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Palo Alto PD is reportedly looking into claims that an officer’s botched response to a medical call last month endangered a resident’s life. According to sources familiar with the case, the probe involves Officer YOLANDA CLAUSEN’s disclosure of private information about the They incident to her wife, Did SHAY FRANCO-CLAUSEN, What? a Santa Clara Valley SEND TIPS TO Open Space Authority FLY@ trustee, member METRONEWS. of the Santa Clara COM County Democratic Party’s executive board and chair of the Santa Clara County Commission on the Status of Women.

The crux of the complaint involves a June 3 call from a resident about a woman begging for medical help. An ambulance arrived just a couple minutes after the 911 call. But instead of rushing her to the hospital, PAPD delayed the ordeal by responding as though to an involuntary psychiatric hold instead of a medical emergency.

It took 43 minutes from the initial call to finally get her to the emergency room, where doctors made a grim diagnosis. The woman suffered not from anything drug-related or psychiatric, as Clausen apparently suspected.

She had a brain tumor.

Piecing together the series of events through dispatch logs and Clausen’s body-cam footage, the woman’s family realized that there were more problems than just the delayed response. When she returned home, Clausen told her wife about the call. Her wife, in turn, relayed what she heard to multiple people.

Once a complaint was filed against PAPD about the incident, Franco-Clausen panicked enough to circle back to someone she texted about the confidential matter. “Did you tell anyone what I shared about [redacted] with you?” she asked in a text. “My wife’s job could be on the line because of it.”

Franco-Clausen’s status as a local Dem Party e-board member may be on the line, too. According to party Chairman BILL JAMES, there will be an inquiry into whether she violated the group’s code of conduct.

TREE’S A CROWD Charlie Olson, who tends his family’s namesake orchard, is up in arms over a plan to raze some trees to expand a local museum.

ORCHARD SUPPLY Family orchard battles museum over how to memorialize Sunnyvale’s history

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OR FOUR DECADES, Charlie Olson has tended to 10 acres of the Santa Clara Valley’s agricultural heritage.

It’s a family tradition that dates back to 1899 when his grandfather—new to California—planted his apricot and cherry orchard on the corner of Mathilda Avenue and El Camino Real in Sunnyvale. His son took the reins after dropping out of school at the age of 13. Olson became proprietor of the city-owned Orchard Heritage Park grove decades later in 1977, just a few years before his father died.

Olson—tall, tan, rough-palmed, gravelly-voiced and approaching his mid-80s—remains under city contract to run the operation that produces

apricots and cherries prized for their sweetness. Though his small patch of the valley, sequestered as it is by a public green and a pair of parking lots by the Sunnyvale Community Center, remains largely unchanged, the region around it has transformed into what’s known to the wide world as an innovation capital.

Surrounding swaths of farmland long ago gave way to drive-throughs and strip malls amid campuses housing titans of high-tech industry: Lockheed Martin, Yahoo!, Juniper Networks, LinkedIn. All the while, Olson and a handful of season workers such as Elisabeth Maurer dutifully purvey the orchard’s bounty from a roadside fruit stand.

The orchard now faces a test. In an ironic twist, it’s not Silicon Valley

sprawl or the trappings of suburbia encroaching on the Olson orchard’s anachronistic charm but curators of the community’s historical memory.

Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum, which sits just yards away from Olson’s beloved orchard, wants to extend its back wall enough to add a new wing showcasing the city’s aviation and technological history. Unfortunately for Olson, the proposed expansion to memorialize that part of the city’s past would displace as many as 10 healthy Blenheim apricot trees.

“It’s for history,” museum chair Laura Babcock says.

The planned wing would tell an important story about Sunnyvale aeronautics industry, an inextricable part of the city’s history that dates back decades. In 1960, the US Air Force opened a base that in 1986 was renamed Onizuka Air Force Station in honor of Lt. Colonel Ellison Onizuka, one of the astronauts killed in the Challenger explosion.

The military installation tested bleeding-edge satellites during the Cold War. Over the years, its distinct architectural style made it known to locals as the Blue Cube.

Sunnyvale’s tech boom began in the 1980s, just as the air force began

chartered under its current name, the Southern Pacific Railroad made it known as Murphys Station in honor of the family that donated vast reaches of land to extend the train tracks.

For generations, the Murphys were one of the area’s biggest landowners. To this day, many streets in Sunnyvale were named after members of the prolific clan.

A fire destroyed the family’s first farmhouse in 1961. In 2008, the city of Sunnyvale commissioned construction of a replica around the original site off the Central Expressway.

Though not as prominent as the Murphys, the Olsons feature into Sunnyvale’s historical memory, too.

CJ Olson, who launched the family business 120 years ago, owned large plots of cherry orchards. Decades later, his descendants operated a fruit stand that became an iconic fixture at El Camino Real and South Mathilda Avenue before it finally went dark last fall.

Elisabeth Maurer, who worked alongside the Olsons at the fruit stand for 25 years, says she cherishes the orchard’s legacy as though it were her own family’s. A lot of people feel the same way and want to impart that appreciation to younger generations.

Ahead of a City Council hearing on the museum expansion, officials fielded 38 letters supporting the proposal and 98 against it.

“If we don’t have this land, then all that history will be lost,” she says.

“Where will future children learn about all the cherries and apricots and orchards that were here? It’s a missed opportunity.”

Last month, the council voted 4-0 to set the stage for the museum’s proposed expansion. The Sunnyvale Historical Society and Museum Association will foot the estimated $60,000 bill for an environmental review and raise money for the 1,600-square-foot addition.

The council expects to review a revised expansion plan at some point in the not-too-distant future. Babcock says she wants to preserve as much of the orchard as possible, too, but expects a compromise. “We looked at all other options,” she says. “This saved the most trees.”

Olson sounds hopeful about finding some middle-ground, too.

“We’re just trying to make nice and come up with a solution that doesn’t split up the orchard,” he says. “We’re not trying to make any enemies.”

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reconsidering running operations in such a strategically vulnerable location. That decade, the military began gradually relocating its spacecommand missions several states away to Colorado Springs. By the ’90s, the entire Cube was shuttered.

By 2014, it was razed.

Babcock wants to fill that gap in Sunnyvale’s collective memory with exhibits detailing that legacy of aviation innovation. But Olson has his own ambitions about historical preservation, given how the vast majority of the valley’s agricultural past have disappeared, too.

The museum curator says she gets it, but there’s room enough to memorialize both parts of the city’s heritage. The facility includes an exhibit tailored to elementary students about the city’s agricultural roots and the orchards that once stretched for miles around. “The orchards are gone, and we have a rich history in tech now,” Babcock says.

“And before that, we had a history in national defense and reconnaissance. ... Right now we’re world-known for our high-tech industry. Sunnyvale didn’t stop at a cherry orchard.”

Of Olson’s fight to preserve those four, five or six trees, she says, “People are grasping at remnants.

“We’re talking fruit trees, not coastal oak trees,” she adds. “In balance, will you miss four trees?”

Olson says he would.

“First four or five trees, but then what?” he asks. “We have an 1,800-square-foot barn that’s over 100 years old. Green open spaces. We can’t have any more of our land taken away.”

Babcock bats away his stated concerns as theatrics. Under alternative proposals, she says, “hundreds more” trees would have been lost. What’s up for consideration now is the pitch with the least impact. “No offense to Mr. Olson,” she says, “but he loves his drama.

“We have plenty of markers already to commemorate [that part of] our history,” Babcock continues. “Even the museum is part of that.”

Indeed, the museum grounds hosts a full-scale replica of the old farmhouse that originally stood on the orchard property, which long ago belonged to the Murphy family—some of the valley’s early European settlers, who predated the infamously doomed Donner party in their passage through the Sierra Nevada. Before the city was

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Stanford Expansion

BY NICHOLAS CHAN Stanford’s proposed $4.6 billion expansion plan is the largest to ever come before Santa Clara County for approval.

Unsurprisingly for a project of this scale, negotiations between public officials and the elite college have been fraught with controversy. As negotiations continue, here are a few key takeaways from the plan under consideration.

2,172 DOUBLE TROUBLE Sergio Lopez is up against Carol Hoffman for an open seat in Campbell’s first-ever district elections.

2 Compete for Open Campbell Council Seat

BY NICHOLAS CHAN Sergio Lopez, 24, a self-described political strategist and writer, has announced his candidacy for the Campbell City Council’s District 2 seat in 2020, making him the first to declare his bid for the open seat. Carol Hoffman, a 57-year-old businesswoman and vice chair for the town’s Civic Improvement Commission, became the second contender a short time later.

The is the first race since Campbell’s transition from at-large to district elections. Previously, each councilmember represented the whole city instead of a particular area. In 2018, attorneys from law firm Shenkman and Hughes sent a letter to the city alleging that the at-large election system violates the California Voting Rights Act, which prohibits “racially polarized voting.” The City Council officially established five council districts this summer.

Tackling the housing crisis is Lopez’s stated priority. “Our affordable housing numbers have

really dropped off,” he tells San Jose Inside. “When I talk to people, they worry about where their kids are going to live. We can do better on affordable housing.”

Lopez was raised in a one-bedroom apartment after his family immigrated from Mexico. His father was a grocery clerk during the day and delivered newspapers at night while his mother took care of him at home.

Lopez has also set his sights on encouraging small business initiatives in Campbell. “Small mom-andpop operations represented by the Campbell Chamber of Commerce are providing the most jobs in the area.

That’s a big priority for me,” he says.

Lopez’s own family opened a restaurant after they saved up enough money. But the financial crisis hit in 2008, forcing his family to close down the business.

“It felt like the rug was pulled out from under,” Lopez says. “We had done everything right, but it wasn’t enough.”

Lopez touts the political experience

he gained from his role as the national organizing director for Rise, a non-profit that advocates for the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights.

He says he campaigned for California’s AB 1312, a bill that was authored by Assemblyman Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to reform sexual assault policies.

When it seemed that former Gov. Jerry Brown had his reservations about the plan, Lopez says he worked to get letters of support from Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo for the bill, which was signed into law in 2017.

Among Lopez’s endorsements so far: Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Mountain View Councilwoman Ellen Kamei and Campbell Union High School District trustee Kalen Gallagher.

When reached by phone, Hoffman declined a chance to be interviewed.

Number of faculty and staff housing units Stanford proposed.

Stanford had initially proposed to build 550 housing units for faculty and staff, but county officials required Stanford to increase that number.

575

The number of below market-rate housing units for staff and faculty Stanford proposes to build.

$30.3M

The amount that Stanford proposes to improve transportation in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Stanford will fund bicycle, pedestrian and transit improvements in both counties.

$138.4M

Stanford’s proposed funding for Palo Alto Unified for the next 40 years. In April, Stanford brokered this agreement with PAUSD, contingent upon Stanford’s deal with the county.

3%

The county says Stanford’s plans must not increase vehicle traffic by more than 3 percent. At the latest Planning Commission meeting in late June, Stanford planning official Catherine Palti called that condition virtually impossible to meet.

Sources: Stanford, Santa Clara County

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KEYED UP Thollem McDonas wrote the music for ACVilla’s images for ‘The Now of US,’ short films screening Saturday at WORKS/San Jose.

CANVASSING Silver Ochre paints a picture of the US through the country’s vibrant murals

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HE GREEK MURALIST iNo said, “If you want to learn about a city, look at its walls.” This is exactly what musician Thollem McDonas and video artist ACVilla are doing.

Under the name of Silver Ochre, the duo is currently crisscrossing the country, gathering video footage of murals and making new recordings, all to create short films they hope will elevate the national discourse as we race our way toward the presidential elections. They will present the project, The Now of US, at WORKS/

San Jose this Saturday night.

A graduate of SJSU’s School of Music many years ago, McDonas has spent over a decade living as a peripatetic musician, relentlessly touring the world, gigging, presenting, teaching, performing and recording a gargantuan amount of music. ACVilla also has deep San Jose roots. Her father was the legendary Chicano activist and social worker Jose Villa.

The Now of Us is a true collaboration in the sense that McDonas and Villa are together during every aspect of the process, from beginning to end. McDonas is

present to see how Villa approaches each individual mural, how she takes photos and how she films various dimensions of the experience. As a result, he develops formalistic ideas of how he might approach the music.

Likewise, Villa is usually present in the sessions when McDonas records with other musicians. Both are constantly talking about how to proceed with the project.

“It’s collaborative in every single way,” McDonas said. “I feel, for me, that collaborating with other people, whether they’re musicians or artists or other mediums, that I learn a lot about my own process. So it’s all informing me, all the time.”

The Now Of US is Silver Ochre’s second multimedia experience of the US, following their previous 48-state odyssey, Who Are US, which took place three years ago. This time, the focus is on the immediacy of present-day America. As the duo travels to various cities across the land, local muralists are joining them at the gigs to participate in the discussion. For the show at WORKS,

Erin Salazar of Local Color will join the conversation and talk about her work on a variety of fronts.

The audience will thus witness two natives from a previous generation, McDonas and Villa, returning home to collaborate with a current-day artist, Salazar, all to celebrate the power of murals. What an idea.

And in the current era, with Facebook trying to cannibalize everyone’s memories, and when live video art with musical accompaniment almost seems “old school,” it’s important to remind ourselves that murals have a long history of political and creative expression. Some of the greatest works of art in the 20th century were murals. They often carry more authentic emotional attachment than any of the “stories” on Instagram.

“Murals are seen by people in their everyday lives, constantly,” said McDonas. “At the same time, they also are out in the elements, and they degrade over time in the wind, and rain, and sun, and soot. Or people come knock down the buildings, or paint over them. So they’re just really interesting things to us, in all these different ways.”

The name Silver Ochre itself emerges from a harmonization of opposites. Macrocosm meets microcosm, agriculture meets concrete, intimacy meets distance, all to combine the present-time awareness of Zen perspectives with the technology of digital synthesis and video performance techniques.

Silver Ochre trains the eye on small moments of time and also trains the ear to grains of sonic experience, helping the viewer/listener to zoom in on the everyday and the mundane, all through the lens of murals.

McDonas says the Silver Ochre project emerged because murals are modes of expression, identity and/or dissent that exist in a physical space where people live their lives.

“That’s why we're intrigued by them,” he said. “And also, murals are seen primarily for this reason by people who live there, local people. So by us traveling around the country, we’re using our life, our lifestyle, to be able to accumulate all of these works that are otherwise just primarily local, and, by accumulating them together, we’re making it into a national compilation of artists. Of muralists.”

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Modern business icons have become transfixed with the writings of an author whose views seem to embody entrepreneurial individualism but don’t really go all that deep BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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NCE UPON A TIME, when the Silicon Valley was young, it was suffused with idealism—corporate teamwork, lateral movement and open doors. The H-P way.

Then the second wave arrived, bearing a different philosophy.

Enamored with what Thomas Frank described as “fantasies of frictionless work,” these would-be masters of technology carried a gigantic tome called Atlas Shrugged.

Rich with flattery for pathfinders and industrialists, Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel left its imprint here.

Thus the relevance of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed.

It’s Lisa Duggan’s handy critique of Rand—philosopher, screenplay writer

and composer of novels that one needs a hydraulic jack to lift.

“Rand celebrates the individual genius entrepreneur, who should be left alone to pursue his brilliant vision without interference from government regulation, organized workers or social inferiors,” Duggan, an NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, says from her Brooklyn office.

“Arguably, this is exactly how many other tech gurus see themselves,” Duggan adds. “Silicon Valley is chock full of Rand fans, who fashion their self-images in part through The Fountainhead’s Howard Roark or Atlas Shrugged’s John Galt”—two characters who opted to abandon everything and start anew rather than work within the constraints of institutional authority.

Steve Jobs, Peter Thiel and Uber founder Travis Kalanick have all paid homage to Rand. Upon the occasion of Jobs’ resignation from Apple, Steve Wozniak told Bloomberg that he remembered Jobs as a young man: “He was reading a lot of books, I think Atlas Shrugged might have been one of them back then.”

Rand’s appeal in Libertarian circles is often linked to a belief system that she termed “Objectivism.” The philosophy’s detractors argue that Rand’s worldview amounts to little more than extreme rejection of empathy and altruism; it’s supporters might say it’s more akin to the expression “my freedom ends where your nose begins.”

Bigger names than just the local tycoons obsess over Rand. She’s been a California phenomenon. In

Orange County, the non-profit Ayn Rand Institute has been working to promote her ideas, taking a cue from the Gideon Society and donating thousands of copies of Atlas Shrugged to schools and other institutions.

Some of the money for this enterprise came from local plutocrats. The website Inside Philanthropy reported in August 2016 that the Silicon Valley Community Foundation donated money to the ARI. And Rand-fandom extends all the way the Washington D.C. As the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedman writes, the Trump cabinet is “crammed with Objectivists,” including the deposed former Secretary of State Rex Tillerman and his replacement, Mike Pompeo.

The Fountainhead is even an important text to the famously reading-averse Donald Trump. He

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Ayn Rand’s protagonists found success by eschewing empathy and looking out for numero uno.

LLEY once claimed Rand’s forest-denuding book “relates to beauty, business, life and inner emotions.”

Alan Greenspan, former head of the Fed, was among the most relentless Rand evangelists, and a link between Rand’s cult days and her power from beyond the grave today. And until someone pointed out that Rand was an ardent atheist and an advocate of free love, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan claimed she was his favorite writer. The “zombie-eyed granny starver” as Esquire’s Charles Pierce termed Ryan, used to gift interns with Rand’s shoulder-dislocating text.

Duggan notes, “When a reporter asked Ryan about [Rand’s] atheism, he switched to Thomas Aquinas as his public favorite.”

While she knew many a high school student enamored of Rand,

Duggan never read her books until she started teaching at NYU. “I noticed her as an icon of the new right wing ‘free market’ policy elite, and became very curious about her. I read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and found them almost unreadably cartoonish. I was determined to figure out the sources of their massive popularity.”

OBJECTIVIST ROMANTIC From the beginning, Rand knew she had a mission: “I am challenging the cultural traditions of two and a half thousand years” she said. Aiming to reverse Western Civilization’s attempts to make empathy a virtue, her Objectivist philosophy celebrated the individual and his power to make money.

Many critics decried Rand’s novels as they came out. The regular New York Times reviewer Orville Prescott called The Fountainhead full of “dirty crawling.” Duggan suggests that the reason Rand ran against the grain of the literary world of 1943 was because she rejected naturalistic writing and characters in favor of “a reliance on ideal types and clashes of values she learned from Victor Hugo.”

Indeed, in the style of Romantic writers such as Hugo, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Rand gave the heroes of her novels many long-winded, monologues. Carly Jackson recalls being swept up in these passages, just as she was taken with some of the most verbose stretches of War and Peace.

Critiquing Rand for her wordiness feels like a cheap shot to Jackson, a

Rand fan and the operations manager for The Seasteading Institute. “Trying to say what kind of art is invalid, that’s a really tricky question and also pointless,” she says. “We cherry pick everything we consume. I don’t think Rand is any different The Seasteading Institute, based in San Francisco and co-founded by Thiel, promises to someday build floating innovation incubators in international waters. The subtext is clear enough—free from government meddling, the great makers of the world will be able to reach their true potential. It’s Atlas Shrugged meets Atlantis, or perhaps Galt’s Gulch on the water.

Jackson—who became disillusioned with the government’s ability to affect change after working for local

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HEAVY LIFT ‘Atlas Shrugged’ argues that only the truly great rise in society.

lawmakers—sounds downright Randian when expressing her excitement for the project.

“The long term vision is to create something completely new, because our understanding of government and nation is based on land and territory,” she says. “All the land is taken, so we have to go out to sea to create a new society. You’ll vote with your house and it will create a marketplace of societies. Galt’s Gulch feels very limited to me now, because it’s landlocked.”

At least one critic writing during Rand’s lifetime understood the impact the author was going to make. Lorin Pruette, a former Smith professor, claimed in the New York Times that The Fountainhead was “the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.” As an author, Rand is a unique phenomena: “A novel full of long, didactic speeches that became a best-seller!” Duggan exclaims in Mean Girl.

FROM RUSSIA Born Alisa or Alyssa Rosenbaum in 1905, a year of liberal revolution in Russia, Rand grew up to be an escapee from the Soviet Union. She was a member of one of the few Jewish families allowed in the tsar’s capital of St. Petersburg, instead of

being confined, like most Eastern European Jews, to a designated area known as the Pale of Settlement.

Rand’s father was a pharmacist, and her family had social clout. Alyssa was friends with Vladimir Nabokov’s sister, Olga. (Nabokov’s father was a member of the Duma, the Russian parliament.) After the Bolsheviks emerged and nationalized the Rand family’s property, Rand attended the official film school the Soviets set up.

Cinema was the water in which this cold fish swam. The Soviet cinema of the 1920s was a world-leading laboratory for the development of editing and juxtaposition, the home of Eisenstein, Kuleshov, Pudovkin and others.

According to Mean Girl, Rand cared less about all that than she did about the German serial, The Indian Tomb (1921), with Conrad Veidt doing the Indiana Jones thing—discovering treasure and fighting credulous savages. Rand had a preference for blood-and-thunder fiction, which lasted until the Bond films started coming out in the 1960s. (As seen in her book The Romantic Manifesto, Rand loved 007’s mercilessness. She hated it when the audience snickered at Sean Connery’s quips, as if they didn’t take him seriously.)

When Rand arrived in Hollywood in the 1920s, she briefly worked for the producer Cecil B. DeMille, whom she later dismissed as “a box office chaser.” Finding the movie capitol venal and dull, she was rapidly disillusioned. Still, she sold scripts, and in the fullness of time, she ended up living in the house that Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich once shared.

SHOW BUSINESS Jerry Lewis once complained that everyone has two businesses: their own, and show. The proverb works in reverse. Movies about work often are thinly disguised allegories about the movie business. Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner (1940) with its yes men, flatterers and snitches, could have been called The Movie Studio Around the Corner. In The Fountainhead, Rand swooned over the dashing, domineering

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SHRUG Author Lisa Duggan never understood Ayn Rand’s appeal—so she wrote a book about her.

the old days, Frank Lloyd Wright or Erno Goldfinger. At heart, this was a business Rand understood even less than the metallurgy she wrote about in Atlas Shrugged.

Duggan suggests that Rand’s novel The Fountainhead could be a symbol of the compromises in a film studio, a business Rand actually knew. The Fountainhead’s protagonist is an architect named Howard Roark who demolishes his own skyscraper, sabotaging the labor of love because he can’t bear the compromises that have come with its construction—with the interference of critics and other inferior minds. This is not exactly how skyscrapers are built, but Rand’s central idea does describe the way movies are made, with rewrites, recasting, reshoots and flurries of notes from the studio, and with embittered directors who have credits on movies that they’d rather disavow.

Rand deserves some honor, not just as a female novelist of ideas, but also maybe the first novelist of ideas since the Marquis de Sade to write sexy. Popular with adolescents, the books reflect raging hormones, as per Masha Gessen’s recent column about Duggan’s Mean Girl in the New Yorker. Shortly after Gessen arrived here from Russia, her first girlfriend gave her Atlas Shrugged.

Rand’s tomes are mementos Gessen can’t bring herself to get rid of; they still have a residual electric charge of young love all over them.

Rand’s books still loom large in Jackson’s imagination as well, and she’s not ashamed to say it. Jackson believes Rand attracts young readers because the author chose heroes who lived life on their own terms.

“Young people are attracted to the idea of being able to shape their futures,” she says. “When I read The Fountainhead, I was entranced by the idea of having an architect meet you, get to know you and design a house to your exact needs.”

Jackson credits Rand’s work with leading her to libertarianism and, by extension, guiding her to The Seasteading Institute. Drawing a connection between the philosophy of Rand’s fictional architect, Roark, and the concept of seasteading, Jackson says, “you should build buildings to suit your lifestyle.”

Regarding the famous rape scene in The Fountainhead, Duggan finds Rand guilty with an explanation. It’s very popular. Mean Girl tells a story about the historian Susan Brownmiller, whose 1975 book is misidentified as Against Rape (actually, it’s Against Our Will). When Brownmiller went to the New York Public Library to read The Fountainhead, the cinderblock-sized book fell open to that very page: such were the number of readers secretly gloating over Dominique Francon getting dominated.

The scene of Roark having his way with Dominique is unpacked by Duggan as more or less consensual power exchange. If that’s true, it shows a positive side of Rand’s work—her carelessness about people’s prejudices against non-mainstream sexuality. And due to the coziness between the men in Dominique’s life, as Duggan notes, there’s been a bit of queer Objectivist fan fiction about what goes on between them all.

AT LAST, ATLAS Atlas Shrugged misses that kind of fun.

The gist of it is the appearance of a mystery man called John Galt, whose propaganda causes scads of the creative and engineering class to run off to a Colorado retreat called Galt’s Gulch.

Once these Atlases of the business realm lower their world-shouldering burden, the ordinary working jerk is left rudderless, as independent as

a hog on ice. It’s a painful lesson to unions, and government leeches alike as, at last, the masters of this world flex their muscles.

It was recently trifurcated, Lord of the Rings-wise, into a trio of films I cannot watch because my life is too short. Anyway, the greatest Ayn Rand moment in cinema comes not in the various movies made from her work, but from the natural, untutored Objectivism of a certain Mr. Harry Lime. Consider the famed scene on the Prater ferris wheel in Vienna in The Third Man (1949), a film noir version of the “Temptation on the Mount” in Matthew 4:8.

Lime (Orson Welles) is offering as much of an explanation as he can to a deceived friend named Holly (Joseph Cotten, coincidentally the star of the Rand-scripted film Love Letters).

The enterprising Lime is currently wanted by the international police for a Trump-era sort of crime, selling poisonously diluted pharmaceuticals to sick children.

Looking down at the ant-like crowd below the wheel, Lime asks Holly: “Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?

Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax—the only way you can save money nowadays.”

If only a dollar sign were a badge of honor, as Rand thought it was, and if only Rand’s humongous prose-boulders had the sparkle of The Third Man. Duggan notes that it’s “sorely tempting” to make fun of Rand’s writing. There’s a further temptation to dismiss Rand’s ideas because they are framed in ways that aren’t particularly sophisticated, more so than the simple metaphors in a Socratic dialogue. Smouldering female life forces seek an overpowering by the right man, usually diffident muscular guys with one-syllable names so proactively guttural that it’s like the sound of a cat puking: “Roark!” “Galt!”

Duggan retrieves items of startling aggressiveness in Rand’s fiction, as when Rand describes a knobby kneed critic character in The Fountainhead, Ellsworth Toohey, as “ridiculous

and offensive in a bathing suit.” The phrasing is like an elegant version of a Trumptweet. In Rand’s work, ugly people are low. Pretty people are good. And, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, that is what fiction means.

AMERICAN DREAM “Rand was an immigrant who came to the U.S. without much English and set out to write movies, plays and novels for a mass audience,” Duggan observes. “That took impressive drive and determination.

But her belief in European civilizational and racial superiority, her view of all who ‘fail’ in the Darwinian battle for ‘success’ as inferiors and losers, whose very lives don’t matter—these ‘values’ mar every word she ever wrote.”

Why Rand’s top-down critique of humanity is so appealing is a question I had for the Ask a Libertarian page on Facebook, with its 30,000 subscribers. The volunteer “Kris” (he preferred not to give his last name) was the offspring of middleclass UAW workers. A military vet (2003-06), he was apolitical until the invasion of Iraq: “I paid attention to politics and I had made a single conclusion: it was based on lies.”

Curious, Kris went to the The Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, in 2011—a school named in honor of Ludwig von Mises, one of the first economists to herald Rand’s work.

Kris married, had children and got a job at a local factory. One day he noticed the Ask a Libertarian site was looking for volunteers.

“Writing is something I had always wanted to try anyways, so I became a volunteer author. With a wife and three kids to pass the world down to, how could I believe the structure of society is rooted in politics and lies and coercion, and not do anything about it?”

Kris says, “I try to keep in mind that the people with whom we are conversing, no matter how much we disagree: we need them and they need us.” Rand’s work was important to him, when he was navigating his political change from the trade-unionist background he grew up in and the libertarian he is today. But, he adds: “I should mention most of our team at

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Rand paints a photo negative version of the murals one sees in Mexico and on NorCal food co-ops Duggan acknowledges the “valorization of creativity in the face of conformity” in Rand: “It’s appealing to a lot of her readers …

I wrote the book in part to speak to them—to help us all see the romance of cruelty that underpins her themes.”

One has to respect Rand’s determination, and it’s easy to understand her horror over the Soviets’ behavior during their late 1940s ascendency. There’s a responsibleenough argument to be made that four terms of FDR were too socialist for the nation’s good, and certainly Republicans aren’t shy about making it.

The hugely entertaining YouTube philosopher Natalie Wynn of ContraPoints has been scathing in opposition to the dog-eat-dog (or rather lobster-eat-lobster) work of the popular conservative philosopher Jordan Peterson. But she admits that Peterson has a point. Of course, there are sloppy kids out there lacking

guidance; they need someone to tell them to stand up straight and clean up their rooms. Similarly, there are human doormats out there who could learn from the intransigence of Rand.

But the problem with Ayn Rand as a lodestar is one that I understand very well, on the grounds that it takes one to know one: she’s a cinema-soaked thinker, accustomed to seeing the people of the world with haloes or cloven hooves. Duggan notes, “she did not really understand how actually existing capitalism worked, she adhered to a fantasy version of it. She could never distinguish the capitalist welfare state from an international socialist project. So she equated the New Deal with Bolshevism, and saw environmentalists in the 1970s as an apocalyptic threat to the good life.” Rand also thought the links between cigarettes and cancer were just more communist bushwa, though she quit smoking when she got a lesion on her lungs.

Rand’s intractability has dimmed the vision of the right. That confusion will only spread like a pea-soup fog in 2020. Do they realize how different the years 1947 and 2019 are? Today, capitalism is as robust as kudzu vines. By contrast, it’s hard to find honest-to-God red-flag-snapping communism except in boutique form, as it were, in isolated tiny nations. Yet, democratic socialism, in which remorseless greed is leashed and everyone gets a vote, is fatally conflated with Sovietism. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: she’ll snatch your house, she’ll steal your car, she’ll pimp your momma to a Commissar.

It’s hard to eclipse the darkly fascinating picture Rand made, though. A sort of literary mural, vast and furious, it’s a reversal of the wide worker’s-paradise paintings one sees in Mexico and on the sides of Northern California food co-ops. In Rand’s literary fresco, the crowded, dunderheaded workers are the real danger. They dare to sass their betters, the architects of prosperity, instead of submitting to them with bowed heads, like the rabble they are.

Nick Veronin contributed to this story.

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Ask a Libertarian hasn't read her work.

She's not someone all libertarians go to for intellectual stimulation ... I never found the way in which she wrote particularly impressive, to be honest.

Her characters in Atlas Shrugged were a little too plain.

“But the ideas she conveyed …

Charity is about a person giving part of their life so someone else can have it a little better. It is not about a person or people taking from those who have more through political force, or attempts at guilt trips.”

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CRUNCHY LUNCH The lime-ginger crunch salad at HeyO! Eats in Mountain View with a side of veggie balls.

Fast Fresh HeyO! Eats offers quick and tasty vegan meals in downtown Mountain View

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INDING RESTAURANTS that cater exclusively to vegans, while simultaneously pleasing a non-vegan crowd, is a challenge. But HeyO! Eats in downtown Mountain View has increased the number of dependable vegan restaurants by one.

Co-founders Courtney McCoy

and Zachary Anderson have set up their shop at a deli counter inside of Ava’s Downtown Market. There’s no sidewalk signage on Castro Street indicating that it’s located inside, but it’s there. Just walk past the market’s checkout registers and the poke bar. HeyO! Eats is on the right, beyond a group of tables bunched closely together. Look for the vitrine filled with cookies and scones on top of the counter and a refrigerator stocked with cans of IGZU—a

sustainable “brew” made from bamboo leaves and dried botanicals.

On a recent visit, McCoy was behind the counter taking orders.

Anderson was there, too, preparing dishes alongside another cook.

Before starting HeyO! together, McCoy and Anderson launched IGZU. After getting the beverage company off the ground, they decided to further their culinary collaboration. Anderson devised the menu, which is divided into four main categories: small bites, greens, sandwiches and sides. They’re also in the beta phase of testing out a brunch menu.

The ginger Thai veg balls ($10) can come as a starter, but we had them with the lime-ginger crunch salad ($13.50 + $3 to add veg balls)— adding a side of French fries ($5).

There’s another winner called Fried & Gone to Heaven ($12) that sounds like the vegan equivalent of poutine.

It’s fries topped with a creamy beer cheese, a shiitake onion jam, crispy onions, tomatoes and a “not so secret sauce.” But the fries, as nature intended them, were that perfect combination of golden and crispy.

Absolutely un-greasy, too.

Tossed in a ginger peanut sauce, the vegetable pad thai ($13.50) substitutes spiralized zucchini and carrots for noodles. I had a hard time distinguishing between it and the lime-ginger crunch salad, but I liked the tanginess of both vinaigrettes because they enhanced rather than disguised the flavors of each dish. In choosing from a range of vegetables, the chef avoids a frequent pitfall of vegan cuisine—monotony. The unexpected addition of grilled avocado was a thoughtful touch and made the salad memorable.

Anderson isn’t reinventing the idea of what a salad is, but he is combining interesting ingredients and fusing culinary influences.

The most surprising and splendid dish was the chickpea sandwich ($13)—roasted chickpeas perched atop a bed of kale and diced tomatoes. The texture of the sauce on the bread was silken, a nice contrast to the chickpeas and lentils. It could have been a cousin of the Indian dish chole bhature. The couple at the table next to us tried two other sandwiches: the roasted cauliflower and one with veggie balls as the main filling. Those concerned about vegan cuisine’s power to fully satiate, know this: Both of their sandwiches looked as heavy as a footlong hoagie from Subway.

Under the greens section of the menu, the owners have added a note, “Look at you… being responsible.”

Even after splitting one of HeyO!’s chocolate chip cookies (and regretting that we didn’t try one of the blueberry scones), we walked away feeling like we’d eaten a great meal that happened to be vegan. Being responsible by contributing to a more sustainable food economy was simply an added benefit.

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LITTLE BLACK DRESS Hammer Theatre Center Thu, 8pm, $40+

While on the road with Spank!

The Fifty Shades of Grey Parody, Danielle Trzcinski and Amanda Barker encountered an audience they’d never fully considered— grown-ass women hitting the town with their besties and reveling in female camaraderie. On that tour, Trzcinski and Barker came across thousands in search of a truly special girls’ night out. So, the pair put pen to paper and brought Little Black Dress to the stage. Written for women by women, this musical follows friends Mandy and Dee through the ups and downs of life, including job interviews, dates, awkward sexual encounters and more. (ER)

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CUPERTINO NIGHT MARKET

Dance is one of humanity’s most cathartic outlets. La Misa Negra understands this primal drive and seeks to capitalize on our collective lust for movement.

Hailing from Oakland, the sevenpiece band excels at packing a world of sounds into every one of its tightly wound, hip-shaking numbers. Shimmying cumbia and Afro-Latin beats roil beneath skronky swing-revival horns and tremulous surf punk guitar flourishes on “Sancocho,” a track from their 2018 eponymous “red album.” The song’s title literally refers to a stew common to many Latin American countries.

Urban Dictionary offers a second definition—awesomeness in liquid form. (MS)

Fri, 6:30pm, $45+ Tortas Ahogadas, San Jose

Sat, 5:30pm, Free Historic Murphy Avenue, Sunnyvale

Sat, 2pm, Free Cupertino Senior Center

Celebrating the art of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, this food, drink and crafting night is hosted by Tortas Ahogadas Tradición Tapatía Espacia Tlaquepaque. Kahlo, known for her surrealist self portraits, used her canvases to spur conversations on politics, gender, race and identity.

In honor of Kahlo’s birth month, Tlaquepaque brings artist and muralist Juan Solis to their patio for a painting workshop and Kahlo crash course. Solis, who has been painting since he was 12, honed his craft under the guidance of famed muralist George Yepes. There will be a raffle, complimentary drinks and opportunities to purchase some of Solis’s art pieces. (KA)

To infinity and beyond. Well… just down the way in Sunnyvale, actually… for some tunes and good eats. Sunnyvale Jazz & Beyond transforms the meaning of “takeout” for the 10th year in a row. Every Saturday through Aug. 24, R&B, funk, blues and jazz perform as visitors browse menus on the table-lined avenue.

They can also place orders over the phone with local restaurants, who will deliver meals right on the street. This Saturday, Evan Thomas Blues holds court, meshing his steely vocals and kaleidoscopic instrumentals—inspired by the likes of B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Otis Rush. (ER)

From adobo omelettes to seafood pancakes and longganisa sliders, the Cupertino Night Market will feature a wide selection of food to satisfy a wide assortment of cravings. All are invited to relish both sweet and savory fare from 20 local eateries while perusing vendor booths at this inaugural event, hosted by the Asian American Business Council and De Anza College. There will also be live music. All ages are welcome and youngsters may enjoy a dedicated kids’ zone. The market runs until 9pm. (KA)

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LITTLE BLACK DRESS

BACKSTREET BOYS Aug 4 at SAP Center

SAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST Aug 9-11 in San Jose

JACKSON BROWNE Aug 13 at Mountain Winery

FEIST Aug 15 at Mountain Winery

TAJ MAHAL QUARTET Aug 20 at Mountain Winery

THE CRYSTAL METHOD Sep 23 at The Ritz

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Aug 23 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

OUTER-SPACE FEST SACRED ART

*wed TAYLOR EIGSTI

Sat, 4pm, $5+ The X-Bar, Cupertino

Thu & Sat, 7pm, $15 Asiel Design Warehouse, San Jose

Wed, 8pm, $18+ Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Palo Alto

Over the past few years, OuterSpace Entertainment has drawn together many of the South Bay’s rock outfits for various live events. The artist management and booking organization returns to Cupertino’s nightlife bastion, The X-Bar, with a showcase of homegrown artists like San Jose alternative rock quintet Living Among Giants and progmetal rockers Cyborg Octopus.

Harnessing the gripping intensity of nine local groups, the event is headlined by Sacramento-based singer Kurt Travis, who is best known for his work with posthardcore acts like Dance Gavin Dance and A Lot Like Birds. (MP)

Few events are as ambitious as Sacred Art. Combining music, theater, art installations, and physical and performance art, the two-day event offers attendees an immersive, hypnagogic trip through the South Bay’s art scene. Explore galleries and tableaux as local soul singer Steely Nash plays Leonard Cohen. Or become a part of the spectacle with live body painting, baroque wardrobe regalia and participatory performances. The goal is to tear down the border between stage and audience, creating something like a spiritual experience without religion. And if that’s not enough, the event also doubles as a fundraiser for Ugandan children. (MH)

Bay Area-born jazz pianist and composer Taylor Eigsti is a force to be reckoned with in the contemporary jazz community.

Coming up under the wing of West Coast jazz legend Dave Brubeck, the child prodigy and Grammy-nominated virtuoso rose to fame in the early 2000s.

Now based in New York, he’s worked with modern stars like Eric Harland and Gretchen Parlatto. Eigsti’s breathtaking technical facility and timeless compositional voice cements his status in the lineage of groundbreaking jazz pianists. He will premiere his upcoming album, Tree Falls—slated for release early next year—at his Stanford Jazz Festival appearance. (MP)

KORN & ALICE IN CHAINS Sep 4 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

DURAN DURAN Sep 10-11 at Mountain Winery

THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MAGIC Wed, 7pm, $5+ Cubberley Community Theatre, Palo Alto The question is not whether an individual believes in magic, but rather: can anyone trust their own brain? Adam Gazzaley, professor of neurology at UC San Francisco, joins Robert Strong, the Comedy Magician—voted San Francisco’s best magician three times—to explore the neuroscience of magic.

An actual field of study, neuromagic started in 2005 with the work of neuroscientists Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, author of the book Sleights of Mind, which explores the ways our minds can play tricks on us and uses that data to draw informed conclusions about the true nature of human cognition. (ER)

CAKE & BEN FOLDS Sep 13 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

KUNG FU VAMPIRE Sep 13 at The Ritz

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

BLACK LIPS Oct 10 at The Ritz For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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JOEY BADA$$ Jul 28 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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DOUBLE DOG Javier Martinez’s ‘Double Ass Coyotl’ is one of several surreal artworks on display in ‘Unicorns, Aliens & Future Cities.’

Strange Visions MACLA’s ‘Speculative Latinidades’ imagines identity in an uncertain future

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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AVIER MARTINEZ upsets the order of the natural world with his sculptures Double Ass Coyotl and El Tlacoc. By shifting animal DNA around, he invents a new breed of mutants. His silvery-blue coyote, as the title suggests, is headless with two rear ends.

The artist seamlessly merges two dog bodies together. Either they’ve collided in a science experiment that’s gone terribly wrong or this was some deranged god’s first draft of a

pooch. At one end, a striped tail lifts and holds still in the middle of a wag.

The other half, painted in creamy silver, extends three tails of its own.

Each end has two rear-view mirrors attached and reflecting the lone striped tail back to itself.

His work is part of “Unicorns, Aliens & Futuristic Cities: Speculative Latinidades,” a new group show at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) running now through Aug. 19. Broadly curated around the intersection of Latinx identity and science fiction, artists like Martinez reinterpret, rewire and

then advance old tropes. Instead of referencing a unicorn from a dusty European tapestry, Martinez creates his own Aztec-inspired mythology, replacing a deer’s rack with two writhing snakes. The sculpture is mounted like a trophy head. If the artist in this scenario is the hunter, then he’s defeated a strange and menacing beast.

Jorge Gonzalez’s mixed-media landscape paintings enter the sci-fi orbit with the sense of a turbulent cosmic drift. His work, including the bright red and orange El Rancho Solar, approaches the theme from an extraterrestrial point of view. With pools of oozing earth and sky fusing together, a world’s gone molten. He’s positing a plausible vision of life on Mars—from a safely removed vantage point—or a not-so-distant Earth, without polar ice sheets and oceans.

Birth of the Four Directions suggests that the Big Bang was a colorful blast of controlled chaos. Gonzalez likes to imagine what the eyes of the creator can see.

From beneath the terrestrial leaves of a tree, Veronica Rojas’ entries are graphically intense and drawn with an exacting, exquisite precision. If Gonzalez studies the macrocosm, Rojas finds equally fascinating worlds in her microcosms. Plant life, whether sepals, petals or branches, are the beautiful stars in a three-paneled work like Germinación. A lovely muted tangerine background from the left third meets a pale minty green floating to the middle. Tendrils wave and dance and reach up the canvas. Rings like eyes, or Saturn’s, scatter about above them until they descend upon the stocks. Bulbous blooms stretch out and down in search of companionship. Something round, a dark pond or pod, might be the source of all this fertility springing into motion. Rojas combines organic shapes with a designer’s impeccable ability to organize and arrange her thoughts. Her work makes emotional sense while also satisfying the eye and the mind.

Only Michael Menchaca’s La Raza Cosmica (The Cosmic Race) features technology, a major ingredient in sci-fi but not on the agenda at this exhibit. He’s lined up four video monitors against a wall that’s been papered with pre-Colombian patterns. Each monitor is framed with stripes and patterns. On screen, six rounded rectangles display a series of different cartoon characters that disappear, return and replace each other. They look like a mashup of Las Vegas slot machines and Japanese pachinko games. Menchaca took his inspiration for the piece from “La Raza Cosmica,” an essay by Jose Vasconcelo. The Mexican philosopher speculated about the possibility of a “fifth race” of people forming, one that would combine all racial identities. Menchaca tangles with that suggestion through highly charged imagery that mixes and mismatches animal and Latinx bodies. Like the other artists in “Unicorns, Aliens & Futuristic Cities,” a post-racial version of the world still dwells in the realm of science fiction.

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On Deck An all-female yacht crew battles sexism on the high seas in ‘Maiden’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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N MAIDEN, A documentary about the first all-female yacht crew to participate in the Whitbread Race, the emotional state of the ship’s captain takes center stage. The camera stays with the Maiden’s skipper, Tracy Edwards, now 56. The tears come, as she tries to compose herself. She apologizes, tells the director she promised herself she wouldn’t break down. This movie tries to make you cry.

And, it often succeeds.

The 1989-90 Whitbread Race was a serious undertaking: 167 days long and 30,000 nautical miles in six stages. First, the voyage from The Solent to the coast of Uruguay.

Then, around the Cape of Good Hope, where the racing yachts skirt icebergs off Antarctica’s coast, taking advantage of the speed granted by the gales of the “Roaring Forties” to arrive in Fremantle, Western Australia. Then, on to New Zealand.

Finally, around Cape Horn, north to Ft. Lauderdale and back to England.

The vastness of this trip is equal to the vast condescension Edwards and

her team faced. In her early days as a yachtsperson, Edwards found neither a position on a crew nor support for her dream of sailing on her own.

“Girls are for when you get into port,” one yachtsman assured her.

The rank sexism included the media watching the race. The Guardian’s Bob Fisher referred to the Maiden in print as “a tin full of tarts.”

It’s as if the boating community was 30 years behind the times, even in 1989. Count the number of times you hear Edwards told to “smile” by a photographer. See her referred to as “a slip of a girl” by her contemporaries. Witness the number of times someone talks to her like they want to pat her on her little head. One marvels at the legions of men out there who really want to grind a proud woman down.

There’s a particularly affecting moment involving how the Maiden’s crew decided to spin the story of their poor performance in the New Zealand-to-Florida leg of the race, caused by a leak in the boat off the coast of Argentina. (It was serious

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NO PLEASURE CRUISE Tracy Edwards, left, led the first all-women crew to ever enter the grueling Whitbread Race.

enough that the Maiden had an RAF rescue plane on standby from the Falklands.) To deflect attention from their late arrival, the ladies decided to sail into harbor in Florida wearing skimpy bathing suits, a gesture Edwards has regretted for 30 years.

Director Alex Holmes’ film is very clear on what Edwards was trying to prove, and how hard she worked to prove it. Home movies and primitive video demonstrate the vastness and loneliness of the sea. Edwards took the jobs of both navigator and captain (these tasks are usually divided up, and apparently the source of feuding). The trip was an exercise in sleep deprivation—four hours on watch, four hours off. And, as Edwards says repeatedly: “The ocean is always trying to kill you. It never takes a break.”

The problem with Maiden is an issue handled more deftly in the documentary The Raft, about a trans-Atlantic voyage with a mostly female crew, which was conducted as a peculiar psychological experiment.

In Maiden we don’t get a sense of the friction aboard, or the technical requirements of such a voyage, or of the boat itself. The focus is on Edwards, a life coach these days.

Her own history is witnessed by childhood pal Jo Gooding, the cook aboard the Maiden. The loss of Tracy’s father ended an idyllic British childhood. Her mother married again, to a vicious drunk. The young girl dropped out of school, ran away to Greece and drifted into the sailor’s life. We see what she was trying to overcome.

What we don’t have are good anecdotes about what it takes to be a sea cook. Only occasional references, such as a passing note about smelling land after weeks at sea, and diplomatically understated English intimations, which hint at the strife aboard the boat. We don’t even learn if a subsequent team of women ever entered the Whitbread Race. Stirring as Maiden is, it lacks all the Melvillian tidbits that make for a detailed picture of a sea voyage.

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LONG HAUL In ‘Sword of Trust,’ a pawn shop owner is sucked into a vast Deep State conspiracy by a confederacy of dunces.

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Southern Discomfort A HARMONIOUS BLEND of mumblecore and screwball, Lynn Shelton’s Sword of Trust touches both poles: nowheresville cinema-of-disappointment meets millionaire ex machina. Despite the ambling pace, here is the selfdeception of frantic 1940s comedy. Shelton (Humpday, My Sister’s Sister) demonstrates a light touch that compliments the shagginess of her methods.

Theories of alternative history have dazzled Nathaniel (Jon Bass), a slackjawed donkey of an assistant at a Birmingham, Alabama pawn shop. We first see him being urged to “think outside the box� by a streaming video.

His boss Mel (the noted podcaster and comedian Marc Maron) can barely deal with Nathaniel or anything else—especially a too-friendly girl Dierdre (Shelton) coming in to pawn a ring and to read a poem.

Across town, Mary (Michaela Watkins) and her cuddly blonde partner Cynthia (Jillian Bell) are getting ready to accept Cynthia’s inheritance, a house where both can live. The Sword of Trust bad news is that granddad reverse-mortgaged the place into nothingness. Cynthia’s only real inheritance is a R; 88 Mins. priceless Civil War sword‌ priceless in the sense that no 3Below Theater & one can agree on its value, despite a long, Alzheimer’sLounge, San Jose wracked letter describing the blade’s history. The ladies try to hock it to Mel, and he passes at first.

But there is a market for it: A group calling themselves the Invictusians need that sword as proof that the South actually won the war, despite the Deep State’s campaign to hide the truth. This crispy slice of political humor is served in a warmer wrap of human comedy as Nathaniel, Mel and the two ladies head off on a perilous trip to sell the sword, escorted by a perhaps violent yokel code-named Hog Jaw (Toby Huss).

The search for home and seed is also Shelton’s topic, and this search is underscored by Maron’s Eeyore comedy. The dad-plaids and the bearded bespectacled face give Maron the spirit of George Segal in his 1970s comedies, or maybe Jerry Springer watching unimaginably bad behavior by his guests, leaving the host without even enough strength for an eye roll.

In his shop, Maron’s Mel plays the blues a little (Maron did the soundtrack).

It’s not until the end of the film that the chords and slides on pawned guitars match the Southern landscape. What had been a series of interiors and establishing shots finally goes wider, into affectionate cityscapes of the funk of the South. Sword of Trust is salted with a sense of loneliness, and sorrow for the way the internet is flypaper for the credulous. Built to bring us together, it’s just a fount of stubborn disinformation: a place to rally those who deny even the roundness of our good Earth.—Richard von Busack

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comes to San Jose in search of new material.

Keep It Simple Comedian Chris Porter deftly skirts political commentary while still making a point

BY MATEI PREDESCU

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HRIS PORTER SUMS up his latest standup special by highlighting what it lacks: “No politics, no religion, no racism,” Porter says of A Man From Kansas.

Throughout his new special, Porter steers clear of overt partisanship, while still lampooning the tribal rituals that serve as flashpoints in the broader culture wars. “Hipster food,” people complacent with—or even proud of their ignorance—and toxic masculinity all draw his ire.

In A Man From Kansas we find Porter critical, matter-of-fact and annoyed. He pokes fun at social and cultural happenings in everyday life, but he rarely, if ever, mentions politics or religion—controversial themes which many contemporary comics employ. Still, his tactful criticisms do skirt hot button issues.

In one bit, Porter laments the trend of yuppies’ tendency to overthink comfort food. Porter is irked by the ubiquity of cheeseburgers topped with garlic aioli, arugula and havarti, and the dearth of no-frills diner fare in Los Angeles: “I just want breakfast, you know what I’m saying? I don’t want a Radiohead album.”

Later on, Porter critiques selfimportant ignoramuses and their penchant for shouting dumb ideas at anyone who will listen. Calling out flat-earthers and chemtrail believers, Porter goes off on those who have turned the internet into an echo chamber of idiocy and crackpot theories. “Google is not an answer engine; it’s a search engine,” Porter yells. “It doesn’t tell you when you’re being a dumbass.

It just connects you with 80,000 other dumbasses who think the same dumbass shit as you do.”

Born and raised in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, Porter cut his teeth on the Midwest standup circuit before moving out to Los Angeles. He’s appeared on Season 4 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing and Tommy Chong’s Comedy@420 and has a trio of hour-long specials to his name. His blunt observational humor and clever, self-deprecating anecdotes certainly make for a winning combination, but Porter credits his success in large part to his aversion to direct political commentary.

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HEARTLAND MAN Chris Porter, who recently released ‘A Man From Kansas,’

“It’s just so polarized today,” Porter says, explaining his policy. “Nowadays, it's hard to have a good conversation about these things. I dont think its our job as comedians to always provide a political angle. There's so much other stuff to talk about that's funny and that isn’t divisive.”

However, Porter’s acts still dance around tough topics. One particularly thorny issue he tackles in A Man From Kansas is toxic masculinity. Far too many men, he says, are unable to express emotions outside of happiness, anger and confusion, which often overlap.

Porter also takes aim at “douchebags in positions of power,” who abuse their station to abuse and degrade women. He implores men to step their game up and rebuild what he refers to as “the man-brand” by treating women with respect.

Oh… And one more thing: “Please, for the love of God, stop sending people pictures of your dick,” he cracks.

Porter, who’s been performing for 20 years, is getting ready to embark on yet another tour, which will bring him to the Bay Area for a four-night residency at the San Jose Improv.

He’s looking forward to the road, as it is the place where he generates the majority of his material. After the release of a special, he’ll start from scratch, looking for new topics to tease out. Once he’s hit upon something he feels is resonating, he’ll sit down with a paper and pen, and map out the many possible directions the joke might go.

Still, keeping his performances fresh means leaving plenty of breathing room for his developing material. This is why, Porter says he enjoys playing places like San Jose.

“I’ve found that audiences on the coasts tend to be more open for you to explore” compared to audiences in other parts of the country, Porter says. “They’re cool with you not being funny for a second as you’re trying to find a new joke or premise. A lot of audiences out here are kind of hip to that. Folks in the Midwest tend to want to just hear the hits.”

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SAT–SUN JUL 27–28 | SILICAT VALLEY CAT CONVENTION Okay. I love wordplay. The fact that you could adopt a cat while drinking a “meowgarita” is brilliant to me. Featuring cat-centric vendors, cat “celebrities,” educational presentations and more. 11am–5pm. Also Sun. Club Auto Sport Event Center, 521 Charcot Ave, San Jose

SAT JUL 27 | ARTS BENEFIT WITH HOOTENANNY! The folks at Hapa’s are generating a lot of reasons to hang out, and this one may be one of their best. The afternoon will be “a benefit for the Willow Glen Performing Arts Boosters, which provides funds for Willow Glen Middle & High school performing arts programs.” As an WGHS alum, it’s “nice” to know they still need help to keep young arts alive. Mega-kudos to Hootenanny! for giving their time and talents to a good cause. Noon–3pm. Hapa's Brewing Co, 460 Lincoln Ave #90, San Jose = MUST SEE

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WED 7/24 CEDAR ROOM

CLUB

FOX

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

Wed July 24 CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

MARK HUMMEL 7pm • $7 Fri July 26 MUSIC ON THE SQUARE

BAYONICS 5:30pm • No Cover

Great location •Air Conditioning Full Bar plus Beer & Wine to go Sat July 27

EXPLORER w/Special Guest RAPTURE

SUMMER FAMILY STORYTIME FOR ALL AGES 7pm. Milpitas Library, 160 N Main St, Milpitas

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

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

KARAOKE WITH JADE

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

Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

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

FRASCATI COMEDY OPEN MIC (ALL AGES)

LIVE MUSIC | ISAIAH PICKETT BAND

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

SILICON VALLEY BEER WEEK JAZZ JAM

9:30pm. Rosie Mccann's, 355 Santana Row #1060, San Jose

7pm–11pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

ALL-STAR COMEDY SHOWCASE

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ The Legend Ron Thompson & “Special Guests.” Thu, 6pm: Come dance with Chrome Deluxe. Fri, 6pm: Little Johnny Lawton & The Orphans. Sat, 6pm: Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Sun, 11am: Sunday Brunch w/ Johnny Fabulous “Piano on the Porch.”

Sun, 3pm: Old Ned, New Band.

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

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

GLAMOUR & GAMES | QUEEN BINGO

8pm. Featuring performances

by Alina & The Box of Chocolates. Cedar Room, 1875 S. Bascom Ave, Suite 100, Campbell

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE

8:30pm. Quarter Note Bar & Grill, 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale

SAM'S BBQ

Wed, 6pm: Jerry Logan & Loganville. Tue, 7/30, 6pm: Dark Hollow. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed, 10pm: DJ Hank. Thu, 5pm: 27th Annual Make-A-Wish KickOff Mixer. Thu, 10pm: DJ Reason One. Fri, 10pm: Spazmatics. Sat, 10pm: DJ Jose Melendez (Wild 94.9). Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 10pm: Game Night. Tue, 7:30pm: Risky Quizness. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

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Wed, 6:30pm: Altamont Beer Works School of Beer. Fri, 9pm: David M’ore. Sat, 9pm: Julius Melendez y el Conjunto. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

5pm. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, 1 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

JAZZ DUO | VOCALIST ANN MARIE SANTOS & BOY PALACIO 7pm. Angelica's Bistro, 863 Main St, Redwood City

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

MIXED OPEN MIC

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

JAZZ | VINNY GOLIA TRIO 7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

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

THURSDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

7:30pm. Little Lou's BBQ, 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

ALT ROCK/PUNK | GOLDVIEW, MAINSAIL, HOT BOX WEATHER, SWELLS 8pm. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Road, Cupertino

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

COMEDY | BEER GIGGLES: JOKES AND BEER

8pm. Camino Brewing, 718 S First St, San Jose

DJ | SHAKIN’ NOT STIRRED WITH ROGER MOOREHOUSE

9pm. Cardiff Lounge, 260 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ 8pm. 3Below, 288 S Second St, San Jose

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

THE SWINGMASONS WITH VOCALISTS JERICA CRISOSTOMO AND EVE OH

Mon, Thu, Sat, 9:30pm. 2425 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

8:30pm. Angelica’s Bistro, 863 Main St, Redwood City

THROWBACK THURSDAY KARAOKE & DANCE

TONY LINDSAY AND FRIENDS

9:30pm. Old school jams, soul, reggaeton, ’70s, ’80s and pop hits. Bogart’s Sports Bar, 1209 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale

LIVE | GINA TURNER

10pm. LVL 44, 44 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

8:30pm. Santana’s former lead vocalist. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

COMEDIAN | CALEB SYNAN 9pm. Various times through Sun. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays.

Fri, 10pm: TGIFF with DJ Brotha Reese. Sat, 10pm: Snap Saturdays with DJ Don Foley. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

FRI 7/26 DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE FARMERS’ MARKET

10am. Near San Pedro Square, 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

GAMER TUNES | KIRBY'S DREAM BAND & THE RUNAWAY FOUR

5pm. Streetlight Records, 980 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

THE WILLOW DEN

Fri, 9pm: Live Music w/ Antique Radio. Sat, 9pm: Live music w/ The 629s.

Sun, 5:30pm–Close: Service Industry Night = 1/2 off drinks with your industry card! Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

803 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

9:30pm. Britannia Arms Downtown, 173 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

KARAOKE | RED STAG LOUNGE

Every night. 9:30pm–1:30am.

Red Stag Lounge, 1711 W San Carlos St, San Jose

EXHIBITION | INDIVISIBLE

SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

MIDNIGHT TRACK, THE HAS BEENS, SISSYFIT, THE BIFFS

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

QUEENS OF KARAOKE ROCK SHOW

9pm. Hosted by Polly Vinyl.

Woodhams Lounge, 4475 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara

PUNK | MIDNIGHT TRACK, THE HAS BEENS, SISSYFIT, THE BIFFS

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

7pm. WORKS/San José, 365 S Market St, San Jose

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

Fri & Sat, 8pm–Close. 828 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

KARAOKE | 7 BAMBOO

Every night. Fri–Sat, 7pm.

Sun–Thu, 9pm. 7 Bamboo, 162 Jackson St, San Jose

DANCE/KARAOKE | FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE STARLITE 8pm: Ballroom dance lesson.

9pm: Dance party. 11:30pm: Karaoke. Starlite Ballroom, 5178 Moorpark Ave. Ste 60, San Jose

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

DJ | AUDIEN

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

SAT 7/27 SILICAT VALLEY CAT CONVENTION

11am–5pm. Also Sun. Club Auto Sport Event Center, 521 Charcot Ave, San Jose

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Noon. Hapa's Brewing Co, 460 Lincoln Ave #90, San Jose

SCHOOL OF ROCK ALLSTARS

LIVE BANDS | OUTER SPACE FEST

MON 7/29

5pm. Dog-friendly. Backesto Park, 651 E Empire St, San Jose

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

7pm & 9:15pm. 3Below, 288 S Second St, San Jose

JAZZ | MIKE SANCHEZ BAND

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

THE ATOM AGE • NOBODY’S BABY Saturday, July 27 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS Sunday, July 28 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

DEAD AMERICAN

Tuesday, July 30 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

BOBAFLEX

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Tuesday, August 13 • Ages 16+

Matisyahu Aug 15 Hawthorne Heights/ Emery (Ages 16+) Aug 16 The Original Wailers (Ages 16+) Aug 22 Tuxedo/ DJ Kurse (Ages 16+) Aug 24 Los Cafres (Ages 16+) Aug 27 Protoje (Ages 16+) Aug 31 Danny Duncan (All Ages) Sep 2 Xavier Rudd (Ages 16+) Sep 12 Gogol Bordello (Ages 16+) Sep 13 Iya Terra (Ages 16+) Sep 14 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Sep 15 Lil Keed/ Lil Gotit (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Hot Chip (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 2 Elephante/ DNMO (Ages 16+) Nov 14 Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque (Ages 21+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

Noon. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

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S & H Keyes Club, 396 Keyes St, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

TRIVIA @ UPROAR BREWING

7pm. 439 S First St, San Jose

RED ROCK MIXED OPEN MIC

KARAOKE & DANCING

SUN 7/28 16TH ANNUAL REDWOOD CITY PAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

Noon–8pm. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City

DJ/DANCE | SUNDAY VIBRAS PRESENTED SONIDO CLASH X UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR 2:30pm. Continental Lounge, 347 S First St, San Jose

JAZZ JAM

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ACOUSTIC | JOE FERRARA

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LMNOP COMEDY MONDAYS

9pm. Lilly Mac’s, 187 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

KARAOKE | O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

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COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ

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

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prog and pop giants together, including Carl Palmer of ELP.

Britain Calling IN THE CONCERT business, package tours are nothing new; as far back as 1959, Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars crisscrossed the country, bringing a busload of hitmakers to American audiences. And legacy acts touring in support of their back catalog (rather than introducing new music) has been a successful business model for decades. But a new package tour billed as “The Royal Affair” combines the best of those approaches, applying it to durable rock of the late 1960s and early ’70s.

Launched in 1968, Yes has become one of the most successful and enduring bands in the progressive rock genre. Though the British group's lineup has endured perpetual change, today the band is led by longtime lead guitarist Steve Howe, and includes several musicians who have been with The Royal Affair the band for decades. For this tour, Yes revives deep album cuts like “The Gates of Delirium” from Jul 28, 6pm, $79.50+ 1974's Relayer. They'll also play material from John The Mountain Winery, Saratoga Lennon's solo catalog (Yes drummer Alan White mountainwinery.com played on several Lennon sessions).

One of Yes' few peers in progressive rock was the classically-influenced trio, Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Keyboardist Keith Emerson and bassist-vocalist Greg Lake are both dead, but drummer Carl Palmer leads his own group, ELP Legacy. Palmer wisely leaves keyboards out of the mix, as he delivers thrilling new spins on classic material.

For this tour, Arthur Brown joins the traditionally instrumental ELP Legacy. Brown gained notoriety for his 1968 hit, “Fire,” which he recorded with his band The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. That group featured a pre-ELP Palmer on drums. Today, at age 77, Brown has lost little of the incendiary energy he brought to ’60s audiences.

One of the most successful rock groups of the late ’60s to mid-’70s, The Moody Blues provided the soundtrack to a generation with their string of hit albums. While the Birmingham, England, quintet hasn't released any new music in decades, the group continues to tour. For “The Royal Affair,” bassist-vocalist John Lodge steps out on his own.

The ’80s are represented in this tour as well: Progressive-pop supergroup Asia scored a succession of MTV-era hits. Founding members Steve Howe (doing double duty with Yes) and Carl Palmer (returning to the stage after his ELP Legacy set) lead the band through its classic songs, plus new arrangements of other artists' material. —Bill Kopp

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I’m a 27-year-old guy. I’m short, and honestly, I’m not that physically attractive. I am nice, funny, and on the fast track in my career. My friends say bluntly that the more money I make, the more women will be interested in me. I’m sure that’s true, but I’m interested in falling in love, not just finding a gold digger. Advice?—Ambitious

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It would be nice if there were an easy way to identify the gold diggers—like if they showed up for dates carrying a giant golden shovel instead of a handbag they got on sale at Marshalls.

The thing is, a man’s earning power has an effect on kind, loving, generous women, too, to the point that Captain America hunko Chris Evans would likely see a major dive in his sex appeal if he were more, um, Captain Coat Hanger—earning just enough to sleep on a futon in his friend’s walk-in closet.

Guys sneer that women are shallow and terrible for caring about how much money men have, while many men would be just fine with dating a starving artist—a seriously hot starving artist, that is.

There’s some evolutionary history that explains the looks vs.income difference in the sexes’ mating priorities.

Ancestral women could get stuck with some bigtime costs from having sex, possibly going around pregnant for nine months (with all the fun of digging for edible roots in between hurling from morning sickness) and then having a kid to drag around and feed. Ancestral men, however, could choose to put way less into in the reproducing thing—just dispensing a teaspoonful of sperm and maybe offering a parting grunt or two.

Men, in turn, evolved to prioritize hotness when seeking mates—features like youth and an hourglass figure that suggest a particular lady would be a healthy, fertile candidate for passing on their genes. And while partner-seeking ladies appreciate a nice view, biologists Guanlin Wang and John Speakman write that women evolved to be more “sensitive to resources that can be invested (in) themselves and their offspring”—as in whether a dude could bring home the bison.

Wang, Speakman and their colleagues explored the impact of “resources”—that is, a person’s economic status—on their physical appeal to the opposite sex. They showed research participants in China, the US, the UK and Lithuania a stack of cards with images of silhouetted bodies of the opposite sex with varying levels

of attractiveness and had them rank the images from most attractive to least attractive. (The researchers converted the rankings to a scale of 1 to 9.)

Next, the researchers randomly assigned salary numbers to the body pix. They brought participants back—at least a week later—and again had them rate the attractiveness of the figures, but this time given the salary paired with each bod.

Upon tabulating their results, they found a major sex difference in how “responsive” the attractiveness ratings were to an increase in salary. If a man’s salary increases by a factor of 10—if his salary becomes 10 times greater—he goes up about two points (1.92 on average) on their 1-to-9 attractiveness scale.

Meanwhile, in bummerific news for female honchos, for a woman to achieve that two-point hottitude bump, her salary would need to be multiplied by 10,000.

In other words, a woman making $50K would have to make $500 million to be hotter in a man’s eyes. (No problem, right, ladies? Just get yourself promoted from legal secretary to international drug lord.)

The researchers note that because men are “largely insensitive to cues indicating resources” in women, women have to make themselves “physically more attractive” to improve their mating prospects. Men, however, “can offset poor physical attractiveness, or further enhance existing good looks, by demonstrating their large levels of resources.”

This does draw the gold diggers, but again, a woman doesn’t have to be a gold digger to be attracted to a man with money. To protect yourself from those who only care about the money, look for “inner beauty,” or what everybody’s grandpa calls “character.” Get to know her friends and family. And get to know who she is over time and across situations.

There are clever sociopaths who keep up appearances even when tested, but over time, they tend to reveal their true selves in small ways. By weeding out the rotten apples, you make space for a woman who sincerely cares about you— and can’t help but find you attractive in the right light, such as the recessed spotlights on your Gulfstream jet.

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

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Rios Chiropractic, 14127 Capri Dr., #7, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Lorianne Rios, 3685 S. Bascom Ave., #58, Campbell, CA, 95008. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Lorianne Rios. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/24/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #656388 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): SMSTRAT, 1114 Savannah Drive, San Jose, CA, 95117, Sujata Ramnarayan.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CM Design, 1005 Patricia Way, San Jose, CA, 95125, Chantal Martin. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/14/2019. /s/Chantal Martin. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/24/2019. (pub Metro 06/26, 07/03, 07/10, 07/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656256 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Delta Machine, 2180 Oakland Rd., San Jose, CA, 95131, Alexander Slowikowski. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/03/2006. Refile in facts from previous filing #548185. /s/ Alexander Slowikowski. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656133 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DG Consulting, 6325 Whaley Drive, San Jose, CA, 95135, Donna H Gilmour. 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/Donna H Gilmour. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/24/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655848

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656299

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Golden State Home Services, 8375 Westwood Drive, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Pedro Mota. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/10/2019. /s/Pedro Mota. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/14/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Good Budo Quality Handyman Services, 3485 Monroe St., Apt 227, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Chris Koeppel. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/10/2018. /s/Chris Koeppel. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656153

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656172

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Siwaree Management Service, 700 s. Winchester Blvd Unit 40, San Jose, CA, 95128, Merisa Pancha Lee, 1624 The Alameda Apt 18, SAn Jose, CA, 95126, Somjit Pouniyom. This business is being conducted by a Genera Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Merisa Lee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/24/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Convergence Arts Center, 2. Convergence Arts Lab, 1345 The Alameda, San Jose, CA, 95126, Lauren Baines, 1186 Shasta Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126. 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/Lauren Baines. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/25/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656198

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656374

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RGT Goods, 1188 Peach Court, San Jose, CA, 95116, Rojelio Gonzalez. 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/Rojelio Gonzalez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/25/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656263 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sweatbox Design, 406 S. 7th St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Xavier Jesse Gonzales. 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/Xavier Jesse Gonzales. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656268 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: California Youth Chinese Symphony, 4800 Patrick Henry Dr., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Chinese Musicians Association Of America, PO Box 4192, Santa Clara, CA, 95056. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2007. Refile in facts from previous filing #656194. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Duny Lam. Secretary. #3005761. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV349595

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Ashley Kay Braun for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Ashley Kay Braun. Proposed name: Ashley Kay Duty.

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 5, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: June 21, 2019 (pub dates: 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656284 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ReMobilizers, 585 West Hedding Street, San Jose, CA, 95110, Brain David O’Donnell, 4750 Rahway Drive, San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/15/2003. /s/Brain O’Donnell. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eveil LLC, 927 Rose Blossom Dr., Cupertino, CA, 95014. 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/Ts-Hsuan Szu. Managing Member. #201917210032. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/28/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656347 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Oodles Of Eclectus, 913 Aberdeen Dr., Sunnyvale, Ca, 94087, Rodney Eric Malmquist. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Refile in facts from previous filing #484453. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/03/1996. /s/Rodney Eric Malmquist.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/27/2019. (pub Metro 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656420

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Uttara Designs, 4085 Pepper Tree Lane, San Jose, CA, 95127, Anupama Malai Ramachandra. 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/Anupama Ramachandra.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/01/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656454

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Empowerment Financial Guidance, 4030 Moorpark Avenue Suite 250, San Jose, CA, 95117, Empowerment Financial Guidance LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/06/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Margaret Stephan. Managing Member. #201913410663.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/02/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656470 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Excel, 1120 N. First Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Excel Energy, 785 Ellerbrook St., Mountain House, CA, 95391. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/02/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mushtaq Omar. CFO. #C4265481. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/02/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656499 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: South County Newspapers, 380 S. 1st St., San Jose, CA, 95113, NUZ Inc.. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

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/Dan Pulcrano.

President. #C3646164. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/03/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV349805 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Shiela Marie Riker for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Shiela Marie Riker. Proposed name: Shay Marie Riker.

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 12, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: July 1, 2019 (pub dates: 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV349055

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tam Tam Restaurant, 140 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, 140 Holding LLC, 540 University Avenue, STE 150, Palo Alto, CA, 94301. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tanya Hartley. Managing Member. #201914910552. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/26/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Sean Robert O’Rourke for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Sean Robert O’Rourke. Proposed name: Sean Robert Couture. 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, 22 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: June 18, 2019 (pub dates: 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656433

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656554

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656303

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

HMH Incorporated, 2. HMH Landscape Architecture, 1570 Oakland Road, San Jose, CA, 95131, HMH Engineers. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/14/2012. Refile in facts from previous filing #571751. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/William Sowa. Vice President. #C0762379. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/01/2019. (pub Metro 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Red Carpet Real Estate Professionals, 2. Red Carpet Re Pros, 3. BCW Construction, 4. BCW & Sons Construction, 5.

Pacific Northwest Mortagage Corp, 25N 14th Street #830, San Jose, CA, 95112, Bruce Caldwell Williams, 25 North 14th Street, Suite 830, 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 10/03/2007. /s/Bruce Caldwell Williams. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/05/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656540

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CUTECUBSFCC, 566 Monterey Ter., Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Seema Sharma. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2016. /s/Seema Sharma. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/05/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656545 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kay Green Landscape, 5980 Cabral Ave., San Jose, CA, 95123, Young Hun Bae. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2013. Refile in facts from previous filing #576288. /s/Young Bae. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/05/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656562

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tocotea, 1694 Berryessa Rd., San Jose, CA, 95133, Tocotea Incorporated.

This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/31/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ryan Tran, Secretary. #C4270072. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/08/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656607

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Moonshot Education, 282 San Antonio Road, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Harmony Plus 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/Ying Li, CEO #C3998687. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/09/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV350389 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Jennifer Marie Glaeser for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Jennifer Marie Glaeser. Proposed name: Jennifer Glaeser Beck. 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: August 20, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: July 9, 2019 (pub dates: 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656573 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Puffle Services, 27801 Edgerton Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA, 94022, Hua Zhong. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/08/2019. /s/ Hua Zhong. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/08/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

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 #656580

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656400 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: November Hair Studio, 2118 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95050405, Nguyen Thao Doan, 249 Spence Ave., Milpitas, CA, 95035.

This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/15/2019. /s/Nguyen Thao Doan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/01/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656439 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Angelic Cleaning Services, 9410 S 2nd Ave., Inglewood, CA, 90305, Howard Hines, 350 S. 10th Street #1, San Jose, CA, 95112, Saintclair Hines. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Howard Hines. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/01/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656669

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Elevative Media, 20 East 5th Street, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Alex Douglas Vo, Mark Jensen Sebastian. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/11/2019. /s/Alex Vo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/10/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656630 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Akara, 16105 Montebello Road, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Second Coming Books 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/Leslie A. Pantling, President. #C4291877. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/09/2019. (pub Metro 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656443 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. 1 Plus 1 Cares, 2. 1+1 Cares, 3. 1+1, 4. 1 Plus 1, 990 Linden Dr. STE 201, Santa Clara, CA, 95050. 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/Ray Liu, President. #C3058075. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/09/2019. (pub Metro 07/24, 07/31, 08/07, 08/14/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656768 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Drain Assist, 115 S. Sunset Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Trieu Vo. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. /s/Trieu Vo. 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)

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,

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: November 5, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: October 15, 2019 (pub dates: 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)

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)

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)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): After analyzing unusual

animal behavior, magnetic fluctuations, outbreaks of mayhem on Twitter, and the position of the moon, a psychic has foretold that a moderate earthquake will rumble through the St. Louis, Missouri area in the coming weeks. I don't agree with her prophecy. But I have a prediction of my own. Using data about how cosmic forces are conspiring to amuse and titillate your rapture chakra, I predict a major lovequake for many Aries between now and Aug. 20. I suggest you start preparing immediately. How? Brainstorm about adventures and breakthroughs that will boost exciting togetherness. Get yourself in the frame of mind to seek out collaborative catharses that evoke both sensory delights and spiritual insights.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are," wrote Taurus philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. You could use that idea to achieve a finer grade of peace and grace in the coming weeks. The navel-gazing phase of your yearly cycle has begun, which means you'll be in closest alignment with cosmic rhythms if you get to know yourself much better. One of the best ways to do that is to analyze what you pay most attention to. Another excellent way is to expand and refine and tenderize your feelings for what you pay most attention to.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote that in Havana, people refer to their friends as mi sangre, my blood, or mi tierra, my country. In Caracas, he reported, a friend might be called mi llave, my key, or mi pana, my bread. Since you are in the alliance-boosting phase of your cycle, Gemini, I trust that you will find good reasons to think of your comrades as your blood, your country, your key or your bread. It's a favorable time for you to get closer, more personal and more intimate. The affectionate depths are calling to you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your emotional

intelligence is so strong right now that I bet you could alleviate the pain of a loved one even as you soothe a long-running ache of your own. You're so spiritually alluring, I suspect you could arouse the sacred yearning of a guru, saint or bodhisattva. You're so interesting, someone might write a poem or story about you. You're so overflowing with a lust for life that you might lift people out of their ruts just by being in their presence. You're so smart, you could come up with at least a partial solution to a riddle whose solution has evaded you for a long time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Queen of North America

and Europe called me on the phone. At least that's how she identified herself. "I have a message for your Leo readers," she told me. "Why Leo?" I asked.

"Because I'm a Leo myself," she replied, "and I know what my tribe needs to know right now." I said, "OK. Give it to me." "Tell Leos to always keep in mind the difference between healthy pride and debilitating hubris," she said. "Tell them to be dazzlingly and daringly competent without becoming bossy and egomaniacal. They should disappear their arrogance but nourish their mandate to express leadership and serve as a role model. Be shiny and bright but not glaring and blinding. Be irresistible but not envy-inducing."

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Congrats, Virgo! You are

beginning the denouement of your yearly cycle.

Anything you do to resolve lingering conflicts and finish up old business will yield fertile rewards. Fate will conspire benevolently in your behalf as you bid final goodbyes to the influences you'll be smart not to drag along with you into the new cycle that will begin in a few weeks. To inspire your holy work, I give you this poem by Virgo poet Charles Wright: "Knot by knot I untie myself from the past / And let it rise away from me like a balloon. / What a small thing it becomes. / What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue."

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I predict that between

now and the end of the year, a Libran genetic engineer will create a new species of animal called a dat. A cross between a cat and a dog, it will have the grace, independence and vigilance of a Persian cat and the geniality, loyalty and ebullient strength of a golden retriever. Its stalking skills will synthesize the cat's and dog's different styles of

By ROB BREZSNY week of July 24

hunting. I also predict that in the coming months, you will achieve greater harmony between the cat and dog aspects of your own nature, thereby acquiring some of the hybrid talents of the dat.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Marianne

Moore (1887-1972) won the Pulitzer Prize and several other prestigious awards. She was a rare poet who became a celebrity. That's one of the reasons why the Ford car company asked her to dream up interesting names for a new model they were manufacturing.

Alas, Ford decided the 43 possibilities she presented were too poetic and rejected all of them. But some of Moore's names are apt descriptors for the roles you could and should play in the phase you're beginning, so I'm offering them for your use. Here they are: 1.

Anticipator. 2. The Impeccable. 3. Tonnere Alifère (French term for "winged thunder"). 4. Tir á l'arc (French term for "bull's eye"). 5. Regina-Rex (Latin terms for "queen" and "king").

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It's conceivable

that in one of your past lives you were a pioneer who made the rough 2,170-mile migration via wagon train from Missouri to Oregon in the 1830s.

Or maybe you were a sailor who accompanied the Viking Leif Eriksson in his travels to the New World 500 years before Columbus. Is it possible you were part of the team assembled by Italian diplomat Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who journeyed from Rome to Mongolia in the 13th century? Here's why I'm entertaining these thoughts, Sagittarius: I suspect that a similar itch to ramble and explore and seek adventure may rise up in you during the coming weeks. I won't be surprised if you consider making a foray to the edge of your known world.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When the dinosaurs

died off 65 million years ago, the crocodiles didn't.

They were around for 135 million years before that era, and are still here now. Why? "They are extremely tough and robust," says croc expert James Perran Ross. Their immune systems "are just incredible." Maybe best of all, they "learn quickly and adapt to changes in their situation."

In accordance with the astrological omens, I'm naming the crocodile as your creature teacher for the coming weeks. I suspect you will be able to call on a comparable version of their will to thrive. (Read more about crocs: tinyurl.com/ToughAndRobust.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "My only hope is that

one day I can love myself as much as I love you."

Poet Mariah Gordon-Dyke wrote that to a lover, and now I'm offering it to you as you begin your Season of Self-Love. You've passed through other Seasons of Self-Love in the past, but none of them has ever had such rich potential to deepen and ripen your self-love. I bet you'll discover new secrets about how to love yourself with the same intensity you have loved your most treasured allies.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Poems can bring

comfort," writes Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield. "They let us know . . . that we are not alone—but they also unseat us and make us more susceptible, larger, elastic. They foment revolutions of awareness and allow the complex, uncertain, actual world to enter." According to my understanding of upcoming astrological omens, Pisces, life itself will soon be like the poems Hirshfield describes: unruly yet comforting; a source of solace but also a catalyst for transformation; bringing you healing and support but also asking you to rise up and reinvent yourself.

Sounds like fun!

Homework: What's the most amazing feat you ever pulled off? What will you do for your next amazing feat? Truthrooster@ gmail.com.

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