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FFood ood Fi Fight ght While ffamilies amilies noshed n on chur churros ros and navigated the winter w carnival that is downtown San Jose during the holidays, a turf war playe playedd out that led to a fleet of ffood ood truck gettting banished fr om Christmas truckss getting from in the Park.

Park.. Andd no, we’re we’re not talking about the shoot ting. R YA ANSEB ASTIAN T , the shooting.

RYAN SEBASTIAN, charge of o Moveable Feast,, asked man in charge organizerss months ago to set up event organizers Deccember event. They—well, shop at the December stmas in the P ark director director specifically Chris Christmas Park JASSON MINSK KY—appar — ently blew him off. off.

JASON MINSKY—apparently ok matters into his own So Sebastian to took ermits fr om the city y, posted hands.. He got ppermits from city, or a one-night up the Faceboo Facebookk invites ffor Truck r k Lane,”” as he called it,, on S. “Christmas Truck Street, eet, right riight acr oss from from the holiday Market Street, across fair. But Minsk found out and,, leveraging leveraging fair.

Minskyy found his clout as hea headd of a popular downtown ed the event,, summone summoned San Jose PD to disband They food truck gathering. g the food Did d “This is a truly despicable What? art,” move on your ppart,” SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O Minsky fir ed off in an Minsky fired FLY@ FL LY Y@ Sebastiian a ffew ew email to Sebastian METRONEWS. METRONEWS. before Christmas, Christmas, days before COM COM claration along with a dec declaration he’ll never work w with that he’ll ever. So him because of the incident.. Like,, ever. there.. Police Police arrived arriived on scene and weren’t weren’t there. ablle to dismiss Sebastian’s Sebastian’s immediately able eally dig thr ough the fleet.. “They had to rreally through books to find a violation,”” he recalls. recalls.. After books air bit of on-s site investigation,, they a ffair on-site found a citable technicality: y: the truck found truckss peddler’s permit.. Not Sebastian’s Sebastian’s lacked a peddler’s fault—the city should’ve told him—but still fault—the grounds for for dismissal. dism missal. The incident smacks smacks grounds enfor o cement,, given that police of selective enforcement, routinely avoid laying laying down the law at St. St. routinely Park, where wheere passersby often get James Park, t vicinity by the plaza’s plaza’s shouted out of the resident loiter errs and do-gooders dole out resident loiterers oood to the homeless.. Minsk unpermitted ffood Minskyy skirmish. For declined to talk about the skirmish. b issue is that Christmas Sebastian,, the bigger Park needs needds to up its culinary game. in the Park Keep the cocoa and chur ros,, he says,, but Keep churros, escript ffair air ffood. ood.. “C arnie ditch the nonde nondescript “Carnie efitting of a world-class city cuisine is not be befitting se,”” Sebastian told Minsk y. such as San Jos Jose,” Minsky.

Smellpitas WHAT’S W WH AT’S TH THAT AT SMELL? Depe Depending ending on who you ask, the od odor dor that engulfs Milpitas comes wastewater San cco omes from the landfill or a was stewater treatment plant in S an Jose.

Social S i l media di amplifies lifi M Milpitas odor ccomplaints omplaints BY B Y JENNIFER WADSWORTH WA ADSWOR RTH

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TEVE WELLER has no great stink story was to tell. tell There w as no o dramatic dr amatic realization. realization n.

He He doesn’t doesn’t remember the hour or the place. Upon h moving to Milpitas 13 years m yearrs ago, ago, the software software engineer gradually gradually grew accustomed d to o the odor—that methane e musk that haunts the city. m city.

“From “Fr om wher wheree I’m situated,, it it’s ’s cle clearly early a dump smell,” he sa says. ayys. “Y “You You o gr grow ow used u to o it. Y You ou learn to tr o treat eat it lik likee an any ny ot other ther nuisance, nu uisance, lik like ke traffic noise noise..”

But just lik likee an any ny other nuisanc nuisance, e, people p e eople ccomplain omplain ab about out it online online..

Since Si ince the adv advent ent of T Twitter, w witttter, victimss off the Milpit Milpitas as stink ha have ave ttaken ak keen to broadcasting br roadcastingg their rreactions eactions to it in n

140 characters or less less.. And A W Weller eeller has ttaken ak keen it up on hims self to curate upon himself those thoughts under a single T Twitter witttter w ac count: @Milpit nks. account: @MilpitasStinks. asStin Every Evveery day, daay, he re-shares re-sharres another gem. “Milpitas “Milpitas hella staaank. staaank. a “Milpitas ” “Milpitas smells ll lik ootty.” Or O I’d lik h k likee b booty.

Or,, “I “I’d likee to thank Milpit as ffor o or smelling lik ke ass Milpitas like ass..”

The ttweets w weets ccome ome in w aves, W eeller’s waves, Weller’s notic ed. On a par ticulaarly hot da ay, he ’ll noticed. particularly day, he’ll ha ave plent ty of materiall to rre-tweet. e-ttw weet. have plenty “When ther e’s a stin nk, a p erson’s there’s stink, person’s first instinct is to pick up u their phone and ttweet w weet ab out it,” W e eller sa ayys. “It ’s about Weller says.

“It’s mo dern-daay human na ature.” modern-day nature.

TheBigStin The Big Stin Stink nk Milpitas Milpitas has grappled grappleed with odor odor complaints ffor complaints o or dec decades—a ades— —a pr problem oblem that has esc escalated alated as thee p population opulation has gr grown, own, along with the t incr increasing easing ubiquity ubiquit ty of so social cial medi media. ia. Ev Eventually, veentuallyy, in 2011, the cit city ty cr created eated d an o odor dor ccontrol ontrol hotline hotline—(408) —(40 (4 8)) 58 586-2727, 6-272 7 7,

yyou’re ou’re welc come—to do cument the welcome—to document numb ber an nd d fr ffrequency equency off ccomplaints. omplaints l i . number and But thousa ands of p eople opt to grip thousands people gripee ab out the Milpit M as stink on so cial about Milpitas social media, dat es untrack keed b dataa that go goes untracked byy the cit ven e though it lar gely shap es cityy eeven largely shapes the rreputation eputattion of this ttwo-exit wo-exxit town in the nor t theastern ccorner orner of Sant northeastern Santaa Clara V alle a ey. Sear ching the web ffor or o Valley.

Searching “Milpit as o dor” turns up hundr eds of “Milpitas odor” hundreds cconversations on nversatio e ons on T w wittter t , Fac ebook Twitter, Facebook and a sle w of rreal eal est ate fforums orums o that slew estate w arn p eop ple l off the h cit ityy’’s stink i k and d warn people city’s rremind emind the em to turn those ccar ar vvents ents e to them “r e-circulatte” while driving thr ough. “re-circulate” through.

“Milpit a smells lik as ver e yo one “Milpitas likee eeveryone far ted at th he same time omedian farted the time,,” ccomedian D .L. Hughl ley onc ed during a D.L. Hughley oncee jok joked p erfo orman nce at the San JJose ose Impr ov. performance Improv.

The sme ells that p ermeate Milpit as smells permeate Milpitas actually ori iginate fr om outside the originate from cit ty. That whiff w of se wage a ccomes omes fr om city. sewage from osse/Santa Clara Waste waater the San JJose/Santa Wastewater Tr eatmentt Plant, a nearly 60-year-old 60--year-old Treatment facilit ty thatt sun-bak kees solid sludge in facility sun-bakes op en-air dr rying lago ons. The pr ocess open-air drying lagoons. process sa aves ener gy, but rreeks. eeks. Pr evailing saves energy, Prevailing winds ttypically ypiccally ccarry arry the o dors odors east waard, in nto Milpit as, as an nyo one eastward, into Milpitas, anyone who ’s shop pped at the Gr eat Mall has who’s shopped Great n ed. no doubt notic noticed.

data data ab about out the smells smells,, Gome Gomezz notes notes.. A Att spring,, Ma Mayor a ccouncil ouncil meeting m last spring ayor JJose ose Este Esteves veess told cconstituents onstituents to k keep eep odor city rreporting eporting o dor ccomplaints omplaints to the cit ty hotline.. V Vice Mayor Polanski hotline ic i e Ma ayor Althea P olanski the city suggested th he cit ty rrefine efine its mobile app moree ccomplaints.

Anyone to ccollect ollect mor m omplaints. An nyone iPad with an iP a or iPhone ccan ad an download the “My Mi Milpitas” app.. W Weller ilpitas” app eeller suggests they Twitter ch the ey also check heck out his T wittter w t ffeed. eeed. it’s strong Though it ’s clearly a pain, a str ong doesn’t necessarily esn smell do n’t nec essarily rreflect eflect an quality It’s moree a air qualit ty violation. vviolation It ’s often mor quality-of-life qualit ty-off--liiffe issue outside the realm realm enforcement, says Aaron of public en nffo orcement, sa ays y Aar on Richardson, spokesman Bay Richar dson n, a sp ok keesman ffor or o the Ba ay Area Ar ea Air Qualit Qu Quality ty Management District.

“There’s do,,” sa says “Ther e’s not much we ccan an do ays y Richardson, Richar dson n, whose agency rredirects edirects Milpitas odor Milpitas o d ccomplaints dor omplaints back to the cit city. ty. “If it iit’s ’s an o odor dor that cr creates eates enough of a widespr widespread nuisancee in ead nuisanc become the ccommunity, ommu unitty, it ccan an b ecome an air quality violation. now, we’re qualit ty viola ation But right now ation. w, we ’rre currently inordinate not curr enttly rreceiving eceiving an inor dinate amount of ccomplaints. omplaints.” both waste And b oth h facilities—the w aaste treatment tr eatment plant p and the landfill— are operating permit are op eratin ng under their p ermit adds.. The w water cconditions, onditions, he adds aater treatment ways tr eatment facilit ffacility ty is working on w ayys to processing ccapture apture the noxious smell of pr ocessing 110 million gallons of se sewer water day, wer w aater a da ay, though those improvements those impr oveements rremain emain several line.. But it is se veeral yyears eearrs down the line improvement, an impr ovement, e cconsidering onsidering an older iteration off San JJose’s ose’s master plan ffor or o totally over odor the plant to otally glossed o ver the o dor problem.

San Environmental pr oblem. Sa an JJose’s ose’s En nvvironmental Services Department odor Ser vices Dep partment added the o dor measures people ccontrol ontrol mea asures after enough p eople about in the ccommunity omm munitty ccomplained omplained ab out Off the $30 $300 the smell. O 0 million it will plant’s drying ccost ost to rrenovate eno ovate the plant ’s dr ying process, pr ocess, up to t $20 million will go ttoward tow war a do odor dor ccontrol. do ontr t ol. l Milpitas Milpit as has h only to w wait aait another generation or ttwo wo b before effo ore these o odor dor woes wo es subsid subside. de. The dump will b bee full and the w wastewater asstewaater plant mo modernized dernized with whate whatever ver smellsmell-stopping stopping technologies technolo giees it decides to inst install, all, which will lik llikely keely cconvert on nvert the plant to a ccovered oveered bi biosolids iosolids facilit facility ty instead of open-air op en-air dr drying y ying facilit facility. ty. Then, W Weller eller e will finally b bee able to k keep eep his windows op open en on a w warm aarm summer da d day. ay.

“Eventually “Ev entuaally the dump will close and get ccovered over e ed o over, ver,” he sa says. ays y . “The ultimate sol solution lution to deal with the smell is justt to w wait aait it out or mo move. ve.

Until U ntil then, p people eople will k keep eeep ttalking alking about ab out the sm smell, mell, which to me is vvery eery entertaining. enter tainin ng.”

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The trash smell, dep depending e ending on from whom yyou ou ask, ask ccomes omes fr om a dump byy Dixon L Landing b anding and I-8 II-880—the 80—the Newby Landfill.

Landfill N ewby Island L andfill. L andfill owners Republic Services otherwise— R eepublic Ser vices insist other wise— theyy ccapture before that the apture the methane m b effo ore wafts energy it w aafts aaway way and sell it as ener gy to wastewater Cheso,, a the w aastewater plant. Gil G Cheso Republic, says ccommunity ommunitty liaison ffor o or R epublic e , sa ayys people smell p eople only think the sm mell ccomes omes from because news fr om the landfill b ecausse ne ws stories city advertises suggest as much and thee cit ty adv ertises odor problem the o dor pr oblem eevery very month at online.

Plus,, it it’s ccouncil ouncil meetings and on nline. Plus ’s moree visible visible—a people don’t mor —a lot of p eople don ’t wastewater eeven ven know the w aastewater a plant says.

Theyy smell eexists, xists, Cheso sa ayys. The s a stink, horizon see the landfill on the h orizon and it’s culprit, says. ccomplain omplain that it ’s the cu ulprit, he sa ayys.

Milpitas surrounding San JJose, ose, Milpit as and su urrounding household cities dump mostly hou usehold trash 342-acree garbag garbage into the 342-acr ge island, which decades life has at least a ccouple ouple dec cades of lif fe left. decomposing waste The smell of dec omposiing w aaste will from leveeccontinue ontinue to emanate fr o this le om vee e bordered longer.. b ordered trash mass ffor o orr a while longer Maybe byy then, Milpitia Milpitians have Ma ayybe b ans will ha ave stopped about it—or stopp ed bitching ab out it t—or rresign esign themselves that, likee themselves to the fact th hat, just lik any dairy rresidents esidents of an ny old dair ry town in the Central Valley, town doomed C entral V aalleey, their tow wn is do omed perpetuity. to stink in p erpetuitty. have kids,, th they probably “When I ha ave kids hey pr obably won’t noticee the smell,” one R Reddit won ’t notic eeddit muses.. ““And user muses A d their And th i kids’ kid ’ kids k kid won’t either,, pas passing won ’t smell it either ssing down an olfactoryy immunit immunity that’ll spawn olfactor ty tha at’ll spa aw wn a generation of sup superior humans..” erior humans h Meanwhile, theree is some Mean nwhile w , ther s movement Milpitas mo ovement to lessen thee smell. Milpit as proposed is litigating against the pr p oposed Newby Island, eexpansion xpansion of N ewb

by Isla and, which allowable byy aims to raise its allow waab ble height b 95 ffeet, eeet, challenging the adequacy of environmental byy the cit city an en nvvironmental rreview eview b ty off San Republic Services says S JJose. ose. R eepublic bli Se S rvic i es sa ayys won’t eexpansion xpansion won ’t worsen n the smell, increase despite the height incr ease making way million yards w ay ffor o or another 15 milli ion cubic yar ds of trash (enough to fill 4,750 Olympic-4 Olympic pools). size sswimming wimming p ools).

“We’re San “W We’re pushing ffor or S o an JJose ose to improvements eexpedite xpedite some impr ovem ements at the wastewater maybe have w aastewaater plant, ma ayyb be to ha ave them lagoons water isn’t ccover over the lago ons so thee w aater isn ’t drying outdoors, probably dr ying outdo ors, but wee pr obably won’t materialize won ’t see that h materiali i liize ffor or o another h several more, says Milpitas se veeral yyears ears or mor e,” sa ayys Milpit as City Councilman Armando Gomez.

Cit ty C ouncilman Arma ando Gome z.

Milpitas met city Milpit as rresidents esidents me et with cit ty officials early last yyear about eear to o ttalk alk ab out odor measures—all o dor ccontrol ontrol measur es— —all of which city’s Att least lie outside the cit y’s ccontrol. on ntrol. A cityy ccollect rresidents esidents ccould ould help thee cit ollect

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The new inmates not only o boosted population moree than 4,000, it putt a gr greater the local locked-up pop pulation to mor eater number of vulnerable under State prisoners aree mor moree likely to vulner able inmates und der the county’s watch. S tate priso oners ar older,r, chr chronically sick, strongly ongly tied to gangs. So to see if be older onically sic ck, mentally unstable and str they’ree keeping up with greater they’r h heightened demand and gr eater rresponsibilities, esponsibilities, the county $500,000 from figuree out whether they’r they’ree wants to spend $500,0 000 fr om a state trust on a study to t figur ““developing developing based on the t rrealities ealities of rrealignment.” ealignment.” The hope h is that spending that help securee grants much on a study will he elp the county secur grants ffor or improvements im mprovements in the future. future.

NO COMMEN COMMENT: NT: Xavier Campos has yet to explain e fictitious business filings while he actively fundraises for his re-election campaign.

No Re Recollection ecollection of Filing F Reached R eeached by by phone: Rosa Ro osa Campos, Campos, Councilman ouncilman mother of San n JJose ose C Xavier Xa avvier C Campos, ampos o , said she had no rrecollection ecco ollection off fictitious business filings rrelated elated to her son sson’s n’s ccampaigns aampaigns “Xavier Campos The filing ffor o “Xa or avier v C ampos ffor o or School Scho ol Boar Board, d,” cr created eated in JJuly uly 20 2004, 04, lists her,, Xa Xavier Campos am incarcerated her avvier C mpos and inc car arcerated fformer ormer ccounty o o ountty sup supervisor ervisor Geor George rgge Shirakawa asked Shirak hi kawa JJr. r. as a ccopartners. opartners. When h ask keed d why wh hy the filing w was aas cr created—none reeated—none of the dozen elect elected officials,, ccampaign cted officials ampaign a cconsultants, onsulttaants, an and nd ccounty ountty and st state ate officials byy San JJose election officia als rreached eeached b ose Inside had hea heard ard of such a practic practice— e— Rosa Campos wasn’t sure.

R o osa C ampos said s she w aasn n’’t sur re.

“I need to talk talk a to my my son,” she said.

“He ccaught aaught mee off guar guard. rd d. I don don’t n’’t eeven ven e rremember. ememberr. Like Lik ke I said, that w was aas 20 2004.

04.”

Shirakawa, Shirak kawaa, who w cr created eated similar filings ffor or se o several eveerral of his own ccampaign aampaign accounts, ac counts, signed signeed the 20 2004 04 fform. o orm. He is currently curr ently in Sa Santa antta Rit Rita ta JJail ail a on a yyearlong eearlong sentencee ffor sentenc or o pi pilfering ilffeering funds fr from om his 2008 20 08 sup supervisor erviso or ccampaign. ampaign. a Serving Ser ving as th the he tr treasurer easurreer of the official 2004 20 04 scho school ol b board oard ccampaign, aampaign, R Rosa osa o Campos, C ampos, 75, sai said aid that her duties wer were re not esp especially ecially demanding d due to the low stature st taature of the rac rrace. e.

“In m myy eexperience, xp x erienc e e, p people eople who run in scho ol b oarrd (r races), the ey don n’t ’ do a lot school board (races), they don’t of ccampaigning, ampaignin a ngg,” said C Campos, ampos, a rretired eetired scho ol teacher r. school teacher.

“Basically, “Basic allyy, ju just ust donations donations,, p people eople donate 20, 30, 50 dollars eople do that. dollars.. P People W n’’t liv ve in i an ar ea wher eople Wee don don’t live area wheree p people donate a lot off mone money. ey. I rremember eemember that much.”

A rreview evview of Xa avier v C ampos’ scho o ol Xavier Campos’ school b o d ccampaign oar ampaign fforms o orms shows that board hee rreceived ec e eivved e mor re than $6 0,000 in more $60,000 ccontributions—an o ontributions—an unusually high am mount ffor or o that ttype yype of rac ce. amount race.

A ccor ord ding to ccampaign ampaign disclosur re According disclosure fforms, o orms, Xa avvier C ampos rreceived ecceeivveed $21,4 66 Xavier Campos $21,466 in n in-kind ccontributions ontributions fr om the Ea ast from East Si ide T eachers e A sssociation. He also Side Teachers Association. rreceived e eiv ec iveed d $5,0 $ 00 fr ffrom om a gr ro oup ccalled alled ll d East E $5,000 group Si ide C ampaign F unds and $2,40 0 fr rom o Side Campaign Funds $2,400 from JJoe oe Coto’s Coto o’s State State Assembly Asssembly committee. committtteee.

Th here is no rrestriction estriction on ccontributions ontributio o ons There ffor o or lo caal scho ol b oard rac es. local school board races.

Xa avvier C ampos ccame aame in fifth in th he Xavier Campos the 20 004 rac e, but he would run again ffor or o 2004 race, el lected offic elected officee in 2010, when he won the Sa an JJose ose Cit ty C ouncil seat pr eviously v y San City Council previously he eld b r, St tate a A sssembly Sp e keer eak held byy his sister sister, State Assembly Speaker pr ro T eem N ora C ampos. Another pro Tem Nora Campos. fi fic ctitious business b i fili w filing aas cr eated d fictitious was created ffor o or this ccampaign ampaign a ac co ount, although it account, ap ppears the ccouncilman ouncilman did it himse elff. appears himself.

A notic eable change in the noticeable ha andwriting b ettw ween fforms orms o filed b handwriting between byy Sh hirak kawa and C ampos’ 2010 fform o orm ccan an Shirakawa Campos’ b d bee seen in the printout of names and ad ddresses, and the 2010 filing include es addresses, includes an n ac ccent o veer the “e ose, accent over “e”” in San JJose, w wher eas Shirak kawa’s filings do not. The T whereas Shirakawa’s sig gnature on the 2010 fictitious busin ness signature business ling also app ears to match those ffound o ound fil filing appears on n Xa avvier C ampos’ actual ccampaign aampaign Xavier Campos’ fforms o orms and memos sinc ce he ccame ame to since Ci itty Hall.

City R o osa C ampos w as a p olite in ans sw werring Rosa Campos was polite answering qu uestions, despite b eing displeased b questions, being byy rreports e orts she has hear ep rd ab out in San JJose o ose heard about In nside//M Mettro. — Joosh K oehn Inside/Metro.

—Josh Koehn

No One Likes Likees W Wording ording of P Pension ennsion Initiative Neither N either Ma Mayor ayo or Chuc Chuck ck R Reed eeed nor his union opp opponents onents lik liked ked e the w way ay California C aliffo ornia A Attorney tttorneey Gen General neral Kamala Harris wor worded ded the offic official cial description of a p polarizing olarizing p pension ension rreform efform o ballot measure, measur e, which on Monday Mon ndaay w was aas clear cleared ed ffor or o signatur signature-gathering e-gathering to plac placee it on the November N oveember ballot.

The un unwieldy nw wieldy title off the initiativ initiative: vee: “Public Emplo Employees oyeees P Pension en nsion and Retiree R eetirreee Healthc Healthcare are Bene Benefits efits Initiativ Initiative ve Constitutional C onstitutional Amendm Amendment. ment.” The description sa says ayys that it “eliminates “ cconstitutional onstitutional pr protections otectio ons ffor o or vvested ested e pension p ension and rretiree etiree hea healthcare althcare b benefits enefits current employees, ffor or o curr ent public empl lo oyeees, including teachers,, nurses and p peace officers, teachers eaace offic ers, ffor or o futuree work p performed. futur erfo ormed d.”

Unions say phrasing doesn’t U nions sa n ay the phras sing do esn n’t ’ measure: rreflect eflect the goal of the measur m e: ““to to benefits slash the rretirement etirreement b en nefits and current futuree rretiree etiree health ccare ar a e of cu urrent and futur employees, per David Low, emplo oyeees,” p er Da avvid L ow w, head of Californians Retirement Security.

C aliffo ornians ffor o or R etir e em ment Securit ty.

Reed, hand, says R eeed, on the other ha and, sa ays y the pension language ffocuses ocuses on p en nsion cuts without mentioning th that protects hat it pr otects accrued benefits. title, says, ac crued b enefits. The tit tle, he sa ayys,

“incco “incorrectly orrectlyy claims thatt the initiativ initiative ve eliminates cconstitutional onstitution nal pr rotections o s protections ffor o or vvested eested rretirement etirement benefits b enefits ffor or or futur k futuree work Kamala Harris performed. p erfo ormed..”

A tttorneeyys general ha ave ccome ome under Attorneys have firee b fir before effor o e ffor o or the w way ay the they ey wor word d initiativ vees. Pr P ro op. 8 pr oponents sued initiatives.

Prop. proponents then-Attorney then-Atttorn neey General JJerry err e y Br Brown ro own ffor or o describing their t measur measuree as one that elim would eliminate minate the right of same same-sex -seex marryy instead of as rrestoring ccouples ouples to marr m estoring one-man-one-woman the one -maan-one-woman definition of struck byy the Supr Supreme marriage st truck down b eme Court.

C ourt. wording affect The wor rdingg ccould ould vvery eery well aff ffeect outcome measuree at the the outc om me of a ballot measur polls. the Reed may p olls. But th he bigger blow ffor or o R eeed ma ay have been gutted ha ave b een when w a judge gut ttted the partt of citywide pension main par o a cit tywide y p ension rreform efform o byy sa saying San b ayying S an JJose ose ccan’t an n’’t cut rretirement etirement benefits workers. b enefits ffor or or eexisting xisting x work keers.

THAT’S T HA AT ’S WHA WHAT AT HE HE/SHE / SHE SSAID AID “Can you at least get Officer O Vera a new pair of glasses? He needs needs to read the dosage on his pain pill pilll prescription.”

—Police —P olice Officers Officers’’ A Association ssociatiion Pr President esident Jim Unland in a letter to the city criticizing its de decision hazard cision to dock hazar d pay ffor or Tony Vera, broke oke his ribs, Officer T ony V o era, who br r , arm and rreading eading glasses driver ear-ended him on the job. when a drive er rrear-ended Jim Unland

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BUT, BU T, M MR. R. G GRANT R A N T Actor Ed Asner will rece receive eive the L Leigh eigh g W Weimers eimers e Media the CreaTiVe Awards..

Community M edia Champion Award at th e Crea TiVe Awards

CreaTiVe Crea aTiVe Awards honor h and local videomakers v a nd hail free-speech legend a fre ee-speech legen nd BY B Y GARY GARY SINGH

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OR TH OR THE HE F FOURTH OURTH ANNUAL CreaTiVe A NNU UAL Crea TiVe Awards Aw arrds gala hoedown spectacular, spect tacularr, exploding at the California Californ nia Theater on Jan. Jan. 18, television televisio on legend Ed Asner will descend descen nd upon San Jose Jose once again to receive accolades. accolades.

Asner, Asnerr, now 84, will receive the Leigh Leigh Weimers Weim mers Community Media Media Champion Cham mpion Award.

Award.

Named afte after er the San J Jose oose Mer Mercury rccurry News Ne ws ccolumnist olumniist and ccommunity ommunitty Leigh Weimers, Weimers legend,, L eigh W eeimers, the W eeimers

aaward waard rrecognizes ecognizes individuals who fight local fig ght ffor o or the lo caal vvoice, o oice, champions who,, thr through policy w who ough public p olicy work orr passionate support independent endent pa assionate supp ort of indep ensuree that ccommunity m media, , help to ensur ommun nitty aree represented vvoices o es ar oic represented in the masshomogenization byy the ho omogenization inflicted b mainstream channels.. Asner model m mainstr eam channels Asner is a mo odel choice, being longtime freedom ch hoice, b eing a long gttime fr eedom fighter access television. fig ghter ffor o or public ac cess tele vision. He H freedom press rrealizes e ealizes that fr eedom of the pr ess is importance, perhaps off the h utmost imp i ortance, p erhaps h the important days, th he most imp ortant right these da ayyss, because goes b ecause ec a if that go es aaway, way, then mostt other freedoms soon ot ther fr eedoms might so on ffollow. o ollow w.

Especially NSA spying Es specially now that the NS SA is sp yin ng us,, and the rreporters point on n us eporters who p oint out o the problem aree then ac accused being th he pr oblem ar cused of b eiing the source problem. th he sour ce of the pr oblem.

CreaTiVe byy The Cr eaTiV Ve Awards, Awards d , held b ccommunity ommunity media ccenter en nter Cr eaTV V, CreaTV, honor lo cal videomak e and ar ers local videomakers aree alw ways y a tr eat,, with se veral Ba ay always treat, several Bay Ar ea media institution ns, as well as Area institutions, element ary and juniorr high scho olelementary schoolaged kids eceiving aawards waards ffor or o their kids,, rreceiving pr oductions and eff ffo orts t .Y o ou ccan an productions efforts.

You mingle with futur ocumentarians futuree do documentarians primed to ttake ake o ver th he world and over the eexpose xpose p h. Y ou ccan o an ower to truth power truth.

You meet citizen journalist ts, aavant-garde vvant-garde journalists, educ ators, lo cal TV p errsonalities, educators, local personalities, ccommunity ommunity activists n ofiteering activists,, non-pr non-profiteering her oes and a vveritable eritable ccosmic osmic ste w heroes stew of altruistic individual s, all with individuals, rrocking ocking stories to tell. T o me To me,, that's a hell of a lot b ettter t than n schmo ozing better schmoozing with plastic sur gery mo m dels in the surgery models ccommercial ommercial i l world. ld And sp eaking of rrocking ocking c stories speaking stories,, the do cumentary that Cin nequest thought documentary Cinequest would ne ver, eever, ver, eever verr finally go never, away y, R ock the Blo ck: The Thhe St toorry of the away, Rock Block: Story C aactus Club is nominat ted in not one Cactus nominated one,, but ttwo w wo ccategories, ategories, pr oving that proving the stor deed ne ver e go storyy itself will ind indeed never

aaway. way. Dir ector L on L opez is one of Director Lon Lopez fiv o or the “CreaTiVe “Cr CreaTiV Ve fivee in the running ffor Exc ellence A wards—Director,” Excellence Awards—Director, and one off ffour o our in the running ffor o or “F ilmmaker e mor “Filmmaker moree than 30 minutes— F eature.” Iff yyou ou w ant a to learn mor Feature. want moree ab out the legendar rock & rroll oll club about legendaryy rock that put Sa an JJose ose on the map all San acr oss the U nited St ates fr om 19 89across United States from 198920 02, the entir 2002, entiree 50-minute film is on Y ouTube. o YouTube.

In an ny eevent, vent, as in pr evious any previous Cr eaTiV Ve A wards, the whole CreaTiVe Awards, cceremony eremon ny pr oves just how much proves media cr eaativity unf folds o her creativity unfolds heree in San JJose, ose, when n the cit an b cityy ccan bee a plac placee difficult ffor o or eeven ven the nativ es to natives ffollow. ollow o w. In other o wor ds, eeven ven man ny words, many of those who w liv ve her aware live heree ar aree una unaware of just how w much is actually going on and oft ften seem surprised when often the o on something ou theyy miss out something.. If yyou ffeel eeel lik o e one of those ttypes, ou'r ypes, likee yyou're th Cr the C eaT TiV iVe A waards d is i a slick li k CreaTiVe Awards opp ortuniity to at least see what opportunity various me edia institutions ar media aree up to these da ayys. And it's all ab out days. about ccommunity ommunitty ac cess to materials access materials..

It do esn n't stop ther e. Cr eaTV doesn't there.

CreaTV rrecently ecently un nleashed ttwo wo particular particular unleashed pr ograms, which mor xempliffy programs, moree than eexemplify A sner's die e-hard attitude attttitude tow ard the Asner's die-hard toward imp ortancce of public ac cess tele vision. importance access television.

“Mak all,, San Jose!”

Jose!”” deals with “Makee thee C Call, unsolv l ed dh homicides i id and d families f ili unsolved dealing wit th the painful aftermath of with these crim mes. An on-air ccollaboration ollaboration crimes. b etween SJ JPD, the Indep endent between SJPD, Independent P olice A ud ditor and Cr eaTV San JJose ose Police Auditor CreaTV highlights the unsolv veed crimes and unsolved enc formation o to ourages those with inf encourages information ccall all the P o e Depar olic tment's tipline Police Department's tipline..

The first ep pisode aired aired on CreaTV CreaTV San episode JJose's ose's Chan nnel 30,, N ov. 29,, 2013,, at Channel Nov. 7pm, and airs a on that channel eevery veery Frida ay as well w as via liv stream on Friday livee stream Cr eaTV's website w CreaTV's website..

Anotherr pr ogram,, an episodic episodic program, magazine -st s yle showcase showcase produced produced in magazine-style par tnershiip with The Health Trust, partnership ffocuses ocuses on n what and how Silic on Silicon V aalley eats, eatss, with a ffocus ocus on access access to Valley health hy an nd or ganic choic es ffor or all,, in o healthy and organic choices or der to fig ght ob esity. Since Since obesity obesitty is order fight obesity. often a dir rect rresult esult of lif fe in suburbia, direct life that mak ess a lot of sense to me makes me..

F inally Cr C eaTV also rrecently ecently Finally CreaTV announc ed d a pr oject in ccollaboration ollaboration announced project with N orm man Kline Pr oductions and Norman Productions Histor an JJose. ose. T ogether, they they will Historyy Sa San Together, pr oduce a major do cumentary on the produce documentary histor t entir y. It's more more historyy of this entiree cit city. than o verdue d .P ast,, pr esent and futur overdue.

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A Football Life

BY JOSH KOEHN

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ATE A TE JA T JACKSON’S CKS SON’S memoir memoir, r, Slo Slow w Getting Up: A St Story tory of NFL Surviv Survival val from the Bottom off the P Pile, ile, is so goo good od it makes me ill ill.. P Physical hysical specime specimens ens who risk their bodies bodies and minds for the roar of the cro crowd—and owd—and the adu adulation ulation of rravenous avenous fans and the “mo “mob b of bloodthirsty jjersey ersey chasers chasers,” ,” or groupies— aren ’t supposed to t possess this deg gree of self-aw aren ness and wit when n it comes to aren’t degree self-awareness the written word d. E specially in the eir first book. word.

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best ffootball best ootbaall b books ooks on rrecord, ecord, but perhaps p erhaps thee b best est sp sports orts memoir eever. ver.

Now N ow livingg in L Los os Angeles Angeles,, JJackson ackson spoke sp oke with h Met Metro’s ro’s JJosh osh K Koehn oehn on the last da ay of the rregular egular NFL day season ab out his ccareer, areer, a p ersonal about personal tragedy tha at led him to writing that writing,, the b eautiful and a vicious game beautiful game,, and the shameless o verlords of the billionoverlords dollar indu ustry. industry.

a good good writer writer,, but I didn didn’t ’t ha have ave an anyy aspirations to b bee a cr creative eative writ writer. ter. It wasn’t w asn’t until I w was as pr probably obably 19. Ther T Theree was w as a tragedy. tragedyy. A friend of ours killed k himself f. It w as rreally eally an emotio onal himself. was emotional eexperience xperience ffor or o all of us and m myy mother ga ave me a journal. A t that gave Ass to p oint, I had ne ver k ept a journa al. point, never kept journal.

I started started writing in the journal

Josh K Koehn: o oehn n: I got to say say, y, man, you excellent writer. are an exce ellent writer r. Just like athletes, athletes s, writers wr can be very jealous other—and you’ve of each oth her—and I think you ’ve got someth something hing good going. The interesting g thing is because you went to Cal-P Cal-Poly oly (San L Luis uis Obispo), left Menlo—I didn’t there and went w to M enlo—I didn ’t Menlo even know there was a M enlo College You until I was reading up on you. …. Y o ou somehow, odds, somehow w, against a all odds s, made it guy, to the NFL. Being that guy y, being the kid, San Jose kid d, how did you actually get point, to that poin nt, because it seems like such a long g shot?

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How did you How yo ou get to the level of writer thatt you are?

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and put ting the wor ds to getherr putting words together and tr ying to emote thr ough th he trying through the page and get it out. I learned th hat that I enjo yed doing it and it w as rreally eally enjoyed was ccathartic athartic ffor or o me me—that —that I enjo enjoyed yed e divingg into the wor word. d.

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ccould ould just b bee someo someone one who w wanted anted to do it and ttalk alk to the teacher and get enr enrolled olled in the class cclass.. That That’s ’s what I did. I st started arted writi writing ng cr creatively eatively with no rrestrictions, estrictionss, and it help ed helped me facilit ate m wn st yle and write facilitate myy ow own style ab out things that wer w ortant to about weree imp important me as a go od st art. me.. That w was good start.

Then I went to th he Br oncos and the Broncos the theyy allowed me to do an online journal ffor o or their we ebsite eevery very website week,, and that w as inter esting, as was interesting, well. I w as able to work w on the craft was of writing and all al long k eeping along keeping journals as tin nkering with journals,, so I w was tinkering st yle. I stopp ed doin ng the journal style. stopped doing (f for o the team) after ttwo wo or thr ee (for three yyears ears and in a ccouple ouplle cconsecutive onsecutive offseasons I enr olled d in a writing enrolled class was a cr eaative writing class class.. One was creative and one w as a p oetrry class was poetry class..

Ultimately it’s it’s b e a rreally een eally been ccathartic athartic eexperience xperience after pla ayying playing ffootball ootball to figur ut what it meant. figuree ou out I do that through through writing w as able writing.. I w was to unear th it all and d figur unearth figuree out what the memories mean meant, nt,, with a p pen. en.

I started started writingg fr e eelanc ep piec es freelance pieces ab out what the aaverage verage eexperience xperience about in the NFL w as and d got a lot of was go od at tention, and d the b ook deal good attention, book ccame ame fr om ther e. It w as something from there. was I always alwayys had on the back burner burner,, but when I w as pla ayying in the NFL, was playing yyou ou ccan’t an’t really really eexpress xprress yyourself ourself ar tisticallyy. Y ou ccan’t o an’t ’ do something artistically.

You rreally eally cr eative. Y ou o ccan’t an’t eeven ven put creative.

You yyour our hear heartt into it,, b because ecause ffootball ootball is so cconsuming. onsumingg.

You Y o ou said a couple th things hings that when stood out to me wh hen reading the book. Y ou o are a poe et. There are You poet. some sentences in there—and t you mentioned you mis stakenly told mistakenly

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A mo modern-day dern- daay gladi gladiator ator who spent six seasons pla spent playing ayyin ng ffootball ootball at the highest le level vel ffor o or the Den Denver ver Broncos, Br oncos, JJackson ackson didn didn’t ’t so much def defy fy the o dds as he snuck in n the b ookies’ odds bookies’ back do or and held thee o ddsmakers door oddsmakers host age until his b ody ga ave out. A hostage body gave skinn y, o verlooked rreceiving eceiving e pr ospect skinny, overlooked prospect out of Pioneer High Sc chool in San School JJose, ose, JJackson, ackson, 34, went on to st ar at star Division III Menlo C olllege b effo ore College before get ting his shot as an undrafted u fr ee getting free agent with the assist an nce of late assistance ccoaching oaching legend Bill Walsh.

W Sur vival of the fit tesst is a maxim Survival fittest that seems laughable when w JJackson ackson p eels back the p pr offeessional ffootball ootball peels professional cur tain. Health is mer e a mat ely ter curtain. merely matter of luck and pain tolera ance; a tolerance; willingness to endur iinjuries,, enduree injuries sur geries and injection ns, all to rretain etain surgeries injections, a rroster oster sp ot and chasee a child’ spot child’ss dr eam that seems dist a when ant dream distant clinging to the w ave. But B all w aves wave. waves ccome ome crashing down, and a JJackson ackson st arkly la ayys out his eextensive xteensive injur starkly lays injuryy history—his histor y— —his file is said d to b bee as thick as a dictionary—and dictionary— —and th he p ph hyysical the physical and ps ychological trau uma that psychological trauma ac companies the fight to get back on accompanies the field at all ccosts. osts.

The humor of ffootball, ootb ball,, no doubt the most milit arized o orts, is militarized off sp sports, often lost on its par ticiipants at the participants time ackson rrestores esto ores balanc time,, but JJackson balancee b oking back and eexploring x xploring the byy lo looking absur d—such as a teammate team mmate whose absurd—such biggest ffear eear ab about out pla playing ayying ffootball ootball in Eur Europe op pe isn isn’t ’t p paralys paralysis ysis or brain damage but the supp supposed o osed dear dearth th of Magnum ccondoms ondoms in German G Germany. y. (He brought br ought a duff duffel ffeel bag fu full.) ull.)

No N o one seems mor moree surprised, and happ happy, y, to b bee a par partt of it all than JJackson, ackson, who is now b being e eing hailed as the author of not onlyy one of the

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Thank yyou, ou,, man. It w was a true as true,, though.

The ball in flight ffor o or me m as a me,, sinc sincee I w was kid, that that’s ’s what I’v I’vee lo loved ved ab about out the game —a ffootball ootball flyin ng thr game—a flying through ough the air and me ha having avving a jo job b to do do,, which was is go ccatch atch it. That w ass something through that p pushed me thr ougggh all the special teams,, changin changingg [p [position sp ecial teams osition from blocking, fr om rreceiver] eceiver] to tight end, blo cking, sitting meetings—doing sit ting in meetings— doing all this crazyy bullshit. R Really, wanted craz eeallyy, all a Iw anted bee doing w was passes.. to do b as ccatching atching passes Theree w was idealism.

You Ther as this idealism m. Y ou ccan o an see book goes bee as the b ook go es on I st sstarted arted to b moree jaded, seeing thin things they’re mor ngs as the y’re happening. weree to go happ ening. … Still, if we w wer played out to the park and wee pla ayed ccatch, atch, seriously.

It’s I would ttake ake it rreal eal ser riouslyy. It ’s myy ps psyche. theree ingrained in m ychee. I think ther aree a lot of unt untapped aree ar apped ar aartists tists who ar athletes,, ma maybe pro athletes ayybe eeven ven pr p o athletes aree so cconfined who ar onfined in n the ssystem ystem theyy don don’t have opportunity that the ’t ha ave an n opp ortunity to eexpress xpress it.

I also like the idea wh when hen you you’re ’re saying that you get so o revved to hit somebody and have th that hat physical contact that you wantt to play hacky sack with a safety’ ’s testicles. te esticles. I was safety’s dying over that.

(Laughs) (L aughs) How’’s your body holdi How’s holding ing up now?

I read the piece on Deadspin Dea adspin about your injury file, which h you said was dictionary. as big as a dictionary y.

My b body ody ffeels eels e pr pretty etty go ggood od now as long as I st stay ay in shap shape. e. I kind of ha have ave to st stay ay on top of it. I h had ad so man many ny injuries that if I don don’t ’t st sstay ay in shap shapee myy lower back st m starts arts to o hur hurtt a lit little tle bit, m myy hamstrings and d hips and that area ar ea hur hurtt a lit little ttle t bit. Th The he inter interesting esting thing ab about out lo looking oking ba back ack on it and the w way ay that injuries ar aaree tr treated, eated, the pla player ayer do doesn’t esn’t ha have ave much sa say ay

whatsoeverr. He whatsoever.

He’s ’s not in involved nvolved in the process. pr ocess. He’s Hee’s just told eexactly xactly what to do do.. … The Th he purp purpose ose of the “injur “injuryy file”” in the b book file ook and in the Deadspin piecee was impersonal piec was tto o show the imp ersonal way aree handled and w ay these injuries i ar

Until Unti il the players p play yers have a say y on how the game g evolves, evolv vess, I don’t don ’t think will it wi iill evolve l to suit su uit their best interest. dumbing information, the dumbin ng down of inf fo ormation, byy the so that b t time it gets to the player never speed pla layer he h iiss ne ver up to sp eed d on what’s body. what ’s really reallly going on with his b odyy.

He’s piecee of the machine machine..

He ’s just a piec p What are your y thoughts about concussions concussion ns and how the NFL has gone aboutt addressing concerns concerns, s, people can’t and how pe eople can and can ’t be hit?

I think it it’s ’s a PR nightmar nightmaree ffor or o the NFL when wh hen the theyy p pull out the scientific da dangers angers of pla playing ayying the game.. Guyss ar game aree get getting ting str stronger. onger.

They’re The y’re mo more ore eexplosive. xplosive. The They’re y’re ccoached oached to attack. atttack. To To attack, attack, you you lean fforward. o orward. Y You o ou ccan’t an’t at attack tack st standing anding straight up up. p. So yyou ou lean fforward, orward,, and o yyour our head is i the tip of that sp spear. ear.

Collisions C ollisions ar aaree alw always ays y head first.

What I find d inter interesting, esting, now that I’vee stepped I’v stepped d outside of the game game,, is that all thee p pla players—for ayers—ffo or all the rules or regulations regulatio ons or ne new w measur measures— es— theyy don’t the don’t get to vvote ote on it. The Theyy don’t don ’t control contrrol their b bodies. odies. The Theyy don ’t control contrrol the media. The ’t don’t Theyy don don’t ccontrol ontrol thee gameplan. The ’t Theyy don don’t ccontrol ontrol anything. anything y .U ntil the pla ayers Until players ha ave a say saay on o how the game eevolves, volves, have

I don’t don’t think it will eevolve volve to su suit uit their b best est inter interest. est. It will only eevolve volve in the inter interest est of the PR p people eoplee of the NFL. Att the lower level they’re going A level the y’re goi ing around pop doing ar ound to p op Warner and doi ing dogg and p pony about this whole do ony show ab out safe technique.. doing a saf fe ttackling ackling technique Commissioner] Roger Goodell [NFL C ommissioner] R oger Go oodell is going to ttalk alk to mothers and safe technique d demonstrating i this hi saf fe techniq h ique purportedly keeps head that purp ortedly k eeps the hea d out it’s shameless of the ttackle, ackle, and it ’s just a sham meless move mothers PR mo ve to cconvince on nvvince these mot thers safe.

It’s fucking that the game is saf fe. It ’s fuckin ng not. point it’s violent The p oint of the game is it ’s vio olent dangerous. and danger ous.

You Y o ou didn didn’t ’t play football until high h school. Is that your stance: no one with should play tackle football wit th h l helmets until il high hi h school? h l?

I think that would b bee the healt healthiest thiest thing ffor o or eeveryone. veryone. A Aside side fr from om the fact that just smashing heads is not healthy, health y, yyou ou don don’t ’t w want ant 8-,, 9- an and nd 10-year-olds 10year- olds cracking sk skulls. ulls.

Do you still have a problem wi with th Vince Vaughn?

V ince i V a aughn?

((A A ppassage assage in the bbook ook rreferences effeerences a llong-distance longdi taance rrelationship dist eelationship l ti hip ttested esttedd when wh Jackson J aackson finds out his girlfriend st stayed a ayed the night at Vinc Vincee V Vaughn’s aaughn’’s house while her friend supp supposedly osedly ho hooked oked up with w the act actor. orr. The writ writer’s er’’s ttakeaway aakeaway aatt the time: “F “Fuck uck Vinc Vincee V Vaughn.”) aaughn.”)

(Laughs) (L aughs) N No, o, I don don’t ’t blame him h at all. That w was as mor moree ffor or ccomedic o omed dic effect: eff ffeect: F Fuck uck V Vince iince V Vaughn. aaughn.

I had a moment like this once. I was watching dating a girl and we were watc ching a Sacramento Kings game and I C-Webb. shouted at C-W We ebb. And she turns turrns and says says, s, ‘Ugh, ‘U Ugh, g Chris Webber.’

We ebberr..’ And A I turned to her and said, ‘What does d that mean?’ So now I’m pretty sure Webber, she slept with Chris W e ebberr, and an nd I don’t this. don ’t know what to do about th his.

You and Y o ou just take her word for it an nd say “fuck that guy guy.” y..”

Nothing yyou Nothing ou ccan an do do.. He He’s ’s a dud dude de just trying tr ying i to get laid. l id (L (Laughs) aughs) h) It sounds like you you’ve ’ve been on a for pretty substantial book tour fo or the last few months months..

Yeah, Y eeah, it it’s ’s b been een pr pretty ettty tiring tiring,, I’v I’vee b been een trying tr ying to push the b book ook thr through ouggh the

football season and onc football oncee the season over I’m going to tr elax, get is over tryy and rrelax, ountry and a aaway way fr om out of the ccountry from this phone and ccomputer, I’vee om mputer, which I’v just been been staring staring at eevery very fucking day, Recharge battery daay, all day. daay. R eecharge g the bat tery a little little bit and get back b to work. I want You’re want to write. write. Y ou’rre a writer so yyou o ou know that when you’re writing,, you o ’re not writing you’re time.

You bee you’re wasting wasting time e. Y ou o should b writing something. iti something thi . I’ve I’ e gott all I’v ll th these myy head, but haven’t been ideas in m bu ut I ha aven’t b een able to dive them because I’vee dive into the em b ecause I’v been book.

Oncee this been promoting promoting thee b ook. Onc is over keep over I’m going to k eep writing and see what ccomes it. omes of it t.

Any project that is especially top of mind?

I don don’t ’t w want ant to b bee ““nonfiction nonfiction ffootball ootball writer Nate Nate.” e.” I think fiction is the b best est w way ay to do o that that—and —and possibly p ossibly working on n this b book ook as a movie mo vie or tele television vision script. I’v I’vee had some inter interest est fr from om Hollywo Hollywood. od.

How long did it tak How take ke you to write the book?

About ttwo About wo years. years. It w was as originally a one-year one-year b book ook dea deal, al,, and I was was supposed supp osed to ha have ave it done in Mar March ch of 2012. I w wasn’t asn’t ’ st starting artin ing to hit hi m myy stride id until the end of thatt yyear. ear. I didn didn’t ’t figuree out the narrative. figur narraative. I didn didn’t ’t know how personal personal to ma make ake it. It w was as vvery eery vague when it st started arteed off off. ff. It w wasn’t asn’t rreally eally anec anecdotal. dotal. I di didn’t idn’t tell the stor storyy likee I did in the finall vversion. lik ersion. The Theyy said, “T “Take Tak a e another yyear ear and get it right,, this is how you you u got to do it keep going..” So it to took and k eep going ok ttwo w wo yyears eears solitary was of solit ary cconfinement, onfinem ment, but it w as worth d fi i l wor definitely th h it. i It’’s just really well done. I’m It’s slightly jealous.. impressed and sligh htly jealous

(Laughs) Thank yyou, (Laughs) ou u, man. Fr From om a writer that that’s ’s high praise praise.. I rreally eally appreciate appr eciate it. It It’s ’s som something mething that I fucking worked worked at. I put m myy blo blood od into it. I think that that’s ’s the w way ay to do it as a writer. writer. I w wasn’t asn n’t scho schooled oled in writing nec necessarily, essarilyy, but I figur figuree the best b est way way to do it is div d divee down ther theree and figur figuree out what what’s t’s down ther there. e.

I’m glad it rresonated esonated with yyou. ou.

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your teammates you wanted w to be a rapper r, which I thought th hought was rapper, pretty good—but ther there’s re’s just some beautiful sentences Yo ou wrote, sentences.. You ry line, every every “Every crease and eve grunt and every pop p, I’m I playing pop, grass the game I love. The gr rass is still green and the ball in flight fl is still sight know. the most beautiful sig ght I know w.

I will chase it to the en nds of the ends That’s earth.” That’ ’s just a killer kiiller fucking idea about the chase of o the NFL and who’s to cling being that guy who ’s trying t to every opportunity and a sustain a career. career r.

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LLet ett the Pageant Paggeant B Begin egin Ahead of o the 2002 NFL draft, drafft, as scouts sized up p prospective players, playerrss, Nate Nate Jackson got his first minor injury—a pulled hamstring—and ha amstring—and got his h first look k at his future as an n “investment,” with h his agent Ryan Tollner To ollner coaching coachin hing him hi through h h the h draft. d f The Th 49ers had h d taken k an interest i in i Jackson,, a South Bay native e who played for two tw wo seasons at Menlo Menlo o College.

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S I stand on the sidelines watching watching one of the EastWest W e pr est practices actices that I can no no longer participate in, Bill B Walsh W a alsh comes and stands next ne ext to me. He’s He’s one of the e chairmen ch airmen of the S Shrine hrine Gam Game me committee and helped helped get me on the roster. roster. Like Ryan, Ryan, he tells me not to worry too too much about abou ut the hamstring.

—Just — Just get health h healthy hy and you’ll you’ll have haave yyour our shot.

I cra crawl awl w off the t ledge and, and after the game,, st start immediately. game art rrehabbing e ehabbing immediately y.

A ccouple ouple off months later I’m at State’s pro day.

It’s San JJose ose St atee’s pr o da ay. It ’s early in the morning morning,, ccold old outside outside.. But the presence stern pr esence of st tern NFL men fingering their stopw stopwatches attches puts a buz buzzz in the air.. That’s strikes air That’s thee first thing that strik es me: The NFL is a pageant. F Football ootball just game.. The NFL NFL’s is no longer ju ust a game L’s rregional egional sc scouts outts str stretch etch fr from om P Pacific acific to A Atlantic tlantic t and an nd work all yyear ear long ccompiling ompiling inf information fo ormation on their employers’ emplo yers’ p potential o otential in investments. vestments.

They’re The y’re cconducting on nducting rresearch esearch ffor or o their b bosses. osses. I’m I tr trying ying to touch God. Go d. This is th the he moment I’v I’vee been b een trainingg ffor. o or. Most of us her heree weren’t wer en’t in invited viteed to the NFL Sc Scouting outing Combine C ombine in IIndianapolis. ndianapolis. Only 26 260 0 guys go to tha that. at. This is our only shot in fr front ont of sc scouts. o .W outs Wee run the 40yard yar d dash, dash, thee L-shuttle, L-shuttle, the 20-yard 2020 yard shuttle, shut tle, and the th he 60-yard 60-yard shut shuttle. tle. We We also do the br broad road jump jump,, the vvertical ertical jump,, and hitt the 22 jump 225-pound 5-pound b bench ench press. pr ess. Then we w run rroutes. outes.

The suc success cesss I had at Menlo had ccome ome with an n asterisk: *D3 ffootball. ootball.

Ib bought ought into o it ffor or o a moment: just

lik like ke I momentarily momentarily b bought ought into C Cal al Poly Larry Welsh’s assessment P o ccoach oly oach L arry W eelsh’s assessme ent off my my athletic abilit ability. y. But after seeing se eeing the D1 ttalent alent at the Shrinee Game,, and now her G Game heree at San JJose ose State’s pro day, surge St tate’s pr o da ay, I’m hit with a sur g ge off confidence. confidence. The They’re y’re just dudes: dudes strengths du udes with str engths and dudes with w weaknesses.. Dudes with doubts an w weaknesses and nd Humanityy equaliz equalized ffears eears and pain. Humanit zed all al ll of us us.. D1,, D3, NFL: just dudes dudes..

Leading L eading up to the draft the 49ers invite in nvite v ab about out thir thirty ty lo local cal pr prospects ospects to o their th heir facilit facility ty ffor or a work o workout. ko out I drive out. drivve the th he fifteen minutes to Sant Santaa Clara and an nd w walk aalk in the fr front ont do door, or, gr greeted eeted immediately im mmediately b byy a tr trophy oph hy ccase ase that holds ho olds the ttalismans alismans of m myy childhood. childhood. d A fiv All five ve L Lombardi ombardi trophies trophies gleam in n the th he halo halogen gen lights lights.. Three Three of them ccame a ame under un nder Bill Walsh and ttwo wo w were were under und der George G Geor ge Seif Seifert, feert,, Bill’s Bill’s successor. successor. We We change ch hange into 49er shor shorts ts and jerse jerseys ys in the th he lo locker ck keer rroom. oom. I’m ccaught aaught b between ettwee w en ffocus ocus ffor o or the work workout out and a surr surreal eal admiration ad dmiration of m myy surroundings. surroundings. I walk waalk through th hrough the weight rroom oom and imag imagine gine JJoe oe Mont Montana ana and JJerry erry Ric Ricee discussi discussing ing a pla play ay b between ettw ween sets of leg pr presses, esses, orr Charles Ch harles Hale Haley ey yyelling elling e at Ste Steve eve Young Yo oun ng in n the showers and ha having aving v to b bee rrestrained e estrained b byy R Ronnie onnie L o Lott. otttt.

Out on the field it it’s ’s all ffootball ootball drills,, rroutes, one-on-ones. stuff: ball drills outess, one - on- ones.

No N o stopw stopwatches atches and no n clipb clipboards: oards: just ccoaches oaches ccoaching oaching ffootball. ootball. I ha have ave good workout.

There was way a go od work out. Ther re w as no w ay I wouldn wouldn’t. ’t. I ffeel eeel or ordained daiined b byy the institution. tradition of the institu ution. After I’m done done,, rreceiver eceiver ccoach George ge oaach Geor

We W e chang change ge into 49err shorts and an nd j jerseys in in the th locker room. ro oom.

I’m caugh caught ht between focus forr the workout and a surreall admiration admirati ion of my surround surroundings. dingss.

Stewart—a large, Stewart—a large, deep-voiced, deep p -voiced, kindhearted kindhear ted man eeveryone verryone ccalled alled Stew—pulls Ste w—pulls me aside and tells me what I’m st starting arting to figur fi figuree out. I ccan an do this this..

Att the end of the month A m is the ttwo-day wo - daay draft. The da day ay b before effo ore it starts, st arts, the Niners w want an nt to time me in the 40-yard 40-yard dash. Itt is a b beautiful, eautiful,

sunny from sunn ny day. daay. I drive drive fr om the small lot myy Menlo parking lo ot outside of m Camino Real dorm rroom, oom m, down El C amino R eeal to St anffor o d St adium, wher Stanford Stadium, wheree I meet R yan y and a ffew ew 49ers sc outs. I run Ryan scouts. a 4.5 and a 4.6 on the bright gr een green field of an empt adium. I ask R yyan emptyy st stadium.

Ryan how I lo ok ked. Str ong, he sa ays y. looked.

Strong, says.

The firstt da ay of the draft passes day passes..

The ne xt morning m R yyan tells me next Ryan th t the that th Niners Ni N might i ht draft d ft me late llate. t .

Some of m myy close Menlo friends ccome ome o verr to m atch it over myy house to w watch with me D ave Muir sits ne xt to me me.. Da Dave next in the deaf feening silenc atch deafening silencee as we w watch pla ayer afte er pla ayer get what I w ant. player after player want. phone.. During the I stare stare at the th he phone se venth rround o ound it rings: the Ra avens. seventh Ravens.

The antt to sign me as a fr ee agent Theyy w want free after the draft d ends ant to b ends.. I w want bee drafted. If I’m not,, I ccan an still sign as a free f ee agent. fr agen nt. Sometimes S i ,R yyan sa ayys, Sometimes, Ryan says, that’s that ’s actu actually ually b better, etter, assuming yyou ou ha ave a ffew ew teams that w ant yyou. ou. have want Then yyou ou get to cho choose. ose. If yyou ou ar aree drafted, yyou o ha ou ave no choic e. have choice. es and The lastt pick ccomes omes and go goes m iisn’t ’t ccalled. alled. A ffew ew minutes myy name isn later the phone p rings again, the 49ers this time T ant me o. My time.. The Theyy w want me,, to too. first busine business ess decision: Baltimor Baltimoree ancisco. Bec ause of m Francisco.

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by Sunnyvale’s Satkar. comfort foodwould crated executive chef and Bay AreaThe restaurant may be tiny, but the size of its menu, not native Colby Reade. to mention the balance of spices in their homestyle Owner and South Bay is native Kim The is a beer enthusiast; he tells me North Indian cuisine, justTed right. flavors are strong, and that Steins is a salute to the traditional German beer halls and gardens, prepared spicy or mild at the customer’s request, yet on my which he experienced during his travels throughout Europe’s premier recent visit, I never found any of the food to be overpowering. beer cities. Designed by architect Marc Dimalanta, Steins features a 300-

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1998 Ted, till 2007, when it was closed dueenergy, to an electrical fire.can’t wait with his contagious positive says that he The newto location is tucked away in an custom-made El Camino Real strip cooler” mall in a tiny for folks check out the “in-your-face, walk-in space only fivebar. small tables.

Like the location, it is a family-run nextwith to the main Guests can gaze at original the unique direct-draw draft operation, withtap Kirandeep Kaur running to thethe front ofeliminating the house while system—the handles are connected kegs, draft her husband, Mukhtiar, runs thethe kitchen, their children helping lines and helping to keep beer atwith the highest quality sometimes and freshness out. levels. Having 30 draft beers is a manageable number for staff, Ted says: There a lottoofknow choices on the menu, just enough—not “I wantare them exactly what we’reyet serving.

I want to be too ablemany— to and thegenuine prices are quite reasonable. give beer recommendations, so ongoing beer education will be Iimportant. started the ” meal off with the samosa chaats ($4.25). Samosas are common savory potato are deep-fried.

Foremphasis the samosa chaat, to thechef samosa is The food pastries will havethat a local, farm-to-table according broken into pieceswill andbetopped with chickpeas, andbreads a combination of Reade, andseveral everything made in-house, including and sweet and tangy flavors. useskitchen a blendspace, of yogurt, mint and pretzels.

Because of theSatkar generous there cilantro, will also and be intamarind chutneys. butchery and pickling programs. “We want to make house charcuterie, There a variety wraps andReade, kaati rolls the menu.

The wraps are food asare fresh as the of beer is,” says who on embraces beer’s versatility in made thick naan bread (which I tried, and it is very fresh), whereas the foodwith pairing. kaatiSome rolls use paratha, a thinner, flat bread. examples from the tidywhole menuwheat-based of 25 items include porkI ordered belly the Chicken Tikka Masala Katti Roll ($8.75) at the owner’s recommendation. The sauce was rich, the chicken was tender and it came with a spicy mint sauce that complemented the flavors quite well.

On the menu, entrees are organized by choice of meat or vegetarian. From the vegetarian list, I ordered the okra masala ($8.95). Masala is a blanket term that refers to a spice mix that has been ground into a paste. The okra was seasoned well and had a nice charred flavor to it. It was served along with a bowl of rice.

Lastly I ordered the karai chicken, the hottest dish I tried, which had a strong tomato flavor. The dish can be ordered as a dinner ($9.95), which comes with daal (lentils), rice and naan, or as a side with only rice or naan.

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IT’S ONE OF those eternal trivial questions—is more ice cream really sold during the winter?

Perhaps Smitten Ice Cream knows something, having opened up its second shop right before Christmas. Sure, the winter weather in these parts never comes close to the temps now icing up the Eastern seaboard, but there should still be an extra chill in the air, along with puffs of liquid nitrogen, thanks to Smitten’s unusual freezing technique.

The popular San Francisco-based ice cream company opened its newest spot inside the Los Altos Whole Foods market in late December. The new spot, like its sister location in SF’s Hayes Valley, dishes out ice cream that’s custom-frozen for each customer using a blast of liquid nitrogen at -321 degrees Fahrenheit. That would seem to definitively put the “ice” in cream, but that’s the thing—the process is meant to create a product that’s less “icy.” The super-low freezing point keeps ice crystals very fine, and thus makes for a smoother-textured ice cream.

Smitten serves about half a dozen flavors of ice cream, with choices like mint chip, salted caramel, chocolate and vanilla. Ingredients are organic and locally sourced. Customers can add sauces, like spicy caramel, malt syrup, chocolate sauce or other toppings like nut brittle to their ice cream order has been through the quick deep freeze.

Another shop is planned to open in the East Bay. WHOLE FOODS MARKET 4800 El Camino Real, Los Altos. 650.559.0100.

Striking Ahead STRIKE BREWING CO. will be moving into its own digs, with a brewery at 2099 S. 10th St., San Jose expected to open in a couple months. The company just celebrated its second anniversary.

And the New Year is already bringing new eats to San Jose. This week sees the opening of LOUISIANA BISTRO in downtown and Sajj MEDITERRANEAN FOOD in Willow Glen. Sajj has applied the fast-casual model to Middle Eastern food, with a menu focused on falafel and shawarma, and operates other locations in Menlo Park and at Westfield Valley Fair, as well as food trucks.

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CCOURTNEY OURTNE T Y KING Johnny V’s, V’s, San Jose Wed, W ed, 9pm, FFree ree B4 10pm/$3 After people A lot of peop ple can sing, but ffew ew rreally eally know how h to put their heart voice. area ea singer into their voi ice. Bay ar King Courtney Kin ng has some serious her.. She sings slow R&B, pipes on her energy high ener gy soul and even rraps, aps, and she doess it with elegance and cross skill. She’s She’s a cr oss between singer eys aand Alicia KKeys nd rrapper apper Eve (and also brings too mind Lauryn Hill in how well shee both sings andd rraps). aps).

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It’s It ’s impossible imposssible to completely separate from separ ate blues fr om rock rock & roll, roll, but Livewires, locals thee Livewir es, like the Black KKeys eys and the White Stripes, Stripes, wear blues moree their blue es influence much mor out in thee open than a lot of other bands. rrock ock band ds. “Clouds on Clouds,”” is a trippy, trippy, dr ddreary eary slow blues tune that endss in a weird weird sped-up New Wave W ave blast. blasst. st “Sweet “Sweet Tea” Tea” shows off the group’s groupp’s penchant ffor or classic electric bblues, lues, à la B.B. King, but with a heavier power-pop influence mixed in. (AD)

Dredg LLocal ocal pr pprog-rockers og-rockers Dr edg have always dramatic, had a flair fl ffor or the dr amatic, with complex comple ex music that is also moody, moodyy, dark and annd powerful.. So when guitarist Mark Engles E fformed ormed a new band with Chris Robyn R (drummer ffor or emo-posthardcore har dcoore band Far) and Ben Flanagan Fire), (singerr ffor or heavy rrock ock TTrophy rophy Fir e), it was no n surprise that the rresulting esulting b d, Black band, Bl k M B Map, would ld have h a lar llargergerthan-life than-li fe emotionality about it, as well huge, as hug e, amphitheater-worthy riffs.

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JJUSTIN JUS TIN TIMBERLAKE Jan 19 at SAP SAP Center

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CELEBRITY CELEBRI TY FORUM FORUM W W/STEVE /STEVE W WOZNIAK OZNIAK Jann 22-24 Ja 22-24 at Flint Center

CIRQUE CIR QUE DU D SOLEIL: AMAL AMALUNA UNA Jan 22 22-March -March 2 under the Big TTop oop at TTaylor aaylor SStreet treet Bridge

DAN D AN HICK HICKSS AND THE HO HOT T LICKS LICKS Feb 1 at at Montalvo Arts Center

SSTYX TYX Feb 6 at City National Civic

DEMI LLOVATO OVATO Feb 11 at SSAP AP Center

SPYRO SP YRO GGYRA YRA Feb 13 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

IMAGINE IMA GINE DRA DRAGONS GONS Feb 13 at SSAP AP Center

ZZOMBIE OMBIEE V VALENTINE’S A ALENTINE’S B BALL ALL Feb 13 at Art Boutiki

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will be playing with the Fab Fabulous bulous FunkyBand Funk yBand and TTribal rribal Suns.. (AD)

MICHAEL CARTER CAR TER QUINTET Blackbird Tavern, Blackbird Taavern, San Josee Free Sat, 8pm, Fr ee Well, crooning W ell, if there’s there’s a time ffor or cr rooning it’s to make a rresurgence, esurgence, it ’s probably probably now—it’s now—it ’s totally vintage. LatterL crooner day cr ooner Michael CCarter arterr sings Sinatra, in the style of Sinatr a, withh an microphone old timey micr ophone to bboot. oot. great CCarter arter is backed byy some ggr eat Gerzz (Latin local talent: Danny Ger (Laatin Grant Jazz Collective), Jimmy Gr a ant Parlor), (Junk P arlor), Faris Jarrah Jarrah (Dirty ( Downtown Jazz SSyndicate) yndicate)) and Bennett Roth Newell (the Bad B Ones) (SL)

A CITY IN AR ARMS RMS The X Bar at Homestea Homestead ad Bowl, C upertino Cupertino Sat, 9pm, $10 After ffour our years, years local hhardcore ardcore band A City in Arms willl ring in the New Year Year by playingg their last show everr, along w with ith SStart tart The Fire Fire Up!, Forlorn, Beg Beeg for for Death and Overcast.

Overcast. A City C In Arms delivers terrifying growls, owls, terrifying gr headbanging noisy riffss and complex drumlines. “Echoes “Echoes & Eternities” Eternities” is an exception exceptiion to their sound. It It’s ’s a melodic tune tun ne that is cleaner and simpler—t simpler—turns turns out the th group group also l kknows hhow ow to t write it some rreally eally catchy melodies. meloodies. (AD)

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Last year they stoppedd doing live aree back inn action now shows, but ar ffor or 2014.

2014 This show boasts booasts the kind of diversity that madee their shows so great gr eat in the past. The lineup l includes Kratom Bradbury adbury Kr atom SStave tave (psych metal), m , Br (hardcore), (har dcore),, Human Baby Baaby (post-punk), Parhelion (free P arhelion Ensemble (f free jazz) and (hip-hop).

It’s Dust Collector (hip-ho op). It ’s a cool little scene, and they ser sserve ve rreally eally good coffee, coffee,, too. (AC) (AC)

Feb 22 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

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BLACKWIT BLACKWITCH W CH PUDDINGG Caravan, San Jos Caravan, Jose se Sun, 8pm, Free Free Marijuana and anger annger don’t don’t rreally eally Portland mix, and as such, P ortland stoner(who aree gener generally metal rrockers ockers (wh ho ar ally creating full of both) end up u cr eating a pretty there. sound that is pr etty far far out ther e.

With song titles llike ike “Super Sluts from Space,” astle fr om Outer Space e,”” “Acid “Acid CCastle Mountaintop”” andd “S “Swamp Mountaintop wamp Gas Nevermizer,” of the Nevermize er,”” Blackwitch Pudding occupy the t weirder weirder end spectrum. of the metal spec ctrum. Their glance campy,, lyrics at first glan nce seem campy aree slow but the riffs ar sslow,, heavy and dripping with distortion. disttortion. In other words, wor ds, these guyss mean business. powerhouse They are are a power rhouse of dark intensity.. (SL) intensity

Feb 25 at SAP SAP Center

GABRIEL IGLE IGLESIAS SIAS Feb 28 at SSAP AP Center

OLETA OLET TA ADAMS ADAMS March Mar ch 7 at at Montalvo Arts Center

SSAN AN JOSEE JJAZZ AZZ WINTER FE FEST ST March Mar ch 9-15 9-15 in downtown San Jose

HAPA HAP A March Mar ch 21 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

KINGSS OF LE KING LEON ON March M Mar ch 25 at SAP SAP Center

JON NAKAMA NAKAMATSU/JON ATSU/JON MANASSE MANASSE March Mar ch 27 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

NUCLEAR CCOWBOYZ OWBOYZ March Mar c 29-30 ch 29-30 at SAP SAP Center

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THE PRINCE PRINCESS SS AND THE PEA California Theatr California Theatree Center presents pr esents theater ffor or families. families.

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“Desire, Despair, “Desire, Despair, Destiny Destiny & selections Death!”” ffeatures eatures selec ctions from fr om CCarmen, armen, a Faust, Lakme’, L Lakme ’, I Pagliacci, Paagliacci, Rusalka, Thee Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, Jeanne Jeeanne d’Arc d’’A Arc and mor more. e. Jan. 11 11.

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*art MUSEUMS AR ART RT TMUSEUM MUSEUM GATOS OF LLOS OS GA ATOS "Backward is Forward: "Backward Forward: d Layer Printmaking.” and Impact in Printma aking.”

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CANTOR CANT OR AR ARTS RTS CENTE CENTER ER “Her SStory: tory: Prints by Elizabeth E Murray.”

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3 “Border Crossings: From “Bor der Cr ossings:: Fr o om Popular Life.”

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DE SSAISSET AISSET MUSEUM M “Reduce, Reuse, Re-imagine,” Re-im magine,” workss cr created work eated from from objects obbjects rrescued escued from from the waste waste stream—items disposed eam—items dispo str sed of as trash tr ash rrather ather than recyclables recyclables by local rresidents esidents and businesses. bu usinesses.

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SSAN ANJOSEMUSEUMOF JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS QUIL LTS & TEXTILES TEXTILES “Fiberart International.”” West “Fiberart West e premiere Coast pr emiere exhibition, workss by 37 natio national ffeaturing eaturing work onal and international artists, bboth oth emerging, established and emer ging, and exploring a wide spectrum of textile practices. practices. "Translucence: "TTransluceence: Breslaw," workss cr created CCathy athy Br eslaw w," work eated mesh. in a unique industrial mesh h.

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TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM OF AR ART T San Jose SState tate University Thru Anniversary Exhibition. Thr u Jan Recollections.

26. KKay ay Russell: Recollectio ns.

Thru Feb 9. 2013 SStatewide tatewidee Painting P ainting Competition/ Exhibition. Thru Feb 2. TTue-Wed ueu -Wed Thu, and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Th hu, 11am-9pm.

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“No W Walls alls Between Us,” portraits portr aits of jazz musicians by KKathy athy Sloane. San Jose.

SSTEINWAY TEINW WAY YSOCI SOCIETY IETY Anderson and Ro Roe oe piano duo. $30-$58.

McAfee Jan 12, 7pm. $30-$58. McAf ee Center,, Sar Saratoga.

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ST. LA ST. LAWRENCE AW WRENCE SSTRING TRING QUARTET QU ARTET Works by Dvor Works Dvorak, ak,, Janacek. With Jonathan guest artist Jona than Vinocour, Vinocour, violin. i li Jan J 12, 12 2:30 22:30pm.

30 0 0pm. $20 $75 $20-$75.

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Bing Concert Hal tanford.

*operaa *oper CAFFE FRASCATI CAFFEFRA SCA AT TI Opera Night. Firstt Friday of Opera every month. Sann Jose.

EUPHRAT EUPHRA AT TMUSEUM MUSEUM De Anza College, Cupertino.

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COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY MUSIC AND ARTS MUSICANDAR TS “Revealing the Unseen: Paintings Drawings P aintings and Dr awings Drew

by Andy Gouveia & Dr ew McSherry.”

MonMcSher ry.” Thru Jan 26. Mo on9am-7pm, 9am-3pm.

Fri, 9am-7pm, 7 Sat, 9am3pm.

Gallery, Center,, Mohr Gallery y, Finn Center View..

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HARK! 12th Annual Holiday Show & Sale. Sale runs thru Jan 18. San Jose.

“Pencils Down” “Pencils Down” explor explores es the creating artistic possibilities of cr eating graphite drawings. intricate gr aphite dr awings.

Opening reception reception Fri. Jan 224, 4, 6-9pm.

69pm.

LIQUID A AGENCY GENCY

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DOTMOV, a digital film ffestival DOTMOV, estival organized or ganized by Japan's online "SHIFT.” magazine "SHIF T.” . Thru Jan 25. 95 S. Market SSt, t, San Jose. presented Also pr esented by Phantom Galleries: ““Astra Astra Inclinant, non Necessitant,”” an exploration exploration of the vastness of space by Jesse CCupp. upp. 374 374 S. First SSt, t, San Jose.

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GALLERY GALLER RY YSSARATOGA ARA ATOGA

Residency Program Program (LAP) alumni’s exploration exploration of food. food.

Thru Feb 9. “Come Healing.”

Six artists explore explore healing and wholeness. Ongoing. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm.

11am-3pm. Saratoga.

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color paintings by and water watercolor Bakker.. Thru Feb 1. A An Debbie Bakker n place opening reception reception takes pla ce 6-18pm.

Palo Alto.

Jan 10, 618pm. P alo Al to.

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“Mountains in My Spoon,” celebrating celebr ating the Lucas Lucas Artistss

PHO69 PHO6 9 “Rocks, W “Rocks, Waves aves & Clouds Clouds”” by Matthew Seigel. San Jose.

PSYCHO P SYCHODONUT DONUTSS Works by John Renzel, Lacey Works Bryant, Nicolas CCaesar, aesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Foley, Michael Foley y, Michael Borja, Valery V alery l Milovic, Mil i CCarlos arlos l Villez, Vill Eric Ei Joyner,, Laur Lauraa CCallin Joyner allin Bennett, John Hageman and Robert McColley.

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TECH TE CH SHOP SSAN AN JOSE Replica weapons and pr props ops by artist and ffabricator abricator Wilson Chao. San Jose.

WORKS W ORKSSSAN ANJOSE JOSE “Eat, Drink, Be Mer Merry!,” ry!,”” annual membership exhibition workss that tie in with ffeaturing eaturing work the ongoing “Around “Around the Table” Taable” collaborative collabor ative exhibition. 365 S. Market SSt, t, San Jose.

ZERO ZER O1GARA 1 GARAGE GE “ZERO1 Fellowship/xx,” ,” a gr group oup exhibition that showcases early prototypes prototypes of innovation challenges given to each of the artists. Opening Reception: Jan 22. San Jose.

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A Night at The Opera

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OPERA HAS somehow become synonymous with a slew of stereotypes that brand it as elitist and incomprehensible—a long, dull and expensive night at the theater which “ain’t over til the fat lady sings.”

On the contrary, opera can ARIA HAVING FUN YET? Sharon Maxwelloffer beautiful, inspiring music, some of which may Yamamoto, seen here performing the ‘jewel be quite familiar—and even song’ from ‘Faust,’ aims to make opera more accessible with her company Opera Bravura. fun to listen to. “Opera is everywhere—it’s the background of life,” says Sharon Maxwell-Yamamoto, the executive director and producer of Opera Bravura Entertainment, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to show a more accessible side of opera.

The tongue-in-cheek title of Opera Bravura’s latest production offers a sense of just how serious this stuff is: “Desire, Despair, Destiny & Death!”—presented by the company Jan. 11 at the Montgomery Theatre—is an evening of arias and duets from 15 famous operas, including Carmen, Faust, Die Fledermaus, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro.

Maxwell-Yamamoto, a soprano, will sing some of the selections in “Desire, Despair, Destiny & Death!” alongside tenor Christopher Bengochea, mezzo-soprano Katja Heuzeroth, baritone Michael Taylor and soprano Diane Squires.

The performance will offer a staged concert format, with singers in full (often extravagant) costume and the 27-piece Opera Bravura Orchestra conducted by Bruce Olstad playing on stage instead of in a pit.

“Desire, Despair, Destiny & Death!”

January 11, 7:30pm Montgomery Theater, San Jose. $25-$35 sjtix.com or 408-OPERABV (673.7228)

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Maxwell-Yamamoto modified the format of the supertitles, summarizing each piece in a paragraph style instead of requiring audiences to read translations of every line. “It’s less intrusive and easier to follow along,” she said.

Maxwell-Yamamoto, now 51, has been singing since before the age of 3.

In that time, she’s heard many people claim they don’t like opera, and finally started asking why. “‘It’s too long,’ ‘I don’t understand it,’ ‘it’s too expensive’” and such variants were the responses, “but I can totally put myself in their place,” she says.

“There’s a lot of it that’s tiresome. If you don’t know what it is you’re listening to, it can sound like a shrieking cacophony, and ‘cheap’ tickets cost $75,” Maxwell-Yamamoto says. “I want to show people it doesn’t have to be that way. Our tickets are much more affordable at $35 and go down from there,” she says. “As for entertainment value, the show is not boring, and there’s no snoring. I’ve been to shows with sleeping patrons or a few more empty seats after intermission, and we’ve never had that happen,” she said. “The audience is always smiling at the end of this show.”

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Incarnation

ON-SCREEN O N-SCR EEN ROMANCE ROM A NCE Theodore (Joaqui (Joaquin in Phoenix) falls for Samantha Samantha, a, a new OS wit with brains, th brains s, soul and the voice off Scarlett Johansson.

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OPES OPES P O OF F THE 1970S STYLE ST TYLE are rallying: rallying: the fool’ss par parade th he fool’ ade in American Am merican Hustle, Hustle, Lewis’ Oscar L ewis’ acting in Inside Llewyn Davis L lewyn Dav vis reflects vintage Gould.

Elliott Goul ld. In the serenely romantic Her, H rr,, Joaquin He Joaquin Phoenix Phoenix has the brush bru ush mustache and spectacles of o Gould’s Gould’s frequent ’770s films, buddy in ’70s films, George It’ss a lovely angle with Segal. It’ which to face fa ace a near future of an undated d year. year.

Los L os Angeles (dir (director ector Spik Spike ke digitally JJonze o onze digit ally merged merged it with today’s spread ead to odaay’ y s Shanghai) has spr up p and out. It’s It’s crowded crowded but prosperous.

Phoenix’s Theodore pr rosperous. Pho enix’s Theo dore has nicee div divorce ha as an unusually nic orce apartment Wilshire ap partment in the skies at W ilshir i e Beverly Tower Be everly T o ower 5. The subways subways y are are clean, derelict free; theyy ttake cl ean,, der elict fr ee; the ake yyou ou beach Palisades. to o the b each or to the P alisades.

The Th he bullet train is finally pulling out Union Station ou ut of U nion St ation to snowy destinations Theodore de estinations far aaway. way. Theo dore bounced from Weekly b o ounc ed back fr om an LLA AW eeekly job become love-letter jo ob to b ecome a lo ve-letttter writer BeautifulHandwrittenLetters. att BeautifulHandwrit tenLetters. heartt aching as he sits in ccom, o , his hear om, officee lined with glowing glass an n offic panels shocking citrusy pa anels in sho cking pink and citrus sy Theodore JJell-O e O ccolors. ellolors. Theo dore ccomposes omposes

little lit tttle notes ffor or o happy happy couples, couples, and the papers tries to aavoid void o signing th he final pap ers divorce. walk, on his div orce. Duringg a w alk, he new that’s learns of a ne at’s available—a available v w OS tha —a likee the sup ssystem ystem that is lik ssuper-powered er-powered bubbling,, granddaughter of Siri. The bubbling flirtatious pocket flir tatious vvoice oice on his p ocket sized Samantha, it’s ccomputer omputer ccalls alls itself Sa amantha,, it ’s sensual. omniscient yyet et sensual l Theodore l.

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There’s 1,000 ways Ther e’s a 1,0 00 w ays ys this slip of wrong. an idea ccould ould have haave gone gon ne wr ong. success Essential to the suc cesss of the rromance omance is Scarlett Scarlett JJohansson’s oh hansson’s vvoice oice acting.. I’v I’vee hear heard acting d arguments argum ments that chemical is the chemic al side of JJohansson o ohansson critical love rresponsible esponsible ffor o or the crit tical lo ve Her getting: is get ting: that eeven ven if yyou o ou ccan’t an’t see curves, breathy her drastic cur ves, her plush,, br eath hy vvoice oice implies that body’s bodyy’s off-screen off ff--screen presence. pr esence. The old malee gaze of the mind’ss eye, guess.. Could bee that mind’ eye, I guess Cou uld it b alluree of the actr actress goes the allur esss go es so deep it?? The that eeven ven her vvoice oice is rich r with it film livee other women in the fil lm ccan’t an’t liv invisible imago: Theodore’s up to this in nvvisible ima ago: Theo dore’s played ccollege ollege pal is pla ayeed by

by Amy Amy Adams, Adams,

with untidy, looking untid dyy, dandruffy dandruff ffyy lo oking hair and makeup. a d no o ma aakeup. She’s Shee’s introduced S introduced to o us foreshortened life Adams for o eshortened (in rreal eal lif fe A dams is 4 inches shor shorter Phoenix, ter than Pho enix, but JJonez poses looks likee onez p oses her so she lo oks lik she’s Wilde, she’s a foot foott smaller). Olivia W iilde, as Theodore’s Theodore’s highly demanding first date, date, is a classic cllassic eexample xample of how a woman ccan beautiful she’s a be an be so b eautiful that she ’s almost ugly. ugllyy. Just Just as Samantha is all voice, voice, Rooney Rooney Mara, seen in flashback, is the voiceless, moody voiceless e , mo ody eex-wife x-wiffe Theodore hardly bear Theodore ccan an har dly b ear to think about. about.

Her is not bitter no ot a bit ttter film: Samantha isn’t alternativee to other isn’t a perfect perfeect alternativ women. Samantha pushes back and S withdraws, temper. withdraaw wss, has flares flares of temp er. At At one p point oint she sswears wears at Theodore.

Theodore.

The eevolution love voluttion of lo ve rising in this human-like program human-lik ke computer computer pr ogram puts an edge ed dge in her vvoice. oice. And this unlikely love storyy st stays believable unlikely lo ove stor ays y b elievable into a thir third grows d act as Samantha gr ows in strength strength and an nd cconsciousness. onsciousness.

There’s smooth There’s a smo oth rreligious eligious side to Her, bee beguiling Her, smooth smooth enough to b beguiling to an atheist. atheist. We We get soothed soothed when the film ccondemns a fanatic, o ondemns fanatic, a supporting supportingg character ttakes akes a rreligious eligious vow byy ameo b vow of silence. sileence. There’s There’s a ccameo Brian C Cox ox as a rreal eal life liffe explicator explicator of Northern Californian Northern C aliffo ornian Buddhism; by by accidental been accidental coincidence, coincidence, I’d I’d just b een listening to o the long dead philosopher on KPFA myy commute.

KPFA during d m commute. This made me mull over Her’s insistencee m o ver Her ’s insistenc on voices livee on their own. voices that t liv Or, that matter, an fall Or, for for o tha at mat ter, how we ccan in love screens love with witth shadows on scr eens as if they alive—and why werre aliv they were e—and wh hy such phantoms ar aree ultimately not enough.

One of Theo Theodore’s paid-for love T dore’s paid-f fo or lo ve letters phrase,, “You lettters t has the phrase “Y You o were were a bright lig light wokee me up. ght that wok up.”

The film iss a gentle if sometimes sexually there’s sexually ardent arrdent date film. But ther e’s a subtle met metaphor heree ab about love m aphor her out lo ve as enlightenment. enlighteenment. Jonze’s Jonze’s experience experience in music videos provides v pr ovides ffor o or sometimess slick flashbacks flashbacks,, loaded with on-the-button on-th he-buttton t emotion. Still, Herr is irresistible irressistible with its living, living, compassionate compassio onate ccomputers, omputers, and its fields of skyscrapers sk kyyscrapers glowing with Pacific light.

Pacific ligh ht. You Yo ou sort sort of ache ffor o or wanting true,, in the w way wanting itt to ccome ome true ay you watch Star Trek. you ache when w yyou ou w aatch St taar T rek.

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metroactive metr oactivve FILM AUGUST: A UGUST: OS OSAGE AGE CCOUNTY OUNTY (R; 121 min.) Meryl SStreep treep as a an oral oral dragon cancer-ridden dr agon from from northern 10-ton Oklahoma—the disease 10 -ton symbolic punishment ffor or the thhe poison she’s she ’s belched up on her ffamily. am mily.

Unfortunately, Unf ortunatelyy, the malady hasn’t h ’t hasn affected aff ected her tongue, which she uses to flay her extended ffamily, amilyy, drawn drawn disappearance together by the disappear ance Shepard) of their ffather ather (Sam Shepar d) a drunken TTulsa uulsa academic. The T cameraa sets a spell at the dining camer d observe mutual rroom oom table to obser ve the m barely rrecriminations. ecriminations. A bar ely adapted adaapted much-laureled adaptation of a much-laur e but eled school long-winded play of the sch hool of Lillian Hellman, the film hhas Roberts a stunning cast: Julia Rober rts daughter,, Benedict as an angry daughter Benedict nephew CCumberbatch umberbatch as a cowed ne ephew Breslin and Abigail Br eslin as a blasé blassé granddaughter.

Director John gr anddaughter. Dir ector Jo hn Wells, Wells, adeptness a TTV V vet, shows some adept tness transitions ansitions in smoothing the tr it’s between acts. But it ’s wounded woun nded with strangely characterless str angely char acterless location locaation photography, photogr aphyy, mostly got from from o a it’s helicopter: it ’s shot in Pawhuska, Pawhhuska, it’s Okla., and yet it ’s so without without a sense of location that they might as well have filmed in Bakersfield. SStreep treep is too fforceful orceful an actor to ggoo ffor or measures. half measur es. Such is her car ccareer: eer: she’s brilliant, when she’s she’s on, she ’s brillian nt, and when she’s she’s bad, you need a gas haircut mask. Given a chemo hair cuut and demonstrating nigh-Pentecostal demonstr ating nigh-P enteccostal from numerous glossolalia fr om the numer o pills ous she’s she ’s on, she still shows a gr ggreat eat self-satisfaction. lady of the stage’s stage’s self-sati sfaction. moree dif difficult SStreep treep has been in mor fficult material, such as Ir Ironweed, onweed, but she’s she’s never been worse. (Op (Opens pens Fri.) (RvB)

EVA EVANGELION: ANGELION: 3.0 Y YOU OU CAN N (NO (NOT) T) REDO (96 min.) The thir thirdd film in th the he eboot of the Neo cinematic rreboot Neon on Genesis Evangelion anime TV T V series.

(Opens Fri.)

HER (R; 126 min.) See rreview eview on page 3032. (Opens Fri.)

THE LE LEGEND GEND OF HER HERCULES CULES (PG-13) KKellan (PG-13) ellan LLutz utz stars in this hunkyy Greek actioner as the hunk Greekk hero hero unlawful who h mustt depose d an unlaw l wful f l it’s king. Oh, and it ’s directed directed byy Renny Harlin. (Opens Fri.)

LLONE ONE SUR SURVIVOR VIVOR (R; 121 min.) A film based onn the rreal-life eal-life events of a ffailed ailed 2005 2 attempt by Navy SEALs to captur ccapturee

or kill TTaliban aaliban leader Ahm Ahmad mad Shah.

Wahlberg, With Mark W ahlberg, TTaylor ay aylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Fosterr and Eric Bana.(Opens Fri.)

THE P PAST AST (PG-13; 130 min.) See review (PG-13; revview on page 32. (Plays valleywid valleywide.) de.)

Revivals Re vivals LETTER FR FROM OM AN UNK UNKNOWN NOWN WOMAN/THE W OMAN/THE CCONSTANT ONSTAN ANT NYMPH (1948/1943) Los Los Gatos Gatos’’ own Joan portrayed frail, Fontaine portr ayed fr ail,, menaced women who seemed as if they withered word, would be wither ed by a harsh wor d, century.. and yet she nearly lived a century film.

It’s This was her ffavorite avorite film m. It ’s Max Ophuls’’ devastating stor story Ophuls ry of a Franz eraa woman of the late Fr anzz Josef er because who loses everything be ecause of lifelong love-affair her lif elong love-aff air ffor or a dallying pleasant Viennese pianist, a pleas sant but prodigy doesn’t spoiled pr odigy who doe esn’t rreally eally Fontaine’s know she exists. Fontain ne’s physical from gawkyy ado adolescent changes fr om gawk olescent to aree iimpressive, cool lady of society ar mpressive, ardency but her ar dency strikes one o too: there’s breathy ther e’s heat in that br eaathy voice. body This is a rromance omance of bod dy as well Jourdan, as soul. LLouis ouis Jour dan, tthe he exFrench fighter Fr ench Resistance fighte er who wastrel, plays the urbane wastr el, takes the Frenchman quaintness out of a Fr ennchman speaking English. And ““quaint” quaint” is perfect wordd ffor the perf ect wor or what whaat this topdrawer more dr awer romance romance isn’t. isn’t. Ophuls, O more contemporaries than his contempor ariess Wilder and LLubitsch, ubitsch, glimpsed the pale p edge of death in these tales of doomed d love.

The skilled maker of film m noirs like CCaught aaught and The Unguarded Unguarded d Moment bring the sense of night and the streets eets to this story of ru ruin.

Ophuls’’ str uin. Ophuls camerawork—as ffamously amously fluid camer awork—as ffascinating ascinating as his nearlyy matchless gift ffor or irony, ironyy, throbbing throbbing rromance omance pierces and atmospheric detail— — pier ces cardboard plaster the car dboard and plast er of the sets and finds dimension n beneath creating dream them, cr eating a dr eam Vienna V in stodgy,, br brassy militarism which stodgy assy mil litarism self-destructive ffaces aces down self-destruc tive passion.

WITH BILLED W ITH The Consta Constant ant Nymph.

A milder take on the same sam me theme, with the young Fontainee entr entranced anced by her music tutor (Charles (Charrles Boyer, Boyer, dubbed by Erich Wolfgang Wolfganng Korngold Korngold in the piano playing scen scenes.) nes.) (Plays Jan 9-12 9-12 in Palo Palo Alto Alto at the t Stanford Stanffoord Theatre.)

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THE R ROOM OOM (2003) A film about peo people ple and the people who love them. (Plays ( Jan. 11 at midnight in San Jose at Camera Camer a a 3.) (RvB)

AN A N ‘AUGUST’ ‘AUGUST’ OC OCCASION CCASION All kinds of family feelings f surface as relatives ga gather ather to deal County,’ Friday. with illness and d a disappearance in ‘‘August: A August: Osage O County y,,’ opening Friday y.

Ongoing AMERICAN HUS HUSTLE STLE (R; 138 min.) min ) Return with w us to affair: several the Abscam aff air: In 197 11978, 8, sever al weree horns hornswoggled politicians wer swoggled into believing that a swarthy s FBI agent with a napkin on o his head sheikh eality a rich sh was in rreality heikh with a ooking to buy suitcase full of cash, llooking U.S. citizenship. Davidd O. Russell’s fiction on the subject,, American Hustle, gives us an un unusual nusual point of entrance. successful entrance. There’s There’s a su uccessful conartist named Irving: Irving: a charmingly light-comic Christian Bale. He falls falls for for a former former stripper strippper (Amy Adams) who dons a bbogus ogus English accent and calls herse herself elf “Lady Edith.” The two ar aree bu busted usted in the act of fleecing their cl clientele lientele by a horny, agent (Bradley adley hornyy, burbling FBI ag gent (Br Cooper), who fforces them orces th hem to find and entrap entrap politicians ffor or the Bureau.

Bureau.

The downside: One en entrapee ntrapee is a South Jersey civic par paragon ragon (Jeremy (Jeremy Renner). The wild car cardd is Ir Irving’s ving’s sun-lamp-toasted, stu stupid-like-a-fox upid-like-a-fox wife Lawrence). ennce). American wife (Jennifer (Jennifer Lawr Hustle is ffast ast and loos loose, se and it could se, be ffaster looser.. Nostalgia aster and looser N rules.

But through voice-over, through voice-ove er, withheld info, stories info, shaggy dog stori es and flywheel-spinning act actor’s exercises, cises, tor ’s exer Russell keeps yankingg the plot back like a balloon salesman grabbing abbing salesmaan gr fleeing mer merchandise. chandise. (RvB)

DALLAS D ALLAS BUYER BUYERSS CL CLUB UB (R; 117 min.) Matth Matthew hew McConaughey performance has a big-star perf formance in Dallas Buyers Club, as Ron Roon Woodroof, Woodroof, a wiry, with wiry y, dying rebel, rebel, emaciated e AIDS to the point where w e his rodeo wher rodeo beltt buckle seems heavier than he bel is. Director Director Jean-Marc Jean-M Marc Vallée’s Vallée’s film is set in 1986 during the worst of the Woodroof AIDS epidemic. W o oof learns of oodr murderously AZTT the mur derously eexpensive xpensive drug AZ from and buys it in the parking lot fr om orderly, before a hospital or derlyy, bef ore the supply runs out. Then he heads h to a Mexican wheree he bu builds strength clinic wher ilds up his str ength vera.

Through with vitamins and aloe ver a. Thr ough partnership a business partner rship with a pinkly-powdered pinkly-powder pinkly powdered dr ddrag ag queen named Leto)) Ron hustles up Rayon (Jared (Jared Leto money some serious mon ney distributing supplements the nutritional sup pplements to the AIDS cases in Dallas.

Dallaas. As As he goes search moree international in se earch of mor pharmaceuticals—flying serious pharmaceu uticals—flying Israel search to Japan and Isr aeel in sear ch of Interferon—he’s Interf eron—he’s har hharassed assed by one wattles-shaking FFDA DA agent who keeps turning up, the same way particularr Dallas policeman that one particula (Steve squandered) (S teve Zahn, squan ndered) also keeps from turning up to savee Rob fr om his own It’s misdeeds. It ’s two films merged merged messily into one. One O concerns the co-ops that peoplee with AIDS fformed ormed the FDA to get the drugs th he FD A and Big Pharma dawdled over oover,, a story told film,, the documentary in a ffar ar better film How To To Sur Survive vive a Plague P . The other other,, lesser movie is about aboout a homophobic

TTexan exan e who slow slowly wly learns to toler tolerate ate queers. got-damn quee ers. This second congratulates movie congr atuulates you ffor or your tolerance. own toler ance. SStill, till, McConaughey’s hard-edged cowboy har d-edged g co wboyy charm rreminds eminds time us that in a tim me of discrimination and inept rresponse espoonse to a crisis—just occupation— as in times of wartime w it’s it ’s the criminally-minded criminaally-minded pains in the ass that survive. survive. He’ll He’ll be at the awards awar ds shows this winter, winter, and he’ll he’ll deserve there, deser ve to be tther e, not just ffor or the starving stunt of star vinng himself gaunt ffor or the part, but ffor o making this movie or live as well as iitt does. (RvB)

THE HOBBIT HOBBIT: T: THE T DE DESOLATION SOLA ATION T SMAUG OF SMA UG (PG-13; 161 min (PG-13; min.) n.) The Hobbit: The Desolationn of Smaugg is a huge improvement improveement over An Unexpected Journey Joourney—it —it’s ’s a well-filled smorgasboard smoorgasboard without much starch. starch. Its Its showstopper is a seriously heinous heinoous dragon. dragon. Benedict Cumberbatch’s Cumberbatch’ss voice, digitally augmented wit with th bass rumbles, rises from from a throat thrroat that glows when Smaug iss ready ready to belch up a firestorm. firestorm. Bilboo (Martin Freeman) Freeman) has onlyy flattery flatterryy as a weapon: p “Greatest “Greatest and most m terrible terrible of calamities,” he addr addresses esses Smaug, trying to butterr him up. Meanwhile Ian McKellen’s McKellen’s Gandalf journeys to a haunted castle caastle where where Sauron Sauron is busily coalescing himself.. The coalesscing himself ineptly wigged dwarves dwarves with their rhyming namess continue their

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M metroactive m etroactive FILM journey through through tangled Mirkwood, journey where where horrible horrible spiders dwell.

The questers quuesters end up imprisoned by temperamental tem mperamental SSylvan ylvan Elves; the group group o includes among their number numbeer a ffair-faced air-faced but stalwart captainn of the guar guards ds named TTauriel auriel a (Evangeline (Evanggeline Lilly). The last Hobbit was annoyingly annnoyingly boys-only. boys-onlyy. (RvB)

THE H HUNGER UNGER GAME GAMES: S: CATCHING CA ATCH HING FIRE

WAVE AWAY Marie-Anne (Bérénice Bejo) doesn’t look back in the morally complex mystery ‘The Past.’

Secrets and Lies IN THE EDGE CITY of Sevran, 10 miles from Paris, a literally broken home is having its leaks and its paint job repaired by its inhabitants. Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa), who ran away four years ago, is returning to finalize his divorce. Director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) works here with the well-known French movie star Bérénice Bejo, giving her a role of superb complexity. Ahmad’s soon to be ex MarieAnne (Bejo) is a pharmacist with two children from two different marriages.

Currently, she’s seeing Samir (Tahar Rahim), a dry cleaning store operator who has his own young and troubled little boy.

Marie-Anne’s impatience with men could never be mistaken for shallowness or sluttiness: under direction this strong, her urge to roam looks like integrity. The dark, fierce Bejo doesn’t merely play the kind of person who is certain she’s right when she’s wrong. Like everyone here she’s a manipulator—The Past plays like a version of Dangerous Liaisons in which none of the players have thought out their next move.

The children who get torn up in the process include the excellent Pauline Burlet as Lucie, a character who is one of those rare adolescents with an excuse for a look of dire tragedy.

The Past may ultimately be hill-of-beans

problems—hedged by the kitchen sink, the clothesline and the nearby railway tracks.

The trains give tension and symbolic violence—a display of mechanical force, a quick escape route to speed away from these The Past family troubles.

PG-13; 130 min.

In Farhadi’s last and better-received film A Plays valleywide Separation, we knew who was getting into bed with everyone: the mullah-driven government of Iran. Here the repressions are internalized. Rather than lying to the authorities, the characters are lying to themselves.

If the material seems less momentous than that Iranian hit, Farhadi’s style still dazzles.

Every scene is pregnant with meaning.

Little gestures have to be interpreted by us as clues: the most significant stained dress since the Clinton impeachment, the passiveaggressive way a girl hands a hot teapot to her mother’s new man, or the clasp of hands between a husband and his wife. The Past is not a cavalcade of guilt to be cleared with bursts of stagey truth-telling. The Past is rather a morally complex mystery, without a detective to stand outside the drama and identify the one truly guilty party.

—Richard von Busack

(PG-133; 146 min.) The rushed, jostling (PG-13; sequel Hunger Games:: CCatching aatching Fire Fire has a sever sseveree case of middle-child syndrome; it’s syndr o ome; it ’s only there there as a conduit to the two part sequel. The militaryindustrial-entertainment indust rial-entertainment complex of futuristic futuris stic Panem Panem celebrates celebrates the 75th anniversary anniveersary of the Hunger Games by staging moree stagging a pit-match with mor than a dozen badly-introduced badly-introduced previous previouus winners. The traumatized traumatized Katniss Katnisss Everdeen Everdeen (Jennifer (Jennifer Lawrence, Lawrence, still till solid solid andd enigmatic; i ti an action ti heroine heroine to reckon reckon with) must fight alongside alongsside the boy whose life life she saved in the last film. He’s Peeta, eeta, He’s P played by the inert Josh Hutcherson.

The Government Goovernment is propagandizing propagandizing a trumped trum mped up romance romance between Katniss Katnisss and Peeta, Peeta, while the Girl on Fire’s Fire’s old flame Gale (Liam Hemsworth) Hemsw worth) languishes in coal country. countrry. The most dangerous dangerous game commences in a tropical c tropical thunderdome, thundeerdome, beset by mustard mustard gas, annoying annoyiing i birds bi ds bir d andd purple-assed l d baboons.

Harry Potter baboonns. As As in the Har ry P otter films, it’s it’s thee character character actors that wake this up. upp. (RvB)

INSIDEE LLE LLEWYN WYN D DAVIS AV VIS (R;; 105 min.) Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is i homeless in winter 1961—a surfer couch surf er especially unappreciated unappreciated

by Jeann (a fundamentally miscast the girlfriend of his CCarey arey Mulligan), M buddy Jim (Justin Timberlake).

Timberlake). Jean is pregnant pregnant after a misspent night Llewyn, with Ll lewyn and she hates Llewyn lewyn, is making a ffew ffor or it. Davis D ew dollars heree an and theree playing tr trad her nd ther ad ffolk olk at pass-the-hat “baskethouses”” in pass-t he-hat “baskethouses Greenwich Gr eenw wich Village. Sometimes he goes uuptown ptown and crashes crashes with his old professor. prof o essor. But this situation takes he loses his host host’s a toll when w ’s cat.

On a spur-of-the-moment sppur-of-the-moment trip to Chicagoo to see a pr promoter, Chicag omoter, Davis tries escape to esca ape his personal hell as well as memories the me emories of a long-gone partner once he onc ce had. Inside Llewyn Daviss is maybe be Joel J l andd Ethan Eth Coen’s Coen C ’s ’ chilliest hilli t work. The T film is intelligently antinostalgic—even nostalggic—even if the Village really really looks looks like liike a snowbound village, it makes you not want to go back to the 1960s. Like TV’s TV’s Mad Men, it makes you remember rem member what a tightly run, unsparing unsparring place JFK’s America was.

T-Bone T--Bonee Burnett, who assembled

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thee O Br Brother, otherr, Wher Wheree Art Thou? soundtrack, sou undtrack, collabor collaborates ates with the Coens Coe ens once again. As As a musician, Isaac Isaa ac is sensationally watchful and sympathetic, sym mpathetic, even playing a seething mann who doesn doesn’t ’t give up much. (RvB) ma

NEBRASKA NE BRASKA (R; 115 min.) Bruce Dern plays Woody W oody Grant Grant of Billings, Mont., a half-senile hal f-senile mechanic. The old man Publisher’s rreceives eceives a Publisher ’ss Clearing House-like Hou use-like solicitation and decides that tha at he’s he’s won a million and sets outt for for Lincoln, Neb., on ffoot oot to claim clai im the prize. After several several of these Woody’s the ese escapes, W oody’s sad-sack unmarried unm married son David (Will Forte of SNL S ) decides to drive his ffather ather across on the thousand-mile trip acr oss West. thee W est. They see the rrawboned awboned landscapes, lan dscapes, experience the rreliable eliable disappointment disa appointment of Mt. Rushmore Rushmore frontier andd note the touches of fr ontier rremaining—the em maining the monosyllabic maining—the uncles pub-crawl unc cles and a pub-cr awl in Woody’s Woody’s two-tavern two o-tavern home town. They revisit revisit thee abandoned homestead. Dern’s Dern’s moment mo ment of dimly rrecalling ecalling death and punishment trashed, pun nishment in this tr ashed, vacant ffarmhouse arm mhouse is his single finest scene as an a actor, actor, and he’s he’s been acting a longg time. (RvB) lon

THEE WOLF TH WOLF OF W WALL A ALL SSTREET TREET (R; 180 min.) Jor Jordan dan Belf Belfort, ort, a penny stock squandered sto ck billionaire billionaire who squander ed his loott on helicopters, loo helicopters mansions, mansions yachts large, andd prostitutes, prostitutes, is still at lar ge, and he has just made a distinguished director dir e ector his mark. The W Wolf oolf of W Wall aall SStreet treet e t shows a strangely strangely puerile Martin Martin Scorsese at work. As As the gargantuan garrgantuan hustler, hustler, so oversized that Leonardo thaat he’s he’s like a cartoon, Leonar do Di Caprio Caprio pummels the material likee Jake LaMotta. He does go big—shoving big—shoving his jaw fforward, orward, giving Mussolini-sized Mussolini-sized rrallying allying speeches to a room room full of salesmen. TTerence eerence Winter’s Win nter ’ss script is unwieldy, unwieldyy, as if a mini-series break minni-series is trying to br eak out of it. This T movie just won’t won’t end. If The Wolf Wolf o of Wall Waall Street Streett is too rrealistic ealistic to consider Belfort c Belfort chastened or punished, punnished, the details of the scam aren’t clever,, either either.. The aren’t diabolically clever wayy Belf Belfort’s ort’s crimes are are explained to us, there there would be more more strategy strategy in a smash sm mash and grab grab robbery. robbery. Cinema, with with its great great facility facility to convey understanding undderstanding of people, helps us gett under the skins of the people we’d we’d ’d despise despise. Scorsese has made us understand undderstand psychos, scammers and out-and-out outt-and-out killers before. before. I don’t don’t want want to value-judge Belfort, Belfort, but in Wolf W o f, Scorsese doesn’t olf doesn’t just want us pleasuree to understand u him, and the pleasur screwing It’s ’s he gets in scr ewing his victims. It more mo re than that—Scorsese wants us Jordan Belfort’s to bbe Jor dan Belf ort’s sucker. sucker. (RvB)

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SHOP S HOP T TALK A LK Andrew Miller Miller, r, a.k. a.k.a. a. Drew the Barber Barber, r, learned many different techniques by working shops.. workin ng at salons and urban barberr shops

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Miller, “Drew the Barber, Miller r, a.k.a. “Dr rew th he Barb err,” from City graduated fr om San JJose osee Cit ty Cosmetology before learning higherC osmetology b effo ore lear rning higher rcutting salons,, end cut ttting and ccoloring oloringg in salons traditional cuts and oldold-school s ol barber scho barber from Santa haircutting techniques fr om Sant ta Clara C hair rcut c ttting fades,, legend Big JJim, im, and how w to cut fades urban barber designs and ttapers apers in urb ban barb er shops.. shops myself artist, “I see m yyself as an ar tiist, and haircutting myy medium medium, hair cutttting is m m,” Miller said. didn’t want there bee an anything “I didn n’t ’ w aant ther re to b nything y I didn’t do..” didn n’t ’ know how to do Att the fforefront Cannery Park A orreefront of C o a anner yP ark sits local screen-printing Concepts, lo cal scr een-printing shop p BG C oncepts, here, side-room single,, and her re, in a side -room with a single barber chair, Miller’ss shop shop.. rred-leather ed-leather barb er chair r, is Miller’

WHAT WHA AT MAKES MAKES Y YOU OU AN AR ARTIST? T T? My TIS haircuts pickhaircuts aren’t aren’t ccookie-cutter, ookie-cut c tter t , pick koff-the-wall makee them off ff--the-wall style. style. I try try to t mak specific putting specific to the client’s client’s head, h put tting t as much thought and creativity creativity into my my allow cuts as people people will allow. w. My happiest clients are who bee are the ones wh ho let me b the professional. proffeessional.

HOW’D Y HOW’D YOU OU GET INT INTO O HAI HAIRCUTTING? RCUTTING? My stepmom suggested it. I laughed it walked byy a sa salon day. off until I w aalk keed b alon one da ay.

Theree wer weree pr pretty women, theyy wer weree Ther ettty wom men, the dressed nice, weree drinking wine wine,, dr essed nic e, some wer doesn’t look and I thought that do essn n’’t lo ok half waiting bad. I signed the w aaitingg list at San City Cosmetology JJose ose Cit ty C osmetology and a went in on hopee that something would a hop w ccome ome together.

Nothing to gether. N othing I had d done had worked point myy lif life. work ked e out up to that p oint in m fe.

I made so some ome bad choic choices es when I w was aas poorly school, was yyounger. ounger. I did o d p oorly in scho ol, w aas myself way in and out of o jail and got m yyself w ay behind was b ehind the eight ball. I w aas ffortunate ortunate o to get the opp opportunity o ortunitty to learn this trade.. I’m passionate about barbering ering trade p ab out barb because saved myy lif life. now b ecausse it sa aved e m fe.

DOES T DOES THAT HAT HA H HAVE AVE V ANYTHING T TO O DO WITH “OVERCOME” TATTOO YOUR THE “O VERCOME” O T ATT T OO ON Y OUR FINGERS? FINGER S? Yeah, Yeah, Ye e I got this at my my deepest, darkest point deepest, est da arkest p oint as a message to not giv givee up up.. I w was tired as tir ed of the consequences consequencces of my my bad decisions. decisions.

Now Now I’ve I’ve got g my my family, familyy, my my friends. friends.

I’m pr proud doing,, ther theree oud of what I’m doing are people believe are p eople who b elieve in me and what I do, do, and a I appreciate appreciate it all.

WHAT WHA AT ARE ARE SSOME OME LLONG-TERM ONG-TERM GO GOALS? ALS? The guys att BG C Concepts have been oncepts ha ave b een really models. heree really good good rrole ole mo dels. Being her has helped myy skills not helped me m hone m just as a bar barber rber but as a man, so this is like before shop.. I’v I’ve sh lik ke the shop hop b effor o e the shop ve recently recently started starrted up a clothing brand with a frien friend want create nd and we w ant a to cr eate a boutique/barbershop. boutique/baarbershop.

Another vision is running a pr program ogram to teach young positions like yo ou ung men in p ositions lik ke I was—who have waas—who o don’t don’t ha ave job skills or training, education, ation, training, don’t do on n’’t have haave a lot of educ or have criminal want haave a cr riminal rrecord. ecord. I w ant a to open they open their eeyes yees to the fact that the ey can good something. saved me.. can be be go od at something g. It sa aved me I want give else.. waant to gi ivve that to someone else Rosa —Michael R oosa

725 N N.. 10th St., San JJose.

View ose o . Vie w Drew’s Drew’’s work workk on Instagram Instagram at @ Drewthebarburr.

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The Manifestation of Manifacier

FANCY F A NCY FO FOLK LK M Morgan organ M Manifacier’s anifacier’s second d album, ‘Hues and Calm,’ draw draws ws on classical influences influences..

Fren French ch folk songwr songwriter riter Manifacier home Oakland M aniffacier finds a h ome in Oaklan d BY B Y AARON AARON N CARNE CARNESS

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ood. Wine. Amour.

France Fr ance is known for many y things, things, but folk music musi ic is not one of However, them. H ow weverr, when French Morgan native M orrgan Manifacier playing started pla aying guitar at the was age of 14, iitt w as American wanted folk music that he w anted play.. H He to play e particularly felt connection a connecti on to American songwriters songwriter rs like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul N eil Y oung g, P aul Simon and Mitchell.

JJoni oni Mitch ell.

Growing Gr owing up p in southern Franc France, e, he ffound ound o that nott only w aas it tough ffor o or was him to find oth her p eople inter ested in other people interested ffolk olk o music theere just wer en n’’t a lot of music,, there weren’t p eople inter estted in music in general. people interested “Ev veeryo one I kne ww aas mor ocused “Everyone knew was moree ffocused on pla aying y soccer, soccerr,” Manifacier sa ayys. playing says.

“So ccer is rreally eally ly big in the south of “Soccer Franc e. As As much mu uch as I love lo ove so ccer er, I w aas France. soccer, was

more inter more m interested ested in music music..”

Ev veen in a cultural ccenter enter lik ke P ariss, Even like Paris, ffew ew musicians pla ay Americ caan ffolk olk o music m play American music..

Th he music sc ene is dominated b pop p The scene byy pop an nd electr onic music aas and electronic music.. But ther theree w was so omething Manifacier lo oveed ab out ffolk o olk something loved about m mor ny other genr e. moree than an any genre.

“F olk music is deeply p ersonal and d “Folk personal in ntimate,” he says. saayys. “Ther intimate, “Theree is nowher nowheree to hi ide with this music peciallyy durin ngg a hide music,, esp especially during p e fo er ormance, and it b ecomes vvery eerry ea assy performance, becomes easy to o cconnect onnect with others others..”

Manifacier mo oveed to Oakland moved ffour o yyears our eears ago ’s ffound o ound more morre ago,, and he he’s m musicians to pla ay with. Howe eveerr, hiss play However, ap pproach to ffolk o olk isn’t isn n’’t traditional. Hiss approach so ongs ar songs aree gentle ballads ballads,, sometimes p e ceeful and at other times haunting eac g, peaceful haunting, bu ut the music is arranged and te xturreed but textured in n at tyypical w ays y , with lush,, sometime es atypical ways, sometimes ee erie i harmonies. h harmonies i . Sarah S h Hawley-Snow H Haawle wley-Snow S w eerie ad dds gor rggeous ccello ello par ts and Matt Mattt adds gorgeous parts C a amgr os ac cents the songs with his li ight Camgros accents light ja azz drumming st tyyle. jazz style.

Ther veen a bit of classic caal Theree is eeven classical in nfluence in Manifacier’s Manifacier’s music act, influence music.. In fa fact, b efor ef o e he disc over e ed the guit ar (and before discovered guitar ffolk) o at 14,, he studied the piano olk) —an nd piano—and

lo oveed all the classic caal ccomposers. om mposers. One loved classical of his rrecent ecent songs “Faith hful and Bra ave,” “Faithful Brave, in which he pla ayys the pi iano, suggests a plays piano, ccombination ombination of a ssweeping w weep ping Beetho oven e Beethoven ccomposition omposition i i and d a soft ft lounge l piec i e. piece.

Manifacier’ on with Manifacier’ss fascinatio fascination Americ an song gw writers w aas in par American songwriters was partt due influencee of his gr grandfather, to the influenc randfatherr, who Western films had an obsession with old o W estern e Even and ccowboys. o owboys y . Ev veen as a child,, Manifacier always wanted travel America. alw wayys w aanted to tra aveel to Americ caa.

Att 17 17, school A 7, after ccompleting o ompletin ng high scho ol in France, opportunity Franc e, Manifacier had the t opp ortunitty bee an eexchange student states, to b xxchange stude ent in the st ates, second doing a sec ond senior yyear eear at Sierra High School Manteca, Calif.

Scho h oll in i Mantec caa,, C alif liff. southern Francee “The rreason uthern Franc eason I left sou placee w was because wanted in the first plac aas b eccause I w aanted bee in a plac placee wher wheree music was to b m w aas important, wanted imp ortaant,” Manifacier sa ssays. ayys. “I w aanted to people inspiree me and meet p eople that ccould ould inspir myy views change m vieews w on music. mu usic.”

Even Central Valley, Ev veen in the C entral V aalleey, Manifacier moree song songwriters was met a lot mor gw writters than he w as a to,, but what rreally inspired used to eally inspir ed him weree his o occasional Bay Area. wer ccasional tripss to the Ba ay Ar ea. was byy how eclectic “I w as a so intrigued b scene was, the music sc ene w aas,” hee says. saayys. “Funk, “Funk,, folk, fo olk, hip-hop, wanted hip -hop, yyou ou name it. I rreally o eally w aanted artt to fully eexperience xp x erience the ar aarea ea and the ar scene. sc ene.”

Manteca After living in Mante eca ffor o or a yyear, eearr, France, he went back to Franc e, but ccouldn’t ouldn n’’t about Bay Area. stop thinking ab out thee Ba ay Ar ea. One

moved yyear eear later he h mo oveed to Oakland,, with scholarship a scholarshi ip p to studyy music at Holyy University.

Names U n niivversit e ty.

Initially, Manifacier’ss music w was Initially y, Manifacier’ M aas much moree o overtly influenced byy ffolk. mor veertly t influenc ed b olk. This is o Grande,, which eevident vident on his first album Grande was Tape Records w aas rreleased eleased d on T aape Club R eecords in album 2011. The al lbum is dark in tone and sparse,, and eexpresses a ffeeling sparse xxprresses e eeeling of solitude like (“Whispers with songs lik ke “Moncale” “Moncale” (“Whisp ers aree ccold/rain myy face/like myy old/rain ar n touched m face//llik ke m hand/we mother's ha and/we will despair”). longer lived The long ger Manifacier has liv ved e in Oakland—and worked Oakland— —and work keed with other musicians—the moree he has str stretched musicians— —the mor etched his notions of what he ccould o ould play, plaay, and music.. how far outt he ccould ould ttake ak ke his music learned here.

“I learne ed so much her e. You Yo ou think that yyou’re o ou u’r ’ e OK,, but then yyou o ou rrealize ealize that there’s universe that’s bee ther e’s this huge univ verse e that ’s yyet eet to b discovered.

That’s beauty music,, disc cover e ed. That ’s the b eautty of music create It’s we ccan an a cr reeaate eeverything. ver e ythingg. It ’s kind of limitless.. It It’s hard limitless ’s rreally eally har d to ccomprehend omprehend next, why what world d is ne ext, x , which is wh hy we always strive bee mor moree eexperimental alw wayys striv ve to b xp x erimental sound have with the so ound that we ha ave aavailable vailable v to us,,” Manifacier says. us Manifaccier sa ayys. second Calm, His sec on nd album, Hues and C aalm, which he will w rrelease elease at his JJan. an. 11 show Artt Boutiki, style at the Ar B , pushes his st tyyle new directions. into ne ew di irections. He adds more more instrumentation, instrument tation,, plays plaayys more more with mood, dynamics.. The songs mo od,, tonee and dynamics have moree fleshedfleshed-out arrangements,, ha ave mor out arrangements drawing using ffolk o olk as a a blueprint but dra aw wing classical make on classic cal a ccompositions ompositions to mak ke truly nuanced nuanc ed pieces. piieces.

Calm tone,, with Hues andd C alm a has a lighter tone self-discovery, themes of tra ttraveling aveeling and self f-discoveery, as like “Cold Countries” (“As in songs lik ke “C old C ountries”” (“ “As truth him from will turn hi im grand/drifting afar fr om homeland/to intent”). his homelan and/to seek his true intent ”).

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ANGELICA’S ANGELICA A’’SBIS BISTRO ST TRO

Sat, 7:30pm: The Coffis Brothers.

Br others. Redwood City.

Cityy.

Fri, 8:30pm:: Roger Glenn Latin Ensemble. $26-$32. Sun, 7pm: Mike Galisatus Big Band Christmas Series. $12-$30. $12-$30.

City.

Redwood City y.

ANGELICA’S ANGELICA A’’SBIS BISTRO ST TRO Fri, 6:30pm:: Christian LaP LaPaglia, aglia, Celebration.

New YYear’s eear ’s 2014 Celebr ation..

City. $11.. Redwood City y.

ART AR RT TBOUTIKI BOUTIKI Sat,, 7:30pm:: Morgan Morgan Manifacier, Zero, Manif acier, February Zer o, Moet, and Mitch LLujan. ujan. $10.

San Jose

ART AR RT BOUTIKI THE HUDDLE Fri-Sat,, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: Live bands. Free.

Free.. 21 and over. over.

Fremont.

Fr emont.

Every second Thu,, 7:30pm:: Jazz Warehouse W arehouse Jazz Jam. Free; Free; d ti donations rrequested. equested. t d San S Jose.

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Wed:: Sat:: SStormbat, Wed: tormbat, Behold Desecration, the Desecr ation, the Burial Procession, Pr ocession, Dead Kings.

San Jose.

Fri, 8pm:: Barber Davis Blues.

Sat, 8pm: Vintage Noise.

Jan 16, 7:30pm: Tim Tim Atlas Atlas “Ten Goodbyes”” Music Video “T Teen Goodbyes Premiere.

Pr emiere. San Jose

LILLY LILL LYMA Y MAC'S C'S

BLUE BL UE ROCK ROCK SHOO SHOOT OT

JOHNNY V’S JOHNNYV’S

THE B BACK ACK BAR BAR

MOJO MO JOLLOUNGE OUNGE

Fri-Sat 8pm: Thriving Artists Artists’’ Showcase.. Sun, 4pm:: Jazz and Blues jam. Saratoga.

Saratoga.

Thu, 10pm:: Livewires.

Thu Livewires. es Fri, Fri Metal 10pm:: Donovan’s Donovan’s Death Meta al 17, Birthday Bash. Jan 17 7, 10pm: Zed.. San Jose.

Thur: DJ Mist.

Mist Fri: SStan tan Erhart.

Erhart S All shows 9:30pm,, $5. Fremont.

Fremont.

CAFE SSTRITCH CAFES T TRITCH

MOUNTAIN MOUNT TA AINCHARLE CHARLEY'S Y'S

Sat, 8pm:: Muziki Roberson Quartet. San Jose.

Fri,, 9pm: Aftermath. Sunnyvale.

BLACKBIRD BLA CKBIRD ANNEX Jan 16, 7:30pm: Tim Tim Atlas Atlas “Ten Goodbyes”” Music video “T Teen Goodbyes premiere. pr emiere.

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed, 8pm: Total Wed, Tootal Badass,, Beho Behold old Desecration, The Desecr ation, Decapitatedd Midget g Fetus. Thu,, 8pm: p Atomic A tomic w/ DJ Basura.

Basura. $5. Fri, 8pm:: Black Map (members ooff dredg, Far,, and The TTrophy Fire), dr edg,, Far rophy Fir re), On Telegraph, Teelegraph, Horseneck. $10. $10 0.

Sat,, 8pm: Club Satori. $5,, free freee before bef ore 9pm. San Jose.

Fri:: Fer Feral al Moon Band.. Sat: Pr Press ess Play with DJ Naughty J and DJ Mario E. 7:30pm. LLos os Gatos.

CAFFE FRASCATI FRASCA AT TI

PEACOCK PEA COCK LLOUNGE OUNGE

CLUB CL UBFFOX OX

Thur, 9pm: Thursday night live Thur, bands. $5. Sunnyvale.

SANJOSES SAN JOSE SSTATE TAT TE CENTER EEVENT VENTCENTER Feb 22:: Pixies. San Jose.

SANPEDR SAN PEDRO O SQU SQUARE ARE MARKET Fri,, 7pm: Jacam Manrick Manricks. s.. Sat, Garage. age.

8pm: Live in The Gar San Jose.

CAFE SSTRITCH T TRITCH Sat,, 8pm: Muziki Roberson Quartet. San Jose.

THE CARA CARAVAN AVA AN Sun, 8pm: Dime Runner.

Runner.

San Jose

C&J’S SPORTS C&J’SSPOR RTSB BAR AR Live music Fri & Sat. CCall all ffor or info. inf o. Santa Clara.

Clara.

Every Wed: Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam with rotating rotating bands.. Sat, 7:30pm: The Coffis Brothers.

Brothers.

City. $20-$22. Redwood City y.

HEDLEY HEDLE YCL CLUB UB Every 1st and 3r 3rdd Wed: Wed: Jazz Jam with drummer Steven Steven Marley.

Marley y. San Jose.

HUKILAU HUKILA AU Fri-Sat, 8pm:: Hawaiian music.

San Jose.

JJ.J.’S .J.’SBL BLUES UESCAFE CAFE Blues and Jazz every night, call info. ffor or inf o. San Jose.

CAFFE FRA FRASCATI SCA AT TI Sat,, 8pm: Dusty Moon. z San Jose.

Sat, 8pm:: Dusty Moon. San Jose.

THREE DEGREES THREEDE GREES Every Thu 6:306:30-9:30pm 9:30pm & Fri, 7:30-10:30pm: 7:3010:30pm: Live music. All Free.

Ages. Fr ee. Los Los Gatos

THE X BAR THEXB AR Sat, 9pm:: A City in Arms,, SStart tart Firee Up!,, Forlorn, Beg ffor The Fir or Overcast.

Death, Over cast. $10. CCupertino. upertino.

LITTLE LOU’S LITTLEL OU’S BBQ Q Thu,, 7:30:: Aki Blues Jam. Fri, 8pm:: Beach Cowboys. Sat, 8pm: Whiskey Pass.

Pass.. Sun, 7pm:: Scarlett La Rue’s Rue’s Banjo.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Jazz/Blues/ World W orld o AFFINITY THE CATS THECA ATS Thu, 8:30pm:: Out of the Blue Blue..

Fri, 8:30pm:: Fossil. Sat, 8pm: Fishhook. Sun, 6pm:: Joe Ferrara.

Fer rara. LLos os Gatos.

Call ffor Call or inf info. o. Hil Hilton ton Hotel, San Jose.

AGENDA A GENDA LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed,, 8pm: Salsa. Thu, 9pm: Wed, Banda.. Sun: Reggae Vybez.

Vybez. Sun: Reggae Night San Jose.

LLOFT OFT B BAR AR AND BIS BISTRO STRO Every Thu: Live jazz in the evening. San Jose.

LLOS OSGA GATOS ATOSBRE BREWING WINGCCO. O. Call for Call for info. info. San Pedro Pedro Squar Square, e, San Jose.

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MOSAIC MOS AIC Fri-Sat, 66-9pm: 9pm:: Jazz ffor or dinne dinner. er.

San Jose.

NUMBERONEBR NUMBER ONE BR BROADWAY OADWAY Thu, 9:30pm:: Kid Dynamite.

Fri, 9:30pm:: Got 2 Groove.

Groove.. Sat, Satt, Gatos.

9:30pm: Megatones. Los Los Gato os.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;FLAHERTYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;FLAHER TYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Thu, 9pm:: Live Music. Sun,, 5pm: 5ppm: Reggae music. TTue, uue,, 6:30pm: Live L Irish Music. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO STRO Wed: Ron Thompson. Thu: Wed: Vernon.

Aftermath w/Burninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; w/Burninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; V ernon. Fri: Sat: Little Jonny and the Giants.

Giants Sa at: Billy Watson Watson Blues Band.. Sun: Wally Amps W ally Schnalle. Mon:: King Amp ps Jose.

Beginners Blues Jam. San Jos e.

SSAN AN PEDR PEDRO O SQUARE SQUARE MARKET MARK KET

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336 Thursday, January 9 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 21+

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Even second Thu:: Gothic, karaoke. industrial kar aoke. Club Lido, San Jose.

Fri, 9pm, Sat,, 7pm and 9:15pm: Sportz.

Comedy Sport z.. San Jose.

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Fri, 7pm:: Open mic. San Jose.

Wed:: 8pm-midnight: KKaraoke Wed: araoke plus DJ party (English and Spanish).. San Jose.

IMPROV IMPR OV

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CITY EESPRESSO SPRESSO

Wed, W ed,, 8pm: Blanket Drive Show.

Comedy Show w. $10. Thu, 8pm: American Me Comedy Tour.

Toour. $12 Fri-Sun:: Lil Duval. $22.. San Jose.

MARMIST MARMIS ST COCKTAIL COCKTAIL A LLOUNGE OUNGE PHILZ CCOFFEE OFFEE

BLUE BL UE MAX

Mon, 7pm: M 7 : Open O mic. i Free.

F ee.

Fr Downtown San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO TRO TTue, uue, 6pm:: Open mic. San Jose.

TRAIL DUS DUST T BBQ

Wed,, Jan 8, 8pm:: Geek Wed, Geekss and Gamers Showcase with Maureen Maur een Langan. $10. Thu-Sun: April Macie. $13. Every Wed, Wed, Showcase.

8pm:: New Talent Talent a Sunnyvale.

Mon:: Comedy.

Comedyy. No cover. cover.

Sunnyvale.

ROOSTER R OOSST TER T T.. FEATHERS FEA ATHER T S

THREE FLAME FLAMESS RESTAURANT RESTAURANT

THE WOODSHED THEW OODSHED

Wed,, 8pm: Open-mic night with Wed, Anita. Willow Glen.

Every ďŹ rst and thir thirdd W Wed, ed, 7pm 7pm: m: Johnny-Cat. Blues jam with Johnny-C at.

LLos os Gatos.

G t

WOODHAMS W OODHAMS LLOUNGE OUNGE

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

BLUE BL UE ROCK ROCK SHOO SHOOT T

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BLINKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BLINK Yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T SSAY AY Fri, 9pm9pm-1am: 1am: Danielle.. Sat, 9pm-1am: Clara.

9pm1am: KKaraoke. araoke. Santa Clar a.

Mon, 7pm:: Cavin Cavin and Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mic. Mountain View.

View.

Sat, 8pm:Live Jazz. Casino Casino M8trix, San Jose.

Sat, 9pm:: August.. Santa Clara.

Clara.

Sun, 9:30pm:: Comedy.

Comedyy. San Jose.

RED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE CCO. O.

Every second and ffourth ourth Thu,, 77-9pm: -9pm: Don Balistreri.

Balistreri.. Every Sat, S 77-9:30pm: -9:30pm:: Live jazz. San Jose.

Josee.

BENNIGANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRILL

Wed: The Cypher Wed: Cypher open mic. W/ Courtney King and Mike Dangle.

San Jose.

Thu, 10:30pm:: Reggae Thursdays. TTue, uue,, 7:30pm: Irish music. Mountain View.

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UNWINED

Fri 9pm:: Darryl.

Fri, Darryl. ryl. San Jose.

Jose

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TTue, uue, 7pm:: Open mic. San Jose.

QUARTER QU AR RT TER NOTE NO OT TE

Jan 16 Yellowcard/ Ocean Ave (Ages 16+) Jan 17 Tainted Love (Ages 21+) Jan 18 Hopsin/ Dizzy Wright (Ages 16+) Jan 24 Infected Mushroom (Ages 18+) Jan 25 Hieroglyphics (Ages 16+) *AN Berner/ Reign Eterno (Ages 16+) Feb 1 Y & T (Ages 21+) Feb 21 The California Honeydrops The Brother Comatose (Ages 16+) Feb 22 Z-Trip (Ages 18+) Feb 25 Dom Kennedy (Ages 16+) Feb 28 Dr. Dog/ Saint Rich (Ages 16+) Mar 4 G-Eazy (Ages 16+) Mar 7 Downlink/ Dieselboy (Ages 18+) Mar 8 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ages 16+) Mar 10 Michael McDonald (Ages 21+) Mar 11 Shpongle (Ages 18+) Mar 21 Iration (Ages 16+) Mar 22 Jackie Greene (Ages 21+) Apr 12 Tiger Army (Ages 16+) Apr 15 Dark Star Orchestra (Ages 21+) Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online

CAFFE FRASCATI FRASCA AT TI

Fri, 7pm:: Jacam Manricks.

Manricks. Sat, Satt, 8pm:: Live in The Garage.

Garage.

San Jose.

Fri, 66-9pm: 9pm:: Live blues, roots roots and a Morgan Americana.. Mor gan Hill.

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Fri-Sat,, 7pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

Sunnyvale.

BLUE BL UE PHEA PHEASANT SANT TTue, ue, u 7pm:: SSteve teve Tiger.

Tiger. Cupertino.

Cupertino.

BOGARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BOGAR RT Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed,, Fri & Sun, 9pm-1am: Wed, 9pm--1am: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

BOSWELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BOS WELLLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TTue: ue: u DJ Davey K. CCampbell. ampbell.

BOULEVARD BOULE VARD ARDT A T TAVERN AV VERN Thu: KKaraoke. araoke. LLos os Gatos.

BRANHAM LOUNGE BRANHAML OUNGE TTue: ue: u KKaraoke. araoke.. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN BRITARMSALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm:: DJ Hank. Thu, Wed Dinero.

10pm:: DJ Diner o.. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO BRITARMSCUPER RTINO T Sun--Tue, Sun-Tue, u 10pm:: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

CCupertino. upertino.

Mon:: Comedy M C d open mic i with ith Pete P ete Munoz. Santa Clara.

Clara.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN BRITARMSDO WNTOWN

Karaoke Kar raaokke

BRIX

Wed, W ed,, 9pm: August. San Jose.

TTue, ue, u 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. San Jose.

7 BAMBOO 7B AMBOO Wed-Sat,, 9pm: Karaoke.

Wed-Sat, Karaoke. Tue, Tuue, 9pm:: Karaoke.

Karaoke. San Jose.

7 SSTARS 7S TA ARSB BAR AR&GRILL & GRILL Fri-Sat, 8pm:: Karaoke.

Karaoke. San Jose.

THE CARL CARLOS OS CLUB CLUB

Wed,, 7pm: Stand-up Wed, Stand-up comedy. comedyy. $10 $20 San $10-$20.

S Jose.

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Thu 8pm: Guil Guilty ty Pleasures Pleasures with DJ Dan. D . San S CCarlos arlos l

BAMBOO B AMBOOLLOUNGE OUNGE

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Mon, 7pm:: Musical open mic ffor or singer/songwriters. Sign up at a 7pm. Free.

Free. San Jose.

Thu, 9pm:: KKaraoke. araoke. Santa Clar Clara. a.

Thu, 7pm:: Musical open mic.

San Jose.

ALEXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALEX â&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 49ER 49ER INN Nightlyy, 9pm-2am: Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

San Jose.

THE CCOURTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OUR RT Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LLOUNGE OUNGE Thu & Mon,, 9pm: KKaraoke. araoke. Sat, Darryl. ampbell.

8:30pm: Joe or Dar ryl.. CCampbell.

Dancee Clubs Danc Clubs

DASILVA’S D ASILVA’’S BR BRONCOS ONCOS

OFF THE HOOK

Wed:: KKaraoke.

Wed: araoke. Thu,, 9pm9pm-1am: 1am: Clara.

KKaraoke. araoke. Santa Clar a.

Wed, W ed,, 9pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

DIVE B BAR AR Wed, W ed,, 10pm: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

Josee.

Fri-Sat,, 9pm, and Sun, 7pm: KKaraoke. araoke. Mountain View.

View.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT EFFIE’SRE STAU URANT

O’FLAHERTY’S O’FLAHER RT TY’SIRISHPUB IRISH PUB

Wed-Sat & Tue, Wed-Sat Tuue, 9pm9pm-2am, 2am,, & last laast Sun of every month, 22-7pm: -77pm: B&S B& &S KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

Sun-Mon, 9pm:: Ryan.. San Jose.

AGENDA A GENDA

PLAZA GARIBALDI PLAZAGARIB ALDI

Wed: Salsa W Wed: Wednesdays. ednesdays. Thu: Noche De Bandas. Sun: Reggae Vybez.

V ybez. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm:: Karaoke.

Karaoke. San Jose.

FLAMESSSCCCOFFEE FLAME OFFEESHOP OFFEE SHOP Wed-Sat & Tue, Wed-Sat Tuue,, 9pm: Uncle Show.. No cover cover.. San Jose.

Dougie Show Joose.

GALAXY

OFFICE BAR OFFICEB AR

Wed & Sun, 7pm-close:: Karaoke.

Wed Karaoke.

San Jose.

PIONEER SALOON PIONEERS ALOON TTue, ue ue, u , 8:30pm: A Acoustic coustic kar karaoke aoke with Sam Marshall. Woodside.

Woodside.

POINCIANA LLOUNGE OUNGE

Thu, 9pm9pm-2am: 2am: August. Milpitas.

Milpitas.

Wed,, 9:30pm: Wildside.. No cover Wed, cover..

Sun, 9pm:: Joe. Santa Clara.

Clara.

GILROY GILR OY BO BOWL WL

PSYCHO P SYCHO DONUT DONUTSS

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. Gilroy.

Gilrroyy.

Sun, 10am:: Psycho KKaraoke. araoke.

CCampbell. ampbell.

DJs and dancing every night.

6pm-1am; Mon-Sat, 6pm1am; Sun, 8pm12:30am.. San Jose

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TTue: ue: u : KKaraoke. araoke.. Sunnyvale.

REDSSSTAG RED TAGGLLLOUNGE OUNGE Nightly kar karaoke, aoke, 9pm9pm-1:30am.

1:30am.

San Jose.

THE GOOSET GOOSETOWN OWN LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri-Sun,, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke. Willow Glen.

THE HUDDLE

SHERWOOD SHER WOOD INN Wed, 8:30pm: Vinnie. Thu-Sat, Wed, 8:30pm: Thomas. Sun, 8:30pm: Dan. San Jose.

Wed--TThu and Sun,, 9pm: Wild Wed-Thu Nights KKaraoke. araoke. Fremont.

Fremont.

SOUTH FIRST SOUTHFIR ST TBILLIARDS BILLIARDS

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Fri-Sat,, 9pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

JOHNNY V’S JOHNNYV’S Sun: Sunday Funday kar karaoke. aoke.. No cover.. San Jose. cover

KATIE KA AT TIEBL BLOOM’S OOM’S Wed & Sun, 9:30pmWed 9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

KING OF CL CLUBS UBS Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm:: Bruce Brucce of KKOR OR Karaoke.

Karaoke.. Mountain View.

Vieew.

KYOTO K YOTO PLA PLACE CE Wed, W ed,, 7pm: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvalee.

LILLY LILL LY MA MAC’S AC’S C

Sun: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

Thu: JR. Sun:: JR Diaz Familyy Gilroy.

KKaraoke. araoke. TTue: uue:: James.. Gilr oy.

TEQUILA TE QUILA SHO SHOT’S OT T’SB BAR AR&GRILL & GRILL Mon & Wed, Wed, 9pm: Darryl.

Darryl.

Milpitas.

THREE FLAMESS THREEFLAME Wed, W ed,, 8pm: Chris.. San Jose.

TORTUGA T OR RT TUGAISLANDT ISLAND T TAVERN AV VERN TTue, ue, u , 7pm: KJ Bob and SStarmaker. tarmaker.

San Jose.

MARIANI’S

TTue-Thu ueu -TThu & Sat:: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

Clara.

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Thu, 8pm:: Atomic Atomic Dance Club. $5.. Sat, 8pm:: Club Satori. $5, free free before bef ore 9pm. San Jose.

BLUE BL UEPHEA PHEASANT SANT Wed-Sun & Tue, Wed-Sun Tuue, 7pm:: DJ and dancing. CCupertino. upertino.

BRANHAM LOUNGE BRANHAML OUNGE Wed:: Almaden V Wed: Valley alley Beer P Pong ong ONEmanARMY. with DJ ONEmanARMY Y. Thu: Audio Revolution with DJs Jason Hi-Grade.

Dee & Hi-Gr ade. Fri: Quality Control Contr ol w/DJ VJ1.

VJ1.

J Sat:: Cocktails & Dreams Dreams w/DJ Aspect.

Aspect. TTue: uue: Irie Hi-Grade Nights w/DJ Hi-Gr ade & TTesfa. eesfa.

San Jose.

Thu: DJ Nico and DJ Neeber.

Neeber.

San Jose.

Wed, W ed,, 9pm: Vic. Fr Fremont. emont.

THE NE NEW W JER JERSEY’S SEY’S

BRITARMSCUPER BRIT ARMS CUPER CUPERTINO RTINO T

Sat:: KKaraoke. araoke. aoke CCampbell. ampbell ampbell.

CCall all ffor or inf info. o. San Jose.

NORMANDY NORMAND DY HOUSE LLOUNGE OUNGEE

Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug.

Wed Douug.

Sunnyvale.

Fri-Sat:: DJ or Live info.

Entertainment. Call Call ffor or inf o.

San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN

MOJO MO JO LLOUNGE OUNGE

OASIS O ASIS

BAMBOO B AMBOO LLOUNGE OUNGE

TTue, ue, u , 7pm: Karaoke Karaoke Night.

San Jose.

WOODHAMS W OODHAMS LLOUNGE OUNGE

Fri-Sat,, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

Thu, 9pm:: DJ party. partyy. Fri-Sat, 9pm2am: Live music & DJs, salsa, house, hip-hop & more. more. Mon: Salsa.. San Jose.

TREATBOT, TREA AT TBOT, SSAN AN PEDR PEDRO O SQUARE SQU ARE MARKET

Thu: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 8pm:: Chris. Santa Clara.

Clara.

AJ’S BAR AJ’SB AR

THE X BAR THEXB AR TTue ue u & Fri, 9pm:: KKaraoke araoke with KJ Vinnie.. CCupertino. upertino.

BRIT ARMS DO DOWNTOWN WNTOWN Thu: DJ Nico. Fri:: DJ Benofficial.

Sat:: DJ Ready Rock.. Dec. 19: DJ Nico.. San Jose.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Xtreme Car Studio & Wireless, 428 S. King Rd., San Jose, CA, 95116, Michael Gonzalez.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Refile of previous file #443025 /s/Michael Gonzalez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/03/2014. (pub Metro 1/08, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #585969

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: South San Jose Test Only, 5270 Monterey Road, San Jose, CA, 95111, Mindy Ly, 1215 Old Manor Pl., San Jose, CA, 95132.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Mindy Ly This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/13/2013. (pub Metro 1/08, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #585376

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Referral Realty 2.

Rogers, Rogers & Rogers Realtors, 956 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, Cossitor Group Inc..

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or

names listed herein on 01/06/2003.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586233

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Morefit Solutions, 1478 Four Oaks Circle, San Jose, CA, 95131, Krista Wallace.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 6/2013. /s/Krista Wallace This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/23/2013. (pub Metro 1/01, 1/08, 1/15, 1/22/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586291

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Tanner Group, 15445 Blackberry Hill Road, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Richard Tanner.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Richard Tanner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/24/2013. (pub Metro 1/01, 1/08, 1/15, 1/22/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586289

Registrant has began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/4/13. /s/Matthew Luotto This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/24/2013. (pub Metro 1/01, 1/08, 1/15, 1/22/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586084

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Nurturing Your Heart, 988 Belmont Terrace, Unit 7, Sunyvale, CA, 94086, Hemila PedramParsi.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/27/2012.

Refile of previous file #567830 with changes /s/Hemila Pedram-Parsi This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/18/2013. (pub Metro 1/01, 1/08, 1/15, 1/22/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #585628

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Runvertise, 169 N. Jackson St., Unit G, San Jose, CA, 95112, Frank Soriano.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Frank Soriano This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/04/2013. (pub Metro 12/25, 1/01, 1/08, 1/15/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) NAME STATEMENT is (are) doing business as: Pioneer Tree Service, #586022 433 Sylvan Ave., #56, Mountain View, CA, 94041, Matthew Luotto, 301 Vine Hill Rd., Santa Cruz, CA, 95065.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kimco Direct, 17872 Cowan Avenue, Irvine, CA, 92614, Kimco Staffing Services, 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. /s/Steve Bradley CFO #C0977497 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/16/2013. (pub Metro 12/25, 1/01, 1/08, 1/15/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586061

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Duffy Creative Studio, 6421 Samar Dr., San Jose, CA, 95119, Aditi Duffy Stout.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Jan 2010. /s/Aditi Duffy Stout This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/18/2013. (pub Metro 12/25, 1/01, 1/08, 1/15/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586032

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Triton Appraisals, 1884 Seville Way, San Jose, CA, 95131, Luping Lai. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein 5/22/2006.

Refile of previous file #478535 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Luping Lai This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/17/2013. (pub Metro 12/25, 1/01, 1/08, 1/15/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586009

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Berls-Soutas Ranch, 5122 Carter Ave., San

Jose, CA, 95118, Charles Erik Berls, Jennifer Soutas.

This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jennifer Soutas This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/16/2013. (pub Metro 12/18, 12/25, 1/01, 1/08/2014)

/s/Yim Murphy CEO/Secretary #3508959 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/13/2013. (pub Metro 12/18, 12/25, 1/01, 1/08/2014)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When is the last time

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To help take the edge

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Human beings are often unable to receive because we do not know what to ask for,” says the writer Malidoma Somé in his book Water and Spirit. “We are sometimes unable to get what we need because we do not know what we want.” With that in mind, Cancerian, hear my two pleas: first, that in the next six weeks, you will work diligently to identify the goodies you want most; and second, that you will cultivate your capacity to receive the goodies you want most by refining your skill at asking for them.

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“Don’t ever turn down a job because it’s beneath you,” she advised. That’s a helpful message for you to hear, Leo. It applies to the work-related opportunities you may be invited to take on, as well as the tasks that your friends, associates, and loved ones ask you to consider. You can’t possibly know ahead of time how important it might ultimately be to apply yourself conscientiously to a seemingly small assignment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of Beethoven’s music

teachers said, “As a composer, he is hopeless.” When Thomas Edison was a kid, a teacher told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Walt Disney worked at a newspaper when he was young, but his editor fired him because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”

I’m sure there was a person like that in your past— someone who disparaged and discouraged you. But I’m happy to report that 2014 will be the best year ever for neutralizing and overcoming that naysayer’s curse. If you have not yet launched your holy crusade, begin now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As a child, French philosopher and writer Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) loved math. But his father, who homeschooled him, forced him to forego math and concentrate on studying the humanities. Blaise rebelled. When he was 12 years old, he locked himself in his room for days and immersed himself in mathematical investigations. When he emerged, he had figured out on his own some of Euclid’s fundamental theorems about geometry.

Eventually, he became a noted mathematician. I see the coming weeks as prime time to do something like the young Pascal did: Seal yourself away from other people’s opinions about who you’re supposed to be, and explore the themes that will be crucial for the person you are becoming.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1609, Dutch sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed to America and came upon what we now call Coney Island. Back then it was

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If men had

wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows,” said 19th-century social reformer Henry Ward Beecher. That might be an accurate assessment for most people, but I don’t think it will be true for you Sagittarians in the foreseeable future. Your animal intelligence will be working even better than usual. Your instinctual inclinations are likely to serve as reliable guides to wise action. Trust what your body tells you! You will definitely be clever enough to be a crow.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Can you guess what combination of colors makes the most vivid visual impact? Psychologists say it’s black on yellow. Together they arrest the eye. They command attention. They activate a readiness to respond.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, this is the effect you can and should have in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to draw the best kind of attention to yourself. You have a right and a duty to galvanize people with the power of your presence.

Whether you actually wear yellow clothes with black highlights is optional as long as you cultivate a similar potency.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m guessing that in a metaphorical sense, you’ve been swallowed by a whale. Now you’re biding your time in the beast’s belly. Here’s my prediction: You will be like the Biblical Jonah, who underwent a more literal version of your experience. The whale eventually expelled him, allowing him to return to his life safe and sound— and your story will have the same outcome. What should you do in the meantime? Here’s the advice that Dan Albergotti gives in his poem “Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale.” “Count the ribs,” he says.

“Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals. Call old friends. Organize your calendar.

Dream of the beach. Review each of your life’s ten million choices. Find the evidence of those before you.

Listen for the sound of your heart. Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope, where you can rest and wait.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How do you like your tests? Short, intense, and dramatic? Or leisurely, drawn-out, and low-pressure? Here’s another question: Do you prefer to pick out the tests you take, making sure they’re good fits for the precise lessons you want to master? Or do you find it more exciting and adventurous to let fate determine what unpredictable tests get sent your way? Ruminate about these matters, Pisces. You’re due for a nice big test sometime soon, and it’s in your interest to help shape and define how everything unfolds.

Homework: Imagine that one of your heroes comes to you and says, “Teach me the most important things you know.” What do you say? y FreeWillAstrology.com. gy Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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