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JURISTAC STAND High stakes battle pits gravel mine proponents against Native Americans fighting for sacred lands P12

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Milpitas Mayor RICH TRAN and Vice Mayor KARINA DOMINGUEZ have been at each other’s throats for a while now, feuding on Facebook and exchanging choice words from the dais. Now, it looks like Tran so regrets appointing her as secondin-command that he wants to slash the term from two years to one.

At last week’s City Council meeting, Tran couched the idea as a way to give someone else a chance, “someone who hasn’t been vice mayor,” he explained.

Since Councilwoman CARMEN MONTANO has already served in that role, that would leave their colleagues BOB NUÑEZ and ANTHONY PHAN. Dominguez joined her fellow councilors in expressing support for the plan at the meeting, but changed her tune later that They evening in a Facebook Did post about how she What? was “saddened” that SEND TIPS TO Tran didn’t give her a FLY@ heads up. “If you are METRONEWS. a young woman with COM an opinion, you will be silenced in favor of the status quo,” she wrote. “If you stand up against power, you will be disrespected and forced into the sexist political ways of the system.”

Dominguez tells Fly that the council recently agreed at a retreat not to unload surprises— like last week’s bombshell—on each other. She notes that Tran, not incidentally, was absent from that outing even after it was rescheduled to accommodate his unpredictable work demands.

While open to relinquishing the honorific, Dominguez says she’s concerned that the mayor’s plan distracts from “pressing needs in Milpitas and that it sends a negative message to young girls who might aspire to leadership positions.” In a subsequent Facebook post, she urged her supporters to wear white in solidarity when the proposal comes up for discussion at the Dec. 3 council session.

Tran, for his part, balks at Dominguez’s claims of bias. To presume that the “decision is based on gender or race,” he says, “is not comprehensible.”

POWER PLAYERS Rebuild North Bay, a tax-exempt non-profit, has sent several delegations to DC to lobby lawmakers on specific funding and legislation. A trip earlier this month to visit House Speaker Nancy Pelosi included board member Michael Mondavi (third from left) and foundation director Jennifer Gray Thompson (fourth from left).

Smokescreen Foundation reneges on promise of ‘immediate relief’ to fire victims

BY PETER BYRNE AND WILL CARRUTHERS

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S THOUSANDS of Sonoma County homes smoldered in ruins from the Tubbs Fire in the fall of 2017, Darius Anderson—veteran lobbyist for Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation and an owner of the Press Democrat daily newspaper—established the non-profit Rebuild North Bay Foundation.

In an application for tax-exempt

status, Anderson told the Internal Revenue Service that his charity would “provide immediate disaster relief to those residents of the North Bay who were hardest hit: families and individuals with low incomes who have been displaced from their homes and/or lost their jobs due to the wildfires.”

According to a months-long investigation by the North Bay Bohemian, a Metro publication, that’s not how things played out. The foundation’s independent audit and

tax returns and hundreds of emails obtained from local governments reveal that the non-profit founded by Anderson and headed by Jennifer Gray Thompson functions more as a lobbyist than disaster relief group.

During its first year of existence, most of the foundation’s revenue came from PG&E while the bulk of expenses went to management.

It spent relatively little money on grants to the public, according to the audit. The foundation made erroneous claims in its tax return regarding its lobbying activities— serious errors which the organization said it will correct. Despite laws prohibiting such foundations from making campaign contributions, Rebuild North Bay donated cash to support local elected officials.

While Rebuild North Bay has performed some charitable acts, it has devoted more resources to creating a network of business people and local public officials to lobby bureaucrats and legislators

Days of Fire In addition to Rebuild North Bay’s founders Anderson and Marisol Lopez of Platinum Advisors, its 18-member governing board comprises a “who’s who” of Bay Area business elites.

Board president Elizabeth Gore runs Alice, an artificial-intelligence website for business owners, and is married to Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore. Other directors include four renowned vintners and United Way of the Wine Country CEO Lisa Carreño.

In the tax filing, Anderson’s business partner, Press Democrat publisher Steve Falk, is listed as a friend of the board. Anderson alone controls a fairly powerful business empire. Over the past decade through Sonoma Media Investments, he’s snapped up virtually every major news, business and lifestyle print publication in the North Bay, including the Press Democrat, Petaluma Argus-Courier, Sonoma Index Tribune, North Bay Business Journal, Sonoma Magazine, Spirited Magazine, La Prensa Sonoma and Emerald Report.

Anderson’s stake in the local news business paid off last year when a panel of arbitrators implicated him and Doug Boxer—his partner in Kenwood Investments and son of former senator for California, Barbara Boxer—in a fraud scheme that victimized a group of indigenous people. Just about a year ago, the San Francisco Superior Court affirmed the arbitrators’ finding that Anderson and Boxer bilked the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria when the tribe was trying to develop a casino in Sonoma County in 2003.

The Press Democrat did not report the finding of fraud in its brief coverage of the court-ordered $725,000 award to the Native Americans.

It was Anderson’s unsavory

dealings with the tribe that prompted this news organization to take a closer look at Rebuild North Bay. To its credit, the foundation does boast some charitable accomplishments. Over the past year, it organized PG&E and other businesses to help replace burned street walls in several neighborhoods.

It gave a county government $25,000 and partnered with United Way of the Wine Country to distribute $300,000 in small grants to community groups.

For these acts, Rebuild North Bay has received plenty of coverage in the Press Democrat in articles that “disclose” Anderson as the founder of the charity. On the other hand, Press Democrat articles omit Anderson’s role as a PG&E lobbyist in stories about the utility. Nor did the newspaper report that PG&E gifted Rebuild North Bay millions in startup funds—money which has yet to trickle down to fire victims.

PG&E to the Rescue?

The day after Christmas 2017, PG&E cut Rebuild North Bay a check for $2 million; the utility’s largesse accounted for 75 percent of the foundation’s contributions in the ensuing months.

While the region struggled to rebuild itself after devastating fires, however, the foundation disbursed only 1 percent of its cash to the public during its first year. Meanwhile, it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on salaries, consulting fees, overhead, lobbying, advocacy and travel, according to its tax filings, and ended its first fiscal year with $1.8 million in the bank. “We were conservative in the first year because we are committed to the long term,” Thompson explains.

According to the foundation’s independent audit of its first fiscal year, it made only one cash grant—$25,000 to Lake County to help it pay for fighting the Pawnee wildfire. Management and administration costs amounted to $302,760—83 percent of its total cash expenses of $362,428. Many of the disbursements the foundation claimed as charitable grants raise questions about their value to a community trying to recuperate from devastating wildfires.

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in Washington DC. Under IRS rules, a charity may engage in some lobbying related to its purpose—but a primary focus on lobbying can cost its tax-exempt privilege.

According to multiple experts, Rebuild North Bay blurred the boundary between charity and political influence machine. “It’s not even a close call; it’s blatant lobbying,” said Ellen Aprill, a Loyola Law School professor. “The foundation is primarily a lobbyist, not a charity.”

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of the foundation’s first year budget went to “coordination”— paying staff salaries, consulting fees and more than $100,000 to build a website with headshots and biographies of its directors. It spent $28,500 on “advocacy” and $18,500 for lobbying, which it defined as “direct contact with legislators, their staffs, government officials or a legislative body.”

Pay to Play

SWAG BAGS The Rebuild North Bay Foundation distributed 5,000 promotional tchotchke-filled ‘GO! Bags’ to fire victims and other residents and claimed it as a $75,000 charitable grant.

To celebrate its first anniversary in October 2018, Rebuild North Bay distributed 5,000 emergency preparedness bags emblazoned with its logo to local residents. The bright yellow sacks did not adhere to the California Department of Public Health’s recommended components for standard emergency kits. Rather, the bags contain two dust masks donated by Freidman’s Home Improvement, a tiny handcranked flashlight courtesy of PG&E, a throw-away cell phone charger supplied by Comcast and a toothbrush, toothpaste, plastic razor, shampoo and conditioner gifted by Kaiser Permanente. Completing the so-called GO! Bags were a handful of brochures, including a “Prepare with Pedro” coloring book. A FEMA brochure warns us to “Save for a Rainy Day” and “Make a Plan.”

Casey Mazzoni, a San Rafael-based lobbyist hired by Rebuild North Bay for

$60,000, oversaw the bag project, which the foundation pegged as a $75,000 community grant.

By contrast, following the fires, Redwood Credit Union’s North Bay Fire Relief Fund distributed $31 million to the community from more than 41,000 donors. Its administrative costs amounted to 3 percent of its grants, according to its 2017 tax return. The non-profit North Bay Organizing Project’s UndocuFund made $6 million in cash grants to almost 1,900 families that lost homes, possessions and earnings in the fires while only 10 percent of revenue went to overhead.

The law allows Rebuild North Bay Foundation, as a charitable organization, to focus some of its activities on lobbying government officials on issues relevant to its mission.

Non-profit tax experts consulted for this story say such a group should spend more than 80 percent of the

budget on the charitable purpose, not on lobbying of any sort.

According to tax filings and financial documents provided by Thompson, Rebuild North Bay deposited $2.8 million in cash and non-cash donations from more than 100 donors in its first year. PG&E donated most of the cash. Ordinary people wrote checks for $20 or $50, richer folks donated five-figure sums for disaster relief. The Ford Dealers Advertising Association gave $25,000; the Associated Students of Stanford University gave $5,000; a Girl Scouts Brownie Troop raised $904.

What happened to the money?

During its first year, Rebuild North Bay distributed $169,499—6 percent of its donations—as wildfire disaster relief, offering only a small part of that charity in cash. Most of it came in the form of donated items passed through the foundation’s books and counted as grants to the public.

According to its tax return, much

Anderson ostensibly chartered the Rebuild North Bay Foundation for disaster relief, not to intersect with the founder’s financial and business interests or send politicians to lobby in DC. Yet time and again, the non-profit apparently went far astray from its stated mission.

For example, until Nov. 1, Anderson’s lobbying firm, Platinum Advisors, counted PG&E as a client. As PG&E grappled with bankruptcy and $30 billion in liabilities for sparking wildfires around California, two of its executives served on the foundation’s board, which counted the utility as a “partner” in charitable giving.

The debris removal company Ashbritt Environmental also hired Anderson’s lobbying firm and gifted the foundation with $450,000—only after some of the foundation’s board members pressed federal officials to change regulations governing disaster cleanup reimbursement. Ashbritt was paid $288 million in federal funds as part of the $1.3 billion cleanup operation.

In its IRS tax filing, Rebuild North Bay credits its influence for Congress upping the debris-cleanup reimbursement rate. When asked for evidence that the foundation played such a pivotal role, Thompson replied: “Prove that we didn’t.”

While the foundation boasts of its effective advocacy, however, Thompson denies that such influence activities constitutes lobbying.

Ultimately, it’s up to the IRS to determine whether the Rebuild North Bay Foundation has run afoul of non-profit rules, according to Philip Hackney, a professor of non-profit law at the University of Pittsburgh.

“What is most interesting is that Rebuild told the community it was going to do one thing and then ended up doing another,” he says.

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SIGN LANGUAGE Thanks to the blessing of Diamond Laundry’s retired proprietor, the beloved ‘Miss Careful’ billboard is in for a long-overdue touch-up.

Painted Lady Diamond Laundry’s iconic vintage billboard is finally getting restored

BY GARY SINGH

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ISS CAREFUL is being restored. What many claim is the oldest billboard in San Jose— that legendary sign on the Highway 87 overpass outside Diamond Laundry & Cleaners— shall soon return to life. As you read this, local artist MESNGR, who also helped paint the crazed VTA bus on the side of Alameda Artworks, is hard at work restoring Miss Careful to her old glory by painting a brand-new sign.

Everyone who’s driven along San Carlos Street as it enters downtown for the last 70 years has noticed Diamond Laundry & Cleaners because, according to the sign, Miss Careful works there. And for the last few decades of those 70 years, many local connoisseurs of underbelly have offered to help restore the sign, especially in recent times as the sign had long since deteriorated beyond repair. But now, thanks to the blessing of newly retired proprietor Mary Jane Hulbert, a team of locals have banded together to make it happen. For many years, Mary was hesitant to allow anyone to mess with

the sign, but just recently she finally changed her mind.

To get the skinny, I showed up not only for Miss Careful, but also to reacquaint myself with the Diamond Laundry business in general. Upon crossing the threshold and ringing a buzzer on the side of the counter, I spoke to Peggy Sutton, who immediately appeared and told me the building used to be a gas station pre-1950.

“That’s why there’s three driveways out front,” she said, pointing to the parking lot.

The Diamond Laundry business actually dates all the way back to 1931, to an old location on Grant Street. Then in 1950 proprietor Harold Hulbert bought the property on San Carlos Street, where the business sits today. Hulbert passed away just over 20 years ago, but Mary, his wife, worked right up until recently, even into her mid-90s.

Today, her son Gary C.H. Burton along with his children, Jason and Janielle, operate the place.

As I stood there, Sutton schooled me on the history. She told me about El Patio, the bar that used to sit next door, before Highway 87 existed.

Soon after Sutton graduated from Piedmont Hills High School in the ’70s, she bartended at El Patio before she was even 21. Decades ago, Pete’s Bakery sat across San Carlos from Diamond Laundry. The guy who ran it was the brother of the guy who ran Dick’s Bakery on Meridian.

And in the back, Sutton showed me around, pointing out ancient but still functioning industrial laundry machines. Three old-school washers, like the three wise men, sat there plugging away and refusing to die. An old “mangle”—a contraption with huge rollers and cogs for pressing sheets—still functioned, although not many people needed their sheets pressed anymore. I saw an old army dryer, plus huge tumblers, various steaming equipment and other machinery I couldn’t identify. There was even an old boiler from the ’70s in the back corner, the heart of the whole operation, pumping steam through various pipes to all the machines in the complex.

“Without that boiler, we’re dead in the water,” Sutton said. “We can’t work. Everything is powered by steam.”

Back at the front counter, an interior remodel was underway.

A new era of Diamond Laundry seemed to be around the corner. All the ancient wood-colored paneling had been replaced. The walls were painted white for the time being.

On the counter, I saw red Sharpies, receipt books, collar stays and rubber stamps. Customers came in every five minutes with their own personal requests. Peggy seemed to know them all.

When it came to the staff, people tended to spend their entire lives working at Diamond Laundry. One employee, Martha Rodriguez, recently retired after 38 years. A few current workers are going on 29 years now.

It’s not an industry to which people beat a path looking for employment.

Most people are cringing for Google jobs instead, Sutton quipped.

“We don’t get that many people walking in here wanting to work for us,” she said. “So we’re pretty honored that these guys are still here. Every person we use, it’s hard to replace him.”

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QUARRY QUARREL The fight over Juristac is shaping up to be Silicon Valley’s Standing Rock.

Lobbyists target county supes to push plan for South County mining operation on lands considered sacred by local Native Americans BY ROBERT RAYMOND

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UST PAST NOON on Sep. 8, hundreds of people gather in prayer. This isn’t a typical Sunday church service, though. The congregation has come to the end of a 5-mile march, a pilgrimage that began at Mission San Juan Bautista in San Benito County and ended at a place now known as Sargent Ranch at Santa Clara County’s southernmost edge, half an hour south of central San Jose.

Here, at the foot of the lowland slopes and iconic golden hills a few

miles from urbanizing Gilroy, they begin to pray.

Ceremonies such as these were once common here. Thousands of years ago, long before European settlers arrived in California, the Amah Mutsun—a local band of California Indians—held sacred gatherings on the site they call “Juristac,” meaning “place of the big head.”

At their peak, the Amah Mutsun lived in small villages from the San Francisco Bay Area down to Monterey. Juristac is considered a particularly special place—home of their spiritual leader, Kuksui, and a place where the tribal band hosted prayer ceremonies and healing rituals for more than 10,000 years. It is also currently the proposed site of a 320-

acre open-pit sand and gravel mine, a potentially new and local source for the grit coveted by the stakeholders in Silicon Valley’s construction boom.

It was this prospect that compelled more than a hundred tribal members— along with hundreds of their supporters from community and environmental organizations—to attend the early September prayer walk.

“This is a major issue for our tribe,” says Valentin Lopez, chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. “These developers plan on tearing down and monetizing our most sacred site, and so we’re fighting to stop that.”

Approval of the Sargent Quarry Project is contingent on a number of pending factors. There’s an

ethnographic study taking place, along with a draft environmental impact report being undertaken by the county Department of Planning and Development. The EIR was expected in November, but county planner Rob Eastwood said this week, “We found a few things that are going to take a little more time to look at” and that the report’s new expected release date is early next year.

Environmental groups have come out against the proposed mine because of the adverse impact it would likely have on iconic species such as the American badger, puma and California red-legged frog.

After the draft environmental review is issued, opposition groups will likely have somewhere between 45 to 75 days to submit questions or objections to the county Planning Commission, which will then vote on the mine.

It’s likely that their findings will be appealed either way, leaving the final decision to the county Board of Supervisors.

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Lopez knows that there is still a long fight ahead. It is merely the latest skirmish in a battle that he and his contemporaries have fought for decades—and the latest chapter in a war that his ancestors waged for centuries.

CLAIM JUMPING For nearly 20 years, Irenne Zwierlein— considered an outsider by the tribal majority—has nonetheless played an outsized role in the Amah Mutsun’s ongoing campaign for federal recognition and in the tribe’s claim to the Sargent Ranch property.

The 74-year-old Woodside resident, who didn’t respond to requests for comment, has made no public effort to take part in any of the tribe’s events and activities and has yet to conclusively prove her Indian heritage. Even after the Bureau of Indian Affairs affirmed in 2007 that Zwierlein forged documents in an attempt to position herself as the

Amah Mutsun’s rightful leader, she managed to convince the agency to prioritize her petition over that of popularly recognized tribal Chairman Lopez, a fellow septuagenarian who for the past 16 years has served as the face of the tribe.

Under Lopez’s leadership, the tribe has emphasized restoring a sense of community among the 500plus Amah Mutsun members after generations of forced assimilation and trauma. For his part, Lopez says he hopes to see Sargent Ranch returned to the Amah Mutsun, or placed in the stewardship of an organization that shares his vision of maintaining a green, open space and wild space on this tract of land. “We want to return to the path of our ancestors and to fulfill our obligation to the creator,” he says. “And we don’t need the BIA’s permission to do that.”

Without a legal right to their ancestral turf, Lopez says the Amah Mutsun won’t be able to unilaterally say what can be done here. However, in the course of his time fighting

for Juristac and other significant Amah Mutsun sites, Lopez has forged partnerships with open space districts, conservationists and private property owners who have helped him and his tribe to uphold its mission of protecting land it holds sacred.

Zwierlein’s priorities, by contrast, seemingly depend almost entirely on the federal government’s affirmation of the tribe’s sovereignty to secure the rights to Sargent Ranch.

Fifteen years ago, La Jolla developer Wayne Pierce inked a development contract with Zwierlein, who promised to allow development on the land in exchange for a $21 million cultural center and homes for tribal members. The pact gave Pierce a way to bypass state and county anti-sprawl zoning and brought Zwierlein some powerful allies.

Though Pierce’s blueprints for a “luxury gaming resort” surfaced online years after signing his covenant with Zwierlein, she has consistently denied advocating for a casino. But the potential profit

windfall from Indian gaming cast doubt on Zwierlein’s motives as well as those of investors, labor groups and political office holders aligned with her faction.

When he authored a bill in 2005 to expedite federal recognition, Congressman Mike Honda (D-San Jose) swore he wasn’t taking sides in the tribe’s internal conflict. But the language appeared to favor Zwierlein by citing the title of her BIA petition, raising questions about the lawmaker’s intentions. The bill never passed. A few years later, the economy took a nosedive and set Pierce on a course that ended in bankruptcy and foreclosure on the La Jollan’s 85 percent stake in Sargent Ranch.

The proposed quarry has now overtaken the sidelined casino plans as the immediate threat to Juristac.

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from San Jose to Salinas: the Coyote Valley, undeveloped land stretching from Hollister to Prunedale and Sargent Ranch.

Earlier this month, San Jose snatched up 937 acres of Coyote Valley from Brandenburg Properties and the Sobrato Organization in a $93 million deal aimed at creating a permanent greenbelt between the city proper and the rural South Valley.

Further south in San Benito County, county supervisors on Sept. 24 greenlighted “nodes” off four Highway 101 offramps for tax revenue-generating commercial development. A petition by environmentalists to bring the rezoning decision to voters was certified last week, in hopes of reversing the decision that will transform the corridor’s rural visual landscape.

Sargent Ranch would extend Santa Clara County’s developed footprint by converting the pristine lands to industrial use. The proposed quarry seeks to unearth about 40 million tons of sand and gravel estimated to lie beneath the surface of the bucolic property. As the project nears a vote, the applicant has hired controversial lobbyist Ed McGovern to sway the Board of Supervisors. McGovern previously served as campaign manager to county supervisor Cindy Chavez and political consultant to disgraced former Santa Clara councilman and county supervisor candidate Dominic Caserta. For the past several months, McGovern, Sargent Ranch representative Verne Freeman and officials from the South Bay Labor Council have held meetings and led site tours with county supervisors—namely Cortese, Chavez, Joe Simitian and Susan Ellenberg—to sell the mine’s value as a job creator and tax revenue-booster.

County Supervisor Mike Wasserman, whose district includes Sargent Ranch, has expressed strong support for the mining project as a local source of aggregate for concrete to fuel the region’s surging construction. As developers tout the economic benefits of carving gravel out of ranchland, the stakes are high for the broader public as well. If

13 Sargent Ranch is developed, it may catalyze further sprawl.

Cortese, who hails from a family with a multi-generational agricultural background, says he’s more inclined to protect the ranchland as open space. “Every time we make a decision there’s consequences,” he tells Metro.

“My default is to keep it pristine, to keep it as unimproved as possible.”

This certainly aligns with Lopez’s hopes, as the mine would desecrate a site that’s inextricably intertwined with the 3,000-year history and cultural identity of the Amah Mutsun people.

SACRED LAND While Lopez has been dealt many defeats and setbacks in his decadeslong fight, he comes into the battle for Juristac on the heels of a partial win.

With the help of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District—a special district that manages 26 open space preserves around the Bay Area—Lopez recently managed to reclaim a small piece of one of his people’s most sacred sites, the summit of Mount Umunhum. The 3,489-foot peak, one of the highest that surrounds the valley, is now the home of a permanent Amah Mutsun prayer circle, which was completed two years ago.

Silicon Valley denizens may recognize Mount Um by the large, white rectangular structure standing atop its peak. The most obvious vestige of the Almaden Air Force Station, which operated there from 1958 to 1980, the structure is a five-story concrete radar tower, which once supported an 80-ton radar antenna built to detect incoming Russian Bear Bombers during the Cold War. The station was manned by the 682nd Radar Squadron and, at its peak, was almost like a little town of its own, housing 120 airmen and their families in a community that included a fallout shelter, a cafeteria, a commissary, a bowling alley and a basketball court. In 1980, the station was abandoned by the military and closed to the public because of the asbestos, black mold, fuel-storage containers, PCB transformers, lead-

Since colonization’s earliest days, Amah Mutsun history has been one marked by violence, destruction and genocide. It began during the Mission period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when native populations were moved to compounds and lived in harsh conditions. During this time, 19,421 Indians died at Mission San Juan Bautista alone, and it’s estimated that the population of Californian Indians as a whole was reduced from 350,000 to 200,000.

The mission period was followed by the Mexican period, from 1822 to 1846.

During this time, huge tracts of land were granted to non-Indian settlers and the native population was maneuvered into debt-peonage, working lands that were taken from them. European diseases and poor living conditions contributed to the death of another 100,000 California Indians.

The American period, which began after 1848 was perhaps the worst. During this time, the already devastated population of native Californians experienced what might have been the worst slaughter of Indians in US history. It’s estimated that the Indian population of California went from 150,000 before 1849 to fewer than 30,000 in 1870— an 80 percent loss in just 21 years.

“Who we are today, how we think, how we love, how we hate, how we fear, what scares us, what makes us brave—all those qualities are given to us by the seven generations before us,” Lopez says, standing atop Mount Umunhum. “There’s a lot of recovery and healing that’s needed for our people when we look at that history.”

Although Midpen’s efforts to acknowledge the Amah Mutsun’s historical claim to the land have been warmly received, the decision to keep the Cold War-era radar tower standing atop the summit has been a point of contention.

Despite the conclusion that it would be more expensive to maintain and seal the tower, which was full of toxic materials and is still chipping lead paint, radar tower champions prevailed. The county Board of Supervisors (the same

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based paint and other hazardous materials on site.

The summit of Mount Umunhum was cordoned off for decades. But in 2009, with the help of Honda, fellow House Democrat Zoe Lofgren, California senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein and Midpen— as the special district is known— received $3.2 million to clean it up.

They removed 3,000 cubic yards of hazardous material, recontoured the the site and constructed a trail between Mount Umunhum and its neighbor, Bald Mountain. After almost 60 years, the summit would again open to visitors.

“When we got the call from Midpen, we talked to our tribal council about what our vision was and what we would like to see here on Mount Umunhum,” Lopez says.

“We all agreed almost immediately that we would like to see the opportunity for us to return here as a place for prayer and ceremony.”

On Sep. 14, 2017, around a circle set by traditionally cut stones, Amah Mutsun tribal members held the first ceremony on Mount Umunhum in perhaps 200 years.

The circle overlooks Silicon Valley and is marked with an informational plaque, which explains the historical significance of Mount Umunhum for the Amah Mutsun tribe.

Umunhum can be loosely translated as “the place where hummingbird rests.” Growing up in the shadow of this mountain, most residents have some vague understanding of this—or at least a version of it. What many locals may not know, however, is that Mount Umunhum is not just named after an Amah Mutsun word—it’s actually the center of the Amah Mutsun’s creation mythology—literally the center of their universe.

“Mount Umunhum is a place of our creation,” Lopez says. “Our creation story tells us that it was there that Creator made all lifeforms that we see today: the four-legged, the birds, the fish, the plants, etc. It's a sacred place to us, a place where our people would go to pray. And it was desecrated to bring in a military installation.”

This is not a new story.

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15 RIGHTFUL RULER The Bureau of Indian Affairs has delayed granting federal recognition to the Amah Mutsun in part because of an internal dispute between the tribal majority and a splinter group led by a Woodside resident named Irene Zwierlein.

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entity that has the final say on the Juristac development), voted unanimously to list the massive concrete radar tower on the County Heritage Resource Inventory, giving it official historic status and protecting it from demolition.

It was a big win for those at the Umunhum Conservancy and others who felt it was important to monumentalize the United States’ military history.

But to Lopez’s mind, the decision was disgraceful.

“That radar tower operated for something like 20 years,” Lopez says.

“Our history there goes back over 10,000 years. And yet, the county of Santa Clara recognized Mount Umunhum as an important county heritage site for the military. They totally ignored our history—20 years of military presence is more important than thousands of years of Native American presence.”

TRIBAL RECOGNITION One of the most intractable challenges facing the Amah Mutsun is the reality that the United States government hasn’t officially recognized them as a tribe. This leaves them without the rights, benefits and legal status that come

with federal recognition, protections which could have played a significant role in determining Juristac’s fate.

Recognition gives a tribe and its members special rights, including sovereignty over their lands, a right to self-governance and federal benefits, services and protections.

Through Zwierlein’s efforts to control the Sargent Ranch property, she has played a role in thwarting official federal recognition.

“I tell you, if we were Catholic or Muslim or Jewish or a Buddhist—if we were any other religion, and this was known as a sacred site, they wouldn't dare think of proposing a sand and gravel mine,” Lopez says. “But because we’re Native American, because we’re not federally recognized, it doesn't matter.”

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THE BATTLE CONTINUES The fight for Juristac is just getting started, and it’s likely to be a long and contentious one. Although there was a strong showing of solidarity among environmental and advocacy groups on Sep. 8, there was almost no media coverage of the event.

“What I have been saying for a period of time now, a number of years actually, is that the destruction and domination of Native Americans never ended, it just evolved,” Lopez says. “It evolved to what we see today—our important, sensitive cultural sites are being destroyed. And that's what's happening at Juristac.”

Despite everything, Lopez remains hopeful. “We’ve been told that the most effective way to stop this mine is by public opinion,” he says. “Because if the county supervisors want to get re-elected, they have to do what the people want. And so we're hoping we can get the people to stand with us and tell the supervisors that they must not approve that mine.”

Knowing the importance of public opinion, the Amah Mutsun, in tandem with environmental groups and organizations like the Silicon Valley Democratic Socialists of America, have begun a campaign to organize and press their case. Last week they held an event at the First Unitarian Church of San Jose, where speakers, including Lopez, encouraged attendees to support the cause.

Bumper stickers were on hand with the message, “No Sargent Quarry on Amah Mutsun sacred grounds.”

Of course, there are many recent precedents to these kinds of battles.

It was during events at Standing Rock in 2016, when members of the Standing Rock Sioux fought to block an oil pipeline development near their reservation in North Dakota, where the native community honed their organizing skills. Despite the fact that the Standing Rock Sioux are a federally recognized tribe, the Dakota Access Pipeline project was ultimately approved by the Trump administration after months of fierce opposition.

Grace Hase, Jennifer Wadsworth and Nick Veronin contributed to this report.

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Lopez has successfully advocated for the Catholic Diocese of Monterey to issue a formal apology, which it gave in a 2013 ceremony of mass reconciliation for enslaving and killing the Amah Mutsun hundreds of years prior. He helped forge a tribal land trust partnership with the Sempervirens Fund and a program through UC Santa Cruz for the Amah Mutsun to reclaim ancient knowledge of environmental stewardship and native plants. He spearheaded an agreement with Pinnacles National Park to hold ritesof-passage ceremonies, spring and fall dances, talking circles with elders and other events that aim to restore indigenous knowledge.

For the past decade, the tribe has held bimonthly meetings led by a psychiatrist and two psychologists, in which members delve into the trauma from a history of dislocation.

All the while, he has consistently convened members for holiday gatherings, basket-weaving seminars and other events to preserve a cultural identity and meet one of the tests for tribal recognition.

Though Zwierlein has all but disappeared from public life in recent years, her contested claim remains the BIA’s primary reason for declining to grant Amah Mutsun federal tribal status. On Sept. 3, the BIA gave both factions a chance to submit more paperwork to prove who has the rightful claim to leadership. Lopez, for his part, says that though he’ll go through the motions by giving the feds what they ask for, he long ago lost faith in the process.

“To be honest, we’re not even sure we want that,” Lopez says.

“Even though you do get certain benefits and sovereignty, when you’re federally recognized you also become a ward of the government—and the government has never had our best interests at heart.”

If it ultimately falls to the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band to protect its heritage on its own—without help from the federal government—Lopez is fine with that.

“The BIA is evil,” Lopez says.

“They’re just waiting for us to assimilate or die.” Lopez does not plan to do either.

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HE HOLIDAYS ARE upon us. And in addition to being bombarded with calls to buy, buy, buy, we will also be encouraged to indulge in a litany of rich food and drink that our primitive digestive systems are ill-equipped to metabolize.

Eggnog comes to mind.

One can quickly concoct this venerable Christmastime libation by spiking a store-bought mix of heavy cream, whipped egg whites and spices.

And there are plenty of from-scratch recipes to be found online. But it’s not too common to find a well-made eggnog cocktail (or any holiday

cocktail, for that matter) at a bar. That is, unless, you know where to look.

As a teetotalling child, I hated eggnog. Even upon discovering in my adolescence that eggnog was meant to be mixed with alcohol, I remained unconvinced of its merits. However, once I began studying cocktails, I noticed the traits it shared with other revered drinks, like the milk punch (spirit, sugar, milk) and the flip (spirit, sugar, whole egg).

In my 20s, I first attempted to make a true eggnog for a holiday party. I found a few recipes online— none of which were similar in preparation—and decided on the one that sounded the most involved, figuring that if it was complicated, it

might be good. I had to separate eggs and whip egg whites to stiff peaks.

It took quite a while to prepare, and longer to chill down. The result wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t stellar.

The guests at my party were pleased, but not many were jumping at the chance to try it.

They say the best way to find the most efficient solution to a difficult task is to assign said task to a lazy man. When it comes to eggnog, that self-proclaimed loafer is Jeffrey Morgenthaler of Clyde Common in Portland. When he wanted to make eggnog for his bar, he came up with a wonderfully simple method that is now the industry standard. Using a blender, mix whole eggs while slowly adding sugar, then alcohol, freshly grated nutmeg, whole milk and finally, cream. Morgenthaler’s technique is so good that it has been added to The New York Times Cookbook. For the whole recipe you can look there, online, or watch his video on The Small Screen Network on YouTube.

For some, eggnog is as Christmas as cocktails get, but one bar in Downtown San Jose is proving the

contrary: For the second year in a row, Paper Plane is participating in Miracle, a Christmas-themed cocktail pop-up that started in New York. Greg Boehm, owner of Cocktail Kingdom (an online retailer of fine bar supplies), conceived of Miracle while building out his own New York cocktail bar, Mace, in 2014. This holiday season, 150 bars plan to host their own Miracle pop-up.

At Miracle on 1st Street (the moniker that Paper Plane will don for the duration of the pop-up), customers will walk into a Christmas party turned up to 11. Holiday music is on from open to close, the room is packed with festive decorations and lights, and of course, the menu is fully Christmas themed. Paper Plane is known in San Jose for their innovative cocktail menus, but Miracle boasts 10 cocktails and three shots on the menu, standardized across the pop-ups. “Most people are inherently excited about the holidays,” says George Lahlouh, co-owner of Paper Plane, “but some people think that it can be so corny and over the top, but that’s kind of it’s selling point.” Every drink is delivered in special Miracle glassware.

Some drinks come in branded coupe glasses, but some come in a ceramic Santa mug, or—in a new addition this year—a ceramic Tyrannosaurus Rex wearing a Santa Hat. Miracle on 1st Street runs now through Dec. 29 at Paper Plane. “You have to be a fan to want to do this,” Lahlouh says of converting his bar into the Miracle pop-up. This year, Miracle is holding a massive nationwide ugly sweater party, too. On Dec. 2, all the participating pop-ups invite guests to come dressed in the most garish garments they can find.

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Thu, 2pm & 7:30pm, $59+ Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

Fri, All Day Local Record Stores

Much like The Nutcracker, Smuin Ballet’s annual production of The Christmas Ballet has become a favorite of the Bay Area Christmas season.

Unlike The Nutcracker, however, The Christmas Ballet isn’t constrained by centuries of tradition, animated toy soldiers and dancing rodents. Instead, the local dance company will present a medley of holiday musical favorites— moving from an opening act of classical ballet followed by a second more contemporary act, with the company’s talented dancers moving through jazz, tap and other styles.

The performance runs through Dec. 1 with three matinees and two evening shows. (MS)

Once a year, there comes a special day when all the good children get a special gift from a mythic, omniscient, omnipresent entity.

That day is (of course) Record Store Day’s Black Friday event, and the omnipresent entity is (of course) the music industry.

Seasonal offerings for this year’s RSD include previously unreleased material by Miles Davis, The Hold Steady, and Big Star’s Alex Chilton, as well a deluxe reissue of Nas’s Stillmatic (on vinyl for the first time since 2001). It’s like they see us when we’re sleeping and know exactly what we’re listening to on Spotify. Wait… (MH)

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CHOICES BY:

REGGIE STEELE Fri, 9pm, $23 Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale Way back in 2003, someone at Rooster T. Feathers got the idea to start showcasing burgeoning local comedians with a New Talent Comedy Competition. The winner of that very first outing was Reggie Steele. So, it’s no surprise he keeps old Roosters in the rotation. When he’s not making the residents of Northern California laugh with his jokes and comic observations, you can find Steele touring the country, performing for the troops overseas and sharing his quick wit on Netflix and Comedy.TV. He shares the stage with Kabir Singh and Andrew Orolfo. Steele performs on Friday and Saturday night. (MS)

HARVEST FESTIVAL Fri-Sun, 10am, $9 McEnery Convention Center, San Jose The Harvest Festival is making its way back to San Jose this weekend for three days of arts and crafts. Visitors will find all kinds of American handmade products just in time for the holidays. The event also features three days of familyoriented fun, with performances

by Mama Claus & Eddie the Elf, John Park the Funny Waiter, the Bay Area Showcase Chorus show choir and Zydeco Flames. For those bringing the kiddos, there’s an area exclusively for make-andtake craft activities geared toward youngsters. Discounted tickets are available for children, seniors and members of the military. (MS)

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WINTERDANCE Sat, 7:30pm, $28 Tabard Theatre, San Jose In a festive holiday tradition, Celtic trio Molly’s Revenge bring their annual WinterDance to San Jose, a decidedly emerald take on the holidays featuring dancing, bagpipes and bodhrans. Joined by the Rosemary Turco Irish Dancers and dynamic vocalist Amelia Hogan, the ensemble presents a songbook of Christmas classics and traditional Irish jigs for a high-spirited (and high-jumping) holiday. In Ireland, the Christmas celebration lasts until Jan. 6, but here in San Jose, WinterDance is a comes for just a single night. (MH)

* concerts THE HU

NOT SO SILENT NIGHT Dec 7 at SAP Center

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE Dec 11-12 at San Jose Civic

DIIV Dec 12 at The Catalyst

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 21 at The Ritz

WINDHAM HILL’S WINTER SOLSTICE Dec 21 at Montalvo Carriage House

DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS Dec 23 at San Jose Civic

KRONOS QUARTET Jan 15 at Bing Concert Hall

THE WAILERS Jan 22 at The Ritz

REVEREND HORTON HEAT Jan 23 at The Ritz

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BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD Jan 23 at The Catalyst

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Sun, 10pm, $15+ Pure Nightclub, Sunnyvale

Sun, 7:30pm, Sold Out Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto

Mon, 7pm, $20+ The Ritz, San Jose

HOLIDAY BEERWALK Wed, 6pm, $35 Downtown Campbell

While most DJs are content to keep a crowd moving, LA-based producer Svdden Death seems hell-bent on turning the dance floor into a mosh pit. Judging from his swooping scene kid crop of bleached-blond hair and affinity for black metal fonts, this San Jose-bred selector clearly has a soft spot for hardcore. And then there’s his distinctly raw and noisy sonic palate. Consider his collaborative edit—with Somnium Sound—of Fisher’s “Losing It,” which turns an already tightly wound and propulsive tech house beat and ratchets up the tension with a hard-hitting and glitchy orchestral drop. (KN)

While Jason Alexander may never escape his iconic portrayal of George Costanza on Seinfeld, it’s not for lack of trying. The New Jersey native is a Tony Award-winning Broadway performer, an accomplished professional poker player, a television director, a comedian, a voiceover artist and a practicing magician. But when he takes the stage at the Oshman Family JCC, he’ll be tackling yet another challenge: answering your questions.

“As Long As You’re Asking: A Conversation with Jason Alexander” is billed as choose-your-ownadventure of comedy, music and conversation, with a little something for everyone. The event is sold out, but the wait list is open. (CA)

Don’t be fooled by the phonetics—The Hu are no pinball wizards. But by combining traditional Mongolian throat singing and instrumentation with contemporary hard rock sensibilities, they have created a sound that is truly unique and seriously heavy. Fresh from an appearance on the soundtrack for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and currently in the midst of their first North American tour, these mysterious musicians are bringing their primordial brand of metal to The Ritz. They’ll be joined by Canadian psych rockers Crown Lands on a bill that proves headbanging is indeed a universal language. (CA)

The Beerwalk returns with a holiday-themed stroll in downtown Campbell. Both ugly and pretty sweaters are encouraged this time around as more than a dozen breweries will be pouring at storefronts up and down Campbell Avenue. Taste local pours from the likes of Golden State Brewing and Strike, as well as the latest from the bigger craft brewers—including Coronado and Anchor. There will be hard cider and kombucha tastings as well. Tickets get tipplers access to pours, a custom glass and a brew passport. Kids, dogs and designated drivers get in for free. The event benefits the Downtown Campbell Business Association and the Bay Area Brewers Guild. (MS)

THE PIANO GUYS Jan 24 at San Jose Civic

STRATA Jan 25 at The Ritz

RHIANNON GIDDENS Feb 7 at Bing Concert Hall

BAD OMENS Feb 13 at The Ritz

DR. DOG Feb 18 at The Catalyst

FLOR DE TOLOACHE Mar 1 at The Ritz

MARC ANTHONY Mar 20 at SAP Center

AN EVENING W/ THE MONKEES Apr 8 at San Jose Civic

WILCO Mar 29 at San Jose Civic For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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FAMILY VALUES In ‘The Humans,’ playwright Stephen Karam illuminates the struggles of an American middle class family.

Broken Home In ‘The Humans,’ a struggling family confronts fear, failure over Thanksgiving

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

T

HE PROTAGONISTS OF Quasar are green creatures with razor sharp teeth, but they aren’t the most terrifying creatures in the universe. We are. “On their planet, the scary stories they tell each other are all about us,” says Richard (George Psarras), explaining his favorite comic book around the Thanksgiving table.

This is the lens through which we watch the Blake family celebrate their holiday. This inversion of the idea of what a monster is also doubles as playwright Stephen Karam’s thesis statement for The Humans, which

plays at San Jose Stage Company through Dec. 15.

In his presentation of the American family, Karam damns everyone at the table with an affliction. Dramatically speaking, the Blakes are related to troubled families like the Pollitts from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the Tyrones in Long Day's Journey into Night. As we get to know them, they seem like an affectionate family, bantering and bickering with one another—until they start to tell the truth.

Richard and his girlfriend Brigid (Madeline Rouverol) are hosting her family at the apartment they’ve just moved into together. Their relationship appears solid. He’s a graduate student.

She’s applying to graduate school while

also working a couple of part-time jobs. Their noisy building is located in New York City’s Chinatown. Loud, crashing sounds regularly interrupt the gathering. They’re portents of the difficulties the family has yet to confess.

Brigid’s father Erik (Tim Kniffin) has worked as a maintenance man at a private high school for 30 years. His wife Deirdre (Marie Shell) is an office manager. Both are acting cagey and withholding crucial bits of information from their daughters. Aimee (Lyndsy Kail), Brigid’s sister, has become a successful corporate lawyer. But she’s heartbroken about a recent breakup with her girlfriend Carol. And, as if that weren’t enough to draw our sympathies, the colitis she’s suffering from is endangering that job. To round out this series of distressing backstories, grandmother Momo (Jessica Powell) is wheelchair-bound with dementia.

Unlike the characters in Tennessee Williams’ and Eugene O’Neill’s plays, the problems they’re faced with aren’t psychological or based on their unexamined neuroses. The Blakes also aren’t from the same economic class as the Pollitts and Tyrones. They’re struggling with obstacles that are

preventing them from making a living.

Shortly after her family arrives, Brigid wonders aloud why her parents didn’t send her a check to help with the move.

Erik is immediately evasive. When he and Deirdre share a couple of tense, private exchanges, it becomes clear that money has become an insoluble problem for them.

Karam is chronicling the financial decline of the Blakes, in particular, as well as what they represent: the American middle class. While their dilemma (and the resulting outcome) isn't new, the witty dialogue summons up the convincing and endearing rapport of an actual family. The instant the cast members are all standing in the same room, they move across the stage in natural pairings of sister to sister or father and daughter. Then they’ll break out of formation to recover from a vexing emotion or to take a timeout from the group dynamics.

And it turns out that the comic book premise is just a starting point for Karam. He does more than simply create one-dimensional monsters. The Blakes aren’t a mean-spirited crew.

When there are digs and barbs, they’re dished out not in the spirit of causing harm, but because this is the way they speak, in their own private language.

They use inside jokes as a shorthand to communicate intimacy and to make sense of each other's flaws and personal excesses.

However, Karam does punish the father for making a mistake. And, by extension, he punishes the entire family for it. If The Humans had been written by a contemporary French playwright, that mistake would not have cost his family their livelihood and their inheritance.

It is a Puritanical—which is to say, a uniquely American—take on one man’s failure to live a perfectly moral or virtuous life. I’m not taking the role of an apologist for Erik’s behavior, but what he does seems out of proportion with the punishment meted out to the Blakes. The playwright links his spiritual and financial bankruptcy together.

The Humans means to account for and define the new American way. For the godless citizens of this country, there's no such thing as a safety net.

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CLUED IN Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Craig join Jamie Lee Curtis, and many more, in the funny, macabre ‘Knives Out.’

Foul Play Excellent ensemble cast comes together for a whodunnit in ‘Knives Out’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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IDDLING, BUT NOT without surprises, Knives Out is Rian Johnson’s mystery about a group of greedy heirs in ugly holiday sweaters. They’re the descendents of writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), author of The Menagerie Tragedy Trilogy and other best-selling bafflers.

The morning after his 85th birthday party, the old man is found with his throat cut in an apparent suicide.

The deceased was no stranger to the macabre. “He basically lives on a Clue board,” says the investigating Lt.

Elliott (Lakeith Stanfield of Sorry to Bother You and Atlanta); it’s a turreted Victorian manor floating in a sea of dead leaves, with hidden entryways, creaky floorboards and sinister doodads galore. In a prominent place is a lifesize jolly-sailor dummy in homage to Sleuth, the play starring Lawrence Olivier and Michael Caine (and later, the film starring Caine and Jude Law).

Harlan’s parasitic family isn’t exactly weeping over the senseless waste of human life. They include designer Jamie Lee Curtis, whose business was propped up by Harlan’s checkbook, and her loafer husband Don Johnson. Their son is a professional wastrel (Chris Evans handles this anti-Captain America role well). Another son is the grumbling

Michal Shannon, limping on a cane; he’s furious at the old man’s refusal to sell his work to the movies.

Johnson’s twist is that we know how Harlan died early on. Involved was his good-hearted nurse and companion Marta (Ana de Armas), but she’s exempted from the line up because she had nothing to gain from the will. In addition she has a tic; she must always tell the truth, lest she vomits on the spot.

(This apparently isn’t a real sickness.

Johnson may have read of the tanguin ordeal in Madagascar, in which accused liars prove their guilt by barfing.)

On scene is Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, “Last of the Gentlemen Detectives,” recently profiled in the New Yorker (“I read a tweet about the article,” says another suspect, Toni Collette’s Joni, burnished by unnatural skin bronzers.)

Craig uses a Southern accent, with more molasses in it than the one he used in Logan Lucky. This diction increases Craig’s likeness to Robert Mitchum.

What’s all his own is the satisfactory way Craig wears his fine clothes, dandles his cigar and utters Gothic comments about this house full of “vultures at the feast, knives out, beaks bloody!”

To him, the case is a sort of doughnut, the hole beckoning. This metaphysical doughnut is mirrored by a frightening living room sculpture: hundreds of knives, all blades pointing to a vortex.

Johnson gets us out of the house for an encounter with a mildewed old gatekeeper (M. Emmet Walsh) who puts his faith in the sturdy old VHS player he’s been using for decades.

There’s also a car chase justly described by a character as “the dumbest of all time” through a dozing milltown, with only one old witness who lacks the energy to do a double take at the speeding Hyundai careening past him.

The airweight movie is a little furry; we wait in vain for some crack in old Harlan’s stern benignness; he has such good reasons for his ironwilled decisions that you want to see a touch of evil revealed. Knives Out is also strangely sexless—unless Miss Marple is the sleuth, Agatha Christieoid entertainments usually have a bit of plunging neckline and a suggestion of kink. A scene of Evans and de Armas drinking beer at a country inn with Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown” playing in the background is about as heated as it gets.

Johnson’s superb emulation of Hammett and Chandler in his debut Brick (2006) gave us a more energetic mystery, and this sputters a bit by comparison. But he does have a purpose, beyond pastiche: Knives Out is Thanksgiving entertainment for those seething at their relatives over the turkey carcass. Johnson introduces a political element, revealed when the cast starts snapping at each other about the policies of the unnamed Trump; half of these idlers fear dispossession by alien hordes, as represented by Marta’s undocumented mom. One member of the clan is an alt-right 16-year-old who never raises his face from his cellphone; he probably stands in for the little pishers who hounded Johnson about the politics of his The Last Jedi as if they thought Darth Vader would read their tweets and ask for their CVs. And so, Knives Out addresses contemporary turmoil in the cozy world of the manor-murder mystery.

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BOARD ROOM ‘Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound’ explains the soundscapes that lure us in.

Sound & Vision SURPRISINGLY EMOTIONAL FOR a film about technology, co-producer and director Midge Costin’s Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound takes us through 90 years of film sound. It’s reveltory about what goes on over the course of making a movie.

There are technicians who do things as deceptively simple as record the wind, water or crowds. And there are other sound designers who create the effects. Ben Burtt, for example, started work on the original Star Wars a year before principal photography began. George Lucas asked Burtt what noise a wookie makes; Burtt found it by recording the eloquent groans of a hungry but docile bear. Decades before, Murray Spivak found the roaring voice of the original King Kong by slowing down a recording of tigers at the Selig Zoo. And Cece Hall, supervising sound editor on Top Gun, amped up what she called the “wimpy” sounds of actual Navy jets by mixing in a tiger’s bellow.

The film also teaches us some lingo. “Foley artists” are makers of custom sounds, such as the original Jack Foley himself, who augmented the sound of an entire army of Roman legionaries on the march in Spartacus by recording the jingling of his car keys. And there are ADR (Additional Dialogue Replacement) technicians, a lot of whom are women—Bobbi Banks talks about working on Selma and helping re-create the sounds of the police attack on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Victoria Making Waves: The Art of Rose Sampson discusses her mother Kay’s use Cinematic Sound of subtraction to get the more intimate sounds in Ordinary People. What would that film have UR; 94 Mins. been without the way Kay Rose edited everything 3Below Theaters & out but the clicking of silverware on dinner plates, Lounge, San Jose summing up a certain sort of unhappy family.

3belowtheaters.com Directors who had the ears to understand the importance of sound include Orson Welles, who used his background in radio for Citizen Kane. Hitchcock’s care for such details is seen and heard in the dead silence surrounding the little gasp of horror Tippi Hendrin utters, right before the wings of a hundred crows start beating.

Barbra Streisand, Alphonso Cuaron, Christopher Nolan, David Lynch, Walter Murch, Ryan Coogler, Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee and Sophie Coppola comment on their own use of the craft; illustrated by scenes as different in scale as the storming of Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan and the strange, murky noises that lead Henry in Eraserhead to his nocturnal audience with the Radiator Lady. The work comes with a certain cost. Burtt had a nervous breakdown trying to top himself, and his advice to the young and ambitious is to ground themselves with their families. That said, it’s quite a recruiting film for those who listen and imagine. —Richard von Busack

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LONG GAME For years, Earthless were known for their epic-length instrumentals, but they’ve recently added vocals to the mix.

Terra Infirma San Diego psych metal trio Earthless ruminate on the greats at The Ritz

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P UNTIL 2018, fans knew what to expect from the San Diego-based psychedelic metal band Earthless: long, intense, scorching, jaw-clenching jams without the benefit of vocals.

One Earthless album featured only one instrumental track, just shy of an hour long.

Lengthy and wordless facemelting was their brand.

Then came Black Heaven in 2018, the band’s ninth album since they first came together in 2005.

The songs clocked in at a lean eight minutes or so, on average.

And—wait, what’s this?—Is that somebody singing?

“At first, there were some people who were surprised by it,” says Earthless drummer Mario Rubalcaba of the band’s foray into vocals. “But I think, judging from the amount of touring we’ve done the last year and a half, we’ve acquired quite a bit of new fans who like that aspect.”

As Earthless, Rubalcaba, bassist Mike Eginton and guitarist Isaiah Mitchell have become cult faves for their relentless embrace of heavy, aggressive rock with a metal edge. But even with Mitchell having a go at singing, Black Heaven has not, says Rubalcaba, changed the essence of Earthless.

“There was a good amount of people

who knew that Isaiah could sing and were stoked that we tried that that aspect of our sound,” he says. “Overall, it’s gone over pretty good.”

The trio first bonded over their shared love for late ’60s and early ’70s acts like Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Who and Black Sabbath. And though the musicians of Earthless are a generation or two removed from those bands, they’re comfortable with being in that lineage.

“Without those bands, there would be no Earthless,” says Rubalcaba, a former pro skateboarder and longtime musician. “That’s the stuff we listened to as kids in our bedrooms, just jumping around playing air drums or air guitar.”

Though 1970s-style metal is the basis of the Earthless sound, the trio is also informed by the aggressiveness and snarl of punk. In particular, they have championed the 1980s punk band Void and the San Francisco-based avant-garde punk band Chrome, fronted by the late Damon Edge.

With the various metal, garage and punk influences came an inspiration

from jazz as well—namely, the inclination for improvisation.

Earthless is well known for bringing wide-open improvbased experimentation to its live performances in an effort to make each show a unique experience.

Rubalcaba and bassist Eginton have been students of jazz improv for years. The groove that the two make with frontman and guitarist Mitchell amounts to what Rubalcaba calls a “special chemistry.”

“A big part of it is Mike on bass,” he says. “He’s holding down these hard bass lines, which enables Isaiah and myself to run circles and go off on tangents. Isaiah might stretch out a solo way longer than the night before, and when I feel it’s my turn to weigh in, I have rein to take it somewhere else, to some place way out of whack.

It’s the ultimate high.”

Rubalcaba estimates that the band’s longest live jam has come in at more than an hour and a half.

He said that the band’s fan base is a diverse blend of young and formerly young. Earthless is a particular favorite of producers of skateboarding videos, which keeps the band’s fan base ever renewing with young listeners. But older people with a deep appreciation of the band’s 1970s vibe, many of whom saw the classic bands back in their heyday, are also a big part of the base.

“It’s really cool to see that we can win over people who came from that era,” Rubalcaba says.

The changes in Black Heaven came about after guitarist Mitchell relocated from San Diego to the Bay Area (he now lives in Marin County). The band didn’t have as much time to jam as they used to, so they began playing and rehearsing with a different mindset.

Then the songs with vocals emerged.

“I don’t know if people thought it might change the live show,” says Rubalcaba, “but it really hasn’t.

We’ve been able to incorporate the vocal parts in the live show pretty seamlessly. It’s even helped diversified it a bit. It’s now even more of an experience of bombarding the senses.”

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NOV 27–DEC 5 | “I REMEMBER MEN WHO KNEW A HUNDRED SORROWS / AND THE GRATITUDE THEY FELT FOR GIFTS.” Short, but sweet—a pumpkin pie of a poem. "Visiting Pai-an Pavilion" by Hsieh Ling-yun reminds me to simplify.

If you’re looking to get out of the house on Wednesday night, you have two great options.

Comedian Tyler Stannard will host a great line-up of funny at the Locals Only Comedy Show at Santa Clara Valley Brewing. Noah and the Arkiteks take their rightful spot at Art Boutiki Music Hall for their annual Thanksgiving Eve show. If you want to laugh or dance, they’ve got you covered. I love just how much stuff is going on into the night on Thursday. It’s as if local organizers know that you’ll be looking for something to do after you gorge. I’ll be hanging out with my siblings and niblings, making them watch me eat a whole pie. South Bay, please be safe this weekend. I am so grateful for you. These and many more events in my listings below and beyond. = MUST SEE

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WED 11/27

WOMEN/LGBTQ COMEDY OPEN MIC

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

CEDAR ROOM

Everyday Happy Hour: 4pm–5:30pm & 9pm–10pm.

Wed, 8pm–11pm: Queen Bingo. Mon, 7pm: Big Bands.

Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

CHRIS & FRIENDS MUSIC OPEN MIC

6pm–9pm. 88 Keys Cafe,1295 E Dunne Ave, #100, Morgan Hill

You Call.

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THANKSGIVING EVE WITH NOAH AND THE ARKITEKS

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

LOCALS ONLY COMEDY SHOW HOSTED BY TYLER STANNARD

7:30pm. Santa Clara Valley Brewing, 101 E Alma Ave, San Jose

STAGE | THE HUMANS

7:30pm. Various times through 12/15. San Jose Stage Company, 490 S First St

COMEDIAN | CRISTELA ALONZO: MY AFFORDABLE CARE ACT POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ Ron Thompson. Thu: Closed. Fri, 8pm: Lindsay Beaver. Sat, 6pm: Mighty Mike Schermer "Home for the Holiday Tour." Sun, 11am: Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: Vinny Johnson Band. Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

8pm. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St, San Jose

NEW TALENT COMEDY SHOWCASE

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

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE

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

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

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

Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

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& Bowie Celebration. Sat, 8pm: Morbid Angel, Watain, Incantation. Mon, 7pm: The Hu, Crown Lands. Tue, 7pm: Earthless, KooK. 400 S First St, San Jose

CARAVAN LOUNGE COMEDY SHOW WITH MR. WALKER

9pm. 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

OPEN MIC COMEDY SHOW

9pm. Hosted by Pete Munoz.

Rocco's Blue Max, 828 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

DJ/DANCE | ONYX - BLACK WEDNESDAY CLUB EVENT 9pm. Social Lady, 73 E San Fernando St, San Jose

KARAOKE WITH JADE

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

LIVE MUSIC | ISAIAH PICKETT BAND

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

HOUSE/TRANCE | MARKUS SCHULZ 10pm. Pure Nightclub, 146 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

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THANKSGIVING THE RITZ

Wed, 9pm: Vinyl Night: Black Out Wednesday. Fri, 9pm: New Wave Prom: Annual Prince

2019 APPLIED MATERIALS SILICON VALLEY TURKEY TROT 8:30am. Downtown San Jose.

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Illusive Comics, 1270 Franklin Mall, Santa Clara

DINNER | FLIGHTS FAMILY FEAST

2pm–8pm. Three courses with turkey. $29. Flights, 368 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

EXHIBIT | SHOW ME YOUR NEON

6:30pm. Through 12/31.

Gallery 1202, 7363 Monterey St, Gilroy

FRI 11/29 ART & CRAFT SHOW | HARVEST FESTIVAL (THROUGH SUN)

10am–5pm Fri, Sat, Sun. San José Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose

SMUIN’S ANNUAL HOLIDAY TREAT: THE CHRISTMAS BALLET (THROUGH SUNDAY)

2pm & 7:30pm. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St

A MERRY-ACHI CHRISTMAS WITH MARIACHI SOL DE MEXICO 3pm. Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose

HUBS COFFEE OPEN MIC SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

ELECTRO | THE CHANGING SAME WITH SPECIAL GUEST B O N D A X (UK)

9pm. Continental Lounge, 347 S First St, San Jose

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays.

Fri, 10pm: DJ Vex One. Sat, 10pm: DJ David Q. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

SKA/SOUL | BAS PRESENTS: THE BANDULUS (PORTLAND) 10pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

6:45pm sign up. Hubs Coffee, 630 Blossom Hill Rd #50, San Jose

ECSTATIC DANCE SAN JOSE 7:30pm. $20. Yoga warm-up until 8pm. 160 N Third St, San Jose

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

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

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

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

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

JAZZ | JOHN PALOWICH & DOUBLE SUB 8:30pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

COMEDIAN | REGGIE STEEL BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Uncle Hank. Thu, 8pm: Bar Open, no kitchen or entertainment. Fri, 10pm: Spazmatics. Sat, 10pm: Superbad. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 10pm: Game Night. Tue, 7:30pm: Risky Quizness. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

9pm. With Al Gonzalez and Clay Newman. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

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

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

THE ROUGHIES, PANHANDLERS UNION, THE HOT TAKES, PAPPY VAN WINKLE 10pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

SAT 11/30 C

BENEFIT | RED NOSE & LOW LOWS CIRCUS AND CAR SHOW 10am–6pm. Benefits Young Warriors Circle. Alum Rock United Methodist Church, 30 Kirk Ave, San Jose

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

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IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

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

COUNTRY | MIKE DREW BAND, ONE COUNTRY

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

KARAOKE | ALEX’S 49ER INN

Every night. 9pm. Alex's 49er Inn, 2214 Business Cir, San Jose 1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Sunday, December 1 • Ages 16+

SMOKING PIG BBQ

JIM BREUER

Sat, 9pm: Andre Thierry Zydeco. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

Tuesday, December 3 • Ages 16+

KARAOKE & DANCING

9:30pm. Bogart's Sports Bar, 1209 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Wednesday, December 4 • Ages 16+

Comethazine

Wednesday, December 4 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

KARAOKE | RED STAG LOUNGE

Every night. 9:30pm–1:30am.

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

SUN 12/1 SAN JOSE METROPOLITAN BAND PRESENTS GREAT BRITISH CLASSICS

3pm. Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

DJ/DANCE | SUNDAY SERVICE

3pm. 21+ Small bites.

Fashionable Attire. SP2 Communal Bar, 72 N Almaden Ave, San Jose

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Dec 6 The Grouch/ Murs (Ages 16+) Dec 7 DIIV/ Froth (Ages 16+) Dec 13 Lil Tjay (Ages 16+) Dec 13 & 14 The Expendables (Ages 16+) Dec 21 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ages 16+) Dec 27 Cracker Camper Van Beethoven (Ages 21+) Dec 28 Micro Mania Midget Wrestling (Ages 16+) Dec 31 Beats Antique (Ages 21+) Jan 7 Cashmere Cat (Ages 16+) Jan 11 Y&T/ James Durbin (Ages 21+) Jan 12 Black Flag/ The Linecutters (Ages 16+) Jan 16 Pennywise/ Adolescents (Ages 16+) Jan 23 The Infamous Stringdusters (Ages 16+) Jan 30 Wynonna & The Big Noise (Ages 16+) Jan 31 Minnesota/ Eastghost (Ages 18+) Feb 1 The Marcus King Band (Ages 16+) Feb 2 Jauz/ Drezo (Ages 16+) Feb 9 Atmosphere (Ages 16+) Feb 13 Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (Ages 16+) Feb 14 Santa Cruz Reggae Music Fest. (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

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Wed Nov 27 Club Fox Blues Jam ON TOUR

MIGHTY MIKE SCHERMER 7pm • $7

Fri Nov 29

WHEN DOVES CRY

9pm • $18 adv / $21 day of show Sat Nov 30

THE CHEESEBALLS

NAILING IT Noah Kibreab is one of the South Bay’s most soulful singers. Backed by equally incredible Arkiteks, once again, they’ll take over Art Boutiki Music Hall on Wednesday night to celebrate Thanksgiving Eve. 44 Race St, San Jose

9pm • $18 adv / $20 day of show Sun Dec 1

GYPSY SOUL

7pm • $22 adv / $25 day of show Tues Dec 3

SILICON VALLEY ROCKS! 6pm • $20 - $75

2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

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4pm. Little Lou's BBQ, 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

BOOGALOO SUNDAYS WINTER GALA

5:30pm. Flames, 88 S Fourth St, #150, San Jose

ACOUSTIC | JOE FERRARA

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

KARAOKE | KATIE BLOOM’S

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm–1:30am.

Campbell

MON 12/2 COMEDY | KEYES OPEN MIC

7pm. Hosted by Prisilla Torres.

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

7pm. 201 Castro St, Mountain View

ART CLASS | LIFE DRAWING

7:15pm. $20. Jose Andrade of

metroactive EVENTS Streetlight Records, 980 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

DANCING | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS

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

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

TRIVIA @ 7 STARS

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

JAM | WEEKLY SESSIONS AT FIVE POINTS 8:30pm. Five Points, 169 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT AT STEPHEN'S GREEN

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

KARAOKE | O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB 9pm. 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ

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

MONDO MONDAY KARAOKE

10pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

TRIVIA TUESDAYS

TUE 12/3 BLUEGRASS |BEAN CREEK

3pm. San Jose City College Theatre Arts, 2100 Moorpark Ave, San Jose

TRIVIA | PUBSTUMPERS

FILM & DISCUSSION | BACKPACK FULL OF CASH

7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St. 7:30pm. Britannia Arms Almaden, 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

TRIVIA | TRIVIOLITY PUB QUIZ

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

TUESDAY NIGHT COMEDY OPEN MIC

8:30pm. Hosted by Jacob Contreras. Off The Hook, 2369 Winchester Blvd, Campbell

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

ENTHUSIASTS | MONTHLY VINYL MEET-UP 7pm. RSVP: paige@ streetlightrecords.com |

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

THURSDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

9pm. Continental Lounge, 347 S First St, San Jose

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

COMEDY | BEER GIGGLES: JOKES AND BEER

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

THE WILLOW DEN PUBLIC HOUSE

Tue & Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Fri & Sat, 9pm–midnight: Live rock ’n’ roll & blues. Sun: Service Industry Night: 1/2 off drinks with industry card. 803 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

VARIETY TALK SHOW | THE MIGHTY LATE SHOW

WED 12/4

TRADITIONAL IRISH SEISIUN TUESDAYS

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

HOUSE MUSIC | RHYTHM RITUAL

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE

TRIVIA @ FOUNTAINHEAD

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #659647 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Amore Home Health, 960 Jacklin Rd., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Amore Health Systems, Inc. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 07/29/2019. under file No. 657188. This business was conducted by: A Corporation: Filed on 10/11/2019. /s/Hana Cuartelon, Owner. (pub dates: 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659650 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Amore Home Health, 960 Jacklin Rd., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Next Level Home Health LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/10/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ryan Fernandez, Managing Member. #201918610180. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/11/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660129 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Swarm, 1579 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125, Jennifer L Jennings.

This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jennifer L Jennings.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/28/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659791 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mers Fund I, 4970 El Camino Real STE 230, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Milestone Financial LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/19/2007. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/William R. Stuart, Managing Member. #201713510539. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659792 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mers Fund 4, 4970 El Camino Real STE 230, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Milestone Financial LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/22/2007. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/William R. Stuart, Managing Member. #201713510539. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659420 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Masalsa Foods, 2928 Patt Ave., San Jose, CA, 95133, Adam Padilla. 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/Adam Padilla. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/03/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659 884 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gochi Japanese Fusion Tapas, 19980 Homestead Rd., Cupertino, CA, 95014, Gochi Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #698473 Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Masahiko Takei, President. #C3340888. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/21/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

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

Marwood Company, 2. Marwood, 333 W. Santa Clara Street, Suite 805, San Jose, CA, 95113, Marwood Assets Management, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Wei Hu (aka Vincent Woo), Manager. #201332410157. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/31/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660175 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Almaden Valley Window Cleaning, 4573 Capitola Ave, San Jose, CA, 95111, William Arthur Koelenbeek, Patrick Koelenbeek. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/30/2013. /s/William Koelenbeek. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/30/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660297 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Colonial Express, 3534 Cedardale Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148, Viet Michael Thanh Huynh. This business is being conducted by a Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Viet Michael Thanh Huynh. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/04/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660214 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bay Area Lifts, 4100 The Wods Dr Apt 313, San Jose, CA, 95136, Ramirez Delgado Javier. This business is being conducted by a Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/10/2019. /s/Javier Ramirez Delgado. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/31/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660273 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Solitaire, 4902 Dickinson Drive, San Jose, CA, 95111, Nin Ka, Chandalis El. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/20189. /s/ Nin Ka. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/04/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV357915 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Maria De Los Angeles Calderon de Vasquez for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: a. Maria De Los Angeles Calderon de Vasquez. aka b. Maria De Los Angeles Calderon. Proposed name: a. Angela Calderon Vasquez, b. Angela Calderon Vasquez. 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: March 24, 2020 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: November 4, 2019 (pub dates: 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660329 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Norseman Adult Residential Facility Inc., 2435 Ridgeglen Way, San Jose, CA, 95133. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/12/2013. Refile in facts from previous filing #654532. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Cicilia Valenzuela, President. #4281654. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/05/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660328 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Paddington Adult Residential Facility Inc., 1236 Paddington Way, San Jose, CA, 95127. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/12/2017. Refile in facts from previous filing #6308752.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Cicilia Valenzuela, President. #4281653. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/05/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660242

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: R. C. Media, 141 Town Terrace #13, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Ryan Matthew Cleek. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/31/2019. /s/Ryan Matthew Cleek. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/01/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660420 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Learn Explore Create Academy, 2937 Lantz Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95124 Nhu An Hua Vo, Priyanka Tyagi, 2935 Newark Way, San Jose, CA, 95124. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Priyanka Tyagi. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/07/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660464 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Spa Therapy, 16820 Jackson Oaks Dr, STE C, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Lam Van Troung, 3903 Ezie St., San Jose, CA, 95111. 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/Lam Van Troung.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659670 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Digital Ventures, 700 Cilker Ct., Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Dyer Industries, 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 on. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Chad Dyer, Chief Executive Officer. #4308418. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/11/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #660358 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Longlife Acupressure Center, 301 Educational Park Dr., San Jose, CA, 95133-1713, Li Hua Sun, Kim Chiu. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 01/22/2014. under file No. 587247. This business was conducted by: a General Partnership: Filed on 11/05/2019. /s/ Kim Ha Chui. (pub dates: 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660357 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: God Healthy Massage, 1590 Berryessa Rd., San Jose, CA, 95133, Kim Ha Chiu, 301 Educational Park Rd., San Jose, CA, 95133.

This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/01/2019. /s/Kim Ha Chiu.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/05/2019. (pub Metro 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660090 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Superstar Animal Care, 1108 Janis Way, San Jose, CA, 95125, Jennifer E Nussbaumer Valencia. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/01/2019. /s/Jennifer Nussbaumer Valencia. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/28/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660499 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Stratuscape, 100 S. Murphy Ave. #200, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Scott Clinton, 1216 Sargent Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/13/2009. Refile in facts from previous filing #526488. /s/Scott Clinton. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/12/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660525 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Nuttin But Wigs, 5147 Cribari Place, San Jose, CA, 95135, G&DS Enterprises, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Gwendolyn Neal Smith, President. #201926810260. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/12/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660526 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mintca, 530 Showers Dr., Mountain View, CA, 94040, Romi Hakmon. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #656986. /s/Romi Hakmon. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/12/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660524 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aiducatenow, 1142 Cameron Place, San Jose, CA, 95129, Mukti For Social Development. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/15/2014. Refile in facts from previous filing #597404. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Samitinjoy Pal, Secretary. #3099988. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/12/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660544 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ju Studio, 999 W Evelyn Ter, Apt 64, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Alexandra Ling Ju. This business is being conducted by a Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/11/2019. /s/ Alexandra Ju. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/13/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/4, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660676 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CSF Accountancy, Suite 203, 2880 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA, 95134, Ching-Chun Chen, 130 Descanso Drive, Apt 248, San Jose, CA, 95134. This business is being conducted by a Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/15/2019. /s/Ching-Chun Chen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/15/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659936 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Home Therapy By Phyllis, 476 Via Sorrento, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Phyllis Brule. This business is being conducted by a Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/01/2019. /s/Phyllis Brule. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/22/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/4, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660465 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Integrum & Network Solutions, 4353 N. 1st St., San Jose, CA, 95134, Integrum Group, 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/ Dae Hyun Lim, CFO. #4523374. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659911 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Pham Builders, 2. Pham Public Works, 3. Pham Constructions, 4.

Pham, 2087 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA, 90806, Pham Builders LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tam S Pham, President. #201722210065. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/21/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV355891

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Tuyet Hong Tran for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Nhien Trang Nguyen. Proposed name: Tina Nhien Tran. 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: February 18, 2020 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: October 1, 2019 (pub dates: 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660746

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Da Nang Coffee Roasters, 2.Da Nang Coffee, 3. Da Nang, 2087 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA, 90806, Da Nang Coffee Roasters LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tam S Pham, President. #201925910158. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/21/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gymboree Play & Music Evergreen, 4075 Evergreen Village Square, #180, San Jose, CA, 95135, Yatati Inc., 5330 Arezzo Drive, San Jose, CA, 95138. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/01/2009. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jigna K Vyas, President. #C3110407. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/19/2019. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660067 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RTH Services, 924 Castlewood Dr., #2, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Robert Christopher Lapointe. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/24/2019. /s/Robert Christopher Lapointe. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/25/2019. (pub Metro 11/20, 11/27, 12/04, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660727 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Karuna Consulting, 2220 Homestead Ct Apt 114, Los Altos, CA, 94024, Jessica Lam. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/02/2019. /s/Jessica Lam. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/18/2019. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660614 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. ACL. Digital.Com, 2. ACL.Digital, 3. ACL.Digital.Net, 2903 Bunker Hill Lane, STE 107, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Calsoft Labs, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Sai Satyam, Secretary. #C3369775. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/14/2019. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660673 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Therevolt, 650 Alamo Ct Apt#13, Mountain View, CA, 94043, BTTHL LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/18/2019.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jason So, Managing Member. #20130210459. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/15/2019. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660637 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Urban Tree Management, Inc., 124 Worcester Loop, Los Gatos, CA, 95030.

This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/26/2002. Refile in facts from previous filing #602076. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Michael P. Young, President. #C3289458.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/15/2019. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #660747 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Gymboree Play And Music Of Sunnyvale, 717 E El Camino Real #1, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, RKJ Enterprises. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 03/30/2016. under file No. 615759. This business was conducted by: a Limited Liability Company: Filed on 11/19/2019. /s/Maneesh Jain, Managing Member. (pub dates: 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV358459

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Nimrit Deol & Vikrum Deol for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Veer Singh Deol. Proposed name: Veer Singh Deol-Gill.

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: April 14, 2020 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: November 15, 2019 (pub dates: 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660745 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gymboree Play & Music Sunnvale, 717 E. El Camino Real, #1, Sunnvale, CA, 94087, Yatati Inc., 5330 Arezzo Drive, San Jose, CA, 95138.

This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/01/2009. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jigna K Vyas, President. #C3110407. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/19/2019. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660578 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Citizen Guitar Company, 21621 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA, 95014, Halo Custom Guitars, 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/Jeffrey Lee, CEO. #C2242578. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/13/2019. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): MANUEL MARQUES CORREIA CASE NUMBER: 19PR187183 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all namesby which the decedent was known): MANUEL MARQUES CORREIAA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): Paola TobiasCounty of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Paola Tobiasbe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to takemany actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interestedpersons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files anobjection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: December 13, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Yourappearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the courtwithin the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code,or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner (name): David S. Lee (SBN 115023)(Address): 2570 W. El Camino Real, Suite 500, Mountain View, CA 94040(Telephone): (650) 390-0943(Pub Dates: 11/27. 12/04, 12/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660858 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Studiocopeland, 2421 Lascar Pl., San Jose, CA, 95124, Kevin Copeland. This business is being conducted by a Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/22/2019. /s/Kevin Copeland. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/22/2019. (pub Metro 11/27, 12/04, 12/11, 12/18/2019)

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By AMY ALKON

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I was feeding my meter the other day, and this guy started chatting me up outside his store and got me to take his number. He seemed sweet, but things quickly got weird when he wanted to come over the next night. I said that didn’t work for me, but I offered to swing by his work and say hi during the day. He responded angrily: “No. I wanna come to your house, but you aren’t ready for it.” I politely explained that I didn’t know him at all and wasn’t into casual sex anymore. If that didn’t work for him, that was totally cool and we could just be friends. He got angry again, saying (bizarrely), “I’m not a negative person” and then “But now you’ll never know how awesome I am!” I was dumbfounded. Why do some guys get so jerky when you turn them down or just want to take things slow?—Baffled Sure, you might miss out on how “awesome” he is. You might also miss out on trying to call 911 with your face while zip-tied to the coffee table.

Of course, we can’t know exactly why the guy went so nasty on you. The easy assumption is that he just wanted sex and went all brat-o when he didn’t get it. However, research on men’s responses to romantic rejection suggests some interesting possibilities, including strong masculine “honor beliefs.” Social psychology doctoral student Evelyn Stratmoen explains, “Masculine honor beliefs dictate that men must respond aggressively to threat or insult in order to create and maintain their desired masculine reputations.”

“Honor beliefs” come out of a “culture of honor.” It rises up in places with weak or nonexistent formal law enforcement. It’s why men of yore fought duels. In modern life, we see it in gangs and especially in prison. Literary scholar Jonathan Gottschall explains in “The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch” that a “culture of honor” is a “culture of reciprocation.”“In a tit for tat fashion, [a man] returns favors and retaliates against slights.” His building a “reputation for payback” protects him physically, socially and even economically, signaling to others not to cross him.

In two studies that Stratmoen and her colleagues ran, they found that as men’s honor beliefs increased—that is, when individual men had more intense honor beliefs—“so did their perceptions that a man's aggressive responses to the woman rejecting his attempt to initiate a relationship with her were ... appropriate.”

The Stratmoen team’s findings suggest that being romantically rejected “is perceived as an insult to the man’s honor,” making him, say, feel insulted and like less of a man and justified in using “aggressive behaviors, possibly in an effort to restore his lost honor.”

Other research by social psychologist Khandis Blake and her colleagues found that men showed heightened aggression following romantic rejection by a “sexualized” woman: a woman wearing revealing, sexy clothing and expressing attitudes that “give an impression of sexiness and availability for sexual encounters.” The researchers grant that “women have varied reasons for selfsexualizing,” like finding it “empowering and enjoyable.” Their motivations may even be “nonsexual in nature.”

However, women with a sexualized look and demeanor activated a sexseeking mindset in men (primed “sexual goals,” as the researchers put it) in a way nonsexualized women did not. This sex goal activation—plus the presumption that a sexualized woman is more interested in having sex—increases the expectancy that romantic interest is reciprocated. Any romantic rejection that follows has a worse bite—“a greater ego threat,” especially in men with shaky self-esteem—triggering aggressive responses.

Now, this is not a call for women to start shopping at Burka Barn or Amishcrombie & Fitch. Wearing a miniskirt (or expressing “liberated” attitudes about sex) does not make you responsible for men’s behavior any more than serving chocolate cake at a party makes you responsible for a guest’s subsequent struggle to fit into their favorite pants.

In short, you did everything right, asserting what works for you in kind and dignity-preserving ways. Though this guy’s party manners fell off faster than a bumper Scotch-taped to a car, other aggro men might be better at hiding their Mr. Scary Side. With those guys, your new “take it slow” approach should serve you well. And with the good guys out there, your not wanting to rush into anything is ultimately a signal: You’re a woman worth having— and for more than relationships that begin at 11 pm and end at 1am.

(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).

PUBLIC NOTICE Office at 200 E. Santa Clara Street; 13th Floor, San Jose, CA. 95113, or from the City’s website at http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/78838. Proof of identity such as a copy of a driver’s license, social security card or passport must be provided before funds will be released.

With any questions, please contact the City of San Jose, Finance Department at (408) 535-7080 or by email at ap_unclaimed@sanjoseca.gov.

This notice and its contents are in accordance with California Government Code Sections 50050-50056.

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BECK,JUSTIN R: Check# 766244 | Issued on 1/15/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $137.67 BLANCO,CARMEN V: Check# 21858 | Issued on 12/3/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $110.92 BORJA,ERICA JANE S: Check# 4411 | Issued on 7/30/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $156.90 BOWDEN,MICHAEL J: Check# 18681 | Issued on 11/19/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $100.58 BOWERS,DAMITRIA: Check# 786414 | Issued on 6/4/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $55.72 BOWERS,DAMITRIA: Check# 7206 | Issued on 8/13/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $200.64 BRANCH,GRACE: Check# 18032 | Issued on 11/5/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $51.73 BREITENSTEIN,MARK E: Check# 30859 | Issued on 2/25/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $24.21 BURNIAS,MARK ALBERT: Check# 698110 | Issued on 11/7/1997 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $99.29 BURTON,RITA G: Check# 698838 | Issued on 11/7/1997 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $247.77 CADITAN,RONALD S: Check# 757958 | Issued on 11/6/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $123.49 CADITAN,RONALD S: Check# 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59189 | Issued on 9/22/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $97.81 DAVIS,DUSTIN C: Check# 745450 | Issued on 8/14/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $125.87 DE LOS SANTOS,RAFAEL H: Check# 29735 | Issued on 2/11/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $185.63 DEAN,ELLEN E: Check# 776329 | Issued on 3/12/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $84.77 DELALTO,CHRISTINA E.: Check# 12972 | Issued on 9/24/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $16.36 DINNEEN,PEGGY J: Check# 23795 | Issued on 12/17/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $201.40 DOAN,ANH T: Check# 740678 | Issued on 7/17/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $32.10 DOAN,MICHEL NHUT: Check# 21338 | Issued on 12/3/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $157.69 DRAKE,JOHN T: Check# 49996 | Issued on 7/28/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $338.92 DUONG,JEANNIE A: Check# 14849 | Issued on 10/8/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $987.93 EDD: Check# 5165455 | Issued on 6/29/2016 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $234.00 EILAND,KRISTI A.: Check# 24123 | Issued on 12/29/1999 from 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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, the Finance Department of the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California, declares that the following monetary sums have been held by the City of San Jose and have remained unclaimed in the funds hereafter indicated for a period of over three (3) years and will become the property of the City of San Jose on the 13th day of January, 2020, a date not less than forty-five (45) days after the first publication of this Notice.

Any party of interest may, prior to the date designated herein above, file a claim with the City’s Finance Department which includes the claimant’s name, address and telephone number, Social Security Number or Federal Employer Identification Number, amount of claim, the grounds on which the claim is founded. The Unclaimed Funds Form can be obtained from the City’s Finance

Office at 200 E. Santa Clara Street; 13th Floor, San Jose, CA. 95113, or from the City’s website at http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/78838. Proof of identity such as a copy of a driver’s license, social security card or passport must be provided before funds will be released.

With any questions, please contact the City of San Jose, Finance Department at (408) 535-7080 or by email at ap_unclaimed@sanjoseca.gov.

This notice and its contents are in accordance with California Government Code Sections 50050-50056.

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HOLGUIN,THOMAS: Check# 15761 | Issued on 10/22/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $1,357.37 HOSSEINZADEH,SAMINEH: Check# 39525 | Issued on 5/5/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $145.09 HUA,CALVIN B.: Check# 47659 | Issued on 6/30/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $89.83 HUYNH,JUDIE: Check# 60389 | Issued on 10/6/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $110.10 HUYNH,TUONG V: Check# 50561 | Issued on 7/28/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $15.88 JACOBS,GERALD S: Check# 748001 | Issued on 8/28/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $805.32 JAMELLO,NANCY P: Check# 774193 | Issued on 2/26/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $60.29 JOHNSON,DONALD J.: Check# 8317 | Issued on 8/27/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $117.84 JONES,DOROTHY J: Check# 748704 | Issued on 9/11/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $16.32 JUAREZ,ARIEL L: Check# 772444 | Issued on 2/12/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $42.51 KOWAL,AARON D: Check# 742825 | Issued on 7/31/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $95.44 KWOK,CLAUDIA: Check# 65917 | Issued 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MONROE,JERMAINE: Check# 55200 | Issued on 8/25/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $330.64 MUNROE,CHRISTEN K: Check# 39002 | Issued on 4/21/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $265.25 NANCE,JAMIE M.: Check# 24276 | Issued on 12/29/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $55.70 NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROG FEMA REVISIONS FEE COLLECT: Check# 5158549 | Issued on 3/4/2016 from SUBDIVISION PARK TRUST FUND | Amount: $8,000.00 NATWICK,MARK P: Check# 48914 | Issued on 7/14/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $898.72 NGUYEN,JOHN H: Check# 729635 | Issued on 5/8/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $18.61 NGUYEN,MAURICE: Check# 724851 | Issued on 4/10/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $196.64 NIEVES,ELENA B: Check# 772555 | Issued on 2/12/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $122.34 O’HALLORAN,MARYBETH: Check# 24290 | Issued on 12/29/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $108.71 ORTIZ,FRANK L: Check# 33406 | Issued on 3/10/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $106.23 PADULA,MICHELLE: Check# 29747 | Issued on 2/11/2000 from 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PUBLIC NOTICE Office at 200 E. Santa Clara Street; 13th Floor, San Jose, CA. 95113, or from the City’s website at http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/78838. Proof of identity such as a copy of a driver’s license, social security card or passport must be provided before funds will be released.

With any questions, please contact the City of San Jose, Finance Department at (408) 535-7080 or by email at ap_unclaimed@sanjoseca.gov.

This notice and its contents are in accordance with California Government Code Sections 50050-50056.

PERALES,JOSEPHINE: Check# 43536 | Issued on 6/2/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $159.25 PERALES,JOSEPHINE: Check# 36856 | Issued on 4/7/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $182.82 PEREZ,SYLVIA: Check# 42627 | Issued on 5/19/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $282.49 PLATA ARROYO NEIGHBORHOOD ASSC: Check# 5170010 | Issued on 9/16/2016 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $225.00 POSNER,CHARLES J: Check# 20711 | Issued on 12/3/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $25.64 POSNER,CHARLES J: Check# 738134 | Issued on 7/2/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $87.83 POSNER,CHARLES J: Check# 735727 | Issued on 6/19/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $166.31 RAMOS,JULIO C: Check# 50611 | Issued on 9/30/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $19.60 REAL,ROSE M: Check# 49104 | Issued on 7/14/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $219.80 REATEGUI,DAVID R: Check# 32117 | Issued on 2/25/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $213.81 REKHI,MOHANBIR: Check# 5173044 | Issued on 11/10/2016 from INTEGRATED WASTE MGMT FUND | Amount: $66.00 ROBERTS,CLARA: Check# 55828 | Issued on 8/25/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $926.52 ROBNETT,STEPHANIE: Check# 23208 | Issued on 12/17/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $57.87 RODRIGUEZ,JEANETTE JUNE: Check# 28857 | Issued on 1/28/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $59.34 ROUSE,BARBARA L.: Check# 20745 | Issued on 12/3/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $40.46 RUBIO,MIGUEL A: Check# 32014 | Issued on 2/25/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $36.78 SALAS,RUDY: Check# 20751 | Issued on 12/3/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $96.86 SAM,SAMBATH K: Check# 757778 | Issued on 11/6/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $367.28 SAN JOSE-OKAYAMA SISTER: Check# 5163993 | Issued on 6/10/2016 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $321.61 SAN JOSE-OKAYAMA SISTER: Check# 5163994 | Issued on 6/10/2016 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $410.00 SAN JOSE-OKAYAMA SISTER: Check# 5163995 | Issued on 6/10/2016 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $1,000.00 SANCHEZ,CYNTHIA M: Check# 22687 | Issued on 12/17/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $91.48 SANTA CLARA TREASURER: Check# 5169918 | Issued on 9/9/2016 from DEPOSITOR FUND | Amount: $250.00 SANTARELLI,ELIZABETH M: Check# 6111 | Issued on 8/9/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $132.24 SCHOTT,WHITNEY M: Check# 744973 | Issued on 8/14/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $56.52 SHACKLEFORD,AMY L: Check# 781299 | Issued on 4/23/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $35.23 SHACKLEFORD,AMY L: Check# 779582 | Issued on 4/9/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $124.68 SILA,FRANK: Check# 786714 | Issued on 6/4/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $145.61 SILA,FRANK: Check# 700650 | Issued on 11/21/1997 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $302.06 SOLIS,ALFREDO L: Check# 749528 | Issued on 9/11/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $111.20 STEWART,ANNE: Check# 706241 | Issued on 12/19/1997 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $78.62 TAN,STANLEY P: Check# 779877 | Issued on 4/9/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $302.54 TONE,JOHN M: Check# 749222 | Issued on 9/11/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $1,749.92 TONEY,BARBARA J.: Check# 52499 | Issued on 8/11/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $278.87 TONEY,BARBARA J.: Check# 63845 | Issued on 11/3/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $282.95 TRAN,FRANK D: Check# 24397 | Issued on 12/29/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $329.69 TRAN,TU ANH: Check# 50638 | Issued on 7/28/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $15.88 TRAVIS,KATRINA C: Check# 733988 | Issued on 6/5/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $39.52 TUTTLE,MICHELE L: Check# 710430 | Issued on 1/9/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $22.22 VALDEZ,HUGO: Check# 764941 | Issued on 12/30/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $23.19 VALDEZ,HUGO: Check# 731647 | Issued on 5/22/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $133.56 VALLEJO,SANTANA R: Check# 53082 | Issued on 8/11/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $81.40 VANDERPRIEM,THOMAS H: Check# 19587 | Issued on 11/19/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $2,096.95 VILLALVAZO,YOLANDA: Check# 4919 | Issued on 7/30/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $268.93 WEST,ANTHONY: Check# 730468 | Issued on 5/22/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $106.73 WILLSON,TEINA R: Check# 43170 | Issued on 6/2/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $40.27 WILLSON,TEINA R: Check# 46611 | Issued on 6/30/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $284.84 WISE,JOHN S: Check# 19126 | Issued on 11/19/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $1,545.65 YOUNG,TANYA C: Check# 726322 | Issued on 4/24/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $106.72 YOUNG,TANYA C: Check# 746271 | Issued on 8/28/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $106.73 YOUNG,TANYA C: Check# 748405 | Issued on 9/11/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $106.73 YOUNG,TANYA C: Check# 27719 | Issued on 1/28/2000 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $107.37 YERRAPRAGADA,CHAYA: Check# 5169981 | Issued on 9/9/2016 from INTEGRATED WASTE MGMT FUND | Amount: $61.68 YOHANNAN, LENNY: Check# 5171667 | Issued on 10/14/2016 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $95.00 YWCA: Check# 5170684 | Issued on 9/30/2016 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $175.00 ZAMARRON,JORGE M: Check# 18371 | Issued on 11/5/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $329.39 ZENG,HUA Q: Check# 23060 | Issued on 12/17/1999 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $1,201.93 ZINN,RONNIE N: Check# 744406 | Issued on 8/14/1998 from GENERAL FUND | Amount: $234.38

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Humans invented

the plow in 4,500 BC, the wheel in 4,000 BC and writing in 3,400 BC. But long before that, by 6,000 BC, they had learned how to brew beer and make psychoactive drugs from plants.

Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel points to this evidence to support his hypothesis that the yearning to transform our normal waking consciousness is a basic drive akin to our need to eat and drink. Of course, there are many ways to accomplish this shift besides alcohol and drugs. They include dancing, singing, praying, drumming, meditating and having sex. What are your favorite modes? According to my astrological analysis, it'll be extra important for you to alter your habitual perceptions and thinking patterns during the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What's something you're afraid of, but pretty confident you could become unafraid of? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to dismantle or dissolve that fear. Your levels of courage will be higher than usual, and your imagination will be unusually ingenious in devising methods and actions to free you of the unnecessary burden. Step one: Formulate an image or scene that symbolizes the dread, and visualize yourself blowing it up with a "bomb" made of a hundred roses.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The word "enantiodromia" refers to a phenomenon that occurs when a vivid form of expression turns into its opposite, often in dramatic fashion. Yang becomes yin; resistance transforms into welcome; loss morphs into gain. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Geminis are the sign of the zodiac that's most likely to experience enantiodromia in the coming weeks. Will it be a good thing or a bad thing? You can have a lot of influence over how that question resolves. For best results, don't fear or demonize contradictions and paradoxes. Love and embrace them.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There are Americans who

speak only one language, English, and yet imagine they are smarter than bilingual immigrants. That fact amazes me, and inspires me to advise me and all my fellow Cancerians to engage in humble reflection about how we judge our fellow humans. Now is a favorable time for us to take inventory of any inclinations we might have to regard ourselves as superior to others; to question why we might imagine others aren't as worthy of love and respect as we are; or to be skeptical of any tendency we might have dismiss and devalue those who don't act and think as we do. I'm not saying we Cancerians are more guilty of these sins than everyone else; I'm merely letting you know that the coming weeks are our special time to make corrections.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Erotic love is one of the

highest forms of contemplation," wrote the sensually wise poet Kenneth Rexroth. That's a provocative and profitable inspiration for you to tap into. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you're in the Season of Lucky Plucky Delight, when brave love can save you from wrong turns and irrelevant ideas; when the grandeur of amour can be your teacher and catalyst. If you have a partner with whom you can conduct these educational experiments, wonderful.

If you don't, be extra sweet and intimate with yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the follow-up story to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, our heroine uses a magic mirror as a portal into a fantastical land. There she encounters the Red Queen, and soon the two of them are holding hands as they run as fast as they can.

Alice notices that despite their great effort, they don't seem to be moving forward. What's happening? The Queen clears up the mystery: In her realm, you must run as hard as possible just to remain in the same spot.

Sound familiar, Virgo? I'm wondering whether you've had a similar experience lately. If so, here's my advice: Stop running. Sit back, relax, and allow the world to zoom by you. Yes, you might temporarily fall behind. But in the meantime, you'll get fully recharged. No more than three weeks from now, you'll be so energized that you'll make up for all the lost time—and more.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Most sane people wish there could be less animosity between groups that have different beliefs and interests. How much better the world would be if everyone felt a generous acceptance toward those who are unlike them. But the problem goes even deeper: Most of us are at odds with ourselves. Here's how author Rebecca West

By ROB BREZSNY week of November 27

described it: Even the different parts of the same person do not often converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other. That's the bad news, Libra. The good news is that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to promote unity and harmony among all the various parts of yourself. I urge you to entice them to enter into earnest conversations with each other.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Cecilia Woloch asks, "How to un-want what the body has wanted, explain how the flesh in its wisdom was wrong?" Did the apparent error occur because of some "some ghost in the mind?" she adds. Was it due to "some blue chemical rushing the blood" or "some demon or god"? I'm sure that you, like most of us, have experienced this mystery. But the good news is that in the coming weeks you will have the power to unwant inappropriate or unhealthy experiences that your body has wanted. Step one: Have a talk with yourself about why the thing your body has wanted isn't in alignment with your highest good.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian composer Ludwig van Beethoven was inclined to get deeply absorbed in his work. Even when he took time to attend to the details of daily necessity, he allowed himself to be spontaneously responsive to compelling musical inspirations that suddenly welled up in him. On more than a few occasions, he lathered his face with the 19th-century equivalent of shaving cream, then got waylaid by a burst of brilliance and forgot to actually shave. His servants found that amusing. I suspect that the coming weeks may be Beethoven-like for you, Sagittarius. I bet you'll be surprised by worthy fascinations and subject to impromptu illuminations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I have a lot of

confidence in your ability to renew and reinvent yourself in the coming months. In fact, I think that doing so will be a fun project you’ll both enjoy and be able to carry out with flair. But right now you may be going through a brief period when your own confidence for this project is low. You might be entertaining doubts about your ability to summon the courage and willpower you’ll need. But I feel this is a temporary dip. I have faith that you will soon be tapping into previously unavailable reserves of energy that will provide you with all the fuel necessary to renew and reinvent yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The only thing we

learn from history is that we never learn anything from history. Philosopher Georg Hegel said that. But I think you will have an excellent chance to disprove this theory in the coming months. I suspect you will be inclined and motivated to study your own past in detail; you'll be skilled at drawing useful lessons from it; and you will apply those lessons with wise panache as you reroute your destiny.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his own time, poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was acclaimed and beloved. At the height of his fame, he earned $3,000 per poem. But modern literary critics think that most of what he created is derivative, sentimental and unworthy of serious appreciation.

In dramatic contrast is poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). Her writing was virtually unknown in her lifetime but is now regarded as among the best ever. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to sort through your own past so as to determine which of your work, like Longfellow's, should be archived as unimportant or irrelevant, and which, like Dickinson's, deserves to be a continuing inspiration as you glide into the future.

Homework: You have the power to re-genius yourself. Guidance: https://tinyurl.com/ ReGeniusYourself Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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DAVID COSTA and JESSICA CARREIRA of San Jose’s acclaimed Portuguese restaurant, Adega, celebrate the opening of their new coffee and confection shop, PASTELARIA ADEGA.

MARITZA RIVERA and ED ATILANO, head to the 49ers-Packers game at Levi’s Stadium.

Pastelaria Adega’s general contractor J.D. STAGER with ASHLEY POURROY at the shop’s grand opening.

LUCIANO and ZELIA COSTA of Gilroy attended the Pastelaria Adega grand opening.

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VTA’s All New Service Starting December 28, 2019 VTA Light Rail Changes

The Frequent Bus Network

Light Rail will now have three distinct lines, which will be color-coded, and the new Orange Line will connect Downtown Mountain View to the Milpitas Transit Center. During weekday peak hours, service will be every 15 minutes and weekend peak hours will be every 20 minutes.

will operate every 15 minutes or better on weekdays between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. and every 15 to 30 minutes on weekends.

Orange Line – Alum Rock to Mountain View l Transfer at Baypointe for the Blue Line l Transfer at Champion, Lick Mill, Great America or Old Ironsides for the Green Line

Blue Line – Santa Teresa to Baypointe Green Line – Winchester to Old Ironsides Other Changes to Light Rail l The light rail segment from Ohlone/Chynoweth to Oakridge will be discontinued and will now be served by Route 64a. l I-880/Milpitas station renamed to Alder Station l Montague Station renamed to Milpitas Station l New Route 60 will serve SJC, Valley Fair/Santana Row, Downtown Campbell and Milpitas Transit Center. l Only passengers boarding from SJC will board Route 60 for free.

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Improved Bus Routes Route 20 Sunnyvale Caltrain Station to Milpitas Transit Center; 15-minute frequency during commute periods and 30-minute frequency in midday.

Route 21 Stanford Shopping Center to Santa Clara Caltrain station; a merger of Routes 32 and 35 into a single route.

Route 51 Moffett Field to West Valley College; hourly service on weekdays.

Route 56 Lockheed Martin Transit Center to Tamien Station; 30-minute service on weekdays and weekends.

Route 59 Old Ironsides Station to Valley Fair Transit Center; 30-minute frequency on weekdays and hourly on weekends.

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