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comments@metronews.com RE: SCC SUPE DAVE CORTESE RUFFLES FEATHERS BY LAVISHING GRANTS OUTSIDE HIS DISTRICT, THE FLY, AUG. 28

Dave Cortese is as dull and corrupt as they come. Let’s not feed the swamp and send him to Sacramento.

EVAN LOW’S FIRE TRUCK VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE RE: SCC SUPE DAVE CORTESE RUFFLES FEATHERS BY LAVISHING GRANTS OUTSIDE HIS DISTRICT, THE FLY, AUG. 28 I’m surprised that The Fly didn’t address the countless events outside of Dollar Dave’s district where his booths are present, where his county staffers are present, where Supervisor Cortese bags are being distributed to out-of-district residents, where illegal electioneering is clearly taking place. There’s much more to his shameless behavior than him merely doling out taxpayer funds to electorally preferential causes.

GHOST OF SCOTT HERHOLD VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE

RE: SCC SUPE DAVE CORTESE RUFFLES FEATHERS BY LAVISHING GRANTS OUTSIDE HIS DISTRICT, THE FLY, AUG. 28 The Fly failed to mention that the CERT program also received funding from Johnny Khamis, who also represents another districts and is running for state senate.

MONICA MALLON VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE

The last place I thought I'd ever witness such aggression was at the chip aisle—but there you were, verbal guns blazing.

Admittedly, I don't know what set you off to begin with, but when I politely offered to listen to your explanation, you refused to say and accused me of being a busybody. Well, sister, we need more busybodies these days when you exhibit such an attitude directed toward people who are relatively new to our country. You kept calling them rude, but what got to me was when you turned to all three of us and said, “You do know what being rude is about, don’t you?” in a way that made your attitude about sharing the aisle space with “foreigners” crystal clear. As I walked away, you continued to verbally harass me and, indeed, continued loudly berating the couple for at least a few minutes longer. I was on my way to find a store manager to stop your nonsense when I spotted the couple, finally, getting in line. In closing, you can keep those words and your trashy xenophobic self out of my neighborhood.

Pretty please, stay out or be nicer. Oh, and to all the “busybodies” out there: Be fearless.

RE: SCC SUPE DAVE CORTESE RUFFLES FEATHERS BY LAVISHING GRANTS OUTSIDE HIS DISTRICT, THE FLY, AUG. 28 Buying votes with our tax dollars.

Wrong, Dave, wrong.

JERRY TUTTLE VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE

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Sells’ Out

Nicholas Chan

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Chief MIKE SELLERS—Santa Clara’s top cop for seven years and California’s only elected police chief—ended nearly four decades in law enforcement last week with a heartfelt sendoff.

Assistant Chief DAN WINTERS, Seller’s preferred successor, and the chief’s son, Santa Clara firefighter MATT SELLERS, spoke about the lawman’s legacy before the man of the hour delivered a grandiose speech about hard work, family, ethics, public service and so on.

Sunday marked Sellers’ first day in 37 years as a civilian, and Wednesday, the City Council’s first discussion about whether to replace him by appointment or special election.

Sellers’ exit comes about 16 months before They the end of his term Did and on the heels of a What? somewhat tumultuous final few years. The SEND TIPS TO career cop began as FLY@ a volunteer cadet in METRONEWS. 1978 before going on COM to become a reserve officer in 1982 and joining the ranks full time in 1985. Sellers worked his way up through the ranks to assistant chief in January 2012, the same year he ran unopposed for police chief.

Re-election was a different story. In 2016, Sellers won a second term by an uncomfortably thin margin against Santa Clara Police Officers’ Association leader PAT NIKOLAI, under whom the union gave the chief a vote of “no confidence.”

In 2017, Santa Clara shelled out $8.7 million in legal settlements over the PD’s use of force—the bulk of it, $6.7 million, paid out to a single plaintiff, a woman injured in the course of an unwarranted police search.

In addition to locking horns with the rankand-file, Sellers has openly criticized Mayor LISA GILLMOR over the cost of providing security at Levi’s Stadium. Sellers insists, however, that he’s retiring for personal reasons—to spend time with family, escape the grind of a 60-hour work week—and not because of bad blood with fellow city leaders.

HOMELESS U With more than 4,300 unhoused students, SJSU has the highest rate of homelessness in the CSU system; some rely on the MLK Library for a safe place to sleep.

Sleep Studies Students struggling to make rent couch surf and steal winks in the library while working jobs and hitting the books BY C.J. PRUSI

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T EIGHT STORIES tall, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library is one of the largest joint effort libraries between a city and a university in the United States. Its lower level has a materials archive with more than 500 samples of polymers, ceramics, metals and glass—as well as a graduate lab accessible only by code, where grad students can study in solitude or plot theses. It is 475,000 square feet, houses 1.5 million volumes and has a maximum capacity of 3,500 people.

In my time as a student at San Jose State University, I have leaned heavily upon all of these resources. However, for me, the library was more than a trove of information. Over the course of my first year pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at SJSU, it was sometimes a shelter from the elements.

Last year, I pushed the limits of the library’s extended student hours by spending several Tuesday and Wednesday nights fighting sleep, mounting coursework and hunger.

I have napped on nearly every story, bruised my hips sleeping on floors and hidden under desks to avoid detection. Along the way I befriended a handful of kind custodians.

It’s difficult to talk to students facing housing and food insecurity, in part

because these terms are hard to define.

While I spent some of my year at SJSU in the library overnight, I wouldn’t have considered myself housing insecure. I am one of the fortunate ones.

I have an apartment, a partner and a 12-year-old Yorkie named Rusty. My fiancé and I live in Benicia, where rent is far more affordable and closer to her work. It now takes me about an hour to drive to SJSU. It takes three times that long on public transit. Last year, however, I was living in Davis and commuting on Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor line.

I often found myself crashing on friends’ sofas. When I couldn’t find a couch to surf, I’d scuttle to a dark, quiet corner of the King Library.

There are few, if any, specific resources

STREET SMARTS San Jose’s homeless population increased from 4,350 in 2017 to 6,172 this year—a 42 percent jump.

For Santa Clara County as a whole, it grew by 31 percent, from 7,394 to 9,706. Those living in this region will not be surprised by these statistics.

Anyone who pays attention to their surroundings will see the RVs and vans parked in industrial neighborhoods and lower-income parts of town; entering and exiting the freeway, it’s impossible to miss the tent cities clustered beneath underpasses and tucked behind roadside foliage.

However, while the colloquial expression “starving student” is a familiar one, plenty may be surprised to learn just how many students are actually struggling with hunger and homelessness.

A 2018 survey by Temple University and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab of 43,000 students at 66 institutions in 20 states found that a quarter of college students skipped meals or cut portion sizes because they couldn’t afford enough food. And about 9 percent of university students and 12 percent of community college students reported going homeless within the past year.

With a growing number of students having to choose between eating and learning, colleges throughout the nation have been opening food pantries and resource centers. But SJSU, which claims the highest population of homelessness in the California State University system with 4,300 unhoused students, has been repeatedly criticized for not doing enough to help.

2000 Measure A Citizens Watchdog Committee

REPORT TO THE PUBLIC

Fiscal Year 2018 (July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018) 2000 Measure A Fiscal Year 2018

In November 2000, Santa Clara County voters approved Measure A, a 30-year half-cent sales tax devoted to specific public transit capital improvement projects and operations. Tax collection began in mid-2006, making FY 2018 the 12th year of the 30-year program.

GIMME SHELTER In addition to the 30 hours per week he spends serving burgers and fries animal-style, Alejandro Mayorga is a San Jose State sociology major with an emphasis in community change.

He transferred from a community college in Inglewood and hopes to graduate in the spring. Last year was his first as a member of the Student Homeless Alliance, an organization that seeks to call attention to the plight of unhoused students and campaigns for meaningful action.

The coalition has made headlines in recent months by camping outside on college campuses and calling on school administrators to do more to address the plight of students who can’t make ends meet.

The SHA has three main demands of SJSU. They are calling for a minimum of 10 parking spots in the Seventh Street Parking Garage for safe sleeping—an increase from the originally promised five to seven spots that the SJSU administration agreed to last July but has yet to enact; a minimum of 12 beds where homeless students may stay up to 60 days (an expansion from the two beds for two weeks that is now offered); and $2,500 emergency grants for students to remain in housing if they cannot afford rent.

These demands were enumerated in a Change.org petition created seven months ago and signed by more than 1,200 people. The impetus for the petition was the 2018 CSU Chancellor’s Office Study of Student Basic Needs, which reported that 13.2 percent of students had experienced homelessness in 2017. One of the petition’s supporters, Tracey McTague, commented, “As a West Valley College community member and one who has had a homeless experience in college, I fully support SJSU students and the Homeless Student Alliance.

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2000 Measure A Citizens Watchdog Committee Finding

Santa Clara County voters entrusted the Citizens Watchdog Committee (CWC), comprised of fellow community members, with overseeing Measure A expenditures to ensure sales tax dollars are spent as intended by the ballot. After thorough and careful consideration: It is the conclusion of the CWC that, for the period of FY 2018, 2000 Measure A tax dollars were spent in accordance with the intent of the measure.

FY 2018 Key Accomplishments

• Extending BART to the Silicon Valley cities of Milpitas, San Jose and Santa Clara. Construction for the two stations and parking structures for BART Silicon Valley Phase I was completed and systems integration testing is underway. Revenue service is projected by the end of 2019. In FY 2018, the VTA Board of Directors certified Phase II’s Subsequent Environmental Impact Report, approved a single-bore tunneling methodology, and approved two station options: Downtown San Jose West and Diridon Station North. Phase II also received a Record of Decision from the Federal Transit Administration, the first required step to seek federal funding.

• Improving Bus Service in Major Corridors. The Alum Rock Santa Clara Bus Rapid Transit had its first complete year of operation in FY 2018. Curb side shelters will be installed to enhance customer experience.

• Extending Light Rail from Downtown San Jose to the East Valley. Final engineering was advanced for the Eastridge to BART Regional Connector Project (EBRC) in FY 2018. The supplemental environmental report incorporating aerial alignment and expressway geometry improvements was adopted in June 2019.

FY 2018 2000 Measure A Program Expenditures

FY 2018 Total Program Expenditures* (in millions)

Airport People Mover $0.0

Funding Swaps $6.7

Light Rail Projects $12.8 Bus Projects $14.1

Commuter Rail Projects (Caltrain, ACE etc.) $16.4 BART Silicon Valley $198.9

Program Total: $345.5

Non-Project (debt service, bond repayment, operating assistance, etc.), $96.4

*Expenditures were grouped by category. Individual project details are available in the CWC Comprehensive Annual Report. Please see below for link.

additional information about the 2000 Measure A and the CWC

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Additional 2000 Measure A information is available on the VTA website: CWC’s Measure A FY 2018 Benefits and Key Achievements (http://bit.ly/cwc-achievements-fy18) and Comprehensive Annual Report (http://bit.ly/cwc-report-fy2018).

Printed copies of select Measure A and CWC reports are available at libraries and other public buildings throughout the county, and at the VTA Offices at 3331 N. First Street, San Jose, CA, Building B Lobby.

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for students like me, who commute from hours away in order to save money. Help is available for homeless and hungry students—but many don’t know how to access it, don’t feel they have the time, or like me, feel like there are far more with fewer resources who should receive priority.

According to Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir, co-author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, the more stress a person is under, the less mental bandwidth they have. They call this phenomenon “tunneling—as you devote more and more to dealing with scarcity, you have less and less for other things in your life, some of which are very important for dealing with scarcity.”

Having to commute to school, complete coursework and work on a career—all while constantly wondering where you will sleep and what you will be able to afford to eat—takes its toll. It’s even harder on those without the support network that I have. Still, I tunneled hard toward the end of spring semester, spending long chunks of time staring through my books and papers, unable to summon the focus my studies required.

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With Google moving in next door, what benefit will our community students see, except ever higher rents and increasing expenses? How will the local community compete with Big Private University for good local jobs? This must be addressed in San Jose now, not after Google moves in.”

This year, SHA members have connected with homeless advocates such as Jen Loving at Destination Home and Pastor Scott Wagers from Community Homeless Alliance Ministry (CHAM). They’ve also been to homeless encampments and provided water and other services to those in need.

Recent SJSU graduate Mayra Bernabe, who served as president of SHA for the past academic year, got involved with the organization through a social action class, where she learned about homeless and hungry students.

Part of SHA’s campaign last year involved setting up booths that offered hot cocoa, granola bars and mini donuts to students. Bernabe worked these events and talked firsthand with students experiencing food and housing insecurity, asking them what they thought about SHA’s demands. Through these conversations she met many students who had faced housing insecurity or homelessness in a previous semester.

“That was was really eye-opening for us,” Bernabe says.

One of the hardest parts of trying to find solutions for unhoused students is that most don’t talk about their experience with homelessness until it’s over. It’s hard to blame them— while the SHA petition received over a thousand signatures, a petition on the same site opposing a proposed homeless shelter in San Jose received more than 3,800 signatures. A commenter on this petition wrote: “Crime, criminals, drug use, needles belong nowhere near an elementary school and where a park is. Put this in an industrial area on Berryessa Rd.” With angry residents at San Jose council meetings, dead air from SJSU administration and a city “Homeless Concerns Hotline”— largely used to report encampments to authorities—it often feels like the loudest voices are those showing contempt for people without stable housing. In order to face the

combative public, SHA members have done extensive research inside and outside of class. They also met with SJSU President Mary Papazian and Vice President of Student Affairs Patrick Day last spring, and before the start of the current semester.

In that meeting Papazian and Day pledged to provide a centralized location for SJSU Cares, a resource hub for students dealing with hunger and homelessness.

Prior to the social action class that inspired her to lead SHA, Bernabe had taken a course on poverty, wealth and privilege with the same professor, Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton of

While the colloquial expression ‘starving student’ may be familiar, plenty may be surprised to learn just how many students are actually struggling with hunger. the sociology department.

Dr. Myers-Lipton, the faculty advisor to SHA, says he supports the organization’s three demands “The students are asking that the student housing in the new Alquist building be at least 20 percent below market rate (affordable for students).” He also supports the students' desire “for a plan from the administration to ‘house every Spartan,’ which President Papazian and AVP Day committed to in our meeting.”

Mayorga is hopeful for resources, though he won’t be holding his breath. “I think we are heading in the right direction, but we are just moving extremely slowly—at least at the rate of the problem, the way it’s going down,” he says. “We want to bring in resources.”

Mayorga’s hopes for positive change are not limited to the homeless alliance. “I’ve always wanted to be an educator,” he says.

“Coming from Inglewood, we lacked a lot of funding. The dropout rate was pretty high and I was always aware that the school lacked something.” Mayorga hopes to find a way to make systemic changes “for the betterment of the community.”

When he came to SJSU and found out there was actually a concentration in community change, he figured it was perfect. “I want to teach history,” he says. “I thought it was the perfect fit because I get to teach and at the same time learn how the system works and see if I can get involved in activist work.”

He wasn’t expecting SHA to become a campaign. “I thought it was a group of students that got together and volunteered to help out the homeless community, so this was really new to me.” While Mayorga is an undergraduate, he also has to make work a priority.

“Although I do school, I do work 30 hours at In-N-Out, so, you know, I work in fast food—I don’t get the opportunity in my job to do what I’m doing here.”

When thinking about solutions, Mayorga has been looking to the examples of other universities: “We met folks from UCLA, you know, the students who created the Bruins shelter. I really loved their idea.”

Should President Papazian and the SJSU administration need examples of workable solutions, they could start with Papazian’s own threetime alma mater, UCLA, where the student-run Bruin Shelter allows homeless students between the ages of 18-24 to stay. As of March, they are at capacity and it is unclear when there will be vacancies again.

Additionally, Mayorga is in favor of middle-ground solutions that make financial burdens lighter on individuals: “I’ve started hearing a lot more about co-ops through the UC system. My brother actually lives in a co-op. It’s affordable, it’s below market value, it’s for longterm students. So that provides food, amenities, people, the students themselves take it upon themselves to clean, cook, they do the yard work.

I think it’s a good idea, especially in terms of providing housing.”

ON DEMAND As a student who has personally experienced housing and hunger insecurity, I fully support SHA’s demands. If they are ever met, I might spend a night or two in one of those parking spots or dorm beds to avoid the long ride back to Benicia. I don’t need a room. But I know there are those who do— and even more who simply need a safe and comfortable place to rest.

A university kitchen that allows students to make their own meals also seems like an easy remedy to a serious problem.

The Bruin Shelter itself took inspiration from the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. It’s true that these schools are known to have generous donors and deep pockets. Silicon Valley is one of the wealthiest metropolitan regions in the world, and we have a population that knows how to leverage technology to solve seemingly intractable problems. If they can make it work in Los Angeles and Cambridge, why not here?

Perhaps the best summation of this problem comes from the King Library’s namesake. In what would become the foundation of his Poor People’s Campaign, Dr. King called upon his country to bring an end to poverty: “I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights. …[W]hen we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement. …That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution … In short, we have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society.”

It has been more than 50 years since Dr. King called on people to raise these questions, and action is long overdue. It’s time for us to decide once and for all that a good night’s rest is a human right, not a privilege.

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Normandin Chrysler

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ALL IN THE FAMILY The Normandins have been in the transportation business since San Jose’s horse-and-buggy days.

Memory Lane Normandin dealership keeps family’s business legacy alive

BY GARY SINGH

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HE GHOSTS OF Downtown Datsun and Normandin DeSotoPlymouth recently haunted the Rotary Summit Center for a presentation

by Steve Borkenhagen, Jon Ball and Christine Davis about their team’s project to build an iconic architectural landmark at Arena Green.

Their project, Urban Confluence Silicon Valley, grew out of an idea to recreate the old San Jose Light Tower—a scheme they thankfully scrapped in favor of something

more forward-looking and citylike.

Currently up for a worldwide competition, the final structure will be located at Guadalupe River Park and Gardens near Confluence Point, hence the name. Confluence Point is where the Los Gatos Creek and the Guadalupe River come together near the Shark Tank. It’s a place to celebrate many converging spheres of influence in terms of ecology, technology, ethnicities, cultures and most of all, the gritty underbelly that used to occupy that stretch of Santa Clara Street before the Shark Tank existed.

As such, in a moment of pure serendipity, Paul Normandin of the

famed car dealership family sat right next to me at the Rotary Summit presentation. We then immediately broke into 150 years of local lore, including the Normandin operation when it occupied 405 W. Santa Clara St., right where Arena Green is now (see photo). The cement barrier along the sidewalk, where Santa Clara crosses the river, still remains from 80 years ago.

“It’s interesting that it’s exactly the same wall,” Paul said. “Even those tiles in the wall are still there.”

The Normandin family has one of the most storied, legendary business pedigrees in San Jose history, going back to the horse and buggy days of 1875, when Amable “Amos” Normandin first emigrated from Montreal, Quebec. Cars were still about 20 years away, so Amos, a blacksmith, partnered with F.D. Hatman, a woodworker, to launch the Pacific Carriage Factory. Just one generation later saw the rise of Normandin-Campen, which dealt with now-obsolete cars like Hudson and Essex. Then Normandin bought out Campen and the business fell

under the Normandin nom de plume. The business expanded into 405 W. Santa Clara St. in 1934, fully indoctrinated as a Chrysler franchise.

And speaking of 405 W. Santa Clara St., many local underbelly connoisseurs can at least wax poetic about Downtown Datsun, circa the ’70s and ’80s—“We are the dealingest!”—since that company later occupied the same building, offering up hysterical commercials and somewhat crooked promotional schemes. However, the Normandins first built the structure. In order to accommodate extensive service areas and indoor display bays, the building was one of the largest free-standing structures with no indoor pillars—a serious engineering feat for the day.

After operating at 405 W. Santa Clara St. through two World Wars, the birth of the boomer generation and the beginnings of suburban sprawl, the Normandins sold the building to Downtown Datsun in 1969, after which they relocated to Capitol Expressway. To this day, an original Normandin-Hatman buggy from 1882 sits atop the roof of the dealership.

Paul represents the fifth generation of Normandins at the helm of the storied business. His dad, Lon Normandin, who still serves as the chairman, grew up in the old building at 405 W. Santa Clara St., sometimes even driving Jeeps down into the creek bed, that is, when FMC weren’t testing their tanks in the same area.

“At one point in his childhood he lived upstairs above the service department with his dad,” Paul told me. “I remember him telling me they had a homeless guy that used to live at the back of the lot, on the creek, and he was kind of their security guard that watched the place for them. ... He was there for years and knew all the employees. He was just a homeless guy that watched the lot at night time when everyone was gone.”

This weekend and the following weekend, the SAP Center will rightly celebrate its 25th anniversary with a block party and other festival events at Arena Green, cementing a new era of history, to be continued once Urban Confluence Silicon Valley builds a new monument in the park. Nevertheless, the ghosts of Normandin DeSoto-Plymouth, Downtown Datsun and maybe even that homeless guy will make themselves known. Go, Sharks!

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THE LEGACY Caleb Orozco is finishing what his father started at The Last Round Tavern.

Fighting Back Former boxer opens punchy San Jose eatery, The Last Round Tavern

BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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ALEB OROZCO WAS 15 when he cracked a couple ribs. It was nothing major, the kind of injury any kid might sustain during their high school years. But there was a difference between Orozco and the other high school kids.

“I had a fight coming up,” he says, “and if I could still throw punches, I was gonna get in there and do it.”

Orozco started boxing

competitively when he was just 11 years old. By the time he turned 20, he’d been in the ring 70 times.

“Other kids in PE class would be playing dodgeball or whatever,” he recalls, “but if I had a fight that weekend, I’d be in my garbage bag suit running around the track trying to lose that extra weight. This was in middle school.”

In the ring, he was a boxer’s boxer, a technical pugilist equipped with a snappy jab, a strong hook and a head for the fundamentals. Too young

for the Golden Gloves, he competed in Silver Gloves tournaments (ages 11-15) and the Jr. Olympics, travelling nationally for competitions.

Many of the trophies Orozco earned during his eight-year amateur career can now be seen behind the bar at the Last Round Tavern in downtown San Jose. This May, Orozco set aside the gloves and faced a whole new challenge when he opened his tavern in the shell of the old Nick’s Pizza building at Eighth and Santa Clara. Gone are the checkered curtains and framed photos of Don Vito Corleone.

They’ve been replaced by some of the world’s greatest fighters: Julio Cesar Chavez, Diego Corrales, Danny “Little Red” Lopez.

The son of San Jose natives, Orozco learned the restaurant trade from his father, Danny, who in 2016 opened one of the city’s hidden gems, the beloved East Side sandwich shop Genuine Heroes.

“My dad, he’s always loved cooking,” the younger Orozco says, “and people love his food. It started with his meatballs. His homemade meatball recipe is freaking killer.

We had no foot traffic, and no cars driving by, but every day we had a line out the door.”

Despite its popularity, Genuine Heroes’ tenure was cut short last year when the Orozcos received an impossible rent hike. But at the Last Round Tavern, many of its most popular items, like the meatball hero and the hand-carved turkey, are getting a rematch. This time around, the menu has been rounded out by a number of signature pies that incorporate both the family’s recipes and the facilities left over from Nick’s.

“I’m fortunate because my pop did a lot of the legwork writing the recipes and creating this awesome food,” Orozco says. “He passed it over to me.

Now it’s kind of my job to maintain it, do the upkeep and follow the steps.”

The Last Round opened in May, just as San Jose State University let out for the summer, and things started a little slow for the restaurant. But Orozco is playing the long game. Just like his father at Genuine Heroes, he’s investing time and care in the food, making sauces from scratch in-house, and slowbraising the meats overnight.

It’s a new endeavor for the fighter.

But in a rental market as lethal as San Jose’s, he might just be one of the few with the skills set required to survive.

“All the lessons that I learned through boxing—patience, discipline, grit—that’s all kinda transferred into the business,” he says.

Even the restaurant’s name comes from his training—a phrase that has become a philosophy for Orozco in his journey from a fighter to a business owner.

“My coach would always tell me, ‘The last round is the best round.’

No matter what, in the last round you go out there and you do the best you can. If you’re in a rut, you push through. The last round is always the best round.”

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These two alternative indie artists paint trippy dreamscapes with their hypnotizing post punk and psych rock sounds. Casual Crypt is the alterego of synth wizard James Vernon, whose upcoming debut album frames bedroom pop and indie rock around a spooky backdrop of whispering vocals and electronic echoes. Vernon’s album is set to drop in October.

Sharing the bill is the local noiserock collective Eastern Westerner.

Longtime staples of the scene, the band draws inspiration from San Jose indie legends like Duster and other contemporary no-wave phenoms, such as Sonic Youth. (MP)

WHATUPRG Fri, 7pm, $10+ Family Life Christian Center, San Jose

Born in Georgia to a Mexican family, J. Raul Garcia—better known by his stage name, WHATUPRG—wears his Christian faith on his sleeve. His two EPs, Pleasant Hill and RAUL, are brimming with allusions to his faith and his family heritage.

Garcia’s music tells a story, one characterized by both the trauma of his father’s deportation and the freedom RG has found in religion.

“Aquí no existe la ley,” RG quips in “Wesside”—his innovative sound certainly isn’t tied to any law. He’s mixing slick hip-hop grooves with Dirty South trap, while nodding to his Latin roots. Parris Chariz, Aklesso and Tommy Royale join him for the Saint Holy Tour. (ER)

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BOWLING AND BEERS IN HELL

MORGAN HILL BREW CRAWL

Fri-Sun, Various Times, $10+ Homestead Bowl & The X-Bar

Sat, 1pm, $40+ Downtown Morgan Hill

Music promotion organization Heavy San Jose is putting together bowling, brews and heavy metal in a weekend showcase of over 20 rock bands from across the West Coast. San Jose classics like Infinite Sleep and Dolores will be appearing alongside stoner metal shredders Hippie Death Cult and Holy Grove, both natives of Portland. Other outfits hail from across Northern California, Los Angeles and even Salt Lake City.

Hosted at the X-Bar adjacent to Homestead Bowl, there will be libations on deck from Ghost Town Brewing, Laughing Monk and Alvarado Street Brewing. (MP)

Presented by the Morgan Hill Downtown Association, the annual Brew Crawl returns for its eighth year. Attendees can sample rare craft brews and ciders, four bands performing live music and games across 20 tasting locations—all within walking distance. Tickets include beer samples, a custom glass and a beer passport to keep track of your favorite sips. Participating breweries include Strike Brewing Co., Clandestine Brewing, South City Cider Works and Gordon Biersch. The festivities start at 1pm, but attendees may check in as early as noon. For info head to morganhilldowntown.org. (EC)

DIERKS BENTLEY Sat, 7pm, $40+ Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View We all know Dierks Bentley as a singer, songwriter and country music veteran…but it turns out he might also be a Burner. He’s currently on the road, pushing his 2018 LP, The Mountain, whose lead single, “Burning Man,” seems to pay homage to the weeklong party in Nevada’s Black Rock desert.

The tune deals with struggles and triumphs, and conflicting urges for rambling and remaining grounded.

The album—his ninth studio set in 15 years—mixes elements of bluegrass with straightforward rock & roll. Bentley’s label mate Jon Pardi and rising country singer Caylee Hammack open. (NV)

* concerts DURAN DURAN Sep 10-11 at Mountain Winery

CAKE & BEN FOLDS Sep 13 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

BLAKE SHELTON Sep 13 at SAP Center

KUNG FU VAMPIRE Sep 13 at The Ritz

MALUMA Sep 15 at SAP Center

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Sep 20 at Mountain Winery

METALACHI Sep 22 at The Ritz

DURAN DURAN

BOB SEGER Sep 26 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

MANÁ Sep 27 at SAP Center

MOUNTAIN VIEW ART & WINE FEST Sat-Sun, All Day, Free Castro Street, Mountain View One of the Peninsula’s largest summer street fairs, the Mountain View Art & Wine Festival packs a whole lot into two days. The public party features artwork from more than 500 artists and makers, live music, plenty of kid-friendly activities, plus beer, wine and signature cocktails—all on Castro Street. Also this year, the Pigskin Party Lounge returns. Gather round the outdoor big screen to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers and the 49ers challenge the Buccaneers. For more information, visit mountainview. miramarevents.com. (MS)

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SHANNON & THE CLAMS Oct 3 at The Ritz

BLACK LIPS

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Sun, 7pm, $30 Felton Music Hall, Felton

Tue-Wed (Sep 10-1)1, 8pm, $99+ Mountain Winery, Saratoga

Wed (Sep 11), 8pm, $53+ San Jose Civic

New Zealand roots reggae icons Katchafire started 20 years ago as a Bob Marley tribute band— taking their name from The Wailers' debut record, Catch a Fire.

After the 2018 release of their fifth album, Legacy, which topped international charts, the group has solidified its presence on the forefront of the contemporary reggae scene. Katchafire channels influences from ska and dub with deep bass grooves and easy-going vocals on songs like “I Can Feel it a Lot,” from Legacy. On other numbers, such as “Fyah in the Trenches,” reverb-laden horns and Rhodes harmonies add to the head-bobbing bass-and-drums mix. (MP)

Nobody alive in the 1980s with the scantest interest in music could escape the force of Duran Duran.

The slick synth-heavy proto-boyband from the UK became an MTV sensation, thanks in large part to pouty sex-symbol lead singer, Simon LeBon. Sure, it’ll never be 1983 again, but DD has proved to be a surprisingly enduring group. They’ve been releasing new records consistently for the past 40 years. Their most recent work, 2015’s Paper Gods, even brings in hip contributors such as Janelle Monae and the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s John Frusciante. Let’s see Culture Club do that! (WB)

¡Pinche Juan! the crowd would yell for lead vocalist Rubén Albarrán. He changes his moniker for just about every album Café Tacvba releases.

Thus far, he’s adopted at least 15 stage names. The group itself proves just as fluid. They’ve dipped their toes into just about every genre one might imagine. During their early days, back in the ’90s, they experimented with ska and hip-hop.

Then they moved on to a punky, alt-rock, metal-infused Latin sound, which helped them gather a cult following of rock en Español fans.

Currently on their 30th anniversary tour, Café Tacvba have shifted gears once again—putting their own spin on traditional Mexican roots music, mixing indigenous textures with their own modern sensibilities. (ER)

Oct 10 at The Ritz

DEADMAU5 Oct 11-12 at San Jose Civic

FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS Oct 13 at San Jose Civic

J BALVIN Oct 17 at SAP Center

MARK FARINA Oct 19 at The Ritz

LUKE COMBS Nov 6 at SAP Center

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 26 at SAP Center For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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FLYING FIST ‘Mariposa/Butterfly’ by sculptor Hector Dionicio Mendoza on display at the Triton Museum.

Social Butterfly Hector Dionicio Mendoza deploys natural forms against violence, oppression

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EVERED AT THE neck, a giant’s head hangs from the ceiling in mid-air. His eyes are closed; his lips slightly parted. This is the white plaster face of a god in repose.

He might be contemplating his next act of creation.

His expression is as enigmatic as the iconic stones on Easter Island. Long scraps of bark coat his neck, creeping toward the edges of his forehead, cheeks and chin. A green man made out of wood and the elemental earth.

Hector Dionicio Mendoza’s Head/ Cabeza is one of several sculptures in

his solo show, “White Wilderness/ Maleza Blanca” (at the Triton Museum of Art through Nov. 3) that makes contact with the divine. But the gods and demigods who populate the gallery aren’t merely benevolent or blandly beatific.

Acting as a sentinel and a figurehead at the exhibit’s entrance, White Wilderness is a hybrid piece, a sculpture that spills into and shares psychic real estate with a misshapen canvas. The bust of a man’s head is inked in black and white. Leafy patterns from a jungle or forest cover every inch of his neck, facial features and smooth, bald scalp. Both his eyes

and his lips open up to reveal an admonitory blackness. The pattern on his skin drifts east and drips south until a distorted second face emerges.

As this shadow self stretches away from the bust, a process of dislocation and disorderliness ensues. This is the portrait of a soul in disarray.

Mendoza was born in Uruapan, Michoacan, México in 1969 and moved to California with his family when he was 12 years old. During a month-long artist’s residency at the Monterey Museum of Art in 2018, he described his work as “a social statement, a commentary on society.” This sounds dry on paper but is visionary in practice. In Pulling/ Jalando, Mendoza sculpts a man whose head has become such a burden that it drags down behind him on the ground. The figure’s stance—feet firmly planted against an opposing force—is that of someone in a tug-of-war with his own psyche.

His fragile, elastic neck is elongated to such an extent that it might just snap off. The head, if that’s what it is, looks like a cement narwhal that’s been

stripped of its magic pallor, tail, horn and fins. But Mendoza also creates a porthole with a glassy kaleidoscopic interior to indicate a brain that’s turning in intricate, fully functional and beautifully moving circles.

Where Pulling/Jalando exerts a strange, abstract influence on the viewer, other sculptures convey more direct messages. The artist references Hercules in the title of one piece but Holding/Leaning/Pushing and Silhouette/ Silhueta 01 summon up the burdens of Atlas and Sisyphus. Mendoza’s work in “White Wilderness/Maleza Blanca” is towering in scale, but they’re not simply heavy objects that take up space or to stare at in awe; they bear a meaningful, psychological weight.

Holding and Silhouette use different materials that show two men with their hands held up in the air. Their backs are to us. These are the postures of people who are being detained or arrested. Mendoza covers the hands and legs of the figure in Holding with bark but emphasizes the vulnerability of the flesh by leaving the arms, back and buttocks gray and bare.

The sculpture that takes the most conventional approach to realpolitik is Mariposa/Butterfly. Donna Conwell, an associate curator at the Montalvo Arts Center, writes that Mendoza’s work “is created by carefully collecting, drying and pressing various species of flora samples between pages of heavy books.” This is how he created the “tattoo” effect on White Wilderness and the lower edges of his butterfly’s wings. He paints the two upper wings with thin lines of bright colors, but this prehistoric-size insect doesn’t seem poised for flight. In place of a thorax, the artist connects the wingspan with a hollowed-out wedge of driftwood. He replaces the antennae with a fist that he’s painted gold. It’s the only unambiguous message in a hall full of dreamed-up monsters who alarm the senses and align our collective political consciousness with the uncanny.

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Anti-Heroes Amazon streaming series, ‘The Boys,’ imagines a bizzarro Justice League

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E AWAIT AN essayist like Robert Warshow (1917-55) who could defend the wave of superhero movies against the kind of reductive criticism that claims “they’re all fascist,” then drops the mic and calls it a day.

Warshow’s “The Study of Man: Paul, the Horror Comics, and Dr. Wertham” took a stance against the crusading psychiatrist Wertham, who loathed comics. As Warshow noted of the doctor: “Discussing Superman, he suggests that it wouldn’t take much to change the ‘S’ on that great chest to ‘S.S.’”

They have their points, those who’d get bored or who’d rather not treat four-color characters as if they were Jungian archetypes. Still, it’s surprising what compulsively watchable, dirty fun Amazon Prime offers in The Boys.

It’s a popular show—how popular, we don’t know; like all streaming services, Amazon Prime keeps the ratings a secret. It’s derived from a comic book series co-created (with Garth Ennis)

by Darick Robertson from San Mateo.

(As a kid, Robertson was a regular customer at Palo Alto’s Lee’s Comics.)

The bloody, thundery source comic was refined to something more speculative, like The Watchmen, which will be an HBO series in October. There are

similiarities; both The Boys and the original film of The Watchman have the story of a sex crime that spurs the plot.

In The Boys, as in real life, the military-industrial-entertainment complex blights and bedazzles the average citizen. Introducing the Vought Corporation—“Vought and sold,” as it were. They manage, license and platform superheroes, combining the grimiest qualities of Blackwater, Disney and the NFL. At the top of the heap is The Seven, a Justice League like gang led by the omnipotent Homelander with a stars and stripes cape (no, The Boys is not politically subtle). The Michael Fassbenderish Antony Starr—a secret identity name if there ever was one— plays the laser-eyed supermonster. His character has a frightening willingness to bury his mistakes. In one case, his psychotic cocksureness dooms a besieged jumbo jet that he’d gone to rescue with his partner Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott, as a Celtic Wonder Woman with more issues than National Geographic).

That’s bad. Worse, Homelander is a

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ABUSE OF POWER The Amazon Prime series reminds us why we really don’t want to meet our heroes.

lay preacher who likes to baptise highrolling donors to his mega-church.

And lately, he’s demanding a place in the US government.

New to the resistance against these omni-tyrants is a dweeby smartphone salesman Hughie (Jack Quaid). The love of his life was smashed to pieces right in front of him, a 500mph hit and run by this world’s Flash, the arrogant A-Train (Jesse Usher).

Hughie’s recruiter to the underground is a former CIA wetworker called Billy Butcher (Karl Urban). Urban’s Cockney, Aussi—or both—accent boggles the Internet.

One bright Reddit user suggested Urban was being dialect-coached by Dick van Dyke’s Bert the Chimney Sweep. Similarly, Billy’s right-hand man Frenchie (Tomar Capon) shrugs Gallically, is debonair and tres romantique and knows how to cook. The Boys has those vaudeville-level ethnicities that keep classic Star Trek from being too moral to watch, bringing zaniness to visions of cosmic cataclysm.

Chace Crawford is becoming a favorite, even while working the old fanboy joke about the uselessness of Aquaman. Crawford’s submariner, The Deep, grossly sexually harrasses Starlight. After she #MeToos him on TV, he’s sent on a well-deserved downward spiral, doing volunteer beach cleanup while wielding a claw-shaped trash picker instead of a trident. After he mouths a prewritten public apology, The Deep is forcibly traded to Sandusky, Ohio, where he’s later mauled by a mean pickup who he brought back to his Extended Stay hotel.

The lower echelon of heroes is where the fun really lies. Haley Joel Osment, of The Sixth Sense, is hilarious as an autograph-hawking has-been on the fan-con circuit. He’s extorted into using his telepathic talent to figure out the way these heroes are made, not born.

Best is Elizabeth Shue as Madelyn, a top exec at Vought. Her mix of ruthlessness and need recalls Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton. There is some meat here, more than just the carnage; the show demonstrates how the actual supervillains of today use surveillance and NDAs instead of death rays and killer robots.

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HERE IS SO much to love about college.

Freedom from parental supervision; taking a sex ed class taught by an actual biologist rather than the high school football coach; new friends; a world of opportunity; beer.

But it’s certainly not a cakewalk.

Negotiating relationships, grappling with evolving personal ideologies and figuring out how to cook things other than ramen are all a part of the challenge.

Doing all this in Silicon Valley comes with an added layer of

complexity. The South Bay is one of the most expensive places to live, eat and play in the entire country. For those without access to the mom and dad’s Chase Sapphire, this means some serious financial planning.

Consider this the official guide to living large while still pinching pennies. Cohabitate with style and grace, keep your home beautiful and functional, have fun for free—or at least really cheap—and live your best life… no matter how crazy your roomies, professors and minimum wage jobs get.

So raise a red Solo cup to the best four—or five… or six—years of your life. College smacks!

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Frankly, showing up the first day of class with any form of paper and a writing utensil is pretty top-notch preparation. Going back-toschool shopping isn’t like it used to be in your elementary days—but there are still some supplies that’ll make the school year a little more manageable. And fun!

GOOD PLAN STAN The future is here and it’s… well… kind of impersonal. Yeah, Google Calendar and Trello are great scheduling tools, but it just feels so damn good to physically cross something off a to-do list printed on quality card stock. Erin Condren and Zazzle sell artful and customizable personal planners online, while local boutiques like Petite Galleria in Japantown cary unique paper goods.

STAY JUICED Batteries die. And when they do, it’s always at the worst possible time. Fortunately, there’s a way to avoid submitting that assignment late or finding yourself stranded in the city.

Portable energy sources are a long-term, stress-reducing investment. Shop around— the Flux Portable Charger costs $30 and is compatible with iPhone and Android.

RAVPower also carries wallet-friendly external chargers and power banks with bigger output for laptops.

675 Saratoga Ave, San Jose Can you imagine how lonely it is out there in the land of lost pens? Maybe, if writing utensils were a bigger investment, we wouldn’t lose them as much. Everyone knows that one person who hoards their $20 fountains—they

WATER BOTTLES Stay hydrated—your cognitive and physiological well being depend on it. The now-classic CamelBak, Hydroflask, Yeti, S’well and Klean Kanteen last practically forever and make hydration an en-vogue venture. Another nifty container, the Vapur Element collapses when empty, fitting right between your books.

And it’s just $14. Lifefactory offers sturdy glass bottles for half the price of other big names, and the Thermos Intak lets you track how much water you’re drinking with a rotating intake meter, while the insulation keeps your liquids hot or cold all day.

EASY LIVING

Let’s be real. The universe is vast, cold and indifferent—at least least according to your eccentric philosophy professor. But don’t despair! The secret to existentialism is understanding that you and you alone are the ultimate arbiter of your own happiness, and one of the best ways to stay happy is to stay organized. So, come on, dude! Get your act together with these simple tips.

CLEANING However you can get it done, just clean.

Disposable bleach wipes are convenient, but they’re costly. Try the age-old method of vinegar and baking soda. It’s cheap, smells sort of like a pastry, and the scrubbing power is A1.

Pro tip: when the party’s over, you can use the leftover lemon and lime wedges to cut through the grease on the counters.

VANISHING ACT Vapur water pouches collapse when empty.

San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild and Tabia African American Theatre Ensemble Present

“Award Winning Dance Company”

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Hair & Other Stories ONE SHOW ONLY

Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019 • 8:00PM Tickets $45 • $5 discount Students/Seniors/Groups of 10 or more Hair & Other Stories blends dance-theater and conversations that explore disquieting perceptions of beauty, identity, and race, and what constitutes the freedom to rise to our extra-ordinary selves in extraordinary times.

School of Arts & Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza 1700 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA Ticket Info Contact: 408-272-9924 • www.sjmag.org

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PEN AND INK

might be onto something. At Mitsuwa, the Kinokuniya book store boasts a fantastic array of different pens and the same goes for MaiDo at Santana Row. A good refillable pen that lasts years could be just $10. Who knew Mitsubishi made pens?

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college guide pomander balls are a sprinkle of Christmas year-round and no matter what your science professor might say, if a houseplant can make you feel like your apartment smells better, who cares if it’s actually improving the air quality.

JARS You know… those things your pickles, mayo and pasta sauce come in? They can also hold water, tea and cocktails. Instead of buying drinking glasses, clean them out and refill them.

PARKSTASH findparkstash.com

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CONTAIN YOURSELF College living is kind of like camping.

Efficiency is key—especially when it comes to eating and storing food. The more efficient you can be with your utensils, the less time you’ll spend washing dishes and the more time you can spend having fun.

Glassware is an ideal way to conveniently store, carry and microwave premade meals or leftovers. Glasslock, Pyrex, OXO, Ello and even Rubbermaid are all great brands. French Bull makes sealable ceramics. For space saving vessels, there are no shortage of collapsible silicone containers online. When you’re slipping things into your backpack, it’s possible they’ll leak—that’s one of the only things plastic grocery bags are still good for.

DON’T FIGHT THE SYSTEM The university is a great way to get politically active, but there’s nothing wrong with entrenched organizational systems.

Establishing rules and schedules with roommates can be the difference between war and peace—discuss expectations at the very beginning. A waterproof labeling system or a whiteboard in the kitchen is an easy way to track who should be washing what…. laminate some note cards with tape that designate each roommate. When someone has to skirt to class before washing their dishes, they can stake a claim to it.

ETSY etsy.com

Chances are, you’ve picked up a thing or two on Etsy. But for real, it’s the ish. Support do-itthemselves artists and small businesses with the decor and gifts you purchase—wallpaper or stencils, wood-burned house signs, hanging shelves, quirky pillows—it’s all there.

FRESH PRINCE OF DORM-AIR You can only control what you do with your own dirty socks. Block offensive odors with some homegrown air freshening. Potpourri is fun to make, classic orange-and-clove

You’ve won the first-world college jackpot— you own a car. Now… where to park it? With this app, cheap parking can be found in just seconds. ParkStash has partnered with local home and business owners that welcome circlers to end the search and park in their stash—many in downtown San Jose and bordering SJSU.

UNROLL.ME Figuring out a healthy and efficient email practice: huge. Something nobody can stand—all that damn spam! Break the pesky influx with unroll.me, which detects what your email address subscribes to so you can ditch the relentless suckers that clutter your inbox forever. And ever.

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Playing the Sims as a kid didn’t really prepare anyone for Bay Area housing prices. There’s really no sugarcoating it—finding “affordable” housing is a complicated venture. The best advice: exhaust your resources. To the patient apartment-hunters go the spoils.

FLEX THE NETWORK Honestly, this is and has always been the best way to find housing, jobs, you name it.

Networking is scary—until you do it a bunch and realize that most people have a certain baseline of decency. Turns out human beings often want to help other members of their species. Talk to those you know in the area and keep at it until you have what you want. You need a good place to live! Don’t give up. Be assertive, and believe in yourself.

APARTMENT LIST apartmentlist.com

A free app that is… exactly what it sounds like.

This one will get you personalized matches, HQ photos, estimations on your future commute, an accessible list of your favorite options and updates on the listings.

FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE:

facebook.com/marketplace Yeah, the Facebook news feed is really just for baby pictures and your crazy uncle’s political rants, but the Marketplace will land

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PIECE WORK There are many dispensaries and smoke shops in San Jose, so shop around. super user friendly or expansive—but their real deals are in electronics, furniture, decor, clothing and even services from local factotums.

HOTPADS

There are brands we don’t dare to look at because there’s just… no way. Poshmarks shakes that up—giving you the power to access hot brand name threads and accessories without the brand new price tag.

Score quality threads, kicks and shades on the low.

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Anything that works 24/7 is bound to be up to date. Whether you want a hot pad or will take literally whatever place you can get, the advanced filters on this app should help you find your way there. Get alerts and keep track of your options—they know that one size really doesn’t fit all.

FIX UP, LOOK SHARP

Driving around looking for sidewalk furniture works and Craigslist is cool, but how do you know you won’t be getting a family of mice in that ottoman? Here are a few more options for seeking out loveseats and style without leaving the couch you’re trying to replace.

LETGO

us.letgo.com/en Lucky for you, some people are trying to let go.

They have housing options—a feature that isn’t

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ZILLOW RENTALS zillow.com

It’s both fun and immensely depressing to see how the other half lives. But Zillow is good for more than looking up real estate prices in tony zip codes. Filter options by location, draw your own lines on the map, sign up for notifications to see when your dream rental becomes available and get in touch with landlords and property managers with just a few clicks.

ZUMPER zumper.com

Use this site to filter housing by price and amenities. Find a place that is fur friendly, with air conditioning and no gratuitous cleaning deposit.

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you some hot commodities. A gorgeous $40 yellow cruiser, that single room that comes with normal roommates, a free bed. Also, it’s a big plus that you can see the person you’re meeting before you arrive. There is no shortage of creeps in this world.

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coastlines and cool winding rivers are just a short drive away. Oh… And cannabis is legal for the 21-plus crowd.

BENTO DELIVERY bento.delivery This Oakland-based Cannabis Delivery service is a dispensary on wheels! Bento stocks a large assortment of Cannabis products, including dank buds, tasty edibles, a variety of vape cartridges—and best of all, they’ll come to you. They also have a fantastic deal for students. Present a valid college ID with your order and get a preroll for just a penny.

CALIVA 1695 S 7th St, San Jose San Jose’s home-grown cannabis heroes, Caliva is a leader in the Bay Area’s legal weed scene. They’ve been lauded their transparency, sustainability and customer service. Best of all, their beautiful dispensary is just a short bike ride from the SJSU campus. Show up in person or order online for free delivery.

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Also known as the Uber of pot, Eaze is a Cannabis delivery service operating in more than 100 cities across California. An advocate for gender diversity, racial inclusivity and social responsibility in the cannabis industry, they even highlight products from women-owned brands in their online inventory.

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BRICK & MORTAR

Today’s technology makes it far to easy to become a shut-in. When you’re feeling cooped up and in need of a little retail therapy, check out these local shops to stock up on choice threads, decor and basic necessities.

BLACK AND BROWN 751 W San Carlos St, San Jose You can buy items from this local boutique, but it’s far better to visit in person. This place is a bit pretty pricey for a secondhand clothing store—but the prices ensure excellent curation.

CROSSROADS TRADING CO 1959 W San Carlos St, San Jose San Jose has two locations, and Crossroads makes it almost too easy to sell clothes. You can sell on site, use their 24-hour drop-off, wait for consignment or mail clothes in. That influx of clothing means the pickings are awesome.

GOODWILL SAN CARLOS 1691 West San Carlos St, San Jose The Goodwill has always been a good choice for shopping on a budget, but it hasn’t always had the vibe of a chic vintage store. A few years ago, taking cues from hipper thrift shops, this location opened a more curated upstairs section called The Loft.

TOM’S TREASURES AND THRIFT 158 S King Rd, San Jose This tiny thrift spot boasts a diverse assortment of oddball miscellanea. Vintage baubles and classic threads come at modest prices. You might just find your next outfit for an up-coming ’90s party.

STAYING LIFTED

It’s important to maintain a positive outlook in life. Yes, the Bay Area is expensive. But living here means snow-capped peaks, rugged

ELEMENTAL WELLNESS 985 Timothy Dr, San Jose Whether you’re a medical patient or just looking for community, Elemental Wellness is a hub for all things cannabis. Not only do they offer a wide assortment of flower, concentrates and vape cartridges, but this dispensary also offers yoga classes and cultivation workshops. Elemental Wellness has sales often, so keep an eye on their Instagram feed.

BREEZ MINTS findbreez.com Skip the burner breath and pop one of these mints for some warm fuzzies. Delivering a solid yet functional high, these freshies by Royal Garden Society come in a variety of flavors—original mint, cinnamon, citrus—and an assortment of formulations for daytime, nighttime and everything in between.

PARAMOUNT IMPORTS 455 Meridian Ave, San Jose This legendary San Jose head shop has been selling cannabis accessories—from pipes to trippy posters—for more than 50 years.

Paramount has shelves stocked with locally blown glass, incense in every scent imaginable and a grand assortment of novelty items. The friendly staff will gladly work with your budget and help you pick out the perfect piece for your needs.

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These juicy little cubes come in a variety of tasty fruity flavors—including seasonal flavors. And with just 5mg of THC per gummy, dosing is easy for beginners.

CHEAP EATS

At least three times a day, food takes center stage, and that can be pretty tough to manage on a rigorous class and work schedule. When trying to make a meal at home becomes impossible or just plain unappealing in the moment, there are some local and delicious options that will make a minimal dent in your bank account.

5 SPOT CHIVAS GRILL 869 S 1st St, San Jose

Just south of downtown, on the other side of Interstate 280, the luxury apartments stop and some seriously legit taquerias hold court.

Chivas Grill is one of the best. Chow down on their tacos and burritos, sample their bountiful salsa bar and consider getting adventurous with their molcajete—a piping hot stone mortar, filled with bubbling, buttery broth, steak, chicken, shrimp, veggies and fried queso.

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New York and Silicon Valley collide at this pizzeria. A co-op—meaning that all employees have the opportunity to get a piece of the financial pie—ASNY is easily one of the best pizza spots in the South Bay.

ATHENA GRILL

1505 Space Park Dr, Santa Clara My Big Fat Greek Veg-Out. If a friend takes you here for the first time, you might think you’re being kidnapped. There’s nothing around this place but warehouses and offices. Eventually, however, Athena’s bright blue umbrellas will poke out on the horizon. Here you will find some seriously delicious Mediterranean provisions.

CAFE ROSALENA 1077 The Alameda, San Jose

La Victoria is not the only orange sauce game in town. Cafe Rosalena’s rendition is a creamy zest party, smooth and with just enough kick (but that’s subjective, of course). Santa Clara University students are introduced to this place as a right of passage. The breakfast burritos will fuel you through the first half of grueling day.

DAKAO

98 E San Salvador St, San Jose This super-cheap Vietnamese eatery stacked with options: pho bowls, rice plates and an assortment of Bánh Mì sandwiches, plus various snacks and goodies. Located at the

7 corner of San Salvador and Fourth streets, it’s just a short jaunt from SJSU, and it’s a great place for an affordable breakfast, lunch or dinner. They also share their space with Downtown Poki, so you could pop an appetizer and enjoy your raw fish fill in the same spot.

GREENLEE’S BAKERY 1081 The Alameda, San Jose

You deserve these cookies, you really do.

Hard work usually leads to sugar in one way or another, and these powdered and frosted carbohydrate masterpieces might be just the fix you need.

IGUANAS BURRITOZILLA Various Locations

Just around the corner from La Vic’s is another staple taqueria of Downtown San Jose. Like La Vic’s, Iguanas has been on the scene since the mid ’90s. Their orange sauce is scrumptious in its own right, but its claim to fame is the burritozilla: an 18 inch, five pound monster of a burrito.

IKE’S LOVE & SANDWICHES Various Locations

Started in the Bay Area, Ike’s is a California institution at this point. These renowned, sometimes-suggestive and always-delectable sandwiches are worth every penny.

LA VICTORIA TAQUERIA San Jose

La Vic’s is known first and foremost for their addictive orange sauce. With multiple downtown locations that stay open late, a burrito from this San Jose favorite is easy and delicious.

MOD PIZZA Various Locations

“Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.” Thanks to Bill Murray, personal pizza is truly inspirational, and MOD is firing reasonably-sized craft pies, quick and cheesy.

NAMASTE NEPAL FOOD TRUCK

1288 W El Camino Real, Mountain View A bit of a cross between Indian and Chinese food, Nepalese cuisine is on the rise in Silicon Valley. Try the momo, chowmein, fried rice or manchurian—balls of meat or veggies, fried in batter and lathered in tangy brown or red sauce.

PEANUTS DELUXE CAFE 275 E San Fernando St, San Jose

For an average of $8 a meal from early morning to sunset, Peanuts dishes out greasy spoon

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Celebrate the start of the new school year with SJMA’s teacher appreciate event—a night of arts education and STEAM activities highlighting the opportunities for schools, students, and families to further engage with the Museum. Facebook’s Analog Research Laboratory hosts an art-making pop up with artist Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh. Featuring music by resident DJ Chale Brown. Cash bar and late-night bites available.

Order FREE tickets at sjmusart.org/FFF

OFTEN DUPLICATED Though not the only game in town, there is nothing quite like La Victoria’s famous orange sauce.

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Teacher Appreciation Night

8 college guide people (that treat college students like real humans) serving classic breakfasts with a smile. Start the day in this cozy mom-and-pop showp with a delicious Benedict.

CAFE CRAWL

Chances are, you’re not far from a Starbucks, Peet’s or Philz… While these shops will give you a jolt and a WiFi hotspot, we encourage you to support a smaller neighborhood java spot. Cramming for finals is always better in a coffee shop with character.

ACADEMIC COFFEE 499 S 2nd St, San Jose

A recent addition to the SoFA cafe circuit, this artisanal coffee shop is dressed up in classy minimalist digs. Academic slings beans from Sacramento-based Temple Coffee Roasters, alongside quality pastries baked in house.

BIG MUG COFFEE ROASTER 3014 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

True to its name, this coffee house pours drinks into large house mugs, and the cafe itself can play host to a good-sized crowd.

Usually open until 11pm, except for Sundays, it’s a great study spot. They’ve goåt some food, too, including waffles topped with Marianne’s ice cream.

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CAFFE FRASCATI 315 S 1st St, San Jose

Come for the cappuccino, stay for the beer and wine. This SoFA hangout is a sanctuary for young creatives, who can be found inside—or out on the terrace—painting, writing poetry or tinkering on the house piano. Frascati also hosts open mics on weeknights which attract sizeable crowds.

CREMA

950 and 1202 The Alameda, San Jose

CAFE SOCIETY A cup and a cake from Academic Coffee make ideal study buddies. favorites—massive omelettes, burgers, grilled cheese, fries and more. They’ll even deliver for a $3 fee.

condensed milk—horchata in hand—are the Salvadoran cuisine you wake up craving in the dead of night.

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SAJJ MEDITERRANEAN

855 E Homestead Rd, Sunnyvale

If you’re on the prowl for some soulnourishing soup to make you feel at home, Little Saigon’s got your back. This pho joint’s reasonably priced and generously-sized bowls of noodle soup will satiate any appetite.

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San Jose, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Menlo Park Mediterranean cuisine option that stacks up on the vegetables you’re probably not eating enough of. Falafel, shawarma, or pomegranate chicken in pitas, wraps, salads and bowls— all halal.

San Jose

SARA’S KITCHEN

These soft and savory pupusas, topped off by a murderously sweet dessert of plantains with

Some of the most down to earth, warmhearted

1595 Franklin St, Santa Clara

A hit with college students, Crema has two locations on The Alameda—just a few blocks apart from each other. Crema’s coffee is roasted in house in small batches.

DANA STREET ROASTING COMPANY 744 W Dana St, Mountain View

Dana Street has all the caffeinated essentials, and then some—like thai coffee, root beer floats and banana mochas. They occasionally have live music in the evenings. It’s cash only—but their prices are worth the hassle of carrying paper money.

GROCERY STORES

No one enjoys coming home to an empty fridge or pantry. Groceries are going to be one of the bigger line items in your budget, and learning to shop smart for these essentials

means more money for fun on the weekend.

Then again, your body is a temple and it is often worth the extra dollar or two, if it means you’ll be eating fresh, unprocessed food.

FARMERS MARKETS Grocery shopping doesn’t have to be an endless, draining errand. Farmers markets are timeless and serve as an essential tie to the local agriculture and community. The Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association (PCFMA) has a list of year-round farmers markets near you, including the Alum Rock, Berryessa, Creekside, Evergreen, Milpitas, Santa Clara, Santa Teresa, San Jose, Santa Clara and Palo Alto markets.

Make a trip to the farmer’s market a weekly or monthly errand, and you’re sure to be eating fresher, healthier, tastier produce. You could discover a life-altering chorizo street burrito, pick up a bouquet for your mom or stumble upon the ripest, sweetest strawberry the world has ever known.

THE FORGE GARDEN 1051 Sherman St, Santa Clara

The Center for Sustainability at Santa Clara University has a magical, chicken-coopand-honey stocked garden at the corner of Sherman and Benton streets. It holds Farmstands on Fridays from 11:30am-1:30pm.

Get there right at the beginning, because they’re out quick. Stock up on fruits, veggies, flowers, honey and spices that are quite literally right off the vine. The system is based on suggested donations—which is awesome and inclusive for a reason—but give what you can. Places like this can’t survive for free.

S&S MARKET

502 S 10th St, San Jose Groceries aren’t cheap—but they’re cheaper at S&S.

SANTA CLARA PRODUCE MARKET 805 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara

Get your daily serving of fruits and veggies at this market. In addition to produce, they carry pantry staples like like sauce, rice and pasta, as well as other refrigerated goods.

MITSUWA MARKETPLACE 675 Saratoga Ave, San Jose

You could literally stay in Mitsuwa forever and have everything you’d ever need. Besides the stacks on stacks of Japanese groceries, there’s a great Ramen shop, a sushi joint and café, delicious sweets, beauty supply and even video rental section (if you feel like going old school).

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Adulthood means maintaining a steady flow of TP in your household. With a subscription from this company, you’ll never run out or have to run to the store, and it’s economically practical to split the cost between roomies. The rolls are made without trees—from recycled goods or bamboo—and come in colorful print

9 packaging. Bonu: 50 percent of the profits go toward building clean sanitation facilities around the world.

GROCERY OUTLET BARGAIN MARKET Various Locations With locations in downtown San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and beyond, there’s bound to be a Grocery Outlet near you. Those in the know may refer to this chain as Gross Out, but that’s a term of endearment. This is one of the best places to do your grocery shopping on a budget. Full stop.

SAN JOSE FLEA MARKET 1590 Berryessa Rd, San Jose

The advent of Amazon in no way makes these places obsolete. Just because you can get everything at the click of a button doesn’t mean that’s always the best option, and the flea market features hundreds of vendors that are selling just about everything. Tools, furniture, art, clothing, cosmetics, party decor, supplies for your animal friends, electronics— it’s possible to find some wicked steals. And, you can grab some grub while you shop. Way better than the mall, it’s an experience.

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ZANOTTO’S MARKETS AND FRUITDALE San Jose and Sunnyvale

The cozy Italian grocery market you never knew you needed. With three groceries in San Jose—plus the store in Sunnyvale—this place is worth a visit (or a hundred after that).

Pick up your groceries, make a salad, munch on crispy cannolis or get a fresh sandwich that’s worth every penny.

ETHNIC MARKETS Various Locations

Stores like Dai Thanh in downtown San Jose and the Cardenas chain of Mexican markets are essential to anyone looking for ingredients Safeway doesn’t carry. They are also often cheaper than the national chains.

BARS & NIGHTLIFE

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4TH ST. PIZZA CO. 150 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

With its daily happy hours and a weekend premidnight special known as the “Power Hour,” this is a magnet for the college crowd. On Thursdays from 11pm to closing time—as well as Friday and Saturday from 11pm-12am, wells, Hamm’s, Crown and Fireball are $5 or under.

There’s a different special on drinks every day of the week, and on Tuesdays, pizza, salad, wells, wine and certain beers are half-off.

CAFE STRITCH 374 S 1st St, San Jose

This SoFA live music venue is the cornerstone of San Jose’s jazz scene. There are performances Thursday through Saturday from Bay Area’s jazz heavyweights, as well as vinyl-spinning DJ sets on Wax Wednesdays.

Cafe Stritch also boasts a full bar with a large assortment of craft cocktails.

THE CARAVAN LOUNGE 98 Almaden Ave, San Jose

With live music, DJs and comedy almost every night of the week, there’s always something going on at The Caravan. Drinks are cheap and strong, too. Cash only.

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CINEBAR

69 E San Fernando St, San Jose Just a block and a half from SJSU, this venerable establishment offers some of the cheapest and strongest drinks in town.

THE CONTINENTAL 349 S 1st St, San Jose

Clubs often have a pretty steep cover and crazy drink prices. While The Continental’s cocktails aren’t exactly cheap, their covers are reasonable (when they have one at all). The DJs are always solid, the dance floor is large and the back patio is a great place to cool off.

THE HUT

3200 The Alameda, Santa Clara Freshly re-opened by a Santa Clara grad’s father, The Hut is now a barbecue restaurant and bar on the same corner of Franklin and The Alameda where the iconic Bronco Hut once stood. They serve lunch and hold happy hour from 2-6pm, Monday through Friday.

LVL UP & AFKGG GAMER LOUNGE 400 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

LVL Up is the area’s OG arcade bar—craft cocktails, pinball and all—and AFK just

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There are plenty of grocery subscription services these days. While the weekly price tag may seem daunting at first, it’s a fantastic way to budget when you’re splitting it with roommates. Imperfect Produce delivers fruits and vegetables deemed too ugly or flawed for grocers as well as farmers’ surplus, tackling food waste at a reduced price. They also donate produce to food banks nationally— subscribing with them has an impact that goes beyond your own kitchen.

curfew doesn’t exist—and turning 21 means you can legally buy booze (and cannabis).

Nightlife is now unlocked in a way it’s never been before, unless you’d already bought your way in with a license from Wyoming. Having a big night out can get expensive, but with our help, you can party smart.

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has some pretty awesome deals throughout the entire week.

CINELUX THEATRES San Jose and Campbell

Unfortunately, going out to the movies is one more thing that’s gotten outrageously expensive. Fortunately, some theatres still sell tickets for a price that isn’t laughable— Cinelux is one of them. Student tickets are $8, matinee (before 6pm) is always $6.50, and Tuesdays truly are Terrific for a whopping… $5.

GOLFLAND

San Jose, Sunnyvale and Milpitas Mini golf will never die. Ever. With multiple locations around the South Bay, Golfland has some solid deals for putt-putt, arcade and laser tag—especially on Monday nights, when family pricing promos get you and the rest of your “family” in for under $10.

THE HAMMER THEATRE 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

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FEAR THE FIN You don’t have to root for The Sharks to take advantage of 4th Street Pizza’s drink specials, but why wouldn’t you root for The Sharks? moved into the downtown Campbell space this summer. Happy hour is Monday through Thursday 3-6 pm, and Friday starts at noon.

OFF THE RAILS BREWING 111 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale Happy hour seems… endless here. Every single day, 11am to 6pm gets you $2 off beers and social plates. If you throw enough back before prices normalize, you might not need to spend buckets later on. Definitely not a pro-tip, but an idea. Remember to eat dinner.

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose Grab some pub grub to split with your pals in the classic ambience at one of San Jose’s most Irish establishments. Wednesdays at 8pm, you could be the smartest person in the room during O’Flaherty’s trivia night.

For the talented, bravehearted or too-fargone, karaoke starts at 9pm on Sundays and Mondays. Tuesdays, live Irish music sets the mood for a jolly good jig.

THE RITZ 400 S First St, San Jose The Ritz is dedicated to good live music, and it’s one of the only places you can find free admission and small suggested donations on a regular basis. General admission is usually reasonable, although prices go up when a bigger name act rolls through town. Check out their calendar—one of the many slotted

artists could turn out to be a new favorite.

THE ROSE & CROWN 547 Emerson St, Palo Alto The garlic and cheese "chips" (note: fries) and those classic samosas might lighten the blow of paying tuition at Stanford—or anywhere— for the evening. As an English food and ale house, reverie, food and drink flow freely here.

GET ACTIVE

Tired of hanging out in parking lots and hotboxing the minivan? Even if you aren’t in the 21-and-over crowd, there is plenty to do after the sun goes down. Here are just a few ideas for all-ages fun in the South Bay.

ART BOUTIKI 44 Race St, San Jose Small venues breathe a lot of life into the music scene, and the artists are no less talented than those down the road at SAP. At Art Boutiki, bands from the area and around the world play in an intimate comic-bookstore-turned-music-venue space. It’s quirky, and quirk is good.

BOWLERO San Jose and Milpitas Bowling is the childhood birthday party that breaks fingers, and the adult night out that gets more competitive than it should. Bowlero

Music, theatre, dance, live music, film screenings and performances that combine art and technology—it’s all waiting for you at the Hammer, San Jose State University’s nationally acclaimed theatre. Show your student ID and get an exceedingly good deal on many of their amazing programs.

HAKONE ESTATE AND GARDENS 21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

Students get in for $8 at the beautiful Japanese gardens just down the road in Saratoga. Every detail matters—take in the silence and slow down to a more meditative pace. It’s a great place to just be.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER 15400 Montalvo Rd, Saratoga

Another Saratoga refuge of natural beauty.

Parking, hiking and picnicking on the lush grounds is absolutely free. Follow picturesque trails through the woodland, wander through the many gardens and check out their concerts, arts and writers series for scheduled entertainment and events.

ROSICRUCIAN EGYPTIAN MUSEUM 1660 Park Avenue, San Jose

Your childhood innocence isn’t the only thing that’s been mummified. Just one block from San Jose’s charming Rose Garden, the Egyptian museum is a good time-a-half if you like to learn outside of school. From tombs to alchemy, this place provides the chance to become more informed about the ancients, their beliefs and discoveries. You might find some things in common with the early civilization on the Nile. Students get in for $7.

SCENIC OVERLOOKS City lights and stars are still the cheapest form of evening entertainment. If you or someone

you know can acquire a car, cruise down Skyline Drive (aka CA-35) or shimmy up a local hill trail to watch the sunset. Mission Peak in Fremont and Communications Hill in San Jose are particularly popular locales.

SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS 5 East San Salvador Street, San Jose The first Friday of the month, San Jose’s SoFA District becomes an odyssey of creative expression. The art walks here are a fantastic place to enjoy exhibitions and live music, as venues open invite the public in and community members come together to eat, drink and be merry.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY 450 Serra Mall, Stanford Living near one of the most prestigious universities in Northern California—and the world—comes with perks. Stanford University has an endless calendar of cool events, from big names in music at Frost Amphitheatre to fascinating lectures, film screenings and night markets. Not only that, the campus is crawling with beautiful things to see, like the free Cantor Center for Visual Arts, which features a Rodin sculpture garden.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART 1505 Warburton Ave, Santa Clara Santa Clara is home to a small but impressive free museum. Visit every few months to experience world-class art at no cost. A lunch along the nearby El Camino Real or a picnic post-museum at one of the several neighboring parks would make for a wholesome weekend plan—they’re open Tuesday through Sunday, 11am to 5pm.

FITNESS

Pro-tip: Nike is really onto something. Just do it. But here’s the catch—don’t compare your fitness regimen to other people’s. Just do something. It doesn’t really matter what that is. The doctor isn’t exaggerating. Cognitive function and mental health correlate with your physical wellbeing, so, for real, be good to your body. It’s you, after all.

THE STUDIO 396 S First St, San Jose It seems like the whole world is climbing now … and it’s not that fun to watch all of your roommates head to the boulders without you. A student membership at The Studio in downtown San Jose costs $58 a month and buys you access to the many rad classes and features—yoga, core, suspension training, aerial silks, gym equipment and new climbing routes every few weeks.

LOCAL GYM MEMBERSHIPS 24 Hour Fitness might be the way to go, financially speaking, with its under $40 a month option, but there are other gyms in

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the area that have around the same monthly charges. Anytime Fitness also starts at $40 a month and Westca breaks down to just $49 monthly when you buy an annual membership.

serious sense, everyone copes with some sort of trauma. Stigma is bullshit, psychological wellbeing is everything. If you need help, you can get it.

THE CALL OF THE WILD

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The great outdoors is everywhere, and getting into the natural world doesn’t have to be a day trip. Take a bike ride down the Guadalupe River Trail, visit Lake Cunningham for the skate park or a hike, and head to Los Gatos, Almaden and Alum Rock to bask in the natural beauty of the South Bay. Along the edge of the South Bay’s waters, loops like Cooley Landing, the Sunnyvale Baylands or Alviso Marina meander through marshes, and Santa Cruz is just a short drive or bus ride away.

It seems like counseling in schools sometimes gets a bad rap, but it can’t hurt to try—these people have dedicated their lives to helping others. They should know what they’re doing.

Also, it might be possible for someone at your institution to connect you with outside resources. Most psychological service offices should have a social worker who’s in the know and can get you where you need to go.

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MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

You’ve heard the statistics—our mental health crisis is brutal and surging. In the most

Besides publishing lots of interesting articles, this online resource, will direct you to therapists in your area based on your insurance and mental health concerns, and can show you the clinicians that are familiar with certain backgrounds, such as faith tradition, other languages and the LGBTQ community.

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SEND IT Climbing is a great way to stay fit—so is yoga, TRX, lifting and joining a running club; do all this and more at The Studio Climbing in downtown San Jose.

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FARMERS’ MARKET FLIPADELPHIA Stainless steel Solo cups. Enough said.

Sept. 13 - Seasonal Superstar Tastings Pick up a tasting card at the info table and sample Apples from different growers.

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Get Validated Park at the Market/San Pedro Square Garage and get your parking validated at the info table.

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APPS Some people say technology is contributing to the mental health crisis itself, but it’s also serving as a resource. You can try online therapy with apps like Better Help and Talk Space, and there are others like What’s Up, Moodnotes and MoodKit that actually implement Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and other psychotherapy techniques to help establish healthier thought processes and coping methods. You can also download something like Headspace for meditation guides and practices.

LIVING WELL

It is expensive to live sustainably. But sometimes, it’ll pay for itself. Take reusable, long-lasting products—it’s painful to make that first purchase, but you won’t have to budget for that item anymore in the future.

Cut out unnecessary waste and stop buying the lie that you have no agency as a consumer.

You might have to drop $75 for a stainless steel, refillable razor, but it’ll theoretically last until the day you die, and the blades cost like 50 cents. Just don’t lose it or let TSA nab it from you.

PACKAGE FREE packagefreeshop.com

This company, started and run by environmental activist Lauren Singer, is committed to providing ethical,

environmentally sound goods—free of plastic packaging. They sell Zero Waste kits for eating out of the house, cleaning, shaving and travel, and other must-haves for the kitchen and bathroom. Their subscriptions include ongoing shipments of shampoo bars, deodorant cream, mouthwash tablets, aftershave balm, etcetera.

THE SOURCE ZERO

60 N San Pedro St, Ste 30, San Jose San Jose has its very own stop for ecologically and ethically dependable goods, plus do-ityourself personal care workshops. You can stock your kitchen, bathroom and home with products that are… well, less trashy (as close to zero waste as possible). Think stainless steel Solo cups, reusable boba straws and utensil sets. We’ll repeat that: stainless steel Solo cups. Flip cup will never be the same.

VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS Some health tips might be urban legend— getting all the nutrients and elements you need to thrive is not, especially when your brain and body are under constant strain (and this is college in Silicon Valley). Order quality supplements online at sites like Natural Healthy Concepts without shelling out the Shaklee prices. And, if you’re thinking of becoming a vegan or vegetarian but are worried about the nutrition—you’ve got this.

Take your B12 and get some nutritional yeast.

Don’t skirt your body’s needs.

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All Grown Up Through intention, restraint, Ex Hex find a bigger, more potent sound

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T’S BEST NOT to read too much into the fact that eclectic musician and songwriter Mary Timony's band Ex Hex took its name from a solo album she made back in 2005. “Honestly, I just saw Ex Hex as a cool name for a band a long time ago, and since I didn’t really have a band at the time, I just named the record that,” she says. “It’s not really that deep.”

But there is a sonic thread that

connects the two. When Ex Hex— initially Timony plus bassist Betsy Wright and drummer Laura Harris— launched their project in 2014, they sought to write bare bones, no frills rock songs. Their sound has since been described using terms like garage rock, punk and power pop. Ex Hex sounds very little like the music Timony made with her best known previous band, Helium; that mid-’90s group trafficked in ambitious, arty noise rock.

“I had an intention when [Ex Hex] first started to approach music from a different place than I had in the

past,” Timony says. “I had [previously] approached music from this really raw, sort of 'diary entry' kind of place for a long time, and I was just kind of done with that.” She says that with Ex Hex, she aimed for more of a craft perspective: “crafting songs that I would want to hear,” she explains.

Timony's experience in short-lived indie supergroup Wild Flag helped steer her in that direction. “I found that I had to keep writing stuff to bring to the table for that band,” she says. “Wild Flag was super straightahead and poppy because everything got deconstructed so much. And if I started with something weird, it just didn’t work.”

And with Wright—who recently moved over to guitar as the touring band became a quartet with Michelle Mae on bass—writing songs as well, Ex Hex is more focused on its mission than ever before.

“Betsy is naturally aligned to that kind of songwriting,” Timony says.

“Really good pop songs just come out of her without much effort, which

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GUITAR & DRUMS Simplicity and sincerity are the key ingredients in Ex Hex’s powerful rock & roll.

has never been the way for me. So, it's a good combo.”

But Ex Hex's music is far from lightweight pop. It's better described as a mix of catchy melodies with sharp hooks and sharper teeth. The band's latest release, It’s Real, boasts a fuller sound than Ex Hex's (excellent in its own right) 2014 debut, Rips.

And that musical heft—with a bit of good-natured aggression—comes across both on record and onstage.

“I think the band is sounding bigger because now we're a four-piece,” Timony says.

Because Wright had been playing a lot of guitar on record, the trio realized it made sense for her to put down the bass and switch over.

“So we knew we needed to get a new band member to fill it out,” Timony says. “It’s nice to have more possibilities for sounds and not be so locked in. When you’re a three-piece, there’s not a lot of room.”

Another reason for the “big” sound of It’s Real is a tool that Timony has owned and used for years: the Rockman. A small device invented by production wizard and Boston founder Tom Scholz, the Rockman lends an arena-sized vibe to any guitarist's sound.

“When we were writing this record, we were kind of hearing the songs have this mid-’80s production,” Timony says. “I had that thing lying around from [my] high school [days], and it just seemed appropriate, because it just really captures that blend of chorus and distortion that people used a lot then.”

Timony has been playing music for a long time; in the process, she’s learned what works for her. She admits that in the past, she tended to be a slacker about band-related things that didn’t appeal to her: “Making sure we were touring enough or making sure that the record is mixed well, just following through,” she says. “But now, as a 50-year-old, I’m staying smart about touring, and trying to put on a good show. And I actually find that I enjoy those things when I’m trying to do better at them.”

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SEP 4–12 | “I KNOW NOT HOW IT FALLS ON ME, THIS SUMMER EVENING, HUSHED AND LONE” Victorian poet Emily Brontë made quick work of the sudden revelation that nature is often a bandage, an awakening I have had three to seventeen times so far. There are moments when summer begins to pack its bags and I’ll suddenly see how beautiful and healing it has been, how grateful I am for its presence, and how I am already missing it before it has gone.

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On Wednesday, Art Boutiki is hosting a fundraiser with rotating DJs to support the Gilroy Foundation benefiting affected families. The following night they’ll celebrate head-honcho Dan Vado’s 60th birthday, unofficially, of course. Happy birthday, Dan! Also on Thursday, CityDance 2019 will take over Plaza de Cesar Chavez with swing dancers and the 5th Annual San Jose Poetry Festival kicks off at Caffe Frascati (woohooo!), beginning six days of poetry, slam and literature throughout SoFA District. Come celebrate local poetry each night and all day Saturday and Sunday, through September 10. More info below and at pcsj.org. On Friday evening, the Nebraska State Poet, Matt Mason will perform at Forager, along with local poets Jarvis Subia and Janice Lobo Sapigao. The event will include a performance and Q&A panel of Santa Clara County Poets Laureate past and present. Could you be the next county laureate? Come find out! These and many other events are highlighted in my list below.

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

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

Tue, 8pm– Close: Tiki Tuesdays: Exotic cocktails and island vibes. Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

OPEN MIC WITH UKULELE JAMS

5pm. Jtown Pizza Co., 625 N Sixth St, San Jose

COMEDY NIGHT | JESUS TREJO BY SAN JOSE IMPROV AT BACKYARD SJ 7pm. Backyard SJ, 35 S Second St between E Santa Clara St and E San Fernando St, San Jose

SAM'S BBQ

Wed, 6pm: Blue Summit Band

THE RITZ POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Theme Jam Night. Fri, 6pm: Maxx Cabello Jr. Band. Sat, 6pm: Noah & The Arkiteks.

Sun, 11am: Johnny Fabulous.

Sun, 3pm: Henrik Martin & The Nocturnal Aviators. Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

CAUSE | GROOVES FOR GILROY

Wed, 8pm: Casual Crypt, Eastern Westerner - The Front Bar. Thu, 8pm: Chemical Slaughter, Ethnocide, Static Age, Varnok Front Bar. Fri, 9pm: Vinyl Night - The Front Bar. Sat, 8pm: Love Trap feat. Derek King + More!

Mon, 7pm: TWRP, Rich Aucoin.

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NEW TALENT COMEDY SHOWCASE 8pm. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

KARAOKE WITH JADE

7pm. $5 admission, proceeds go to Gilroy Foundation. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

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

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

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

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

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Sep 12 Gogol Bordello (Ages 16+) Sep 13 Iya Terra/ Thrive (Ages 16+) Sep 14 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Sep 15 Lil Keed/ Lil Gotit (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Hot Chip/ Holy Fuck (Ages 16+) Sep 26 Loud Luxury/ CID (Ages 16+) Sep 28 & 29 Durand Jones & The Indications (Ages 16+) Oct 3 PNB Rock/ NoCap (Ages 16+) Oct 4 & 5 Steel Pulse (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Collie Buddz/ Keznamdi (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Riot Ten/ Al Ross (Ages 18+) Oct 12 Manila Killa/ Myrne (Ages 16+) Oct 14 Yung Gravy (Ages 16+) Oct 17 Common Kings (Ages 16+) Oct 19 & 20 Santa Cruz Music Festival (Ages 16+) Oct 23 The Distillers (Ages 16+) Oct 24 The Polish Ambassador (Ages 16+) Oct 25 The Devil Wears Prada (Ages 16+) Oct 26 The Garden (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Skizzy Mars (Ages 16+) Nov 1 P-Lo (Ages 16+) Nov 2 Elephante/ PLS&TY (Ages 16+) Nov 3 Sinead Harnett (Ages 16+) Nov 14 Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque (Ages 21+) Nov 15 & 16 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) Nov 17 Snow Tha Product (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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THE WILLOW DEN PUBLIC HOUSE

Tue & Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Uncle Hank. Thu, 10pm: Live DJ. Fri, 10pm: Live Music. Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 10pm: Game Night. Tue, 7:30pm: Risky Quizness. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

THU 9/5 CITYDANCE 2019 |

5:30pm. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, 1 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

OPEN MIC AT ART BOUTIKI - 60TH BIRTHDAY EDITION

6pm. Happy Birthday, Dan Vado! Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

5TH ANNUAL SAN JOSÉ POETRY FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT

7pm. Featuring Jason Bayani.

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MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

FRI 9/6 SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS ARTWALKSJ + STREET MRKT

7pm. SoFA District, along S First Street, from San Carlos Street to Reed Street, San Jose

ART WALK OPERA NIGHT

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

EXHIBITS | A.D. PRESENTS WALKING BLUE BY ZEZÃO & TRANSMUTATION: GROUP GLASS EXHIBITION

7pm. Gallery Anno Domini, 366 S First St, San Jose

SAN JOSÉ POETRY FESTIVAL | NEBRASKA STATE POET MATT MASON

8pm. Plus Jarvis Subia, Janice Lobo Sapigao, plus SCC Poets Laureate Panel. Forager, 420 S First St, San Jose

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

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

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

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

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

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

KARAOKE | RED STAG LOUNGE

Every night. 9:30pm–1:30am.

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

HEAVY MUSIC FEST | BOWLING AND BEERS IN HELL (FRI, SAT, SUN)

10pm. Various times through Sun. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

SAT 9/7 BAY AREA WOMEN'S CONFERENCE: MOVING BEYOND BARRIERS

10am. Sunnyvale Theater, 550 E Remington Dr, Sunnyvale

AIRPORT DAY | CLASSIC CARS, PLANE RIDES, ORCHESTRA +MORE

10am–4pm. Supporting the Sobrato Cancer Center & Second Harvest Food Bank.

Reid-Hillview Airport, 2500 Cunningham Ave, San Jose

CRAFT FAIR | MAKERS MARKET IN THE PARK

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

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

PUNK & ROCK | BLACK DREAM, GHOST TOWN HANGMEN, HALF ROTTEN GODDESS

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays.

Fri, 10pm: TGIFF: DJ Don Foley.

Sat, 10pm: Snap Saturdays: DJ David Q. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

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5pm. Garden At The Flea, 1590 Berryessa Road, San Jose

LIVE MUSIC | KAVANAUGH BROTHERS CELTIC EXPERIENCE

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

THE SADDLE RACK COMEDY HOUR

7:15pm. The Saddlerack, 42011 Boscell Rd, Fremont

DJ DON “THE COWBOY”

9pm. $10 cover. Blue Note Lounge, 765 E Capitol Ave, Milpitas

METAL | SATAN’S BLADE, TRECELENCE, BATTLEMACE

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

KARAOKE & DANCING

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

SUN 9/8 SJ BIKE PARTY | RIDEESSJ

Meet at noon, ride 12:30pm.

Focus: East foothills, lower Eastside flatlands. Info: facebook.com/RideESSJ

DJ/DANCE | SUNDAY SERVICE

3pm. 21+ Fashionable Attire.

SP2 Communal Bar, 72 N Almaden Ave, San Jose

JAZZ JAM

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

SAN JOSE POETRY FESTIVAL SLAM FEATURING BRI BLUE

7pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

MON 9/9 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

RED ROCK MIXED OPEN MIC

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7pm. 201 Castro St, Mountain View

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

SAM MARSHALL KARAOKE

TRIVIA | TRIVIOLITY PUB QUIZ

8pm. Pioneer Saloon, 2925 Woodside Rd, Woodside

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

JAM | WEEKLY SESSIONS AT FIVE POINTS

8:30pm. Five Points, 169 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT AT STEPHEN'S GREEN

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

KARAOKE | O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

9pm. 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ

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

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

LAST RITES DJ NIGHT 3RD ANNIVERSARY WITH ROBERT MORTIS

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

PUNK | PUNK VINYL TUESDAYS WITH DJ TEST 10pm. Cinebar, 69 E San Fernando St, San Jose

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

WED 9/11

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

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

LMNOP COMEDY MONDAYS

THU 9/12

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

TUE 9/10 CAUSE | BACK TO SCHOOL BASH WINE STROLL

FAMILY LITERACY GAMES: SIGHT WORDS

4pm. Santa Clara City Library, 2635 Homestead Rd, Santa Clara

ART AFTER DARK | SURREAL SUBLIME, TRACY SNELLING

6pm–9pm. Benefiting Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

Santana Row, 377 Santana Row, San Jose | Tickets: santanarow.com

7pm. San José Institute of Contemporary Art, 560 S First St, San Jose

TRADITIONAL IRISH SEISIUN TUESDAYS

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

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

SAN JOSÉ POETRY FESTIVAL | CLOSING CEREMONY

HIP-HOP | CYPHER WITH AUDIODRU

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

TRIVIA TUESDAYS

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

MUSIC OPEN MIC

7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St.

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

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By AMY ALKON

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When you’re visiting a friend or loved one who’s seriously ill, it’s nice to show up bearing gifts—like flowers, magazines, and a paper bag you can hyperventilate into.

It’s scary seeing someone you care about all small and frail in a hospital bed. And this is your mom who’s really ill. If something happens to her, it’s not like you can just run out and pick up another one at Costco.

Even so, the level of fear you experience when you see her is something you could have some control over. Neuroscience studies find that novel experiences are the most emotionally powerful, having the most intense effect on us. Additionally, psychology research finds that people quickly become acclimated to both positive and negative changes in their lives. Accordingly, seeing your mom for the first time will have the most gutpunchability.

To dial down the intensity of your reaction when you first see her, you could ask her boyfriend to take some video of her and send it to you. He should ask your mom first, of course, so it won’t violate her privacy, and perhaps cast what he’s doing as sending you a hello. If she balks at letting him, he could then tell her the real deal: that it’s to emotionally prepare you for seeing her.

The other major player in how you react to your mom’s condition is empathy.

Neuroscientists Olga Klimecki and Tania Singer note that empathy involves our observing or even just imagining what another person is feeling and having that trigger the same sort of feeling in us. They give the example of hearing that a friend is sad because her grandmother is dying: “Our first reaction would be empathy, which means we would share the feeling of sadness and thereby know what our friend is going through.”

This initial bolt of empathy rises up automatically. But once you experience it, Klimecki and Singer explain, there’s a fork in the road, which is to say you can go one of two ways with your empathy: into unhealthy empathic distress or healthy empathic concern.

Empathic distress is a me-focused

response—empathy that turns into emotional quicksand when we just keep “feeling with” a person (feeling and feeling and feeling) without doing anything to try to change their situation. In time, we get overwhelmed by the distress we’re experiencing at their distress. This often leads to what Klimecki and Singer call “withdrawal behavior”: our trying to escape our uncomfortable emotions by ducking out and leaving the other person alone with their suffering.

Empathic concern, on the other hand, is an other-focused response. It starts with our experiencing that initial bolt of “feeling with” a person who’s suffering, but then we shift into “feeling for”—as in “What can I do FOR you?” Empathic concern is basically empathy with an action plan, motivating us to try to make things better for another person.

The important takeaway for you is that you don’t have to let your feelings run the show, dragging you boohooingly along behind them. You can instead control your feelings by shifting from me-driven empathy, empathic distress, to mom-centered empathic concern. In practice, this simply takes redirecting your focus from how sad you are to how helpful you can be, emotionally and practically. Think Warrior Nurse instead of Drama Queen.

One of the kindest things you can do for a very sick person is make their life boringly normal. Distract them from their illness by watching their favorite streamed show with them, playing Scrabble, losing $6 million to them in gin rummy, telling them the latest gossip about the slutty neighbor.

Really, your just being there is huge.

And once you leave, you can start sending her cards a few days a week. This will help keep you from falling into the swamp of me-focused pointless distress, and it’ll be comforting for her. Ultimately, it’s feeling loved—not laughter—that’s “the best medicine.” I’m guessing that’s why hospitals instituted visiting hours instead of replacing the IV bag on the pole with a foul-mouthed parrot in a tiny bandanna squawking insults at passersby.

(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 have to go visit my mom, who’s in the hospital in another state. She’s really ill. Her boyfriend told me she’s lost a lot of weight and it might be shocking to see her initially. I want to be strong for her, but I’m a big crier. I cry on every phone call, and it’s awful. How do I show up for her and not let my feelings overwhelm me so she is not sad or worried about me and can concentrate on getting better?—Emotional

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3D Artist sought by Houzz, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA. Perform range of important tasks in support of Houzz’s products, srvcs, & operations. Reqs. Master’s deg. or foreign equiv in Comp. Graphics, Animation, Dsgn, or Animation & Visual Effects + coursework, internships, or exp to incl providing 3D models to project specs.

Mail resumes to 285 Hamilton Ave., 4th Fl, Palo Alto, CA 94301.

Software Engineer sought by Nyansa in Palo Alto, CA to develop backend cloud software. Req Bachelor of Sci degree in Comp/Elec Eng or clsly rel + 3 yrs exp as a Software Eng or clsly rel working with Java 1.8, Elastisearch, Cassandra Database, Mongo Database, Apache Spark and other related tools/tech. For full details and to apply, visit nyansa.com/jobs.

ENGINEERING Clover Network, Inc. has following job opps. in Sunnyvale, CA: Sr. QA Automation Engineer [Req. #APA801].

Dvlp test framework & infrastructure for quality in Android apps. Mail resumes refernc’g Req. # to: Attn: A. Raudes, 415 N Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.

ENGINEER: SOFTWARE Review functional specs & author design documentation. M.S. or equiv degree in Comp Sci, Comp Eng, Comp Apps, EE, Eng or equiv. field.

Knowledge or graduate coursework w/Embedded software development for L2/L3 switches & routers, wireless access points, device drivers & network processors; L2/L3 networking, wireless protocols covering, TCP, UDP, IPV4, LAG, QinQ, VLAN, OSPF, MPLS, ARP, CAPWAP, 802.11; C/C++, data structures, algorithm design & debugging; Operating Systems paradigms like multi-threading, concurrency, memory management, virtualization & synchronization; Agile methodologies & water fall development model; Traffic analyzer & debugging tools like spirent, IXIA, tcpdump, tshark & automation scripts.

Jobsite: Fremont, CA. Mail resume to: embedUR systems, Inc. 42808 Christy St #102 Fremont, CA 94538 Ref. Position SB072019

Netskope, Inc.s Santa Clara, California office has multiple openings for Principal Software Architects: Develop, create, and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs. TO APPLY: Email resume to resumes@netskope. com & indicated job code KJB042.

Business Systems Analyst sought by Flextronics International USA, Inc. in Milpitas, CA: Review and Analyze the Business requirements in order to implement a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) with an in-House Application called FlexFlow.

Submit resumes to Kristie.Raquion@ flex.com and reference job #630. No phone calls.

Information Technology Project Manager: Intellipro Group in Santa Clara, CA. Manage workloads & resource allocation to ensure project success.

MBA or related filed. Mail resume to 3120 Scott Blvd, Ste 301, Santa Clara, CA 95054.

Software Engineer: Intellipro Group in Santa Clara, CA. Develop front-end web application. MS in Computer Science or a related field.

Mail resume to 3120 Scott Blvd, Ste 301, Santa Clara, CA 95054.

Computer Systems Engineer Resume to mProbe, Inc., 2250 E. Charleston Rd., Mt. View, CA 94043.

Attn: HR

Hermes Microvision, Inc., an ASML Company, has opening for System Integration Engineer in San Jose, CA. Perform product system integration & engineering analysis.

Generate evaluation procedures to test core system mechanical & electromechanical components to ensure their performance can meet design & customer requirements.

Require MS in Mechanical Engineering or related plus 2yrs exp. or related, and knowledge of E-beam inspection system, CAD software with drafting procedures, data analysis using software Matlab. Apply at www.asml.com.

ENGINEERING Robert Bosch LLC has an opening in Sunnyvale, CA for Senior Research Engineer: Develop state-of-the-art computer graphics technologies for the next-generation car infotainment systems. Applicants who are interested in this position should apply online at www.boschjobs.com, search Senior Research Engineer – REF57144M.

Marketing Associate: Intellipro Group in Santa Clara, CA. Develop content for varies marketing channels. BA in Intl Mktg or a related field. Mail resume to 3120 Scott Blvd, Ste 301, Santa Clara, CA 95054.

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Design & Car develop features the Pacific Hand Wash, 1051 E. Santafor Clara St., San Jose, CA, 95116, Pacific Hand Car Washplatform SJ. This business Nutanix manageability that is being conducted a Corporation.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Deluxe Eatery & Drinkery. looking#657450 for a The followinghost person(s) is (are) doing as: Art weekend or hostess andbusiness a daytime Ark Gallery, 1035 S. 6th St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Genevieve server.

Server is 3-4 days a week with Hastings, 1058 S. 5th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112. This more over the Holidays.

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Registrant began transacting business underresume the fictitious business interested come in with and ask name or names listed herein on 08/02/2019. /s/Genevieve to talk to David or Chad between 2-4.

Hastings. This statement was filed with the County Clerk 71 E. San Fernando St. SJ (pub Metro 08/14, of Santa Clara County on 08/02/2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657461 Broadcom Corporation has a Senior The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ember Manager, R&D opening in San Jose, Collective, 6820 Royalwood Way, San Jose, CA, 95120, CA provide technical &managerial Paigeto Flanders-Fierro.

This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrantin hasASIC not yetdevelopment. begun transacting direction to projects businessdirects under the&may fictitiousparticipate business nameinorthe names Often listed herein. /s/Paige Flanders-Fierro. This statement development of multidimensional designs was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on involving theMetro layout of08/21, complex 08/02/2019. (pub 08/14, 08/28, integrated 09/04/2019) circuits. Mail resume to Attn: HR (GS), FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMESan STATEMENT #657488 1320 Ridder Park Drive, Jose, CA 95131 following person(s) is (are) business as: .The Must reference job codedoing SJYAV

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657462 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Old Toms Wormery, 920 S. 7th St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Thomas Boehme. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on on 07/12/2019. /s/Thomas Boehme. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/02/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Flex Fusion Studios, 2125 South Winchester Avenue Suite 140, Campbell, CA, 95008, Lehni LLC, 14121 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road, Saratoga, CA, 95070. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Helen Christine, Chief Operations Officer. #201915510245. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/09/2019. (pub Metro 08/07, 08/14, 08/21, 08/28/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657135 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Heights, 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 180, A Tu Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed Thug Records herein World on 06/01/2014.

Refileexplosive in facts fromlabel previous based out ofAbove San entity Jose CA with in major filing #592421. was formed the state of California.

CEO. #3642965. features lil /s/Angela WayneTu,E-40 Ghetto This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Politician Punish. Free downloads mp3s Clara County on 07/26/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, Ringtones.

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Call or log on thugworldrecords.com FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 408-561-5458 ask for gp STATEMENT #657136 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Heights Realty, 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 180, A Tu Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

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

NOTICE TO CREDITORS, CASE NO.: Refile in facts from previous filing #591055. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Angela Tu, CEO. 16PR179712 In#3642965. re the MatterThis of thestatement CAPELLA FAMILY REVOCABLE was filed with theLIVING County Clerk TRUST DATED JULYCounty 30, 1997,on

by Manuel J. Capella, of Santa Clara 07/26/2019. (pubDecedentNotice Metro 08/14,is hereby to the creditors and contingent creditors of Decedent 08/21,given 08/28, 09/04/2019) Manuel J. Capella that all persons having claims against the Decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court of the FICTITIOUS NAME #657377 State of California,BUSINESS County of Santa Clara,STATEMENT at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, 95112, and mail or deliverisa(are) copy todoing David Capella, successor TheCAfollowing person(s) business as: 1. trustee of the Capella Family Revocable LivingGroup, Trust dated JulyNorth 30, Detectiveinc, 2. Security Operators 1155 1997, of which the Decedent was the settlor, at the Sowards Law Firm, First Street #111, San Jose, CA, 95112, Dietz Associates 2542 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite 200, Campbell, CA 95008, within the Inc.ofThis business is being conducted bydate a Corporation. later four (4) months after November 2, 2016 (the of the first Registrant began transacting business under the publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally fictitious business name or names listed herein on delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date this notice is mailed Abovetoentity was formed in do thenotstate of or07/25/2014. personally delivered you.LATE CLAIMS: If you file your claim within the/s/Don time required by law, you must petition to file aThis California.

Vo, Vice President. #C1652932. late claim as provided in California Probate CodeClerk §19103.FAILURE statement was filed with the County of Santa TOClara FILE ACounty CLAIM: Failure to file a claim withMetro the court08/14, and to08/21, serve on 08/01/2019. (pub a 08/28, copy of the claim on the trustee will in most instances invalidate 09/04/2019) your claim.(Pub dates: 10/26, 11/02, 11/09/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657573 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NAME Home &STATEMENT Item, 6881 West#622524 Riverside Way, San Jose, CA, The following person(s) (are) business doing business as: Advanced 95129, Warren Tsu.isThis is being conducted Industrial Delivery LLC, Registrant 247 N. Capitolhas Ave.,not Unityet 104,begun San Jose, by an Individual.

CA, 95127. This business is being conducted by a limited liability transacting business under the fictitious business company.

Registrant not yet begun/s/Warren transacting business name or nameshas listed herein.

Tsu. This under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above statement wasinfiled with the County ClerkJuan of Santa entity was formed the state of California. /s/Gilbert Garcia Clara County on 08/07/2019. (pub Metrowas 08/14, 08/21, Managing Member#201627010166This statement filed with 08/28, 09/04/2019) the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657679

The following BUSINESS person(s) is (are) doing business as: FICTITIOUS Elizabeth A Dobisz Nanofabrication Consulting, 6543 NAME STATEMENT #622430 Cobblestone Court, San Jose, CA, 95120, Elizabeth The following is (are) doing business as: Unionby an Ann Dobisz.person(s) This business is being conducted Avenue Liquors,Registrant 3649 Unionbegan Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Kim Dao Individual. transacting business Corporation, Leominster Ct., San Jose, CA,or95139.

Thislisted business under the36 fictitious business name names isherein being conducted by a corporation.

Registrant not yetThis on 08/11/2019. /s/Elizabeth Ann has Dobisz. begun transacting business under the fictitious business name statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of Clara County on 08/12/2019.

Metro 08/21, 08/28, California. /s/Michael John Perazzo(pub President #C39443143 This 09/04, 09/11/2019) statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/13/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657415

FICTITIOUS The following BUSINESS person(s) is (are) doing business as: Balloons Are Better, #622360 1895 Washington Street, NAME STATEMENT

Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Katherine Debra Coronado.

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Soft Touch Spa, This business is being conducted by an Individual.

1692 Tully Road, Suite 12, San Jose, CA, 95122, Dai Nguyen, 650 Island Registrant business underby the Place, Redwoodbegan City, CA,transacting 94065. This business is conducted an fictitious business or names listedbusiness hereinunder on individual.

Registrant hasname not yet begun transacting 07/10/2019. /s/Katherine Coronado.

This/s/Dai statement the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Nguyen was filed with the with County ClerkClerk of Santa This statement was filed the County of SantaClara Clara County County 08/02/2019. (pub11/02, Metro 08/28, 09/04, onon 10/12/2016. (pub Metro 11/09,08/21, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656902 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bay Area Marketing Hub, 1111 Morse Ave., SP#17, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Chet Holloway. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. /s/Chet Holloway. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/18/2019. (pub Metro 08/14, 08/21, 08/28, 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656775 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: God Garden, 1029 Summerview Dr., San Jose, CA, 95132, Denny Quang Nguyen. This business is conducted an Individual. began onbeing 01/28/2014 under fileby number 587505. ThisRegistrant business was conducted by: Anbusiness individual /s/Minh T. Hoang Date filed with thename transacting under the fictitious business clerks office: 10/12/2016 (pub dates 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016 or names listed herein on 07/15/2019. /s/Denny Quang.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/15/2019.

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ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO. 16PR178443 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657707

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Prime PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO. 16PR178443To all heirs beneficiaries USA Scales, 77 Ncreditors, Almaden 619, who Sanmay Jose,otherwise CA, 95110, creditors, contingent andAve, persons Inc.orThis business is MARK being PASCOE conducted by beHerrmann interested inUSA the will estate, or both of: KELLY. a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator the County of Santaname Clara in Superior Court of under the of fictitious business orthe names listed herein California, County ofAbove Santa Clara.

Petition for Probate requests on 07/31/2019. entityThe was formed in the state of thatCalifornia.

James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa /s/Frederick Herrmann, CFO, #C3633173 This Clara be appointed personal to administer statement wasas filed with representative the County Clerk of Santa Clara the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to County on 08/12/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, administer the estate under the Independent Administration of 09/11/2019) Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain veryBUSINESS important actions, however, the personal FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT #657717 representative will be required to give notice to interested The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Julie persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the Carver,action.)

3740 Miraverde Courtadministration Apt 128, Santa Clara, CA, proposed The independent authority will business is being conducted by an Individual. be95051. grantedThis unless an interested person files an objection to the Registrant began transacting business undernotthe fictitious petition and shows good cause why the court should grant authority.

A hearing petition willherein be heldon in this court as /s/ business nameon or the names listed 08/12/2019. follows: November 28, 2016, at 9 a.m. in Dept.

10 located at 191 Julie Lea. This statement was filed with the County Clerk NORTH FIRST STREET, SANon JOSE, CA, 95113. IF(pub YOUMetro OBJECT08/21, to of Santa Clara County 08/12/2019. the08/28, granting of the09/11/2019) petition, you should appear at the hearing 09/04, and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor#657735 of the decedent, you mustperson(s) file your claim withdoing the court and mailas: a copy The following is (are) business HC to the personal representative appointed by the court within the Group, 3118 Balmoral Drive, San Jose, CA, 95132, Doanh later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of Chau, S Leigh Avenue, Campbell, CA, 95008.inThis letters to a51general personal representative, as defined section business is beingProbate conducted Individual.

58(b) of the California Code,by or an (2) 60 days from Registrant the date has notoryet begundelivery transacting the fictitious of mailing personal to youbusiness of a noticeunder under section business name orProbate namesCode. listed herein. /s/Doanh 9052 of the California Other California statutesChau. andThis legalstatement authority may as a creditor. wasaffect filedyour withrights the County ClerkYou ofmay Santa want to consult with attorney knowledgeable in California law.

Clara County onan 08/13/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court.

If you are a person 09/04, 09/11/2019) interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE NAME. appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or accountOF as provided in Probate Code19CV346070 section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form CASE NO. is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MARK TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICEof: OF Ashley THE PaigeCOUNSEL, Bruce for373 a decree changing names COUNTY West Julian Street, Suite 300, as Sanfollows: Jose, CA, Present name: Ashley Paige Proposed name: 95110, Telephone: 408-758-4200 (PubBruce.

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Ashley Paige Luna Martinez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for#622566 change of name should not NAME STATEMENT be granted. Any person objecting to the name change

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam, described above must file a written objection that 979 Story Rd., #7087, San Jose, Ca, 95122, Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc includes theGiraudo reasons at least two Anh Nguyen, 608 Dr.,for Santhe Jose,objection CA, 95111. This business court days before the matter is scheduled be heard is conducted by an married couple.Registrant has not yettobegun and must appear at the thefictitious hearing to show cause why the transacting business under business name or names petition not be granted.

If with no written listed herein. should Refile of previous file #620681 changes. objection /s/Nhu Thuan Lam This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without Clara County onNOTICE 10/18/2016.OF (pub Metro 10/26,September 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) a hearing.

HEARING: 24, 2019 at

8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: August 13, 2019 (pub dates: 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS#622752 NAME STATEMENT #657703 TheThe following person(s) is (are)isdoing as: Free Spirit, 380 following person(s) (are)business doing business as: New S. 1st Street, San Jose,698 CA, 95113, Michael R. San Hill, 8093 Zayante Century Sports, Lenfest Road, Jose,E.CA, 95133, Rd., Felton, CA, 95018. This business is conducted by an individual.

Wen Ma, Chihong Dr., San Jose, CA, 95131.

Registrant has1519 not yet begun transacting business underThis the business is being by anherein.

Individual.

Registrant fictitious business nameconducted or names listed /s/Michael R. transacting business under theClerk fictitious business Hillbegan This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara name names listed herein on 11/09, 05/01/2019. /s/Wen Ma. County onor 10/24/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/12/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 09/04, 09/11/2019) NAME STATEMENT #621712

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657401

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657753 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tafoya Properties, 481 N. 10th St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Kenneth Tafoya. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/02/2019. /s/Kenneth Tafoya. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/13/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657420 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Red Curbs Skate Shop, 40923 Grimmer Blvd., Fremont, CA, 94538, Red Curbs Skateboarding 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 04/01/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jesse Van Vleck. #201120210305, This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/02/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657643 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KP Enterprises, 14435C Big Basin Way, #180, Saratoga, CA, 95070, KK Capital, LLC, EAP Enterprises, LC. This business is being conducted by a Joint Venture.

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/Katrina M. Kidd. #17-775908. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/09/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656966

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aron Builders, 889 N. San Anotnio Road STE 110, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Aron Construction Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/01/2018. Refile in facts from previous filing #640583. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Navneet Aron, CEO. #C4009910. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/22/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657925 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Habana On Wheels, 460 W Taylor, San Jose, CA, 95110, Osvaldo Ruiz. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/16/2019. /s/Osvaldo Ruiz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657944 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Moss Designs, 1514 Burrell Ct., San Jose, CA, 95126, Elise Moss. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2015. /s/Elise Moss. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV353075

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Creating Comfort LLC, 1975 Murguia Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95050. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/27/2009. Refile in facts from previous filing #592467. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Denise Herndon, Managing Partner. #200918710210. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Kiersten Renee Nichols for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Kiersten Renee Nichols. Proposed name: Kiera Renee Foran. 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: January 7, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: August 20, 2019 (pub dates: 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657770

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657659

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SLP Machining, 1585 N 4th St., Unit K, San Jose, CA, 95112, Taehyun Kim, 10160 Parkwood Dr., Unit 3, Cupertino, Ca, 95014. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/13/2019. /s/Taehyun Kim. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/13/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1024 Media, 174 Goldenrain Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111, Demone Lee Carter. 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/Demone Lee Carter. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/09/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV353004

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Waala Peeka, 285 Calypso Court, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Yogesh Kondareddy. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/14/2019. /s/Yogesh Kondareddy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/21/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657921

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Sandra Elizabeth Kirwan for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Sandra Elizabeth Kirwan.

Proposed name: Sondra Elizabeth Greene. 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: December 31, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: August 5, 2019 (pub dates: 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Yong Bum Lee for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Yong Bum Lee. Proposed name: Sean Lee. 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: January 7, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: August 19, 2019 (pub dates: 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657629

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Images By Gina M Dias, 4944 tony Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Gina Mrie Dias. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2019. /s/Gina M Dias. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/09/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bambini Furtuna, 20 N. Santa Cruz Ave., STE B, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Healthy Remedies 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 Delaware. /s/Stephen Luczo, Member. #201622310337.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/08/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kamal Patel, CEO. #3426323. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/14/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657657

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657802 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Capricorn Hotel Group, 15640 Kavin Lane, Monte Sereno, CA, 95030, Capricorn Global Investments, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658075

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658084 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mason And Market, 19444 De Havilland Dr., Saratoga, CA, 95070, Giftsuite 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 11/27/2017.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Shireen Gupta, Owner. #201732910022. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/21/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658128 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: R Janjua Transports, 1532 Moorpark Ave Apt 3, San Jose, CA, 95128. 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/Amarjit Singh Janjua. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658107 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sunny Portraiture, 1679 S Main St., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Freelancer Inc, 173 W Hamilton Ave., Campbell, CA, 95008. This

business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/15/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Sanjeev Manucha, President. #C3877260. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/22/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): JOHN RAY BALL CASE NUMBER: 19PR186317 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all namesby which the decedent was known): JOHN RAY BALLA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of California,County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to takemany actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interestedpersons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files anobjection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: October 18, 2019 Time: 9:01 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Yourappearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the courtwithin the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code,or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner (name): MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 (Telephone): 408758-4217(Pub Dates: 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658162 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Hero Builders, 2. Hero Builders Inc., 3. Hero Builders, Inc., 4. Hero Builders, A California Corporation, 21670 Shillingsburg Ave., San Jose, CA, 95120, Hestia Construction Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Melanie Griswold, Secretary. #C4284328. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657617 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Alum Rock High Booster Club, 1435 Koll Circle, Suite 106, San Jose, CA, 95112, Randi Maureen Mcmasters, Fulgence Fulay, 1776 Educational Park Dr Building K, San Jose, CA, 95133. This business is being conducted by an Unincorporated Association Other Than A Partnership.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. /s/Randi Mcmasters. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/08/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kevin Pham, 180 Great Oaks Blvd., San Jose, CA, 95119, Kevin Pham, 30 W. Virginia St. Unit 2, San Jose, CA, 95110. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/12/2019. /s/Kevin Pham. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/01/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MAY AL-DADA, AKA MAY ALI AL-DADA CASE NUMBER: 19PR186225

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MAY AL-DADA, AKA MAY ALI AL-DADAA Petition for Probate has been filed by KHALED AL-DADA in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa ClaraThe Petition for Probate requests that KHALED AL-DADA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: October 16, 2019 Time: 9:01 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner: Tisa M. Pedersen – SBN 251466Thoits Law, APC400 Main Street, Suite 250Los Altos, CA 94022650-327-4200(Pub Dates Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657807 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Taliangel Transport, 6203 San Ignacio Ave Suite 110, San Jose, CA, 95119, Jonathan Tautai Leaupepe. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/14/2019. /s/Jonathan Leaupepe.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/14/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658139 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Home In Harmony, 1848 Booksin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Dawn Abernathy. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Dawn Abernathy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY: CASE NO. 18PR184999 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on September 11, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., the Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara, as administrator of the Estate of MARTHA M. STEFFEN AKA MARTHA MAE STEFFEN, intends to sell at private sale, subject to court confirmation, to the highest net bidder, all of the estateís right, title and interest in and to certain real property located at 1143 Willow Street, in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California, which property is more particularly described as: Lot 31, as designated as so delineated upon Map entitled, “Tract No. 63 of the Aragon Subdivision situated in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, California” which said Map was filed October 19, 1937 in the Office of the County Recorder of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, in Vol. 3 of Maps, Pages 8 and 9 The real property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rightsof-way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price.

The real property is be sold on an “as is.” basis except for title. Bid or offers for the real property are hereby invited.

For additional information about submitting bids or offers please contact the listing agent, Shirley Bailey, Compass, 167 S. San Antonio Road, Ste 1, Los Altos, CA 94022; (650) 209-1580.

All bids or offers must be accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit by cashierís check, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow.

Taxes, rents, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of recording of conveyance.

Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer tax and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers.

The right is reserved for James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara as Administrator of the estate of Martha M. Steffen reserves the right to reject any and all bids or offers.

All written bids or offers will be opened at 2:00 p.m. on September 11, 2019 at the offices of the Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara located at 333 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 of thereafter, as allowed by law.

James J. Ramoni Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara, Petitioner JAMES R. WILLIAMS, County Counsel, MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel (Pub CC 09/04/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658164 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Wild Wonders, 1065 Greco Ave #203, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Santosh Sathyanarayana Honnavalli. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/22/2019. /s/Santosh Sathyanarayana. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658083 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gr8rails, 905 N. 4th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Gr8rails, 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/Manjit Singh Khalsa, Chief Of Operations. #201923210547. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/21/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657117

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657926

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cryosculpt Los Gatos, 336 Village Ln., Suite D, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Theresa Ann Sweet, 410 Santa Rosa Dr., Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/23/2019. Refile in facts from previous filing #655287 /s/Theresa Ann Sweet. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Roberts Enterprises, 874 Rubis Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, James Lee Roberts, Eric Allan Roberts, 822 W Iowa Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Tracy Ann Roberts, 1211 Ballena Blvd, Alameda, CA, 94501. This business is being conducted by an Unincorporated Association Other Than A Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/22/2009. /s/Eric Allan Roberts. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657929

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cosmic Energy Therapy Center, 10845 N. Wolfe Road, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Qi Wang, 2345 Sutter Ave Apt 4, Santa Clara, CA, 95050. 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/Qi Wang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657881 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RHR Creations, 3309 Famille Ct., San Jose, CA, 95135, Ritu Boparae. 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/Ritu Boparae. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/15/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658091 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Summit Psychotherapy, 859 University Ave., #21, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Felicia Barr. 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/Felicia Barr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/22/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658264 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vineyard Blinds & Shades, 2685 Glen Ferguson Circle, San Jose, CaA, 95148, Steve Kim. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/28/2019. /s/Steve KIm. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/28/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658306 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bay Karaoke, 1694 Tully Rd., #20, San Jose, CA, 95122, Quang Huy Dang, 5768 Chesbro Ave., San Jose, CA, 95123. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. /s/Quang Huy Dang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/26/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): STEVAN PHELAN CASE NUMBER: 19PR186581 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all names by which the decedent was known): STEVAN PHELANA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarain the Superior Court of California, County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless theyhave waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: 10/30/19 Time: 9:01 a.m.

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

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first

issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner (name): Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA 95110(Telephone): 408-758-4217(Pub Dates: 9/04, 9/11, 9/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658003 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Falcon Learning, 1128 Jacklin Rd., Milpitas, CA, 95035, SHC Global 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/Anh Dau, Presifent. #201918310282. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYO AKA JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE CARAVAYO CASE NUMBER: 119PR185912 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all namesby which the decedent was known): JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYOaka JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, aka JOYCE CARAVAYOA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of California,County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to takemany actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interestedpersons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files anobjection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: October 4, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner (name): MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 (Telephone): 408-7584217(Pub Dates: 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): John Muir (1838-1914)

was skilled at creating and using machinery. In his 20s, he diligently expressed those aptitudes. But at age 27, while working in a carriage parts factory, he suffered an accident that blinded him. For several months, he lay in bed, hoping to recuperate. During that time, Muir decided that if his sight returned, he would thereafter devote it to exploring the beauty of the natural world. The miracle came to pass, and for the rest of his life he traveled and explored the wilds of North America, becoming an influential naturalist, author and early environmentalist. I'd love to see you respond to one of your smaller setbacks—much less dramatic than Muir's!—with comparable panache, Aries.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Of all the children on the planet, 3 percent live in the US. And yet American children are in possession of 40 percent of the world's toys. In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby invite you to be like an extravagant American child in the coming weeks. You have cosmic permission to seek maximum fun and treat yourself to zesty entertainment and lose yourself in uninhibited laughter and wow yourself with beguiling games and delightful gizmos. It's playtime!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The ama are Japanese women whose job it is to dive to the sea bottom and fetch oysters bearing pearls. The water is usually cold, and the workers use no breathing apparatus, depending instead on specialized techniques to hold their breath. I propose we make them your inspirational role models. The next few weeks will be a favorable time, metaphorically speaking, for you to descend into the depths in quest of valuables and inspirations.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Renowned Cancerian

neurologist Oliver Sacks believed that music and gardens could be vital curative agents, as therapeutic as pharmaceuticals. My personal view is that walking in nature can be as medicinal as working and lolling in a garden. As for music, I would extend his prescription to include singing and dancing as well as listening. I'm also surprised that Sacks didn't give equal recognition to the healing power of touch, which can be wondrously rejuvenating, either in its erotic or non-erotic forms. I bring these thoughts to your attention because I suspect the coming weeks will be a Golden Age of non-pharmaceutical healing for you. I'm not suggesting that you stop taking the drugs you need to stay healthy; I simply mean that music, nature, and touch will have an extra-sublime impact on your well-being.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you visualize what ancient

Rome looked like, it's possible you draw on memories of scenes you've seen portrayed in movies. The blockbuster film Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ridley Scott, may be one of those templates. The weird thing is that Gladiator, as well as many other such movies, were inspired by the grandiose paintings of the ancient world done by Dutch artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912).

And in many ways, his depictions were not at all factual. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will prod you to question the accuracy and authenticity of your mental pictures. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get fuzzy and incorrect memories into closer alignment with the truth, and to shed any illusions that might be distorting your understanding of reality.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I don't know if the coming

weeks will be an Anais Nin phase for you. But they could be if you want them to. It's up to you whether you'll dare to be as lyrical, sensual, deep, expressive and emotionally rich as she was. In case you decide that YES, you will, here are quotes from Nin that might serve you well. 1. It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it. 2. My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. 3. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. 4. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 5. It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't

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do any good to hammer in more nails." So advised novelist Wallace Stegner. I hope I'm delivering his counsel in time to dissuade you from even trying to nail a custard pie to the wall—or an omelet or potato chip or taco, for that matter. What might be a better use of your energy? You could use the nails to build something that will actually be useful to you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "I hid my deepest

feelings so well I forgot where I placed them," wrote author Amy Tan. My Scorpio friend Audrey once made a similar confession: "I buried my secrets so completely from the prying curiosity of other people that I lost track of them myself." If either of those descriptions apply to you, Scorpio, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to secure a remedy. You'll have extra power and luck if you commune with and celebrate your hidden feelings and buried secrets.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "No Eden valid

without serpent." Novelist Wallace Stegner wrote that pithy riff. I think it's a good motto for you to use in the immediate future. How do you interpret it? Here's what I think: As you nourish your robust vision of paradise on Earth, and as you carry out the practical actions that enable you to manifest that vision, it's wise to have some creative irritant in the midst of it. That bug, that question, that tantalizing mystery is the key to keeping you honest and discerning. It gives credibility and gravitas to your idealistic striving.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coco de mer is

a palm tree that grows in the Seychelles. Its seed is huge, weighing as much as 40 pounds and having a diameter of 19 inches. The seed takes seven years to grow into its mature form, then takes an additional two years to germinate. Everything I just said about the coco de mer seed reminds me of you, Capricorn.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you've been working on ripening an awesome seed for a long time, and are now in the final phase before it sprouts. The Majestic Budding may not fully kick in until 2020, but I bet you're already feeling the enjoyable, mysterious pressure.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you throw a pool

ball or a bronze Buddha statue at a window, the glass will break. In fact, the speed at which it fractures could reach 3,000 miles per hour.

Metaphorically speaking, your mental blocks and emotional obstacles are typically not as crackable.

You may smack them with your angry probes and bash them with your desperate pleas, yet have little or no effect. But I suspect that in the coming weeks, you'll have much more power than usual to shatter those vexations. So I hereby invite you to hurl your strongest blasts at your mental blocks and emotional obstacles. Don't be surprised if they collapse at unexpectedly rapid speeds.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 13th century,

the Italian city of Bologna was serious about guarding the integrity of its cuisine. In 1250, the cheese guild issued a decree proclaiming, "If you make fake mortadella . . . your body will be stretched on the rack three times, you will be fined 200 gold coins, and all the food you make will be destroyed." I appreciate such devotion to purity and authenticity and factualness. And I recommend that in the coming weeks, you commit to comparable standards in your own sphere.

Don't let your own offerings be compromised or corrupted. The same with the offerings you receive from other people. Be impeccable.

Homework: Saul Bellow wrote, "Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy?" Do you agree? FreeWillAstrology.com

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Celebrating Mardi Gras late (or early) at the LOS GATOS PARK DANCE.

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Dinner at THE PALMS in Los Gatos is always a classy choice.

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A cook at RAMEN NAGI in Palo Alto shows off a fistful of noodles produced by buzzy Japanese startup Base Food.

The Base Food team was excited to be teaming with RAMEN NAGI, which recently opened two U.S. locations—at the Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara and in downtown Palo Alto.

Japanese startup BASE FOOD co-hosted a tasting and cocktail party to celebrate their new partnership with Ramen Nagi.

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