of the theatrical animation houses of that era to adapt such a precise comedic aesthetic. But I suspect even under optimal conditions it would be a pointless task. It’s so purely what it already is. Nancy = comics.”

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He’s Back

Arnold Schwarzenegger leads a ‘Terminator’ reunion at SVCC

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE IDEA BEHIND Silicon Valley Comic Con has always been to bring fantasy and science fiction stars together with the kind of scientists and innovators who are making the far-out visions of sci-fi writers and filmmakers a reality. Take Skynet… er… the Internet of Things, for example.

A huge part of this year’s

convention is the Terminator reunion.

Arnold Schwazenegger, Michael Biehn from the first Terminator (1984), Edward Furlong (the young John Connor, given a massive, motorcycleriding guardian angel from the future), and the liquid-metal monster Robert Patrick from T2 (1991) are all slated to appear.

T3’s Kristianna Loken and Danny Cooksey are also attending and SVCC guest Jenette Goldstien turns out to have had a role in T2 as John Connor’s foster mom. The

Terminator series persists in pathic VR form at Terminator: Salvation at the Oakridge theater, as a TV series, and an upcoming sixth movie by Tim Miller (Deadpool). It also survives more generally in our collective imagination as a worst-case-scenario of AI on a rampage.

And, of course, it provided Schwarzengger his signature role as an android, the only possible explanation for that physique.

In 1993’s The Last Action Hero, there was a joke about him playing Hamlet (“To be or not to be? Not to be!” he exclaims, throwing Yorick’s skull like a hand grenade.) This was an old kind of gag, one they used to make about John Wayne’s drawl. The iron of Schwarzenegger’s accent has survived the melting pot. He probably would have been better as Laertes, anyway.

But he was always a good actor.

You could see the star power in Pumping Iron (1977), a documentary about the Mr. Olympia contest, where the two competing favorites were Schwarzenegger and SVCC guest Lou Ferrigno (the first actor to play the Hulk, on television).

It was to be Schwarzengger’s last competition as a bodybuilder.

By the time Schwarzenegger left the Avco Center theater in Westwood at the premiere—I was there, wearing a bowtie and carrying a flashlight— the industry types there were already trying to figure out how to fit that name on a theater marquee. The film’s success turned a generation into gym rats.

He’d done some acting previously, in Bob Rafelson’s neglected Stay Hungry. He’s uncredited in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye. But starting with Conan the Barbarian, he played a long train of rock-faced and remorseless heroes, with a grim sense of humor. The tradition of the Bond quip of farewell sounded, in his treetrunk sized throat, like the low note of an organ.

He went to town on the deserving bad men, robots and monsters: bug hunter (in 1987’s Predator), man of Mars (1990’s Total Recall, one of his best), Batman villain (1997’s Batman and Robin), spy (True Lies, 1994) and

an FBI agent on the warpath (1986’s Raw Deal is a likely inspiration for Rainier Wolfcastle’s character of McBain in The Simpsons).

Schwarzenegger enjoyed the comedy of mayhem for years, counterpointing it with outlandishness (Kindergarten Cop, Twins and Junior, as a pregnant man). One of the few fin de siecle apocalypse dramas that's actually any good is End of Days (1999), where Schwarzenegger’s grieving cop finds religious faith to make sure that the antichrist isn’t fathered by the devil (Gabriel Byrne).

The solemness of the role fits him well, but it didn’t prevent him from getting a laugh. When prophecy reveals that the satanic sprat must be sired exactly at midnight, he asks, “Is that Eastern Standard Time?”

The punchline was that he ascended to the governor’s mansion. It was a bit of a coup. In a (total) recall election, Californians were asked to choose between a glamorous movie star and a man named Gray, and they chose accordingly. Republican as he was, Schwarzenegger was an environmentalist who opposed border walls. He was behind the times with gay marriage, and battled a legislature that was far to his left with veto after veto. His plans for agonizing austerity during the Great Recession made the statewide pain worse. Still, if it hadn’t been for term limits, he might have survived a third election.

As of press time, we have learned that Schwarzenegger is charging several hundred dollars for each autograph, grip and grin he gives.

Selling autographs is a plum for actors in their residual years. Often these years last long enough for the actors in question to see their signature sold by dealers for far more money than they sold it for in the first place.

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#LiveMas Speaking of Mexican twists, San Jose is now home to a TACO BELL CANTINA. Slaking the millennial thirst for booze and fast food, it is essentially a regular Taco Bell that also serves beer and spiked slushies. It opened last week in the former location of Louisiana Bistro on Market Street.

Pho Grows One of my favorite pho houses, PHO HA NOI, has opened up a second location in Cupertino, at the corner of Stevens Creek and DeAnza boulevards. Ha Noi is renowned for its northern-style broth, which has a deep beefy flavor and is accented with hints of ginger and green onion, as opposed to the star jasmine and yellow onion of the more pervasive southern-style broth. Be sure to order up a side of delicious beef ribs to accompany your soup.

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BEST SHOT Brand ambassador Ryan Hummel stands with a bottle of 10th St. Distillery’s flagship product: an aged, peated whiskey.

Smooth Sippin’ San Jose gets its own whiskey distillery, a poke expansion, boozy Taco Bell

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RAFT BREWERIES are everywhere in Silicon Valley these days. Take a spin through any one of the South Bay’s myriad business parks, and it certainly wouldn’t be surprising to find a cohort of hop-heads fussing over a new lager, pilsner or ale. Until the arrival of 10TH ST. DISTILLERY, however, the region was home to precisely zero whiskey makers.

The distillery’s peated, singlemalt whiskey—produced just a few miles from the heart of downtown San Jose—is now being distributed

throughout the Bay Area and is already earning accolades. They recently claimed a “Best in Class” gold medal at the 2018 Whiskies of the World showcase, which was held in March at the downtown San Jose Marriott.

Their whiskey is the culmination of more than seven years of hard work. Co-founders Virag Saksena and Vishal, who goes only by his first name, spent five years honing the recipe, designing their own 100 percent copper stills and setting up their distillery; then they spent another two years aging their spirits in oak barrels. Though they can’t legally call their product “scotch,” they import their peated barley

from Scotland. The result is a smooth, fruity and lightly smoky whiskey that pairs exquisitely with barbecue, a hearty steak or even a delicate cut of sashimi.

Distribution is just starting to take off, but whiskey aficionados can already find their product at various bottle shops throughout the South Bay and some high-end restaurants, such as FORBES MILL, OAK & RYE, PAPER PLANE and both ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE and THE SEA

BY ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE. Check the 10th Street Distillery website for a full list of local shops and restaurants, which will soon include Total Wine & More.

Bubblin’ Up Popular Las Vegas breakfast spot MIMOSAS GOURMET has made San Jose home to its second location. Now open off of Monterey Road on the South Side, Mimosas is known for its large selection of sparkling wine cocktails, which come in a variety of exotic fruity flavors—like lychee, prickly pear and papaya—as well as their gigantic Super Mimosa. The menu consists of classic breakfast staples, all with a Mexican

Another personal favorite, ALOHA FRESH POKE, officially opened up their new larger digs in San Jose’s Japantown neighborhood last month. This comes after they closed their Cupertino location back in June.

Aloha Fresh is might just be the most authentic Hawaiian poke in the South Bay. Their fish is premarinated in their signature blend of sauces, as opposed to the endless combos at the more ubiquitous Chipotle-style poke places. Be sure to upgrade to their earthy and toothsome black rice, and for a completely unique experience, try the Surf ‘N Turf bowl with Kahlua pork and a poke of one’s choosing.

Bye-Bye BYOP Locally owned build-your-own-pizza restaurant TOP THIS! PIZZA abruptly closed last month. The brainchild of Scotts Valley entrepreneurs Jerry and Yovette Raymond, Top This! was one of the first BYOP spots in the South Bay. They opened their Los Gatos Boulevard shop in the summer of 2013. They are now the second casualty of what might be a bursting BYOP bubble; most local PIEOLOGY locations closed last year due to “staffing shortages.”

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FEIST

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DR. DRE ORCHESTRA WICKED

Thu, 7pm, $39+ Mountain Winery, Saratoga

Thu, 7pm, $20 The Ritz, San Jose

Canadian-born singer and songwriter Leslie Feist has been making music since 1991, and has been an integral member of the sprawling Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene since its founding in 1999. Both she and Broken Social Scene released full-length albums in 2017. Her solo release was titled Pleasure; the BSS album was Hug of Thunder. Even those not fully plugged in to mid-2000s North American indie rock may recognize her breezy 2007 single “1234.” Featuring both banjo and a swelling brass section—natch— the tune gained mainstream traction thanks in large part to Apple, which used the song in an iPod Nano commercial. (MS)

No Strings Attached is no ordinary cover band. Featuring classical musicians from the United Kingdom’s leading orchestras, plus DJs and singers, this chamber orchestra pays tribute to legendary producer, rapper and entrepreneur Dr. Dre. Featuring orchestral arrangements of Dr. Dre’s G-funk opus, 2001, this collaborative and multidisciplinary consortium tears down preconceived genre barriers by incorporating classical instrumentation and musical techniques in the context of a hard-hitting hip-hop performance.

Currently on the West Coast leg of their world tour, No Strings Attached has performed across northern Europe, Australia and the East Coast. (MP)

Thu, 2pm, $49+ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

When Wicked comes to town, crowds flock to the theater like it’s the Emerald City. This beloved Broadway musical, which premiered in San Francisco almost 14 years ago, tells the story of Elphaba, a bold gal with a mossy complexion—long before she was known as the Wicked Witch of the West in the Land of Oz. Accompanied by a critically acclaimed score, featuring songs such as “Popular,” and of course, “Defying Gravity,” the witches of Oz will spin a radical narrative about their origins, friendships and differences. The show runs through Sep. 8 at the SJCPA. (KA)

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VIVA PARKS Fri & Sun, Free Plaza de César Chávez, San Jose San Jose’s seasonal Viva Parks series is back at it—activating Plaza de César Chávez with local bands, food trucks and familyfriendly activities. Friday’s 5pm concert features Texas-born songstress Steely Nash and her band, the Cuts. Nash toes the line between country and pop with her soulful, sassy delivery and danceable beats. On Sunday, local alternative band Life Size Models takes to the park for a brunch-hour show starting at 11am. LSM mix earnest, heartfelt lyricism, driving guitar riffs and high-energy drumming, drawing inspiration from groups such as Arctic Monkeys and The Cure. (MP)

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SUPER MADNES & EXTRA LIVES Sat, 7:30pm, $12+ Art Boutiki, San Jose This pair of Los Angeles-based bands takes two distinctly different approaches to video game music. Super MadNES goes hard, crafting shred-tastic heavy metal renditions of classic console and arcade scores.

Deploying twin finger-tapping runs and twinkling synths, they rip through netherworldly scales at a blistering pace as they take on tunes from titles like RoboCop and Castlevania III. Extra Lives is no less technical, though they are more laid back. The quartet pays homage to the 1980s and ’90s with jazzier renditions of songs from Super Mario World and Sonic the Hedgehog. (ER)

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WICKED

Aug 20 at Mountain Winery

THE CRYSTAL METHOD Sep 23 at The Ritz

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Aug 23 at Mountain Winery

TOWER OF POWER Aug 25 at Mountain Winery

LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Aug 30 at Mountain Winery

NELLY, TLC Aug 30 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

THE NATIONAL Sep 1 at Frost Amphitheater

KORN & ALICE IN CHAINS Sep 4 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

DURAN DURAN Sep 10-11 at Mountain Winery

CAKE & BEN FOLDS

JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE

ASSYRIAN FOOD FESTIVAL

Sat, 8pm, $25+ Montgomery Theatre, San Jose The legacy of Johnny Cash lives on with the help of singer-guitarist Danny Millsap and the Hennessy Three—together forming The Only Johnny Cash Tribute Band. Millsap credits a 1990 Cash concert in Fresno as a formative moment, sparking a lifelong goal to keep the music and mystery of The Man in Black alive. Millsap also helms a few other country acts, including a band under his own name. With his Cash tribute, he’s performed all over Northern California and the Central Valley, breathing new life into the legendary ballads of the somber singer-songwriter. (MP)

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Sep 13 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

KUNG FU VAMPIRE Sep 13 at The Ritz

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LIL’ EASY BACKYARD PARTY

Sat, 11am, Free Assyrian Church of the East, San Jose

Sun, 7:30pm, $130+ Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara

Sun, 11am, $60 Poor House Bistro, San Jose

Assyrian culture dates back nearly 5,000 years, which has given the Assyrian people plenty of time to perfect their family recipes. The Assyrian Food Festival returns to San Jose for a weekend packed with flavorful dishes, live music and art that’s meant to preserve and share Assyrian traditions. Guests can sample pastry piroshkis stuffed with spiced meat or veggie filling, or try Lubia Polo, a mouthwateringly seasoned Persian green bean and rice dish. Herbivores get tabbouleh or creamy and oiled hummus, while bourageh, Assyrian “egg rolls,” pack a parsley and curryfilled crunch. Plus, one raffle winner walks away with a Dodge Challenger.

Runs through Sun. (ER)

Back in April, Rolling Stones fans had a bit of a scare. Mick Jagger pressed pause on the group’s No Filter tour to undergo what the band’s PR team called a “minor” heart surgery. At 76, Mick isn’t the oldest of the Stones—that title goes to drummer Charlie Watts.

Nor is he the hardest living (all hail the immortal Keith Richards!).

Still, any time a member of the rock & roll royal family goes under the knife, music lovers hold their collective breath. Thankfully, Jagger bounced back. He and his mates bring their perpetual search for satisfaction to Santa Clara this Sunday. (MS)

San Jose’s New Orleans joint, Poor House Bistro, is filling up this Sunday with food and live music straight from the Big Easy, at their annual Lil’ Easy event, a backyard party fundraiser for the Stroke Awareness Foundation.

Poor House will be showcasing six Bay Area blues bands alongside a silent auction and a special menu featuring charbroiled oysters. The acclaimed boogie-woogie pianist Wendy DeWitt and harmonica wizard Gary Smith are both slated to perform, bringing the rich musical heritage of New Orleans with them. (MP)

MALUMA Sep 15 at SAP Center

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Sep 20 at Mountain Winery

BOB SEGER Sep 26 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

MANÁ Sep 27 at SAP Center

SHANNON & THE CLAMS Oct 3 at The Ritz

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MAKING LEMONADE Brian Copeland, right, and Charlie Varon pull sweet levity out of a sour political climate.

Real Deal Bay Area comedian Brian Copeland mines the Trump era for laughs, empathy

BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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HEN BRIAN COPELAND moved from Birmingham, Ala. to San Leandro, Calif. at age 8 in the early 1970s, the town, which borders Oakland, was 99 percent white. Copeland, who's black, experienced racial profiling and affronts from his white landlords, neighbors, schoolmates and police.

After surviving childhood and finding his voice through theater, comedy and talk radio, Copeland experienced another affront—this time from African-American audience members or radio listeners who

accused him of not being a “genuine black man.”

It’s a story he shares with audiences in his acclaimed one-man-show Not a Genuine Black Man, which premiered in San Francisco 15 years ago, and which Copeland still regularly performs to sold-out crowds.

Not a Genuine Black Man is one of several hit one-man-plays Copeland has written and performed in the last two decades that address personal and political issues. His latest is The Great American Sh*t Show with Charlie Varon, which comes to the Tabard Theater on Aug. 15.

In fifth grade, Copeland was introduced to theater, and he began performing in the school musical every year. The plan was for him to

become a lawyer when he graduated from high school, but fate intervened when Tommy Thomas, better known as Tommy T, opened the original Tommy T’s Comedy Club about a mile from Copeland’s house.

Copeland was already a fan of comedy—using a fake ID to get into clubs in San Francisco—and he approached Thomas about performing at an open mic.

“He said, ‘I’ve got a comic who’s sick tonight, can you do 15 minutes?’

And I go, ‘Sure,’” Copeland says.

“Because I was 18 and stupid enough to think I could do anything.”

Still, he got laughs and walked off the stage hooked.

“I gave myself one year with comedy,” says Copeland, who took a leave of absence from school and quit his day job when he was 20 years old.

“I never went back.”

He worked his way up through the Bay Area comedy scene to become a headliner, and often hit the road to open for performers like Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole and other legendary artists.

At the same time, Copeland made a

name for himself on the radio, turning guest spots on KGO into a regular weekend program, The Brian Copeland Show, which debuted in 1994 and was for years the most listened-to radio show in its time slot. In the mid– 2000s, Copeland also did a weekly commentary feature for the station called Copeland’s Corner.

In The Great American Sh*t Show, Copeland and actor-writer Charlie Varon trade monologues about their experiences over the last three years.

Varon and Copeland first met in 2004, when Copeland was working on Not a Genuine Black Man. “There’s this fascinating moment when an artist discovers something, finds some new truth, some new way of speaking about reality,” says Varon. “For Brian, it’s both personal and political. He’s got this incredible cocktail of standup comedy, personal storytelling and a sensibility that is his and his alone.

He’s able to encapsulate pain and absurdity in the same breath.”

Varon calls The Great American Sh*t Show a complete accident, which came about after he heard Copeland tell a story onstage about being called the n-word for the first time in years, the day after the 2016 election—the epithet flew from the mouth of a guy driving a Prius. “An environmentalist and a racist,” Varon laughs. “All I know is, I left the theater a different person after hearing Brian’s monologue.” He approached Copeland about collaborating on a full show about life in the Age of Trump, and the two developed the show to say all the things they’ve been feeling since November 2016.

While The Great American Sh*t Show also touches on topics ranging from the #MeToo movement to the separation of families at the border, it’s not all about despair. The show is cathartic. “The show brings people together to acknowledge what we’re living through (and) how unprecedented it is, and to affirm that we can take action and work to change the situation,” Varon says.

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WETLANDS In ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon,’ two fugitives buddy-up for a ‘Huckleberry Finn’-style adventure.

Water Dogs USING A SPECIAL needs actor is problematic, from a question of exploitation and how deep the performance goes. However, it’s always better than having a normally abled actor pretending to be differently abled—what novelist Bruce Wagner famously termed “the perennial audience-pleaser and vainglorious actor’s showcase staple.” However, someday you’ll meet someone who’ll consider Tyler Nilson’s audiencepleasing The Peanut Butter Falcon their favorite movie of all time. That choice wouldn’t be disgraceful; like the star Zack Gottsagen, this movie is on its own wavelength.

Gottsagen’s Zak introduces himself: “I am a Down’s Syndrome Person.” He’s stubby, stubborn and hard to handle. Zak is a fan of professional wrestling and one wrestler in particular, the Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church) who he watches repeatedly The Peanut on a VHS tape. This obsession spurs his plan to Butter Falcon flee the North Carolina old folks home where he’s being kept. He gives staff the slip with the help of his PG-13, 93 Mins. roommate, Bruce Dern (doing some superior codgering, CinéArts Palo Alto Square he’s infectiously amusing). Zack flees at night in his underwear, stowing away in the boat of another fugitive, Tyler (Shia LaBoeuf), a hard-luck crab poacher with a couple of bad bastards (John Hawke and Yelawolf) after him.

Tyler and Zak become traveling companions, rafting south in the Pamlico Sound. As a road trip movie, it’s like The Last Detail done watery—and the two are at last joined by Eleanor, who worked at the nursing home where Zak lived. In her scene of smilingly rebuffing Tyler’s compliments, Johnson shows she has more than enough acting chops to survive the 50 Shades of Gray series.

The cuteness is built in from the title down. It is a bit gooshy, with a baptism by a profane junkyard reverend and a magical realist moment of triumph. Still, the Outer Banks waterscapes make The Peanut Butter Falcon funky and appealingly summery. LaBeouf ’s comeback continues to impress, and he nails this wispy tale together. There are worse things you can say about a film than it’s like Beasts of the Southern Wild if Frank Darabont directed it. —Richard von Busack

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FRIGHT NIGHT Adapted from the beloved series of creepy short stories, ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ gets the Guillermo del Toro treatment.

Tales of Terror ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ delivers classic horror and nostalgia

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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IEWERS WITH COMPLAINTS about the whiteness and apoliticallity of Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood may feel a bit relieved with the way Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark views the era. It matches a lethal Halloween season with the 1968 election of Richard Nixon and the escalation of the Vietnam War. And it underscores the discrimination against a new Latino kid in town, Ramon (Michael Garza).

Once upon a time In Mill Valley,

Pa., 1968, a trio of high school rejects prepares for the holiday. Director Andre Ovredal (Trollhunter) sets the stage deftly. The freckly, nerdy Stella (Zoe Margaret Colletti), a devout horror fan and budding writer, is possibly the only girl in the Keystone state whose walls are covered with pictures of Bela Lugosi. The fussy Auggie (Wes Anderson vet Gabriel Rush) is going this Halloween costumed as Pierrot, the commedia dell'arte character Bowie dressed as on the cover of Ashes to Ashes. The puffy white clown suit—“For the last time, it’s Pierrot!”—is a true bully magnet.

The boy’s dear pal is the young wiseass Chuck (Austin Zajur), who

plans a stinky Halloween revenge on their trio of jock tormentors. But Chuck little realizes that his pesky glamorpuss sister (Sue Lyon lookalike Natalie Ganzhorn) is riding with the thugs that night.

Stella, Auggie, Chuck and their new acquaintance Ramon round off their Halloween by exploring the local haunted house. It’s a shuttered brick mansion once owned by the paper-mill barons who founded their town. They find a secret chamber with a ledger of stories, which are written—to borrow Nabokov’s ominous turn of phrase—“in some peculiar form of red ink.” Each short tale predicts the horrible fates awaiting these poor souls.

“This is the reason I don’t read books!” Chuck yelps.

It’s a very PG-13 rampage, never more violent than an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Phantasms include a who-stole-my-golden-arm style walking corpse, a tangerine-sized zit that has a life of its own, a croaking creature of severed pieces that tumbles down a chimney and a cornfield scarecrow who has had enough of being kicked

around. The scares are old-fashioned enough to be a surprise to a kid. Some of them are nicely turned: Lorraine Toussaint, who played Amelia Boynton Robinson in Selma, portrays an elderly, palsied obeah-woman singing “The Worms Go In…” in a minor key.

Scary Stories… works up an unusual amount of feeling, right where you’d least expect it. Dean Norris, who played the DEA cop Hank on Breaking Bad, only has a couple of scenes as Stella’s father, yet he’s quite touching as a man abandoned, shut off and overworked. The comedy always works, and the art direction is evocative right down to the wallpaper. The cast are far more than the usual cyphers fed to the meat grinder, and there is a sense of loss in almost every supernatural attack.

Garza, who has the natural sensuality of Sal Mineo, is impressive here. As for Colletti, she’s wonderful. It is a bit hard to imagine a young lady of her age having a lobby card for Mesa of Lost Women, just like it’s hard to imagine people applauding something as tired as The Wrecking Crew in Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood.

The ending was a letdown; it confuses the need of a character to face his personal demons with his need to fight a war the movie has so-far denounced. The contrast of the horror of Nixon with the buried history of this small town is likely the work of producer and screen story writer Guillermo del Toro; it’s reminiscent of the way he linked his aquatic romance The Shape of Water with the crimes of the Cold War. The best scene here definitely seems like Del Toro’s work: a chilly sequence where Chuck is cornered in a series of red-lit corridors by a monster—obese, shuffling slowly, grinning blissfully from ear to ear … not that it has ears.

If there’s one thing del Toro—great admirer of the 1930s Universal Classic Monsters that he is— understands, it’s that the theatrical slowness of those night creatures was a feature, not a bug. When you’re immortal, you have all the time in the world, and can really enjoy the business of terror.

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Guitarmony For a freewheeling, jangly indie band, Dogbreth knows a bit about rock & roll

BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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T’S ONLY BEEN three years since Dogbreth released Second Home with local Asian Man Records, but in those three years a lot has changed. The DIY power-pop band relocated from Phoenix to Seattle and re-formed— then had a member of the new lineup relocate.

They’ve toured and taken breaks from touring, endured breakups and breakdowns. But the biggest change

of all came in the form of a small metal box.

“I’ve been playing with and listening to distortion pedals for a long time now,” says singer and guitarist Tristan Jemsek. “I think my ears just needed a break.”

This October, Dogbreth release Ever Loving, their second album with Asian Man, and their first without Jemsek’s faithful RAT II distortion pedal. Pro Co, the company that makes the RAT, says the pedal “excels at arena rock rhythm tones and soaring leads.”

For Ever Loving, Jemsek wanted something different.

“I wanted this one to have a real soft shimmeriness to everything,” he says. “I still wanted it to rock, I just also wanted it to sound really good— something you’d want to listen to over and over again because it sounds really pretty. But also kick-ass.”

For longtime Breth-heads, this might sound like the Dogbreth they’ve always known and loved. Since selfreleasing their debut in 2011, Dogbreth has always been emotionally honest while still rocking pretty hard. For all its earnest sensitivity, 2016’s Second Home still heavily emphasized the rock in “indie rock,” frequently exploding into guitar solos and dual-guitar leads.

On songs like “Cups and Wrappers” (an incredible song about whether or not rock music will last), Dogbreth did both at once, bearing some serious emotion while kinda sounding like Iron Maiden.

“For a long time whenever someone mentioned our band, they would just

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SLACKER SOLO Dogbreth blends ripping solos with slouchy indie bliss.

talk about the guitarmonies,” Jemsek says, using the widely agreed-upon rocker-parlance for “harmonized guitars.” “I love Thin Lizzy,” he adds, “and I love guitarmonies, but I just didn’t want that to be a thing.”

Throughout Ever Loving, Jemsek and new guitarist Bil Palmer are much more likely to play jangly arpeggios and gentle bends than pyrotechnic leads. Lead single “When U Call My Name,” is a perfect example. Written and sung by Palmer, “When U Call My Name” is an incredibly catchy jangle-pop song— part British Invasion, part R.E.M. Sounding woozy and lovelorn, the guitars wobble gently beneath lyrics about returning home.

“Bil sent me a batch of demos that he thought might work well for the band, and as soon as I heard that song, I was like, ‘I love this song so much, we have to do this song,’” Jemsek recalls.

While there’s still some distortion to the record (and even some guitarmonies), it’s this kind of gentle rocking that most defines Ever Loving.

Opener “Old Keys” starts off quiet before kicking into a head-bobbing groove. Then, just as the song is really starting to rock, they bring the “soft” back with a wind chime. On “Walk You Again” (a song about missing an ex’s dog), tremulous verses give way to a big outro, as a fuzzed-out guitar lead breaks through the synths, oohs and chorus pedals. Altogether, it’s pretty—gentle and shimmery, like Jemsek described— while still rocking pretty hard.

And though a lot has changed for the band recently, Jemsek still has a lot of love for the DIY world of his youth.

“Growing up in the Phoenix music scene, I was lucky to be around this community of artists that made music that was like a pop/rock collage,” Jemsek says. “A lot of hardto-define artists, not too concerned with what style or genre each song is, just letting the song decide. That’s the kind of thing that interests me the most. On this record, I wanted to do that, but with a consistent quality of tones and sounds.”

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AUG 14–22 | “I HOLD A THOUSAND/KITES IN A FIELD LOOSED FROM THEIR TETHERS” That there’s a line from Ross Gay’s poem to Patrick Rosal about how music makes him feel. I know those poets, that poem and those feelings. We all have something that tugs at us. The South Bay’s artistic talent and skill tug at me. It’s full of music, comedy and community. So much music and comedy that looking back at this summer, I honestly cannot remember a more vibrant season for laughing and listening in the South Bay. Comedian Coral Best is bringing a new comedy showcase to Art Boutiki this Wednesday. Come on, she is literally the “Best” in local comedy... If you’re looking for something different, WeWork is launching the Backyard pop-up community space at Fountain Alley this Thursday. It’s the alleyway between First and Second streets downtown that you’ve probably regretted cutting through at some point. I am grateful for it. Did you know that Fountain Alley is thusly named because over a century ago, it had a long fountain where folks would tie their horses to drink? You’re welcome. Expect a full wazoo of horseless programming. Friday night has you split: two thoroughly original vocalists at Plaza de Cesar Chavez, Steely Nash and Kiva Uhuru, and/or Japantown Art Walk. You can do both! There’s Coffee Palooza on Saturday morning, followed by the worship-worthy Noah & The Arkiteks later that evening. Finish out the weekend with a chalk art workshop at the Joyce Ellington Library on Sunday morning. This schedule is honestly and fundamentally too perfect to pass up. See these and so many more events in my listings below. = MUST SEE

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WED 8/14 Wednesday, August 14 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+ Thursday, August 14 • Ages 16+

HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS EMERY

Friday, August 16 • Ages 16+

The Original Wailers Saturday, August 17 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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

CEDAR ROOM

Everyday Happy Hour: 4pm– 5:30pm & 9pm–10pm. Wed, 8pm–11pm: Queen Bingo.

Mon, 7pm: Big Bands. Tue, 8pm– Close: Tiki Tuesdays— exotic cocktails and island vibes. Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

PASSAFIRE • KASH’D OUT

Tuesday, August 20 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

THE PALMS • BAY LEDGES

Aug 22 Tuxedo/ DJ Kurse (Ages 16+) Aug 24 Los Cafres (Ages 16+) Aug 27 Protoje/ Lila Ike (Ages 16+) Aug 31 Danny Duncan (All Ages) Sep 2 Xavier Rudd (Ages 16+) Sep 12 Gogol Bordello (Ages 16+) Sep 13 Iya Terra/ For Peace Band (Ages 16+) Sep 14 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Sep 15 Lil Keed/ Lil Gotit (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Hot Chip/ Holy Fuck (Ages 16+) Sep 26 Loud Luxury/ CID (Ages 16+) Sep 28 & 29 Durand Jones & The Indications (Ages 16+) Oct 3 PNB Rock/ NoCap (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Collie Buddz (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Riot Ten/ Al Ross (Ages 18+) Oct 12 Manila Killa (Ages 16+) Oct 14 Yung Gravy (Ages 16+) Oct 19 & 20 Santa Cruz Music Festival (Ages 16+) Oct 23 The Distillers (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Skizzy Mars (Ages 16+) Nov 1 P-Lo (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

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LAUGH TIKI: COMEDY SHOWCASE

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135

TOKYO BLAST! A night of J-Rock & J-Pop

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SAM’S BBQ

Wed, 6pm: Blue House. Tue, 8/20, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. Wed, 8/21, 6pm: Fred McCarty. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

BACKYARD SJ | STAR WARS EPISODES I-VI OUTDOOR SCREENINGS

Happy Hour & Trivia: 6pm.

Film: 8pm/sunset. Backyard, 35 S Second St, San Jose

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Blues Jam. Fri, 6pm: The Joint Chiefs. Fri, 9pm: Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers (at The Studio) Sat, 6pm: Terry Hanck Band. Sun, 11am: Johnny Fabulous. Sun, Noon: 7th Annual Lil Easy Backyard Party.

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

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

KARAOKE WITH JADE 9:30pm. Dive Bar, 78 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

LIVE MUSIC | ISAIAH PICKETT BAND 9:30pm. Rosie McCann’s, 355 Santana Row #1060, San Jose

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

7pm. Doors 6:30pm. 21+ $7.

Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

FRASCATI COMEDY OPEN MIC (ALL AGES)

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

NEW TALENT COMEDY SHOWCASE

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough," said Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, ex-President of Liberia.

In accordance with astrological imperatives, I propose that we make that your watchword for the foreseeable future. From what I can tell, you're due to upgrade your long-term goals. You have the courage and vision necessary to dare yourself toward an even more fulfilling destiny than you've been willing or ready to imagine up until now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): How did our ancestors ever figure out that the calendula flower can be used as healing medicine for irritated and inflamed skin? It must have been a very long process of trial and error. (Or did the plant somehow "communicate" to indigenous herbalists, informing them of its use?) In any case, this curative herb is only one of hundreds of plants that people somehow came to adjudge as having healing properties. "Miraculous" is not too strong a word to describe such discoveries. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Gemini, you now have the patience and perspicacity to engage in a comparable process: to find useful resources through experiment and close observation—with a hardy assist from your intuition.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today the city of

Timbuktu in Mali is poor and in the throes of desertification. But from the 14th to 17th centuries, it was one of the great cultural centers of the world.

Its libraries were filled with thousands of influential books, which remained intact until fairly recently. In 2012, Al-Qaeda jihadists conceived a plan to destroy the vast trove of learning and scholarship. One man foiled them. Abba al-Hadi, an illiterate guard who had worked at one of the libraries, smuggled out many of the books in empty rice sacks. By the time the jihadists started burning, most of the treasure had been relocated. I don’t think the problem in your sphere is anywhere near as dire as this, Cancerian. But I do hope you will be proactive about saving and preserving valuable resources before they're at risk of being diluted, compromised or neglected.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Moray eels have two sets

of jaws. The front set does their chewing. The second set, normally located behind the first, can be launched forward to snag prey they want to eat.

In invoking this aggressive strategy to serve as a metaphor for you in the coming weeks, I want to suggest that you be very dynamic and enterprising as you go after what you want and need. Don’t be rude and invasive, of course, but consider the possibility of being audacious and zealous.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It's relatively rare, but

now and then people receive money or gifts from donors they don't know. Relatives they've never met may bequeath them diamond tiaras or alpaca farms or bundles of cash. I don't think that's exactly what will occur for you in the coming weeks, but I do suspect that you'll garner blessings or help from unexpected sources. To help ensure the best possible versions of these acts of grace, I suggest that you be as generous as possible in the kindness and attention you offer. Remember this verse from the Bible: "Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it."

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libra-born Ronald McNair

was an African-American who grew up in a racist town in South Carolina in the 1950s. The bigotry cramped his freedom, but he rebelled. When he was 9 years old, he refused to leave a segregated library, which prompted authorities to summon the police. Years later, McNair earned a PhD in physics from MIT and became renowned for his research on laser physics. Eventually, NASA chose him to be an astronaut from a pool of 10,000 candidates.

That library in South Carolina? It's now named after him. I suspect that you, too, will soon receive some vindication, Libra: a reward or blessing or consecration that will reconfigure your past.

SCORPIO (Oct. 3-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Zadie

Smith wrote, "In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution— is not my solution." I think it will be perfectly fine if sometime soon you speak those words to a person you care about. In delivering such a message, you won't be angry or dismissive. Rather, you will be establishing good boundaries between you and your ally; you will be acknowledging the fact that the two of you are different people with different approaches to life. And I bet that will ultimately make you closer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season," wrote author and activist Bette Lord.

That's not entirely true. For example, skilled and meticulous gardeners can compel tulip and hyacinth bulbs to flower before they would naturally be able to. But as a metaphor, Lord's insight is largely accurate. And I think you'll be wise to keep it in mind during the coming weeks. So my advice is: Don't try to make people and processes ripen before they are ready. But here's a caveat: You might have modest success working to render them a bit more ready.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "For though we often

need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown." Poet A. R. Ammons formulated that shiny burst of wisdom, and now I'm passing it on to you. As I think you know, you tend to have more skill at and a greater inclination toward the small, concrete, limited and certain. That's why, in my opinion, it's rejuvenating for you to periodically exult in and explore what's large, vague, unlimited, unknown. Now is one of those times.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Look into my eyes.

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am." Poet Sylvia Plath wrote that, and now, in accordance with astrological omens, I'm authorizing you to say something similar to anyone who is interested in you but would benefit from gazing more deeply into your soul and entering into a more profound relationship with your mysteries. In other words, you have cosmic permission to be more forthcoming in showing people your beauty and value.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his Anti-Memoirs, author André Malraux quotes a tough-minded priest who served in the French Resistance during World War II. He spent his adult life hearing his parishioners' confessions. "The fundamental fact is that there's no such thing as a grown-up person," the priest declared.

Even if that's mostly true, Pisces, my sense is that it is less true about you right now than it has ever been.

In the past months, you have been doing good work to become more of a fully realized version of yourself.

I expect that the deepening and maturation process is reaching a culmination. Don't underestimate your success! Celebrate it!

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InvenSense, Inc., NAME STATEMENT #634478

leader of Sensor System on Chip in The following person(s) is (are) doing business San Jose, CA Publishing, is accepting applications as: Simplyread 371 Elan Village Lane, for: MEMS Engr. (job#VK0730) #122, San Jose,Dsgn.

CA, 95134, Simplyread, LLC. This is being by a Limited Liability – business Develop nextconducted gen MEMS device Company. Registrant began transacting business architecture and specs; AMS Verif. under the fictitious business name or names listed Engr. (job#VL0730) – Dsgn. verif. and herein on 08/03/2016. Above entity was formed in validation of integrated circuits w/CEO. the state of California. /s/Debbie Whitmore. focus on mixed-signal deling andwith top#2016223100461.

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filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on Lead, develop & grow a software 10/03/2017. (pub Metro 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/01/2017)

engineering team to deliver the best in class multi-cloud managed Kubernetes FICTITIOUS BUSINESS product. The team consist of 8 software NAME STATEMENT #633968 engineers working across multiple The following person(s) is (are) doing business backend services & UI development. as: Lee’s Sandwiches. 260 E. Santa Clara St., San Email resume to careers@platform9.

Jose, CA, 95113, CBET Corporation. This business net referconducted to job#SPN2019 when apply. is being by a Corporation.

Registrant Platform9 Systems, Inc.under the fictitious began transacting business business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2017.

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TECHNICAL/ENGINEERING The following person(s) is (are) doing business

as: Icey Poki, 1085 E. Brokaw Road, Suite 30, San ServiceNow, Inc. has the following Jose, CA, 95131, 3L Poki, Inc. This business being positions available in Santa Clara,isCA: conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began Sr. Application Developer (5143): Lead transacting business under the fictitious business and all technical of project nameown or names listed hereinaspects on 10/03/2017.

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Sr. Software ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF Engineer (5143): Analyze, design, NAME, CASE NUMBER: 17CV316633 and develop business applications.

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demonstrations. Design, build, or operate network configuration FICTITIOUS BUSINESS prototypes, etc. Software Engineer: Job #2019498 (1 NAME STATEMENT #634514 opening) - Design & develop software for The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Versa Director software platform using Van’s Gift Shop & Pure Water, 2380 Senter Road, Java & Python.

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV348746 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Teri McFadden for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Maria Stephany Gonzalez. Proposed name: Maria Stephany Suchan THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: October 15, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: July 12, 2019 (pub dates: 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656752

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Killian Consulting, 27801 Edgerton Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA, 94022, Earl A Killian. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on on 07/15/2019. /s/Earl A Killian. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/15/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656699

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. South Bay Battle-Tested, 2. PSYKATSU, 149 South 15th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Gary Anthony Pomeroy, Bertrand Ferreras Paule, 1986 Lupine Rd., Hercules, CA, 94547. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/11/2019. /s/Gary Anthony Pomeroy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/11/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656792

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Masterchinese, 1765 Landes Ave., #164, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Sun Grace. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/16/2013. /s/Grace Sun. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/16/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656659 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Barry’s Bootcamp, 3060 Olsen Drive Suite 120, San Jose, CA, 95128, BBA San Jose LLC, 2120 Steiner Street, San Francisco, CA, 94115. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Adam Shane, CEO. #201818010234. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/10/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #655983 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Pit Row, 2555 Lafayette St., Suite 122, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Apexx Unlimited LLC. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 07/31/2017. under file No. 632446. This business was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company: Filed on 06/19/2019. /s/Dennis Grahovic, Managing Member. (pub dates: 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV350877 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Jessica Gorganne Mora for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: A. Jessica Gorganne Mora, B. Matthew Lawrence Mercado. Proposed name: A. Jessica Gorganne Lopez, B. Matthew Lawrence Lopez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: November 26, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: July 15, 2019 (pub dates: 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656724 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bio Wellness LLC, 95 Hobson St., #2B, San Jose, CA, 95110. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/31/2016. Above

entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Roger Fung Chow, Managing Member. #20180311411 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/12/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656843 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Baby Your Back, 2. Baby Your Back Massage, 3. Baby Your Back Prenatal Massage, 4428 Scottsfield Dr., San Jose, CA, 95136, Kristyn Marcon Powell. 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/Kristyn Marcon Powell. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656958

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Alexandra Sung Real Estate, 109 Bond Ct., Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Alexandra Sung, Jeffrey Sung. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Alexandra Sung.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656986 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mint And Stitch, 530 Showers Dr. STE 222, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Romi Hakmon. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Romi Hakmon. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/22/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656872 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Haul Away Today, 4520 Sherbourne Drive, San Jose, CA, 95124, Denis Weir. This business is being conducted by a Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/07/2019. /s/Denis Weir. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656918

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656968

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Retro Fitness, 868 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose, CA, 95123, Big Ideas Inc., 919 Theresa Ct., Menlo Park, CA, 94025. 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/Joshua Lee, President. #C4277616.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/22/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657031

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Harmoniq, 3500 Granada Avenue #110, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Nadezda Shapiro. 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/Nadezda Shapiro. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/23/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657022 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Moodfit, 748 La Para Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Roble Ridge Software, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jon Schlossberg, Manager. #201026310264.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/23/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657044

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Photofox Photo Booth, 1843 Laurinda Drive, San Jose, CA, 95124, Madfox LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/02/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Michael Fox, Managing Director. #201901710294. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/24/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656935

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Marauder Fishing Brand, 575 University Ave., San Jose, CA, 95110, Jayson Reduta. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. /s/Jayson Reduta. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Tax Muse, 171 Main St., #235, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Montparnasse LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Wendy L Hsu, Manager. #20191820396.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657000

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656700

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Graciepu Boutique, 1478 Crespi Dr., San Joe, CA, 95129, Credo Invictus, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/31/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Grace Anne Pugal-Liao, Managing Member. #201731310384. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/22/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Zenibella Nail Spa, 1148 Riverside Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94024, Zenibella.

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/Huy H. Fong, President. #4286944. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/11/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656949 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Elevated Design, 20763 St. Joan Ct., Saratoga, CA, 95070, Aimee Janet Mckone. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/19/2019. /s/ Aimee Janet Mckone. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657071 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SMH Learning, 322 Los Gatos Saratoga Road, Los Gatos, CA, 93030, Stephanie Macey Hanses, 1865 Johnathan Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/25/2019. /s/Stephanie Macey Hanses. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/25/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): CHRISTOPHER GILUSO AKA CHRISTOPHER J. GILUSO, AND INDIVDUAL; AND DOES 1 TO 10 INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DAMANDANTE): SERENGETI FINANCIAL, LLC CASE NUMBER: 17CV319588

NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the informationbelow.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and fegat papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copyserved on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear yourcase. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California CourtsOnline Self-He!p Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, askthe court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and propertymay be taken without further warning from the court.There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorneyreferral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locatethese nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center(www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees andcosts on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.jAV/501 Lo han demandado. Sf no responde dentro de 30 dlas, Ia corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versi6n. Lea Ia informaci6n acantinuaci6n.Tiene 30 DiAS DE CALENDAR/0 despues de que le entreguen esta citaci6n y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta par escrito en estacorte y hacer que se entregue una capia a! demandante.

Una carta a una 1/amada telef6nica nolo protegen.

Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estaren farmato legal correcto sf desea que procesen su caso en Ia corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.Puede encontrar estos formularios de Ia corte y mas informaci6n en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.govJ, en Iabiblioteca de !eyes de su condado a en Ia corte que le quede mas cerca. Sf no puede pagar Ia cuota de presentaci6n, pida af secretario de Ia corteque le de un formulario de exenci6n de pago de cuotas. Sino presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y Ia corte lepodra quitar su suefdo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que flame a un abogado inmediatamente. Sino conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un seNicio deremisi6n a abogados. Sf no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener se!Vicios legales gratuitos de unprograma de seNicios legales sin fines de Iuera. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de Iuera en el sitio web de California Legal SeNices,(www.lawhelpcalifornia.orgJ, en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, {wNw.sucorte.ca.govJ o poniendose en contacto con Ia corte o elcolegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, Ia corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costas exentos por imponer un gravamen sabrecualquier recuperacf6n de $10,000 6 mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesi6n de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene quepagar el gravamen de Ia corte antes de que Ia corte pueda desechar el caso.The name and address of the court is: (EI nombre y direcci6n de Ia corte es): Santa Clara County Superior Court, 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiffs attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is:(EI nombre, Ia direcci6n y el numero de teletono del abogado del demandante. o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):Paul Goyette, Esq. (SBN: 137250) – 2366 Gold Meadow Way Suite 250, Gold River, Ca 95670 (916) 254-5300DATE: November 20 2017 (Pub Dates 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656916

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Wu Tangy Pickles, 642 Albion Drive, San Jose, CA, 95136, Melita Ann Kahrmann. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/24/2019. /s/Melita Kahrmann. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/24/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AT Dental Care Dental Practice of Tuan Vo, DDS, Inc., 1906 Aborn Road, San Jose, CA, 95121, Tuan Vo, DDS, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tuan Vo, President. #C4291963. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/18/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656524 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Sunset Estates Mobile Home Park, 2. Sunset Estates, LTD, 3. Sunset Estates Mobile Home Community, 4.

Sunset Estates, MHP, 5. Sunset Estates, Mobile Home Community, 6. Sunset Estates, MHC, 7. Sunset Estates Mountain View, 8. Sunset Estates, A Community for Older Persons, 9. Sunset Estates, 10. Sunset Estates, Manufactured Housing Community, 433 Sylvan Avenue, Mountain View, CA, 94041, Belvedere Property Management, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/09/2016. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Paul A. Kalcic, Manager. #201410110320. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/05/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656422 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Precision Tire And Lube, 450 E. Ninth Street, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Rod Lester Hartley, 9050 Kern Ave #E6, Gilroy, CA, 95020. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2019. /s/Rod L Hartley.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/01/2019. (pub Metro 07/31, 08/07, 08/14, 08/21/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657248 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Posh Bagel MV, 1040 Grant Road STE 185, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Van Seng, 205 Ribier Ave., Modesto, CA, 95350. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/30/2019. /s/VAn Seng.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/30/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657149 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Levels, 2. Levels Entertainment, 1246 East Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA, 95116, Levels Entertainment Group, Inc., 2073 Bridgeport Loop, Discovery Bay, CA, 94505.

This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/20/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Eddie Juarez, President. #C4279171. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657251 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Vista Verde Home Care, 2. Laura Lane Independent Living Services, 3. Laura Lane Respite, 1400 Coleman Ave., STE F-15, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Vista Verde Home Health, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2014. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Nguyen, Dieu-Qui, Director. #201418410142. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/30/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657260

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Snippet Training, 5201 Great America Parkway, Suite 320, Santa Clara, CA, 95054. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/02/2014. Refile in facts from previous filing #592647. /s/Maria Lesley Pribyl. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/30/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657108 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Airline Ticket Fare, 1111 W El Camino Real Suite 109-240, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Travelopod. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #651988. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ritu Panesar, President. #C3529805. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/25/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657109 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tripvo, 111 W El Camino Real Suite 109-240, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Travelopod. 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/Ritu Panesar, President. #C4260771. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/25/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657081 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Creative Mileage Inc., 5201 Great America Pkwy, Suite 320, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Zeetapro Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/14/2014. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Subrata Chatterji, President. #C3675732. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/25/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657356 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 4 Top LLC, 472 N 3rd St., San Jose, CA, 95112, 4 Top. 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/Mark Totah, Owner. #201917910365. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/31/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657341 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

FeedbackWhiz, 2. Ecomwhiz Inc., 3. Productwhiz, 4. Ppcwhiz, 5. Refundwhiz, 3777 Stevens Creek Blvd #310, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Ecomwhiz, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Henson Wu, CEO. #C4239684. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/31/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657421

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657488

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Clarely Jewelry, 557 Crimsonberry Way, San Jose, CA, 95129, Chiara Erba. 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/Chiara Erba. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/31/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Phoenix’s Curiosity Cabinet, 395 Union Ave AptG, Campbell, CA, 95008, Jennifer Snedeker. 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/Jennifer Snedeker. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/02/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657340 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Salu Physical Therapy P C, 2064 Walsh Ave STE B2, Santa Clara, CA, 95050. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/18/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jerry Shao Hung, CEO. #3797231. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/31/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657426 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ax Tax Solutions, 3561 Homestead Rd., STE 503, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Cayman Capital Management, Inc., 80 Belvedere St., STE 3, San Rafael, CA, 94901. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/02/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of Wyoming. /s/Dennis B Noss, CEO. #4209898.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/02/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657419 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pacific Hand Car Wash, 1051 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose, CA, 95116, Pacific Hand Car Wash SJ. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/02/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jason Tang, Manager. #4298161. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/02/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657450 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Art Ark Gallery, 1035 S. 6th St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Genevieve Hastings, 1058 S. 5th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/02/2019. /s/Genevieve Hastings. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/02/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656606 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Flex Fusion Studios, 2125 South Winchester Avenue Suite 140, Campbell, CA, 95008, Lehni LLC, 14121 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road, Saratoga, CA, 95070. 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/Helen Christine, Chief Operations Officer. #201915510245. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/09/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ember Collective, 6820 Royalwood Way, San Jose, CA, 95120, Paige Flanders-Fierro. 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/Paige Flanders-Fierro. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/02/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hobby Quest Of Santa Clara County, 1055 Escalon Ave., Apt 504, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, NVVK Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #657403. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Vijay Veeramachaneni, President. #C4296886. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/05/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657462

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Old Toms Wormery, 920 S. 7th St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Thomas Boehme. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on on 07/12/2019. /s/ Thomas Boehme. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/02/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657135

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Heights, 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 180, A Tu Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/01/2014.

Refile in facts from previous filing #592421. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Angela Tu, CEO. #3642965. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657136 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Heights Realty, 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 180, A Tu Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2019.

Refile in facts from previous filing #591055. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Angela Tu, CEO. #3642965. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657377 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Detectiveinc, 2. Security Operators Group, 1155 North First Street #111, San Jose, CA, 95112, Dietz Associates Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/25/2014. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Don Vo, Vice President. #C1652932. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/01/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657573 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Home & Item, 6881 West Riverside Way, San Jose, CA, 95129, Warren Tsu. 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/Warren Tsu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/07/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

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