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Memories You forgot to mention Fosters Freeze on the corner of Willow and Mastic (“Willow’s Way,” Silicon Alleys, Jan. 9). We couldn’t afford a ride to Baskin-Robbins in Willow Glen,

so we went to Fosters for vanilla, strawberry or chocolate ice cream.

In those days, three flavors were plenty! They also had the best fish sandwiches in town.

Then there was the drugstore on the corner of Willow and Almaden.

Now, it’s a mercado. When you mentioned Ricardo’s Pizza, it brought back thoughts of the days when I would go in there to shine shoes and hang around as long as I could to hear the bands play. If I remember correctly, Peter, Paul and Mary sang “Puff, the Magic Dragon” one night. I always thought the song was about a dragon. LOL. I moved into the neighborhood in 1960 and still live in the same house.

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Y ALL ALL ACCOUNTS, ACCOUNTS, Erin Erin and Allen Johnson Johnson seem like ideal firsttime homebuyers, homebuyers, the th he kind k ind any real estate agent vie to represent. Now w would Now w in n their mid-30s, mid-30s, the couple gr raduated about a decade graduated ag go from Cal Poly Poly in San Luis Luiis ago O Obispo o, before settling down n Obispo, in n the Silicon Valley Valley to live cl lose to Erin’s Erin’s job job as a third-close gr rade teacher for San Jose’s Jose’s grade A Alum District Rock School District.

Allen works as a w warehouse aarehouse mana manager. agerr.

Bo oth earn a steady inc ome. T ogetherr Both income.

Together th heeyy’vve scrimp ed, sa aved e and w aaited they’ve scrimped, saved waited ffor o an off or ffeer to get appr oveed. But eigh ht offer approved. eight m months and a dozen rrejections ejections into th heir house hunt, the JJohnsons’ ohnsons’ stell lar their stellar ccredit, cr redit, ed t, sa avings v gs and a d st ab e jobs ha able ave all a savings stable have

lost out to in investors nveestors slap slapping pping down ccash ash in hand ffor or the same pr o properties. roperties.

“It’s incredibly frustrating, “It ’s incr edibly frustr rating,” Allen says.

“We’re sa ays y . “W We’re ccollege-educated, ollege-edu ucated, working hard, rreally, eallyy, rreally eally har d, and we still ccan’t an’t afford aff ffo ord a home home..

“It goes goes like lik ke this: Everyone Evveerryo one loves lo ovees us, us, esp especially peciallyy sinc sincee Erin Erin’s n’s a te teacher. eacherr. Ev Everyone veeryo one loves agents, sellers,, the lo ovees teachers: the agent ts, the sellers bank. And eeverything veerything lin lines nes up rreally eally well.

It’s It ’s in out budget; we ma make ak ke a str strong ong off offer; ffeer; we got the bank OK’ing it; we got the approval. appr ovval. Then a ffew ew da days ayys later we find out a ccash aash off offer ffeer got it.”

The JJohnsons ohnsons ttypify yypiffy th the he downside increasingly trend of an incr easingly ccommon o omm mon tr end in Silicon Silic on V Valley aalleey and nation nationally, nallyy, wher wheree homebuyers—often homebuy yeers—often in investment nveestment groups gr oups fr ffrom om o overseas—are veerseas—aare losing l i outt to ccash ash buy buyers yeers who cconvert on nveert owner ownerroccupied en o ccupied homes into rrentals. ntals. The natural tendency of selle sellers ers to cho choose ose over offers quick, guaranteed sales o veer off ffeers with financing ccontingencies ontingencies is a ne new w assault on middle class home ow ownership, wnership, a shift likely lik keelyy to o eexpand xxpand pa d thee rank ranks a ks of o landlor landlords a d o ds d

and tenantss and mak make ke home ownership an incr increasingly reasin e ngly elusiv elusive ve Americ American an dr dream. eam.

Erin and d Allen seriously b began egan lo looking oking ffor o orr their own home when their property pr operty manager m hik hiked keed the rrent ent fr from om $1,40 0 to $1,70 $ 0 a month ffor or o their one $1,400 $1,700 one-bedroom b edroom Mount M Mountain ain V View iiew apar apartment. tment.

“We “W We go thr tthrough ough phases wher wheree we ’re vvery eery cconfident onfident we ’re going to get we’re we’re something g. W e’rre ha aving v fun with the something.

We’re having pr ocess of it t. W veen st taart to pack a lit tttle process it.

Wee eeven start little bit—then says. bit t—then — w lose out again,” Erin sa we ayys. last Santaa Clara In the la ast ffour our o yyears, ears, Sant County C ountty sa saw aw an incr increase ease of ccash ash buys ffor or o rresidential esidenttial homes jump fr om 15 from percent p ercentt to t mor moree than th 21, ac according cording di to t Multiple L Listing isting Ser Service, vice, a national database dat abase off rreal eal est estate ate listings listings..

Nation nw wid de, ab out a thir d of all home Nationwide, about third purchases weree paid in ccash pur chases wer w ash this past yyear, ear, rreports eports the National A Association ssociation of R Realtors. ealtors e s. A dec decade ade ago ago,, ffewer ewer than 10 p ercent of homes sold ffor or ccash. o ash. percent “We’ve seen tremendous increase “W We’vve se een a tr emendous incr ease in ccash ash buy yeerss sinc buyers sincee the housing downturn haven’t before history, that we ha aven en’’t seen b effo orre in histor y”” y, NAR’s economist, Lawrence the NAR R’s chief c ec onomist, L aw wrence Y u un, wr ote in a N ovemb e er rreport eport ab out Yun, wrote November about housing tr e , which ffound ends ound that the o trends, buyers aree in investors. bulk of ccash ash h buy yeers ar nvestors e . we’re “This is the t biggest challenge we ’re facing rightt now w,” sa ayys Mat tt Huer ta, now, says Matt Huerta, head of N e eighb orhood Housing Neighborhood Ser vices of Silic on V aalley, a nonpr p ofit Services Silicon Valley, nonprofit

When San JJose–based ose–based rreal e est eal estate ate broker $285,000 br ok keer Michael Cheng bid b $285,0 $285 000 summer, on a ccondo ondo last summer r, he cconsidered onsidered it an aggr aggressive essivve off offer ffeer cconsidering on nsidering nearbyy units sold the mo nearb month onth prior ffor or o around ar ound $240,0 $240,000.

00. The Y Yarwood aarwood C Court ourt property’s value: $230,000, pr opertyy’s assessed value e: $230,0 00, according property ac cording to ccounty ountty pr op perty rrecords. ecords.

Within days, however, offers started W iithin da ayys, howe veerr, off ffeers st arted pouring priced Cheng’ss client p ouring in that pric ed Cheng’ C out of the rac race. e. The mo modest d 920dest square-foot, spacee squar e-ffoot, ttwo-bedroom wo-bedroom w o spac upward sold ld to t a ccash ash h bidder bidd ffor orr upw o waard off $300,000 $30 0,000 after 45 off offers ffeerrs in all, of presumes anywhere which Cheng pr esumes an nyywhere from fr om 2 255 to 40 p percent ercent wer w weree in ccash. ash.

“Sincee m myy client w was “Sinc aas get ggetting ttting financing,, he ccould cconventional on nventional financing ould not bid that high, eeven veen thou ugh he w aanted though wanted to d not ha ave to,, as the appraisal woul would have ccome ome thr through ough high enou enough ugh to satisf satisfy fy the lender lender,,” Chen sa says. ayys.

Cheng, Cheng g, a br broker oker at Ar Archer c cher Homes who h often ft works k with i h multimillionair m l i illi ie multimillionaire clients ash buys clients,, thinks this influxx of ccash ma ay lead Silic on V aalleey to t a housing may Silicon Valley mark ket e similar to V aancou ouver e , wher market Vancouver, wheree in the early 20 00s he w aatch hed thousands 2000s watched of A sian s and Indian in nvestors e buy up Asian investors rresidential esidential pr properties operties wi with ith ccash aash to tighten in nveentory and dr rive up pric es. inventory drive prices.

“It’s “It ’s vvery eery similar to wh what hat happ happens ens in China or other A Asian sian ccountries, untries, and it it’s ’s ou investors, says. paid off ffor o or these in nveesto ors,” Cheng sa ayys.

“Now “N ow that the they ey see the dollar d so weak, and sinc sincee the rrecession ecession didn d didn’t n’’t hit their ccountry ountry as har hard, d, the they’re eyy’re ccoming oming her here, e, too.

They’re holding. to o. The eyy’re buying and holding g.”

It’s hardly novel ideaa ffor It ’s har dly a no ovel ide or o the Coast market rregion. egion. The East C oast housing h mark keet entertained European has ffor o or yyears ears e enter tained d Eur opean or American investors looking South Americ an in nvesto ors lo oking to

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Another lar ashgerr-scale ttype yype of ccashlarger-scale nd ma ay mor ally en buying tr trend may moree dramatic dramatically llandscape ape of suburbs lik ke change the landsc like Salinas, Gilroy any neighborhood Salinas, Gilr roy or an ny neighb orhood hit har hardest byy the housing crisis crisis.. In dest b communities vacant communitiees with a glut of vac ant bank-owned homes,, it it’s bank k-owned d homes ’s quick work ffor o or a private equ equity group portfolios uitty gr oup to buy p ortfo olios of 50 to hun hundreds time,, selling off ndreds at a time the b best ones est one es and rrenovating enovating the others to turn into o rrentals. entals.

WayPoint, estate investment WaayyPoin nt, a rreal eal est ate in nveestment group bought group based d in Oakland, has b ought thousands of shortt o fforeclosures or o eclosures and shor sales at rrock-bottom prices, ock k--bottttom pric es, mostly in the C Central Valley entrral V aalleey to cconvert on nver e t into rentals, financed partly byy a $1 billion rentals, finan nced par tly b investment from Park–based in nvestment e fr om Menlo P ark k– –based private equi equity partners. itty ccompany, ompan ny, GI par tners.

Companies strategy Companies sell the strateg gy as an answer crisis,, but middle middle-answer to a national crisis income buyers likee the JJohnsons aren’t income buy yers e lik ohnsons ar en n’’t interested landlords. interested in n ccorporate orporate landlor ds.

Blackstone Group, Blackston ne Gr oup, another private equity too, equitty fund,, put in $1 billion, to o, buying up 6,50 6,500 distressed Bay 0 dis stressed homes in the Ba ay Area, Southern California, Arreea, South hern C aliffo ornia, Arizona and Florida, amo among markets, partt ong other mark keets, as par “investment American of their “in nvveestment in the Americ caan recovery, according recover e y, y”” ac ccorrd ding to a PR video set to a sapp sappy piano posted py pian no soundtrack p osted on the company’s website.. compan nyy’s website w Silver Bay Realty Silvveer Ba ay R eealtty Trust has a similar business stra strategy.

Silver Bay already ateggy. Silv veer Ba ay alr eady owns more more than 2,450 2 homes and plans to invest another $250 3,100 in nveest anoth her $2 50 million to buy 3,10 0 more handful states, more in a ha andful of st ates, including California, according Califfo ornia, ac ccorrd ding to its SEC rrecords. ecorrd ds.

Silicon Valley historically Silicon V a ey has historic alle caally remained moree st stable market, remained a mor able mark keet, although cconsiderably moree eexpensive. o onsiderably mor xp x ensivve.

That’s why That’s wh hy in iinvestors nveestors limit their ccash ash buys homes.. Most shell b to one or a ffew ew homes h h ll out ccash lower-priced properties, ash ffor or lower o r--priced pr operties, less than $8 $800,000, according 00,0 000, ac cording to Barbara Lymberis, opera-singerLyymberis, a rred-headed ed-headed op era-singerturned-Realtor Perfect turned-R Reealltor who owns P erfeect Harmony Properties operaHarmon ny Pr P operties with her op erasinger husba husband. moree and. That just means mor lowermoderate-income lower- to m oderate-income earners will have inventory haave to rrent entt until the rregion’s egion’s in nveentory beefs again, adds.. beefs up aga ain, she adds “I think p people aree going to ha have eople ar ave to sa save longer order purchase ave long ger in or der to pur chase a house house,,” L Lymberis says. ym ymberis sa ayys. “I think the banks ar aree go going have loosen oing to ha ave to lo osen up credit standards little moree to help the and cr edit st dards a lit tttle mor housing ma market. people ark keet. I think most p eople will ccontinue buy.

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that helps low- to middle middle-income e-income earners—includingg the JJohnsons—find ohnsons—find they afford. a home the ey ccan an aff ffo ord. “In ““Investors nvestors e win so much of the time time..”

“New used bee par partt “N ew homeowners us sed to b economic moree of an ec onomic rrecovery, eccoveerry, but mor investors aree pu pushing than eever, ver er, in nveestors ar ushing them out—even prequalified buyers out t—even e pr reequalified buy b yeers who do manage eeverything veerything right and man nage to get a lending standards, loan despite stricter lendi ing st andards,” Huerta investment Huer ta eexplains. xxplains. “The in nveestment appreciation class is gaining the appr ecciation and participating while,, at the par ticipating in the rrecovery ecoveery while time,, distr distressed homeowners same time essed hom meowners lose shortt sale and fforeclosure. their homes to shor orreeclosure.” o Add inventory because A d dd to that a sparse in nveentory b ecause building the rrecession ecession slowed buil lding ffor or a ffew o ew “moree p people yyears, eears, and “mor eople ar aare re ccompeting ompeting homes,,” Huer Huerta notes.. ffor or ffewer o ewer homes ta notes

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Interruptions were the norm. He claims that his scientific destiny was a continuous search for a boundaryshattering problem, a “Kepler moment.”

Throughout his career, he seems more influenced by the academic outcasts and oddballs who crossed his path, as opposed to those who played politics within the system to remain safe.

A “general theory of roughness” as he calls it, is what resulted in the word “fractal,” and once computers became fast enough, he discovered previously hidden laws of nature that no one else had cared to look for, viewable in shorelines, cauliflower heads, snowflakes, the economy and perhaps even his own career trajectory. As a

result, he is now a household name.

Although not mentioned in the book, Mandelbrot did come to Silicon Valley in the late ’80s, on a promo tour for a book edited by Heinz-Otto Peitgen. According to one source who was there, he bantered about feeling like a rock star, as he was often mobbed at his public appearances.

Like Mandelbrot, Edith Piaf was displaced by World War II, although the obstacles she overcame began directly as a result of a broken family situation. She either sang on the ruined streets of working-class Paris, boarded in a brothel or traveled with a circus freak show before eventually vaulting to stardom—all as a teenager.

As No Regrets explores in detail, Piaf wrote lyrics for more than 100 songs throughout her career, including several for other singers. The artist Jean Cocteau described her as an organism of “regal simplicity.” When she performed, wrote Cocteau, Piaf had “the eyes of a blind person struck by a miracle, the eyes of a clairvoyant.”

Spiritually, Piaf developed into an esotericist; she was an official duespaying Rosicrucian for many years until her death. As the book observes, the American tune “Suddenly There’s a Valley,” when translated for Piaf, became “Soudain une vallée,” with lyrics altered to reflect a Rosicrucian perspective.

What’s more, a few pages later, the book notes that following several June 1957 performances at the San Francisco Fairmont, Piaf made a spiritual pilgrimage down the highway and through the hinterland to Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, where she was welcomed by her brothers and sisters.

Reading those two biographies at the same time—one male, one female—was a transformational experience, although it will be years before I figure out what any of it means. It seemed symbolic, as in ancient alchemy or Jungian psychology, when the androgynous union of opposites—male and female, yin and yang—emerged from an initial state of chaos to symbolize a magical synthesis and a more balanced situation. In this case, San Jose is the catalyzing third element, the fortifier that causes the alchemical transformation. Voilà.

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HEN H HOCKEY O OCKEY returned d to San JJose ose in mid-D mid-December, Decemberr, there w a a curious as was ating g through vibe reverber reverberating av vilion. It w as the halls of HP P Pavilion. was ssouls,, many as if nearly 13,000 souls b and clad in their best black a the teal, had come to attend c twice homecoming of a cousin removed.

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restaurant and bar to restaurant o the Shark Tank, T aank,, respectively, respectivveelyy, were w e featured wer feeatured in depressing depr essing ne news ws ffeatures eeattures about about the NHL lo lockout ckout effectively eff ffeectivvely e causing causing a ne new w economic ec onomic downturn n in Silic Silicon on V Valley. aalleey.

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“We “W We ar aree b beginning eginning to see pla players ayers who wh ho pla played ayed their fformative o ormative yyears ears in i the Ba Bay ay Area Area advancing to top top-tier p -tier ccollegiate ollegiate pr programs ograms and eeven ven the NHL,”” Emmert Emmert says. saays y . “Players “Plaayers who would have haave ccome ome through thr ouggh this ar area ea at some time in their theiir yyouth outh include: C Casey asey Wellman, W eellm man,, V Viktor iiktor Tihkonov, Tihkonov, Brett Brett Sutter, Sutter t , Alec Martinez Martinez and Stefan Matteau Mat ttea t au (first (first-round -round pick b byy New New Jersey Jerssey this year), year),, with many many mor moree currently curr en ntly pla playing ayying in the NC NCAA AA or jun junior nior pr programs. ograms. Hockey Hockey scouts scouts aree no ar now ow a rregular egular pr presence esence here here in thee Ba Bay ay Area.”

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and P avelsski one night during the Pavelski lockout att R ookies Sports Sp ports Lodge.

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By the time I left l the rock-climbing gym, my fingers were so tired tirred that I had trouble opening opening my car door. door. Later, Laterr, I could d barely crack crack a beer can. I could, at least, count my new ne ew blisters:

four burst bursst on my fingers, fingers, and twice twice as many waiting waiting under my y palms. palms. Yet Yet I kept thinking thinking,, “Maybe if I dangled my right leg down and reached over o with my right could pull myself up hand, I could and put my m left leg on the green hold hold and ... ”

Scale Sc ale Safe Safe All this jar jargon gon sounds intimidati intimidating ing at first,, but the at attitude tttitude in most clim climbing mbing ggyms yyms is rrelaxed elaxed and unpr unpretentious. etentiou us.

Henryy Springall,, a st Henr staff aff memb member er at the Studio, Studio, advised me b before effor o e I st sstarted arted

bouldering that “it’s bouldering “it’s not a ttypical yypical ggym ym eexperience. xp perience.” Y You ou kno o know ow the ttypical: yyp ypical: a bunch of thick thick-necked k--necked e dudes grunting and p posturing osturing in fr front on nt of the weightweighttrroom oom mirr mirror, or, side-eyeing side-eyeing e each others’ muscles.. A muscles Att the Stud Studio, dio, if yyou o ou ccomplete omplete bouldering project, yyour our current current b ouldeering pr oject,, the staff gives pop. st aff giv vees yyou o ou an otter otttter p op.

After solving a ffew ew easier bouldering problems, b ouldering pr oblem ms, I got stuck on particularly difficult a par ticularly difficu ult V0. To To my my left, stocky a sto cky guy clambered clamber e ed up a V7 at a 45-degree 4545 degree overhang. overhangg. A 9-year-old 9 9-year- old girl toree up a V1 b behind me.. tor ehind d me Ass I sat staring problem A staring att the pr oblem (bouldering (b ouldering involves involves e a lot of sitting sitting staring, and st aring, or “resting “restting yyour our arms,” arms,” makes myy kind of sp sport), which mak es it m ort),, a good go od number number of ccomplete om mplete strangers offered off ffeered me tips or enc eencouragement. ouragement. group The gr oup of ttwentysomethings wen ntysomethings handstands around doing handst ands ar ound the ccorner orner stopped byy to show me keep stopp ed b m how to k eep myy arms str stretched preserve m etched out o to pr eserve next their strength. strenggth. t The guy g ne xt to me took break from his to ok a br eak fr om hi is V4 to run through myy problem thr ough m problem m a ccouple ouple times it’s done.. Mik Mikee and show me how it t’s done Standfer, beginning climber St andffeer, a b eginningg climb er whose brought friend had br ought him, h , stared stared at the problem good pr oblem with me ffor o orr a go od half-hour. halff--hour.

Eventually, Ev entuallyy, I gave gaave up. up. My hands undergone their magical had under gone thei ir magic al transformation iguanas,, transf fo ormation into o dead iguanas and, let me tell you, and, you, dead iguanas walls. ccan’t an’t climb w alls. That Th hat V0 is just waiting w aiting ffor o or me back k at the Studio want otter pop. though,, and I w ant that ot ter p op. maybe wait But ma ayybe I should dw ait until I ccan an open myy own b beer op en m eer ccans. ans.

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NO N O FEAR FEA R OF OF HEIGHTS HEIGHTS At the Studio in San Jose, every e ascent is an

Climbing will do that. Despite Despitte the p , yyou pain, ou w want ant to ggo back and jjust finish that last climb climb..

I spent spent a ffew ew hours b bouldering oulderin ng at the Studio Studio,, the climbing gym gym m on South F First irst Str Street eet in downtown n San heard storyy o over JJose, ose, and I hear d the same stor ver over and o ver again.

Lanvy Nguyen, Studio L anvy Nguy en, a rrecent ecent Stud dio member, me,, ““A took memb er, told me A friend to o me ok Granite,, and I got ho hooked. to Planet Granite oked. bouldering problems aree The b ouldering pr oblems ar addicting.” definitely addicting .” climbed She had climb ed at Planet Granite Grranite Sunnyvale, in Sunn nyyvale, until her cousin cousin told to old her about about the Studio which opened opened e spring.. In addition to ggyms, last spring yms, the Bay South Ba ay also sits near some off the best b est outdoor outdoor climbing in the ccountry. o ountr y.

Castle Rock C astle R ock to the west, Pinnacles Pinnaclles to the south and,, of ccourse, ourse, Yosemite Yo osem mite farther and Bishop far ther to the east.

Like sports, hass Lik ke other sp orts, climbing ha its own vvocabulary, ocabulary, but a ffew ew eextra xxttra flashcards aree needed to learn th thee flashc ards ar lingo.. Bouldering in involves solving lingo nvo olves solvin ng “problems, aree lik like shortt “pr oblems,” which ar ke shor puzzles. problem climbing puz zles. The pr oblem yyou’re ou’re currently “project. curr ently working on is yyour our o “pr roject.”

Bouldering rrequires equires no equipment equipm ment beyond shoes, b eyo ond climbing sho es, a chalk bag baag and falls.. Since a crash mat to cushion bad falls S e Sinc rarely above it rar ely rrequires equires a climb ab ove 20 0 ffeet, eeet, safety no other saf feetty devices devices are are necessary. necessaary.

However, top-rope aree ab about Howe ver e , top -rrope climbs ar o 50 out harness, to 60 60 feet feeet high and require require a harn ness, belay partner, rrope ope and b elaay par tner, who ffeeds eeed ds the safety climber ascends saf feetty rrope ope out as the climb er asc e ends and ccatches atches them if they they fall. style Each st tyyle has its own rating ssystem y ystem difficulty as well. Bouldering ranges in diffi fficultty from top-roping fr om V0 to V16,, while top -ropin ng goes from 5.15b.. The numb numbers go es fr om 5.2 to 5.15b bers themselves aree arbitrar arbitrary, usually themselv es ar y, and usu ually a climbers cconsensus onsensus of eexperienced xperienced climb e will ers rating.. decide the rating aree the ttwo popular These ar w wo most p opulaar in a ggym, ttypes yypes of climbing ffound ound o yym m,, but theree ar aree also lead climbing climbing,, freether freesoloing, soloing g, high-balling and trad climbing, clim mbing, others.. Then ther theree are among others are all kinds nibs,, pinches, of hand and ffootholds: ootholds: nibs pinch hes, crimps,, jugs, pockets. crimps jugs, slopers slopers and p ock keets. Not Not to different moves: mention the diff ffeerent climbing mo m oves: the dyno, dyno, the smear, smear, the mantle. mantle. I’ll I wait w aait while yyou o ou write that down.

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“There’s “Ther e’s no magic to it,” Farmer insists.. “It “It’s insists ’s something yyou o ou have haave to see—and see —and ffeel—for eeel—ffo or yourself, yourself o f, but it’s it’s also easy identify vvery eery eas sy to o identif fy why wh hy you’re you o ’re seeing something,, those rresults esultts or how to fix something like eeven veen a mood mood disorder disor di der d lik ke anxiety. anxiet i ty.”

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OR TH OR THOSE T OSE WH WHO O think of yoga yo oga as a N ew Age New cop-o out to regular heartcop-out pum mping ex ercise, a pumping exercise, gathering of o henna ’d hippies henna’d or a comme ercialized brand brand of commercialized pseudo-spirituality, it’ss time pseudo-spir rituality y, it’ fresh to take a fr esh look at the ancient art. artt.

South Ba Bay ay practitioners practitioners,, generally speaking, sp eaking, ha have ave it down to a scienc science. e.

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why this heals p why w people,” eople,” sa says ayys Ste Steve ve Farmer, Fa armer, St Stanford anffor o d Ph.D Ph.D., ., yyogi ogi and head he ead of A Avalon vvalon Ar Artt and Y Yoga oga C Center en nter in n Palo Palo Alto Alto.. “In the South Ba Bay ay an and nd southern so outhern P Peninsula, eninsula, we ha have ave a vvery ery m much mor moree scientific appr approach oach to o yyoga, oga, ga vvery ery diff different ffeerent than the scho schools ools in n San Francisc Francisco, o, Berkeley Berkeley or some som me parts pa arts of the East Ba Bay ay where where you’ll you’lll find fin nd a bunch of nose pier piercings.” cings.”

Maybe Ma ayb y e it it’s ’s the mix of ac academics, ademiccs, ccorporate o orate go orp go-getters -getters and entrepreneurial en ntrepreneurial bus busybodies ybodies that sapped sa apped the 1970s-fla 1970s-flavored avored m mysticism ysticiism

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Or ma maybe ayybe yyoga oga in the these ese par parts ts is rreturning eturning to its ancien ancient nt rroots, oots, which weree gr wer grounded ounded in scie science ence and medicine an anyway. yway.

“The yyoga oga world is vvery eery strange and multifaceted, says Farmer.

“You have multifac eted”” sa eted, ayys Farm mer. “Y You o ha ave the ccommercial ommercial ccorporate orporrate studios studios,, the ne new-wave w-w wave studios studios,, the t ggym yym yyoga oga Fitness at eevery veery 24-Hour F itneess and such, there’s and then ther e’s the vvery e y serious er therapeutic therap eutic yyoga oga ccommunity. omm munity.”

Not N ot that yyoga oga has b been e stripped een stripped 90-minute aerobics down to a glorified 9 0-m minute aer obics

Thanks to a rising demand ffor or o yyoga oga in its man ny fforms, o orms , South Ba ay rresidents esidents many Bay have plenty days, ha ave plent ty of options these da ayys, from classes virtually local fr om classe es at vir tually eevery very lo cal free ggym ym to fr ee sessions at ccommunity ommunitty ccenters enters and d those off offered ffeered at classic classically ally ccalm alm b boutique outiique studios ttaught aught b byy acrobatic acr obatic b i and a d erudite di yyogis. ogis i.

Manyy cconsider Man o onsider the Bay Baay Area Area a major ccenter entter ffor o or yyoga oga b because ecause of its great great di diversity, iversity, sa says ays y San JJose’s ose’s Downtown Downtow nY Yoga oga Shala owner Veronica V eeronica Cruz.

C Trauma-release Trauma-release classes at Y Yoga oga Shala and Br Breathe eath he L Los os Gatos ttarget arget the anxiety-ridden anxiet ty--rid dden and PT PTSD-addled SD-addled or those rrecovering ecoveering fr from om ph physical hyysical injury injury likee a ccar lik ar cr crash. rash. A “Flying L Lotus” otus”” class class,, also at Br Breathe, eaathe, lifts participants participants off the gr ground ound d to eexplore xplore the Cir Cirque que de Soleil–like Soleil–lik ke heights of yyoga. oga.

Cancer C ancer sur ssurvivors vivors ccan an tap tap into the rrestorative estorative p powers owers of yyoga oga at sessions geared gear ed justt to them at A Avalon. vvalon. The strapped-for-cash placee to strapp ed-ffo or- cash ccan an find a plac practicee att the Billy DeFrank LGBT practic Community Center C ommuniity C enter on The Alameda encouraged, in San JJose—donations osee— donations enc ouraged, but not mandator m mandatory. y.

“It’s “It ’s rreally eallly enc encouraging ouraging to see all the option options ns we ha have,” ave,” Cruz says. saayys. “It’s “It’s not as satu saturated urated as San Francisc Francisco, o, but ther there’s e’s something ffor o or everyone.” everyone.”

Sincee th Sinc these hese crisp crisp,, ccold old winter weeks driv drive ve people people indoors indoors anyway, anyway, one ma may ay aas well spend spend some of that time in a ccozy ozy yyoga oga studio mo moving ving limbs around, those limb bs ar ound, notes two-year two -year practitioner yyoga oga pract titioner and San JJose ose native native Margaret 25, frequents Mar garet Galeon, G 2 5, who fr equents YogaSource Los Gatos..

Y ogaSource L os Gatos “Yoga stress me,, “Y Yoga is a rreal eal str ess rreliever eliever ffor or me o physically mentally, says. ph hyysically and a ment allyy,” Galeon sa ays y.

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The W Willow iillow Glen nati native ive returned returned to his childho childhood od neighb neighborhood o orho od in the mid-1990s mid-19 90s to op open en hiss yyoga oga studio after se several veral yyears ears livin living, ng, working and practicing yyoga oga in n San Franciso Franciso..

“When I got her here, e, there t e wasn’t ther wasn’t much ar around ound in the w way ay of yoga,” yoga,””

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“W We’re all a friends, friends,” he says. saayys. “The “We’re yyoga oga ccommunity omm munitty is all inter interconnected. connected.

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For an For anyone yon ne lo looking oking to learn ab about out the neur neurobiology ob biology of yyoga oga b between etween physical the classes that teach the ph hysic y al practicee off it, ther theree ar aree teachers practic have at Avalon Avvalon who ha ave authored authored books nationallyy known b ooks and teach at the prestigious some of th he most pr estigious schools schools in the ccountry. ountry.

Avalon Steve A vvalon owner o Ste ve Farmer graduated fr from om St Stanford anffor o d University University with a Ph. Ph.D. D. He’s He’s har hardly dly the only one armed a with a p post-grad ost-grad education—several educ ation— —several other A Avalon vvalon instructorss hold a Ph.D Ph.D., ., masters or medical medic al de degree, egree, something Farmer believes b elieves pu puts uts his yyoga oga center center a notch above ab ove the others others..

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SoFA District (and beyond) on the First Friday of the month.

FEBRUARY 1st ART WALK 7-11pm

MACLA

Phantom Galleries

366 So. First Street

510 So. First Street

The Moment (When the World Stopped Turning) by KLONE (Israel) A visual documentation of life. The dreams we have, the days we live, the politics, the unnecessary battles, the necessary struggles, the poor and the rich , the tired and the restless. There's place for everybody and place for no one. This is daydreaming of what could be and what won't ever return.

South FIRST FRIDAYS at MACLA! In MACLA’s Gallery: Assembling the Pieces: Reconstructing Memory & Hybrid Identity. Recent work by Tessie Barrera-Scharaga and Samuel Rodriguez.

In the Castellano Playhouse: MACLA presents interactive performances by instructors for our upcoming adult classes.

at Good Karma Cafe 37 So. First Street

Anno Domini

Image credit: Samuel Rodriguez, Fractions, mixed media, 2012.

A new body of work by Joe Perea.

ENANTIODROMIA is the process by which something is transformed into or revealed as being the same as its opposite. Perea’s hyper detailed monochromatic drawings reveal the chaos and order that can be found in all things in the above and the below. The future of quantum healing is here.

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery

520 So. First Street

577 So. Market Street

Celebrating our 35-year history, Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years showcases our collection of important early and historic quilts, plus contemporary fiber art, costume, and ethnic textiles.

Salon Activity: Make your own Felt Mola! Molas are brightly colored applique panels made by the Kuna Indians of Panama.

The Art Boutiki welcomes all young lovers with a Valentines Day themed show. Art from a number of artists including Des Taylor and Jef Bambas. Live music supplied by the Art Boutiki Jazz Quartet and an opening featuring a Reader's Theater reading celebrating Black History month. Plus LOTS of free comics.

Additional Participating Venues:

Jeff Hemming

WORKS San José

Art Ark Gallery

KALEID Gallery

365 So. Market Street

1035 So. Sixth Street

88 So. Fourth Street

Named for the spectacularly outrageous performer, Beyond Gaga is a juried exhibition of fun, sexy, provocative, and deliberately unsettling sculpture and installation art.

The call to artists, from curator Lynne Todaro, was to be shocking, awesome, sublime, and outrageous— to push their imaginations to the edge and beyond.

Art Ark Gallery is pleased to present Tango and the Modern Nude A visual & performing arts exhibition celebrating the human form… as both a reclining nude and a body in motion.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 1st, 6-9pm. Live music by Tango Trio (Gianfranco Paolozzi, Nancy Lane & Griff Derryberry)

Join us at KALEID Gallery for two new featue exhibitions: Houses in My Dreams by Melanie Sharr. This new work brings about the

Image: "Six Visions" by Pamela Blotner

Art:Trina Merry, Metamorphisis, ltd ed print

HIgher Fire Clayspace 499 So. Market Street Phantom Galleries 95 So. Market Street San Jose Jazz at Pagoda Restaurant 170 So. Market Street San Jose Stage Company 490 So. First Street Seeing Things Gallery 30 North Third Street Caffé Frascati 315 So. First Street Downtown Yoga Shala 450 So. First Street LGBTQ Youth Space 452 So. First Street The Metro Gallery 550 So. First Street Pho69 Restaurant 321 So. First Street Psycho Donuts 288 So. Second Street The Studio Rock Climbing Gym 396 So. First Street TechShop San Jose 300 So. Second Street

union of our memory to the hallucinatory with Sharr’s dreamlike residential imagery.

Location Location Location by Jeff Hemming. Recentl works examining environments, landscapes, and the flux of chaos, harmony and change ever present in our surroundings.

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“You can go to a mall, but does it always have to revolve around shopping? I don’t know. I don’t think so.”

A famers market is a good example of a thriving third space in our society.

Sebastian’s Moveable Feast is actually very much like a farmers market, except that instead of vegetables, shoppers can buy Korean tacos, premium grilledcheese sandwiches, soul-food, Chinese fusion, Peruvian street food or whatever unique, eclectic items the various food trucks are offering on that given day. As at a farmers market, a lot of the people will hang out and socialize for hours; they don’t just grab their food and leave.

“Any marketplace, I think, is a very important part of society,” Sebastian tells me. “The idea of creating this space where people can gather, where people are able to spend time is very important.

I don’t think that’s going to go away.”

Moveable Feast sets up at several locations on a weekly basis. To pick

two, they assemble in the Garden City parking lot at Saratoga and Stevens Creek every Sunday from 11:30pm until 2pm, and at the VTA station parking lot on Curtner in Willow Glen every Friday from 5 until 9pm.

There are upturned buckets for people to sit on, and visitors make themselves comfortable all around the market. Depending on the place and season, there will be between four and 12 food trucks. The trucks vary from day to day, though Sebastian is very careful in choosing which ones to put together at each Moveable Feast event: “We’re not going to make a market where everyone sells the exact same item. We try and make sure that the markets are diverse in their offerings.”

Sebastian’s background in traffic engineering comes into play as he calculates the daily traffic counts of the different spots. He estimates that the streets near the Garden City location get an average daily count of 4,500 cars. He is also careful to orient the trucks toward the street, to make them visible and enticing to passing motorists.

“We’re trying to claw back the automobile-oriented design of the city,” Sebastian says. “We’re trying to build a more urban feel here, even though our

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city has a more suburban character.”

Moveable Feast was originally called “San Jose Eats” and was held in San Pedro Square in April 2011. That first San Jose Eats event was put on by Treatbot, the ice cream/karaoke food truck that Sebastian and his wife had started a year earlier. It was the first food-truck festival in San Jose and featured roughly 20 gourmet food trucks. Approximately 10,000 people attended.

As Sebastian recalls, “We were completely not ready for something like that. We only had a 1,400-square-foot parking lot. It was way beyond what anyone expected.”

They put on a few more San Jose Eats events at San Pedro Square, before changing the name to Moveable Feast.

While the initial event suffered from being overcrowded, the subsequent editions at San Pedro Square didn’t have because the location enough people b didn’t have good drive-by traffic numbers.

By the end of 2011, they moved to the Garden City loca location on a weekly basis, slowly adding ot other spots on different days of the week week. Their initial audience was a young social-media-savvy soc crowd.

Nowadays, throu through word of mouth and drive-by traffic, they t appeal to people of every age, race aand class.

“The audience that comes to Moveable Feast now is basically a crosssection of San Jose,” Sebastian says.

In order for trucks to participate as vendors, they need to pay a fee, but Sebastian believes it’s a reasonable one, especially considering how much being part of the event widens each truck’s audience. There are upward of 90 trucks currently in Sebastian’s rotation, most of which are based out of the South Bay. Arguably, the success of Moveable Feast this past year has directly influenced the influx of new gourmet food trucks in San Jose.

While Moveable Feast stays busy during the winter, it is during the summer months that people really make it a happening. Families will set up tables and chairs in the parking lots and hang out for hours, while others tailgate.

“Sometimes, you’ll see 50 tailgates in the parking lot. People want to do something fun, and if they can eat and sit down with their family and friend and just hang out, that’s what we want them to do,” Sebastian says.

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Mission City Creamery opened in early January. The completely revamped store, located in the old Blondie’s building, features red plush stools at the counter and a banquette along one wall. All the ice cream is made on premises, and a viewing window in the back lets customers see the process.

“It’s been a learning process, to see what flavors to make and how much is needed,” admitted Leahy. Early bestselling flavors are salted caramel, caramelized banana and coffee with heath bar. The ice cream is thick and creamy and the portions are generous. Yogurt lovers will be disappointed that the creamery does not sell frozen yogurt, but they do have sorbet for the calorie-conscious. Business has been good, especially from neighbors, friends and students from nearby Santa Clara University, and should only improve as the temperature rises throughout the spring.

Most products at Mission City Creamery are under $5, and take-home pints are available. The creamery is open daily from 11am to 10pm, and is located at 2905 Park Avenue in Santa Clara. —By Liz Wassmann MISSION CITY CREAMERY 2905 Park Ave., Santa Clara; 408.615.1080

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They are served on two small corn tortillas with grilled bell peppers, onions, cabbage, avocado sauce and spicy chipotle sauce. I particularly liked the halibut—the breading gave it a nice crunch—and the grilled shrimp, which was meaty and lightly seasoned. The fish tacos are also available as part of a plate, which comes with rice, beans and mango salsa. The one-taco plate is $7.50. A two-taco plate runs $9.75 (add 50 cents for shrimp or halibut).

It isn’t necessary to be a seafood lover to appreciate the fish tacos. The flavors are subtle enough and not overly fishy. You do, however, have to enjoy spicy foods; the fish tacos were, as was everything else I ordered, quite spicy.

Two other interesting dishes are the shrimp burrito, $8.25, and the shrimp quesadilla, $9.50. I tried the shrimp quesadilla and really enjoyed it. The shrimp are grilled inside the flour tortilla, along with onions, cheese and bell peppers. The quesadilla is cut up into several bite-size triangles, drizzled with chipotle sauce and served with salsa fresca, guacamole, mango salsa and more chipotle sauce. The texture and flavor of the shrimp blend perfectly with the cheese and grilled veggies. While $9.50 is a little steep for a quesadilla, at least La Cueva doesn’t skimp on the shrimp.

For $3.95, a nice treat is a homemade gordita. Actual gorditas have little in common with the Taco Bell version. They are made of cornmeal, baked and/or fried in a comal (a flat griddle used to cook tortillas), and stuffed with meat, cheese and other fillings. My gordita was prepared more like a sandwich and was stuffed with refried beans, lettuce, tomatillo sauce, sour cream and a choice of meat. I settled on the steak, which wasn’t bad but lacked the vibrant flavors of the fish and shrimp. Meals are accompanied by homemade tortilla chips and tomatillo salsa, which was very fresh and flavorful, but that spiciness can really sneak up on you.—Aaron Carnes LA CUEVA 18486 Prospect Road, San Jose; 408.517.8603

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When they hit the stage, you must decide—leave the club or give them your undivided attention.

There’s no middle ground. They are incredible players that follow in the footsteps of other instrumental post-rock bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, creating musical arcs instead of catchy, repetitive hooks. Amonie, however, are much more stripped down in their instrumentation

than GY!BE. It is amazing just how much emotion they radiate without a singer. (AC)

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Johnny V’s, San Jose Thu – 9:30pm; free before 10:30pm/$5 after House music returns to downtown San Jose. Not the boring dance music that passes for “house” at mainstream dance clubs. I’m talking about the real deal—the underground electronic music that originally earned the title.

Presented by DJs MJ Gamez and Rick Preston, SLAP will be a fixture at Johnny V’s every Thursday night. The club will also have a

second room open every ry week called “SMACK,” which will be dedicated to hip-hop, reggae and other hot styles of music. This week’s SLAP room features DJs M3, MJ Gamez and Sonic. In the SMACK room, there will be a secret underground hip-hop performer.

Drink specials all night? Of course.

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AFTER ASHLEY Dragon Theatre, Redwood City Preview Thu – 8pm, opens Fri – 8pm; $15-$35 Dragon Productions, long based in Palo Alto, inaugurates its new performing space at 2120 Broadway in Redwood City with After Ashley, Gina Gionfriddo’s satire about a father and son coping with loss in the centerpiece of a media circus. Friday’s opening

features featu ures a full-on ribbon-cutting

by Redwood City Mayor Alicia Aguirre followed by tours of the new facility. (MSG)

tones somehow co-exist, co-exist each mood complementing the other. All the members of this seven-piece hiphop band are veterans of the Bay Area music scene, hailing from such groups as Called to Ruin, Sikness, Phoenix Rising, Modern Ruinz and Scripted. The result is a sort of local supergroup. (AC)

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Fox Theatre, Redwood CIty Fri – 8pm; $30-$45 Tierra marks its 40th anniversary with some of its biggest his, such as “Barrio Suite” and “Margarita.”This benefit show for autism awareness also features Richard Bean and Sapo (of “Suavecito” fame) and Ruckatan with Puro Bandido—as well as a roster of guest stars. The show raises

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“So to my city, I’m just trying to put you on, and to them pretty girls watching, I’m just trying to get you home,” states Richmond’s Erk tha Jerk on his 2011 single “Reach the Top.” Erk first made a splash back in 2009 with “Right Here.” Since then, he’s released a steady stream of mixtapes, most recently last April’s Thirds Eye View.

The part-rapper/part-singer will pay a visit to Mountain View alongside San Jose’s J-Shift. Shift’s mixtape That’s Wassup adds his South Bay perspective over bangers like Kendrick Lamar and Dr. Dre’s “The Recipe” and

Silicon Valley Arts Coalition celebrates the local arts scene with a fundraising evening. The event features wine, hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction and, best of all, some sample performances by the group’s member organizations. Some of the notables slated to show their talents include Dan Levitan of the American Harp Society, pianist Nancy Blommer Deussen of the National Association of Composers and Samantha Wells of the South Bay Guitar Society. (AR)

There’s just something about a rock group that plays meaty power chords with no frills that transcends time—consider Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Stone Temple Pilots, Muse.

They’re all drinking from the same well but still sound completely distinctive.

SPINFARM, in turn, is drinking from each of their wells, making their breed of rock difficult to pin down.

They sound like an ’80s rock band that flash-forwarded in time to hear grunge and subverted the genre a bit. Or maybe a ’70s metal band that also listened to Pink Floyd and wasn’t afraid to show it. SPINFARM like to say

Kanye West’s “Theraflu.” Nu-Ricks Records representative Draztic will also be on hand. (For tickets, call 408.460.79960.) (BR)

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yet: Who is she? A wrongfully maligned saint or a dangerous egomaniac?

Enlightened, which began its second season on Jan. 13, does more than loop tiresome melodrama with canned aphorisms. The show is about narcissists doubling down on self-preservation as they cope with reality, and how they reduce those around them to mere props, demanding the kind of compassion they can’t give in return.

Amy dives into the task of feeling good, of wanting to be good—conflating “intention” with an affirmation of her ideal self—but she isn’t prepared to do the heavy lifting.

In denial, she goes back to California reborn, thinking all has been forgiven.

It has not. Amy’s employer, Abaddonn Industries (Hebrew for “place of destruction”), shows her a recreational contempt. Krista (Sarah Burns), her old

assistant, now has her old job and office.

Nobody, least of all disgraced manager Damon (Chip Esten), wants anything to do with her.

Threatening to sue, Amy hectors Abaddonn into offering her a job: data entry for a mysterious wing of the company located in the basement, home to other undesirables and a chauvinistic dingbat of a boss named Dougie (Timm Sharp). Sharing a desk with Amy is Tyler, played by show creator Mike White.

For White, life has a silly and disquieting premise. This is true for Enlightened as it was for the tragicomedy film Chuck and Buck, which White wrote and starred in. Dern and White are neighbors, and contributed equally to the show’s evolution. Their performances move mountains with polarizing expressiveness. Dern’s gestures are ferocious, while in White’s eyes we see a wellspring of kindness and grace.

Neither hides their autobiography— emotions burn with authenticity.

Dern is perfect as the anti-heroine, a popular role with some notable company. There’s the brilliant and bipolar Carrie Mathison on Homeland.

Weeds’ Nancy Botwin is a good person

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whose goodness ebbs and flows, reverseengineering the traditional success story with each episode. Still, darker heroines could just as well be generalized without respecting their different pedigrees.

For men, it’s a careful study. The antihero is enough of a cliché to merit his own sliding scale. Points on the graph include Breaking Bad’s leading menace Walter White and the sexual pathology of Don Draper on Mad Men. Their forms of dysfunction are scary but not disdained. The transformation from high school teacher or disgraced soldier to drug kingpin or virile ad man is a victory; even if you disagree with them: they have their admirers.

With Enlightened, it’s the polar opposite. Amy isn’t heroic; although as the second season begins she is uncovering some messy facts about Abaddonn’s environmental dealings. She has not been reincarnated, either; she’s regressed. Her emotionally withholding mother (Dern’s real-life mother, Diane Ladd) is weary of her daughter’s Second Coming. To her mind, Amy’s a liability, a towering infant taking a fire hose to her mother’s tranquil routine and flooding it with white noise and desperation.

Rebuffed by everyone, Amy runs to the familiarity of ex-husband Levi (Luke Wilson), a contented drug addict who receives Amy with a hesitant embrace.

She wants to save him, but doesn’t understand that he doesn’t want her to.

In denying her, he stops her from selfidentifying as a good person. Now who will she be?

Based on the show’s low ratings, few seem to be interested in that answer.

And that’s a pity, because Amy is also a complicated, empowering presence.

She’s not coming of age on Girls, which airs right before Enlightened and is beloved by audiences and critics alike.

Speaking to The New York Times, Dern saw an ominous parallel: finding yourself in your 20s is fun, but do the same in your 40s and you’ll become a “cautionary tale of who not to be.”

At Amy’s age, she’s supposed to have settled in. Instead the tide has washed her footprints from the sand. She isn’t in need of the same things anymore— Where do I go from here?” she asks.

That seems like a different question every day.

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*stage AFTER ASHLEY Dragon Productions presents a satire about a father and son coping with loss in the public eye. Runs Jan 25-Feb 17. Preview Thu, 8pm. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$35.

Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway, Redwood City.

CHING CHONG CHINAMAN Lauren Yee’s play about a Chinese-American family.

Runs Jan 24-Feb 24. Preview Thu-Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm (beginning Feb 3). $24.95-$27.95 (gala $39.95). City Lights, San Jose.

TOMMY DAVIDSON Standup comedy. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm. $25. Improv San Jose.

I LEFT MY HEART A musical revue dedicated to the songs and sound of Tony Bennett, from Tabard Theatre.

Runs thru Jan 27. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm (plus Thu, Jan 24, 8pm). $15$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

INTIMATE APPAREL A drama an African American seamstress who worked her way out of poverty. Runs thru Jan 27. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $20-$25. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

LOOKING FOR NORMAL The Palo Alto Players present a drama about a married couple and a husband’s desire for a sex-change operation.

Runs thru Feb 3., Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $20-$29.

Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

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couple and a vacation by the lake. Runs Jan 24-Feb 17.

Preview, Thu, 8pm. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3 or 7pm, Wed, 7:30pm. $18-$32. Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.

Understanding Nature.” Works

by California painter of the early 20th century. Thru Jun 30. “Clay in the Bay.” Works by contemporary clay artists. Thru Mar 17. Tue-Sun, 11am-4pm.

Santa Clara.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

The musical based on the movie “The Apartment”; a South Bay Musical Theatre show. Runs Jan 26-Feb 16.

Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm (plus Feb 14, 8pm). $26-$42.

Saratoga Civic Theatre.

“Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting.”Thru May 12. “Raging Opulence.” An installation by Mark Dean Veca.

Thru Mar 31. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

ROCK OF AGES Broadway San Jose presents the ’80s-themed musical.

Runs Jan 29-Feb 3. Tue-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. $20 and up. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

SOMEWHERE A musical about a Puerto Rican girl’s Broadway ambitions. Presented by TheatreWorks. Runs thru Feb 10. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm (8pm only Feb 9), Sun, 2 and 7pm (2pm only Feb 10), Tue, 7:30pm. $31$51. Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts.

*classical CALIFORNIA POPS ORCHESTRA “Gotta Dance!” Sun, 3pm. $15 and up. Smithwick Theatre, Los Altos Hills.

SJ WIND SYMPHONY “Rhythm and Hues” featuring Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Sun, 3pm. $5-$20.

McAfee Center, Saratoga.

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TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Portraits: New Works by Donna Cehrs.”Thru Jan 27. “Karen Frey.”

Watercolors. Thru Feb 3. TueWed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

GALLERIES GALLERY HOUSE “New Year, New Work, New Show.”

Thru Mar 2. Wed, 11am-4pm, ThuSat, 11am-8pm, Sun, 11am-3pm.

Gallery House, Palo Alto.

MACLA “Assembling the Pieces: Reconstructing Memory and Hybrid Identity.”Thru Mar 16.

Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Happiness Is ...” A show about emotional health. Jan 25-Apr 14.

Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Rashomon.” By sculptor Charles Ginnever. Thru Feb 16.

Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.

SJSU GALLERY “Mind, Body, Soul” by Aimee Santos. Jan 23-Feb 1. Art Building, SJSU.

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BIGSBY HOUSE OPENING

A musical about a suburban family facing mental illness.

Runs thru Feb 3. Wed, 11:30am, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $20.50 and up. San Jose Repertory Theatre.

“North Africa and the Holy Land in 19th-Century Photographs.”

Jan 23-Jun 2. “Dotty Attie: Sometimes a Traveler/There Lived in Egypt.” Jan 23-Jun 16. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

Stylists Lisa Smith and Leti Marquez invite people to an opening for new salon. Sat, 7pm. 1070 Park Ave, San Jose.

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San Jose Rep’s production (done in collaboration with Arizona Theatre Company), directed by David Next to Normal Ira Goldstein, begins on a seemingly banal note, with the song “Just Another Day” introducing neurotic Runs through Feb. 3; stay-at-home mom Diana (Kendra Kassebaum), $35–$79 hard-working father Dan (Joe Cassidy), overly studious San Jose Repertory daughter Natalie (Andrea Ross) and golden-boy son Theater Gabe (Jonathan Shew). It seems that we are in for the petty tribulations of the average white, middle-class suburban family—“living on a latte and a prayer,” as an almost cringe-worthy line from the opening number puts it.

In fact, Next to Normal has other plans for us. Diana is having hallucinations. She makes sandwiches on the floor, bakes a birthday cake for a long deceased brother and sees her doctor (Mark Farrell) as a flamboyant rock star. Attempts to treat her condition, first with pills and then with electroshock therapy (the play was originally titled Feeling Electric), only make things worse for her and her family.

This exploration of the family’s breakdown is a heartfelt exercise in anguish.

Natalie, starved for attention, copes by turning to drugs, while Dan wonders, “Who’s crazy, the one who’s half gone/or, maybe, the one who holds on?”

The bleak mood is softened by some well-timed humor, mostly surrounding Natalie’s relationship with amiable stoner boyfriend Henry (A.J. Holmes), and the six-piece band at the back of the stage keeps the action flowing at a splendid pace. Musically, there are a number of standout moments, such as Kassebaum’s touching rendition of “I Miss the Mountains” and Shew’s energetic romp through “I’m Alive,” where the pleasantly familiar tinge of ’90s alt-rock clashes eerily with the song’s dark content.

The musical has received praise for its sensitive and nuanced take on mental illness. This praise is well deserved. Diana is not a stigmatized monster, as with so many disburbed stage characters (Sweeney Todd, for instance), nor is she a romanticized outsider like Alan Strang in Equus. She is simply a “next to normal” person whose condition is the understandable result of life in a world that doles out lots of tragedy and fosters every neurosis.—Sean Conwell

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thespian who’ll never see the happy side of 60 again.

The story takes place in an English home for aged musicians, and a sumptuous location it is. The film has it that the place was donated by the conductor and laxative heir Thomas Beecham (the model for the Rex Harrison character in Unfaithfully Yours). Quartet was shot at Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire, a Georgian mansion surrounded with block-wide oaks, creeks and a court where the musical geezers can cheat each other at croquet.

When not repeating the maxim about old age not being for sissies, the retirees instruct visiting music

students. The film’s most charming moment comes when a red-headed girl matches her talent against an insufficiently tuned piano, and an aged resident rises and helps her drown out the flat notes with a clarinet. Earlier, we saw that his false teeth had been interfering with his embouchure, but now he plays sweetly.

The place is in fiscal trouble, and everyone hopes that a charity gala might save the manor. If the show goes on, it will depend on the reunion of four singers whose performance in La Traviata is cherished decades later.

Billy Connolly plays Wilfred Bond, still recovering from a stroke that has left him an erotomaniac. “It’s the stroke talking,” he says after delivering himself of some dirty reminiscences.

His good female friend and co-star Cissy (Pauline Collins) is slipping into senility. The most reluctant holdout is the new arrival at the home: Jean Horton (Maggie Smith), once a heartbreaker, now so aged and

unnerved that even a passing laundry cart makes her jump.

Jean makes a twofold refusal to perform music live. She can’t give a substandard performance because “I can’t insult the memory of who I was.”

But the other half of her reluctance is guilt: the fourth member of the proposed reunion is her ex-husband and former partner, already a resident when Jean arrived.

Tom Courtenay, playing the exhusband, Reginald, asks the question, “Did she know that I live here?” with two different emphases; it’s a taste of the range of this powerful actor.

When Quartet grows overfond of its cast, Courtenay cools matters down with his glare. He shows the cold blue light of old age, the irreconcilable hurt.

Reginald thought he could count on “dignified senility” in his last years, until the ex-wife who crushed his heart turns up to rekindle the pain.

He holds out, even when Jean begs prettily for forgiveness. In a movie this essentially mushy, Reginald stands tall, impressively eyebrowed and bescarfed, st staring off at a classically melancholy En English sunset, ending a day that was ne neither really sunny nor really sunless.

Th may not be any suspense There ab about whether or not the show will go on, but there’s something real in C Courtenay’s performance.

Ronald Harwood wrote the script, ba based on his play. It has crowd-pleasing lo notes—Connolly’s ultimately low tiresome comments, most addressed to that beloved player of blonde tarts Sheridan Smith, who plays the cute doctor on the premise. The gala show encompasses different types of music, including some Gilbert and Sullivan and a little music-hall soft-shoe; the end credits show how many of the denizens of the Beecham Home are actually musicians and actors. One, for instance, is the aged Andrew Sachs, who played the diabolically malapropistic Manuel in Fawlty Towers.

Quartet is ultimately a gathering of actors lining up for a curtain call; however deserved that applause is, they have so much more to give than what this trifle gave them.

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QUARTET Opens Friday

(127 min, PG-13.) A serious film.

Profound, cruel and not at all depressing, despite director Michael Haneke’s insistence on avoiding anything that euphemizes. The story follows a cultured Parisian couple as the lady of the house (Emmanuelle Riva) perishes by inches from the complications of a stroke; her elderly husband (Jean-Louis Trintignant)— who is a bit of a cold bastard—tries to preserve their dignity as a couple as situations worsen. What we see is the final stage of a successful love story, the end of the line. It’s a destination that we all think of as tender and romantic in the abstract, mainly because no one seriously thinks through what it actually encompasses.

Amour has the 3am clarity of a fantasy of downfall, unredeemed by false uplift and spiritual afflatus. (Plays at selected theaters.) (RvB)

HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS (R; 88 min.) The beloved fairy-tale innocents are turned into leatherclad action heroes. (Opens Fri.)

MAMA (PG-13; 100 min.) See review at right.

MOVIE 43 (R; 90 min.) With one dozen directors, this sketch film about a notorious banned Internet film is an attempt to beat YouTube at its own game. Stars—in snippets—Greg Kinnear, Dennis Quaid, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet and Common.

(Opens Fri.)

PARKER (R; 118 min.) Jason Statham embodies Donald E. Westlake’s famous thief in a film by Taylor Hackford. (Opens Fri.)

QUARTET (PG-13; 98 min.) See review on page 36.

Revivals HARVEY/BEDTIME FOR BONZO (1950/1951) James Stewart in a famous part about the slightly gaga Elwood P. Dowd and his invisible pal.

BILLED WITH Bedtime for Bonzo, a film withdrawn from TV when its star Ronald Reagan was running for president. It was probably an affront to some of the Old Man’s supporters, on the grounds that it promoted evolution. Reagan plays a professor crazier than B.F. Skinner who decides to raise an ape as if it were a human child to see what happens. (Plays Jan 25-28 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

Rockabilly bastard and archivist Johnny Legend presents a powerhouse, star-studded crosssection of forgotten TV. Much inappropriateness on display, such as the highly creepy stage kiss Jack Benny lays on Marilyn Monroe. At times, it’s weird enough to short out an optic nerve. (Plays Jan 31 in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

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WRITTEN ON THE WIND/ IMITATION OF LIFE (1959/1956) Torrid, immaculately lit, as elegant as a flock of gilded putti flying heavenward against a crimson sunset like Canadian geese.

Such were the late-period Universal melodramas helmed by Douglas Sirk.

The one Sirk if you’re only going to see one is Written on the Wind, a story of severe misbehavior in a family of oil tycoons, who ride in on a cloud of dead barren leaves. Rock Hudson was the marquee name, but the show was stopped by Dorothy Malone (never to be forgot for the time she gave Philip Marlowe something to be happy about on a rainy day in The Big Sleep). She won the Oscar as the degenerate daughter, out of her mind on nymphomania and the bongo beat. As her brother, Kyle, Robert Stack staggers up the boozer’s Via Dolorosa, splashing his reflection in the mirror, roiling in bourbonsoaked jammies, staring with scorn at an empty bottle before hurling it against the bricks. BILLED WITH Imitation of Life. The saga of a pair of spurned mothers and ungrateful daughters: one, a tragic mulatto passing for white, is played by Susan Kohner, the real-life mother of the film-directing Weitz brothers.

(Plays Jan 29-31 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE/ TOWER OF LONDON (1948/1939) Aldous Huxley’s short story “The Giaconda Smile” (he scripted) was the source for this melodrama about a falsely accused man (Charles Boyer) headed for the scaffold because of circumstantial evidence that he murdered his wife.

BILLED WITH Tower of London. With typically bracing style, Roland V. Lee (Son of Frankenstein) explains the story of the last of the Plantagenets for people who have trouble with the funny talking in Shakespeare.

Mord the executioner is played by Boris Karloff—he’s the most useful subject of bloody, hunchbacked Richard III (Basil Rathbone). Vincent Price (who played King Richard in the thrifty remake) is the soon-to-be marinated Duke of Clarence. Who says history is boring? (Plays Jan 23-24 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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The Parent Trap A GLUT OF horror movies, and yet it’s rare to see something that looks genuinely too scary to watch. Mama begins in an atmosphere of cataclysm. During the ’08 stock market crash, a big financier kills his partners and his wife. Escaping the police, he takes his two children, Victoria and Lilly, deep into the snows, with no better plan than a murder/suicide.

through nightmares, and the dream sequence that tells her backstory is as about as frightening as it gets. A state bureaucrat (Elva Mai Hoover, excellent) is the film’s spine. She figures Mama out and gives the “doors man was not meant to enter” speech: “I’m not a religious person, but I believe there’s a place for human remains.”

Instead, a spirit of the woods raises his children. Several years later, trackers discover Victoria and Lilly. The father’s amiable artist brother, Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), and his rock-musician girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain, doing Joan Jett), volunteer to raise their nieces. Victoria (Megan Charpentier), now 8, bounces back from the years of captivity, but 5-year-old Lilly (Isabelle Nélisse) is still in thrall to the “Mama” who raised them in the woods.

Such paganism, such PG-13; 100 min. nightmare material and Plays valleywide a little tasty class cardsharping is what you’d expect from del Toro and his associates. Mama delivers an Appalachian (well, “Alleganian”) turn on the J-horror vision of an angry, lonely spirit: the creature swimming in the air, drowned-woman’s hair floating, broken marionette joints.

She appears in an aura of mildew and is a familiar of flittering smutty moths. Lilly gobbles them like peanuts.

Director/co-writer Andrés Muschietti (who worked with executive producer Guillermo del Toro), isn’t a smooth operator—the episodes don’t fit together well. One too many characters decide to explore Mama’s gingerbread house by flashlight. But the horror is explained to the satisfaction of the skeptical.

The spirit cannot speak—she may have been born mute—but she communicates

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The punk-rocker mask slips a little on Chastain’s fine-boned face. But you like her for trying it, and I also like the rude, catlike way she helps herself to Lucas’ hospital bed. It’s thoughtful writing: a rocker is halfway ready to meet the uncanny. When the children beg Annabel not to look in a closet, she closes the door respectfully.—Richard von Busack

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Though their mission is to singlehandedly save rock & roll, such grand steps take time. To fulfill his need to continue making music between steps, Gass has been performing in other projects for years, most notably in Trainwreck.

What makes the Kyle Gass Band, set to perform Jan. 30 at the Blank Club, different is that this time around, his group offers him something he hasn’t enjoyed on stage in quite some time: the chance to be himself.

The KGB rose out of the ashes of Trainwreck in early 2011. A group aligned with the Tenacious D universe, Trainwreck finally broke up once Gass realized he wanted more out of the group than it could really offer. In hindsight, Gass recalls the advice he once received from a close friend: “You really shouldn’t call your band Trainwreck because you’re just asking for trouble.”

To start fresh, he decided to do what he calls a “page-one rewrite” for a side project. He cut out the mythos, included his name in the band and decided to simply explore the possibilities as they developed.

Starting with two other former Trainwreck members, Gass added singer and guitarist Mike Bray in the mix and immediately saw a new energy emerge. The two proved to be great writing partners, riding a burst of creativity that led to several

tracks. Bassist Jason co-penned KGB tracks Keene was another welcome addition.

A longtime friend, he and Gass had wanted to play together for years.

With the KGB, that was finally a reality.

While he has been involved with side projects for years, Gass constantly encountered trouble when trying to separate his side projects from the D. It can be difficult, after all, to step out of the shadows of being aligned with the self-described “greatest band in the world.” He remembers Trainwreck billings that would include “featuring Kyle Gass from Tenacious D.” To bypass that constant intrusion, he finally decided to compromise by including his name in the group.

“No one really wants to see your side project,” Gass comically points out. “You have to accept it and just have as much fun as you can. I think people are usually pretty pleasantly surprised by the proceedings.”

Though the KGB is not confined to the world of Tenacious D, it isn’t void of the comedy fans have come to associate with both groups. “I think that comic sensibility just filters

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through. It’s pretty organic. I just can’t be the total serious dude. [With the KGB], we take the music pretty seriously, but our songs tend to be pretty fun and a little humorous.”

Above all else, the KGB is a chance for Gass to revisit the simple joy that comes from playing tunes with friends. The group is the realization of a concept Gass holds dear: that it’s fun—and fulfilling—to make music with no boundaries. As he admits, he feels comfortable creating music with his bandmates, all of them longtime friends, and is free to see where the ideas lead.

“I’ve always loved the idea that you can just start a band. It doesn’t cost anything and it’s always possible,” Gass said. “I’m lucky to have the Tenacious D thing, but I think [the KGB] allows for a lot more fun. There just seems to be a slot in my life for side project that I enjoy, and I have a si some great friends who are really fun som musicians.” mu During our interview, the word D “fun” popped up quite a bit, and the “fu association makes sense. For Gass, a asso member of the experimental theater me troupe the Actors’ Gang, the KGB tro allows for wide-open collaboration. allo Within the confines of the D, his Wi creativity is molded by a duo with cre defined roles. He’s also forced to create music to continue a narrative crafted long ago.

Gass’ main priority for 2013 is getting the band’s debut record out.

Once that is finished, writing will resume with Bray and guitarist John Konesky. As for the D, they’re set to tour as a duo once more come March.

“The band for us has really been fun, but we kind of miss doing just the duo,” said Gass. “I think at some point, we’ll start working on the next record.”

Weary buyers may be wise to heed Gass’ final words for his show at Blank Club. “Guaranteed, if you don’t like it, I will refund.” That promise, though, does come with a comic caveat. “Come find me—if you can find me.”

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Q&A: NIKOLAUS BARTUNEK OF PICTURE ATLANTIC We spoke with Picture Atlantic lead singer Nikolaus Bartunek about the band’s new album and upcoming tour with Dogcatcher.

SLG ART BOUTIKI ANNOUNCES NEW LOCATION Dan Vado, owner of comics and local music hub SLG Art Boutiki, announced that his shop and local music venue will move from its longtime SoFA District location to a new location near The Alameda.

PHOTOS: DJ FELLI FEL AT STUDIO 8 L.A.-based DJ/producer Felli Fel, whose production work includes tracks with Lil Jon, 50 Cent, Chris Brown and Akon, made the trip up to San Jose on Friday for a set at Studio 8.

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Fri, 9pm: Adam Walter Band.

Sat, 8pm: Smokin’ King Snakes.

Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara.Tue, 6pm: Johnny Fabulous. Los Gatos.

Blank Spots, Cold Feeling.

No cover. Mon, 7pm: To Our Legends. San Jose.

CLUB FOX

Fri, 9:30pm: Cadillac Jack.

Sunnyvale.

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Sat, 8pm: Unauthorized Rolling Stones. $18/$20. Redwood City.

Wed, 9pm: Amonie, Vela, Your Cannons. Free. San Jose.

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BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Hella Good. Sat, 10pm: Auto Replay. San Jose.

THE CARAVAN Fri, 8pm: SPINFARM, ILLFUSIoN, Owls of Walden.

San Jose.

THE CATS Wed, 8:30pm: Out of the Blue.

Thu, 8:30pm:The Element Band.

Fri, 7pm: Vilma Gardiner. Sat, 6pm: Kapalakiko. Sat, 9pm: Makani E. Sunnyvale.

FOX THEATRE Thu, 8pm: Benefit show for Bryan Stow, with Tim Flannery and Lunatic Fringe and special guests. $55. Fri, 7pm: Voices of Latin Rock Autism Awareness Benefit Concert. $30-$45.

Redwood City.

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Sat, 9:30pm: Live music. $5.

Fremont.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Thu, 7:30pm: Marc Cohn. Sat, 8pm: Masters of Motown.

Saratoga.

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Fri, 8pm: All City Elite, Eliquate, Four O’Clock Heroes. $8/$10.

Sat, 8:30pm: Diamond Lane, Future Villains, Christian Martucci. $10. Santa Clara.

Fri, 8pm: Erk tha Jerk. $15.

Mountain View.

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The band, however, couldn’t keep five consistent members together long enough to move forward— leading to a near breakup. The last two members standing were singer/guitarist Jeff Carmassi and guitarist/ backing vocalist Oscar Montevirgen.

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“We each took some time away from doing or thinking about anything Northern Son,” Carmassi explains. “But through the absence, I realized one thing: writing, recording and performing songs with Northern Son makes life better. It just does something for my soul. I think OJ and I came to that realization about the same time and decided to give it another go.”

Part of what made keeping the band alive so challenging was that a major part of their appeal was their large sound—which required four to five members, not just Carmassi and Montevirgen. They gave roots-rock and Americana—traditionally raw styles of music—a lush, thick, indie-rock flair, which is arguably what got them on the radio in the first place.

Northern Son are currently taking things slowly, hoping to build a new band with committed members. Carmassi and Montevirgen have already enlisted Kyle Freeze on drums and are looking for a bass player. They currently play with whomever they can get to fill in.

This coming year, they hope to write and record a new album. Their new songs, some of which are already in their live set, are, according to Carmassi, more mature, while staying true to their roots rock foundation.— Aaron Carnes San Pedro

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THE SADDLE RACK Wed -Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Ashley Bouchart. Sat, 7:15pm: Wild at Heart. Fremont.

Open Mic BAMBOO LOUNGE Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer/songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Joint Chiefs. Fri, 6pm: The Blues Ambassadors. Sat, 6pm: PHB All-Stars. Sun, noon: School of the Blues student jam. Mon, 6pm: John Nemeth. San Jose.

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Campbell.

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Sun, 6pm: Park Avenue Jazz.

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Sat, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. Free. San Jose.

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GRAND DELL SALOON

THE GRAPEVINE Thu, 7pm: Hootenanny. Sat, 7pm: Blues Rockers. San Jose.

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Wed: Jazz jam. Thu: Piano bar.

Fri-Sat: Jazz bands. Morgan Hill.

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BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Fri, 8pm: Rabbit Quinn. Sat, 8pm: Matt Bradford. Mountain View.

RODEO CLUB Wed, 7pm: Randy Rogers Band. $10/$15. Fri, 7pm: Parmalee. $10/$15. San Jose.

BOGARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE Wed & Fri-Sat, 9pm: Wildside Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

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San Jose.

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Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy with Mr. Walker. San Jose.

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

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Thu: Sensation, rotating DJs. Fri-Sat: DJs and dancing.

Santa Clara.

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Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Wed, 8pm: Karaoke & DJ. Thu, 9pm: Tequila RoX Lounge. FriSat, 9pm: Salsa, Latin fusion DJs. Mon, 8pm: Salsa lessons.

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OFF THE HOOK Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

BBQ & Drink Specials

Thu: Foxy. Campbell.

AGENDA Most Fri: Hip-hop, Top 40, club hits. San Jose.

Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

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Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.

Excess Dance Party. $5. Sat, 9pm: New Wave Prom. $5.

San Jose.

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THE BLANK CLUB Thu, 9pm: Atomic. $5. Fri, 9pm:

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STUDIO8 Thu: Tequila Thursdays. Fri: Beverly Hills Pimps & Hoe’s Party. Sat: Goddess. San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Wed-Fri: DJs. Sat, 10pm: ‘90s Dance Party. Willow Glen.

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SFJAZZ CENTER GRAND OPENING A week packed with stars for opening of new downtown venue. See www.sfjazz.org for full schedule.

JESSIE WARE Breathy British singer with tremendous debut album ‘Devotion’ plays Popscene. Jan 24 at Rickshaw Stop.

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PUBLIC STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL FROM PARTNERSHIP OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #573903

with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/17/2013. (pub Metro 1/23, 1/30, 2/06, 2/13/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573756

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Iglesia Apostolica Casa del Alfarero, 2740 The following person(s) Senter Road, San Jose, / entity (ies) has / have CA, 95111, Temple El withdrawn as a general Calvrio, 1348 Cathay Dr., partner(s) from the San Jose, CA, 95122. This partnership operating business is conducted under the following by a Corporation. Above fictitious business entity was formed in the name(s). Different Choice state of California Insurance Services, 301 Registrant has not N. Jackson Ave., STE 3, yet begun transacting San Jose, CA, 95133, business under the Maria Fidelina Vega, 571 fictitious business name Continental Dr., San Jose, or names listed herein.

CA, 95133. Filed in Santa /s/Emilio Rodriguez Clara County on 12/17/12 President #2552301 Under File No. 572844.

This statement was filed /s/Maria T. Vega with the County Clerk This statement was filed of Santa Clara County with the County Clerk on 1/15/2013. (pub of Santa Clara County Metro 1/23, 1/30, 2/06, on 1/18/2013. (pub 2/13/2013) Metro 1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13/2013) FICTITIOUS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573904 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Different Choice Insurance Services. 301 N. Jackson Dr., Suite 3, San Jose, CA, 95133, Sandra Dowell, 4442 Ladner St., Fremont, CA, 94538. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Sandra Dowell This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/18/2013. (pub Metro ) 1/23, 1/30, 2/06, 2/13/2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573855 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Win Machining Sheet Metal MFG USA Inc., 3018 Balmoral Drive, San Jose, CA, 95132, Win Machining Sheetmetal Metal USA Inc. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Refile of previous file #571818 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing /s/Brandon Li. President #C3506071. This statement was filed

Sedan Services, 2. BMK Export & Imports, 3.

BMK Nuts, 4. BMK. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above The following person(s) is entity was formed in the state of California (are) doing business as: California Billiard Supply, Registrant began transacting business LLC, 2395 S. Bascom under the fictitious Ave., Campbell, CA, business name or 95008. This business is names listed herein conducted by a Limited on 1/10/2013. /s/Bala Liability Company.

Above entity was formed Ravana CEO #3106915 This statement was filed in the state of California with the County Clerk Registrant began of Santa Clara County transacting business on 1/10/2013. (pub under the fictitious Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, business name or 2/06/2013) names listed herein on 1/11/2013. /s/Jerry STATEMENT OF Rodriguez President #201232010036. This WITHDRAWAL statement was filed FROM with the County Clerk PARTNERSHIP of Santa Clara County on 1/11/2013. (pub OPERATING Metro 1/23, 1/30, 2/06, UNDER FICTITIOUS 2/13/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573678

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573664

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Americas Finest Plumbing, 271 Sun BUSINESS Lane, San Jose, NAME STATEMENT Ridge CA, 95123, Nancy #573723 Whitehouse, Marc A. The following person(s) is Whitehouse Jr. (are) doing business as: This business is The Harvest Group, 1560 conducted by a married Koch Lane, San Jose, couple. Registrant has CA, 95125, Perspectives not yet begun transacting of Northern California, business under the Inc., 1037 Sunset Road, fictitious business name Napa, CA, 94558. This or names listed herein. business is conducted /s/Nancy Whitehouse by a Corporation. Above This statement was filed entity was formed in the with the County Clerk state of California of Santa Clara County Registrant began on 1/11/2013. (pub transacting business Metro 1/23, 1/30, 2/06, under the fictitious 2/13/2013) business name or names listed herein on FICTITIOUS 1/2/2013. /s/David P. BUSINESS Lindert Secretary NAME STATEMENT #C2418378. This statement was filed #573399 with the County Clerk The following person(s) of Santa Clara County is (are) doing business on 1/14/2013. (pub as: Barbara of Paulines, Metro 1/23, 1/30, 2/06, 1093 Malone Road, San 2/13/2013) Jose, CA, 95125, Antonia Saldivar, 3610 Warner Dr., FICTITIOUS San Jose, CA, 95127.

This business is BUSINESS by a NAME STATEMENT conducted individual. Registrant has #573477 not yet begun transacting The following person(s) business under the is (are) doing business fictitious business name as: The Stylish Devil, 165 or names listed herein.

Blossom Hill Rd., #47, /s/Antonia Saldivar San Jose, CA, 95123, This statement was filed Natasha L. Pham. This with the County Clerk business is conducted by of Santa Clara County a individual Registrant on 1/04/2013. (pub began transacting Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, business under the 2/06/2013) fictitious business name or names listed herein FICTITIOUS on 1/1/2011. /s/Natasha BUSINESS L. Pham. This statement was filed with the County NAME STATEMENT Clerk of Santa Clara #573619 County on 1/07/2013.

The following person(s) (pub Metro 1/23, 1/30, is (are) doing business 2/06, 2/13/2013) as: BMK Wine Company, 3140 De La Cruz Blvd., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, SMBGenie,Inc, 1. BMK

BUSINESS NAME #573398

The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have withdrawn as a general partner(s) from the partnership operating under the following fictitious business name(s). Silhouette, 2050 Concourse Dr., #36, San Jose, CA, 95131, Juliette Thai 1716 Parkview Green Cir., San Jose, CA, 95131 Filed in Santa Clara County on 6/27/12 Under File No. 566667. /s/Juliette Thai. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/04/2013. (pub Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573238 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: U.S. Floors, 5600 Bellagio Dr., San Jose, CA, 95118, Tonaran Sargsyan.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Tonaran Sargsyan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/02/2013. (pub Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573611 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Home Resolutions, 3194 De La Cruz Blvd., #10, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Carol Pefley.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not

yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Carol Pefley. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/10/2013. (pub Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573525 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Denise’s Donuts, 4138 Monterey Hwy., San Jose, CA, 95111, Sanny Duch, 27863 Pompano Ave., Hayward, CA, 94544.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/13. /s/Sanny Duch This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/08/2013. (pub Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573483 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cosmos Electric, 44 Broadway, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Efthymios, Theoharis. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/30/2012. Refile of previous #572218 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing. /s/Efthymios Theoharis This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County

on 1/07/2013. (pub Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/06/2013)

#572329

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: California Fresh, 10123 N. FICTITIOUS Wolfe Rd., Cupertino, CA, 95014, Espresso Roma BUSINESS 1310 65th St., NAME STATEMENT Corp, Emeryville, CA, 94608. #573421 This business is The following person(s) is conducted by a (are) doing business as: Corporation. Above entity Vua Kho Bo, 979 Story was formed in the state Rd., #7081, Lien Dao, of California. Registrant 2549 S. King Rd., #A8, began transacting San Jose, CA, 95122. business under the This business is fictitious business name conducted by a or names listed herein individual. Registrant has on 11/23/2012. /s/ not yet begun transacting Sandy Boyd President business under the #C0985637. This fictitious business name statement was filed or names listed herein. with the County Clerk /s/Lein Dao. This of Santa Clara County statement was filed on 12/04/2012. (pub with the County Clerk Metro 1/2, 1/9, 1/16, of Santa Clara County 1/23/2013) on 1/04/2013. (pub Metro 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, FICTITIOUS 2/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #572330 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: California Fresh, 8697 San Ysidro Ave., Gilroy, CA, 95020, Espresso Roma, 1310 65th St., Emeryville, CA, 94608.

This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Sandy Boyd President #C0985637.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/04/2012. (pub Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, 1/23/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

CUBESOULS

withdrawn as a general partner(s) from the partnership operating under the following fictitious business name(s). Simple Building Services, 730 Race St., San Jose, CA, 95126, Felipe Velazquez, 330 Atlanta Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126. Filed in Santa Clara County on 3/01/2012 Under File No. 562013. /s/ Felipe Velazquez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/03/2013. (pub Metro 1/09, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #572773

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Clark Termite Control, 2. Golden State Exterminators, 417A Lano The following person(s) is Street, San Jose, CA, 95125, Clark Golden Inc. (are) doing business as: Gtcomman, 44 Broadway, This business is conducted by a Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Corporation. Above entity George Theoharis. was formed in the state This business is of California. Registrant conducted by a began transacting individual. Registrant business under the began transacting fictitious business name business under the or names listed herein on fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/2/98. /s/Richard M. Clark President 1/03/2013. /s/George Theoharis. This statement #2065249. This was filed with the County statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clerk of Santa Clara Clara County on County on 1/03/2013. (pub Metro 1/09, 1/16, 12/14/2012.

1/23, 1/30/2013) (pub Metro 1/09, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30/2013) STATEMENT OF

BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 573362

WITHDRAWAL FROM PARTNERSHIP OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #573367 The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573036 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: South Bay Wellness Center, 1066 Saratoga Ave., Suite 120, San Jose, CA, 95129-3432, Jay

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #572407 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Two Ogres, 100 N. Whisman Road, #2022, Mountain View, CA, 94043, Ebru Taylak. This business is conducted by a individual. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ebru Taylak This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/06/2012. (pub Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, 1/23/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573193 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Innovation Family Learning Center, 800 Hillsdale Ave., Apt 511, San Jose, CA, 95136, Tricia Darrell, Kurt Darrell, Ken Darrell, 149 Franklin Terrace, Mablewood, NJ, 07040. This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ken Darrell This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/28/2012. (pub Metro 1/09, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #572919 The following

person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eclipse Microdevices, 2095 Ringwood Avenue., Suite 60, San Jose, CA, 95131, Eclipse Microwave, Inc.,. ReďŹ le of previous ďŹ le #570691.

Due to publication requirement not met on previous ďŹ ling.

This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Jeffrey RapadasmCEO #2400134. This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/19/2012. (pub Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, 1/23/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #572297 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Queen Kho Bo, 190 Story Rd., #30, San Jose, CA, 95122, Huong Nguyen, 2486 Roslyn Ct., San Jose, CA, 95121.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Huong Nguyen This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/04/2012. (pub Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, 1/23/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573100 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TimeLinux.com, 4673 Jarvis Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95118, Mrinal Sarkar. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the ďŹ ctitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Mrinal Sakar This statement was ďŹ led with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/26/2012. (pub Metro 1/02, 1/09, 1/16, 1/23/2013)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21–April 19): The German government sponsored a scientific study of dowsing, which is a form of magical divination used to locate underground sources of water. After 10 years, the chief researcher testified, “It absolutely works, beyond all doubt. But we have no idea why or how.” An assertion like that might also apply to the mojo you’ll have at your disposal, Aries, as you forge new alliances and bolster your web of connections in the coming weeks. I don’t know how or why you’ll be such an effective networker, but you will be.

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Congress spends an inordinate amount of time on trivial matters. For example, 16 percent of all the laws it passed in the last two years were devoted to renaming post offices. That’s down from the average of the previous eight years, during which time almost 20 percent of its laws had the sole purpose of renaming post offices. In my astrological opinion, you Tauruses can’t afford to indulge in anything close to that level of nonsense during the next four weeks.

I urge you to keep time-wasting activities down to less than five percent of your total. Focus on getting a lot of important stuff done. Be extra thoughtful and responsible as you craft the impact you’re having on the world.

GEMINI (May 21June 20): What if your unconscious mind has dreamed up sparkling answers to your raging questions but your conscious mind doesn’t know about them yet? Is it possible you are not taking advantage of the sly wisdom that your deeper intelligence has been cooking up? I say it’s time to poke around down there. It’s time to take aggressive measures as you try to smoke out the revelations that your secret self has prepared for you. How? Remember your dreams, of course. Notice hunches that arise out of nowhere. And send a friendly greeting to your unconscious mind, something like, “I adore you and I’m receptive to you and I’d love to hear what you have to tell me.”

CANCER (June 21July 22): In his book Our Band Could Be Your Life, Michael Azerrad says that the Cancerian singer/songwriter Steve Albini is a “connoisseur of intensity.” That means he’s picky about what he regards as intense. Even the two kinds of music that are often thought of as the embodiment of ferocious emotion don’t make the grade for Albini.

Heavy metal is comical, he says, not intense. Hardcore punk is childish, not intense. What’s your definition of intensity, Cancerian? I see the coming weeks as prime time for you to commune with the very best expressions of that state of being. Be a connoisseur of intensity.

LEO (July 23Aug. 22): There’s a butterfly sanctuary

at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in Saint Paul, Minn. It’s called the Enchanted Garden. As you enter, you see a sign that reads “Please do not touch the butterflies. Let the butterflies touch you.” In other words, you shouldn’t initiate contact with the delicate creatures. You shouldn’t pursue them or try to capture them. Instead, make yourself available for them to land on you. Allow them to decide how and when your connection will begin to unfold. In the coming week, Leo, I suggest you adopt a similar approach to any beauty you’d like to know better.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Do you ever fantasize about a more perfect version of yourself? Is there, in your imagination, an idealized image of who you might become in the future? That can be a good thing if it motivates you to improve and grow. But it might also lead you to devalue the flawed but beautiful creation you are right now. It may harm your capacity for selfacceptance. Your assignment in the coming week is to temporarily forget about whom you might evolve into at some later date, and instead just love your crazy, mysterious life exactly as it is.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides says he doesn’t have generic emotions that can be described with one word. “Sadness,” “joy” and “regret” don’t happen to him. Instead, he prefers “complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions,” like “the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy” or “the excitement of getting a hotel room with a mini-bar.” He delights in sensing “intimations

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of mortality brought on by aging family members” and “sadness inspired by failing restaurants.” In the coming days, Libra, I think you should specialize in one-of-a-kind feelings like these. Milk the nuances!

Exult in the peculiarities! Celebrate the fact that each new wave of passion has never before arisen in quite the same form.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): After analyzing your

astrological omens for the coming weeks, I decided that the best advice I could give you would be this passage by the English writer G.K. Chesterton: “Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a person can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim.

The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of set rules and set tasks.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): My general philosophy is that everyone on the planet, including me, is a jerk now and then. In fact, I’m suspicious of those who are apparently so unfailingly well-behaved that they never act like jerks. On the other hand, some people are jerks far too much of the time and should be avoided. Here’s my rule of thumb: How sizable is each person’s Jerk Quotient? If it’s below 6 percent, I’ll probably give them a chance to be a presence in my life—especially if they’re smart and interesting.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, this gauge may be useful for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): The French painter Cezanne painted images of a lot of fruit in the course of his career. He liked to take his sweet time while engaged in his work. The apples and pears and peaches that served as his models often rotted before he was done capturing their likenesses. That’s the kind of approach I recommend for you in the coming days, Capricorn. Be very deliberate and gradual and leisurely in whatever labor of love you devote yourself to. No rushing allowed! With conscientious tenderness, exult in attending to every last detail of the process.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): “Nobody can be

exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.” So said the eccentric, outspoken, and hard-partying actress Talullah Bankhead (1902–1968). Can you guess her astrological sign? Aquarius, of course. Her greatest adventure came from trying to keep up with all the unpredictable urges that welled up inside her. She found it challenging and fun to be as unique as she could possibly be. I nominate her to be your role model in the next four weeks. Your assignment is to work extra hard at being yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): The Dardanelles

Strait is a channel that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, separating Europe from Asia.

In some places it’s less than a mile wide. But the currents are fierce, so if you try to swim across at those narrow points, you’re pushed around and end up having to travel five or six miles. In light of the current astrological omens, I’m predicting that you will have a comparable challenge in the coming days, Pisces. The task may seem easier or faster than it actually is. Plan accordingly.

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