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Going W Way ay Back As if San Jose Councilman XA As XAVIER AV VIER CAMPOS needed needeed any mor moree inquiries into his shoddyy past campaign filings—the gu uy’s alr eady being guy’s already investigated byy the District A ttorney’s Attorney’s office and the Fair P olitical Practices Practices Political Commission (F FPPC). But now the San (FPPC).

Jose City Clerk ’s office is taking a Clerk’s look back at hi is work in 2006 as a his tr easurer for for big big sis NORA CAMPOS. treasurer CCurrently urrently a sta te assemblymember state (you might want want to rread ead this week’s cover story), N ora had baby br Nora broo handle filing dduties uties during her City Council rre-election e-election campaign.

When Fly took a look back at fforms orms just ffor or kicks, kicks, iitt became clear that the campaign’s campaign’ss last fundr aising/ fundraising/ expenditur orm expendituree fform was missing— —not missing—not They Did necessarily a shocker s with the way the t clerk’s What? office was run in the SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O past. A me, the Att that ti time, FLY@ FL LY Y@ no pads clerk kept sten steno METRONEWS. METRONEWS. COM COM to document fforms o orms that came into the office.

Coincidentally y, or not, these Coincidentally, notepads ar a missing. However aree also However,, a cross-reference cross-referennce check with Nora’s Nora’s officeholder ac ccount shows that account almost $15,00 0 in surplus campaign $15,000 funds was una accounted ffor or when she unaccounted closed out her campaign committee.

Ther Theree wer weree no outstanding bills noted in pr evious fforms, orms, so it ’s not clear previous it’s wher h would have gone. wheree the cash City Clerk TONI TONII T A ABER confirmed with TABER she’s asking a the CCampos ampos Fly that she’s or anyy documentation they siblings ffor have to prove prove the money didn’t didn’t just disappear. “W disappear.

“Wee will send a letter to ampos campaign that we the 2006 CCampos fi and asking them have missing filings t pr ovide id th thosse th thatt ar i i ” to provide those aree missing,” wrote in an an email. If misconduct she wrote ound it ’s unlikely unnlikely to rresult esult in much is ffound it’s ty, ass the FPPC’s statute of of a penal penalty, osecution is ffour our limitations on civil pr prosecution years.

Future Search CORPORATE C ORPORATE CITY Google Google’s ’s rravenous avenous accumulation of reall estate properties in are Mountain View. n and around Mountain Mountain View View i a changing the politics of M o ountain V iew i w.

Google influx continues to Mountain r reshape Mounta ain View View i ’s ’s social sociial political and politica al culture BY B Y MICHAEL LE LEVINE VINE

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ifty years ago, ago, Santa Cruz had a solid reputation as a conservative conservative stronghold. was st tronghold. g Business w as booming b ooming and developmentt was w as rrapidly apidly increasing along alon ng the th he coastal shore. But that started st tarted to change in 1965, w when the University of California C alifornia founded a new campus. ca ampus. Though only 650 students U.C. Santa st tudents attended U .C. San ta Cruz C ruz in its first year, yearr, the school sc chool provided a base for liberal college li iberal professors and colle ege kids who’d k ids who ’d spend their days day ys in n book and record stores. stores.

JJust ust 14 yyears eears later later,, Mik Mikee R Rotkin, o otkin, a UCSC pr U professor offeessor and self self-described f-described “socialist-feminist, “s socialistt--ffeeminist,” ran ffor o or Cit Cityy C Council ou uncil ass a pr protest otest ccandidate andidate simply to sho show ow

that ther theree w was as a lefty bl block lock of vvoters. o oters.

Rotkin R otkin w o was as a stunned wh when hen he learned that he he’d ’d secur secured ed the most m vvotes otes of 19 ccandidates andidates ffor or the se o seven-member veen n-member b body. odyy.

A Att first, R Rotkin otkin tells Metro, o M tro, “we Met ccould ould mak makee a motion, but b we ccouldn’t ouldn’t get it passed.” Lib Liberals erals gradually g built a majorit majority ty o over veer the ccourse ou urse of the ’8 ’80s, 0s, and b byy the ne next xt dec decade, ade, R Rotkin otkin sa o says, ayys, “anybody “an nyybody who ran as a R Republican eepublican was w aas dead on arrival.” R Rotkin o otkin eeventually veentually served ser ved five fivve one-year one-yeear stin stints nts as mayor maayo or before b effor o e rretiring etiring fr from om p politics o olitics in 2010.

Despite its influenc influencee on Sant Santaa Cruz culture culture and p politics, olitics, thee univ university ersitty had an o occasionally ccasionally strained d rrelationship elationship with the town. A w water aaterr shor shortage tage led to legal wrangling wrangling.. Expan Expansion sion impacted traffic and housing ccosts ostts and cr created eated strife strif fe o over ver the use of pu public ublic rresources esources ffor or ser o services vices lik likee parks an and nd p police. olice.

A similar mak makeover eo over is ttaking aking plac placee in a town 35 miles to th the he nor north, th, but the impacts ar aree still yyet ett to pla play ay out. The rapid gr growth owth of tech gi giant iant Go Google ogle in Mountain Mount ain V View ie i w has cr created e eated thousands of jobs jobs,, k kept eept housing pr prices rices str strong ong

bolstered olsterred ttax and b ax ccollections. ollections. But behind economic boon growing b ehind thee ec onomic b oon lie gr owing environmental en nvvironmeental cconcerns, oncerns, traffic unexpected byproduct: jams and an a une xpected b yyproduct: potential political otenttial p the p olitical and cultural entire rreshaping eshaping h i of of an entir ti e ccommunity. ommunit itty.

With begin W iith work wo ork set to b egin on a massive massivve project pr oject to house h its jet fleet at San Mineta Airport JJose’s ose’s Mine eta International Airp ort rumors about potential and rumor rs sswirling wirling ab out a p otential move the Francisco, mo ve to th he Mission in San Francisc o, Google was already Go ogle hass widened what w as alr eady enormous byy rreportedly an enormo ous ffootprint ootprint b eportedly deals $3255 million closing dea als on at least $32 worth estate Mountain View wor th of rreal e est eal ate in Mount ain V iiew Palo second and P alo Alto A in the sec ond half of alone.

2013 alone l . that growth, Mountain Amid th hat gr owth, the Mount ain View City Council December V iiew Cit ty C ouncil in Dec ember Google proposal rrejected ejected a Go G ogle pr oposal to cconstruct onstruct shuttle-, bicyclepedestrian-only a shut tttle-, bicy b ycle c - and p edestrian-only bridge.. Thee bridge bridge,, if built, would ha have bridge ave Mountain View cconnected onnected downtown Mount ain V iiew to the N North Bayshore neighborhood, orth t Ba ayshor y e neighb orhood, where wants where the ccompany ompan ny w aants to supplement Googleplex supplemen nt its eexisting xxisting Go ogleplex spacee ffor 17,500 workers. with spac or o another 17 7,,500 work ers. plan was blocked, now, But the h pla lan w aas blo bl ck ked, d ffor or now o w, opponents, likee Mount Mountain View with opp on nents, lik ain V iiew City Councilmember Margaret Abeounccilmember Mar Cit ty C garet Ab eKoga, arguing K oga, ar guiing that it would ruin the area’s character threaten wildlife. ar eaa’s chara acter and thr eaten wildlif fe.

“Companies locating heree means “C ompaanies lo cating her more employees more emp loyees ccoming oming into town,”

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Abe-Koga sa Abe-Koga says. ayys. “W “We’re We’re a rrelatively elatively small cit ty in terms of ssquare quare miles city miles.. W Wee don ’t ha ave a lot of land d left. So ’s don’t have So,, that that’s b een a challenge: How w do we mak been makee rroom oom ffor or mor o owth h while tr ying to moree gr growth trying maint ain our characte er?” maintain character?”

A Subtler Sh Shift hift It’s It ’s nott clear l eexactly xactly tl how h man many ny Googlers alr eady work k and liv Googlers already livee in Mountain Mount ain V View. iiew. R Roughly ough o hly a thir third d of the ccompany’s ompany’s gr owingg worldwide growing workforce workf fo orce of 45,0 45,000 00 iss based at the Mount ain V iiew ccampus, ampu us, and as man ny Mountain View many as 5,0 5,000 00 ar aree b believed elieved to t liv livee in town.

Another 5,0 00 Mount tain V ie i w 5,000 Mountain View employees emplo oyees ttake ake one off 112 shut shuttle tttle buses to and fr from om wor work rk each da day, ay, the ccompany ompany sa says. ayys. Go Google ogle declined to pr provide ovide id a pr precise ecise i br b breakdown e kdown eak d off its workf workforce fo orce b byy lo location catio on and would not ans answer wer Met Metro’s ro’s que questions estions ab about out employee emplo oyee age age,, gender and a racial demographics. demo graphics. The ccompany om mpan ny also declined to sp speak eak on th the he rrecord ecord or provide pr ovide an any ny official ccomment om mment ffor o or this story. stor y.

Despite its size size,, Go Google ogle has ffor o or the most par partt maint maintained ained a low pr profile ofile in cit cityy affairs affairs,, ac according cording to K Kevin evin Duggan, who h ser served veed d ass cit cityy manager from fr om 19 1990 90 to 2011 and d enc encouraged ouraged a yyoung oung Ser Sergey gey Brin an and nd L Larry arry P Page age to gr grow ow their bur burgeoning geoniing business in Mount Mountain ain V View. ie i w. “M “Maybe Maayybe that will change o over ver time time,,” Dug Duggan ggan sa says, ayys, “but I think the they’ve y’ve assimila assimilated ated into the ccommunity ommunity lik likee man manyy other ffolks, olks, o gradually, haven’t any gradually y, and I ha aven’t ’ seen an ny sea changes..” changes doesn’t That do esn’t mean it iit’s ’s not ccoming. oming.

Roughly 15,000 workers 5,000 R oughly o 15,0 00 work e and 5,0 ers 00 from rresidents esidents fr om a singlee ccompany ompan ny is Mountain View, meaningful in Mount a V ain iiew, which population had an estimated p opu ulation of 76,621 as of JJuly uly 2012, ac aaccording cording to the U.S. Census Bureau.

U .S. C ensus Bur eau. differences Those diff ffeerences might m mean it 255 yyears will ttake ake 20 or 2 earss instead of 10 or 15 to ffeel Google’s eeel Go ogle’s impact on politics, mean p olitics, or it ccould ould me an the changes bee subtler than th thee massiv massivee will b took placee in Santaa Cruz. shift that to ok plac n Sant Colleges attract C olleges tend to at tttracct vvery ery yyoung oung progressive people, Rotkin and vvery ery pr ogressive p eople, R otkin o says, UCSC’s no-grades sa ays y , and UCSC ’s early no -grades policy especially liberal p olicy meant an esp eciially lib eral Googlers aree cconsidered bee ccohort. ohort. Go oglers ar o onsider ed to b better educated moree yyounger, ounger, b etter educ atted and mor it’s affluent than aaverage, veerage, but it ’s not

clear if the they’ll y’ll shift the civic cultur culturee as dramati ically and it rremains emains to dramatically b t work ers will b bee seen if tech workers bee as p olitically activ politically activee as students and ccareer areer ac ad demics. academics.

Whene ver and whate ver changes Whenever whatever do ccome, ome, R otkin o sa ayys, ““that’s that’s going to Rotkin says, aff ffeect thing gs that ha ave nothing to do affect things have with Go ogle g ’s inter ests.”

Google’s interests.

Work W orkk in P Progress rogress Mountain Mount a V ain View’s iiew’s p political olitical mak makeover keo e veer appears to ha appears have started ave st arted in 2012, with the election n of 3030-year-old yearr-old tech work worker keer Clark, became mayor Chris Clark k, who b ecame ma ayo or last month. Cla Clark ark w was aas among those in favor moving fa avo or of mo oving fforward or o ward with a study of Go Google’s proposed North ogle’s pr oposed bridge to N orth Bayshore, Ba ayshor y e, illustrating i how yyoung, oung, o technology-friendly city technolo h l gy--friendly f i dl cit ity leaders l d might i h bee mor moree ssympathetic Google b y ympathetic to Go ogle in they don’t ccoming oming yyears—even ea ears—eveen if the ey don ’t work ffor or o the ccompany. om mpan ny.

Abe-Koga, Clark’ss longest longestAb e-Koga, g one of Clark’ ttenured says tenur ed ccolleagues o olleagues on the ccouncil, ouncil, sa ayys she’s changes—both she ’s seen dramatic d changes—b oth good sincee she go od and bad— b in her town sinc moved Mountain View mo veed to Mount M ain V ie i w 15 yyears ears ago was elected officee in 20 2006. and w aas ele ected to offic 06. people say, “I get a lot l of times p eople sa ay, ‘You’re Margaret.

You have ‘Y You o ’re so luck llucky, ky, Mar garet. Y o ou ha h ave Google they’re probably Go ogle and d the y’re pr obably willing pay whatever improvements to pa ay ffor o or whate w veer impr ovements says.

“It’s easy. yyou ou need,’” she sa ayys. “It ’s not that eas y. doesn’t happen way.

It do esn n’t ’ alw aalways ways y happ en that w ay. it’s And there there are are a lot of challenges it ’s brought us.

So,, it it’s bag..” br ought us s. So ’s a mixed bag Abe-Koga, Ab e-Koga, g who will term out officee at the end of this yyear, of offic eear, is partt of the ccouncil blocc that that’s moree par ouncil blo ’s mor skeptical Google’s sk eptical off Go ogle’s outsized rrole ole in Mountain View, Mount ain V iiew, and among those who vvoted o oted down the bridge plan. Still, Google’s presence she rrecognizes ecogniizes that Go ogle’s pr esence helped keep city help ed k eeep the cit ty afloat when the unlike rrecession ecession and a housing crisis hit, unlik ke California cities.. some otherr C aliffo ornia cities “It’s work progress, Abe-Koga “It ’s a wo ork in pr ogress,” Ab e-K Koga says.

Google sa ays y . “I’m rreminded e eminded that Go ogle is a company—15 rrelatively elativveely young young o compan ny— —15 or 16 they’re yyears eears old, so o the ey’r y e in the teenage yyears. eears. have say I would ha ave to sa ay that some of the longer-established have longer r-estab blished ccompanies ompanies ha ave a better live b etttter sensee of how to liv ve and work in bee go good the ccommunity ommu unitty and b od ccorporate orporate citizens.. Go Google way. citizens oogle is finding their w ay. I they’re trying, appreciate think the ey’r y re tr ying, and I appr eciate they are.

They’ve been open that the ey ar re. The eyy’vve b een vvery er e y op en from and rreceptive, eceptivve, but a lot of it ccomes omes fr om time..” eexperience, xp x erience, and that ttakes ak kes e time

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County Super Supervisor visor Dave Cortese had out a valid point in calling ou ut the San Firee Department th this Jose Fir his week for for 9-1-1 esponse ffailing ailing to meet 91-1 calll rresponse year. the markk thi this llong means breached ti times ffor or more more than th a ye earr. Missing Mi i th mean ns the th city it has h br b eached h d it its contract county, contr act with the county y, which pays ffor or services services that aren’t aren’tt being rrendered endered in a timely way. it’s election mayor,r, what used to be way y. But since it ’s electio on season and Cortese is running ffor o mayor or press memo material became a pr ess conference confference Monday.

Mondayy. Cortesee chastised San Jose ffor or emergency laying off so many emer rgency rresponders esponders that it can’t meett the goal of rresponding esponding to emergencies agreed-upon minutes, percent medical emer gencies within within the agr eed-upon eight minutes s,, 90 per cent of the time. The supervisor demanded draft super visor also demande ed the city dr aft a plan to fix the rresponse essponse time lapse.. If it can’t improve city impr ove by June,, Cortesee says the county should fine the ci ty $152,050.

WHO’S TO BL BLAME? LAME? Students in November rallied r against the way

State San Jose Stat te handled a hate crime case, saying s the campus unwelcoming students. was unwelco oming to African American stu udents.

New SJSU SJSU Hate Crime Crim me Report p Clears Clears University, Blames Unive rsity ity, Ki Kindd off B lames Victim Vi ti San JJose ose St State a U ate University niversity did what it ccould ould as fastt as it ccould ould to help a bl k student black d allegedly ll dl terr terrorized orized i db byy a gr group oup of wh white hite students ffor or o more more than a month h last semester semester..

That’s That ’s the cconclusion onclusion of the first official rreview eview of a ccase ase that led to the arr arrest e of ffour est our o fr freshmen eshmen misdemeanor on misdemean nor hate crime and battery charges prosecutors bat tery char gees after pr osecutors accused of, things,, ac cused them of f, among other things their around rrestraining estraining th heir classmate ar ound the neck with a b bike ike lo lock. ck. The audit, led byy at b attorney tttorney Mik M Mike ke Mo Moye, ye, rrelied elied on 40 interviews inter views wit with th a ffew ew dozen teachers teachers,, students and administrators aadministrators,, plus incident rreports eporrts fr from om ccampus ampus p police. olice.

The victim and thr three ee of the ffour our o suspects susp ects declined declin ned to par participate, ticipate, which led some stud students dents to question the objectivityy of the rreport objectivit eport sinc sincee it rrelied elied heavily sources employed byy the so hea avily v on sour ces emplo yeed b university. attention univ ersity. It also a ffocused ocused at tention on the victim, no ot so subtly blaming the not then-17year-old o ffor or not sp o eaking up then-17-year-old speaking ab out the abu use or ttaking aking advant age about abuse advantage of the man ny ccampus ampus policies policies that many ccould ould ha ave esc calated the situation to a have escalated criminal in nvesstigation a lot so oner. investigation sooner.

“We from “W We know fr om this rreport eport that policies and procedures weree the p olicies an nd pr ocedures wer maybe met, but ma ayyb be the question now

theree ha have been better is should ther ave b een b etttter policies place?” p o olicies in plac e?” said Delorme McKee-Stovall, Santaa M McK Kee e -Stovall, manager of Sant Clara County’s Office C lara C ounttyy’s O ffice of Human Relations program R Re eelations and head of a pr ogram that t people rrehabilitates e ehabilit ates p eople cconvicted on nvvicted of hate h crimes. cr rimes.

Now it’s N ow it ’s up to a ttaskforce askffo orce students,, pr professors, school off students offeessors, scho ol administrators local government ad dministrators and lo cal go vernmeent officials—including McKee-Stovall— offi fficials—including McK Kee e -Stovalll— to o eexplore xplore that question. A public Thursday, m meeting will cconvene on nvene Thursda ay, chaired byy San JJose’s Independent ch haired b ose’s Indep endent Police Auditor LaDoris Cordell.

The P o eA olic uditor L aDoris C ordell. Th he ttask a fforce ask orce plans to ccome o ome up with a list byy April, in time off rrecommendations ecommendations b t ffor o current-year or current-year SJSU students to see s some became so ome action on the ccase ase that b ecam me national news na ational ne ws last fall. just-released highlights The just -released audit highligh hts manyy disturbing det details m man ails rreported eported byy p police b olice last fall, including one suspect’s affinityy ffor su uspect’s alleged affinit or o N paraphernalia and white Nazi power doctrine. suspect p o ower do ctrine. Another susp ect apparently ap pparently has an obsession with h the Church Satan. unsettling was C hurch of Sat an. Also unset tling w as the students, th he ambivalence ambivalence of other student ts, knew about abuse w kne who w ab out the alleged abu se but chalked suspects’ bu ut chalk ed it up to the susp ects’’ “dark humor.”

—Jennifer Wadsworth “d dark humor .” — Jeenniffeer W aadsworrth

AHEAD OF THE GAME Sam Liccardo managed to rak rake e in a sizeable war chest.

Mayor Mo Money oney Reports R eeports ffor or the initia o initial al fundraising period mayor's racee p eriod in the 2014 San JJose ose ma ayo or's rac and ccame ame due last week, an nd downtown Councilman Liccardo’s was C ouncilman Sam Lic car a do o’s haul w aas level Scrooge McDuck’ss on the le veel of Scr ooge McDuck’ pool.

Liccardo sswimming wimming p w ool. Lic car a do d rreportedly eportedly $513,000 three raised $513,0 00 during the last thr ee City rules prevent weeks of 2013. Cit ty rule es pr event e from ontributions ccandidates andidates fr om lining up ccontributions before time,, but Li Liccardo b effor o e that time iccardo and his staff weree ap apparently ccampaign ampaign st aff wer pparently able moree than 1,0 1,000 to ttap ap mor 00 donors in that window. small window w.

Liccardo’s start may Lic cardo’s big head st a t ma ar ay not ccount ount o endorsement from as much as an endorsem ment fr om the Santaa Clara C County Democratic Central entral Sant ountty Dem mocratic C Committee, which C ommittttee, though, wh hich ccounty ountty Supervisor Dave Cortese Sup ervisor Da ave C ortesse should nab this South Bay Labor week. Along with the So outh Ba ay L abor Council’s backing,, C Cortese likely C ouncil’s backing orteese will lik keely have over ha ave well o veer a million n in ccoordinated oordinated campaign funds at his disp disposal. osal. campaign a d

Cortese On his own, o C ortese raised $175,000—much from $175,0 00— —much of that fr om firefighters, labor figures. efighters, unions and lab fir or figur es.

Vice Mayor Nguyen V iice Ma ayo or Madison Nguy yeen raised $167,153 from 268 Asian donors,, $167 7,153 , fr o 26 om 8 mostly A sian donors spent $70,000 and she sp pent e nearlyy $70,0 00 on printing,, sig signs printing gns and ccommunications ommunications services. ser vices.

Rose Herrera from Rose o He rrera rreceived eceivved e $31,150 fr om 39 individual individu ual donations and another $20,000 money $20,0 00 in n mone ey she loaned to Herrera trying ying to her ccampaign. ampaiign. Herr era is tr get the cit city bond-funded ty to build a b ond-funded om softball ccomplex mplex in her district on land byy Ar Arcadia donated b cadia Development, Deveelopment, gave which ga ave her three three $1,000-plus $1,000-plus through d donations ti tth thr ough h ccompanies ompanies i with ith near-identical names.. near r--identiical names Oliverio announced Pierluigii Oliv verio e announc ed a ffew ew ago start months ag go that he wouldn't st art fundraisingg until 2014. He stayed stayeed true word, to his wor d raising nothing by d, by the end of last year $10,000 yeear eexcept xcept for fo or $10,0 00 he loaned him himself.—Jennifer Wadsworth mselff.—Jeenniffer e W ads a worth

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Major League FACTION F ACTION CASUAL CA SUA L Gavin O O’Brien ’B Brien of the F Faction a action jumps in with L Lars ars Fred Frederiksen deriksen of the Old Firm Casua Casuals, alss, to celebrate the Quakes’ 40th anniversary anniversary.

Gavin y. Kind of important, since Gavi in has to date refused to do any mo more Faction shows, disappointment ore F action shows s, to the disap ppointment of everyone else. else

Qua Quakes akes mark all 400 years their of the ir heritage at a massive anniversary mas ssive anniversa ary party BY B Y GAR GARY Y SINGH

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UCH UCH C LIKE the C2SV conference co onference that held itss inaugural inaugural event last la ast year, yearr, the San Jose Jose Earthquakes Earthquak kes 40th anniversary celebration celebr ation n at San Pedro Pedro Market was Square Ma arket w as half-punk and half-technology. echnology. When half-te understood d d through h h that h lens, l lens , it perfectly y embodied the spirit of Silicon Silicon Valley, Valley y, a place where disruptive disrruptive creativity crosses ove er with engineering over innov ation n on a daily basis. basis. innovation Rancid guit guitarist tarist L Lars ars Fr Frederiksen's ederiksen's

other band,, the Old F other Firm irm C Casuals, asuals, p erfo ormed the Q Quak kes’ e ’ ne w themee performed Quakes’ new so ong at the end of the night. Outsi de song Outside in n the str eets, team executives executives streets, liv veestreamed the jerse y--un nveiling eevent veent livestreamed jersey-unveiling u using the Go ogle Glass applic ation n Google application C Cr owdOpt. CrowdOpt. F or the eevent, veent,, the Quak es For Quakes w went all out,, as opposed opposed to their ch haracteristically cheapsk ods ate methods metho characteristically cheapskate o ok them ffour our o months mon nths off the past. It to took o put to gether an elab orate video o to together elaborate m mont age off their h i entir i e histor hi y, going going i montage entire history, al ll the w ay back to the NASL days daays y in all way th he 1970s they projected projected the the 1970s,, and then they vi ideo on ttwo w wo fr onts. One pr ojectio on video fronts. projection ccovered oveered the western fac ade of the facade u ut terly hideous SunW Wiize building utterly SunWize ju ust outside San P edro Squar e, whi ile just Pedro Square, while an nother scr eened on the side of thee another screened

across St. Fallon House acr oss St t. JJohn. ohn.

Without probably W iithout eexaggeration, xaggeratio on,, pr obably people a ffew ew thousand p eoplee ccongregated ongregated street watch outside on the str eet to ow aatch fformer o ormer player Moore NASL pla ayer e JJohnny ohnn ny Mo M ore ttalk alk about 1974 ab out the original 197 74 squad and how current somehow ent team some the curr ehow managed working-class, neverto ccarry arry on the workin ng-class, ne veersay-die teams. sa ay-die spirit of those original o teams.

Moore always been M Mo ore h has alw lwayys b een n the h main i current ent visual cconnection onnection ffor o or the t curr NASL days fans to the original NA ASL da ays y and staunch trying also the st aunch proponent proponent o in tr ying previous to cconvince on nvvince pr evious misguided m Quakes administrations Quak es eexecutive xecutive adm ministrations franchise's to acknowledge the fra anchise's heritage 1974. herit age going back to 197 74.

4 When began 1996, hokey ersatzz MLS b egan in 19 96,, itss hok key ersat sports dismissed sp orts eexecutives xecutives dismi issed the NASL league,, whic which was, as a failed league ch it w aas, and argued those days weree subsequently ar gued th hose da ayys wer importance.

Theyy of absolutely no imp orrtance. The weree all pr proven wrong, wer oven wr ongg, of ccourse, ourse, and dismissed market, San JJose, ose, usually the di ismissed mark et, oddly became ecame the first MLS o ddly enough b organization officially embody or ganization to official lly emb ody a heritage from previous generation. herit age fr om the pr evious v digress. team's new jerseyy But I digr ess. The tea am's ne w jerse

logo weree then rrevealed and lo go wer w eveealed and the crowds cr owds ccontinued on ntinued to meander in and market area, wheree se several out of the mark keet ar ea,, wher veral presented ases pr glass ccases p esented paraphernalia ephemera from days, and ephem mera fr om the NASL da ays y , as Quakes well as Qua ak kees teams and subsequent between units that ccarried arried on b ettween w the demise of the t NASL and the launch MLS,, an important of MLS n imp ortant and often overlooked 1974 o verlooked d era. Some of the 197 74 team attended answered eeven veen at tttend ded and ans wered questions stage from Dangerfield, on st age fr o Chris Danger om field, NASL Quakes star from another NA ASL Quak kees st ar fr om the ’80s, does early ’8 0s, and one who now do es ccommentary ommentar a y ffor or the team. o brought The end d of the night br ought circle.

Ass w was hyped eeverything veerythingg full cir cle. A as a h yp y ed from beginning, fr om the vvery er e yb eginning, Rancid guitarist Lars Frederiksen, grew guit arist L a Fr ars ederiksen,, who gr ew the Quakes, performed up with th he NASL Quak kees, p erfo ormed side Firm with his sid de band,, the Old F irm Casuals, area ea of San C asuals, in the garage bar ar Pedro Square Market. tune,, P edro Squa are Mark keet. Their tune “Never Say Die,,” is “N ever Sa S ay Die Di i now th the official ffi i l Quakes theme song.. The Theyy eeven played Quak es the eme song ven pla ayeed stage, Frederiksen it ttwice. wice. On w n st age, Fr ederiksen ttalked alk ked e about growing ab out gr ow wing up with the NASL incarnation Earthquakes arnation inc n of the Ear thquakes George oncee ccame and how Geor G ge Best onc ame to Lars' school Campbell, L ars' scho o in C ol ampbell,, when Best played heree in 1980-81. pla ayed her 1980-81. Frederiksen Frederiksen devoted deceased also de voteed one song to his dec eased brother, “Rocking Rob” Dapello, br other, “R Rocking R ob” Dap o ello, Lars without whom w L ars said he would never have discovered soccer ne ver ha h ave disc di overed d so ccer or punk k rrock. ock. The ccapper apper ccame ame in the fform o orm of surprise.

Gavin another su urprise. Ga avin v O'Brien,, who San sang ffor o or Sa an JJose's ose's most famous punk group band,, The Faction,, a gr oup that fused skateboarding ago,, sk ateboarding d and punk 30 yyears ears ago putting put ttting San n JJose ose on the international moree than the Quak Quakes map a lot mor m es eever veer jumped Firm did,, jump e in with the Old F ed irm Casuals and performed asuals an C dp erfo ormed ttwo w wo Faction songs.. O'Br O'Brien been staple songs rien has b een a st aple at Quakes games sincee the original NASL Quak es gam mes sinc started 1974. squad st arted t in 197 74 4. entire was probably The enti ire night w as pr obably the have most “San JJose” ose” eevent vent e that I ha ave around heree in man many seen ar oun nd her ny yyears. eears. video projections, Google Giant vide o pr ojections, Go ogle Glass,, origi original 1974 players, punks,, Glass inal 197 74 pla ayers, punks metalheads, met alhead ds, nuclear families, families, beer, beer, pizza, piz za,, Irish h eex-mayors x-maayors ccomparing omparing themselves Krazyy and ccontrasting ontraasting themselv vees to Kraz George, plus 32-channel board Geor ge, plu us a 32channel b oard ffor o or monitor the monito or mix and some of the world-renowned local most world d-renowned lo cal punk musicians.. O Other may have musicians ther teams ma ay ha ave moree fans in the seats seats,, but no other mor Major League Soccer team in M ajor L eague So ccer has anything 40-year an nyything rremotely e emotely close to the 40-year ccommunity ommunitty and family that the San Earthquakes have.

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The staff churn in Speaker pro Tem Nora Campos’ office is the talk of Sacramento, raising questions about her ability to advocate for constituents who’ve been shortchanged by ineffective leadership

BY JOSH KOEHN

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erhaps no local lo ocal political star shone brighter than tha an Nora Nora Campos’ three rising through the years ago. ago. After A Citty Hall ranks San Jose Jose City ranks from entrylevel staffer to Manny Manny Diaz to becoming Eastside’s Eastside’s councilmember councilm member for nine years, years, Campos breezed to o an easy victory in 2010 for a seat in the the State Assembly.

Assembly. husband Along g with her hu sband Neil Neil Struthers, Struthers, then-head of the formidable fo ormidable Santa Clara Clara & San Benito Counties Coun nties Building and Construction Trades Trade es Council, the pair seemed destined to to become Sacramento’s Sacramento’s newest power couple, cou uple, giving labor and the Eastside a megaphone megaph hone on K Street.

The Eastside Eastside,, par particularly ticularly har h hard d hit b byy crime and been especially the rrecession, ecession,, has b een esp eccially in need of ccapable apable leadership and rrepresentation. epresentation. JJust ust last yyear, ear, nearly homicides took placee ther there, half of San JJose’s ose’s 43 homicid es to ok plac e, gang-related and 280-101 most of them gang-r elated an nd near the 28 0-101 interchange, places likee K Kelley Park, wheree a inter change, in plac es lik e yP elle ark, wher was nearby man w as ffound o ound dead in a nea arby parking lot. Or across street from Mildred Elementary acr oss the str eet fr om Mildr e Goss Element ed ary School, was Scho ol,, where where an 18-year-old 18-year- old d man w as killed. The improve area ea p challenge g to lead and impr p ove an ar plagued g byy go governmental poverty b vernmental neglect and dp overty would bee mor moree ccomplex demographics only b omplex due to o the demo graphics neighborhoods, quilted of its neighb orhoods, a quilte ed ccommunity ommunity of predominantly Vietnamese pr edominantly Hispanic and dV iietnamese vvoters, oters, many speak their nativee tongue tongue.. man ny of whom sp eak only th heir nativ unfolded over three But a sad rreality eality has unf fo olded o ver the last thr ee increased Eastside’s yyears, ears, as crime has incr eased amidst the Eastside ’s

failed political leadership.. N No partt of the nation nation’s fail led p olitical leadership o par ’s 10th cityy has b been een let down 10t th biggest cit n so cconsistently onsistently byy its elected officials officials.. b Last city L ast yyear, ear, its fformer o ormer cit ty ccouncil ouncil rrepresentative, epresentative, George Shirakawa was abdicate Geo orge Shirak awa JJr., r.,, w as fforced o orced to ab dicate his supervisor guilty ccounty ou untty sup ervisor seat and plead gu uiltty to stealing more $130,000 byy his mo ore than $130,0 00 in funds ccontributed ontrributed b political supporters. later,, b before p ollitical supp orters. Months later effo ore he would bee sentenc sentenced District Attorney’s b ed to a yyear ear in jail,, the Di istrict A ttorney’s office announced offi ffice announc ed that it had eevidence viden nce linking Shirakawa political helped Shi irakawa to fraudulent p olitical mailers m that help ed steal political ally, stea al a 2010 election ffor or o his friend and a p olitical ally y, East Councilman Xavier Campos, brother Eas st San JJose ose C ouncilman Xa avvier C a os, br amp other Assemblymember Campos.

DA A and the of A ssemblymember C ampos. The D state’s Political Practices Commission st atte’s Fair P olitical Practic es C omm mission (FPPC) both still-ongoing investigations b otth launched stillongoing in nvestiggations into the Xavier Campos, invoked ccampaign am mpaign of Xa avvier C ampos, who in nvoked 18

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NORA CAMPOS CAMP OS

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THE T HE C CAMPOS A MP OS K KIDS I DS N Nora ora Campos (center) and he her er brother brother, r, San Jose Xavier have Councilman X avier Campos C (second from right), ha ave climbed the political ladder, records shown leadership.. ladder r, but their reco ords have not necessarily show wn true leadership the F Fifth ifth Amendmentt when a grand juryy ask jur asked ed him ab about out the illegal mailers in October.

October.

His 2010 p political olitical opp o opponent, onent, Magdalena C Carrasco, arrasco, describ d described ed to prosecutors pr osecutors a ccoffee off ffeee meeting m with Shirak awa that turned d dark, when Shirakawa Shirakawa Shi Shirak kawa told ld her h th that h h hat her d decision ii to run meant her futu ure in San JJose ose future was w as o over. ver. She to took ok it as a a jok jokee at first,, but Shirak awa w as not kidding Shirakawa was kidding..

Another Grand JJury ury witness w witness,, Lisa JJensen, ensen, describ ed a ho ostile enc ounter described hostile encounter with C Campos’ ampos’’ big siste sister, er, not yyet et an assemblymemb er, wh ho thr eatened assemblymember, who threatened her b because ecause she w was as working w on Carrasco’s C arrasco’s ccampaign. ampaign. was negative,” ensen told “It w as vvery ery negativ ve,” JJensen jury. the grand jur y. ““And A And if i I had thought about great length, ab out it at gr eat leng t I would th, have was ha ave ffelt elt e as though it w as slightly threatening.” thr eatening.”

Sincee that time time,, Me Metro Sinc tro has learned allegation that the bullying alleg gation fits pattern behavior a disturbing pat tern of o b ehaavior v Nora Campos’ part. portrait on N ora C ampos’’ par t. A p ortrait

emer emerges, ges, fr from om inter interviews views of mor moree than a doz dozen zen fformer o ormer st staffers aff ffeers and sour sources ces in and ar around ound the C Capitol, apitol, of an elect elected ted official who has let the p power ower and d pr pressures essures of the p position osition rage out of o ccontrol. ontrol. In addition to stories of o C ampos b erating Campos berating sub subordinates bordina di ates and d firing fi i emplo employees l yees at a rate unequaled u b byy her A Assembly ssembly p peers—which eers—wh hich led to w wasting asting nearly half a mill lion dollars that ccould ould ha ave million have gone tow toward a d cconstituent ar onstituent ser services— vices— ther a allegations that her theree ar aree also temp temper er ha has, as, at least onc once, e, in involved nvolved a ph hysic y al cconfrontation. o ontation. onfr physical

The Real R Nor Noraa Friends and ffoes oes will b both oth admit that N Nora ora C Campos, ampos, 47 47,, is not what she seems. seems. The p perfect erfeect smile and small fram frame me b belie elie an intensit intensityy that ccan an b bee eexplosive xp plosive b behind ehind closed do doors. ors.

During he her er ttwo wo terms as a San JJose ose ccouncilmember, ouncilmeember, she de developed veloped a rreputation eputation n ffor or b o being eing eextremely xtremely har hard d

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on her st staff aff but pleasan pleasant nt in public public— — quick to smile when itt ccame ame time to greet gr eet cconstituents. onstituents.

Despite running thr through rough st staff aff at a surprisingly sswift wift pac pace ce early in her ccouncil ouncil tenur tenure, e, the fina final al ffew ew yyears ears led to some semblanc y. semblancee of normalcy normalcy.

B sinc But i e arriving i i in i Sa S acramento, since Sacramento, C ampos’ A ssembly offi ffice has b een Campos’ Assembly office been cconsumed onsumed b yee e turno ver. byy emplo employee turnover.

In just her first thr eee yyears ears three in Sacramento ampos o had 41 Sacramento,, C Campos p eople work in her offi ffice. N o one people office.

No fr om her original st aff ff rremains. emains. By from staff ccomparison, omparison, assemblym members assemblymembers P aul F ong and Rich Go ordon, who Paul Fong Gordon, rrepresent epresent neighb oringg districts neighboring districts,, rrespectively espectively had just 211 and 24 p eople work in their offic o es o ver people offices over the same time p eriod,, with b oth period, both rretaining etaining rroughly oughly half of their original st aff ffeers. staffers.

“It’s eextraordinary,” xtraordinary,” said a sour ce “It’s source at the C apitol, who agr reed to sp eak Capitol, agreed speak with Met ro on the ccondition ond dition of Metro anonymity. “It’s “It’s unhea ard of f. W e’ve anonymity. unheard of.

We’ve

eally bad offic es at the had some rreally offices Capitol with witth some eexplosive, xplosive, vvolcanic olcanic Capitol tempers. Bu ut [C ampos’’ offic e] is tempers.

But [Campos’ office] unlike anything anytthing I’v d of in the unlike I’vee hear heard modern era.” eraa.” modern ibing C ampos, another In descr describing Campos, source adde ed, “The y’re p eople the source added, “They’re people theyy call ‘staff ‘staff ab busers,’ and the y’re p eople call abusers,’ they’re people eat their t st aff with disdain who tr treat staff disresp pect.”” and disrespect.”

B d on n numer ous inter iinterviews, t vie i ws, Based numerous eputattion C ampos has the rreputation Campos developed during her shor developed shortt time in o has not b een that of a Sacramento been ar or o fier ce adv ocate ffor o or her rising st star fierce advocate communitty. Rather, Rather, C ampos, sec ond community.

Campos, second charge of o the A ssembly after in charge Assembly being nam ed sp eaker pr o temp ore being named speaker pro tempore August 2012, 2 is known ffor o or the in August naature of her office—and office—and turnstile nature the horr or stories her fformer o ormer st aff ffeers horror staffers l ave with. lea ih leave nsion just rrose ose as yyou ou got “The ten tension no oon on Monda ay, when she closer to noon Monday, ve just b effo ore session,”” a would arriv arrive before fo ormer employee emp ployee said. former Added another a fformer ormer st o aff ffeer, Added staffer, seccond week,, I would get up “By the second ning and b hyysically ill in the mor morning bee ph physically thinking ab bout going into work. about work.”” ces told Met tro that Multiple sour sources Metro ny people peo ople have haave hightailed hightailed it so man many amp pos’’ Sacramento and d out off C Campos’ local districtt offic es that A ssembly local offices Assembly Speak keer John Joh hn A. Pérez Pérez admonished Speaker threatened e evok oke Campos’ Campos’ her and threatened to rrevoke abilitty to hire hirre and fir aff ff. ability firee her own st staff.

Flaaw wed political poliitical careers careers are are not Flawed th he Eastside Saratoga unique to the Eastside.. Saratoga assemblymaan Chuck Quack kenbush e assemblyman Quackenbush served e ffor o or ei ight yyears eears in the St ate served eight State Assembly and an nd rrose ose to C aliffornia o a’s Assembly California’s insurance commissioner commissioner o beffo ore his insurance before career spectacularly specttacularly imploded imploded in career 2000 amidst amidsst char ges that insurers insurers 2000 charges steered mill lions to Quack enbush h’s steered millions Quackenbush’s o oun ndations to aavoid vo oid paying paayying private ffoundations fi gan, billions in fines fines.. Another Sarato Saratogan, onn nyyu,, was waas bounced bounced out Ernest K Konnyu, ongress b voters o 1988 after of C Congress byy voters in 1988 m ffollowing ollowing o rreports eports of just one term inappropriaate b ehaavvior toward tow waard female feemale inappropriate behavior staff memb ers and a lobbyist. lobb byyist. Former Former staff members state assemblymembers assemb blymembers Sally Lieb er state Lieber arole Migden M wer oth known and C Carole weree b both for o verbally verbally abusing st aff ff,, and W eest San for staff, West Jose’s Rebecca Reb e eccca C ohn rrose ose to majorit ty Jose’s Cohn majority ssembly before beffor o e having haavving leader in thee A Assembly staff ccontrol ontroll taken tak ken e aaway way by by the speaker. speaker. staff ap ppears to set C ampos apar What appears Campos apartt

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READY R E A DY TO TO BURST BURST N Nora ora Campos was named spea speaker aker pro tem in August 2012. Around that time tim me her staffing levels bottomed bottomed out. is her tendency to take take things out on staffers—and staff ffeers—and more more commonly commonly female minions—damaging female e minions— dam maging her office’s office’s ability ability to help constituents. constituents.

“Staffers “St Staff ffeers die of a thousand th housand cuts and she lets them know kno ow that she’s she’s superior,” superior,” a former fo ormer staffer staff affeer said.

“They’re “They’re certainly certainly nott going to have haave your your back in a political political a firefight firefight if this is how you a you treat treat them—in t demeaning, demeaning, subservient subservien nt manner. manner. I don’t to do it. it.”” don’t know why wh hy she needs n The constant constant changes changges in staff staff have haave resulted resulted in Campos’ Campos’’ office offi ffice giving back $495,118 to the state’s fund. state’s general g This money money could could have haave been been used to hire hire staff staff and conduct conduct community communitty outreach outreach on the Eastside, Eastsiide, where where a fully-staffed multilingual fullyy-staff ffeed multilingu ual team is useful to interact with h constituents, constituents, but Campos’ Campos’’ toxic reputation repu utation hamstrung her ability ability to retain retain and recruit recruit employees. emplo oyees.

According According to office office budget b summaries provided provided by by the Assembly’s Assembly’s Committee Committeee on Rules, Ru ules, Campos Campos o had h d a $115,643 $115 6433 surplus l iin her first year year e in Sacramento.

Sacram mento. In 2012, when she changed mid-year from mid d-year fr om chairing the Committee Committeee on Arts, Arts, Entertainment, Entertainment, Sports, Sportss, Tourism To ourism and Internet Media to being bein ng appointed appointed speaker speaker pro pro tem, budget budgget summaries show that Campos Campos left ft $257,188 $2577,,188 on

the table, then went back into table, which w the state’s fund. Last state’s general g Last year, year, Campos Campos yet yeet again had a six-figure six-figure surplus—$122,287. surplus—$ $122,2877.

A Rules Rules u Committee Committee staffer staff ffeer told Metro, Metro, “Anything “An Anyything above above $60,000 $60,000 is way way more more of a balance balance than would normally be be left.” left.”

Right after aft fter being being named speaker speaker pro pro tem off the Assembly, Assemblyy, Campos’ Campos’ staffing staffing level level hovered hovered between between six or seven seven people peop ple for fo or a six-month period. period.

Most Assembly Assem mbly staffs staffs operate operate with a minimum of 10. Assemblymember Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski Wiieck kowski (D-Fremont) (D -Fremont) has had 33 employees emp plo oyees since since the beginning beginning of 2011,, but bu ut he also has had a staff staff of 19 so he can can chair the Judiciary Judiciary Committee.

Committttee. There There have haave been been times in the last three three years years when only one person—or person n— or even even no one—was one—was assigned to o work in Campos’ Campos’’ local local district office offi ffice in San Jose.

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“You “Y Yo ou are arre kind of missing in action then,” then,”” a source source said. “There’s “There’s only so much mu uch you you can can do—have do —haave a microphone micr i ophon o honee and d press press conference conf o fer e ence and wax wax [poetic]. [p poetic]. That is a reflection reflection that no constituent constituent services services are are being that there being performed, performed, o there is little littttle to no representation.” representation.”

“At “At the capitol, capitol, you’re you’re as good good as your your staff,” staff ff,,” added a former fo ormer employee. employee.

“And “A And if you you can’t can’t keep keep staff, staff ff,, that’s that’s

21 better understanding better undeerstanding of what she she’s ’s looking lo oking ffor. o orr. It It’s ’s not unhear unheard d of of, f, but it’s it ’s obviously obvioussly aawkward—the wkward—the blurring w line. of that line e. brains operation “The bra ains of her op eration is Rolando,” source myy R o olando,” the t sour ce added. ““And A And m understanding staff was warned underst and ding is st aff w as w arned not to ttalk alk to yyou ou ((Metro).”

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Lifee ass CCoach Lif oach Ryan R yyan F Ford orrd fr freely eely admits that he he’s ’s never had a mor oss never moree demanding b boss than N Nora ora C Campos. ampos. He ccompares ompares her to a ccoach oaach that w ants the get wants the b est ou ut of a pla ayer. It ’s unclear best out player.

It’s what kind of ccoach oach he means means,, but it sounds a bit lik likee the legendarily temp erameental Bobb temperamental Bobbyy Knight.

“Th b “The esst ccoaches oaches h Ih had d ar h best aree the ones who pushed p me ove me,, that dr drove me to push hm yselff,” F ord said in myself,” Ford a phone int terview. ““And A And I ffound o ound interview. that in N orra. I think that ffor o or man Nora. manyy it is a bit su urprising to find those surprising qualities in n a 4-f foot-11 L atina,, but m 4-foot-11 Latina, myy eexperience xperience working ffor o or her w as no was diff ffeerent than th han pla ayying ffor or a ccoach, o oach, or different playing studying un nder a gr eat teacher that under great rreally eally w antts to see yyou ou push yyourself ourself wants far ther tha an yyou ou ma ayybe kne w yyou ou farther than maybe knew ccould. ould. I think think that ’s a huge challenge that’s ffor o or her staff staff ff memb ers and some ar members aree able to mee et those challenges and meet others ar n aree not. not.””

Ford added add ded that C ampos ccame ame up Ford Campos under the Eastside E ’s old guar d. “She ’s Eastside’s guard.

“She’s vvery ery ccandid andid d in eexplaining xplaining wher wheree her mindse et as a st aff leader ccomes omes mindset staff fr om,”” he sa aid. “It ccomes omes fr om her from,” said. from time in ser v ving (as an aide to fformer) o ormer) serving C ouncilmeember Mann ny Diaz and Councilmember Manny under his chief c of st aff at the time staff time,, T on o y Arreola.

Arreo ola. She ’s vvery ery fforthright o orthright in Tony She’s sa ayying, ‘They ‘Theey pushed me saying, me.. The Theyy made me b etter and a str onger. I am who I better stronger. am, and I am a wher ecause wheree I am, b because the drove me to push m yselff.’” theyy drove myself.’”

What hee do esn n’t ’ sa ay is that Diaz doesn’t say and Arr eolaa b oth went on to b ecome Arreola both become lobb byyists with wiith rreputations eputations ffor o or pla ayying lobbyists playing fast and lo o .F ose ord and Bonilla ar loose.

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huge.” One of the mor huge.” moree bizarr bizarree incidents in C Campos’ ampos’’ offic o officee o occurred ccurred last yyear, ear, when she left ft op open en session on the A Assembly ssembly flo floor or and rreturned eturned officee ffor sole purpose to her offic o or the sol le purp ose of staff. ccastigating astigating st aff ff.. ““All All off a sudden she A officee an and paced ccame ame into the offic nd pac ed up Basically, and down the hall. Bas sicallyy, she told didn’t all of us that she didn ’tt know how she ccould ould get her work k done if she h d to had t do d eeverything verything thi and a d none off us were were doing anything. anything. She S said she didn’t understand whyy no one w was didn ’t underst and wh as plate. stepping up to the plat te. She left her us.. It w was onee of the most job to tell us as on surreal witnessed surr eal things I had wi itnessed in an officee in an anyy set setting.” offic ting.”

Campos C amp os went nine months m in having staff 2012 without ha aving v a chief of st aff patrol office. to help patr ol her offic ce. Sources Sources Metro tell Met ro that her rreputation ep putation was already damaged w as alr l eady d so damage d ed d after ft just j Assembly one yyear ear in the A ssem mbly that it became impossible b ecame almost imp osssible to get anyone agree job.. an yone to agr ee to ttake ak ke the job aboard Sailaja Rajappan ccame amee ab oard in November N ovemb er 2012, and has h passed the one-year one-year mark. Known Kn nown to operate op erate in a brusque manner m Campos, Rajappan similar to C amp os, Ra ajappan has tenures had one of the longestt tenur es Campos’ office. in C amp os’ offic e. However, How wever, it doesn’t hurtt that ccertainly er tainly i l do d esn’t ’ hur h h she h is i $11,067 paid $11,0 67 a month,, among the Assembly. highest in the A ssemb blyy. The next next highest-paid staff highest -paid chief of st taff ffor o or a Bay South Ba ay assemblymember, assemblym memb er, Sylvia Tang, Fong’s office, makes T aang, of F ong’s offic e, mak es nearly $2,000 per month, $2,0 00 less p er month h, at $9,333.

While these numb numbers staff ers and st aff aree all clearly laid out in changes ar provided byy th the Assembly’s rrecords ecords pr ovided b he A ssembly’s Committee Rules, C ommittee on R u ules, two two other staffers have been st aff ffeers ha ave b een a cconstant o ant onst presence Team Campos—despite pr esence ffor o or T eeam C am mpos— despite being employed byy the St State not b eing emplo yed b ate of California.

Ryan Ford C aliffo ornia. The duo off R yyan F ord Rolando both and R olando o Bonilla, who w b oth worked Campos’ staff work ed on C amp os’ st taff when she was w as a San JJose ose ccouncilmember, ouncillmemb er, aree paid in monthly in installments ar nstallments from Theyy fr om her ccampaign ampaign ccoffers. offeers. The off policy advise her on most p o olicy issues have helped hiree her st staff and ha ave also help ed hir h aff special and arrange meetings with sp ecial interests. inter ests.

“Theyy ar aree the cconstant,” “The onstant,” a ” said staffer.

“Theyy ar aree her a fformer o ormer st aff ffeer. “The managers,, th they aree her ccampaign ampaign managers hey ar theyy ar aree th the cconsultants, onsultants, the he brains and the ccounselors. ounselors. She hass cconfidence onfidence theyy think theyy ha have in them and the k the ave a

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MONEY T MONEY TALKS A LKS Bud Budget dget records show that N Nora ora Campos C failed to use half that helping constituents.. a million dollars tha at could have gone toward he elping her constituents

According A ccording to C Campos’ ampos’ o ’ ccampaign ampaign records, which ar records, aree filed with the Secretary Secr etary of St State, ate, the pair p wer weree paid $18,000 $18,0 00 in monthly ins installments stallments of $1,500 $1,50 0 all of last yyear. eear. In n 2012,, when Campos C ampos w was aas actually ru running unning ffor o or rre-election, e-election,, Ford Ford and Bonilla Bo onilla rreceived eceivveed weree made $21,815—again,, payments paayymen nts wer throughout thr oughout g the yyear, eearr, usually ussuallyy in $1,500 $1,500 denominations.. In 2011, denominations 20111,, Campos Campos paid $9,000 equally them $9,0 00 in six equ ually distributed pa ayments y o veer the last half h of the yyear. ear e . payments over When it ccame ame to hiring h st aff ffor o or staff C ampos, howe ver, F orrd insisted that Campos, however, Ford he and Bonilla wer n paid to weree not p erfo orm that function n. perform function.

“She do esn’t pa ay uss ffor o or that,”” he doesn’t pay said. “That is somethin ng that we something do pr ob ono on our own o time as pro bono supp pporters and friend ds and as trusted supporters friends advisers elatively advisers.. W Wee get paid a rrelatively small amount fr om he er ccampaign ampaign from her ac count in or der to ad dvise her on account order advise South Ba ay p olitics, st a wide p ate olitics, Bay politics, statewide politics, on her ccampaign, ampaign, on her h abilit abilityy to manage ongoing ccampaign amp paign financ es. finances.

But our rresponsibilities esponsibilitiees as friends go

well b beyond eyon nd what we we’re ’re paid on b byy her ccampaign ampaaign ac account.” count.”

F Ford ord sa said aid that sinc sincee C Campos amp os hired hir ed Raja Rajappan appan as her chief of staff, st aff ff,, he and an nd Bonilla ha have ave not interviewed inter vieweed anyone anyone to join the assemblymember’s assemblym memb er’s office. office. He added he’s never Campos that he ’s ne n ver seen C ampos act inappropriately anybody. inappr pp opr priatelyy with an yyb odyy. places “She pla aces a vvery ery high value showing serving on showin ng rrespect espect and ser ving honorably y,” he said. honorably,”

Talk T alk a to to My A Attorney ttorney Superstar Sup erstar a criminal def defense feense attorney S attorney Steve teve Manchester ccalls alls just after 11am on a Frida Friday. ay. He w wants ants to let me know k that he rrepresents epresents Assemblymember A ssemblym ymember N Nora ora C Campos amp pos and that an anyy suggestion su uggestion that she thr threw ew a chair at on one ne of her st staffers aff ffeers ccouldn’t ouldn’t bee further b furtherr fr from om the truth.

I tell Manchester M that the image of A Assemblymember ssemb blymember C Campos ampos throwing thr owing a chair seems unlik unlikely ely and “awfully “a aw wfully WWEW WWE-style.” style.” He laughs at

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D Dollar ollar Bills Theree is a theor Ther theoryy in p politics olitics perception that p erception is rreality, ealiity, and strength equ str ength is roughly roughly equivalent uivalent to strength the image of str ength eexuded. xuded. But Campos, when it ccomes omes to C am mpos, the rreal eal power appears p ower she wields app e to ccome ears ome from transferring political fr om the transf feerring of o p olitical ccontributions. ontributions.

Committee After chairing the C ommittttee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism Ar ts, Enter tainment, ainment Sp S orts, T ourism o Campos was and Internet Media,, C a os w amp as speaker pro tem, largely o tem named sp eaker pr m, a lar gely position.

She oversees cceremonial eremonial p osition. S he o versees Assembly when Speaker A ssembly meetings wh hen Sp eaker Pérez unavailable.

P érez is una available v .

“You’re policy “Y Yo ou’re not chairingg a p olicy with ccommittee, ommittee, dealing wit th ccomplex omplex arcane policy issues,” source and ar cane p olicy issue es,” a sour ce doing said. “What yyou’re ou’re doi ng is yyou’re ou’re facilitating. majority facilit ating. But the ma ajority of ffolks olks o because have gavel think b ecause yyou ou ha ave the ga avel that you’re presiding position you’re pr esiding with w ap osition power.” of p ower.”

Capitol source Another C apitol sou urce insists weree to eever that if something wer ver happen Pérez, emergency happ en to P érez,, an em mergency Campos meeting would rresult esult in i C ampos being speaker pro b eing rreplaced eplaced as sp eak ker pr o tem.

Campos’ have C amp oss’ victories hav ve been b een less on thee p policy key olicy side—her side—her k ey have violencee bills hav ve had h a domestic violenc social and so cial media slant, with her ironically first bill ir o ally ffocusing onic o cusing on bullying—and moree on sust sustaining bullying— —and mor aining status quo.. If yyou the st atus quo ou ccan an raise funds,, the par party always have funds ty will alw ayys hav ve a placee ffor Campos, plac or you, o you, and C amp os, almost always mode alw ayys in ccampaign ampaign mo de due to Assembly’s th A the ssemb b ’s ridiculously bl bly’ idi l l brief b i f terms, ttwo-year wo -year te erms, has shown in shortt time state her shor t as an elected st ate that official tha at she ccan an amass dollars aggressive pace. at an aggr e essiv e pac e.

Since Since October Occtober 2010, the month before Assembly b effo ore she won her A ssembly seat, Campos has given $225,650 Campos ha as giv en $22 5,650 to California Democratic Party. the C aliffo orn nia Demo cratic P arty. that period, During tha at same time p eriod, transferred $35,700 she has also o transf feerred $35,70 0 Santaa i campaign in campaig ign funds f d to the h Sant S County Democratic Party Clara C oun nty Demo cratic P arty independent and its inde ependent eexpenditure xpenditure Campos ccommittee. ommittttee. And C ampos has shown appreciation her appr eciiation to the South Bay Council Ba ay Labor Labor C ouncil (SBLC) ffor or o its mobilizing rrole ole mobili izing vvolunteers olunteers and ascend ccampaigning ampaignin ng to help her asc end to state legislature.

Sincee the month the st ate le gislature. Sinc before Assembly b effo ore she won her A ssembly seat, Campos has steered $71,000 C ampos ha as steer ed $71,0 00 to the SBLC..

SBLC Support from three Support fr om these thr ee entities been vital Campos’ political has b een vi ital to C ampos’’ p olitical abilityy to rreturn ccareer, areer, and her abilit eturn the favor unnoticed. fa avor has not n gone unnotic ed. In stand fact, it would wou uld st and to rreason eason that transgressions staff bee transgr essio ons with st aff ccould ould b overlooked moneyy o verlooked d as long as the mone from ccontinued ontinued to flow out fr om her Up ccampaign. ampaign. U p ffor or rre-election o e- election in JJune, une, Campos currently opponent.

C ampos cu urrently has no opp onent.

Nonetheless, moree than N onethelesss, she raised mor $276,000 $2 76,000 llast ast yyear. ear.

Meanwhile, Mean wh hile, East San JJose ose ccontinues ontinues to t lack true rrepresentation epresentation meaningful change.. and meanin ngful change aren’t pro-labor,” “These guys g ar en’t pr o -labor,” said a source, Campos source, describing deescribing the C ampos Shirakawa.

“Theyy use siblings and d Shirak awa. “The labor.

Theyy use working p people lab or. The eople pretext.

Theyy use the L Latino as a pr etextt. The atino pretext. ccommunity ommunitty as pr etext. These guys aree ab about ar out themselv tthemselves. es. When yyou ou have want ha ave power, powerr, yyou ou should w ant to leverage power improve le verage p o ower to impr ove the human condition. con ndition. These guys are are not about ab out that.. aree just ab about “These guys g ar out holding power power’s sake.

Att an any p ower ffor or o p ower’s sak e. A ny ccost. ost.

Att an anyy cost.”

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this and rrealizes ealizes he me meant eant to sa say ay chair. telephone instead of ch hair.

Now, have heard this story.

Manyy N ow w, I ha ave hear d th his stor y. Man times.. times storyy go goes es that during The stor d one Campos’ tirades,” of C ampos’ “private tir rades,” she threw thr ew a ccell ell phone at the t head of her She district ccoordinator. oordinator. Sh he missed. The was district ccoordinator oordinator w a gone in a as months.. ffew ew months says Manchester h say ys any any suggestion Assemblymember that A ssemblymemb er Campos Campos threw thr ew a telephone at one o of her staffers untrue.” st aff ffeers is “patently un ntrue.” When it’s Assemblymember it ’s noted that A ssemb blymemb er Campos dodged dged C amp os has historically historically do press pr ess inquiries that ccould o ould set the agrees rrecord ecord straight, Manchester Manch hester agr ees to assist. never But Manchester ne ver ccalls alls back facilitate clarification to facilit ate a clarific atiion ccall all Campos.

Neither does with C ampos. N either do es the assemblymember’s assemblymemb er’s $73,500-a-year $733,500-a-year director, Steve ccommunications ommunications dir ector, Ste ve Bay Area News Harmon, a fformer o ormer Ba ay Ar ea N ews Group Harmon was Gr oup rreporter. eporter. Harm mon w as brought staff br ought on to the st aff ff in JJune une of Apparently was last yyear. ear. Appar ently itt w as time to better on get a b etter grip on ccontrolling ntrolling the message.. message

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SF BEER WEEK, which kicks off Feb. 7, has made an incursion south: the in the South Bay with Steins Beer Garden & winter edition of the San Jose Beerwalk, taking place Feb. 8, 2-6pm, in San Restaurant in downtown Mountain View set to Jose’s Japantown. open There will Bar be wine andFrom cocktails, but The firstMarch stop is a28. check-in at Jack’s & Lounge. there, beerwalkers the primary focus will be on high-quality beers.

Steins have access to dozens of tasting locations, including art galleries, boutiques, will 30 taps a menu moderncan American cafes andfeature even an auto repairand shop—the trulyof determined enjoy samples from 22 different craft breweries.

The list includes New Belgium, Strike, comfort food crated by executive chef and Bay Area Hermitage, 21st Amendment, Lagunitas, Santa Cruz Aleworks, Hangar 24, native Colby Reade.

Lost Coast, Gordon Biersch and Legit Lager.

Owner and South Bay native Ted Kim is a beer enthusiast; he tells me Participants looking to temper the buzz a bit can drop by Roy’s Station, a that Steins is a salute to the traditional German beer halls and gardens, coffee and tea shop that will be serving free drip coffee during the event. which he experienced during his travels throughout Europe’s premier Beerwalkers who work up an appetite can swing by a dine-in or take-out beer cities. Designed by architect Marc Dimalanta, Steins features a 300crab feed that starts at 4pm. The crab feed benefits the Yu Ai Kai Japanese seat, 8,000-square-foot domed interior room and a 4,000-square-foot American Community Senior Center. outdoor patio.

To really sweeten the deal, the first 60 beerwalkers to check in will receive Ted, with his contagious positive energy, says that he can’t wait a complimentary tour at the Gordon Biersch Bottling Plant. This is one event for folks to check out the “in-your-face, custom-made walk-in cooler” you won’t want to miss. next to the main bar. Guests can gaze at the unique direct-draw draft Tickets are $30 in advance/$35 at the door. For a full list of tasting locations system—the tap handles are connected to the kegs, eliminating draft and breweries, visit thebeerwalk.com. Ticket proceeds benefit the Japantown lines and helping to keep the beer at the highest quality and freshness Business Association (JBA) & The Bay Brewers Guild.—Michael Rosa levels. Having 30 draft beers is a manageable number for staff, Ted says: “I want them to know exactly what we’re serving. I want to be able to give genuine beer recommendations, so ongoing beer education will be important.”

The food will have a local, farm-to-table emphasis according to A CENTRAL in downtown Jose’s in-house, SoFA district will soon be home chef Reade,SPOT and everything will San be made including breads to and a completely new agenda, of sorts.

First to Market, dedicated to American pretzels. Because of the generous kitchen space, there will also regional comfort food, plansbutchery to open and at the formerprograms. location of“We Agenda, be in-house charcuterie, pickling wantat 399 S. First Sanfood Jose,aslater this to St., make fresh as month. the beer is,” says Reade, who embraces beer’s The namein First to pairing.

Market plays on the restaurant’s location (at the corner of versatility food S. First St. and San Salvador, with Market around the corner).

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In a video posted on the restaurant’s Facebook page, Linn described how First to Market will approach American regional cuisine, a potentially amorphous concept. As she notes, “American food” typically brings to mind hot dogs and hamburgers—and nothing else. Although those staples won’t be excluded, the menu will focus on comfort foods and also be “game heavy,” with offerings such as bison tartare. Grits, a comfort food favorite that Linn describes as “pretty magical” when prepared the right way, are likely to appear on the menu.

First to Market is in the midst of an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds that will give the restaurant a little bit of a financial cushion in those crucial first months.

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Any Burning Mann ffanatic anatic from from the past 10 years will know Opulent TTemple, eemple,, the go-too non-stop EDM desert stage at the dese rt ffestival. estival. One of Opulent Temple’s Teemplee’s DJs, Cosmic Selector,r, is bringing Selector bringinng his own EDM Back Bar,r, the new dance party to Ba ack Bar location ffor or the CCypher, y r, which will now ypher Wednesday. occupy two rrooms oom ms every W ednesdayy.

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before Like Sonic Youth Youth o bef ore them, San Jose’s Breathing Patterns Jose ’s Br eathhing P atterns plays experimental with experim mental soundscapes pumps but also pum mps out intense, inyour-face your-f ace rrock ock & roll. roll. They drift in and out off tripped-out mellow aggressive space jams and a aggr essive postpost explosions, punk explosi ons, sometimes combining bboth oth into blasts multi-layered, of mul ti-layeered, psychedelic The punk rrock. ock. Th he vocals match emotional the emotiona al momentum of alternating the music, al ternating between hushed whispers whispers and fits of guttural (AC) guttur al screaming. screaming. e (AC)

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producer LLocal ocal hip-hop hip--hop pr oducer Clayton dropped William rrecently e ecently dr opped the single, “Fill “Fiill Ur Cup Cup Up” Up” ffeaturing eaturing rrappers appers SSage age the Gemini, J Maine, It’s Milla and D Mac. It ’s a laid-back club-banger club-bang ger with a slow bassline and synth h loop. The emcees take turns rrapping appping about the ways in they which the ey hook up with the ladies VIP in the V IP P section. William will spin “Fill Ur Cup Cup u Up” Up” on Friday at SStudio tudio 8 along with w a whole bunch of artists’ other arti sts’ club-bangers. (AD)

Most people p in the South Bay have already Giese’s alr eadyy seen Rey Giese ’s work, even haven’t ealized it. if they haven ’t always rrealized Since the t ‘30s Giese painted signs businesses around ffor or bus sinesses all ar ound San Jose, including includi ng IBM as well as the original Patrol sign ffor or the CCalifornia alifornia Highway P atrol on Thee Alameda. Giese passed away year last yea ar at age 93, after painting somewhere around somew where ar ound 20,000 signs the over th he rroughly oughly 80 years of his career. signaturee can car eer. His meticulous signatur spotted discreetly be spo tted discr eetly stashed in the cornerss of his hand-painted signs all the Bay. over th he South Bay y. Not only will this show feature feature Giese’s Giese’s own work,, but thee work of contempor contemporary also th ary local inspired Giese’s artists inspir ed by Giese ’s style.. (SL)

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Of llate, ate,, gaming has gotten a somewhat unfair province som mewhat unf air rrep ep as the pr ovince of couch c potatoes, but Rockage begs differ. beg gs to diff er. The gaming and music Grand mu sic ffestival, estival, hosted by Gr and Fanali Presents, thirdd Fan nali Pr esents, rreturns eturns ffor or its thir year—and yea ar—and heads to a bigger venue.

Rockage three-day Roc ckage 3.0 is a thr ee-day gathering of iindie ndie and chiptune p bands,, pplus an ar aarcade cade of rretro etro games. The event ffeatures eatures two stages, with a lineup thatt includes Bit Brigade, Slime tha Girls, Crashfaster, Picturee Girl s,, Mega Ran, Cr ashfasterr, Pictur Atlantic, A tlaantic, CCurious urious Quail, Gnarboots and Super Bros.

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SSAINT AINT MICHAEL TRIO Feb 9 at at 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

VALENTINE’S VA V ALENTINEE’S SUPER LLOVE OVE JJAM AM Feb 14 at SSAP AP Center

PAUL P AUL SIMON & SSTING TING Feb 17 at SSAP AP Center

PIXIESS PIXIE Feb 22 22 at City National Civic

THE SE SECOND COND CITY Feb 22 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

MILEY MILE Y CYRUS CYRUS Feb 25 at SSAP AP Center

GABRIEL IGLE IGLESIAS SIAS Feb 28 at SSAP AP Center

OLETA OLET TA AD ADAMS AMS March Mar ch 7 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

HABIB KHAN March Mar ch 8 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

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

JOAN AND TH JOAN THE HE RIVERSS RIVER Caravan LLounge, Caravan ounge, San Josee Free Fri, 9pm, Fr ee creative Joan and the Rivers aare re a cr e eative crowded psychedelic entry into the cr owded psych hedelic garage genre. gar age rrock ock genr e. This local trio riffs combines the powerhouse ri ffs of Sabbath-eraa stoner metal classic Sabbath-er m quirkyy late ‘60s psyched psychedelic with quirk delic around rrock. ock. The songs drift ar ound with w haphazardd swagger, a haphazar swaggerr, the guitars gu uitars trance-like chugging along with tr ance-like intensity.. The drummer has a lightintensity songs as-air swing that gives the so ongs a groove. sort of flower power gr oove The oove.

T trio, trio which fformed ormed only in 2012, hhasn’t asn’t lost fresh that fr esh spark. The band, which w has guitar,r, bass, drums and occas occasionally guitar sionally organ together or gan is loosely stitched toge ether with semi-catchy, semi-catchyy, fly-by-thefly-by-theexperimental ental seat-of-their-pants experim structures. structur es. They could just bee making (AC) it up on the spot. (A C)

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interesting One of San Jose’s Jose’s most in nteresting monthly dance parties, the thhe Workout, Workout, is making its triumphantt return return this it’s month, and it ’s no longerr at the it’s Agenda, it ’s at Johnny V’s—which V’s—which is a good thing because they’ll t have not one, but two rrooms ooms of o music and dancing. They also plan to t rreturn eturn to weirder their original fformat ormat of weir w der and darker dance music. music Thatt means obscuree house house, altdarkwave, obscur e, glitch, al tunderground rrock, ock, dance-punk and un nderground electronic shapes electr onic jams of all sha apes and Workout sizes. As As always, the W orrkout will Saturday be every first Satur day off every month it’s month—though this mo onth it ’s Saturday. actually on the second Sa aturday. (AC) (AC)

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one-to-two In ear-splitting one-t to-two minute WAKE, from songs, W AKE, fr om CCalgary, a y, CCanada, algary anada, punk/grindcore rrage age out in true punk k/grindcore gritty, ffashion. ashion. Their gritty y, to-the-point t narcissism songs take to task na arcissism and greed Western culture, gr eed in W estern cul ture, criticism that’s that ’s particularly potent potent on their album, False. The ent entire tire album is a non-stop blend of hyper h drum lines, li chaotic h ti guitar it riffs riff andd hoarse h screams—exactly what grindcoree screams—exactly w hat grindcor fans fans are are expecting. (AD) (A AD)

DEMI LLOVATO OVATO SAP Center SAP Center,r, San Jose Tues, T ues, u 7pm, $28 tto o $345

Demi LLovato ovato has come a long way since her days of singing with a purple dinosaur on o Barney and Friends. Betweenn chart-topping judging albums and a jud dging gig on The X-Factor X -Factor r, Lovato Lovato has become a teen pop icon. The The Neon Lights Tour stopping Tour o will be stopp ping off at the SAP from SAP Center, Center, ffeaturing eatuuring songs fr om Lovato’s Lovato’s ffourth ourth aalbum, lbum, Demi.

Lovato bringing Lovato will be bri nging some X-Factor X-Factor r girl gr groups ouups on tour with her, powerhouse her, including pow werhouse Little Mix and party popp Fifth Harmony Harmony..

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JENNIFER NETTLE NETTLESS March Mar ch 27 2 at City National Civic

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

PAULA P AULA COLE COLE March Mar ch 29 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

ANTHONY BOURD A BOURDAIN AIN & ERIC RIPER RIPERT T April 13 at SSJJ Center Ceenter for for P Performing erforming Arts

LADY LAD Y GAGA GAGA June 3 at SAP SAP Center

THE PIANO GUY GUYSS June 27 2 at City National Civic

CHER July 2 at SSAP AP Center

JJUSTIN JUS TIN TIMBERLAKE Aug 11 at SSAP AP Center

KATY KA AT TY PERRY PERR RY Sep Se ep 22 22-23 -23 at SAP SAP Center For musi music ic updates and contest giveawayys, like us on Facebook giveaways, at metr metrofb.com ofb.com

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*stage 11776 776 TTabard aabard Theatr Theatree Co Company ompany presents all-female pr esents an all-f e emale production pr oduction of the musical about the founding the founding of th he U.S. Fri, 8pm, 8pm, Sat, 3pm and 8pm m, Sun, 2pm and (plus Thu Feb 6 an nd 13,, 8pm) $12-$36.

Theatree on -$ thru Feb 13. $12 $36. Theatr Pedro Square, San P edro Squar e San Jose e, Jose.

CAT CA AT TONAHO ON A HOT OT TTIN TIN NR ROOF OOF Los Al Los Altos tos Stage Stage Company Company presents pr esents TTennessee eennesseee Williams’ Williams’ drama. classic dr ama. Thru Thrru Feb 16. Thu3pm Sat. 8pm,, Sun, 3p m (except Feb Altos.

2). $18-$32.. LLos os Al A tos.

CIRQUE CIR QUE DU SOLE SOLEIL EIL Acrobatics,, ffeats Acrobatics, eats of o str strength ength and clowning in a show set on island a mysterious islan nd watched goddesses.

March over by goddesse s Thru Mar s. ch 2. $60-$150.. Big TTop oop at TTaylor aaylor Bridge/Hwy 87, SStreet treet Bridge/Hw wy 87 7, San Jose.

THE FROG THEFR OGPRINC PRINCE CE California Theatr California Theatree Center presents pr esents theater ffor or ffamilies. amilies.

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R. BUCKMINS BUCKMINSTER ST TER FULLER San Jose Rep pr presents essents a oneman show about the genius with cutting-edgee ideas that inspired early inspired many ea rly Silicon Valley V alley ffounders. ounders. Thu-Sat, T 8pm, Sun 2pm thru Febb 23. $10-$69.

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SILENT SK SKY Y A woman pioneer i r in i astr astronomy t onomy struggles ffor or rrecognition ecoognition in this drama dr ama staged by TheatreWorks.

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TARTUFFE T AR A RT TUFFE Moliere’s comedyy of weal Moliere’s wealthy thy Orgon, Monsieur Or gon, who w invites a con man n into his Presented home.. Pr esented by Shady Shakespearee Thea Theatre Shakespear atre Company.

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THREEPENNY OPERA THREEPENNYO PERA San Jose SStage tage Co Company ompany presents landmark pr esents the land dmark early musical 20th century mus sical by KKurt urt

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Brechht. WedWedThu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm 8 Mar and Sun,, 2pm. Thru Ma ar 30. $25-$50.

THE WHIPPING MAN THEWHIPPINGMAN A dr drama ama set in the imm immediate mediate aftermath of the Civil War. War. Presented Renegade Pr esented by Renegad de Theatre Theatre Experiment. Thu-Sat, 8pm, 8 Sun, $10-$25.

7pm. Thru Feb 21.. $10-$25.

Historic Hoover Theatre, Theatre, San Jose.

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Bouchar d. Thu,, 7pm. Fr ree.

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DISCOVER DISC OVERSSAN ANJOSE JOSE ““An An Evening in Italy”,, featuring A featuriing photos color and black & white pho otos by various artists. Opening rreception eception Fri,, 7pm. San Jose.

Josee.

HISSTOR HISTORY RY YMUSEUMOFL MUSEUM OF LOS OSS GATOS GA ATOS ““American A American Bohemia: The CCats a ats Estate in LLos os Gatos.” Thru April A 20.. Los Los Gatos.

NATIVE NA AT TIVE V VOICES OICES

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TTom oom TTaylor’s aaylor ’s “Ishi Sings,” Singss,”” a chamber work that combines ch hamber orchestra archival or chestra with ar chival traditional rrecordings ecordings of tr aditional Native American songss will performed be perf ormed by the Mission M Orchestra Chamber Or chestra and and violinist TTessa eessa Lark. Sat, 7:30pm.

7:30pm m. $10$25 San Jose. $25.

Jose

““Around Around the Table A Taable SStage tage On One— e— Jitish Kallat: Kallat:: Epilogue.”” Endss April 20, 2014. “Around “A Around the Table: Table: a Creativity, Community,” Food, Cr eativityy, Community y,” ,” an exhibition that delves into how h culture. ffood ood has shaped local cul ture.

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Thru April 27 7. Tue-Sun, Tuue-Sun, 11am11am m5pm, closed Mon.. San Jose.

SOUTH B BAY AY GUIT GUITAR TA AR SOCIETY S Rovshan Mamedkuliev Mamedkuliev, v, first Guitar prize winner of the Gu itar Foundation of Americaa Competition.

International Solo Com mpetition.

Foothill Sat, 8pm.. $20-$28. Fo othill Church, Chur ch, San Jose.

Mitchh Weiss Mitc Weiss Photography Photography

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QU SAN QUILTS UILLTS TEXTILESS & TEXTILE “Metamorphosis: Clothing and a Identity.”

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Identity y..”” Jan 29-Apr 27 7. Opening Opeening Reception Feb 9.. San Jose. Tasty, Taastyy, too! Starts Starts Jan 29-Apr 27.

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TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM OF AR ART RT “Territories “T Teerritories of Experience” Experience” a

LARK LA RK SINGS SINGS V Violininst iolini i inst T Tessa essa e L Lark ark is the guest sol soloist loist for ‘N ‘Native ative V Voices,’ oices o s,,’ Orchestra’s Tom Taylor’s Sings,’ the Mission Chamberr Orchestra ’s concert featuring T o om T aylor’ a ’s ‘Ishi Sings s,’, traditional Native a work that combiness orchestra with recordings of tr raditional N ative songs.. The concert Feb Le Petit Trianon American songs c takes place F eb 8 at L eP etit T rianon r in San Jose. offer Feb The orchestra will off fer a preview of the program F eb 7 in a free lunchtime Le Petit Trianon. concert also held at L eP etit T rianon. r charcoal dr charcoal drawing awing exhibit byy Meyer.. Thru. artist KKatherine atherine Meyer Thruu.

May 44. Opening reception reception Santa Fri. Feb. 21, 6pm-8pm. Sant ta Clara.

Clar a.

GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “I Stand Stand For Sacrifice,” works workks

by Bill Dunlap. Opening 7pm-11pm.

Thru Reception Fri, 7pm11pm. Th hru Mar.. 22. San Jose.

Mar

ART AR T ARK GALLER GALLERY RY “Unsettled”, collaboration “Unsettled”, collaboration Seeger, between sculptor YYori oori Seeg er, and printmakers Dana Harris Harris and Betsy Barnum. Openingg Jose. rreception eception Fri, 7pm. San Jose e.

BLACK BLA CK BEAN CERAMIC CERAMICSS “The Art of Living Black”,, ffeaturing eaturing mixed media and ceramic workss by Bill Dallas Dallas, cer amic work s, Anjuelle Floyd, Tracy Tracy Ricks, Ricks, Will Johnson. Thru Mar 2. San Saan Jose.

BRUNI BR UNI GALLER GALLERY RY Jazz-related art by Bruni Jazz-related Sablan. Mon-Sat, 1-6pm.

San Jose.

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

DE NO NOVO VO Annual Valentine’s Valentine’s show show.. Thru Palo Alto.

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Feb 28 P alo l Al t to.

DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SHALA “Three S’s “Three S’s”,”, abstract abstract works works on wood, fabric, fabric, and canvas Allegraa Bick-Maurischat.

by Allegr Opening Feb.. 7th. San Jose.

Escalante, Yolanda Guerra, Yolanda o Guerra, Fernando Mastrangelo, Mastrangelo,, Viva Paredes, Paredes, edes, and Jorge Jorge Rojas.

Rojas. Live music by CADO Fri,, 8pm8pm-9:30pm.

9:30pm.

Thru Feb.. 15, 2014. San Jose.

MAIN GALLERY MAINGALLER RY “Old Favorites With New Hearts.”

Thru Feb 9. Opening rreception eception City..

Jan 11, 44-7pm.

-7pm.

7 Redwood City

GALLERY GALLER RY HOUSE “Wit & Whimsy,” Whimsyy,,”” an exhibition of photogr photographs aphs by SSteve teve Shpall watercolor and water color paintings by Bakker.. Thru Feb 1.. An Debbie Bakker opening rreception eception takes place 6-18pm.

Palo Alto.

Jan 10, 618pm. P alo Al to.

MEZCAL MEZ CAL Art by JJ.. Danniel.. Mezcal Restaurant, Restaur ant, San Jose.

MONTALVO MONT TA ALVOAR ARTS RTSCENTER CENTER

HIGHER FIRE CLA CLAYSPACE AYSP PACE

“Mountains in My Spoon,” celebrating celebr ating the Lucas Lucas Artists Residency Program Program (LAP) alumni’s explor exploration ation of food. food.

Thru Feb 9. “Come Healing.” exploree healing and Six artists explor wholeness. Ongoing. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm.

Saratoga.

11am3pm.. Sar atoga.

New works works by members, instructors and friends. Thru Feb 28. San Jose.

MUSEUM OF QUIL QUILTS LTS & TEXTILESS TEXTILE

GOOD KARMA CAFE GOODKARMACAFE “The Lucidity Lucidity of Travel,” Travel,” photography photogr aphy by Gary Singh. Thru Jan 25.. San Jose.

KALEID GALLER GALLERY RY “Painting the TTown “Painting oown since 1935”,, workss by San Jose ffeaturing eaturing work signpainter Rey Giese. Opening rreception eception Fri, 7pm. Thru Feb. 28.

San Jose.

MACLA MA ACLA C “MAIZE Y MÁ MÁS: S:: From From Mother Works to Monster?” W orks by Yvonne Yvonne

“Metamorphosis: Clothing & Identity”, y , various artists who chart the development of the Area Bay Ar ea Artwear movement.

Opening rreception eception Sun, 2-4pm.

2-4pm.

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McHenry has been creating paintings like this since those high school days in the backyard, with a couple of buddies slathering paint, pastel, ink, pencil or whatever else on a grid of cards held together by painters tape. ONE IN AN EVENTUAL MILLION This When the tape comes up, the cards painting is 324,718th in Jason McHenry’s separate into their own pieces. quest to create a million paintings.

Now it’s become the One Thousand Thousand project, which McHenry does with his friend Chris Dyer. Their goal: create one million pieces of original art, eventually. If he doesn’t get sick of it first. “It’s almost like a job now,” he told me. Sometimes, he’ll just feel like he’s phoning it in, having learned the tricks to augment or save a grid of cards. Sometimes he’ll get excited.

As part of South First Friday, Jason McHenry will be painting works for the One Thousand Thousand project in collaboration with harpist Anna Maria Mendieta, Feb. 7 at Sliding Door Company, 355 South First St., San Jose.

South First Fridays When I showed up, McHenry took me on a brief tour One Thousand of the house, then out to the garage where he’d set up Thousand project two grids of cards, one painted with some blue acrylics, the other pinks and reds. “Grab a brush or something.

Sliding Door Company Get in there,” he said. The workbenches held paint and KALEID Gallery, tubes and bottles, beeswax, poster paint, pastels and San Jose Fri, Feb 7 pencils.

So we spent the next few hours painting and drawing, the conversation ranging from J.D. Salinger to model airplanes to creativity and immortality.

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Now I’m definitely not a painter, but it didn’t really matter: “You gotta turn your brain off. Don’t be a darling about it,” he said.

So some teal on the pink, pick up that pastel—why not? Get out the ruler and the pencil, don’t worry about that poor crappy looking square in the corner. Paint it over in gold and umber. Don’t think too much—at the beginning at least. You want circles there, put circles there. They’ll get covered up anyway. Just keep the flow going.

McHenry estimates 90 percent of his paintings turn out decent, 5 percent mediocre and 5 percent “totally stink.” He enjoys collaborators, but knows when to take over the painting. While the goal is quantity, the individual pieces get attention and minute edits towards the end. Some turn out beautiful, a combination of happy accident and purposeful painting. Some are unsalvageable, but they’re still a number, redeemed as one of the million.

We talked a fair amount about the frustration of the project, how it can get tedious and overwhelming at times. But McHenry emailed me later that night: “And I'll keep going at this thing until I'm dead. I just know it. And in a lot of ways it's smart money to bet on the fact that I hit the one million point before that happens.” —Stephen Layton

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IN HIGH SCHOOL it was with wine coolers in the backyard. In college, maybe more like bourbon. Today it was a couple cups of coffee in Jason McHenry’s chilly Castro Valley garage, where we created paintings number 328,473 through 328,518.

And those numbers are on their way to one million.

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Half Cab shoes logo for his contribution to the ‘Birth of an Icon’ show.

Shoe Story

NOT EVERYONE could pull off an entire art show inspired by a single shoe design, but then most shoes don’t carry the significance that local skateboarder Steve Caballero’s Half Cabs do.

The art show, called “Birth of an Icon,” takes place at Cukui in San Jose’s Japantown, will feature work by more than 25 artists, including Caballero, who is also curating the event. The idea behind the show is for each artist to create a single piece of artwork based off the shoe in some way.

“I kind of wanted to do something with the premise of you know when people do artwork of the classic Air Jordans, they have the Air Jordan in the piece of art. People look at that painting and go, ‘oh cool, Air Jordans.’ I wanted to do the same thing but with my shoe, and when people see the painting they go, ‘oh Half Cab,’” Caballero says.

Birth of an Icon Cukui, San Jose

Fri, 7pm, Free The Half Cabs, which are made by Vans, landed in stores in 1992, right as street-skating was taking off. The shoes came to be synonymous with skateboarding and remain popular to this day.

Artists’ sole instruction in creating their pieces for “Birth of an Icon” was to take inspiration from the Half Cabs, so it probably doesn’t hurt that the shoes have such a memorable logo: a drawing of Caballero doing the Half Cab trick.

Interestingly, the Half Cab skateboarding move was actually pioneered by Tony Hawk in an alteration of the Caballerial—one of Caballero’s most influential tricks, which he invented in 1981. It was the launching pad for his career and a big leap forward for skateboarding.

It’s fitting, though, that the shoe is named after a trick inspired by a different trick, as the Half Cabs were based on a previous Vans shoe design of Caballero’s, the Full Cabs. They were essentially the same, only they had high tops. Caballero learned that skaters were cutting off the high tops and duct-taping them back up in order to skate better in them. He called up Vans and suggested they make Half Cabs and take a little height off the ankles.

Caballero’s contributions to skating are well known enough that the Caballerial was the subject of a Jeopardy answer a few weeks ago. (“Time to hit the street on this piece of equipment and do a Caballerial.” The question, of course, is “What is a skateboard?”)

“It was really cool to see that. It’s pretty amazing to see how far skateboarding has come,” Caballero says.

—Aaron Carnes

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by Shuhei Morita Morita osessiion” by “Posession” is based on n the Japanese Japanese animist whim thatt objects ac quire a soul— acquire lik ely a malevolent maalevolent one—after one—after 100 100 likely yyears ears off us se. A tink i ker, squar e-jjaaw wed, d use. tinker, square-jawed, an ttattered attered and nd itchy itch hy as great great Mifune himself f, is ccaught aught in a rainstorm. himself, He ’s shelte ered by by a house full of He’s sheltered objects—a abandoned kimonos objects—abandoned kimonos,, busted parasols parrasols and a room room of angry angry and undiff ffeerentiated junk. It’s ff It’s as undifferentiated bright a fictional fictional film about about creative creative rreuse euse as can can a be be imagined—Maker imagined—Maker Fair ten ndees would lo ve it.

Fairee at attendees love “P ossesssion” is a minor “Possession” masterpie ce, but somehow the masterpiece, wor dless Daniel D Souza ccartoon artoon wordless “F eral”” rat ttles t the emotions har der.

“Feral” rattles harder.

It ’s a paint ted stor faant It’s painted storyy of an enf enfant sauv age ffound o ound nak ed, running with sauvage naked, wolv es: th he child is eeyeless, yeless, but with wolves: the a mouthfu ul of nast mouthful nastyy teeth. He/she is “r escued”” b versized shadowy “rescued” byy an o oversized man, clean ned, dr essed and sent to cleaned, dressed scho ol. A p erson of sense do esn’t school. person doesn’t allow them mselves to think “I w as themselves was ab eautifu ul wild spirit onc e. The beautiful once. scho ols ccaged agged me ciety schools me,, and then so society after that. ’s how it b egins: that.”” That That’s begins: then yyou ou end e up as the kind of p erson wh ho helps themselv es to ttwo wo person who themselves separate parking p spac es. Howe ver, spaces.

However, yyou ou ccan an w atch something lik eral” watch likee “F “Feral” and ffeel eeel th hat loss that loss,, that anger anger..

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Culture War WHAT CAN BE said about this film is what is said in it, re: a painting by Hitler: it’s not bad, but it’s not good.

The Monuments Men tells a noble story of World War II, previously told in the vastly superior documentary The Rape of Europa. (And that documentary didn’t go in for Commie-bashing, pointing out how there were Soviet art-warriors protecting the treasures of the Hermitage by spiriting them off to Siberia.)

Hitler aimed to celebrate the triumph of his Reich with his tomb, the Fuhrer Museum, a hulking marble nightmare containing all of the art he looted.

We see a plaster model of the horrormuseum, but maybe this is where CGI could have shown it to us—the sight of the uniformed SS, crowing over the masterpieces, might have given us a better sense of what was at stake.

And The Monuments Men, about the U.S. military squad seeking what the Nazis stole, frets terribly about what’s at stake. Someone really got hung up on the question of whether or not it was worth risking the lives of our boys to save a work of art. Most viewers are willing to follow director/star George Clooney into hell and back, but he has to keep explaining what the purpose of

the mission is—first to FDR, then to an Army major, then, when the mess is over, Harry Truman (Christian Rodska). It’s as if the producers were worried that once the concept of a masterpiece of European art had been explained, they felt someone in the audience would ask, “Where’s Europe?”

Thank God for Bill The Monuments Men Murray, the only person over 50 not PG-13; 118 min. hated by anyone under 50, protected Opens Fri. from all harm by a bubble of bemusement, wearing an ascot with his olive-drab uniform and a helmet with his bathrobe. Hark to a dreadfully written romance between the scholar (Cate Blanchett) who saved the Jeu de Paume museum’s trove and Matt Damon as a Metropolitan Museum scholar with execrable French. It’s a floppy, centerless movie, understated to the point of occasional sleepwalk. The service comedy (emphasized by Alexandre Desplat’s goofy marches) gets baffling in the face of Nazi menace, and Hitler’s threat to take it all with him like King Sardanapalus.

Clooney may be our Cary Grant, but this is his I Was a Male War Bride.

—Richard von Busack

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ART’S IN THE RIGHT PLACE George Clooney directs and stars in this true tale of a military team tasked with reclaiming priceless artworks from the Nazis.

COLUMBIA PICTURES AND FOX 2000 PICTURES PRESENT A SMOKEHOUSE PRODUCTION “THE MONUMENTS MEN” MUSIC EXECUTIVE

BY ALEXANDRE DESPLAT PRODUCER BARBARA A. HALL BASED ON THE BOOK BY ROBERT M. EDSEL WITH BRET WITTER SCREENPLAY

BY GEORGE CLOONEY & GRANT HESLOV PRODUCED

BY GRANT HESLOV GEORGE CLOONEY DIRECTED

BY GEORGE CLOONEY

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Release the Hounds

’’XX’ XX’ M MARKS A RKS T THE HE S SPOT, POT, OR OR N NOT OT The H Hounds ou unds Below’ Below’ss only single relea released ased so far far, r, ‘Xx,” is a high-energ high-energy gy says doesn’t the band’s rocker that frontman f Jason Stollsteimer sa ays doesn ’t quite represent th e band ’s new material.

A darker darrker solo projec project ct morphs into the Hounds rock & roll trio with th he H ounds Below o w BY

BY AAR AARON O CARNE ON CARNESS

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ASON Stollsteimer ASON was w as never known to be a tortured artist.

His old o band, band the Von Von Bondies, a fun rock & Bondies, were w roll band, part p of the early 2000s garage-rock garag ge-rock revival revival alongside the t Strokes and the White Stripes.

Stripes. But toward toward the end of the decade, as they fizzled fizzle ed out, he focused on a darker darke er solo project project he called “Jason “Jason and the Hounds Hounds Below,” which B l w,” Below ,” wh h h sounded hi hich d d like lik a cross between betw ween early Against Me folk-punk folk-pu unk and ’50s Me rockabilly— —he describes it as rockabilly—he “straigh ht up tormented his “straight Orbiso on” project. project.

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a div divorce orce and dealing with the frustration Brothers otherrs fr rustration of the Warner Br label Von la abel rrepresentatives epresentatives pushing the V on o Bondies B ondies to sound more more “emo. “emo.” new project mutated The ne w pr oject mut ated into the t “Hounds Below, mellow Hounds Below w,” a four-piece four o -piece mell low “H post-punk, p ost-punk,, indie-rock indie-rock band that You Dark rreleased e eleased Y ou o Light Me Up In The Da ark in n 2012,, but have haave since since evolved evolved into intto harder, heavier oncee again fun a har der, hea avier v and onc fu trio.. rrock ock & rroll oll trio was outfit “It w as a literally an out fit for fo or a dark d time myy lif life. ti ime in m fe. Now Now I’m using it as a joy—not way an n outlet ffor or o jo y— —not just a w ay to t get myy thoughts out on pap paper. ge et m er. Myy band members aree 23 and 24. The They’re ba and memb ers ar ey’re all about al ll ab out living in the moment. And A theyy br brought that I missed that and the ought th hat out ou ut of me again. For For all I know I’lll probably Vegas pr robably get married in V eegas on this trip,, just b because life short, th his trip ecause lif fe is shor t,” Stollsteimer says.

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Bondies’’ biggest single, singlee, 2004’s 2004’s “C ’ ’mon C ’ ’mon.

“C’mon C’mon. ” Still Stollsteimer ins sists that “Xx” insists do esn’t rreally eally rrepresent epresen nt what most doesn’t of the ne ounds lik ke. The w material so new sounds like. songs ha ave elements of o danc e-punk, have dance-punk, indie -rock and garage - ock -r k— —all with indie-rock garage-rock—all a lot of ener gy. energy.

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only pla ay ab aabout out ffour o our songs fr om it. play from Op peningg track t “F or Y ou o And I”” has a Opening “For You mid-temp o Interpol Interpol disco-beat, disco-beat, and mid-tempo none of th he rrock ock & rroll oll scr eaming the screaming Stollsteime er w as known ffor o or with the Stollsteimer was V o on Bond dies. The majorit Von Bondies. majorityy of their curr ent sett is actually the hea avvier, current heavier, har der unr recorded material the y’ve harder unrecorded they’ve written in the past six months written months..

“W We’re vvery ery cconfused onfused at what “We’re the hell to o do do.. The eight that ar aree not rrecorded ecorded d yyet, et,, I kid yyou ou not,, ar aree the ones th hat eeveryone veryone lik es the that likes most,, whic ch is weir db ecause we ’re which weird because we’re pr omotingg the album. The other promoting songs ar t ones that actually get aree the p eople to actually a lik e—we’ve had people like—we’ve some cr ow wd sur fing and stuff ff. The crowd surfing stuff. debut albu um is a lit tttle bit laid back album little ccompared ompared to the ne w stuff ff. The ne w new stuff. new stuff ff,, p eop ple ccompare ompare it to Blo ck stuff, people Block P arty’s ear rly stuff ff,,” Stollsteimer sa ayys.

Party’s early stuff, says.

The Hou unds Below bring with Hounds them the suc ssuccess cess of the V on o Bondies Von Bondies,, who back in the early 20 00s wer 2000s weree pla ayying several-thousand-seat several-thousand-seat venues. venues. playing Howe ver, Stollsteimer S is glad to b However, bee back doingg smaller shows shows..

“I just lo ost cconnection onnection with p eople. lost people.

I ffelt eelt like lik ke I was was b eing ripp ed off and being ripped the eing ripp ed off ff.. I ccouldn’t ouldn’t theyy wer weree b being ripped off. eeven ven see th hem fr om the st age. The them from stage. bigger sho ows we pla ayed, the mor shows played, moree miserable I got b ecause I got no because interaction n with fans fans,,” Stollsteimer sa ayys. “I did dn’t w ant to do st adium says. didn’t want stadium rrock. ock. Thatt w asn’t m d rather wasn’t myy thing thing.. I’ I’d do ttwo wo nights nigghts at a 300-seater.

300-seater. Some bands yyou ou u see and yyou o ou think,, the y’re they’re going to b eat st adium rrock ock bee a gr great stadium band. The V o on Bondies wer Von weree not that band.”

The Hou unds Below w, par ticularly Hounds Below, particularly the latest inc iincarnation, arnation,, is not eextraordinarily xtraordin narily diff ffeerent than the V o on different Von Bondies et Stollsteimer is finding a Bondies,, yyet ne w cr owd d of yyounger ounger listeners new crowd listeners..

“The fan ns that kne w the V o on fans knew Von Bondies hey’re 30-40 yyears eears old. The Bondies,, th they’re Theyy do not go to shows an nymor y e. Which anymore. is fine b ecause a we ’re not doing V o on because we’re Von Bondie son ngs,” Stollsteimer sa ayys. “The songs, says. kids who ar aaree ccoming oming to shows now w, now, the y’ve ne ver hear d of V o on Bondies they’ve never heard Von and the ouldn’t ccare are less ’s theyy ccouldn’t less.. It It’s aawesome. w wesome.”

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5 8pm $5

THE HOUNDS THE BELOW BEL OW Blank Club, San Jose

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1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336 Wednesday, February 5 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 16+

THE TOASTERS

also Monkey

plus La Plebe !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M

Thursday, February 6 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 18+

RANDOM RAB/ ILL-ESHA

!DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M

Friday, February 7 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 16+

GARDENS & VILLA plus Waterstrider !DV $RS s $RS OPEN P M 3HOW P M 3ATURDAY &EBRUARY Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 21+

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE

!DV $RS s $RS OPEN P M 3HOW P M

Tuesday, February 11 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 16+

BARRIER

and Parasitic

plus Adaliah also Silence E !DV $RS s P M P M

Feb 21 The California Honeydrops The Brothers 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/ Rockie Fresh (Ages 16+) Mar 5 Datsik Digital Assassins Tour (Ages 18+) Mar 6 Greensky Bluegrass (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 14 Papadosio (Ages 16+) Mar 15 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+) Mar 19 Tycho (Ages 16+) Mar 20 EOTO (Ages 18+) Mar 21 Iration (Ages 16+) Mar 22 Jackie Greene (Ages 21+) Mar 29 The Polish Ambassador (Ages 18+) -AR Blue October (Ages 21+) !PR Emancipator Ensemble (Ages 18+) Apr 5 CunninLynguists (Ages 16+) Apr 7 Schoolboy Q (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

www.catalystclub.com

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Metro’s M etro’s music calend calendar dar runs W Wednesday–Tuesday. ednesday–Tuesday y.

MOJO MO JOLLOUNGE OUNGE

CLUB CL UBFFOX OX

Fri:: RevTones RevTToones All shows 9:30pm, Fremont. $5. Fr emont.

AGENDA A GGENDA LLOUNGE OUNGE

MOUNTAIN MOUNT TA AINCHARLE CHARLEY'S Y'S

Every W Wed: ed: Club Fox Blues Jam with rotating rotating bands.

City.

Redwood City y.

Every Thu, 9pm:: Banda Night.

San Jose

ANGELICA’S ANGELICA A’’S BIS BISTRO STR T O Fri,, 8:30pm:: Noriel Adricula.

City. $25-$30. $ 5 $30. Redwood City y.

THE B BACK ACK B BAR AR Every W Wednesday ednesday 9pm: Wednesday Roadhouse W ednesday with Slacker.. Fri, 9pm: The Unwilling Unwilling, Slacker g, Desecration, Ourr Behold the Desecr ation, TToo Ou Legends. Sat,, 9pm:: Hatchet.

San Jose.

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Fri,, 8pm:: Remones - Ramoness tribute band,, Japanese Baby - The CCure ure tribute band. $8.

San Jose.

Fri, 7pm:: Johnny Neri Band.. Sat, 7pm:: Spigot Band. LLos os Gatos.

RED ROCK REDR OCKCCOFFEE OFFEE Sat,, Feb.. 15, 8pm:: Rabbit Quinn..

SANPEDR SAN PEDRO O SQU SQUARE ARE MARKET Fri, 7pm:: Charged Charged Particles.

Particles.

San Jose.

SAP CENTER (F SAP (FORMER ORMER HP PAVILION) P AV VILION) Feb 13:: Imagine Dragons, Dragons, The Naked and Famous. San Jose

SSTATION TAT TION 55 Live music most Fri-Sun.. CCall all ffor or info. info.. Gilroy.

Gilroyy.

DANA D ANA SSTREET T TREET CCOFFEE OFFEE Second Mon of every month, View.

7pm:: Ukulele jam.. Mountain View w.

HEDLEY HEDLE Y CL CLUB UB Thu, 8pm:: Gus KKambeitz Thu ambeitz duo. duo Fri,, 8:30pm:: John W Worley orley & Mo 3rdd Chi Quartet.. Every 1st and 3r Wed: W ed:: Jazz Jam with drummer Marley.

SSteven teven Marley y. San Jose.

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

LITTLE LOU’S LITTLEL OU’S BBQ Wed:: A Wed: ACC Miles. Thu: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fri:: Evan Thomas and Papa’s Garage.

P apa p ’s Gar age. g CCampbell. ampbell. p

CAFE SSTRITCH CAFES TRIT T CH Fri,, 9pm:: Br Breathing eathing P Patterns, atterns, Little Sisters.. San Jose.

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

Clara.

THREE DE DEGREES GREES Every Thu 6:306:30-9:30pm 9:30pm & Fri, 7:30-10:30pm: 7:30-110:30pm:: Live music. All Ages. Free.

Free.. Los Los Gatos

THE X BAR THEXB AR

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

Thu, 9pm:: A Shin Dig with Shin Digg.. CCupertino. upertino.

WOODHAMS W OODHAMSLLOUNGE OUNGE Fri:: Live music. Santa Clar Clara. a.

THE CATS THECA ATS Every Thu:: Out of the Blue. Wed, Wed, 8pm: Johnny Neri.. Fri,, 8pm: Bornia Boys. Sat,, 8:30pm:: Rusty.

Rusttyy.

LLos os Gatos.

Jazz/Blues/ World W oorld

CHROMATIC CHR OMA ATICC T COFFEE OFFEE

AGENDA A GENDALLOUNGE OUNGE

CCall all ffor or inf info. o.. Santa Clar Clara. a.

CITY NA NATIONAL AT TIONAL CIVIC Thu,, 8pm: Styx.

Thu Styx. tyx. $45 $45-$75 $45-$75. $75. Feb 22:: Pixies.. San Jose.

CLUB CL UBFFOX OX Sat,, 8pm:: P Powerage: owerage:: A AC/DC C/DC tribute, Cheaper TTrick: rick: r Cheap TTrick rricck tribute, The Killer Queens:: Queen Queen tribute.. $12-$14. $12-$14.. Sun,, 7pm: Hookslide.

City.

Hook slide. $10.. Redwood City y.

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

Free.. 21 and over. over.

Fremont.

Fr emont.

MARIANI'S Fri-Sat:: Live Music. Santa Clar Claraa

Wed, 8pm:: Salsa. Thu,, 9pm: Wed, Vybez.

Banda. Sun:: Reggae V ybez. Sun: Reggae Night San Jose..

ART AR RT BOUTIKI

LLOU’S OU’S VILLA VILLAGE GE Live music. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

Groove.

Fri,, 9:30pm:: Got 2 Gr oove. Sat, 9:30pm:: Megatones. LLos os Gatos.

POORHOUSEBIS POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO ST TRO

Every second Thu,, 7:30pm:: Jazz Warehouse Free; W arehouse Jazz Jam. Fr ee; donations rrequested. equested.. San Jose.

Wed: Ron Thompson.. Thu: Wed: Nathan James Solo.. Fri:: Gary Smith Blues Band.. Sat:: Daniel CCastro astro Band. San Jose..

BLACKBIRD BLA CKBIRDT T TAVERN AVERN V

SSTEPHENS TEPHENS GREEN T

Fri, 8pm:: Brian Ho Quartet.

Sat,, 8pm: Cole Walker Walker & His Rhythm.. San Jose

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

BL BLUE UE R ROCK OCK SHOO SHOOT OT

UNWINED

Fri-Sat 8pm: Thriving Artists Artists’’ Showcase Sun, Showcase.

Sun, 4pm: Jazz and Saratoga.

Blues jam.. Sar atoga.

Every second and ffourth ourth Thu, Balistreri.

77-9pm: -9pm:: Don Balistr eri. Every Sat, eri.

Sat 77-9:30pm: -9:30pm:: Live jazz.. San Jose.

CAFE SSTRITCH CAFES T TRITCH

THE W WOODSHED OODSHED

Sat,, 8:30pm:: Austin Har Harris ris Andrew ew Speight.

Quartet ffeat. eat.. Andr Sun,, 6:30pm: The Eulipions Open Jazz Jam Session.

San Jose.

Every first and third third W Wed, ed, 7pm: Johnny-Cat. Blues jam with Johnny-C at.

LLos os Gatos.

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America's America's Greatest Big Band Show “Our emotions ranged from goosebumps to tears.”

—Ken and Elaine Aubrey

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Sunday, February 23 ~ 3 pm Matinee 135 W San Carlos Street, San Jose

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BLACKBIRD TAVERN

use limited-run cassette releases to experiment with their sound.

Cassette tapes have returned and they’re taking over the music industry. Well, maybe they’re not that popular, but within certain underground punk and indie circles, they have become a popular way once again for bands to release their music.

One band that’s taken advantage of this format is Portland indie rock band the Woolen Men, who’ve put out a ton of lo-fi, small-run releases exclusively on tape— and they sell out of them quickly.

“Considering how quick we were recording, cassettes were very fast to duplicate.

Obviously you could do DVRs, but we were recording Woolen Men to cassette tape on our four-track so it just made sense to continue on tape,” says drummer Raf Spielman “Doing Wed, Feb 12, 8pm limited run releases that you know are not going to exist for very long, it gives you some freedom to experiment, and try Cafe Stritch, things out, so that when it does come time to make an LP you San Jose have all the kinks out of the system.”

The Woolen Men finally did release an LP last year—actually they released two. First, they compiled the best tracks from their many cassettes for their self-released LP, Dog Years. They followed that up with a self-titled LP, containing all new material, on Brooklyn record label Woodsist.

Like the rest of the Woodsist catalog, the Woolen Men’s self-titled record is influenced in equal parts by sunny ’60s psychedelic-pop and noisy ’80s post-punk.

The songs are driven by Lawton Browning’s jangly guitar, Spielman’s minimalistic drumming and Alex Geddes’ punky, warm bass parts. They take turns singing. Their vocals are crooner-esque, but gritty, flawed and ultra-catchy.

Their LP with Woodsist was made just like their Dog Years compilation, only more quickly. They recorded upwards of 25 songs over the course of four separate recording sessions for the album, but only put 10 songs on the actual album.

The new album has a noticeably higher production value, at least compared to the muffled tape-recordings they’d been releasing, but that wasn’t so much an intentional move as their natural progression as a band.

“We were just getting the best that we could get, and now we’re just getting better at it. If you want to get good at something you have to do it a lot. We wanted to get good at recording ourselves and at writing. We just had to do it again and again,” says Spielman One thing unchanged in the band’s formula is their penchant for short songs. Like ’90s lo-fi gods Guided By Voices, some of their songs are so short they end almost abruptly.

“The easiest way to say something is to say it with the most impact. And if you can do the chorus one time and get your message across, the repetition is just a waste of time,” says Lawton. “You can think of the Minutemen and their punk ethos, like really short, or the way the Wire songs sometimes just get in and get out. There’s just something really appealing about brevity,” says Lawton.—Aaron Carnes

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CECIL@METRONEWS.COM If a cancerous tumor were cut out of someone, and said tumor was placed in someone else's body for some reason, would the transplanted tumor thrive?

—Pink Teet Yes. We know this because cancer is 2009 data found 14 percent of the transplanted by accident all the time. time when the donor had cancer it Organ and tissue transplants have was transmitted, and death resulted saved countless lives. But they pose risks, in half of those transmission cases. one of which is transplanting a disease When the donor was infected with from the donor to the host. In the case a communicable disease, fungus, or of cancer there are two primary scenarios parasite, 53 per cent of the time it was for transmission: cancer that forms in the passed on to the recipient—and more transplanted cells, and cancer cells that than a quarter of those recipients died are directly transplanted. as a result.

There are loads of case reports telling Cancer isn’t the only thing that can be us this happens, but how frequently is transplanted. Herpes viruses can easily hard to say. Although studies for the be transmitted from donor to recipient. most part suggest the risk is low, results HIV can be both hidden and virulent. have been all over the place: In one instance doctors transplanted Looking at 30 years of transplants, four organs and numerous bits of tissue the Israel Penn International Transplant from a 22-year-old gunshot victim Tumor Registry found when a donor with no known HIV risk factors into had cancer it was transplanted to the more than 50 recipients. Then they recipient an astonishing 43 percent of discovered he was HIV-positive. At least the time. Kidney, uterine, and skin cancer seven people, including all four organ were the most commonly transplanted recipients, contracted the virus. types.

Rabies has been transmitted via In contrast, a study by the United cornea transplant, the most common Network of Organ Sharing found zero type of transplant and normally a pretty cancers transmitted via 1,276 organs safe one. In one case a person who transplanted from donors with cancer. died of undetected rabies donated two However, a review showed most of the corneas, killing both recipients within cancers in question were either low-grade 50 days. or non-melanoma skin cancers.

Notwithstanding the risks, even when A study of organ transplants from doctors know a prospective donor has deceased donors in the United States cancer, they don’t necessarily rule out from 2005 to 2007 found cancer and donation. The waiting list for organ disease transmission in general occurred transplants is so long—currently 77,000 less than 1 percent of the time. Other Americans—that under the right studies have put the risk of cancer circumstances the risk is sometimes transmission at about two in 10,000 deemed worth taking. If the cancer in transplants. the transplanted organ can be isolated When a recipient does develop and cleanly removed, for example, the cancer from a transplant, the prognosis medical team may advise a recipient it’s is generally grim. Usually these are worth a shot. One study of 43 kidney already weakened people placed on transplants involving tumors less than immunosuppressant drugs to prevent three centimeters in diameter found only organ rejection. Treating transplanted one recurrence of cancer in nine years. cancerous organs typically involves Once in a while a transplanted-cancer stopping the immunosuppressant drugs story has a happy ending. In a case and removing the organ, subjecting the reported in 2006, a kidney donated by patient to another major surgery, and a a father to his daughter turned out to return to their prior bad situation. contain previously unsuspected cancer.

A study of 104 cases of cancer Surgeons were able to remove the transplanted to kidney recipients from diseased part of the donated kidney and 1948 to 2012 found 72 percent of those keep the rest going. Upshot: the father given melanomas were dead within 30 had a potentially fatal cancer removed, months of transplantation, and twothe daughter got a lifesaving transplant, thirds of lung cancer recipients were and a year later both were alive and gone within 20 months. Twenty patients cancer free. Never mind winning the had actual kidney cancers transplanted lottery—you don’t get much luckier into them, and three died. A study of than that.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Retrographic, 8139 Park Villa Circle, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Stepan O. Shurygin, 513 East Taylor, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #552768 with changes. /s/Stepan O. Shurygin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/17/2014. (pub Metro 2/05, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587184

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Julie’s Hair Design, 5138 Monterey Hwy., #C, San Jose, CA, 95111, Vu Quoc Nguyen, 165 Blossom Hill Rd., 66, San Jose, CA, 95123. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Vu Quoc Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/21/2014. (pub Metro 2/05, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587599

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Blaine Burgstrom Enterprises, 1711 Hogar Dr., San Jose, CA, 95124, Blaine Burgstrom. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/25/13. /s/Blaine Burgstrom. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/29/2014. (pub Metro 2/05, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587554

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Main St. Bagels2. Main Street Bagels, 3. Main Street Bagel, 4. Main St. Bagel, 838 Blossom Hill, Suite #5, San Jose, CA, 95123, Main St. Bagels Inc., 4507 Middle Park Dr., San Jose, CA, 95135. 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 1998. /s/San Trinh President C-2085166 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/28/2014. (pub Metro 2/05, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26/2014)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lagos Auto Repair, 525 Asbury St., San Jose, CA, 95110, Juan Enrique Gonzalez Briceno, 4098 San Ramon Wy., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/14. /s/Juan Enrique Gonzalez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/24/2014. (pub Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, 2/19/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586917

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fischer Health & Wellness, 1649 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Brian Fischer, 3948 Penwith Ave., San Jose, CA, 95130. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Brian Fischer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/13/2014. (pub Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, 2/19/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586744

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ecological Press, 424 Fairmont Ave., Mountain View, CA, 94041, Melody Parker. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Aug 1, 2013. /s/Melody Parker. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/09/2014. (pub Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, 2/19/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587345

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Orion Security Patrol Inc., 675 Gish Road, San Jose, CA, 95112, Orion Security Patrol 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 01/31/2007. /s/Yooshieh Gahramani. CEO #2878092 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/23/2014. (pub Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, 2/19/2014)

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/Dave Rego President #C3635328 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/23/2014. (pub Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, 2/19/2014)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Network Distributors, 1425 Circle, #104, San Jose, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Koll CA, 95112, Norcal Industries, NAME STATEMENT Inc. This business is #587346 conducted by a Corporation.

The following person(s) is Above entity was formed in (are) doing business as: the state of California Fantastic Bay Builders, Registrant has not yet 675 Gish Road, San Jose, begun transacting business CA, 95112, Fantastic Bay under the fictitious business Builders Inc. This business is name or names listed conducted by a Corporation. herein. /s/Jason Colyar Above entity was formed Owner/President in the state of California. #C2509788. This statement Registrant began was filed with the County transacting business under Clerk of Santa Clara County the fictitious business name on 1/22/2014. (pub or names listed herein on Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, 01/01/2014. /s/Yooshieh 2/19/2014) Gahramani CEO #3090241 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS This statement was filed with the County Clerk NAME STATEMENT of Santa Clara County #587273 on 1/23/2014. (pub The following person(s) is Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, (are) doing business as: 2/19/2014) Cash Cove, 1060 Willow St., San Jose, CA, 95125, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #3, George F. Olson, 6272 NAME STATEMENT Blauer Lane, San Jose, CA, #587349 95135. This business is The following person(s) is conducted by a individual. (are) doing business as: 1.

Registrant began Yosh Enterprises, 2. Orion transacting business under Security, 3. Paramount the fictitious business name Investigations, 4. Yosh or names listed herein on Building Maintenance, 675 09-1993. Refile of previous East Gish Road, San Jose, file #560120 with changes.

CA, 95112, Yosh Enterprises /s/George F. Olson Inc. This business is This statement was filed conducted by a Corporation. with the County Clerk Above entity was formed in of Santa Clara County the state of California on 1/22/2014. (pub Registrant began Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, transacting business under 2/19/2014) the fictitious business name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS or names listed herein on 06/15/1995. Refile of NAME STATEMENT previous file #454050 after #586547 40 days of expiration date.

The following person(s) is /s/Yooshieh Gahramani (are) doing business as: CEO #195976. This 3D.B.Tile, 3625 Clear Brook statement was filed with the Ct., San Jose, CA, 95111, County Clerk of Santa Clara David Corena. This business County on 1/23/2014. is conducted by a individual. (pub Metro 1/29, 2/05, Registrant has not yet 2/12, 2/19/2014) begun transacting business the fictitious business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS under name or names listed NAME STATEMENT herein. /s/David Corena #587336 This statement was filed The following person(s) with the County Clerk is (are) doing business of Santa Clara County as: Quality Air Heating & on 1/03/2014. (pub Cooling, 4783 La Cresta Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, Way, San Jose, CA, 95129, 2/19/2014) Superior Builders, Inc, 4789 La Cresta Way, San Jose, CA, 95129. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587143

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Quality Line Painting Plus, 2400 Tennant Av., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Angie Trujillo, Marilu G. Nieto.

This business is conducted by a general partnership.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Marilu Nieto This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/17/2014. (pub Metro 1/22, 1/29, 2/05, 2/12/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586605

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The First Tee of Silicon Valley, 1922 The Alameda, Suite 214, San Jose, CA, 95126, The Future Talent of Silicon Valley. 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 12/17/2013. /s/Victor M, Arranaga, Jr. President #C3575156. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/06/2014. (pub Metro 1/22, 1/29, 2/05, 2/12/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586878 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

Sushi Heroes, 1335N. First Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Issei Chiba, 3770 Flora Vista Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95051. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Issei Chiba This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/10/2014. (pub Metro 1/22, 1/29, 2/05, 2/12/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586164

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: J3 Consulting, 845 Black Wy., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Jennifer Beck, Chris Beck.

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 Beck This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/19/2013. (pub Metro 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/05/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #585993

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fire Line Clearing and Hauling, 5894 Garces Ave., San Jose, CA, 95123, Eric Elmore.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/8/13. /s/Eric Elmore This statement was filed

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587014

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cars 2 G, 101 Keyes Street, KTTC LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. 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/Kamal Daoud Manager #201324210213 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/14/2014. (pub Metro 1/22, 1/29, 2/05, 2/12/2014)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #586874

The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): AAA Construction Services, 5011 Capistrano Ave., Michael William Takis.

This business was conducted by an individual.

Filed in Santa Clara county on 1/10/14.

Under file no. 573909. /s/Michael William Takis This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/10/20143. (pub Metro 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/05/2014)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bay Area Rodent Solutions, 645 E. McGlincey Ln., Campbell, CA, 95008, Bay Area Rodent Construction Solutions.

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 01/09/2014. /s/Stanley Bapu President #3609183 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/10/2014. (pub Metro 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/05/2014)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AAA Construction Services, 2927 Driftwood Drive, San Jose, CA, 95128, Paula Andrea Sanin Villa.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Jan 10, 2014. /s/Paula Andrea Sanin Villa This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/10/2014. (pub Metro 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/05/2014)

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I really hope you don't even come close to having an experience like that this week, Aries. But I'm worried that you will. I sense that you're becoming allergic to caution. You may be subconsciously wishing to shed all decorum and renounce self-control. To be clear, there's nothing inherently wrong with relaxing your guard. I hope you will indeed give up some of your high-stress vigilance and surrender a bit to life's sweet chaos. Just please try to find a playful and safe and not-too-insane way to do so.

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thing you could do to fulfill your number one desire?

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When songwriters make

a “slant rhyme,” the words they use don't really rhyme, but they sound close enough alike to mimic a rhyme.

An example occurs in “The Bad Touch,” a tune by the Bloodhound Gang: “You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals / So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.” Technically, “mammals” doesn't rhyme with “channel.” I suspect that in the coming week you will have experiences with metaphorical resemblances to slant rhymes. But as long you don't fuss and fret about the inexactness you encounter, as long as you don't demand that everything be precise and cleaned-up, you will be entertained and educated. Vow to see the socalled imperfections as soulful.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Almost,” writes novelist Joan Bauer. “It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere.

Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.” I'm sure you know about that feeling yourself, Cancerian. Sometimes it has seemed like your entire life is composed of thousands of small almosts that add up to one gigantic almost.

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song “The Boys of Summer” reached the top of the Billboard charts. “Out on the road today / I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac,” Henley sings wistfully near the end of the tune. He's dismayed by the sight of the Grateful Dead's logo, an ultimate hippie symbol, displayed on a luxury car driven by snooty rich kids.

Almost 20 years later, the band The Ataris covered “The Boys of Summer,” but changed the lyric to “Out on the road today / I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.”

It conveyed the same mournful contempt, but this time invoking the iconic punk band Black Flag. I offer this tale to you, Virgo, as an encouragement to update the way you think about your life's mythic quest, to modernize your old storylines, to refresh and refurbish the references you invoke to tell people about who you are.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Food aficionado Michael Pollan says that Americans “worry more about food and derive less pleasure from eating” than people in other countries. If you ask them what their association is with

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“chocolate cake,” they typically say “guilt.” By contrast, the French are likely to respond to the same question with “celebration.” From an astrological perspective, I think it's appropriate for you to be more like the French than the Americans in the coming weeks—not just in your attitude toward delicious desserts, but in regards to every opportunity for pleasure. This is one of those times when you have a license to guiltlessly explore the heights and depths of bliss.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the Inuktitut language

spoken among the Eastern Canadian Inuit, the word for “simplicity” is katujjiqatigiittiarnirlu. This amusing fact reminds me of a certain situation in your life. Your quest to get back to basics and reconnect with your core sources is turning out to be rather complicated. If you hope to invoke all of the pure, humble clarity you need, you will have to call on some sophisticated and ingenious magic.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “What is

the purpose of the giant sequoia tree?” asked environmentalist Edward Abbey. His answer: “The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.” I suggest you meditate on all the ways you can apply that wisdom as a metaphor to your own issues. For example: What monumental part of your own life might be of service to a small, fragile part? What major accomplishment of yours can provide strength and protection to a ripening potential that's underappreciated by others?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves,” wrote the poet Federico García Lorca. I urge you to make sure you are not inflicting that abuse on yourself in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It's always dangerous to be out of touch with or secretive about your holy passions, but it's especially risky these days. I'm not necessarily saying you should rent a megaphone and shout news of your yearnings in the crowded streets. In fact, it's better if you are discriminating about whom you tell. The most important thing is to not be hiding anything from yourself about what moves you the most.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Back in 2005, three

young men launched YouTube, in part motivated by a banal desire. They were frustrated because they couldn't find online videos of the notorious incident that occurred during the Super Bowl halftime show, when Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction exposed her breast. In response, they created the now-famous website that allows people to share videos. I foresee the possibility of a comparable sequence for you, Aquarius. A seemingly superficial wish or trivial interest could inspire you to come up with a fine new addition to your world. Pay attention to your whimsical notions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I believe more in the

scissors than I do in the pencil.” That's what 20thcentury author Truman Capote said about his own writing process. Back in that primitive pre-computer era, he scrawled his words on paper with a pencil and later edited out the extraneous stuff by applying scissors to the manuscript. Judging from your current astrological omens, Pisces, I surmise you're in a phase that needs the power of the scissors more than the power of the pencil. What you cut away will markedly enhance the long-term beauty and value of the creation you're working on.

Homework: I've gathered together all of your long-range, big-picture horoscopes in one place. Go here to read your forecasts for 2014: http://bit.ly/BigLife2014

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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