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With tens of thousands of homes in San Jose’s District 2, what are the chances that a candidate stumbles on his competitor’s campaign event while precinct-walking? Whatever the odds, JONATHAN FLEMING says that’s exactly what happened on Nov. 6 while he was out spreading the gospel of his run for office in the south San Jose council district, which spans Santa Teresa, Coyote Valley and Monterey Road.

Fleming, a self-described fiscal conservative who’s challenging D2 Councilman SERGIO JIMENEZ’s re-election bid in the March 2020 primary, says he encountered multiple residents who tipped him off about his rival’s campaign soiree taking place at a nearby house.

The ex-neighborhood commissioner continued making his rounds as the sun set and—surprise, surprise!—stumbled upon the rumored shindig.

The host who opened the door initially insisted that Fleming come on in. But MARIBEL VILLAREAL— Jimenez’s campaign manager—intercepted, suggesting that it Don’t would probably be best forget if Fleming came back to tip! some other time.

FLY@ “I was laughing METRONEWS. pretty hard when I COM left,” Fleming told Fly, “especially since I had no clue the event was even happening that night. It was just one of those random time, random place events and it was just pretty funny.”

Fleming added that he completely understood why Jimenez’s cohorts didn’t want him to crash their party. As for Jimenez? He’s not so sure that Fleming’s timing was a mere coincidence.

“It was dark out, and I know I’ve knocked on thousands of doors and you rarely go out at night,” Jimenez told Fly. “So he was knocking on doors at night at the exact house.”

Curious.

“I think he’s a little silly,” the D2 councilor said, “and actively trying to just create a little dysfunction.”

YOU’VE BEEN SERVED Undersheriff Rick Sung was the latest Santa Clara County Sheriff’s official targeted by DA Jeff Rosen as part of an ongoing corruption probe.

DA Serves Search Warrant on Sheriff’s Second-in-Command BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH The Santa Clara County District Attorney served yet another search warrant on a high-ranking law enforcement official as part of a months-long investigation into whether Sheriff Laurie Smith’s top brass engaged in a pay-to-play scheme for concealed gun permits.

Sources familiar with the situation confirmed that DA investigators on Nov. 7 descended upon Undersheriff Rick Sung’s office and took his computer and other electronics. The Mercury News first reported the seizure, which reportedly came at the behest of the DA’s Public Integrity Unit.

John Chase, the deputy DA in charge of the unit, declined to comment on the matter. DA

spokesman Sean Webby said his office can only offer the following: “We are not going to comment on the specifics of our investigation except to thank the many witnesses who have been willing to talk to us and provide evidence voluntarily.”

Metro broke the news of the investigation in early August, when the DA’s search warrants were served on Capt. James Jensen and at least a couple other members of Sheriff Smith’s senior staff.

The inquiry was sparked by a $45,000 donation from executive protection manager Martin Nielsen to a pro-Smith political action committee. A few months after the gift, the sheriff granted Nielsen

and a handful of colleagues at his firm—AS Solution, which counts Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg among its clients— permission to secretly carry guns.

Whether Nielsen gifted the money to the Santa Clara County Public Safety Alliance with an assurance of any quid pro quo from sheriff ’s officials remains unclear.

San Jose Inside has previously reported that someone deposited $70,000 into Nielsen’s account shortly before he issued the $45,000 check, which suggests a laundered contribution, illegal under state campaign laws.

Neither Smith nor Sung returned requests for comment.

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Penalties & Interest waived on past due Business Tax FATAL ENCOUNTER Five people shot at the Gilroy Garlic Festival earlier this year blamed lax security for the incident.

Gilroy Victims Sue Festival Over Shooting BY BARRY HOLTZCLAW A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleges that negligent security allowed a heavily armed gunman to enter the Gilroy Garlic Festival on July 28, killing three people and injuring at least 14 others.

The lawsuit against the Gilroy Garlic Festival Association, various security companies and other unnamed defendants was filed by the Scarlett Law Group of San Francisco on behalf of five victims who suffered multiple life-threatening gunshot wounds. More plaintiffs could join the suit, said lawyer Randall H. Scarlett, who said it was too soon to identify a dollar amount for a damage claim.

The festival association doesn’t have very deep pockets: Its Internal Revenue Service Form 990 listed $868,216 in net assets for 2018, down from $1,282,191 in net assets for 2017.

Scarlett said medical bills for just two of the plaintiffs have already totaled more than $2 million each, with treatment continuing.

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association, a Gilroy-based nonprofit, could have done numerous things to make the festival safer, including maintaining a secure perimeter, monitoring that perimeter and other vulnerable areas with trained guards and properly staffing security personnel.

“Reasonable steps could have avoided this completely,” Scarlett told a crowded press conference while announcing the suit earlier this week.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit do not at this point include the families of the three people killed by the gunman: Stephen Romero, Keyla Salazar and Trevor Irby.

The Garlic Festival Association later Tuesday released the following statement: “The lawsuit filed today stemming from a horrific act of domestic terrorism, is not unexpected, and we will respond through the appropriate legal channels. As a nonprofit organization, we must remain focused on our mission: fundraising for the entire community of Gilroy and the more than 150 charities that rely on us.”

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FIELDING QUESTIONS Former sprinter Bob Poynter recalls San Jose State’s successful track program in the ’50s in a conversation with sports historian Urla Hill at SJMA.

Speed City San Jose State University track stars couldn’t outrun racism in the 1950s

BY GARY SINGH

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EAVE IT TO the San Jose Museum of Art to trigger forgotten sports history.

Turns out, the San Jose of 60 years ago was much more happening that most people realize.

Last week a conversation for the museum’s lunchtime lecture series, “Black Athletes and the Speed City Era at San Jose State College,”

featured local sports historian Urla Hill and sprinter Bob Poynter discussing the renowned track program led by Bud Winter, in particular the late ’50s. Speed City: From Civil Rights to Black Power, an exhibit Hill originally curated at History San Jose in 2007, is currently on display at the museum.

Bud Winter’s program vaulted San Jose State to worldwide stardom and eventually led to Tommie

Smith and John Carlos coming here. This much is well known. But since Smith and Carlos have rightly received an overwhelming amount of attention, it was glorious to see Poynter illuminate everything that happened before those two showed up, including what San Jose life was like for African-American athletes in the still-segregated ’50s—a slice of local sports history that never gets mentioned. For example, the athletes weren’t even allowed to rent an apartment when they arrived. This led to the famous “Good Brothers House” at Fifth and St. John where many African-American athletes wound up rooming together.

Chuck Alexander, who started the house in 1955, even joined Poynter and Hill on stage to share stories.

The discussion revealed just how much African-Americans have accomplished as well as how much work still remains to be done.

Of course, sitting there in the mostly vanilla crowd of museum members, I could not help but obsess over another San Jose State runner from that era: Bombay, India, native Maryleela Rao, whose story has likewise been forgotten.

So with all massive respect for the accomplishments of Poynter et al, it is Rao’s story to which I will now turn.

Rao was one of the first female Olympic athletes from India when she competed in the 1956 Melbourne Games at age 16. She also competed in the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo.

Maryleela’s father was M.K. Rao, a University of Kansas track star who, after returning home to Bombay, raised his daughter to follow in his path. According to an old Spartan Daily article, Winter actually visited the elder Rao in Bombay and was then convinced to bring Maryleela to San Jose State College, as it was then called. After Rao arrived and acclimated to campus life, that same Spartan Daily story described her as feeling “equally at home in her track shorts and multi-colored saree.

Though a proven powerhouse of energy, she is charming and extremely feminine.”

A March 16, 1959, issue of Sports Illustrated likewise featured Rao, adding, “Maryleela gets up at 5:30am, studies the maximum allowable number of courses, has taken up golf in addition to track and fallen in love with San Francisco.”

According to the 1960 San Jose State yearbook, Rao was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, which also led to her affiliation with a select society, the Black Masques. At the end of their junior year, a dozen women were annually selected to become Black Masque members during their upcoming senior year. The women were chosen for high academic achievement and outstanding leadership in all facets of campus life.

They even wore black gowns and black eye masks at all public events.

And during her senior year of 196061, Rao apparently finished a degree in—drum roll, please—journalism, and was also vice president of Theta Sigma Phi, a national professional honorary fraternity for women in journalism. As described in the 1961 yearbook, “Members, selected on the basis of their scholastic ability and their interest in journalism, hold varied meetings and teas.”

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Vision Test The city’s quest to make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists continues, but things are only getting worse

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH AND GRACE HASE

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OT A DAY GOES by when Brandon Alvarado doesn’t encounter something or someone blocking downtown San Jose’s new protected bike lanes. Trash bins. Idling Uber and Lyft drivers. Package courier vehicles. Moving vans. Linen and beverage delivery trucks. Bird, Lime and Jump scooters. VTA buses.

Even police cruisers.

Just weeks ago, a motorist almost started a fight after the bicycle mechanic snapped photos of a car impeding a bikeway by the Adobe tower off of San Fernando Street. All too often, Alvarado says, drivers get verbally or physically threatening when he politely informs them of his right to a clear bike route.

For Kelly Snider, a land use consultant and lecturer at San Jose State University, the barriers installed along 20 miles in and around the city’s central district have brought some relief. But she, too, has seen more

than her fair share of tense exchanges with scofflaw motorists. “I will go up to the driver’s side if there’s someone in the car and I’ll knock on their window and say, ‘You can’t be here, you’re illegally stopped here,’” she says.

“I get yelled at all the time for being perfectly legal in the bike lane.”

That’s after San Jose painted its bikeways bright green and buffered them with matching plastic posts, new lane striping and signage and parking moved from curb to mid-street to clear the path for cyclists. While only 1 percent of trips in San Jose are made

by bike, the city aims to boost that rate 15-fold by 2040 as part of an ambitious effort to reduce its carbon footprint.

Yet a vocal coalition of bike advocates say that will never happen until the city figures out a better way to protect cyclists than flimsy plastic bollards, which—combined with orange plastic barricades, detours and blocked lanes from a crop of new construction—have forced people behind the wheel to navigate a baffling new landscape.

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RIDE OR DIE National traffic data ranks San Jose as the thirdmost dangerous city for bicyclists, despite the city’s long-fought effort to reduce the number of car-cyclist collisions.

fearful of the road,” says Alvarado, who chairs San Jose’s Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee. “If we don’t do something to make them feel safer, then how are we going to meet our ridership goals?”

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ranks San Jose as the third most perilous city to bike in America in terms of cycling fatalities and injuries. And while the Capital of Silicon Valley bills itself as one of the nation’s safest big cities, it’s growing more treacherous for people

walking, biking and scooting along its sprawling tessellation of roads.

San Jose’s traffic fatality rate hovers at around triple the national average and remains on an upward trajectory that saw car-related deaths rise by 37 percent in the past decade though the population grew less than 10 percent.

Statistics for critical traffic injuries are equally jarring. In 2018, the number of people severely hurt by cars reached 195—the highest number in the past five years. The city’s death toll of pedestrians and motorists peaked at 60 fatalities in 2015—the same year San Jose joined the

global Vision Zero campaign, vowing to eliminate traffic through cyclist-andpedestrian-friendly street design, public education and stronger enforcement.

San Jose took the Vision Zero pledge with all the fanfare of a coronation, boasting about becoming the nation’s fourth municipality to formally sign on to the international traffic safety campaign. The unanimous 2015 City Council vote came 18 years after Sweden’s parliament endorsed the principle that “it can never be ethically acceptable that people are killed or seriously injured when moving within

the road transport system” and resolved to end traffic fatalities by 2020. The initiative promoted the notion of shared responsibility between road designers and motorists to improve safety with slower automobile speeds and by physically dividing vehicle traffic from pedestrian zones and bicycle lanes.

Sweden’s traffic fatalities fell from 471 in 2007 to 253 in 2017 and Europe generally saw a 40 percent drop, along with a more than 20 percent decline in deadly bicycle crashes during the same period. The local trend has been less encouraging.

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GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Gina LaBlanc began advocating for safer streets after losing her 18-year-old son, Kyle, in a 2016 traffic fatality at a dangerously unlit stretch of Curtner Avenue.

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San Jose’s vehicle deaths now outpace homicides most years, an unusual lethality evidenced in white cross shrines surrounded by prayer candles and flowers along busy thoroughfares and crowdfunding campaigns to bury loved ones or foot medical bills for survivors. A murder rate as sharply ascendant might prompt widespread outcry.

Other than occasional warnings from law enforcement for drivers to pay attention and pedestrians to look both ways before crossing, however, the city’s roadway deaths are met largely with inaction.

Five years have passed, and despite the new lanes and grand plans, San Jose has made little progress toward its Vision Zero goal. Clearly, it will take more than green paint, plastic cylinders and positive affirmations to protect lives from fast-moving metal.

“Protected bikeways are a start,” Alvarado says. “But they’re not enough.”

Zero Sum When Jesse Mintz-Roth left New

York City to head San Jose’s Department of Transportation’s Vision Zero efforts, the initiative had run up against decades of ingrained practice. After generations of optimizing San Jose’s 180 square miles for cars, reimagining the cityscape for walkers and cyclists proved daunting and costly.

The city’s elected leaders asked the transportation agency to estimate how much money it would need to make meaningful progress on Vision Zero. The numbers that came back were staggering.

According to San Jose Transportation Director John Ristow, completely overhauling 56 miles of the city’s most dangerous streets could cost $560 million. If San Jose took things a step further and re-engineered an additional 330 miles of major roadways, it would draw $3 billion from the city’s already strained capital budget.

Better Bikeways SJ—the San Jose-specific plan by which the city aims to achieve its Vision Zero goals—brought buffered bike lanes downtown and offered a workaround

Rocky Road What’s fueling the rise in traffic deaths and injuries is up for some debate.

After nearly four decades as a personal injury lawyer, Michael Kelly says he’s fairly certain distracted driving is pushing up the vehicular death toll to record heights. It’s not just talking on the phone, he clarifies—simply having a handset in the car dangerously divides the driver’s attention.

“I actually think somebody ought to think about a complete bar on being on your phone while driving,” says Kelly, of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Shoenberger. “There is a belief that if you’re not holding your phone, you’re not being distracted. But then why are these deaths so high? We’ve electrified intersections, we’ve painted bright stripes on the roads, we’ve built these barriers, we’ve put in lights—so what the eff is happening? I don’t think it’s about visibility. I think it’s about inattention.”

Public safety officials put some of the blame on an uptick in SUVs, whose size makes them safer for the people inside but deadlier to pedestrians. The San Jose Police Department says it’s a dearth of enforcement. During the Great Recession and ensuing battles over unfunded pension liabilities, the number of traffic cops in San Jose

dwindled from a couple dozen to barely a handful, a staffing level that held steady until this fall when Chief Eddie Garcia finally brought the Traffic Enforcement Unit up to 12.

California Walks—a non-profit that advocates for pedestrian-safe cityscapes—and its local chapter contend that the problem lies with poorly designed streets. “We need to invest in infrastructure,” says Nikita Sinha, manager of the Walk San Jose program. “Ultimately, if you want to see people driving slower ... you need the infrastructure to support that behavior. It’s going to come down to how our city physically looks.”

Of the 17 major streets deemed deadliest by San Jose’s DOT, most comprise multi-lane corridors with long distances between traffic signals that allow drivers to pick up velocity and posted speed limits of more than 40mph. Other risk factors, according to San Jose Walks: a lack of sidewalks, signage, bike lanes and crosswalks. Forty-three percent of San Jose’s traffic deaths and nearly a third of serious injuries happen in those 17 roadways, dubbed by DOT as “priority safety corridors,” which span a combined 70 miles.

Law enforcement data show that, by far, the most destructive prevailing factor behind the collisions is speed. The victims are disproportionately Latino and Vietnamese and skew middle-aged to elderly. The deaths of 56-year-old William Povio and 91-year-old Gerald Williams each offer a case in point. On Oct. 23, a silver Lexus plowed into Povio as he walked near First and Virginia streets in broad daylight. Just days later, a Toyota RAV4 struck Williams as he rode his bicycle left toward Capewood Drive. Both died in hospitals earlier this month, bringing the year-to-date tally of San Jose traffic deaths to 43.

The deadliest intersections tend to lie in San Jose’s downtown and East Side, where they’re concentrated in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Between 2014 and 2018, Councilwoman Maya Esparza’s District 7, which ecompasses TullySantee and Seven Trees, saw 52 traffic fatalities—the highest rate in the city. During the same timeframe, Councilman Raul Peralez’s District 3, which spans downtown, counted the

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to the fiscal constraints. Instead of using more permanent materials like concrete for protected bike paths, the city opted for cheaper plastic posts and paint as part of what it calls a “quick-build” strategy, which it wants to expand throughout the city.

Mintz-Roth says he worked on similar projects at his last job as a transportation planner in the Big Apple, where he also fielded misgivings from the public at the initial rollout. “Some people feel like it might be more dangerous,” he says, “but in practice I think that sort of double-take where you have to think to yourself, ‘How do I use this street?’ … slows people down.”

But Alvarado says the city needs to bolster public outreach to drivers before bringing its quick-build bike lanes to the rest of the city. “They say people have to learn to use it,” he says, “but my fear is that they build it so fast that they build more conflicts between cyclists and cars.

I don’t know. I’m just not convinced yet.”

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second highest number of deaths at 34 and the most crashes at 5,544.

Despite demographic and geographic disparities in traffic fatalities, however, the city allocates $200,000 in traffic calming funds to each council district.

Peralez says the city should use an evidence-based approach to budgeting for pedestrian safety by giving more money to the highest-need areas. “The way that we currently do things is not equitable,” he tells Metro, “and I don’t think that’s fair for the communities out there potentially suffering more than others.”

‘One of the biggest reasons people don’t ride their bikes is because they’re fearful of the road. If we don’t do something to make them feel safer, then how are we going to meet our ridership goals?’

—BRANDON ALVARADO, San Jose Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee

The costs to realize Vision Zero may seem insurmountable, but the price of inaction is greater.

According to the NHTSA, car crashes in the US cost more than $870 billion a year in lost productivity, medical and legal bills and related societal and economic impacts. While driver deaths have declined as vehicles become safer for the people inside them, they’ve become more lethal for anyone in their path, turning 2018 into the deadliest year for cyclists and pedestrians since 1990.

Dark Moment Kyle LaBlanc had no desire to ever get behind the wheel of a car. A stickler for the rules of the road and every other sphere of life, it annoyed him to no end to see so many reckless drivers. The honking, the speeding, the unpredictability of the roadways felt like chaos to his extraordinarily perceptive mind.

Public transit, on the other hand, with its schedules and fixed routes, appealed to his sense of order. Throughout high school, the San Jose teen confidently navigated the South Bay’s plexus of trains, light rail and bus lines. He appreciated the interconnections that brought him from one point to another as he appreciated the reticulations of computer networks and electrical circuits, which he learned to build at the age of 5 with his grandfather.

For as long as anyone in his family remembered, the boy loved using technology to devise new inventions.

At 17, he created his own software cloud with a dozen computers he built from scratch. His parents and little brother could tell when he powered them all up at once because the lights would dim in the LaBlanc home. “He would have been an excellent IT person,” says his mother, Gina LaBlanc. “He was my IT person. He really loved helping everybody fix their computers. He could bring a dead iPhone to life.”

Just three weeks after Kyle’s 18th birthday and about eight months before he planned to start computer networking classes at Monterey Peninsula College, a mass of steel and glass came hurtling toward him and cut that future short.

It took multiple months and lawsuits for Kyle’s parents, Gina and Steve, to piece together the events preceding the crash that killed their son on Jan. 25, 2016. They learned that Kyle walked westbound on a dirt path beneath the Highway 87 overpass by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority station at Curtner Avenue, which has confusing crosswalks and no signs to steer pedestrians to a safer route. Recent rain muddied the path and Kyle—in brand-new basketball shoes—stepped off the curb and into the bike lane. With the lights out under the freeway, a waning moon offered the only illumination.

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Shortly past midnight, a Tri-City Recovery Dodge Ram tow truck drove under the same overpass, where he merged slightly into the bike lane and struck Kyle at about 45 mph.

Paramedics rushed the boy to Valley Medical Center’s intensive care unit, where trauma surgeons undertook a valiant effort to mend his mangled body. Kyle’s parents showed up in time to take one final look into his eyes. “I felt like he was waiting for me to get there,” Gina says. “Then his eyelids started to fall.”

He died minutes later at 3am.

A day later, the city dispatched a public works crew to install new lights below the freeway. Other than that, nothing’s changed. At least two other pedestrians lost their lives in the same way in the same spot just months before and after the trucker killed Kyle.

“It’s a pedestrian trap,” Gina says, “and nothing’s been done to fix it.”

Change Makers There are plenty of ways to curb vehicle deaths. But overhauling streets to slow traffic and get people out of their cars doesn’t exactly score a lot of political points. Just look at the backlash against the “road diet” on San Jose’s Lincoln Avenue a few years back, or more recent efforts in Los Gatos, where the southbound

lane of North Santa Cruz Avenue was turned into a one-way street.

Budgets restrict safety efforts at the local and state level, where highway widening and major public transit projects eat up most of the funding.

Police departments say they’re stretched thin, and privacy concerns prevent many locales from installing cameras to enforce speed limits.

Diane Solomon, a local author and activist who bikes along many of those problem corridors, agrees with Walk San Jose’s stance that the city needs to reconfigure the streets and invest in more traffic signals, brighter paint, bigger signs, new lighting and trafficslowing measures like speed bumps.

“This will be expensive and unpopular,” she says, “but it will save lives.”

After years of complacency, at least the city is finally ramping up those kinds of projects. On Nov. 4, Mintz-Roth went before the city’s Transportation and Environment Committee to present the latest sobering statistics on “KSI collisions”—bureaucratic shorthand for crashes in which a vehicle “killed or seriously injured” someone. He called for more funding for data analytics and road redesigns and asked the city to form a multi-agency task force to double down on the Vision Zero pledge.

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THEY SEE ME ROLLIN’ San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo’s cycling crash in 2018 inspired bike mechanic and activist Brandon Alvarado (right) to organize tribute rides for fallen cylists.

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Kirsten Smith, whose dad died by a hit-and-run earlier this year, applauds the proposals but also asks what took the city so long. “Hearing that for six years you’ve seen a trend in KSIs go up … how did we let that go?” she asked at a recent public meeting. “How did no one see that for six years?”

Losing her father, Bob Lavin, robbed her of the safety she felt all her life in San Jose, she said.

Multiple traffic deaths have occurred around the same Curtner Avenue corridor where police say 35-yearold Anthony Trusso, on June 28, rammed his car into Lavin during one of his daily bike rides. But a continued lack of enforcement and a dearth of cameras render it just as unsafe as the day he died, she added.

“With all due respect, my dad is

not a KSI,” Smith said, addressing the city’s transportation staff. “His name is Bob Lavin. … So, I know you need your lingo, but he’s a person.”

Minutes later, Gina LaBlanc—who wore a pin on her sweater with a picture of her smiling son in a Captain America T-shirt—stepped up to echo Smith’s condemnation.

“I am shocked that a dangerous situation is allowed to continue and no changes have been made, as though my son’s death and life didn’t matter,” she said, holding up a blown-up version of the same photo. “This is my son, not just a data point.”

SUNDAY MARCH A self-described “cycling geek,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has long backed policies to make the city

17 sponsored the Hawaiian-themed event, while Liccardo and council members Dev Davis and Pam Foley spoke and Johnny Khamis came to watch. The mobile tribute ended at the Lavin home, where 50 or so of the remaining attendees formed a circle, held hands and joined in a traditional Hawaiian prayer. Lavin’s widow said the gathering made her feel at peace about going to her husband’s funeral the next day.

‘We’ve electrified intersections, we’ve painted bright stripes on the roads, we’ve built these barriers, we’ve put in lights—so what the eff is happening? I don’t think it’s about visibility. I think it’s about inattention.’

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“We can’t bring back their loved ones,” Alvarado says. “But we do want to bring these families into the conversation and let them know that we’re here for them.”

On Sunday, Alvarado will join Walk San Jose and SF Bay Area Families for Safe Streets in a memorial march for people killed and injured by cars. The solemn procession will start at 1:30pm at St. James Park and wend its way to City Hall, where friends and relatives of victims will have a chance to share stories of a kind of loss that’s widely accepted as an inevitability of modern life.

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more bike-friendly. As downtown councilman a decade ago, he helped create the city’s Bike Plan 2020, which envisioned a 500mile bikeway network and called for halving the number of car-bike collisions by 2020. This year, he became a data point.

When Liccardo barreled into an SUV crossing a Northeast San Jose intersection on New Year’s Day, the cycling community nationwide took note. Public safety issues in poor and underserved areas with large immigrant populations are historically ignored, but suburban streets that aren’t even safe for a cycling-enthusiast mayor made national headlines.

Liccardo fractured his sternum and two vertebrae in the collision, which left him wearing a brace for months.

Shiloh Ballard, head of the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, rode past the scene of the crash—at Salt Lake Drive and Mabury Road—to assess whether improved visibility might have prevented the accident.

Alvarado also seized on the moment as a chance to raise awareness about the dangerous state of the city’s roads. “I wrote him a card that had a bunch of bikes on it and hand-delivered it to his office,” he recalls. “It said, basically, that I hope you recover, I’m sorry to hear what happened and that I want to meet you to talk about what I could do individually to make things better.”

Liccardo took him up on the offer, granting a face-to-face klatch where Alvarado shared his idea of bringing a Ride of Silence—a nationwide ride to commemorate victims of traffic collisions—to San Jose.

Alvarado’s first Ride of Silence took place on a rainy mid-May evening in downtown San Jose and drew a few dozen participants. But what he initially planned as an annual event took on a life of its own. In the weeks after Bobby Lavin’s death, the man’s family asked Alvarado for help putting together a celebration-oflife ride. “I jumped on it,” Alvarado says. “I’d already made a personal commitment that when somebody does have a fatality, we can have this format for a ride ready to go.”

Lavin’s surviving relatives picked a date in early August, a day before the funeral. Councilman Sergio Jimenez

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PHO & DOUGH VIET’S CORNER has taken over the former home of Top This! Pizza in Los Gatos.

The restaurant serves the usual smattering of egg and spring rolls, bánh mì, pho and vermicelli bowls, but in a twist, they’ve kept the pizza oven and continue the Top This! tradition of serving build-your-own pizzas. Unfortunately, they don’t have any Vietnamese-inspired toppings such as a barbecue pork or tamarind beef. Food for thought...

OUTSIDE SIPPIN’ After a few construction and permitting delays, CIDER JUNCTION has finally opened its pup-friendly patio.

Sure, it’s late in the year, but this is the South Bay—home to great weather year-round. Plus, they do have outdoor heating for cooler evenings.

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POTENT PLATTER A sampler plate of red beet labneh, hummus and baba ganoush at Meso.

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ANTANA ROW IS now home to what could become the new standard in upscale Mediterranean cuisine in Silicon Valley.

Headed by chef and restaurateur Roland Passot, whose other “babies” include La Folie and LB Steak, MESO MODERN MEDITERRANEAN is now open on the southwest end of the tony shopping center, near the CinéArts.

To run his newest venture, Passot has recruited two alumni of the vaunted three-Michelin-starred French Laundry: Chef de Cuisine Gregory Short and Pastry Chef Eva Wong.

The seasonal menu pulls flavors from all over the Mediterrnean region, taking inspiration primarily from Middle Eastern, Italian and Greek cuisine.

At a recent Meso-hosted open house for members of the media, I was particularly impressed with

the red beet labneh (soft cheese).

Its earthy and sweet flavor, and the accompanying house-made pita bread made for a delicious pairing. For the mains, their take on the classic Italian branzino was stupendous, with fabulously crunchy skin, moist flesh and an accompanying fiery zhoug (cilantro sauce). A side of saffron pilaf helped round out the dish.

For dessert, the deconstructed baklava—called “pear and medjool dates”—is everything a dessert should be: sweet, crunchy and savory with a side of house cinnamon ice cream.

They also have a curated but very stout list of handcrafted cocktails.

Sipping on the “Mezcal + Melon” felt like drinking a spicy, sweet jalapeño but without the nasty afterburn.

Meso is still in a soft-opening stage, with their grand opening slated for sometime in December.

Speaking of construction and permitting delays, LUNA MEXICAN KITCHEN’S new Pruneyard location is finally up and running. Formerly the home of El Burro, the space has been totally reimagined, with two bars (one inside and one outside), a giant dog-friendly patio, beautiful brick interior and the same great menu that has won them two consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand awards. Be sure to check out some of the new items they’ve added, including the coliflor frito (fried cauliflower) with a serrano lime crema, lamb barbacoa and new drinks, like their take on a enamorada (tequila sunrise).

BYE BYE BBQ The beloved Korean barbecue and hotpot hotspot CJ HOUSE KOREAN BBQ has closed shop after nearly five years of business. Diners used to rave about their very reasonably priced ($24) AYCE option that included a laundry list of Korean goodness, like short ribs, brisket, shrimp and tofu soup.

But it’s not all bad news. They didn’t close due to lack of business; they’ve simply sold the business. Word around town is that it will soon be a Japanese grill that is tentatively named SHIMOFURI JAPANESE BBQ. That venture is slated to open sometime this winter.

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Wed, 7:30 pm, $44+ Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga It seemed unlikely to the members of the California and Montreal guitar trios that the two groups would play well together. Not only are the trios from opposite coasts of different North American countries, but the Montreal Guitar Trio uses nylon strings while the California Guitar Trio uses steel.

That unlikely combination has been touring as a sextet for 10 years now.

The dual trio just released its first CD, “In a Landscape,” and will perform in support of same. Audiences who come to the sextet’s performance at Montalvo’s Carriage House Theatre will get to hear each trio separately as well, as both groups have their own sets during concerts. (MS)

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A household name on the global dubstep circuit, American DJ and producer Slushii is known for combining cheery vocal hooks, pulsating synths, rapid-fire trap beats and powerful bass drops into a sugary electronic slurry.

The Los Angeles-based Mad Decent affiliate has kept quite busy since dropping his debut EP, Brain Freeze, in 2016. He has two additional EPs and is about to release his third LP, Dream II, later this week. Back in April, he headlined the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, so catching him in the intimate Pure Nightclub should be a sweet treat for fans. (KN)

The Last Gang, Sharp/Shock, GET DEAD, Good Riddance. No, this isn’t a collection of morbid short stories. It’s a punk show. After forming in the ’90s, breaking up in 2007 and getting back together in 2012, Santa Cruz’s Good Riddance ends their Thoughts and Prayers tour in San Jose this week. The band brings a rowdy bunch of punks with them, including San Francisco fivesome GET DEAD, LA dudes Sharp/Shock, and OC trio The Last Gang. So break out those bowling shirts, spike that bleached hair and be sure to stretch out before you hit the pit. (CJP)

It’s been more than a decade since Doug Benson’s explosive documentary Super High Me first revealed the connection between marijuana and comedy, paving the way for sweeping criminal justice reform and more enlightened drug policy at the national level. Or maybe that’s not what happened; the edibles just kicked in. Anyway, Doug’s a cinephile and a talented facilitator of group discussion, two traits expertly deployed in his role as host of the popular podcast Doug Loves Movies, where Benson plays filmfocused trivia games with guest comedians, and improvisational hilarity ensues. Showtime is 4:20, and audience participation is highly encouraged. (CA)

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STREET FIGHTER TOURNAMENT Sat, 2pm, $10 LVL Up, Campbell Whether you prefer the groundbreaking gameplay and anime-inspired graphics of Super Street Fighter II Turbo or the throbbing techno and motioncapture ultraviolence of Mortal Kombat, everyone’s a winner at this classic fighting game tournament. The South Bay’s first barcade, LVL Up serves up craft cocktails to adults and bar food favorites with a twist of California cuisine to patrons of all ages, so bring the whole family down to cheer you on. Tournament entry is $10, and the prize pool is determined by the number of entrants, so spread the word! (CA)

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DAMN THE TORPEDOES Nov 21 at Montalvo Carriage House

AGENT ORANGE Nov 22 at The Ritz

KEVIN GATES Nov 24 at The Catalyst

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 26 at SAP Center

EARTHLESS Dec 3 at The Ritz

POPTOPIA Dec 5 at SAP Center

NOT SO SILENT NIGHT Dec 7 at SAP Center

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE Dec 11-12 at San Jose Civic

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 21 at The Ritz

2 TOWNS TAP TAKEOVER Sat, Noon, Free The Cider Junction, San José House cider rules! The 2 Towns Ciderhouse is taking over the Cider House Junction this Saturday.

Featuring seasonal ciders and pouring until 9pm, the event is sure to provide a pleasant buzz to those who enjoy a little bit of the happy apple juice. Established in 2010 in Corvallis, Oregon, these cider makers have been pressing fruit since way before the craft cider scene took off in the U.S. A family owned company, 2 Towns continues its dedication to high quality, artisan ciders. With seven flagship ciders and a handful of seasonal offerings, there should be plenty of variety for local cider lovers. (CJP)

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Opera San Jose is kicking off the holiday season with a production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s family-friendly opera. Kids ages 6 and older who attend will not only enjoy a fully produced opera, they’ll also receive a small gift upon entrance, intermission treats, and opportunities to interact with costumed characters and be photographed in fairy tale settings in the lobby. Parents who may be overwhelmed by the Candyland sets can take refuge in Humperdinck’s Wagner-inspired score, and maybe some sparkling wine. Performances run through Dec. 1. (MS)

Naturally, South Bay denizens love sharks, but they might want to make an exception for Rosita (Romina Bentancur), the main character in the Uruguayan film Los Tiburones. She’s a sullen 14-ish girl at a faraway southern beach closed by shark activity, and she shares a shark’s ruthlessness and voraciousness: As director Lucia Garibaldi told the Hollywood Reporter, “some call her a psychopath, but I like her.” Winner of the World Cinema Directing Award at this year’s Sundance, Los Tiburones is the first in a series of Latin American films that will be screened at 3Below under the auspices of MACLA and the Cinema Club Silicon Valley. (RvB)

Mon, 7pm, $27+ Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and reel. A series of climbing films are coming to Mountain View to keep all you Silicon Valley senders stoked, even as the days get shorter, colder and (presumably… eventually) wetter.

The event will feature three short documentaries: The High Road, about bouldering boundarypusher Nina Williams, United States of Joe’s about climbers colliding with conservative Utah natives, and The Nose Speed Record, wherein Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell attempt to take their title back from Jim Reynolds and Brad Gobright. (CJP)

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

THE PIANO GUYS Jan 24 at San Jose Civic

STRATA Jan 25 at The Ritz

RHIANNON GIDDENS Feb 7 at Bing Concert Hall

FLOR DE TOLOACHE Mar 1 at The Ritz

AN EVENING W/ THE MONKEES Apr 8 at San Jose Civic For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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ON BACKGROUND Jamil Hellu’s photography is part of the ‘Sense of Self’ exhibit at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.

Self Aware A new group exhibition at the SJICA points lens at underrepresented identities

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ONE OF THE bare-chested black men in Erica Deeman’s photo series “Brown” smile or look into your eyes. They avert their gaze from the photographer, the camera lens and the unseen viewer in the gallery.

Deeman crops each square image just below the shoulders, mid-torso.

There’s a purposeful uniformity to the images, only five of which have been culled from the entire series. She places each subject against a mocha-colored backdrop, one that she’s chosen to match her own mixed-racial skin tone.

In an interview for her 2017 show at

the Anthony Meier Fine Arts gallery in San Francisco, Deeman said she’s exploring “the spectrum of brownness.”

The photographs are also intentional inversions of black and white mug shots, intent on decriminalizing the pose. She humanizes that bureaucratic headshot with color, while at the same time rejecting the pseudo-science of physiognomy.

A contemporary of Deeman’s, Jordan Casteel, is also making a major contribution to the revival of portraiture. In one series for “Returning the Gaze” at the Cantor Arts Center, Casteel paints several black men. Her naked subjects look directly at her and at us. The viewer gets to know them, or we can extrapolate something about

their lives from the expressions on their faces and from the vibrant interiors she places around them. Both artists want to fill museum walls with black and brown bodies that have been mis- or underrepresented.

Deeman’s work is part of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art’s “Sense of Self” (through March 15, 2020), a photography survey that also manages to forefront images from the LGBTQ community. Tammy Rae Carland’s series, “Lesbian Beds,” looks slightly off-topic when compared with her black and white self-portraits in “On Becoming.” Like Cindy Sherman, Carland assumes another identity.

Actually, two. She’s re-created old family snapshots of her mother and father by playing both of them. Unlike Sherman, her series is a form of autobiography that’s based on the factual evidence of their marriage. These images stand on their own as a complete thought—we are, in an essential sense, our parents— but I wanted to see the original photographs, too, to see how her versions resonate with or against them, to see the resemblance.

Without the title to corral them, it’s hard to say that the tangled sheets

and mess of pillows are strictly beds that have been slept in by lesbians.

They’re portraits in absentia, with arrangements of colorful visual clues, like a black cat or a cushion with a carefully composed opening.

On the opposite end of that spectrum is Jamil Hellu, who teaches photography in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford. He’s all about being present, a companionable collaborator with his subjects. In his portrait of Joe Elwin, Hellu and Elwin stand side by side dressed in what must be 17th-century Shakespearean costumes. The explanatory note, which doesn’t explain the choice of couture, reads, “Joe Elwin’s mother is AfricanAmerican and French. He describes his father as a Caribbean mutt.”

Hellu’s approach is cheeky. His visual wit makes more sense when he gives us a little more information about another subject: “Corey Christopher’s family expected him to join the US Armed Forces…but homosexuals were not allowed to serve in the military in those days.”

Dressed in a black sailor suit and a white cap, Hellu holds Christopher in his arms. There’s a cigarette dangling out of Hellu’s mouth and an orange life preserver hanging around Christopher’s neck. Christopher looks at the camera, aghast and delighted, as Hellu carries him away. In every one of his photographs, Hellu erases the line between artist and subject, making the gleeful case that it should never have existed in the first place.

Marcela Pardo Ariza presents her S&M devotees more anonymously in “Kin Skin.” We see plenty of skin but no faces. They’re serious about their straps, snaps and buckles. But all that black leather paraphernalia has been enlarged and printed out on wallpaper behind her images. It adds an unnecessary exclamation point in the same way that the walls around Deeman’s work have been painted brown. That extra emphasis is unnecessary for artists who are already confident and in charge of their art. The gallery walls don’t need to repeat what the photographers have already said.

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Setting The Stage LONG BEFORE HE was in the running to take over the storied TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Tim Bond was an aspiring actor, studying theater in Southern California.

After starring in productions of Fantastic and Oklahoma! in high school for a Sacramento-based theater, Bond returned the next summer to audition for The Boyfriend.

The show’s director quit out of the blue, and the producer scrambled to find a replacement. She ultimately turned to Bond—who was then just a 19-year-old theater major at UCLA—to direct the play.

“It was an incredible moment of opportunity,” Bond says, recalling his first foray into directing. “It was joyful and incredibly hard. I was so lucky to have the chance to work with choreographers, music directors and a young cast that was hungry and excited.”

Soon, he’ll take the helm as the artistic director of TheatreWorks, as Robert Kelley is retiring after his 50-year tenure.

After earning his MFA in Directing from the University of Washington, Bond started his career at the Seattle Group Theatre in 1984. There, he curated the MultiCultural Playwrights festival. He has worked in seven theater companies nationally, directing more than 80 productions including seven of the 10 plays that comprise of August Wilson’s Century Cycle.

Bond knows he has big shoes to fill. Kelley founded TheatreWorks in 1970, directing more than 175 productions and growing the company from a small youth troupe to one of the Bay Area’s most respected professional regional theater companies and launching the New Works Festival, which draws theater lovers and professionals from around the country every year. Building on Kelley’s legacy, Bond has set his sights on producing works by contemporary playwrights that reflect the diverse cultures of the world and get to the pith of some of our society’s most intractable modern dilemmas.

“I’m really interested in plays and musicals that would deal with climate change, the effects of technology and social media on our future social structures, and to look at how we can better coexist in a society that seems incredibly polarized,” Bond says.

He recalls watching plays in the Bay Area when he was a teenager, in particular A Raisin in the Sun—the first time he had seen a fellow African American on stage. “I just got enamored by the power of theater to change the human heart and to bring up major themes about the human condition,” Bond says. “I loved the joy of music, the joy of dancing and the joy of people’s emotions being fully accessible.” —Nicholas Chan

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Mask Off Everyone has secrets in HBO’s engaging elaboration on the world of ‘Watchmen’

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It helps to know the original anyway.

Both the 1986 graphic novel and the 2009 film it inspired revolve around a group of forcibly retired masked heroes

who learn that one of their number was thrown out a high window. A Krishna-blue atomic superman known as Dr. Manhattan (as in “the Manhattan Project”) is key to the investigation. His presence assured American supremacy in the world and helped Richard Nixon ease into his fourth term. But he’s slowly becoming a deity, uninterested in human affairs. He vanishes, and nuclear war with the USSR looms.

The self-appointed investigator is an evil-smelling vigilante known as Rorschach, on account of his Rorschach Test-patterned mask. Among his suspects is supergenius industrialist Adrian Veidt—aka Ozymandias, an ancientworld themed superhero—who is

scheming a drastic act before the missiles fire. He plans to sever the Gordian knot tying the hands of the superpowers.

This was no mere superhero parody by authors Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore (who has taken his name off of the HBO series). The original work was nothing less than speculative fiction about how our national love of masked vigilante lore parallels the shadowy, extra-legal activities the American establishment engaged in during the Cold War and beyond.

There are fleeting references to the graphic novel in the new show. For example, the Bansky-ish silhouette of two vaporized lovers, burnt as if by an H-bomb flash, is glimpsed in an alley. And then there is the symbol of the watch.

In Watchmen, it clicked ever closer to midnight in honor of the Journal of Atomic Scientists’ clock. (It’s currently set at two minutes to midnight—sleep tight!)

The ticking watch parallels the Deist idea of God as a watchmaker who set everything in motion and then vanished.

Set 30 years after the events of the original, HBO’s Watchmen unfolds in Tulsa, OK. King—a formidable, yet sensitive actor, seen in the terrific Support

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TICK… TICK… TICK… Regina King, left, plays Sister Knight, a masked detective, in HBO’s ‘Watchmen.’

The Girls—stars as Angela. She is a former cop who survived the “White Night” massacre, wherein a white supremacist group known as the Seventh Kavalry murdered dozens of police officers on Christmas Eve. In response, president Robert Redford, now in his sixth term, grabbed all the guns, leaving “bitter clingers” to seethe in their trailer parks.

The Kavalry and its supporters are most infuriated by a policy derisively referred to as “Redfordations.” Seeking to right the atrocity of the Tulsa race riots of 1921—a true-to-life American kristallnacht, in which the Ku Klux Klan and their supporters destroyed Tulsa’s affluent black district of Greenwood— the Redford administration has initiated a program of reparations to descendents of the massacre’s victims. Predictably, the gesture has outraged the Kavalry’s Caucasian dignity.

“The Bleach,” as the Kavalry are called, appear to have scored a coup: the lynching of a top Tulsa cop. But the confessed suspect is a cryptic black centenarian (a very funny Lou Gossett, Jr.), wheelchair-bound and physically incapable of perpetrating the crime.

Washington sends in a vinegary FBI investigator (Jean Smart), a lady of certain years who decades ago wore the abbreviated costume of Silk Spectre.

Strange interludes have something to do with the fate of the vanished Veidt. In an English castle, some nudist eccentric writer (Jeremy Irons) is celebrating (daily) a mysterious anniversary, and performing savage experiments on human drones.

Is he the missing Veidt or just some madman who thinks he is?

An occasional comic book fight scene holds the show together. King is a handsome sight as the leather nun Sister Night, with an airbrushed-on black mask like Pru in Blade Runner. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s hackles-raising soundtrack thickens the dystopia.

By the way, it sometimes rains alien calamari. This may account for the fishy smell of the characters’ stories; clearly everyone has a secret identity in this tantalizing opus. Amid the swirling capes, Watchmen is a puzzle with a paranoid contemporary side. These days, political extremists make dark threats of Civil War II; on the show, as in real life, the masks are coming off.

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BUILT TO LAST Doug Martsch, center, looks back on 20 years of ‘Keep it Like a Secret.’

Secret Sauce Indie titans Built to Spill play ‘Keep It Like a Secret’ in its entirety at The Rio

BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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OR A GENERATION of indie rockers, Built to Spill’s 1999 record, Keep It Like a Secret, is one of the great heavyweights— often mentioned in the same breath as Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Modest Mouse’s Lonesome Crowded West.

Situated between two longer, more meandering albums in the

band’s catalog, Keep It Like a Secret (the band’s fourth release) plays out almost like a pop record—nimble, confident and endlessly resourceful, but also daring and transcendent.

In February, Keep It Like a Secret hit its 20th anniversary, and Doug Martsch, Built to Spill’s singer, guitarist and sole constant member, found himself revisiting the work.

“I think the record still sounds really cool,” he says over the phone from a Seattle green room. “I listened to it a little bit before we learned

the songs. [Producer] Phil Ek did an amazing job recording it. It’s ambitious. I like that about it.”

On opener “The Plan,” the band spends half the song developing one of its catchiest hooks before taking a sharp turn, digging into a massively discordant bridge shrieking with feedback. When the melody finally returns, the song opens bright like a clearing in a forest. On mid-album highlight “Time Trap,” the band spends two minutes developing a groove, giving it space to bloom, only to stop abruptly and begin the first verse at a different tempo.

“There’s this balance in music,” Martsch says. “I don’t know how it’s accomplished, but I’m always trying to do it, where things are conventional and are pleasant to the brain, but are challenging, too. The Beatles did it, so it’s not a new thing.”

Keep It Like a Secret was the band’s second major label release. Their first was the ponderous, nearly doomed

Perfect From Now On. Filled with interweaving guitar parts and sinuous counter-melodies, Perfect went on to be a critical hit. But by the time it was finally released, it had become something of an albatross to Martsch.

After a painstaking original session that saw Martsch playing everything but drums, neither he nor producer Ek were happy, so they started over from scratch. After another full recording session, this time with a band, the master tapes from the second session melted while en route from Seattle to Boise. The version of Perfect From Now On most fans know is the result of a third recording session. By the time it was completed, the eight-song set had consumed most of a year.

“The record before was a real drain,” Martsch says, thinking back.

“Working on those songs took so long. It became really complex and taxing. I was burned out.”

When time came to start working on its follow-up, he opted for its diametric opposite: shorter songs and more collaboration.

“I think it was the first time where we made a record where the guys were more set in the band,” he says.

“We all played together a lot and had been for a while. It was more collaborative in spirit and music.”

Twenty years later, the album still sounds fresh, unperturbed by the changing currents of music in the intervening years.

Counterintuitively, Built to Spill’s strange status as a major label band without any major singles may be the secret to its enduring success: rather than coming to the band from a specific single, fans tend to form connections with entire albums.

“We’ve been blessed to have a long career without any of the pains of success,” Martsch says as he prepares for the night’s show. “The fans who are there have found it on their own.

Nobody shoved it down their throat at some point. Nobody’s waiting to hear just one song. It’s incredibly satisfying, the career I’ve been able to get out of this.”

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NOV 13–21 | “YOUR DEPTHS FLEX CORAL REEF. YOUR SURFACES GLISTEN. LISTEN. I NEED THE LIGHTHOUSE, SAID THE SEA. I NEED THE SEA, SAID THE LIGHTHOUSE.” I’ve mentioned Shira Erlichman’s poetry here before, but a snippet of one of her tweets had me inspired to capacity this week. See for yourself: @sheer_awe Legendary local comic Pete Munoz has been running a new comedy open mic on Wednesday nights at Rocco’s Blue Max in Sunnyvale. Not enough games in your life? Have you tried politics? How about actual board games? The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles has them for you and your family this Thursday afternoon.

This Friday, comedian Nicole Byer, easily one of the funniest guests on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place, will begin her run at the San Jose Improv. She’s a damn hoot and a half. Also on Friday, SJSU and the Hammer Theatre present [dreamer] project: an Undocuplay. On Saturday evening, local indie musicians Franz Nicolay, Mike Huguenor and Natasha Sandworms take over 3F Gallery in Japantown. These and many more events in my listing below and beyond. = MUST SEE

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WED 11/13 Everyday Happy Hour: 4pm–5:30pm & 9pm–10pm.

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

Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

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OPEN MIC COMEDY SHOW THE RITZ

CEDAR ROOM

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Wed, 7pm: Shawn James, Sam Houston, Casey Wickstrom.

Thu, 8pm: Aseptic, The Incursion, R.I.P. Fri, 8pm: Big Pati, Samu, Quad High, Seemac, More! Sat, 8pm: Good Riddance, Get Dead, Sharp Shock, The Last Gang.

400 S First St, San Jose

9pm. Hosted by Pete Munoz.

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

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

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

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM SAM'S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Blue House. Tue, 11/19, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. Wed, 11/20, 6pm: Fred McCarty. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

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

Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

FRASCATI COMEDY OPEN MIC (ALL AGES) 7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

STAGE | MISS SAIGON (TOURING) 7:30pm. SJ Center for Performing Arts, 255 S Almaden Blvd, San Jose

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Knee Deep Blues Band. Thu, 8pm: Selwyn Birchwood Band at The Studio. Fri, 6pm: Hot Roux. Sat, 6pm: Hamilton Loomis Band.

Sat, 10pm: Sharks After Party w/ James Mikey Day. Sun, 11am: Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: Patrick Rynn & Chris James.

Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar. 91 S Autumn 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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Uncle Hank. Thu, 10pm: DJ Reason One. Fri, 10pm: Saved

By The ’90s. Sat, 10pm: Band: Superbad. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

Mon, 10pm: Game Night. Tue, 7:30pm: Risky Quizness. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

THU 11/14 STAGE | STEEL MAGNOLIAS 4pm. Through 11/16. Leland High School, 6677 Camden Ave, San Jose

BOARD GAME NIGHT 4pm. SJ Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 520 S First St, San Jose

COUNTRY | DYLAN SCOTT 7pm. Club Rodeo, 610 Coleman Ave, San Jose

metroactive EVENTS 7pm. The ICA’s monthly afterhours hangout! San José Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), 560 S First St, San Jose

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC

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

MIXED OPEN MIC

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

STAGE | YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN 7pm. San Jose Children’s Musical Theater, 1401 Parkmoor Ave, San Jose

DJ | SHAKIN’ NOT STIRRED WITH ROGER MOOREHOUSE

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

HIP-HOP | THE CYPHER

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

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

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

THURSDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

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

COMEDIAN | MARK NORMAND (UNTIL SUN)

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

STAGE | EURYDICE BY SARAH RUHL (UNTIL SAT)

8pm. Various times through Sat. Louis B Mayer Theatre, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

SPEAK EASY: A STAND-UP COMEDY AFFAIR

8pm. Clandestine Brewing, 980 S First St, Ste B, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

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

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

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

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

THROWBACK THURSDAY KARAOKE & DANCE

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

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Marina Crouse Ft. Garth Webber. Sat, 9pm: Chris Cain. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

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

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

BRAZILIAN MUSIC | BOSSA BLUE

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays.

Fri, 10pm: DJ Worldwise & DJ Saurus. Sat, 10pm: DJ Brotha Reese. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

Fri & Sat, 9:30pm.

1072 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

FRI 11/15

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

STAGE | SJSU THEATRE PRESENTS [DREAMER] PROJECT: AN UNDOCUPLAY

7:30pm. Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose

COMEDIAN | NICOLE BYER

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

STAGE | THE TIN WOMAN

8pm. Various times through Sun. Written by Sean Grennan. Tabard Theatre Co, 29 N San Pedro St, San Jose

SAT 11/16 7pm & 9:15pm. 3Below, 288 S Second St, San Jose

LIVE MUSIC | FRANZ NICOLAY, MIKE HUGUENOR, NATASHA SANDWORMS

7pm. $5–$10. 3F Gallery, 127 Jackson St, San Jose

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

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

SHERWOOD INN

HIP-HOP | THE CYPHER

9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, 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

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, November 13 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

HELMET

Thursday, November 14 • Ages 21+

Suicide Girls BLACKHEART BURLESQUE

KARAOKE & DANCING

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

Thursday, Nov. 14 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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Friday & Saturday, Nov. 15 & 16 • Ages 16+

TRIBAL SEEDS

DRAG | THE ILLUSIONS SHOW AT SPLASH SAN JOSE 10pm. Splash, 65 Post St, San Jose

Friday, November 15 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

THUMPASAURUS

Sunday, November 17 • Ages 16+

Snow Tha Product Monday, November 18 • A 16+ A TRE Y U ges

SUN 11/17 SV PRIDE DRAG BRUNCH

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

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WORKSHOP | POETS@PLAY

1pm. Free poetry workshop led

by Dennis Noren. Markham House at History Park, 635 Phelan Ave, San Jose

DJ/DANCE | SUNDAY SERVICE 3pm. 21+ Small bites.

Fashionable attire. SP2

Nov 20 Hippo Campus (Ages 16+) Nov 21 Hirie/ RDGLDGRN (Ages 16+) Nov 22 Cold War Kids/ Samia (Ages 16+) Nov 23 Fortunate Youth (Ages 16+) Nov 24 Kevin Gates (Ages 16+) Nov 25 YBN Nahmir (Ages 16+) Dec 1 Jim Breuer (Ages 16+) Dec 3 Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Ages 16+) Dec 4 Comethazine (Ages 16+) Dec 5 Aly & AJ/ Armors (Ages 16+) 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+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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JAZZ JAM

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

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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

CLUB

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Wed Nov 13 Club Fox Blues Jam ON TOUR

Hot Roux 7pm • $7

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9pm • $20 adv / $25 day of show Sat Nov 16 Lynda Mortensen Presents Bay Area Tributes

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RED ROCK MIXED OPEN MIC

7pm. 201 Castro St, Mountain View

ART CLASS | LIFE DRAWING

7:15pm. $20. Jose Andrade of Art Hub Academy. School of Visual Philosophy, 1065 The Alameda, San Jose

DANCING | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS 8pm. Continental Bar & Lounge, 349 S First St, San Jose

TRIVIA @ 7 STARS

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

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

TRIVIA NIGHT AT STEPHEN’S GREEN

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

LMNOP COMEDY MONDAYS

10pm. Lilly Mac's, 187 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

TUE 11/19 TRIVIA @ FOUNTAINHEAD

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

TRADITIONAL IRISH SEISIUN TUESDAYS

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

TRIVIA TUESDAYS

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

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

TRIVIA | PUBSTUMPERS

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

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE

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

HOUSE MUSIC | RHYTHM RITUAL

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

9pm. 223 Castro St, Mountain View

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

THE WILLOW DEN PUBLIC HOUSE

Tue & Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

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WED 11/20 COUNTRY | INGRID ANDRESS

7pm. Club Rodeo, 610 Coleman Ave, San Jose

STAGE | THE HUMANS

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

TALENT CONTEST | GO GO GONE SHOW

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

THU 11/21 LI’L KNOWN FACT:

Cheese is really just very old milk!

THIRD THURSDAYS | CREATIVE MINDS: WOODY DE OTHELLO

$5 after 5pm. 7pm: Join Othello in a special walkthrough of his first solo museum presentation, where he will discuss recent explorations into his Haitian roots. San José Museum of Art, 110 S Market St

LITERARY | AIIIEEEEE! THE BIRTH OF ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

6:30pm. Presented by Center for Literary Arts. Shawn Wong, Lawson Inada, Marilyn Chin. King Library, Room 225/229, 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose

SPANISH FLAMENCO W/ SAVANNAH FUENTES, PEDRO CORTES

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

JAZZ | JUSTIN ROCK “BASTET” ALBUM RELEASE 9pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

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So, basically, this is you: “I wish they allowed dogs in my building, but no biggie.

I’ll take this thing you did in 2006 and make it my special pet.”

On the other end of the spectrum from endlessly re-prosecuting relationship misdemeanors is forgiveness. Evolutionary psychologist Michael McCullough explains in “Beyond Revenge” that “forgiveness is an internal process of getting over your ill will” for somebody who’s wronged you and then “experiencing a return of goodwill” and “opening yourself up to the possibility of a renewed positive relationship” with the person.

Forgiveness appears to have evolved to preserve valuable relationships we have with others, but it seems contingent on our not being made repeated patsies, meaning we need to see that the offender won’t just trample our interests again.

In line with this, research by social psychologist Ian Williamson and his colleagues finds that a reluctance to forgive can come out fear, including concerns by the victim “about how offenders will interpret forgiveness.” Basically, there’s a worry that forgiving the perp could send a message that it’s open season for repeat offending.

Consider whether there’s reason to believe your boyfriend doesn’t have your best interests in mind. If you stack up his behavior toward you, does it suggest he doesn’t care about you? If this is old stuff and he isn’t repeating the behavior, maybe it serves you best to decide to let it go. McCullough notes that a “lack of forgiveness for close, valuable relationship partners who harmed us in the past is associated with more anxiety, tension and physiological arousal.” McCullough goes cute, writing, “Know forgiveness, know peace. No forgiveness, no peace.”

If you feel your boyfriend’s a good guy but needs of yours aren’t being met, bring this out, talk to him about it. That could improve things, or you could decide to leave if things don’t change sufficiently.

That said, his changing may take more than one discussion.

If you see he’s making an effort, maybe cut him some slack. Laugh at his human fallibility instead of taking it personally when he again leaves his toenail clippings in a tiny pile on the bathroom floor, as if they’ll magically float over to the trash can and fling themselves over the rim.

I’ve been dating a guy for just over a month. He’s asked me to go with him to an out-of-state wedding (across the country) several weeks from now, but he didn’t mention buying me a plane ticket. I think he should buy it because he invited me. Am I expecting too much?—Unsure Chances are he doesn’t expect you to mail yourself in a really big crate or saddle up Hortense the limping mule and meet him there—just in time for the divorce party.

Should you pick up the tab for your ticket? I don’t think so—and not just because the guy invited you as his guest. Destination weddings in exotic places (or simply faraway weddings in dull and unglamorous locales) are not vacations. They are social obligations, big life events that are reinforced by the presence of witnesses.

Having the community as an “audience” to a marriage ceremony is thought by Matthijs Kalmijn and other sociologists to help reinforce a couple’s lifelong commitment. The ceremony is typically followed by an open bar, some fancy grub

and a Beyonce cover band so the wedding is attended by more than the bride and groom’s teary-eyed relatives.

Don’t let this question fester in your mind to the point that you’re tempted to snarl at the guy, “Hey, tightwad, you planning to pay for my ticket or what?!” Ask right away, something like, “What’s the transportation situation?

How are we getting to the wedding?”

Assuming he doesn't generally seem weirdly stingy, there's a good chance he’s planning to buy your ticket but didn't think to make it clear. There are a number of reasons a person spends hundreds of dollars on a plane ticket, and it’s generally not so they can eat free cake with a bunch of strangers on the other side of the country.

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

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I’ve been with my boyfriend for nine years, and I’m still pissed off about stuff from, like, five years ago. I don’t know how I remember this stuff when I can’t find my keys half the time. I’d like to get rid of these resentments and not keep bringing them up. I know it’s not healthy for me or our relationship, but I don’t know how to let them go.—Stuck

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Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/24/2019. /s/Sonja U Morgner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on NOTICE TO CREDITORS, CASE NO.: 10/07/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

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InFICTITIOUS re the Matter ofBUSINESS the CAPELLANAME FAMILY REVOCABLE LIVING STATEMENT #658874 TRUST DATED JULY 30, 1997, by Manuel J. Capella, DecedentNotice is The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of Decedent Manuel Capella that all1666 persons havingRock claimsAve., against theJose, MJPAJ.Consulting, Alum San Decedent are required file them with Superior Court of the CA, 95116, MayratoPelagio.

Thisthe business is being State of California, County of Santa Clara, at 191 N. First Street, San conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet Jose, CA 95112, and mail or deliver a copy to David Capella, successor begun transacting business the fictitious trustee of the Capella Family Revocableunder Living Trust dated July 30, business or names /s/Mayra 1997, of whichname the Decedent was thelisted settlor,herein. at the Sowards Law Firm, 2542 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite 200, Campbell, CA 95008, the Pelagio.

This statement was filed with the within County later of four (4) months after November 2, 2016 (the date of the first Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally Metro 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019) delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you.LATE CLAIMS: If you do not file your claim withinTO theSHOW time required by law, youCHANGE must petition file a ORDER CAUSE FOR OFtoNAME. late claimNO. as provided in California Probate Code §19103.FAILURE CASE 19CV354300 TO FILE A CLAIM: Failure to file a claim with the court and to serve PERSONS: Sifa a TO copyALL of theINTERESTED claim on the trustee will in mostPetition instancesof: invalidate your claim.(Pub 11/02,changing 11/09/2016) names as follows: Tuiaki Aukadates: for a10/26, decree

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Auka Latu. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter#622524 appear before this court at NAME STATEMENT the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any,

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Advanced why theDelivery petition name should not be Industrial LLC,for 247 change N. Capitolof Ave., Unit 104, San Jose, granted.

Any person objecting to by thea limited nameliability change CA, 95127. This business is being conducted described abovehasmust filebegun a written objection company.

Registrant not yet transacting businessthat under the fictitious businessfor name or objection names listedat herein. includes the reasons the leastAbove two entity was formed in thethe statematter of California. /s/Gilbert Juan Garcia court days before is scheduled to be heard Managing Member#201627010166This statement was filed with and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2016. (pub Metro the petition should not be granted. If no written 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS January 21, 2020 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: August 19, 2019 (pub#622430 dates: 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, NAME STATEMENT 11/13/2019) The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Union

Avenue Liquors, 3649 Union Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Kim Dao Corporation, 36 Leominster San Jose, CA, 95139. This#659417 business FICTITIOUS BUSINESSCt.,NAME STATEMENT is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant has not yet The following person(s) is (are) doingbusiness business as: begun transacting business under the fictitious name Photography, 2205 Beech Jose, CA,state 95131, orQnames listed herein.

Above entityCir., was San formed in the of Kyu Kim./s/Michael This business is being conducted by an California.

John Perazzo President #C39443143 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County Individual. Registrant began transacting business onunder 10/13/2016. (pub Metro business 10/26, 11/02,name 11/09, 11/16/2016) the fictitious or names listed

herein on 05/01/2019. /s/Kyu Kim. This statement was

FICTITIOUS filed with the BUSINESS County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/03/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019) NAME STATEMENT #622360 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Soft Touch Spa, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659718 1692 Tully Road, Suite 12, San Jose, CA, 95122, Dai Nguyen, 650 Island Place, Redwood City, CA, 94065. This business is conducted by an The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under 1. fictitious Privatebusiness Practice Launchpad, 2. Talk About 3. the name or names listed herein. /s/DaiIt!, Nguyen Talk Aboutwas It! Games, 4. Fill Your Practice Now,County 5.

This statement filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Your(pub Best Self, 2450 Drive, San onBeing 10/12/2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622523 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KT Dental

conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/172019. Refile in facts from previous filing #648218. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Lindsay Smith, President. #C3983172. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/15/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #659570 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Shalom Christian Academy, 383 Spar Ave., San Jose, CA, 95117, Dong Chin, 1852 Cavalier Ct., San on 01/28/2014 under file number 587505. This business was Jose, CA, 95124. Filed in the Santa Clara county on conducted by: An individual /s/Minh T. Hoang Date filed with the 06/01/2018. under filedates No.11/02, 643006.

This11/23/2016 business was clerks office: 10/12/2016 (pub 11/09, 11/16, conducted by: An Individual: Filed on 10/15/2019. /s/ Dong Chin. dates: 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019) NOTICE OF(pub PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659740 NO. 16PR178443 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK Invisiblex LLC, 1853 Bird Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO. 16PR178443To all heirs beneficiaries . This contingent businesscreditors, is beingand conducted bymay a Limited creditors, persons who otherwise transacting beLiability interested Company. in the will or Registrant estate, or bothbegan of: MARK PASCOE KELLY. A Petition for Probate filed by:business James J. Ramoni, business underhas thebeen fictitious namePublic or Administrator of theherein County of Clara in the Superior Court of names listed onSanta 3/01/2009.

Refile in facts California, County of Santa Clara.The Petition Probate requests from previous file #594423 Abovefor entity was formed that James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa in be theappointed state ofasCalifornia. /s/Brain Asselin, CEO. Clara personal representative to administer ThisThe statement was filed with the#201620010327. estate of the decedent. petition requests authority to the Countythe Clerk ofunder Santa CountyAdministration on 10/16/2019. administer estate theClara Independent of Estates (This authority will allow the 11/13/2019) personal representative (pubAct. Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT representative willBUSINESS be required to give notice to interested#659667 persons unless they have waived is notice or consented to the as: The following person(s) (are) doing business proposed action.) The independent administration authority will Bossy Broads Bits & Bobs, 2151 Oakland Rd., SPC be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the 524, and Sanshows Jose,good CA, cause 95131,why Jennifer business petition the courtPabst. shouldThis not grant is being conducted an Individual. authority.

A hearing on the by petition will be held inRegistrant this court as follows: November 28, 2016, at 9 a.m. in Dept.

10 located at 191the has not yet begun transacting business under NORTH FIRSTbusiness STREET, SAN JOSE,or CA,names 95113. IFlisted YOU OBJECT to /s/ fictitious name herein. theJennifer granting ofPabst. the petition, should appear the hearing This you statement was at filed with the and state your objections or file written objections with the court County Clerk Your of Santa Claramay County on 10/11/2019. before the hearing. appearance be in person or by your (pub IF Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019) attorney.

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 by the court within the FICTITIOUS BUSINESSappointed NAME STATEMENT #659808 later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of Thetofollowing person(s) is (are)asdoing letters a general personal representative, definedbusiness in section 58(b) the California Probate Code,Union or (2) 60Ave daysSuite from the dateLos as:ofBabas Wraps, 15559 102, of mailing personal delivery to you of a noticeFariba under section Gatos,orCA, 95032, Saeed Etemadi, Kamali, 9052 of theHomerirte California Probate statutes 14530 Dr., Code.

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Registrant began transacting business the YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court.

If you areunder a person fictitious names listed herein on interested in thebusiness estate, youname may fileor with the court a Request for10/17/2019.

Special Notice/s/Saed (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and Etemadi.

This statement was appraisal of estate or of any petition or account as provided filed with theassets County Clerk of Santa Clara County in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form on 10/17/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MARK 11/13/2019)Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE A. GONZALEZ, COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, 95110, Telephone: BUSINESS 408-758-4200NAME (Pub CC,STATEMENT 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) FICTITIOUS #659812

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS as: DJS Painting, 1472 Revere Ave., San Jose, CA, 95118, STATEMENT Donald Stove Inc. This business is being NAME #622566 conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam, begun transacting business under the fictitious 979 Story Rd., #7087, San Jose, Ca, 95122, Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc business name orDr., names listed herein.

Refile in Anh Nguyen, 608 Giraudo San Jose, CA, 95111.

This business facts from previous filing #443794.

Above entity is conducted by an married couple.Registrant has not yet begun transacting businessinunder fictitious business name/s/Donald or names was formed thethe state of California. listed herein.President.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659981 NAME STATEMENT #622752 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380 Lucky Rooter & Plumbing, 3616 Story Rd., San Jose, S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael R. Hill, 8093 E. Zayante 95127, . This This business conducted by a Rd.,CA, Felton, CA, 95018. businessisisbeing conducted by an individual.

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Registrant beganbusiness transacting Registrant has not yet begun transacting underbusiness the fictitious name or names listedname herein.or/s/Michael R. underbusiness the fictitious business names listed Hillherein This statement was filed with the County Santa Clara on 09/16/2019.

Above entityClerk wasofformed in County on 10/24/2016. (pub Metro 11/02,Kim 11/09,Thai, 11/16, 11/23/2016) the state of California. /s/Loi President.

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

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Makai Sailing, 1514 Clay Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94024, Kai Christian Petzelt, Isabell Petzelt. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Kai Petzelt. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/18/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659881 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gems of Clarity, 1407 Lewiston Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Magne Stangenes, 124 Jardin Drive, Los Altos, CA, 94022. 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/Magne Stangenes. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/21/2019. (pub Metro 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659850 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Spirit Painting, 1265 E. San Martin Av, San Martin, CA, 95046, Darrel Ray Spjut. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Refile in facts of previous filing #410551. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/18/2019. /s/Darrel Ray Spjut. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/18/2019. (pub Metro 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659690 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Modern Fine Catering LLC, 121 Melrose Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116. 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. Refile in facts from previous filing 625525 Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Eloisa Angeles, Manager. #201927310496. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/15/2019. (pub Metro 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658863 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Gemini Group Of Palo Alto, LLC, 267 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, Unlimited Mojo, 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 08/20/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Russell Kahn, President #201804410174. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub Metro 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV356368

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Melak Abay Bekele for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Melak Abay Bekele. Proposed name: Eldana Hannah Bekele. 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 17, 2020 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: October 25, 2019 (pub dates: 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): DONG IL MOON, AN INDIVIDUAL; RAISER, LLC, A BUSINESS ENTITY; UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., A BUSINESS ENTITY; CARMEN JOSE GARCIA, AN INDIVIDUAL; AND DOES 1 TO 20 INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED

BY PLAINTIFF: MARIA SONIA TOLENTINO (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DAMANDANTE): AN INDIVIDUAL CASE NUMBER: 19CV350520 NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the informationbelow.You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and fegat papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copyserved on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear yourcase. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California CourtsOnline Self-He!p Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, askthe court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and propertymay be taken without further warning from the court.There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorneyreferral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locatethese nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center(www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees andcosts on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.jAV/501 Lo han demandado. Sf no responde dentro de 30 dlas, Ia corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versi6n. Lea Ia informaci6n acantinuaci6n.Tiene 30 DiAS DE CALENDAR/0 despues de que le entreguen esta citaci6n y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta par escrito en estacorte y hacer que se entregue una capia a! demandante. Una carta a una 1/ amada telef6nica nolo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estaren farmato legal correcto sf desea que procesen su caso en Ia corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.Puede encontrar estos formularios de Ia corte y mas informaci6n en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.govJ, en Iabiblioteca de !eyes de su condado a en Ia corte que le quede mas cerca. Sf no puede pagar Ia cuota de presentaci6n, pida af secretario de Ia corteque le de un formulario de exenci6n de pago de cuotas. Sino presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y Ia corte lepodra quitar su suefdo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que flame a un abogado inmediatamente.

Sino conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un

seNicio deremisi6n a abogados. Sf no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener se!Vicios legales gratuitos de unprograma de seNicios legales sin fines de Iuera. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de Iuera en el sitio web de California Legal SeNices,(www.lawhelpcalifornia.orgJ, en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, {wNw. sucorte.ca.govJ o poniendose en contacto con Ia corte o elcolegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, Ia corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costas exentos por imponer un gravamen sabrecualquier recuperacf6n de $10,000 6 mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesi6n de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil.

Tiene quepagar el gravamen de Ia corte antes de que Ia corte pueda desechar el caso.The name and address of the court is: (EI nombre y direcci6n de Ia corte es): Downtown Superior Court191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiffs attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is:(EI nombre, Ia direcci6n y el numero de teletono del abogado del demandante. o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):Harris Personal Injury Lawyers; 55 S. Market Street, Suite 1010, San Jose, CA 95113(408) 512-3600DATE: 6/27/2019 1:19 PMS. Alvarez(Pub Dates 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660217 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)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Try Bay Area, 2. Most Powerful Self, 3. One Curious Kat, LLC, 1002 Marcelli Circle, Los Altos, CA, 94022. 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/Katherine Kuan, Member. #201727010058. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/11/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

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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 #657136 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Silicon Valley Heights Realty, 2. Silicon Valley Heights Real Estate Services, 3. Silicon Valley Heights Property Management, 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 180, A Tu Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2019. Refile in facts from previous filing #591055. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Angela Tu, CEO. #3642965. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657947 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Choices For Children - Santa Clara County, 350 Woodview Ave., Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

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)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): If there are any potential Aries heroes or leaders or saviors out there, the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to fully bloom and assert your practical magnificence.

The lessons you have learned while improvising workable solutions for yourself are ripe to be applied to the riddles that are puzzling your tribe or group or gang. I want to let you know, however, that to achieve maximum effectiveness, you should be willing to do good deeds for people who may not be able to pay you back.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You're entering a phase of your astrological cycle when it's crucial that your receptivity be as robust as possible. To guide you in this delightful but perhaps challenging work, here are good questions for you to pose. 1. Do you know what help and support you need most, and are you brave and forthright enough to ask for it? 2. Is there any part of you, perhaps unconscious, that believes you don't deserve gifts and blessings? 3. Do you diligently cultivate your capacity to be refreshed and restored?

4. Are you eagerly responsive when life surprises you with learning experiences and inspirations?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Many people will not be honest because they fear loss of intimacy and togetherness," writes self-help author Henry Cloud.

But the truth, he adds, is that "honesty brings people closer together," because it "strengthens their identities." Therein lies the tender paradox: "The more you realize your separate identities, the closer you can become." Living according to this principle may not be as easy or convenient as being deceptive and covert, but it's ultimately more gratifying. Henry Cloud concludes, "Telling loved ones what is really on your mind and telling others what you really think is the foundation of love."

CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Maturity is having the

ability to escape categorization," said poet Kenneth Rexroth. That's the opposite of the conventional wisdom. For many people, the process of growing up and becoming a seasoned adult means trying to fit in, to find one's category, to be serious and steady and stable. Rexroth, on the other hand, suggested that when you fully ripen into your potentials, you transcend standard definitions; you don't adhere to others' expectations; you are uniquely yourself, outside and beyond all pigeonholes and classifications. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to practice and cultivate this sacred art.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there an event from your

past that would be empowering for you to remember in detail? Is there a neglected but still viable dream you could resurrect, thereby energizing your enthusiasm for the future? Are there old allies you've lost touch with but who, if you called on them, could provide you with just the boost you need? Is there a familiar pleasure you've grown numb to but could reinvigorate by visualizing the original reasons you loved it? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to meditate on these questions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Catholic saint St. Francis

(1181–1226) loved animals and the natural world.

According to one folkloric tale, he was once traveling on foot with several companions when they came upon a place where the trees were filled with birds.

Francis said, "Wait for me while I go preach to my sisters the birds." He proceeded to do just that. The birds were an attentive audience for the duration of his sermon, apparently captivated by his tender tones. Seven centuries later, author Rebecca West offered a critique of the bird-whisperer. "Did St. Francis preach to the birds?" she asked. "Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats." In the coming weeks, Virgo, I encourage you to do the metaphorical equivalent of preaching to both the birds and the cats.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Every now and then I authorize you Libras to shed your polite, tactful personas and express the angst you sometimes feel but usually hide. That's now! To egg you on, read this mischievous rant by Libran blogger Clary Gay (claryfightwood.tumblr.com): "We Libras are constantly thinking about how to make everyone else comfortable and happy. There's not a minute going by when we’re not worrying about radiating a soothing and comforting

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aura so everyone can have a good time. If a Libra is cranky, it’s because they snapped! Because of some non-Libra who doesn't appreciate them! If a Libra is mean to people, it’s their own damn fault!"

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Robert Bly tells us that the door to the soul is unlocked. You don't have to struggle through any special machinations to open it or go through it. Furthermore, the realm of the soul is always ready for you. Always! It harbors the precise treasure you need in order to be replenished and empowered. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I think that during the next two weeks, you should abide as much as possible in the soul's realm—the cornucopia of holy truths and ever-fresh riches.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my estimation,

what you've experienced lately has been akin to a fermentation process. It's as if you're undergoing a transformation with resemblances to the way that grapes turn into wine or milk becomes yogurt or dough rises before being baked into bread. You may have had to endure some discomfort, which is the case for anything in the midst of substantial change. But I think you'll ultimately be quite pleased with the results, which I expect will be ready no later than 10 days after your birthday— and quite possibly sooner.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Many books have

been written about Joan of Arc, a 15th-century teenage peasant girl whose improbable ascent to military leadership, under the guidance of her divine visions, was crucial in France's victory over the English. Among the many miraculous elements of her story was the fact that less than a year before she led troops into battle on horseback, she didn't know how to ride a horse. She learned by riding around her father's farm astride his cows. I foresee an equivalent marvel in your future, Capricorn. By this time next year, you will have developed an aptitude that might seem unimaginable now. (P.S. There's evidence Joan was a Capricorn.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Divine Comedy is

one of history's greatest literary works. Its author, Dante Alighieri, was 43 when he began writing the Inferno, the first part of his three-part masterpiece.

Up until that time, he had published just one book and a few poems, and had also abandoned work on two unfinished books. Early on in the Inferno, the not-yet-renowned author presents a fictional scene in which he meets with the spirits of antiquity's most famous authors: Virgil, Homer, Horace, Ovid and Lucan. Those illustrious five tell Dante he is such an important writer that he ranks sixth, after them, in his excellence. I'm going to encourage you to dare indulging in behavior like Dante's: to visualize and extol—and yes, even brag about—the virtues and skills that will ultimately be your signature contribution to this world.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Latin word for sea is mare. Flustra is the calm sea. Undisonus means "resounding with waves." Caeruleus is the sea's deep shade of blue, aestus is the tide, and aequoreus means "connected with the sea." My hope is that as you meditate on these lyrical terms, you'll be moved to remember the first lakes, rivers, and oceans you ever swam in. You'll recall your time floating in your mother's womb and your most joyous immersions in warm baths and hot springs.

Why? It's a favorable time to seek the healing and rejuvenating powers of primal waters—both metaphorically and literally.

Homework: "How easy it is to make people happy when you don't want or need anything from them," said Gail Godwin. Give an example. FreeWillAstrology.com 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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