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FAST F A TRACK AST TRACK TTristan ristan W Walker alker (pictured) ( and L Laura aura W Weidman eidman e nP Powers owers created Code2040 diversity Valley circles.

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aised by a single mot mother ther in the rough stretch New York’s of N ew Y o ork’s JJamaicaamaica aQueens borough, Tristan Trisstan Walker Walker stayed indoors and counted co ounted dollars in his head.

He’d He’d be famous like the black k men m he saw on TV. TV V. Maybe basketball. basketball. k b ll Maybe M b movies. movies i .

Maybe didn’t M both. But he didn ’t go o outside ou utside to shoot jumpshots and an nd he never played a part. The T money would come though. It m was was only a matter of time.

“Growing “Gr owing up up,, I had one goal in lif life: fe: e geet as wealth get wealthy hy as p possible ossible as quickly as a possible, p o ossible ,” Walk Walker keer sa says. ayys. “I didn didn’t n’’t know w w wealth w what was, as a , but I kne knew wIw wanted aanteed it.

Iw wanted aanted d to do d well ll and dIw wanted anted a d to b bee able ab ble to ttake ak ke ccare ar are of m myy family family. y.”

With W ith i ffew ew options options,, he channeled hi his is ambition am mbition into ac academics. ademics. By high sch school, hool, perfect p e feect grades landed him a full-ride to er t a New N ew England b boarding oarding scho school, ol, his fir first rst up-close up p-close enc encounter ounter with aristo aristocracy. cracyy.

“I got g to see how the other half

livved, lived, e ” Walk Walker keer sa says. ays y . “My classmates wer weree cconfident, onfident the onfident, they ey had a b boldness o oldness I hadn hadn’t n’’tt seen b before. effor o e. The Theyy b believed elieved e the they ey ccould ould do anything an nyything the they ey w wanted. aanted.”

After graduating fr from om m Ston Stony ny Br Brook ook University U niv n versit e ty on L Long ong Islan Island, nd, he to took ok a job as a trader on Walll Str Street. eet. The dollars st started arted to rroll oll in but b ther theree w was aas something missing missing.. He hated h the job that sto stood od the b best est chan chance ncce of making him rich.

“It w was aas a blessing in di disguise, isguise,” Walk Walker keer says. sa ayys. “II w was aas a victim of a bad b cultur culture, e, one wher where re most of the emphasis e w was aas on at attaining ttaining wealth. It ffelt eelt empt empty. ty. I later rrealized ealized that that’s ’s not what I w wanted. aanted. I w was aas successful, suc cessful, e Iw was aas go good od at it, but it didn didn’t n’’t fulfill me me.. I needed to ge get et as far aaway way from fr om Wall Str Street eet as figur figuratively urativveely and physically ph hysic y ally p possible, ossible, whic which ch br brought ought me to Silicon Silic on V Valley. aalleeyy. y”” He set settled tttled in as a busi business iness major at Stanford St taanffor o d and somethingg click clicked. keed.

“I realized realized li d there th e are ther are other otther t 24-year-olds th 24--yeearr-olds ld making tons and tons off mone money ey doing meaningful, lif life-changing fe-changin ng things in the world,” he sa says. ays y . “It w was aas th the he first time I rrealized ealized that in Silic Silicon on V Valley aalleey I ccould ould b bee who I needed to b be. e.”

Walker Walk keer had to hustle to br break eak into the inner cir circles cles of the va valley’s alleeyy’s st startup taartup

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Building network from sc ene. Build ding a net twork w fr om the ground up,, he secur secured gr ound up ed an internship at Twitter T witttter in 2008 w 2 08 as a first-year 20 firstt-yeear business Then, worked way student. Th hen, he work keed his w ay Foursquare into F oursq quarre as head of business development—after several ignored de eveelopmentt—after — se eveeral ignor ed attempts at ttempts t to o ccontact onttaact the ccompany’s o ompan o nyy’s become ffounders. ounders. He o H left in 2012 to b ecome an entrepreneur-in-residence Andreessen entr reepreneurr--in-residence at Andr reeessen Horowitz.

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African American Latino ““A A lot of Afric can a Americ an and L atino don’t Silicon Valley students do on n’’t rrealize ealize Silic on V aalleey is a place, says Walker, plac ce,” sa ayys Walk W keerr, now 29 and living Palo wife, teacher. in P alo Alto o with his wif fe, a teacher r. oncee the here, it’s hard ““And And onc A tthey ey get her e, it ’s vvery er e y har d way make ffor or them to o o find a w ay in, to mak ke those cconnections onnection ns and get in a rroom oom with people p eople l who ho ccan an a fund f d their th i idea. id ” Walker byy Walk er aims to change that b getting actively get tting t ccompanies om mpanies to activ veely rrecruit ecruit moree div diverse a mor verse set of ttalent. alent. His organization, Code2040, or ganizatio on, C ode2040, is named impending demographic after the im mpending demo graphic 2040, shift in 204 40, when minorities will become the majorityy in the U United b ecome th he majorit nited States.

Walker Laura Weidman St ates. Wa alker and L aura W eeidman Powers, P owers, a cco-founder o-ffo ounder and eexecutive xecutive director Code2040, scout dir ector at C ode2040, sc out highachieving Latino achie hi ving i black bl k and b dL atino i students d sciencee and majoring in i ccomputer omputer scienc engineering. organization ng. The or ganization engineerin places people then plac ess these yyoung oung p eople in ccompetitive, ompetitivve, well-paid ffellowships eellowships top-tier Walker with top -tiier tech ccompanies. ompanies. Walk er

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8 For F or ccompanies, omp panies, the b best est pitch ffor or o divversit diversity e ty in general, g P Powers owers sa says, ayys, is money bee made made.. In a generation, 42 mone ey to b percent the population p erceent of th he ccountry’s ountry’s p opulation will bee black or L Latino. b atino.

“We’ll have different “W We’ll ha ave a wildly diff ffeerent base,,” P Powers says. cconsumer onsumer base b owers sa ayys. “On the the people one hand, th he p eople buying yyour our o products will look different, have pr oducts wi ill lo ok diff ffeerent, ha ave different cultural backgrounds have diff ffeerentt cul l lt ltural l back b kggrrounds o d and d ha h ave moree div diverse processes mor vers e se thought pr ocesses in terms purchasing. of pur chasin ngg.” have “What yyou o get when yyou ou o ou ha ave a moree div diverse workforce broader mor vers e se workf fo orce is a br oader set of solutions rrooted background, ooted in their back kgground,” says Cedric Brown, partner sa ayys C edric Br B own, a managing par tner at the Kap Kapor Center Social orr C enter ffor or So o cial Impact, organization like Code2040.

“People an or ganizat ation lik ke C ode2040. “P eople draw from dra aw fr om their t own eexperience xp x erience and when yyou have people ou ha o ave p eople of ccolor olor technology rrepresented epresented d in i technolo h l gy fields fi ld yyou ou o startups address get st artups that addr ess a unique set of problems. pr oblems.”

Take Regalii, T ak ake R eegaalii, a mobile app that allows anyone overseas an nyo one with h friends or family o veerseas wiree ccash home.. Driv Driven byy to wir ash h back home veen b frustrations trying his own frus strations in tr ying to send money his Dominican mone ey to hi is family in the Dominic caan Republic, Edrizio created R epublic e , Ed drizio de la Cruz cr reeated software that process, softw waare tha at simplified the pr ocess, people allowing p eople to rreceive eceivve rremittances emitttances credits bills,, gr groceries in the fform orm o of cr edits ffor or bills o oceries offering incentives or medicinee and off ffeering inc entivvees ffor o or point-of-sale overseas. p ointt-off-salee vvendors eendors o veerseas. solution from “This solu ution ccame ame fr om a vvery eery personal need, Brown notes.. p ersonal ne ed,” Br own notes “It’s “It ’s rremarkable emaark kaable to see the wealth of ideas yyou people ou o u get when yyou ou get p o eople entrepreneurial eflects whose entr e reeneurial ffocus epr ocus rreflects growing their eexperience xxperieencce gr owing up in these unique,, inte interesting backgrounds, unique eresting back kggrounds,” he adds.. “Ther “There’s growing trend look adds re’s a gr owing tr end to lo ok innovators unlikely places ffor or inno o ovvato ors in unlik keely plac es to raise visibility broader oader the visibilit ty of tech ccareers areers to a br section of so society. ocietty.”

Street Though Wall W Str eet left a bad ttaste aaste mouth, Walker in his mouth h, Walk keer rremembers emembers some words advice from wor ds of adv vicce fr om a ccolleague olleague he admired.

“He figured admir ed. “H He told me he figur ed out life, Walker says.

“You spend lif fe,” Walk keerr sa ays y . “Y Yo ou sp end the first third learning, second partt thir d of it lea arningg, the sec ond par third earning and d the thir d rreturning. eturning.” becoming That thinking nking is b ecoming thin increasingly through incr easinglyy outdated thr ough technology startup technolo gy and st artup entrepreneurship. process entr epreneu urship. The pr ocess to earn sped and bee done is sp ed up an nd giving back ccan an b simultaneously, Walker says. simult taneou a uslyy, Walk keer sa ays y. love that.

That’s “I lo ove th hat. That ’s the fascinating about technology—it does thing ab outt technolo gy— —it do es get yyou o ou to think ab about broader o that br out oader vision.”

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hop hopes es to mak makee their path paath to Silic Silicon on V Valley aalley mor moree clear clear-cut -cut th than han his own was. was s. percent ompanies Only 1 p ercent e of tech ccompanies United States have in the U n nited St taates ha ave a black according byy ffounder, o ounder, ac cording to a 2013 2 ccount ount b the National Scienc Sciencee F Foundation. ou undation. And Latino students while black and L atino st tudents earn percent degrees, 18 p ercent of ccomputer omputer o ssciencee degr scienc ees, they make percent th the ey mak ke up just j t 9.2 p ercentt off the er th tech t h industry. industr y.

“That’s shame,, b because, one,, all “That ’s a shame eccaau use, ffor or one o culturee is le led byy Americ American international cultur ed b caan culture, byy black culturee and, cultur e, which is led b b cultur moree rrecently, Latino culture, Walker mor ecceentlyy, L atino cul lture,” Walk keer says.

“So,, fr from standpoint, sa ayys. “So om a businesss st andpoint, makes diversify. it mak kes e sense to div veersiffy. Black and Latinos aree the earliest ad adopters new L atinos ar dopters of ne w technologies; they’re technolo gies; the eyy’re the ones touching products.

It’s these pr oducts. It ’s up to us to help moree p people mor eople l rrealize ealize li that h t their h i ambition bi i doesn’t have bee to become do esn n’’t ha ave to just b ob ecco ome star next the st taar athlete or the ne x Denzel xt Washington.

Washing gtton.”

Code2040 third C ode2040 is going on n its thir d yyear eear summer.

Powers Walker this summer r. P owers and d Walk keer eexpect xpect from to rrecruit ecruit up to 40 ffellows, eellow ws, up fr ro om the five helped jumpstart program fiv ve that help ed jumpst a t the pr ar ogram Theyy lo look students in 2012. The ok ffor or o stu udents outside Harvard the ttypical yypiccaal rrealm—MIT, ealm—MIT T, Har vard and Stanford—and universities St taanffo ord—and ttarget arget un nivveersities with minority populations. higher minorit ty p opulattions.

Oyedele, signed Shola Oy yeedele, 22, sign ned on as a Code2040 summer.

C ode2040 ffellow ellow e last sum mmer. The sciencee major interned at ccomputer omputer scienc Docmunch programmer, Do cmunch as a pr ogram mmer, doing front-end fr ontt-end and rresponsive esponsivve web design testing. was and testing g. She w aas one of just a ffew ew faces black fac es in the ccompany, ompan ny, a distinction grew accustomed Stanford— she gr rew ac customed to at St taanffor o d— African Americans make percent Afric an Americ caans mak ke up 7 p erceent of the student p population. opulation. took getting since “It to ok some get ttting used to sinc ce diverse school I went to a vvery eery div veerse sc chool right Oyedele says. was outside D.C., D.C.,” Oy yeedele sa ayys. “I w aas surrounded byy vvery high-achieving surr ounded b er e y high h-achieevving here, students of ccolor. olor. Out he ere, I definitely more minority. ffelt eelt mor re in the minorit ty.”

Last summer, the George L ast summer r, when th he Geor ge murder trial was Zimmerman mur der tri al w aas still headlines,, one making daily headlines o of the eexecs xxecs asked Oyedele’s at the ccompany ompan ny ask keed Oy yeedele’s opinion on the stor story, y, which led him h to ask her create piecee of wearable technology to cr eate a piec wearaable technolo gy that would rrecord five ecord fiv ve minutes m of audio and video at a timee in ccase aase of cconfrontations. onfrontations.

“It’s technology “It ’s a ttype yp y e of technolo ogy that a lot of minorities ccould ould rreally e eally use and appreciate because like appr reciate e b eccaause of ccases asses lik ke the Trayvon Martin says.

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after dysfunction the facts afte er last week’s report on dysfun nction in her office.

Damage Dama age Contr Control ol Assemblymember A ssemblyme s bl emb ber N Nora ora C Campos ampos is i apparently tha apparently that at rar raree p politician olitician who just knows what th the he p people eople w want ant a without asking. asking g. So So,, when wheen she rrelinquishes eelinquishes half a million dolla dollars ars to the st state, ate, rather than ha having avving a pr properly operly st staffed aff ffeed offic officee or cconducting onducting outr outreach each ser services vices to her cconstituents, onstituents, sh o she’s he’s bucking her budget allotments outt of a noble sense of dut duty. ty.

That That’s ’s the message m C Campos’ ampos’ ccommunications ommunicatio o ons dir director, ectorr, Ste Steve ve Harmon, tr trotted ottted t d out during d i an interview inter view with h lo local cal radio st station ation KLIV 1590 159 0 in rresponse espon nse to a rreport eport Met Metro tro published last week. w The piec piecee la laid aid out in eextensive xxtensivve det detail ail the dysfunction n in C Campos’ ampos’ offic officee during her thr three ree yyears eears in the St State ate A Assembly. ssembly s y. She has gone thr through ough an eextraordinarily xtraor x dinarilyy high numb number er of st staff aff memb members ers ccompared om mpared to her A Assembly sssembly p peers, eers, and the ccause ause app appears ears to b bee her vvolatile olatile tem o temper mper and demeaning tr treatment reeatment of su subordinates. uborrd dinates.

A Ass a rresult esult of o cconstant onstant emplo employee oyeee turno turnover, over er, C Campos’ am mpos’ offic officee had a budget surplus of $495 $495,118, 5,118, which went back to the general fun fund nd instead of pr providing ovviding ser services vices to her district.

“If we had hir h hired ed a big st staff, taff aff,, we we’d ’d b bee criticized ffor or pl o playing laayying fast and lo loose ose with the public’ public’ss mo money, oneey,” Harmon told KLIV KLIV. V. “If yyou o ou w aant to o go after someb ody ffor or o want somebody not sp ending a lot of mone ey, ma ayybe yyou o ou spending money, maybe should listen to o the p eople. The p eople people. people ar obably happ h py to know that she ’s aree pr probably happy she’s not sp ent all th hat mone ey and went back spent that money to the general fund.”

U nder this lo n gic, it would seem that Under logic, A ssemblymem s mber C ampos has k eept Assemblymember Campos kept a budget pana acceea to herself panacea herself.f. Imagine

th the h millions he illi the h st state taate ccould ould ld sa save ave if sh she h he ccalled a alled on her ffellow eellow assemblymemb assemblymembers ers to o show similar fisc fiscal al rrestraint estraint e and st start tart fir firing/losing ringg/losing l emplo employees oyeees in dr droves. oves e.

Harmon Harmon’s n’s ccomments omments also lea leave ave ou out ut the fact that st starting arting in 20 2009 09 alll A Assembly ssembly offic offices ces e alr already eady st started arted givin giving ng ba back ack 10 p percent ercent e of their st staff aff budget budgets ts in rresponse e onse to the rrecession. esp ecession.

I ccalled aalled Harmon, a fformer ormer rreporter o eporteer w ccovered who oveered st state ate p politics, olitics, to find ou out ut w wh why hy C Campos ampos didn did didn’t n’t ’ shar share h re the h offic office’s ffice’s fr freakonomics e ko eak onomics with ccolleagues. olleagues. He sai said id hee would need to get back to me or sp speak peak off the rrecord. ecord. N Not ot eexpecting xxpecting a ccall a back all back—Harmon k—Harmon — ignor ignored reed ccalls aalls dur during ring th the he rreporting eporting of the original story—I story—I — w went with the lat latter. ttter. The cconversation on nversatio e on en ended nded with an acknowledgement th that hat C Campos’ a os’ offic amp officee do does es not intend to ccomment o omment on the stor story. y.

But going back to Harmon Harmon’s n’s ccomments o omments to KLIV KLIV, V, the sp spokesman ok keesman su suggested uggested that C Campos’ ampos’ offic officee w was as a a m mo model del of st stability taabilitty in 2013. “It should db bee no noted oted that the curr current ent st staff aff has b been een na str strong, rong, st stable table a ccore ore ffor o or nearly a yyear, eearr,” he sa said. aid. “Ev “Even ven e in (San JJose’s) ose’s) Cit City ty Hall sh she he ha had ad st staffers taaff ffeers that wer weree with her ffor or a o go good ood six yyears eears at a time time..”

A According ccording to st staffing taaffing do documents cuments pr provided rovvided b byy the A Assembly’s ssembly’s C Committee ommittttee on nR u ules, 41 p eople ha ave work keed in Rules, people have worked C a os’ offic amp ee yyears. eearss.

Campos’ officee in the last thr three Th hirteen p eople left C ampos’ offic j Thirteen people Campos’ officee just la ast yyear. eear. And during her last ffour o our yyears e ears last on n the San JJose ose Cit ty C ouncil, C ampos’ o City Council, Campos’ offi ffice had mor aff turno oveer than an ny office moree st staff turnover any ot ther district, ac cor o ding to numb ers other according numbers pr rovvided b ty Clerk’ e. provided byy the Cit City Clerk’ss offic office.

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E-books used to ffocus ocus on o geared niche topics gear ed toward tow ward small,, zany rreaderships, eaderships, which made ffor or riveting titles such s as Abr Abraham Ab raaham h Lincoln Li l in i the th Kitchen Kit h or The Th Hidden Hidd P Power o ower off Adjustment A Adj t t Layers L in i Adobe Ad b Photoshop. Now e-book e-books ks cover the gamut,, and the Santa Cl Clara lara County Libr Library ary District that announced this week th at it has 46,000 digital titles in its collection, c , including pop culture cul ture favorites favorites like W Wolf o of Wall olf Waall Street Str treet e t and 50 Shades of Gr Grey G reey—you know know, w, if you’r you’ree into corporate Penthouse previously corporate barbarism or P enthouse letters. There There are are also classics claassics and pr eviously banned titles like Joseph Heller Heller’s ’ss C Catch-22 aatch--22 22 and Toni To oni Morrison’s Morrison’s Belo Beloved oved d. The digital collection, dubbed the “ReadersFirst serves “ReadersFirsst Guide,”” taps into 292 library library systems systeems and ser ves 199 million readers readers who can access books with a smartphone,, tablet or computer. computerr. The county, countyy, which has offered broader offered e-books for for seven years,, hopes to appeal to a br b oader audience,, given that the percentage percentage of adults adultss reading reading e-books rose rose in the past year y from from 23 to 28 percent. percent.

THAT’S T HA AT’S WHA WHAT AT HE HE/SHE / SHE SSAID AID "Wh "When hen human lives are at stake, stak ke, seconds do count, so the e city’s failure to meet the standards sta andards that all other cities citi ies have met is unacceptable unacceptable, e, period.”

— Super Supervisor S visor Dave Cortese justifying the county’s decision from to withhold w $700,000 fr om the city off San Jose due to slow Firee Department rresponse times.

San Jose Fir esponse tim mes.

“II believe he’s he s doing d this because he’s he s running runn ning for mayor. It’s very campaign-driven. c I don’t kno know ow who he’s trying to kid. I normally don’t get in n on this kind of stuff, but but enough is enough. We’re facing f a hard challenge right righ ht now.”

— San Jose Vice Mayor M Madison Nguyen, who is also running r ffor o or mayor,r, on Cortes Cortese withhold mayor se and the county’s decision to withh hold funds.

“If she sh he wants to take the position positio on that the city’s perfo ormance is OK, is good enough, ugh, then she should performance enou do that. th hat. I don’t think she’s going g to get very far doing that.””— Dave Cortese “We e didn’t do this when Rural/Metro, Rural/M Metro, the county coun nty ambulance provider, wa was as missing its response respon nse times. It’s two different standards, s and tha that’s at’s why I disagreed with hiss actions.”

— Madison Madison Nguyen

“The difference is Rural/Metro remediated r and got its response re esponse times back (in order) orde er) immediately.”—DC immediately.”—DC “In fact, they even rewarded rewarde ed [Rural/ Rural/ M Metro o]] $2.6 million for bad behavior.

Metro] To turn around and do this t to the city of San Jose, that’ss an issue I have h th he person a problem with. And the Da ave.”— M MN N leading this is Dave.”

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MIGHTIER M IGHTIER P PEN EN Author Barry Eisler Eisler, r, who o eschewed major publishers and a opted for self-publishing, discusses d Rain Feb. Four Palo Alto.. the newest book b in the John R ain series in naF eb. 14 appearance at the F our Seasons in P alo Alto

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BECAME BECA ME E acquainted assassin with a freelance f named John John Rain when Rain reading R ain Fall, Fall, the first book in i Barry Eisler's soon-to-be-world-dominating soon-to-be-world-dominating series thriller ser ries about a halfWestern, killer W estern, half-Eastern h who h specializes specia ializes li i making ki in the death look l like one of natur al cau uses. The title was was natural causes. somewhat lame, but I was was hooked.

Immersed in i noir T Tokyo o okyo atmospherics,, transc transcendent jazz, atmospherics endent jaz z,

siingle malt sc single scotch, otch,, CIA backst backstabbers abbers and manifestations serenely an nd endless manif feestations of ser e y enely violence, was eexecuted x xecuted violenc e, Rain w as cconflicted onfliicted between West, between b etween East and W est, e ,b etween sedentary, n nomadic and sedent ary, between between serenity chaos.. I fforget se erenitty and chaos o orget which book was, b ook it w as, but he said something somethin ng like li ike this: “As “As a freelance freelance assassin, manyy worlds worlds,, while yyou're o e straddling man ou'r wh hile belonging b elonging to none of them.” Since Since that's likee being th hat's eexactly xactly what it ffeels eels e lik bein ng freelance a fr eelance journalist,, I facetiously facetiouslyy brother d deemed dR Rain i th the llong llostt b br othe ther I never was n ne ver had. He w aas inspiring. inspiring. I wanted wan nted labyrinth to o rrevisit evisit the manic lab byyrinth of Tokyo T To ok kyo and ffollow o ollow in his ffootsteps. ootsteps.

Whenever new book series W Whene ver a ne wb ook in the serie es emerged, up.. em merged,, I ate it up Now, new N ow, Eisler has a ne w one, one, Graveyard Memories,, in which Rain G eyard Memories Grav Raain

talks talks about about his own background b ground and back how his unique viewpoint viewp point emerged emerged since Vietnam in 1972. since he got out of V i ietnam Even Even better, better, Eisler appears appears at the Four Four Seasons Hotel in n Palo Palo Alto for fo or a book book release release party, parrty, this Friday, Fridaay, Valentine's Vaalentine's Day—a Daay—a perfect perfeect backdrop backdrop by by which to celebrate celebratee an assassin who massacres massacres so effortlessly. eff ffo o tlesslyy. or Eisler not Ei l himself hi lf is i no ot eexactly xactly l on the favorite legacy publishers.. faavorite list of leg gacy publishers In a now famous stor story, r y, after several several John John Rain thrillers hee dismissed a six-figure selfsix-figure deal and opted op pted to self fpublish his ne next xt few few works, w works , only to then wind up with h Amazon as his mother ship. ship. Eisler Eisleer claims the scenario better scenario works much hb etter ffor o or him, as he gets more more royalties royalties and a higher p percentage ercentage of the subsidiary subsidiar y and foreign translation rights.. On fo oreign translatio on rights another fr front, ont, he also o ffound o ound a way way to legally annihilate his h original contract contract and rreacquire eacquirre the rights to all of his novels, novels, allowing alllowing him to rename rename the books bo oks with titles he originally w wanted place. anted in the first plac e.

Eisler claims (I'm par paraphrasing) raphrasing)

title choices aree far b better that his tit tle choic es ar etter bookstorethan the ridiculous r b ookstoremarketing-driven mark etingg- driven dreck dreck slapped slapped on byy the pub publisher. b blisher.

I agree agree with Eisler and I applaud efforts his eff ffo or ts to accomplish accomplish such a ffeat. eat. e have seven I ha ave six of the first se ven JJohn ohn books shelf—Rain Rain b o ok ks on my my shelf f— —R Raain Fall, Hardd R Rain, Rain, Har aain,, Rain Raain Storm, Storm, Killing R aain, Assassin Requiem The LLast ast A ssassin and R eequiem ffor oor Assassin.

To an A ssassin n. T o be be blunt, the titles Theyy don't do the just plain suck. The books justice. b o oks just tice. Looking Looking at them on now,, it's har hard the shelf now n d to rremember ememb er book was because which b o ok o w as which, b ecause hokey the hok ey generic titles don't do anything differentiate an ything to t diff ffeerentiate them. I myself, ccan an think to m yselff, “OK, well, the one with the t yyellow ellow cover cover was was the wheree John was as in Hong one wher John Rain w Kong, right?”

K ong, righ ht?” That's it. Otherwise, Other wise, help.. Go Good Barryy the titles don't d help od on Barr assailing disregarding ffor or assailin o ng and disr egarding the marketing creeps mark keting ti g cr eeps att hi his fformer o ormer publisher,, which w was, publisher as, um, who now?

Graveyard In Grav veyard Memories (Eisler's title), out just a ffew ew days daayys ago, ago, JJohn ohn Rain n rreflects eflects on his younger younger days ’70s,, fresh from da ays y in thee early ’70s fresh fr om butcheringg enemies in V Vietnam butcherin iietnam learning and first le earning the tradecraft undetected of undetec cted assassination in the jungles Tokyo. urban jun ngles of T o okyo. We We get from a glimpse li i into hi his mindset i d ffr om age 20, as he learns not to trust anyone, makee adv adversaries an yone, how ho ow to mak ersaries underestimate under estim mate him and how to accept life killing,, ac cept a li fe of ccontracted ontracted killing from bee one fr om which he might not b detach. able to det tach. Oddly enough, he learns all of o this in the ccontext ontext of mindfulness bee pr present mindfulne ess and how to b esent moment. in the mo ment. For For example, example, the JJapanese t cceremony eremony seems to apanese tea about teach him m just as much ab out attention detail at tention to det ail as do the lockpicker teachings of an old lo ckpicker in the alleys Tokyo. back alle ys of T okyo. We We see how gradually picked Rain gradu ually pick ed and chose what he ffound o ound to be be useful and life discarded rrelevant elevant to o his lif fe and disc arded the rrest, est, ass with any any spiritual path. why always This is wh hy he's alw ayys inspired inspired me. me. was wheree it It w as rrefreshing efrreshing to rread ead wher from. ccame ame fr om m. And thanks to Rain, manyy I'm now aaware ware of just how man electrocute milliampss it ttakes akes to electr o cute heart. someone'ss hear t.

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WORST. W ORST. DATE. D AT TEE. EVER. EVER.

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19 course course of the th he yyear ear we sp spent ent to together, gether, but in any an ny event event it ended with me drunk,, screaming him—from screaming e at him—fr om his front yaard, and ffor front yard, or o the whole neighborhood hear—that neighborho ood to hear —that I wished I w were stay ere dead. He let me st ay the night,, but was b Iw as so drunk that I bed.

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When I got g back to town, he called called and suggested s dinner ffor o or one night later that week. I ac accepted, cepted,, and when door, h he h ccame a ame to the h do d or, Clarissa l i answered. was staying answered. She S w as st ayying in that night. She would w later tell me that the smell of lingered o his ccologne ologne linger ed in our living rroom several oom ffor or o se veral hours after he left left. ft.

He wore freshly ironed wore a fr eshly ir oned blue collared shirt, collared shi irt, to match his eeyes, yes, and khaki slacks. slack ks. He had gel in his hair makee it spik spikee up up,, in the st style to mak yle of early-2000’s earlyy--2000’ 0sb boy oy band musicians musicians..

When we got g to the str street eet out in front front of m myy house house,, he motioned to a big dump p truck with the wor words, ds, 1-800-GOT-JUNK 1-800- GOT-JUNK J printed on the side. side. I recognized recognized g the lo logo go fr from om the back-to-back back k--to -bacck episo episodes des of Ho Hoarders arderrs I sometimes sometimees w watched atched when I had insomnia. JJason ason ga gave ave me a b boost oost up with his hands haands cupp cupped ed to together, gether, lik likee he was was helping help ping me hop a ffence. eence.

Once Once seated seaated inside the vvehicle, ehicle, I received received a te text xt message fr from om Clarissa,, wh who ho w was as w watching atching fr from om the window: “I “Is Is that a 1-8 1-800-GOT-JUNK 00- GOT-JJUNK truck!?!?”

“You “Y Yo ou know kno ow it,, bitch!” I wr wrote ote back. I rrealized ealized then that the rreason eason

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Cupid handles ar ound d the house aree yyou “Who ar ou goingg out with tonight?” tonight ?”

“Bestusernameguy.”

“Bestusernameguy y.” totally, Bestusername.

“Oh yyeah, eah,, tot allyy, Be estusername.

He’s I’vee got Burr BurritoFanatic.”

He ’s cute! I’v ritoFanatic.”

The men I went on dates with were, attractive wer e, ffor o or the most part, part, t, at tractive Theyy all had jobs and to took and kind. The ok good go od ccare are of their app appearance, e earanc e, and weree inter wer interesting esting and sm smart. mart. Pr Probably obably anyy of them would ha an have ave made a good go od b boyfriend, oyfriend, but att the time I ccouldn’t ouldn’t ccomprehend omprehend get ggetting ttting close to someone lik likee that. I w was a honest with as none of them. I would d lie rregularly, egularlyy, as a sor sortt of secr secret et gamee to pla play ay with myself—about m yselff—ab — out what I did ffor or o work, what m myy inter interests ests wer were, e, wher wheree I w was as from. fr om. Ev Even en inc inconsequential onsequeential things likee m lik myy middle name name.. I w wasn’t asn’t to too o cr creative, eative, I just w wanted anted to k keep eep the men at a dist distance—they ance—theey ccouldn’t ouldn’t rreject eject me if I didn didn’t ’t eeven ven e let them know me me..

It’s It ’s hard hard to sa say ay whatt eexactly xactly went wrong wr ong in the rrelationship elationship I had before b effo ore mo moving ving to P Portland, ortland, t , how it gradually deteriorate deteriorated ed o over ver the

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I chose to go out with most of the was men I chose to go out with w as ffor o or Clarissa’s Clarissa a’s sake—to sake—to mak make ke her laugh,, or surprise,, or otherwise entertain ffeel eel e surprise otherwise w enter tain her.. her asked him In the ccar, ar, I ask ed hi im what kind of modeling mo deling his agency ffocused ocused on.

“Like, or…?”

“Lik e, editorial or …?”

“It’s likee an adult we webcam site,, “It ’s lik ebcam site yyou ou know?”” he said, fingering fin ngering his watch, scored w atch, t h, a Rolex Role ol x he h had h d sc ored d fr ffrom om a 1-800-GOT-JUNK cleanup.

1-8 00-GOT-JJUNK clea anup.

Wee didn didn’t W ’t make make it another an nother ttwo w wo blocks before blo cks b effo ore he also cconfessed onffessed e that spent he is a cconvicted on nvvicted felon feelon who sp ent ffour o our yyears ears in prison.

“Me and m myy friendss wer weree trying trying to from dine and dash fr om this th his rrestaurant, estaurant, right?? W right Wee were were like like 16.

16. But the us,, manager ran outside and a chased us and I accidentally—accidentally—ran accidentallyy—accident c taally—ran over okay?

And o ver her h ffoot, oot,, ok kayy?? An A nd d then h I got tried as an adult ffor o attempted or attempted manslaughter. vvehicular ehicular manslaughte er.”

“Wow. “W Wow ow.” spent “So I sp ent the yyears earss 18-22 in jail.” him those I ffelt eelt bad ffor o or him. I told t weree the same yyears wer ears I sp sspent ent in ccollege. ollege.

“Yep. No me.. But I rread “Y Yep e .N o ccollege ollege ffor o orr me ead there. all the time in ther e. That’s T ’s how I got That myy educ education. book day. m ation. I read read a b ook a da ay.” love little I ffell eell in lo ve with him m a lit ttle t bit in that h moment. I pictured pictur i ed a cinematic ed i i montage alternating between mont age of him altern nating b etween the doing pull-ups with th he bars in his ccell, ell,, and lying on his back b on a jail bed great philosophers,, b ed reading reading the gr eat philosophers p novels and big ambitious no vels by

by Dickens Dickens Tolstoy.

Stephen and T o olsto oy. Maybe Maayb y e Ste ephen Hawking’s History Time.

Ha aw wking’s A Brief Hist toorry of T iime. favorite Koontz, “My fa avo orite was was Dean Deean K oontz,” he said,, with a grin.

It w was as a about about at this p point oint I rrealized ealized we had b been een driving ffor o or quite a while, while, and that we wer weree no longer lo onger within Portland’s P ortland’s cit cityy limits. limits.

“Wheree ar “Wher aree we goin going?” ng?”” I ask asked, ed, hoping to sound ccasual. asuaal.

“This plac place—Bridgeport e—Bridgeeport V Village. iillage. It It’s ’s wheree all the rrestaurants wher estauran nts ar are. e.”

Hmm. The P Portland ortland d I kne knew w had rrestaurants estaurants on eevery very ccorner, o orner , and smoky little whiskey bars,, ttapas places smok ky lit ttle t whisk ey bars b apas plac es dessertt plac places.

I’d never been and desser es. And d I’ d ne ver b een anywhere cityy limits in an nyywhere outside the cit I’d the months I’ d been been in n town. This man either had some secr ssecret et intel on Portland dining, P ortland rrestaurant estaurant di ining, I realized, realized, was somewhere or he w as ttaking aking me so omewhere to me.. kill me To day, T o this da ay, sitting sitttting in n that 1-800-GOT-JUNK truck 1-8 00-GOT-JJUNK truc ck cruising

down 1-5 South S w as a the one and only was time I’v ver seriously ccontemplated ontemplated I’vee eever jumping out o of a mo ving vvehicle. ehicle. moving I te xted Clarissa. texted “Ha ave yyou ou eever ver hear d of “Have heard ‘Bridgep orrt V illage i ’???”

‘Bridgeport Village’???”

— classy. U nlimited soup “Haha— “Haha—classy.

Unlimited soup,, salad and br b eadsticks on the first breadsticks date?”

R eelieved db vious familiarit ty, Relieved byy her ob obvious familiarity, I eased m or handle myy grip on the do door handle..

Indeed,, onc oncee we got to our n,, the neon Oliv den destination destination, Olivee Gar Garden sign lo omeed lar ge. It w as a on the loomed large. was p o orest of chain erimeter of a fforest perimeter rrestaurants estaurants that also included Chili’ s, Chili’s, the Mac aroni o Grill and JJoe’s oe’s Crab Macaroni Shack.

“W We ccan an n go ar ound and lo ok at the “We around look menus out tside, then pick which one outside, we w ant.” He H had a big grin on his want. fface, fac e, and d eexpectancy x ecttancy in xp i hi his eeyes, yes, lik likee he ’d ttaken ak keen me to a tuck ed-aaway street street he’d tucked-away in P aris, orr It alyy, wher Paris, Italy, wheree a man and a woman wo ould str oll ar ound and lo ok would stroll around look at the men nus, ma ayybe stop and listen menus, maybe to a violini ist pla aying y some cconcerto oncerto violinist playing on the str e eet. street.

He to ok km olled took myy hand, and we str strolled acr oss a ccouple ouple vast parking lots to across check out the t menus ertising menus,, all adv advertising rroughly oughly th he same entr ees: flatbr ead the entrees: flatbread piz i zas, grill illled l d chick hi ken,, mar garit i as. pizzas, grilled chicken, margaritas.

I don ’t rremember em member the name of the don’t rrestaurant estaurant we eeventually ventually pick ed, but picked, I or dered a lar ge and medio cre salad, ordered large mediocre and he had d mac aroni and cheese macaroni cheese..

Iw as 233 yyears ears old at the time was time,, right at the ttail ail end e of the p eriod wher period wheree I ffelt eelt I neede ed m ents’’ appr oval ffor o or needed myy par parents’ approval who I date ed. Ev en if I had b een able dated.

Even been to lo ok past passt his ffelony eelon ny cconviction on nvviction and look budding p orn empir e, I kne w the porn empire, knew theyy wouldn ’t. The T date w as o ver b effo ore it wouldn’t. was over before b egan. And db ecause of that,, b ecause I began. because because kne w I wo ould ne ver see him again,, I knew would never w as able to o lo osen up a lot mor was loosen moree than I did on most m of m myy OK Cupid dates dates..

I did wh hat I alw ays y w ant to b what always want bee doing t time veryone: doing,, all the time,, with eeveryone: I grilled hi m ab out his past and his him about deep est inn ner wounds deepest inner wounds..

“Do yyour ou ur par ents lo ve each other ?” parents love other?” ver met m “I don ’t know; I ne don’t never myy dad.” ““Are Are yyou A ou u mad at yyour our web - cam web-cam mo del eex-girlfriend x-ggirlfriend ffor o or stealing yyour our model y?” mone money?”

“N o, nott rreally. eallyy.”

“No, “Did pri ison mak ou racist ?” prison makee yyou racist?”

“What ?””

“What?”

“What,, on o this Ear th,, ar ou most Earth, aree yyou afraid of ?””

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To T o this da day, ay y, sitting in n that 1-800-GO T T1-800-GOTJUNK tru ck truck d cruising down 1-5 South S th h was the one and a only time e I’ve ever serio ously seriously contempl lated contemplated jumping out of a movi ing moving vehicle. didn’t too He didn n’’t ask me to o many man ny questions,, but told me he liked questions h lik keed me airport because was at the airp ort b ecause I w aas wearing glasses.. “I ccould glasses ould tell yyou’re o ou u’re intelligent,” he said. I built off that,, lying l to him was and telling him I w aas applying ap pplying to schools didn’t graduate scho ols and di idn’t have haave free dating next much fr ee time ffor o or dati ing in the ne exxt ffew ew weeks. weeks. aree yyou “What ar o ou goingg to ttake?” ake?”

“Probably Mayan “Pr obably Ancient Ma M ayyan Studies.

Studies.

That or ballet. I ccan’t an n’’t decide. deecide.” was The only true thing I told him w as myy most rrecent that m ecent rrelationship ellationship hurt hurt badly. me badly y. ““All A All men are are jerks, j jerks ,” I stupidly muttered. mut tter t ed.

“Yeah, aree liars, “Y Yeeah,, but all women n ar liars,” grinning.. Then he asked he said,, grinning asked me wanted movie, if I w anted a to see a mo ovvie, at the megaplexx just onee parking giant megaple Why lot aaway. way. Wh hy not,, I figured. figu ured. bowing myy regular Rather than b owing to m regular anxietyy ab about crippling anxiet outt rrevealing eveealing any an ny preferences pr effeerences whatsoever whatsoeveerr on an early

date, I told him date, h immediately that Iw wanted aanted to o see It It’s ’s Kind of a F Funny u unny Story—the St toorry—the Zach Z Galifianakis mo movie vie about mental ab out a children’s chilldren’s ment al health unit.

“I think I’ll I rrelate elate to it,” I told JJason. ason.

“Why?” “Wh hyy?”

“Because crazy.

“Bec ausee I’m craz y.”

Ass long as someone’s A a someone ’s not terrible,, it it’s always nicee to ccompletely ompletely terrible ’s alw ayys nic bee sit sitting movie next b ttting in n a dark mo vie theater ne xt guy. let myy hand, t a guy to y. I lle ett hi him hold h ld m h d, and d ttalk alk throughout througghout the duration of the movie, which pastaa br breath mo vie, whic ch allowed his past eath waft myy ear ear.. I didn didn’t too to w aaft into om ’t mind to o mental much,, but made m a ment al note to rrent ent movie Redbox the mo vie on o R eedbox when it ccame ame DVD, watch out on D VD D, so I ccould ould w atch it in peace, p eace, with a glass of wine and Bella trembling myy lap, way tr embling on o m lap, the w ay God God intended. myy house ar around When wee got to m ound Clarissa was up,, w watching 11pm,, Claris Cl issa w aas still ill up aatching hi workout infomercials work ko out in nffo omercials with Bella between wedged b ettw ween the back of the ccouch ouch thigh. and her thig gh. was it?”

“How w aas it ?”” she asked. asked. been waiting I had b eeen w aaiting all night ffor o or chancee to get home and la lay myy the chanc ay m hand winning ha and out on the living rroom oom ccoffee off ffeee ttable: ablee: cconvicted on nvvicted ffelon, eelon,, runs a porn website, drives p orn websit te, driv es the junk truck. imagined I had imagi ined her rreaction, eaction,, and the have, l h we would laugh w ld h ha ave, and d the h ensuing i would spend site,, hour we wo ould sp end on the site looking myy ne next date.. But I w was lo oking ffor o or m xt date as tired.

Off dat dating, lying,, running fr from tir ed. O ting, lying om myself—all m yselff— —all of it. one,,” I said with a wry “Eh,, not the one wry smile,, then eexcused myself smile xcused m yyself to go to bed. b ed. night, myy sleep, That nigh ht,, in m sleep, I saw saaw Jason Jason myy dr dream. looked in m eam m. His blue eeyes yes lo ok ked e me—not right at me — —not the character of me myy dr dream, acting in m eam,, but the actual me,, the slee sleeping watcher watching me eping w atcher w aatching the dream. dr eam.

“You objectifying “Y Yo ou need neeed to stop objectif fyying said. men,” he sai id.

Then he got in his JUNK truck and drove off, into dr ove off ff,, in nto the sunset.

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ILICON VALLEY restaurants are spreading love with HE BETTER-BEER scene continues its the ascent Valentine’s Day dinner specials, from modern in the South Bay with Steins Beer GardenLatin & cuisine toRestaurant offerings across the Asian spectrum and luxurious in downtown Mountain View set to steak dinners.

Here’s a sampling of local restaurants markingbut the open March 28. There will be wine and cocktails, romantic holiday with special menus: the primary focus will be on high-quality beers. Steins will feature 30 taps and a menu modern American SENT SOVI 14583 Big Basin Way, Saratoga.

ARYAof GLOBAL CUISINE 19930 Stevens comfort food crated executive chef andFour-course Bay Area Tasting menu with Dungeness crab by timbale, Creek Blvd., Cupertino. prix-fixe ahinative tuna au poivre and New York steak menu along with smooth romantic jazz and belly Colby Reade. mignon. $125 per person.

dancing for entertainment. $60 per person.

Owner and South Bay native Ted Kim is a beer enthusiast; he tells me DIOthat DEKA 210 E.isMain St., Los N. Santa Los Gatos.

Steins a salute toGatos. the traditionalPALACIO German115 beer hallsCruz andAve., gardens, Four-course dinner with choices including Tasting menu featuring lobster bisque and a which he experienced during his travels throughout Europe’s premier a roasted fennel soup and bone-in rib eye. roasted American Kobe filet. $85 per person. cities. Designed by architect Marc (Special Dimalanta, features 300$95beer per person. menu Steins also served Feb 13aand 15 for seat, 8,000-square-foot domed interior$65 room a 4,000-square-foot per and person.)

LB outdoor STEAK 334 Santana Row, #1000, patio.

San Jose. Four-course tasting menu that TIGELLERIA ORGANIC Ted, with his contagious positive energy, says that he can’tRESTAURANT wait includes braised beef cheek ravioli and Thai76 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell. Four-course for folks to check out the “in-your-face, custom-made walk-in cooler”cocktail. spiced grilled Maine lobster. $75 per person prix-fixe menu and complimentary next to the main bar. Guests can gaze at the unique direct-draw draft Choices include pork fillet sautéed in red ARCADIA 100 W. San St., San withkegs, gingereliminating or toasted carnaroli system—the tapCarlos handles are Jose. connectedwine to the draft rice in a Prix-fixe with tigertoprawns zucchini-infused pestoand sauce. $75 per person. lines menu and helping keep with the beer at the highest quality freshness sambal and a bacon-wrapped filet of beef. levels. Having 30 draft beers is a manageable number for 4628 staff,Meridian Ted says: $110 per person.

ZIBA RESTAURANT Ave, “I want them to know exactly what we’re serving.

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Four-course special dinner A BELLAGIO 33 S. beer Central Ave., Campbell. give genuine recommendations, so ongoing beer education will includes salad, appetizer, entrees andbea Prix-fixe dinner ”featuring a roasted rack of romantic shared dessert. $29.99 per person. important. lamb served over polenta and green beans.

The food will have a local, farm-to-table emphasis according to $75 per person.

WINE CELLAR RESTAURANT 50 chef Reade, and everything will be made in-house, University Ave.,including Los Gatos. breads Five-course fixed VINand SANTO 1346 Lincoln Ave., pretzels.

Because ofSan theJose. generous kitchen space, there also weather menu. Patio dining will will be available, Entree choices on acharcuterie, prix fixe menubutchery include and pickling permitting.programs. $100 per person. be in-house “We want lamb wineas mirepoix.

There toshank makebraised foodinasred fresh the beer is,” says Reade, who embraces beer’s will also be live music. $49-$65 per person.

ALEXANDER'S STEAKHOUSE 10330 N. versatility in food pairing.

Wolfe Road, Cupertino. Six-course tasting Some BREWING examplesCO. from theN.tidy menumenu of 25featuring items include pork LOS GATOS 130-G Santa lamb loin, filetbelly mignon and Cruz Ave., Los Gatos. Three-course menu includes choice of steak or halibut and a shared dessert. $75 per couple.

lobster. $175 per person with an optional $100 wine pairing.

Jose. Four-course prix fixe dinner. DJ Melvis spins R&B, jazz and slow jams. $70 per person.

MORTON'S THE STEAKHOUSE 177 Park Ave., Suite 100, San Jose. Steak and a lobster tail with drawn butter. Available Feb 13-16, $55 per person.

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Ave., San Jose. Four-course prix fixe menu with choices that include lobster tail or filet mignon. $65 per person/$85 per person with a bottle of wine.

BLACKBIRD TAVERN 200 S. First St., San Jose. Three-course prix fixe menu. Live music. $45 per person.

San Jose. Four-course prix fixe menu. A solo guitarist will play during dinner. $44.50$70.50 per person.

SCOTT’S SEAFOOD 420 Castro St., Mountain View. Four-course dinner with lobster tail and filet mignon, champagne. $120 per couple.

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HE BETTER-BEER scene continues its ascent in the South Bay with Steins Beer Garden & Restaurant in downtown Mountain View set to open March 28. There will be wine and cocktails, but WEET RENDEZVOUS lives up to its name, bringing the primary focus will be on high-quality beers. Steins together desserts and candy of all kinds, as well as will feature 30 taps and a menu of modern American other goodies such as toys, jewelry and artwork. comfort food crated by executive chef and Bay Area In addition to serving scoops of more than 50 ice cream flavors, the South native Colby Reade.

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San Jose dessert bar sells quarts of ice cream and treats like ice cream cakes, pies, Ownerand andfrozen Southbananas.

Bay native Ted Kim is a ’50s beerdiner-style enthusiast; he tells mefilled sandwiches There’s a classic dessert case that Steins is a salute to the traditional German beer halls and gardens, with lemon bars, s’mores bars and pear almond bars. And to wash it all down: which he experienced duringeven his Persian travels throughout Europe’shouse-made premier old-timey bottled sodas, coffee, tea (hot or iced)—a beer cities.

Designed by architect Marc Dimalanta, Steins features a 300blend that includes spices such as cardamom. seat, 8,000-square-foot domed interior room and a 4,000-square-foot In addition to the astonishing variety of products Sweet Rendezvous offers, patio. theoutdoor place sets itself apart with unusual decor. Paintings of children enjoying ice Ted, with his contagious positive energy, says thatshades he can’t wait pink cream cones decorate the ice cream counter.

Different of bright forsway, folksright to check out “in-your-face, custom-made walk-in cooler” hold down tothe delicate roses painted in the middle of each table. next to the main bar.

Guests can gaze at the unique direct-draw draft Sweet Rendezvous serves ice cream from three different manufacturers: system—the handles connected to the kegs, eliminating draft Marianne’s fromtap Santa Cruz,are Loard’s from San Leandro and Golnazar, a Persian lines and helping to keep the beer at the highest quality and freshness ice cream company from San Ramon. All are offered both as scoops ($2.95 kids levels.

30 draft beers Portion is a manageable for staff, Tedissays: size, $3.95Having single, $4.95 double). sizes are number generous—a “single” actually “I scoops want them know exactly we’re serving.

I want to with be able to two and ato “double” is three.what Every serving comes topped a “teaser give genuine beer recommendations, scoop”—a little taste, about a spoonful. so ongoing beer education will be important. ” cream range from $6.95 (pre-packed) to $9.95 (hand-packed).

Quarts of ice The food will have a local, farm-to-table emphasis The menu includes plenty of the standard flavors, butaccording also moreto chef Reade, and everything will be made in-house, including nontraditional choices such as ube (purple yam), lemon chiffon, breads oatmeal andcookie, pretzels.

Because of theand generous space, there will alsoand raisin Persian Nutella lychee. kitchen I tried the saffron pistachio in-house cherry. charcuterie, butchery and pickling programs.

“WeItwant thebeburgundy I particularly enjoyed the burgundy cherry. was to make food as fresh as the beer is, ” says Reade, who embraces fruity, creamy and it evenly encompassed both a sweet cherry flavorbeer’s and rich versatility in food pairing. burgundy wine flavor.

Someaway examples from tidy were menuSweet of 25Rendezvous’ items include pork belly Tucked almost outthe of sight European desserts, which included items like parfaits, macarons and blood orange mousse. The best of these—and perhaps the highlight of the entire restaurant—was the bomboloni, an Italian donut. The bomboloni are filled with a chocolate custard and taste like a typical American-style glazed donut, but with a crispy texture.

Sweet Rendezvous serves bomboloni plain or with a scoop of ice cream inside. I, of course, ordered mine with ice cream. At the clerk’s recommendation I went with the popular 10-20 flavor, a combination of caramel, fudge and Oreo cookies. The whole thing was a delight to eat.

I particularly liked the subtle hint of what tasted like maple, but I couldn’t tell whether it was coming from the donut or the ice cream. Either way, it was an unexpected treat to find in an ice cream parlor—almost as surprising as a pair of earrings and bags of gummy bears. —Aaron Carnes SWEET RENDEZVOUS 668 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose. 408.225.5504

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HARD GIRL GIRLS LS Art Boutiki, San Jos Jose se Sat, 7pm, $8 current Unlike many cur rentt post-punk worshipping bands bands, locals Hardd Girls steer awa awayy fr from Har om the angular guitars, jagged jaggged rhythms affected vocals—instead and aff ected vocals— —instead intense, maintaining an inten nse, earsplitting punk rrock ock ener eenergy, gyy, the kind that bands like Black Flag and brought Bikini Kill have br ougght to sweaty basement shows ffor orr decades. The difference Hard diff erence is that Ha ard Girls go ffor or moree complex chor chords mor d and song ds most structuring than mo st punk bands. draw eclectic They dr aw on eclect ic influences: (Television, ’70s post-punk (T Teeleevision, indie-rock The Fall), early ’90s indie-r ock (Pavement, Silkworm) (P avement, Silkworm m) and rraw, aw w, aggressive (Jawbreaker, aggr essive pop-punkk (Jawbr eaker, (AC) Jawbox). (A C)

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

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PAINTING P A IN TING ON ON Artist Antonio N Nava ava T Torres, orres o s, a.k. a.k.a. a. Zook58, took up paintin painting ng again after 15 years whole yearrs and ended up creating a wh hole new body of work.

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IEBRACH PARK IEBRACH PARK sits adjacent adja acent to the Gardner Gar dner Community Center, Cen nterr, just southwest of the monolithic mon nolithic cement abomination abominati on of an interchange interchang ge where highways highways 280 and 87 spew off in seemingly every direction. direction It is not a sspectacular pectacular 'ho 'hood, od, but here, through ough the I am her e, schlepping sch hlepping thr bumpy, grass,, past the bump y, waterlogged waaterrlogged grass rustyy so soccer osts and straight up rust ccer goalp ggoalposts moree classic murals in to one of the mor gorgeous Aztec San JJose, ose, a go orgeous A ztec ccalendar alendar 16 feet artist Nava feeet high. Local Local ar tist Antonio Na ava v

Torres T o es originally spray-painted orr spraay--painted thee m mural 1995,, but its original luster lustter in 1995, h ad d long l sinc i e eroded eroded d d over over time, time i , so s a had since ffew ew years years back,, the local local community commun nity ba anded together together and helped helped repaint repaiint banded th he mural. It now stands stands out like lik ke a the gi iant Aztec Aztec god god watching watching over over thee giant ccommunity. o ommunit ty. Torres To orres himself is about abou ut to rreturn e eturn Jose, from from his current curren nt to San Jose, h ome in Los Los Angeles, Angeles, for fo or his first-ever firstt-ever home olo art art exhibition exhibition at Empire Empire Seven Seven e so solo St tudios in Japantown.

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Studios Originally known as Zook58, Zook58,, Torres To orres h elped pioneer San Jose's Jose's graffiti art at ar helped sc cene in the 1980s, 1980s, first discovering discoveringg his scene ow wn potential potential when viewing viewing murals murrals own u nderneath the bridge by

by Orchard Orchard underneath upply Hardware Hardware on San Carlos Carlos Su Supply St treet. As As he progressed progressed into his Street. te eenage years, yeears, bumbling schoolyard schoolyarrd teenage au uthorities often mistook mistook him for fo orr a authorities

member was gang memb er when he h w as simply a artist looking yyoung oung ar tist lo oking ffor o or a ccanvas. an nvvas. from Lincoln “I got eexpelled xpelled fr om m Linc oln [High School], Torres over Scho ol],” T orres told me o m o ver the phone.. “Ov “Over phone er graffiti,, I got busted.

Theyy to took school The ok me in and the t scho ol said, 'We want 'W We don't w ant him back.'” b Torres Broadway So T orr o es then wentt to Br oadway wheree High,, a continuation continuation scho sschool, ol,, wher soon developed into artist, he so on de veloped int to a mural ar tist, admired one whom the other kids k admir ed looked to.. Everyone started and lo oked up to Everryone st arted about Torres ttalking alking ab dT o orres eeven veen out him and and wound up on ABC an nd in the San Jose Mercury News.

Eventually, J oose Mer rccurry Ne ws. Ev ventuallyy, ffolks olks o cityy of San JJose hired at the cit ose hir ed him to murals,, beginning paint murals beginnin ng in the late 1980s.

Off all his origin original 19 80s. O nal murals throughout Aztec thr oughout San JJose, ose, tthe A ztec Calendar Park C alendar in Biebrach P ark is the only one still rremaining. emaining.

Torres, lives SoCal T o orres, who now liv ves in SoC al and enjoys lucrativee ccareer enjo ys a lucrativ areer designing backdrops like back drops ffor or o shows li ike Family Guy, weekend rreturns eturns to San JJose ose this thiis week end

new opening to launch his ne w eexhibit, xhibit,, op ening Saturday Empire Seven.

Addicted Satur daay at a Empir p e Se ven. A ddicted ttoo Creation many Torres' Cr reeation will w include man ny of T o orres' rrecent ecent paintings pain ntings and works done escaping while esc ap ping the rroutines outines of the establishment. est ablishm ment. His balancing act is a one,, that of a ccommercial ommon one ccommon o ommercial artist ar tist who must cconsistently onsistently grapple plying creating with plyin ng his trade and cr eating clients, trying stuff ffor o or cl ients, while tr ying to find creative time ffor o or his hiis own cr eative work in the process. pr ocess. was ““A A ffew ew yyears ears ago I decided I w aas starting creative st arting to o miss the cr eativve outlet being free creating of just b ein ng fr ee and cr eating ffor o or myself, Torres me.. “Back when m yselff,” T o orres told me was doing artt and painting Iw as doin ng graffiti ar bridge, under a br ridge, or eeven veen working with city, there was guidelines.. I the cit ty, th here w aas no guidelines created wanted. cr eated whatever wh hatever I w anted. And I that spontaneity. missed tha at sp ontaneitty. So I just started doodling st arted do odling and I thought,, 'I don't ccare are how it ccomes omes out. I'll just start st art with the blank page and see people what ccomes omees out. If p eople hate it, I started pen don't ccare.' are.'. So I st arted with p en and they started getting ink,, and th hey st arted get ting ccooler ooler before and ccooler. oolerr. And b effo ore yyou o ou know it, I 200 had 20 0 of o them.” informed Torres When friends fr inf fo ormed T o orres that produced new body he'd pr odu uced a whole ne wb ody of work,, one he should ccontinue ontinue with, seriously probably and ttake ake se eriously and pr obably eeven ven voilá.

An paint on,, h he went ffor o or it and v ooilá. A n new galleryy show in his idea ffor o or a ne n w galler emerged.

Even hometown n emer ged. Ev en though Torres T o orres hadn't had dn't painted in 15 yyears ears was unsure and w as un nsure what to do with the new work—he wanted keep ne w work k— —he w anted to k eep it ffor o or himself—his himself f— —h his friends sswayed wayed him into show. doing an ar aartt show w.

Torres spoke T o orres ccontinued: ontinued: ““After After I sp A oke to several people, theyy all said,, 'Dude 'Dude,, as se veral p eo ople, the artist, have grow. an ar tist, yyou ou ha ave to gr ow w. And yyou ou have go.. W Wee underst understand ha ave to lett these go and they're the yy'rre yyour ou ur first batch of paintings grow. in a long ttime, ime, but yyou ou need to gr ow.

Have show move Ha ave a sho ow and then mo ve on.'”

Att Emp Empire Seven, Torres A ire Se ven, e ,T orres will o small large eexhibit xhibit sm mall paintings and lar ge paintings,, as well as man manyy of the paintings doodles and sketches. do odles an nd original sk etches. It's a huge eexhibit. xhib bit.

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*stage 11776 776 TTabard aabard Theatr Theatree Company pr presents eseents all-female production an all-f emale pr oduction of thee musical about the ffounding ounding of the 8pm, U.S.. Fri,, 8pm,, Sat,, 3pm and 8pm m, 8pm) Sun,, 2pm (plus Thu Feb 13,, 8pm m) $12-$36.

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

CAT CA AT ON A HO HOT T TIN R ROOF OOF

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Los Al Los Altos tos Stage Stage Company presents Williams’ pr esents TTennessee eennessee Williams s’ drama.

Thuclassic dr ama. Thru Feb 16. Th huSat. 8pm, Sun, 3pm (except Feb F 2). $18-$32. LLos Altos. os Al tos.

CIRQUE CIR QUE DU SOLEIL Acrobatics, feats Acrobatics, feats of str strength ength and clowning in a show set on o a mysterious island watched March over by goddesses. Thru Mar ch 2. $60 $60-$150. $150. Big TTop oop at TTaylor aaylor Jose.

SStreet treet Bridge/Hwy 87, 877, San Jo ose.

R. BUCKMINS BUCKMINSTER TER FULLER R San Jose Rep pr presents esents a oneman show about the genius with cutting-edge ideas that inspired Valley inspir ed many early Silicon V allley ffounders. ounders. Thu-Sat, 8pm,, Sun 2pm 2 Jose. thru Feb 23. $10-$69.. San Jose e.

THE THREEPENNY OPER OPERA A San Jose SStage tage Company presents 20th pr esents the landmark early 20 0th Weill century musical by KKurt urt W eill and a Bertoltt Brecht.

Bertol Brecht. Wed-Thu, Wed--Thu, T 7:30pm, 7:30ppm, Fri-Sat,, 8pm and Sun, 2pm. Thru Thru Mar 30.. $25-$50.

THE WHIPPING MAN A dr drama ama set in the immedia immediate te aftermath of the Civil War. War. Presented Pr esented by Renegade Theatree Experiment. Thu-Sa Thu-Sat, Theatr at, 8pm, Sun, 7pm. Thru Feb 21. $10-$25. Historic Hoover Theatre, Theatr e, San Jose.

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*dancee *danc NEOCLASSICAL NE OCLASSICAL T TO O NO NOW W Ballet San Jose’s Jose’s first pr program ogram a of the season is a mix of traditional tr aditional and contemporary contemporarry workss that includes George work George Balanchine’s “Serenade,” Balanchine ’s “Ser enade,” “Glow-Stop” Jorma Elo’s Elo’s “Glow-S top” andd Ohad Naharin’s Naharin’s “Minus 16.”

Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 1:30pm. Thru Thru Feb 16.

16 $21-$105. $21 $105 San Jose Performing Arts.

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*operaa *oper MADAMA MAD AMA BUTTERFL BUTTERFLY Y Opera San Jose pr Opera presents esents heartbreaker.

Puccini’s heartbr eaker. Sat, 8pm, p , Sun, 3pm. p Feb 15-Mar 2.

Theatre, $51-$111. CCalifornia alifornia Theatr e, San Jose.

LL’ELISIR ’ELISIR D’ D’AMORE AMORE West Bay Oper West Operaa pr presents esents operaa about a Donizetti’s comic oper “love potion” potion” that finally pushes declaree his love a peasant to declar wealthy ffor or a beautiful, weal thy woman.

Feb 14, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Thru Feb 23. $40-$75. LLucie ucie SStern tern Theatre, Palo Alto.

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METROACTIVE.COM METR OACTIVE.COM BRUNI BR UNIGALLER GALLERY RY Jazz-related art by Bruni Sablan.

Jazz-related Mon-Sat,, 1-6pm.. San Jose.

GALLERY GALLER RYHOUSE “Time and Again, W “Time Weaving eaving the Walk—Spain W aalk—Spain 2011,, 2012 and 2013,”” Anne Lamborn’s Lamborn’s woven, dyed and ffelted elted interpretations interpretations of walking the CCamino amino de Santiago.

Palo Alto/ Thru Mar 2.. P alo Al to/

KALEIDGALLERY KALEIDGALLER RY “Painting the TTown “Painting oown since 1935”,, ffeaturing eaturing works works by San Jose signpainter Rey Giese. Thru Feb. 28.. San Jose.

MACLA MA ACCLA “MAIZE Y MÁ MÁS: S:: From From Mother Works to Monster?” W orks by YYvonne vonne Guerra, Escalante,, YYolanda olanda o Guer ra, Mastrangelo, Fernando Mastr angelo,, Viva Paredes, Jorge P aredes,, and Jor ge Rojas. Thru Feb.. 15,, 2014.. San Jose.

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“Come Healing.”” Six artists explor exploree healing and wholeness.. Ongoing.

Thu-Sun,, 11am-3pm.

11am-3pm.. Saratoga.

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“Unmasking the SStage: tage: The Visual Artists Behind the Theater Experience.”” Thru March Mar ch 30. LLos os Gatos.

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

April 13.. P alo Al to.

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“Sip “Sip. Sip. Do Not Gulp”, Gulp”, in conjunction with San Jose Art’s Museum of Art ’s “Around “Ar A ound The TTable” aable” exhibition. Thru Mar 16. ““A A Serving Serving of Shapes: An Exploration Explor ation in 3D Printing”,, ffeaturing eaturing works works by Corinne Clara.

TTakara. aakara. Thru Mar 16. Santa Clar a.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF SAN QUILTS TEXTILESS QUIL TS & TEXTILE “Metamorphosis: Clothing and Identity.”

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Identity .” Jan 29-Apr 27 7. San Jose Tasty, Jose.

Taastyy, too! Starts Starts Jan 27.

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TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM OF AR ART T “TTeerritories of Experience” “Territories Experience” a charcoal char coal drawing drawing exhibit by Meyer.. Thru. artist KKatherine atherine Meyer May 4. Opening reception reception Fri. Clara.

Feb. 21, 6pm-8pm. Santa Clar a.

“Erased LLoop “Erased oop Random W Walk,” alk,” sculptures Berlier.. kinetic sculptur es by TTerry er e ry Berlier Thru Feb 15. Tue-Fri, Tuue-Fri,, 10am-5pm, Sat,, noon-5pm.. San Jose.

SEEING THINGSSGALLER SEEINGTHING GALLERY RY "Let's Meet In The Middle!" a workss by David and Ana series of work Imlay.

CCarolina arolina Imlay y. San Jose

WORKS W ORKS SSAN AN JOSE “The (Anti)V (Anti)Valentine Vaalentine Show Show,” w,,” (un)inspired ffeatures eatures artists (un)inspir ed by from rromance. omance. Viewpoints rrange ange fr om just a little less than love to all-out from war;; fr om the painfully rreal eal to outrageous outr ageous ffantasy. antasyy. Thru Feb.. 22.

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“I SStand tand For Sacrifice,” work workss by Bill Dunlap. Opening Reception.

Mar.. 22. San Jose.

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

MEET THE BRE BREWERS WERS FESTIVAL FE STIVAL Craft Cr aft beer ffestival. estival. Feb 15, 1-5pm. $35 ($5 designated Brewing ewing driver).. Hermitage Br Company, Company y, San Jose.

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Mero Cocinero, in his show ‘Love, Food, Love.’

Tasting Change “NOBODY TELLS an asparagus to be a beet.”

Robert Karimi paused.

“That’s Mero Cocinero logic, by the way.” He laughed.

We were eating lunch in La Piñeta, a hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant on S. First Street where Karimi’s been eating for 15 years. Over nopalitos con huevos and sopes, Karimi explained the dynamic of his new show “Love, Food, Love” down the street at MACLA. For the show, Karimi assumes his alter ego, Mero Cocinero Karimi, a.k.a. The People’s Cook. For Cocinero, cooking and eating together is a revolutionary act.

In his eyes, people 0can do no wrong. I’d just asked him what, exactly, Mero Cocinero was all about. Turns out, Love, Food, Love it’s not really for Karimi. It’s for the audience.

“I tell people stories and they tell each other stories,” he said. “You wanna be a character for the night? You wanna tell a story? Go ahead, be who you are. Nobody tells an asparagus to be a beet.”

Feb 14-15, 8pm, Feb 16, 2pm $20 advance/$25 at the door/$10 students 408.998.ARTE or maclaarte.org

For “Love, Food, Love” Karimi aims to get the audience involved entirely. “They’re gonna be cooking, they’re gonna be eating,” he told me. “I want everyone to have a good time nourishing themselves.” But when Karimi talks about nourishment, he doesn’t just mean the food. For him, art is nourishment just as much as food.

“How can we talk about difficult issues in our community in a delicious way?” is the question his show tries to answer. “I want people to make their well-being a community issue. Comedy and food are my vehicles,” he told me. “Everyone’s culture has all the things it needs to keep it healthy.” He looked around the restaurant, pointing out the protein, starch and vegetables on the plates. “But then we have to talk about portion and balance. How do we get balance back?”

His answer is pretty simple. The healthy/foodie/organic/local movement is great and all, but Karimi sees it getting a bit “precious,” almost fetishizing food rather than valuing it. Instead, he wants to bring health and food down to earth. “Go eat with folks. Go ask mom. That’s what this show— experience, I mean—is trying to do.”

Toward the end of our meal, he pointed to the kitchen. “Did you notice when the waitress came over to ask us how our food was, the owner was watching.

And when we said it was good, she nodded, and she was like, ‘Good, I did right by them.’” He laughed. “Like, what is that? Why do we do that?”

For Mero Cocinero—and for Karimi, too—it’s all tied together: food, love, community and well-being.—Stephen Layton

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THE PEOPLE’S COOK Robert Karimi performs as his alter ego,

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BAD PENNY (IN THE BEST WAY) Halsey Varady gets around as the duplicitous Jenny Diver in San Jose Stage Company's ‘The Threepenny Opera.’

Dark Perfection THERE IS something highly poetic in San Jose Stage Company following the warm nostalgia of its last offering, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, with the caustic blaze of The Threepenny Opera, a particularly nasty and mordant version of the Brecht/Weill classic at that. There is also a certain satisfaction in seeing a set of familiar faces, fresh from The Threepenny Opera their recent Frank Capra tribute, inhabiting a world in which “you have to kill your neighbor to survive.”

Thru Mar 30, $25-$50 The story of master criminal Macheath, who steals The Stage, San Jose the daughter of Beggar King Peachum and eludes the 408.283.7142 and hangman's noose time and again, is designed to alienate www.thestage.org. its audience, and in this respect is an obvious influence on musicals like Chicago and Cabaret. Kenneth Kelleher, director of the Stage's Threepenny, gets the tone of the piece just right, eschewing the mollifying cutesiness that often accompanies those Kander and Ebb shows.

Halsey Varady and Will Springhorn Jr., who were Mary and George Bailey just a short while ago, now appear respectively as whore extraordinaire Jenny Diver and odious Chief Constable Tiger Brown. Added to the mix are Paul Myrvold and Susan Gundunas, amusingly crusty and gargoyle-like as old Peachum and his wife, and Monique Hafen, who brings a haunting dreaminess to the role of their daughter, Polly. Johnny Moreno makes a strong impression as the central antihero Macheath, not the suave gentleman of the underworld, but an unrestrained, menacing psychopath. However, the show really belongs to Varady and her explosive Jenny.

There's nothing to like about these characters, as much as we might admire the performances, which is as it should be. The music sounds choppy and discordant— in a word, grotesque—and quite in keeping with the spirit of the production.

Polly's chillingly ethereal rendition of “Pirate Jenny” is one fine moment.

The lyric translation by Jeremy Sams, first used in the 1994 Donmar Warehouse production, is the one used here. The vulgarity of Sams’ lyrics is perfectly in line with Brecht’s and Weill’s original intentions, though it may be shocking to viewers more familiar with, say, Bobby Darin’s version of “Mack the Knife.”

—Sean Conwell

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There’s about There’s something so omething fishy fish hy about Stromberg Stromberg (Curt (Curt Jürgens), Jürgens), a

shipping magnate who lives lives in what looks looks like like an amphibian version version n of the Theme Building at LAX. A Roman Ro oman emperor emperor type type with watery wattery blue eyes, eyes, he swans swans around around in polyester em polyester kaftans kaftans guiding his empire mpire of supertankers. supertankers. Stromberg Stromberg hass just purchased th purchased a method method to trace trace the he atomic submarines of the U.K. U.K. and the U.S.S.R. U.S.S.R. After taking taking the usual ussual supervillain supervillain ill i precaution precaution i off killing killing killin his contractors, contractors, Stromberg Stromberg swipes swip pes a few few pigboats. pigboats. The disappearances disappearan nces are are investigated investigated by by the Soviet Soviet agent a Anya Anya Amasova, Amasova, Agent Agent Triple X (Barbara Bach) who teams with h 007 007 as a joint-powers joint-powers operation—“rival operation—“rrival companies,” companies,” is how Bond puts it. i They They track the data data merchants merchants to Cairo.

Cairo. In a subplot sadly kidded d aside, aside, Anya An nyya wants wants a spot spot of revenge. revenge e .

During the course course of an otherwise otherwise w uneventful uneventful day, daay, Bond shot her hairyhairyshouldered shouldered boyfriend. boyfriend.

Bond films always alwayys have haave a geographical geographical balance, balance, the desert desert giving way way to the ocean ocean here, here, and a snow at the beginning. beginning. The prepretitle has stuntman Rick Sylvester’s Sylvester’s

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insane ski-jump Asgard sgard ski--jjump off of o Mount A in Nunavut, Nu unaavvut, Canada.

Caanada adaaa. Thee crew ccrew also a so got close to the Egyptian Egyp ptian antiquities during a night son ett lumiere lumiere show at the pyramids. pyramids. Cinematographer Cin nematographer Claude Renoir’s Renoir’ e s vibrant colors bring vibrrant colors out the grotesqueness grotesqueneess in a two-shot two -shot of a pair of monstrous monstrous heads: the Sphinx, and the massive masssive skull skull of Richard Richard Kiel.

Two Andre Two w inches taller taller than t Andre the Giant, Kiel plays plaayys a steel-toothed stteel-toothed assassin who goes goes around around biting people, people, a messy messy and conspicuous conspicuous method method for for o an assassin. assasssin. Mute “Jaws” “Jaw ws” was was so beloved beloved by by the he masses that th they they brought brought him back baack for fo or Moonraker, Moonraker, the most godawful godaawful w James James Bond film ever ever made. made. No No similar similaar love, love, sadly, sadlyy, for for o Jaws’ Jaws’ w unfortunate unffor o tunate partner paartner Sandor, Sandor, played plaayed by

by Milton Reid, Reid, e who did a lot of henching and an nd who was was a runner up for for o the role role o of Oddjob in Goldfinger.

Sandor on a Goldfinger. Dealing with w Cairo Cairo rooftop, rooftop, Moore’s Moorre’s 007 007 shows the ruthless side that sometimes som metimes evaded evaded him.

Too Too frequently frequently thee Moore Moore Bonds were were a fondue-pot; fondue o -pot; there t e are ther are so many many moments where where you you u think, “This “This is how I spent spent my my youth?” youth?” when Moore Moore is paused, groping groping for fo or the right singlesingleentendre. entendre.

But there’s there’s no cheese cheeese in the production production design, design and a Spy Sppy was was made in an era when you you were were allowed to look look at the craftsmanship. craftsm manship. Ken Ken Adams’ Adams’ stainless-steel stainless-steeel cavern cavern this time was was the center center of a vast set that cost cost $3 million. The supertanker supertanker Liparus Liparus is a 63-foot 63-ffoot “miniature.” “m miniature.” And Stromberg’s Stromberg’s apartments apartmeents are are adorned with Botticelli’s Botticelli’s Venus, Veenu us, a curtain curtain for for o the viewing viewing screen screen of o his man-eating man- eating shark tank. tank. If Stromberg Stromb berg is kind of a cold cold fish, fish he rises to the usual madmad scientist-ing: scientist-ing: “Observe, “Observe, Mr. Mr. Bond.

The instruments of Armageddon!”

A The joke joke of the 007 007 films concealed concealed nuclear panic; the biggest biiggest Bonds dealt with that terror, terror o , with soothing soothing daydreams daaydreams of apocalypse apocallypse averted. averted.

The fantasy fantasy must have haave worked. worked. We’re We’re all playing together plaaying y together in the snow in Russia right now.

Russia u now w.

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New N ew ROBOCOP R OBOCOP (PG--13; (PG-13; 1 ; 108 min.) Itt work workss well enough, it’s but it ’s frequently frequently flat and placid.. And yet it brings a hectic ye et banal shootergame aesthetic to the action scenes.

Kinnaman Murphy, tolid Joel Kinnam SStolid man is Murphy y, the near-futuree Detr Detroit near-futur oiit police detective the who ends up as th he sausage in a metal armor;r;; a horrifying sandwich of armo horrifying fate fate to which Kinnaman rresponds esponds by looking depressed Olympic luger.. A very big like a depr essed O lympic luger

corporation, headed corpor ation,, he eaded by Michael KKeaton eaton circumvent aims to cir cum mvent the laws against U.S. str streets. having rrobots obots police p eets.. His propaganda pr opaganda method: m : selling the public cyborg. problem on a friendly cy yborg. The pr oblem is that chemistry Murphy’s chem mistry never can get into pretty balance, whichh is pr etty much the case pre-titles, ffor or this film.. Don’t Doon’t miss the pr e-titles, aree a rreservoir which ar esservoir of the kind of bitter satiree that made satir madde Robocopp (1987) one of the key movies era. movvies of the Reagan er a.

Samuel L.. Jackson Jackson is the standout as a futuristic TTV V commentator ccommentator,, the next generation generation of a Fox News pundit.

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“A COMPELLING COM PELL LING

U NTOLD STORY STO TORY. UNTOLD AF FUN UN AND A ND ADDICTIVE A DDIC I TI V E A DV ENT UR E .”

ADVENTURE PETER P ETER TRA TRAVERS VERS

HEY, DIVORCEE The carefree Gloria (Paulina Garcia) finds a new love on the dancefloor.

Wild Woman Blues

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 DIRECTED

BY GRANT HESLOV GEORGE CLOONEY

BY GEORGE CLOONEY

SEE IT NOW, and see it before the inevitable insufferable American remake.

Word will be getting out about Gloria.

There’s usually a good turnout for a film about a divorcée going wild—women of a certain age never lost the habit of moviegoing. Instead of self-consciousness and shyness, there’s genuine heat here, which the inevitable-insufferable is certain to geld.

Gloria (Paulina Garcia) is a Santiagoan who has been divorced for 10 years. Out dancing one night, she finds the courtly Rodolfo (Sergio Hernandez), an exNaval officer who now runs a paintball emporium. Director Sebastian Lelio insists that it’s a meeting of bodies as well as minds. Age has seasoned Gloria. She’s getting glaucoma and she has to keep her glasses on when they tryst.

The problem with the relationship is the couple’s families; Gloria’s ex married a younger woman, but this elder man sitting around at a family reunion is a little too strange. And Rodolfo’s exwife and grown daughters pester him relentlessly.

Gloria does what the standard American rom-com doesn’t do—it adds some

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background details of life and politics.

The film notes the student unrest current in Chile. Gloria’s family’s welcome to Rodolfo is cooled by the matter of his career in the Navy: the Chilean Navy committed some of the worst crimes of the Gloria fascist regime.

R; 110 min.

Despite the past, Plays at CineArts this is a culture alive Santana Row, to pleasure: we get San Jose the delight of a dirty weekend in Vina del Mar, or a dinner party of good musicians where an impromptu samba breaks out. Rodolfo warms his lover up with verse by the Chilean poet Claudio Bertoni—ignorance would lead me to call the poet “Nerudian” but there may be some more salt there, since Bertoni translates Bukowski. Finally, I like the ardor here with which Gloria looks at everything: a consoling Pisco Sour, a man she’s about to husk out of his clothes or a tiny skeleton marionette wielded by a street performer. She gets on her knees and stares the puppet down. She gets the memento mori joke and has decided not to be amused or afraid.

—Richard von Busack

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TAMBOURINE T A MBOUR INE D DREAM R E A M Joel Gion, who made his n name ame as Brian Jonestown M Massacre’s asssacre’s guy,’ debuts Primary rimary Colours, Stritch. ‘tambourine guy y,,’ deb buts his new band, the P ry Colours s, in a show at Cafe St tritch.

Brian Jone Jonestown estown M Massacre’s assacrre’s Joel Gion inspiration dug deep and a found inspi iration album—and own for an alb um—and his o wn band BY B Y AAR AARON ON CARNES CARN NES

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rugs,, violence rugs violen nce and just plain rock ro ock & roll madness were we ere major major themes covered cov vered in the 2004 rockumentary rockumentary Dig! as viewers watched watche ed San Francisco Fr ancisco psychedelic psyched delic rock band the Brian Jonestown Jonestown Massacre fall apart aparrt at the seams.. seams

Yet, Y eet, it w was as their go goofy, ofy, flamboyant of flamb oyant and not-nearly-as-volatile not-nearly-as-volaatile ttambourine amb ourine pla ayer Joel Joel e Gion who player b ecame a fa avorite with h a lot of became favorite fans er Anton fans.. In fact, BJM lead leader N ewcomb e ask ed Gion n to rrejoin ejoin Newcombe asked the band a yyear ear after the t mo vie movie w as rreleased—he eleased—he quit during the was

filming—b filming—because b ecause so man manyy p people eople weree ccoming shows,, wer omin ng up to him at shows wheree the ““tambourine asking him m wher tamb ourine guy” was. was.

Although h Gion did rrejoin ejoin BJM,, he wanted more bee known w anted mo ore than to just b wacky player. as the w ack ky ttambourine ambourine pla ayer. JJust ust wrote rrecently ecently hee wr ote and rrecorded ecorded his album.

Until first solo al lbum. U ntil a ffew ew yyears ears never wrote ago he ne ver e eeven ven wr ote a single song.. He’s song He’s even even assembled an actual Primaryy C Colours band ccalled alled d the Primar olours ffor o or livee shows and futur futuree rrecordings. liv ecordings.

Friday Café Their first show s is this Frida ay at C affé Stritch. myself “I ffelt eelt like lik ke I had pushed m yself to myy limits of laziness,, and had to get m o laziness start creating,” says. rreal eal and st a t cr ar eating,” Gion sa ayys. aree yyou “I thought,, ‘well, how long ar ou bee a ttambourine player?’ going to b ambourine pla ayer?’

Now one,, and N ow eeverybody veryb y ody else has one they’re ounger and far cuter the y’re far yyounger now. bee a ttambourine now w. You Yo ou can’t can’t just b ambourine

pla ayer yyour our whole lif fe. Y ou o ccan—but an— —but player life.

You I just thought I ccould ould do b etterr.” better.”

Bef fo ore rrejoining ejoining BJM, Gion Before divided his time b etween work king at between working independent stores DJing indep endent rrecord ecord stor es and DJ ing rretro etro psychedelia, psychedelia,, soul and alt-rock alt-rrock at Francisco. clubs in San Francisc o. His rreturn etu urn to livee p performing—when liv erfo orming—when he rrejoined ejo oined 2005—started thinking BJM in 20 05—started him thin nking about material, ab out writing his own material l, a project he’d pr oject he ’d ttake ake up in earnest a ffew ew later.. yyears ears later “It’s great because sincee I’v I’vee only “It ’s gr eat b ecause sinc o started ouple of rreally eally st arted in the last ccouple myy cr creative that yyears, ears, m eative ttapping apping is tha at of a 24- [or] 25-year-old, 25-year- old, but it’s it’s me now.. If yyou weree the Kinks yyou now ou wer ou u did it weree 19. I didn didn’t ’t do itt till when yyou ou wer myy 40s 40s.. I’m ttapping apping the wells fo m ffor or the good first time so all the go od stuff iss still top,” says. on the top ,” Gion sa ayys.

There’s Th Ther e’s no rrelease elease l date d yyet et ffor o or Gion’s Gion ’s rrecord, ecord, and he is ttalking alking to different labels. isn’t diff ffeerent lab els. The material is n’t a stretch from tripped-out, huge str etch fr om the tripp ed- out, o textured psychedelic sounds te xtured ps ychedelic rrock ock soun ds ffor or o which the Brian JJonestown onestown Massacree is known,, but Gion al also Massacr lso incorporates manyy other rrock inc orporates man ock &

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sub-genres from ‘60s, rroll oll sub -genres fr om m ‘6 0s, ‘70s and ‘80s, post-punk inspired ‘8 0s, as in the p ost-p punk inspir p p ed “Smile,” “Hairyy “Smile ,” country-folk-esque country--ffol olk- esque “Hair shoegaze “Dart.”

Flower” and sho egaaze jam “Dar t.”

Spacey production drenches Spac ey pr oduction that t dr enches the unifies diverse songs in rreverb everb unifi fies such div erse influences, the influenc es, giving th he album a late ’60s ’6 0s acid-trip ffeel eeel without w sounding likee a time ccapsule lik ffrom apsule fr om the era.

About was Ab out half of thee album w as with rrecorded ecorded in L.A. wit th Brian Massacree guit guitarist Rob JJonestown onestown Massacr arist R o ob Campanella, the C ampanella, and th he other half was Portland w as rrecorded ecorded in P orrtland with Collin Various BJM bassist C ollin Hegna.

H V aarious members and memb ers of BJM an nd other musician Gion’s friends ccontributed ontributed to Gion ’s Ass a ne new songwriter, album. A w son ngwriter, Gion was many w as surprised so ma any seasoned weree will willing musicians wer ling to ccontribute ontribute project. their time to his pr o oject. the After rrecording ecording th he album, Gion together Primary Colours, put to gether the Pr rimary C olours, different players, which cconsists onsists of di ffeerent pla ff ayers, San Francisco, mostly friends in Sa an Francisc o, person asked though the first p errson he ask ed to was Derek from join his band w as Der D ek See fr om Bang..

San JJose’s ose’s soul rrevue, evuee, the Bang was thee Bang Bang.. After “I w as a fan of th asked meeting him a ffew ew times I just ask ed dude,, I ha have him, ‘Hey ‘Hey dude ave this band. Do want play with yyou ou w ant to pla ay wi ith me?’’ He rrolled olled was like, ‘You fucker, his eeyes yes and w as lik e, ‘Y Yo ou fuck er, I already bands. have alr eady have haave ttwo wo ba ands. I ha ave no schedule.’.’ But he sai said always schedule id yyes. es. II’ll ll alw ayys love says. lo ve him ffor o or that,”” Gion G sa ayys.

Other show O ther than one sh how in Melbourne, Australia, upcoming Melb ourne, A ustrallia, this up coming Café bee the first C affé Stritch show will w b performs anyy of these time Gion p erfo ormss an onstage audience. songs onst age ffor o or an n audienc e. He doesn’t that about do esn’t seem all tha at worried ab out being front already b eing a fr ont man. He H alr eady the “passivee cconsiders onsiders himself th he “passiv aggressive” front man aggr essive” fr ont ma an of the Brian Massacre.

JJonestown onestown Massacr e. brought stand ““Anton Anton br A ought me m in to st and wheree the fr front in the middle wher ont guy supposed bee to draw attention is supp osed to b o dra aw at tention aaway way from from him. So I’m rreally eally accustomed being guy, ac customed to b ein ng that guy y, but I never say anything.

It’s moree ne ver have haave to sa ay an nyything. It ’s mor likee a Harp Harpo says. lik o Marx thing tthing,” ,” Gion sa ayys.

“It’s have “It ’s the same thing. thingg. I just ha ave to open myy mouth an and sing,” op en m nd sing ,”

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Rock/Pop Rock/P op ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BIS BISTRO TRO Sat, 8pm: TTop oop Shelf Shelf’s ’s Valentines Weekend V alentines W eekend Dinner Show.. $20-$26. Redwood Cit City.

Show tyy.

ART AR T BOUTIKI SSat, t 7pm: 7 H Har Hardd Girls, Gi l Breathing Patterns, Breathing P atterns, AVTTE, AV TTE, Hawk Jones. San Jose

BLACKBIRD BLA CKBIRD T TAVERN AVERN V Thu: Quasar Collective – The Residency.. Fri: Jackie Gage.

Residency Wat, TTim im W at, John KKellett ellett & Ren Wendy Geisick. Sat: W endy DeWitt Woogie - Queen of Boogie W oogie & Blues. TTue, uue, 8pm:: Nineteen Bigg Band (in the Annex). TTue: ue: u TTaran aaran a Escobar-Ausman. San Jose

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed, 8pm: TTurn Wed, uurn Me On Dead, KKavarzee, avarzee,, Him Your Yoour Mom. Fri, 8pm: The Red Elvises. $15. Sat, 8pm: This Charming Band (tribute to The Smiths), TTemptation eemptation (tribute to New Order), Jose.

Or der),, DJ Jeff (KSCU). San Jos e.

CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH Wed, W ed, 8pm:: W Wax ax W Wednesdays. eednesdays.

Woolen W/The W oolen Men,, Plantain, Dann DJ SSwellmax. wellmax. Thu,, 8:30pm:: Dan nn Zinn Trio.

Trio. r . Fri,, 7pm: Valentine’s Valentine a ’s Circus Day party with Lagunitas Cir cus Party, P artyy, The Bang,, Joel Gion & Thee Primary Colors.. Sat,, 8:30pm: Illiance. Tue: Tue: u : African American Celebration.

History Month Celebr ation.

BAJABA Showcase ffeat. eat.

LifeForce Lif eForce Jazz.. San Jose.

THE CA CATS ATS Every Thu: Out of the Blue. Fri, F 8pm: Johnny Neri Band. Sat,, 8pm: Maneck. LLos os Gatos.

CITY NA NATIONAL AT TIONAL CIVIC

MOJO MO JO LLOUNGE OUNGE

LITTLE LLOU’S OU’S BBQ

Fri: Big CCat at Tolefree.

Toolefree. Sat: Ginger and The Jeffries. All Fremont. shows 9:30pm, $5. Fr emont.

Wed: W ed: A ACC Miles. Thu: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fri: Evan Thomas Garage. and Papa’s Papa’s Gar age. CCampbell. ampbell.

MOUNTAIN MOUNT AIN CHARLE CHARLEY'S Y'S Fri, 7pm: Old Hollywood Glam Valentine’s V alentine’s Day party with Snarkyy CCats.

The Snark ats. LLos os Gatos.

SSAN AN PEDR PEDRO O SQU SQUARE ARE MARKET Sat, 8pm: A YYawn aawn W Worth orth YYelling. elling. e San Jose.

SAP CENTER (F SAP (FORMER ORMER HP PAVILION) P AVILION)

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Ages. Fr ee. Los Los Gatos

Jazz/Blues/ World W orld o ld AGENDA A GENDA LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, 8pm: Salsa. Thu, 9pm: Wed, Vybez.

Banda. Sun: Reggae V ybez.

Sun: Reggae Night San Jose.

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Fri-Sat, 66-9pm: 9pm: Jazz ffor or dinner.. San Jose. dinner Wed: Ron Thompson. Thu: Wed: Varela Sammy V arela Blues Band. Fri: Pat P at “Guitar Slim” Slim” Chase 60th Birthday Party.

Party. Sat:: Rockin’ Rockin’ Burgin Johnny Bur gin w/ Aki KKumar. umar.

“Post Sun:: KKeith eith Crossen Crossen Band “P ost Valentine’s V alentine’s Day”” Jazz Brunch.

San Jose.

TRAIL DUS DUST T BBQ Fri, 66-9pm: 9pm: Live blues, rroots oots Morgan and Americana. Mor gan Hill.

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

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

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

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HEDLEY HEDLE Y CLUB CLUB Thu, 8pm:: Gus KKambeitz ambeitz duo.

Worley Fri, 8:30pm: John W 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.’S BLUES BLUES CAFE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: Free. over.r.

Live bands. Fr ee. 21 and ove Fremont.

Fr emont.

Live music. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO TRO

Sun,, 6:30pm: The Eulipions Open Jazz Jam Session.. San Jose.

THE HUDDLE

Every Thu: Live jazz in the evening. San Jose.

Thu: Imagine Dragons, Dragons, The Naked and Famous. San Jose

Feb 22: Pixies. San Jose.

Fri, 8pm: Valentine’s Vaalentine’s Day Celebration Celebr ation with Rafa, Rafa, Dogcatcher.

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Blues and Jazz every night, info. call ffor or inf o. San Jose.

LILL LILLY Y MA MAC’S C’S CCall all ffor or info. info. Sunnyvale

Sat, 8pm:Live Jazz. CCasino asino M8trix, San Jose.

ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BIS BISTRO TRO Every TTue, uue,, 7pm:: Open Mic hosted Pete City.

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AGAVE A GAVE Wed, 7pm: SStand-up Wed, tand-up comedy comedy.. $10-$20. San Jose.

BACK B ACK B BAR AR Every W Wed: ed: The CCypher ypher Open Mic.

BAMBOO B AMBOO LLOUNGE OUNGE Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic ffor or singer/songwriters. Sign Free. up at 7pm. Fr ee. San Jose.

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

Wed, W ed, 10pm: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

AZÚCAR LA LATIN AT TIN B BAR AR Wed: 8pm-midnight: KKaraoke Wed: araoke plus DJ party (English and Spanish). San Jose.

EFFIE’S RE RESTAURANT STAURANT Wed-Sat & Tue, Wed-Sat Tue, u 9pm-2am, 9pm-2am, & last Sun of every month, 22-7pm: -7pm: B&S Karaoke.

Karaoke. Campbell.

Campbell.

EL RANCHO SPOR SPORTS TS BAR BAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. San Jose.

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

Comedy Sport z San Jose. z.

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Fri, 6pm: KJ Bob and SStarmaker, tarmaker, ffollowed ollowed by DJ at 9pm. Santa Clara.

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Thu-Sun: Chris P Porter. orter. $20.

San Jose.

MARMIST CCOCKTAIL MARMIST OCKTAIL LLOUNGE OUNGE Sun, 9:30pm: Comedy Comedy. y.

San Jose.

PHILZ CCOFFEE OFFEE Mon, 7pm: Open mic. Fr Free. ee.

Downtown San Jose.

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

QUARTER QU ARTER NO NOTE TE Mon: Comedy Comedy.. No cover cover..

Sunnyvale.

RED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE CCO. O. Mon, 7pm: CCavin avin and King’s View..

Open Mic. Mountain View

ROOSTER R OOSTER T T.. FEA FEATHERS ATHER T S Every W Wed, ed, 8pm: New TTalent aalentt Showcase. Thu-Sun: KKyle yle Kinane. $13. Sunnyvale.

SLG AR SLG ART T BOUTIKI GALLERY & GALLER Y Thu, Feb. 20, 6pm: Open Micc Night.

THREE FLAME FLAMESS RESTAURANT RE STAURANT

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

Show alo Al to.

BLINKY’S BLINK Y’S CAN’T SSAY AY Sat, 9pm-1am: 9pm-1am: KKaraoke. araoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

BLUE BL UE MAX Fri-Sat, 7pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

Sunnyvale.

BLUE BL UE PHEA PHEASANT SANT TTue, uue, 7pm: SSteve teve TTiger. iger.

CCupertino. upertino.

GILROY GILR OY BOWL BOWL Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

Gilroy.

Gilr oy.

Thu: KKaraoke. araoke. LLos os Gatos.

BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE TTue: uue: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

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

Wed Thu, 10pm: DJ Dinero.

Dinero. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS CUPER CUPERTINO TINO Sun--Tuue, 10pm: KKaraoke.

Sun-Tue, araoke.

CCupertino. upertino.

BRIT ARMS DO DOWNTOWN WNTOWN Wed, W ed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

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

THE HUDDLE Wed--TThu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Wed-Thu Fremont.

Nights Karaoke.

Karaoke. Fr emont.

ISLAND CAFE & B BAR AR Fri-Sat, 9pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

Sunnyvale.

JOHNNY V V’SS Sun: Sunday Funday kar karaoke. aoke. cover.. San Jose.

No cover

THE CARA CARAVAN VA AN Mon, 10pm: Mandatory Monday Karaoke.

Karaoke. San Jose

THE CARL CARLOS OS CL CLUB UB

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

Wed-Sat, araoke. TTue, uuee, 9pm: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

C&J’S SPOR SPORTS TS B BAR AR

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

KCC BAR K BAR AND RE RESTAURANT STAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Wed, Jose.

KHARTOUM KHAR TOUM

Th 9pm: Thu, 9 Karaoke.

Karaoke. k Santa S t Clar Cl Clara. a.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. CCampbell. ampbell.

THE CCOURT’S OURT’S LLOUNGE OUNGE

KING OF CL CLUBS UBS

Thu & Mon, 9pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

Sat, 8:30pm: Joe or Dar Darryl. ryl.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Nightlyy, 9pmNightly, 9pm-2am: 2am: KKaraoke. araoke.

San Jose.

Thu, 9pm-2am: 9pm-2am: August.

Milpitas.

BOULEVARD BOULE VA ARD T TAVERN AVERN V

Thu 8pm: Guil Guilty ty Pleasures Pleasures with DJ Dan. San Carlos Carlos

ALEX’S ALEX ’S 4 49ER 9ER INN

GALAXY

Wed, Fri & Sun, 9pmWed, 9pm-1am: 1am: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

WOODHAMS W OODHAMS LLOUNGE OUNGE

Karaoke Kar aoke

Thu, 9pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

View..

Mountain View

BOGART’S BOGAR T’S LLOUNGE OUNGE

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

Mon: Comedy open mic withh Pete Clara.

P ete Munoz. Santa Clar a.

FRANCESA’S FRANCE SA’S

DASILVA’S D ASILVA’S BR BRONCOS ONCOS Wed: Karaoke.

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

KKaraoke. araoke. Santa Clar a.

Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KKOR OR Karaoke.

Karaoke.

View..

Mountain View

KYOTO K YOTO PLACE PLACE Wed, 7pm: KKaraoke.

Wed, araoke. Sunnyvale. .

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336

SLEEPY SUN

s P M P M

Friday, February 14 ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 21+

MONDO GENERATOR also The Highway

plus Doors To Nowhere Murderers s P M P M

Saturday, February 15 ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 16+

JAMES DURBIN plus Kelley James !DV $RS 0ARTY s $RS P M 3HOW P M Monday, February 17 ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 21+

SADAT X & EL DA SENSEI

plus Qwel and Elliot Write

& Maker also Zigzag Robinson & Snack One $RS s P M P M

Tuesday, February 18 ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 16+

YUNA plus Marques Toliver !DV $RS s $RS OPEN P M 3HOW P M

OPEN O PEN SEASON SEASON Open n format DJ Cobra spins Sat. at Studio 8 in San Jose.

NORMANDY NORMAND Y HOUSE LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

OASIS O ASIS Wed W ed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug. Sunnyvale.

OFF THE HOOK

SOUTH FIR FIRST ST BILLIARDS Sun: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

Mon-Sat, Sun, M S t 6pm-1am; 6 6pm1 1am; S 8pm8 12:30am. San Jose

SSTATION TATION T 55

APPARITION APP ARITION

Thu: JR. Sun: JR Diaz Family Gilroy.

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

Thu, 9pm: $5. Club Lido, San Jose.

TEQUILA SHO TEQUILA SHOT’S T’S B BAR AR & GRILL

AZĂšCAR LA LATIN ATIN T B BAR AR

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

Thu, 9pm: DJ party party.. Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am: 9pm2am: Live music & DJs, more. salsa, house, hip-hop & mor e.

Mon: Salsa. San Jose.

Wed, W ed, 9pm: KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

Mon & W Wed, ed, 9pm: Dar Darryl. ryl.

Milpitas.

OFFICE B BAR AR

THREE FLAME FLAMESS

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

KKaraoke. araoke. Mountain View

Thu, 8pm:: KKaraoke Thu araoke Night with the Show.

Uncle Dougie Show w. San Jose.

PLAZA GARIB GARIBALDI ALDI

TORTUGA T ORTUGA ISLAND T TAVERN AVERN

Fri-Sat: DJ or Live info.

Entertainment. CCall all ffor or inf o.

San Jose.

Wed & Sun, 7pm-close: Wed KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

TTue, uue, 7pm: KJ Bob and SStarmaker. tarmaker. San Jose.

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB

PIONEER SSALOON ALOON

WOODHAMS W OODHAMS LLOUNGE OUNGE

Thu, 8pm: A Atomic tomic Dance Club. $5. San Jose.

TTue, uue, 8:30pm: A Acoustic coustic kar karaoke aokke Woodside. with Sam Marshall. W oodside.

TTue-Thu uue--Thu T & Sat: KKaraoke. araoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

BLUE BL UE PHEA PHEASANT SANT

BAMBOO B AMBOO LLOUNGE OUNGE

POINCIANA LLOUNGE OUNGE

Wed-Sun & TTue, Wed-Sun uue, 7pm: DJ and dancing. CCupertino. upertino.

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

Sun, 9pm:: Joe. Santa Clara.

Clara.

BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE

PSYCHO P SYCHO DONUT DONUTSS Sun, 10am: Psycho KKaraoke. araoke.

CCampbell. ampbell.

THE QU QUARTER ARTER NO NOTE TE TTue: uue: Karaoke.

Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

RED SSTAG TAG LLOUNGE OUNGE Nightly kar karaoke, aoke, 9pm9pm-1:30am.

1:30am m.

San Jose.

THE X B BAR AR TTue uue & Fri, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke with KJ Vinnie. CCupertino. upertino.

Dancee Clubs Danc Clubs

Wed: W ed: d Almaden Al d V Valley alley ll Beer B Pong P ong with DJ ONEmanARMY. ONEmanARMY. Thu: Audio Revolution with Hi-Grade.

DJs Jason Dee & Hi-Gr ade.

Control VJ1.

Fri: Quality Contr ol w/DJ V JJ1.

Dreams Sat: Cocktails & Dr eams w/DJ Aspect.

A spect. TTue: ue: u Irie Nights w/DJ Hi-Grade Hi-Gr ade & TTesfa. eesfa. San Jose.

REDI R ROOM OOM Thu Sat, 9pm: DJ Curtis.

Thu-Sat, Curtis.

San Jose.

RUDY’S R UDY’S PUB

AGENDA A GENDA

SHERWOOD SHER WOOD INN

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

V ybez. San Jose.

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

San Jose.

AJ’S B BAR AR

Wed, W ed, 10pm: Purple. P Palo alo Al Alto. too.

DJs and dancing every night.

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+) -AR 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+) -AR 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+)

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Thu: DJ Nico and DJ Neeber Neeber..

San Jose.

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www.catalystclub.com

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metroactive metr oactivve MUSIC BRIT ARMS DO DOWNTOWN WNTOWN Thu: DJ Nico. Fri: DJ Benoffic Benofficial. ial.

Jose.

Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose e.

CARDIFF LLOUNGE OUNGE

PARRANDA P ARRANDA NIGHT NIGHTCLUB CLUB

SST. T. SSTEPHENS TEPHENS GREEN

call ffor or inf info. o. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 10:30pm: Reggae Thursdays. Fri: DJ TTony. oony. Sun, 11:30am: Bottomless Mimosa.

View..

Mountain View

PLAYHOUSE PLA AY YHOUSE Thu, 10pm: Ambitious Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Playhouse Industry.. San Jose.

Fridays. TTue: uue: Industry

Every second and ffourth ourth Sun Sun: n: Return of the Boom Zap, underground electronic music. under ground electr onic mus sic.

CCampbell. ampbell.

Fri, 10pm: NuW NuWave ave Friday Friday..

Sunnyvale.

DIVE B BAR AR

SSAN AN JOSE B BAR AR & GRILL

Thu, 10:30pm: Rotating Guest DJs.

EL RANCHO SPOR SPORTS TS BAR BAR Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dan Dance nce Party.

P arty. San Jose.

FFAHRENHEIT AHRENHEIT Wed, W ed, 9pm: Wine W Wednesdays. ednesdays.

Thu: Liquid Thursdays, with guest DJs spinning hip-hop, TTop oop 40 and R&B. Fri, 9pm: Heit Heeit Fridays. $10. Sat, 9pm: CCall all ffor o or info.

Industry.. San Jose Jose.. inf o. Mon: Industry

KATIE KA AT TIE BL BLOOM’S OOM’S Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. CCampbell. ampbell.

SSTUDIO8 TUDIO8 Fri, 10pm: Heart Br Breaker eaker Valentine’s Party.

V alentine’s Day P arty. Sat, 9pm: Cobra.

DJ Cobr a. San Jose.

PURE LLOUNGE OUNGE 408

SUMMIT LLOUNGE OUNGE call ffor or inf info. o. Four P Points oints Sheraton, Sher aton, San Jose.

Wed: Gamer W Wed: Wednesdays. ednesdays.

Thu: TTanked aanked Thursdays w/ Wreck-A-Noize.

DJ W reck-A-Noize. Fri: Video Junkie. Sat, 10pm: Omega the Philemonster..

Neo-tablist and Philemonster Every second and ffourth ourth Sat, Prolific.

10pm: Pr olific. Mon: Manic Mondaze. TTue: uue: $2 TTuesdays. uuesdays.

San Jose.

TRESS GRINGOS TRE Thu: Everybody Get Get’s ’s Lei’d Saturday with DJ Aspect.

Aspect. Sat: Satur day DJ-Luzion, Cooldown with DJ-L uzion, Illtraxx, Ill traxx, WreckaNoize WreckaNoize & HiGrade.

HiGr ade. Tues: Tuues: TTWOSdays.

WOSdays. San Jose.

SONOMA CHICKEN CCOOP OOP

WILLOW WILL OW DEN

Thu-Sat, 9pm: p Late Night g at more. the Coop. Live DJ and mor e.

San Jose.

Mon: Magic g Mike Mondays. y Wed-Fri: W ed-Fri: DJs. Willow Glen.

SSTATION TAT TION 55

Thu: Reverse Happy Hour Hour.. Every first Fri: Famous. Every second & ffourth ourth Fri: Diamond. Sat: Girls View..

Night Out. Mountain View

ZEN LLOUNGE OUNGE

Fri & Sat 9pm: Live music.

Gilroy.

Gilr oyy.

LILLY LILL Y MA MAC’S C’S Fri, 9:30pm: Phil ‘‘n n the Blank Blanks. ks.

Every second and ffourth ourth Sat: Sat: DJ night with Latin music.

Sunnyvale.

LIQUID

San Francisco’s City Guide

Friday: DJs & dancing.

Every second Sat: Girls & Champagne. San Jose.

LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS B BAR AR AND GRIL GRILL LL Fri, 10pm: Foundation Friday Fridays ys at LLGBG. GBG. Sat: Video Killed thee DJ.. Los DJ Los Gatos.

MILANO Every Thir Thirdd Fri: SStrictly trictly Freestyle.

Fuz. Fr eestyle. Every ffourth ourth Fri: Fu uz.

San Jose.

THE MO MOJO JO LLOUNGE OUNGE

Thao & the Get Down Stay Down CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT

Thu: DJ Mist. Fr Fremont. emont.

Already a European sensation, Salvant sounds amazing in any language she sings. Feb 13 at SF Jazz Center.

MOTIF MO TIF

BLACKALICIOUS

Fri: DJs & dancing. Every ffourth ourrth Only.

Sat: Thrive. Sun: Members On nly.

San Jose.

Enduring hip-hop duo still twists tongues and drops beats like no other. Feb 14 at Slim’s.

MOUNTAIN MOUNT AIN CHARLE CHARLEY’S Y’S

Funky folk and fun pop songs fronted by the magnetic Thao Nguyen. Feb 14 at the Fillmore.

Thu: DJ Vincent Fiction. Fri: Claksaarb DJ Clak saarb Sat, 9:30pm: DJJ Kmac. Los Los Gatos.

MYTH T TAVERNA AVERNA LLOUNGE OUNGE Every Thu, 9pm: Ther Therapy apy Thursday.. Every Fri, 9pm: Sou Soul Thursday ul Therapy.

Ther apy. Every Sat: Social Saturdays.

Satur days. San Jose.

PAGODA P AGODA LLOUNGE OUNGE call ffor or info. info. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN

NOAH GUNDERSEN Now joined by sister Abbey, Gundersen sounds like a modern day Leonard Cohen. Feb 18 at Brick & Mortar.

ANE BRUN Norwegian singer and songwriter is anything but traditional. Feb 19 at Yoshi’s.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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TTHE HE ST STRAIGHT RAIG GHT DOPE

By CE CECIL CILL ADAMS ADAMS

Sheryl.

You know Listen, Sher ryl. y Y o ou kno ow how in some cultures their uncovered cultur rees men ccan aan show th heir unc cover ered e women have mugs in public but wom men ha ave to wear over Same Now a bag o ver e their heads? Sa ame idea. N ow if wondering about what h yyou’re ou ou’’rre rreally eally e ll wonde dering ab bout is the h behind double standard rationale b ehind the dou uble st tandar a d on nipples,, fine fine,, let let’s walk through nipples t’s w aalk thr rough it.

Female are 1. F emale humans ar re the t only primates permanently enlarged breasts, with p ermanently enlar rgged br reasts e , which harebrained speculation has led to much har ebraiined sp eculation about why. about ab out wh hy. I’m not ab ou ut to add to it. merely myy fa favorite from I mer ely cite m avo orite theor ttheory, ry, fr rom o zoologist Morris’s 1967 zo ologist Desmond Morr ris’s 19 67 The Naked Apee (I elab elaborate somewhat): Nak ked e Ap orate so omeew what): (a) apes paramours from male ap es mount their p aramours fr rom o behind; apes b ehind; (b) ffemale emale e ap es ar aaree only in heat at signal ccertain eerrtain a times; (c) as a sign nal that the ffemale emale e apee is se sexually buttocks ap exually x rreceptive, eceptivve, her h but tttocks become enlarged ed b eccome o enlar rgged and rred; d; (d) humans generally do it fac facee to fac face, e, and women may bee game at an any time; any billboard ma ay b ny time e; (e) an ny billb oarrd of human ffemale emale e aavailability vvailab bilitty thus would logically bee inst installed permanently front; lo giccaally b taalled p erm manently in fr ront; o (f)) inasmuch as the ffemale breast becomes (f ema e ale br reeast b ecomes enlarged anyway it’s enlar rged g an nyw yway during lact llactation, taation, it ’s obvious words, the ob bvvious ccandidate. andidate a . In n other wor rds d, like breast because, men lik ke the ffemale emale e br reeaast b eccaause, at primordial level, a primor dial le eveel, it rreminds emi e inds them of a monkey’s butt. monk keyy’s but tt. t It’s women’s partners 2. It t’s not just women n’s par rttners who like boobs. breasts lik ke b oobs. Most women find their br easts source sexual pleasure—more a sour rce of se exual x pleasur re—morre than eight in ten rreport playing eport pla ayyin ng with their breasts increases arousal. br reasts e and nipples incr reeaases their ar rousal. o also source 3. The male nipple is al lso a sour ce of sexual pleasure—more than se exxual pleasur re—more th han half of men playing increases rreport ep e orrt pla aying y with theirr nipples incr reeases arousal. argument their ar ousal. So the ar rgum g ment that the bee ccovered ffemale emale e nipple alone mustt b over ered e because it’s erogenous b eccaause it ’s an er ogenouss zone and the isn’t won’t wash. male nipple isn n’’t won ’t w aash.

Exposure (as from 4. Exp osure of much (a as distinct fr om breast all) of the human ffemale emale e br reast e is decidedly it’s not ttaboo. ab a oo. On the ccontrary, o ontraarry, it ’s the basis of entire industries.. entir re industries For world, 5. F or much of the wor rld, seeing a nipple freak over, or ttwo wo w is nothing to fr eak k out o veerr, but in significant parts U.S. unspoken signific cant a par rtts of the U .S. the unsp ok ken e assumption seems to b bee that, t eexcept xxccept e narrow circumstances, i narr in ow cir ircumst c tanc a cees, the h eexposed xxposed d equivalent ffemale emale e nipple is the equiv valent of public Absurd, say?

Keep ffornication. ornic o caation. Absur rd d, yyou ou o sa ayy? K eep e rreading. eading e g.

Sex being freighted is,, 6. Se ex b eing the fr reight e ted topic it is many Americans apparently en man ny Americ cans a appar ntly need a bright between saucy but p permissible display line b ettween w ermissible displa ay breast vs.. in indecent of the ffemale eemale br east vs ndecceent eexposure. xxposure. from state law, there’s JJudging udging fr om st tate a la aw, th herre’s a surprising

diversity divveersitty of opinion o on what that bright line is is.. Somee st states prohibit ates pr ohibit eexposing xxposing any part breast, an ny par rt of the t br east, while others ban everything below eveerrything y b elow the top of the nipple or the areola—nowadays h top off the h ar eola—now l wada adayys a none-too-realistic standard adhered byy none-too-rreeaalistic st tandar a d adher reed to b such back backward localities Massachusetts. kwaarrd lo caalities as Massachuset ttts.

West Virginia, interestingly, West e V iirrgginiia, inter reestinglyy, ccomes omes closest to nailing wh what myy opinion is the de hat in m facto st standard, tandar a rd d, as eevidenced videnc v ced e on the rred ed carpet entertainment industry caarpet at ent terrtainment a industr ry aawards waarrds d ceremonies: permits display “any ceremonies: it p ermits displa ay of “an ny portion the cleavage portion of th he clea avvage of the human female breast byy a dr dress, blouse,, female e br reas e st eexhibited xxhibited b ress e , blouse skirt, leotard, skirt, leot tar ard, d bathing suit, or other wearing app apparel provided areola parel pr rovided the ar reola e is not exposed, part. exxposed, in whole w or in par t.”

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For definitive word 7. F or the definitiv ve wor rd on this subject turn U.S. Supreme Court. we must tur rn to the U .S . . Supr reme e C ourrt. t In City v.. Pap’s (2000), Citty off EEriee v Pap’s A.M. (20 00), the justices took justic es to k up the question of whether ok Erie,, P Pennsylvania, was empowered Erie ennssylvania, y w as a legally emp owered prohibit to pr ohibit totally t ally nude erotic tot errotic o dancing byy women, the b t difference diff ffeerencce between bettween w total acceptable illegal tot taal nudity n ty and ac nudit ccepttaable partial partial nudity being nudit ty b eingg that, to ccomply omply with the law, “dancers wear, la aw, “danc dancerss had to wear r, at a minimum, ‘G-string. ‘pasties’ and a ‘Gstringg.’”

Pap’s argued was P ap’s ar rgu gued that Erie w aas unconstitutionally unc co onstitutiionally infringing on its right freedom Piffle,, said the to fr eedom of o eexpression. xxpression. Piffle “Even Erie’s nudity ccourt: ourt: “Ev ven en if Erie ’s public nudit ty ban has minimal effect erotic some minim mal eff ffeect on the er rotic o message byy muting th that portion b hat p ortion of the eexpression xxpression occurs dropped, that o cccurs when w the last stitch is dr ropp o ed, dancers aree fr free perform the danc cers e . . . ar ee to p erform o wearing G-strings. pasties and GG strings. Any An ny effect eff ffeect on the overall minimis..” o verall eexpression xxpression e is de minimis never arousing ousing But ne eveerr mind the strangely ar juxtaposition strip-club jargon juxt tap a osition n of strip -club jar gon and Latin.

Look Erie’s SCOTUS-approved L atin. L ook at a Erie e’s SC OTUS-approveed ordinance: person or rdinanc d cee: ““A Ap erson who knowingly or intentionally, place intentionally y, in a public plac ce . . . engages sexual intercourse, appears in se exxual inte errcourse, . . . app ears in a state nudity, genitals st tate a of nudi itty, or . . . ffondles ondles o the genit als himself,f, herself person of himself h or another p erson Indecency.

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I’m good friends with the woman n next door door, r, but she and her husb husband band fight others.

Recently, car. constantly in front of me and oth hers. R ecently y, we were all in theirr car r. She was wrong. driving, and he repeatedly told her h everything she was doing wro ong. Then he called wrong.

He to order a pizza, and she laid into o him, saying he was ordering wro rong. H e yelled, “Why do you always complicate things?!” It was really unpleasan nt. Then, last week, unpleasant. they came to a dinner party at my m house and started fighting righ ht at the table! Is right there any way to stop the tensio on and this rude behavior? —Unco omfortable tension —Uncomfortable

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Off ccourse, the pr reesence of this du uo. O o ourse, on occasion, may bee wo worth o ccasion, a it ma ay b orrtth it to yyou ou o to make like want mak ke an eexception, xc x eption, lik ke when yyou ou o w ant a boxing match afford to see a big b oxing ma atch but ccan’t an n’t ’ aff ffo orrd pay-per-view: having party pa ay--perr-vie v ew: w “Hi…I’m m ha avving a par ty next Saturday. over ne exxt Satur rd daay. Wannaa ccome ome o ver e so I ccan aan bets on ttake ak ake b ets on which one ne of yyou ou o will end piecee off the other’ other’ss ear ear?” up biting off a piec ?”

My buddy’s buddy’’s wife never sets me up u with her friends friends, s, and I’m startin starting ng to get offended.

The guy she does set up is a totall player who just sleeps with girlss a few times and Clearly, he’s then dumps them. Clearly y, he ’s getting g preferential matchmaker treatment t because he’s I’d chance burns he ’s better-looking. better looking I’ ’d like a chan nce with these girls before he burn rns through them. them buddy bear Should I bring this up to my bud ddy or his wife or just grin and bea ar it?—Annoyed

Apparently, Apparentlyy, the telepathic messages messsages you’ve you’ve been been sending her were were stopped sto opped by their neighbors’ neighbors’ chimney. chimneey. (Just ( Justt a by guess, but do yyou ou also do p oorly tr ttrying ying guess, poorly your house by by moving movingg objects to tidy up your around with your your mind?) around Unbunch your your o panties. panties. There’s There’s a good good Unbunch chance that wif feyy’s true motivatio on isn n’’t chance wifey’s motivation isn’t fixing this guy up but fixing him. While man ny men enjoy enjoy taking taking apart apart and an nd many reassembling ccars, ars, man ny women enjoy enjo oy reassembling many taking apartt and rreassembling men. taking apar eassembling m en.

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PUBLIC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587999

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Triple Win Technologies.

2200 Monroe St., #1702, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Kelly Jaimes Heily. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Kelly Heily This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/0/2014. (pub Metro 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/05/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587786

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Back N Balance, 5754 Santa Teresa Blvd., San Jose, CA, 95123, Zhouran Wang, 305 E. Empire, San Jose, CA, 95112.

This business is conducted by individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/24/2013. Refile of previous file number #577735 with changes. /s/Zhouran Wang This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/03/2014. (pub Metro 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/05/2014)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #587785

The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Back N Balance, 5754 Santa Teresa Blvd, San Jose, CA, 95123, Hong Juan Wong, 195 Blossom Hill Rd., #114, San Jose, CA, 95123. This business was conducted by an individual. Filed in Santa Clara county on 4/24/2013.

Under file no. 577735. /s/Hong Juan Wong This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/03/2014. (pub Metro 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/05/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587965 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vintellisys, 566 Balsam Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, Thornton Jacobs. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Thornton E. Jacobs. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/06/2014. (pub Metro 2/14, 2/19, 2/26, 3/05/2014)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NX Gear, 351 Chateau La Salle Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111.

Linh Chau. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Linh Caau. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/31/2014. (pub Metro 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/05/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587745

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: National Avenue Medical Associates, 14911 National Ave., #1, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, John P. Smith MD, A Professional Corp. 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 05/11/1983. Refile of previous file #303570 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/John P Smith. President #C1173604 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/31/2014. (pub Metro 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/05/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587851

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Deja Vu, 989 Story Rd., #8018, San Jose, CA, 95122, Phi Chung, 1899 Westminister Ct., San Jose, CA, 95132, Phi Chung, Phuoc Trinh, 1876 Mabury Rd., San Jose, CA, 95133.

This business is conducted by a general partnership.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Refile of previous file #585338 with changes. /s/Phi Chung. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/04/2014. (pub Metro 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/05/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587133

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587436

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)

95112, Yosh Enterprises 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 06/15/1995. Refile of previous file #454050 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Yooshieh Gahramani CEO #195976 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT #587336 #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)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Quality Air Heating & Cooling, 4783 La Cresta Way, San Jose, CA, 95129, Superior Builders, Inc, 4789 La Cresta Way, San Jose, CA, 95129. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587345 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Orion NAME STATEMENT #587276 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587346 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fantastic Bay Builders, 675 Gish Road, San Jose, CA, 95112, Fantastic Bay Builders 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 01/01/2014. /s/Yooshieh Gahramani CEO #3090241. 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587349 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Yosh Enterprises, 2. Orion Security, 3. Paramount Investigations, 4. Yosh Building Maintenance, 675 East Gish Road, San Jose, CA,

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Network Distributors, 1425 Koll Circle, #104, San Jose, CA, 95112, Norcal Industries, Inc. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jason Colyar Owner/President #C2509788 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/22/2014.

(pub Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, 2/19/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #587273

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cash Cove, 1060 Willow St., #3, San Jose, CA, 95125, George F. Olson, 6272 Blauer Lane, San Jose, CA, 95135. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09-1993.

Refile of previous file #560120 with changes. /s/George F. Olson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/22/2014. (pub Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, 2/19/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #586547

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 3D.B.Tile, 3625 Clear Brook Ct., San Jose, CA, 95111, David Corena.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/David Corena This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/03/2014. (pub Metro 1/29, 2/05, 2/12, 2/19/2014)

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.

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/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,

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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 with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/16/2013. (pub Metro 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/05/2014)

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)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her TED talk, science writer Mary Roach made it clear that human beings don’t need genital stimulation to experience orgasms.

She spoke of a woman who routinely reaches ecstatic climax by having her eyebrows caressed, and another woman who reaches the big O simply by brushing her teeth. Then there’s the woman who can simply think herself into coming, no physical touch necessary. I can’t guarantee that a similar aptitude will suddenly turn on in you, Aries, but the coming days could bring you as close as you have ever been. Right now you’re a connoisseur of deep pleasure—a blessed bliss master.

By ROB BREZSNY week of February 12

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Jesuit priest Pedro

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The fact that someone

Arrupe touted the practical value of being totally in love. “What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything," he said. "It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.” Are you in love, Scorpio? With either a person, a beloved animal, a certain patch of land, your creative work, or life itself? If not, there’s no excuse! Astrologically speaking, it’s an excellent time for you to be stupendously in love with someone or something—anything! If you are already in this state, trust your intuition to make it even smarter and finer.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Drunk with my madness,

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Borrowing the words of Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks), I’ve prepared a love note for you to use as your own. Give it to a person whose destiny needs to be woven more closely together with yours: “You are the sky my spirit circles in, the love inside love, the resurrection-place.”

Would you like even more inspirational words to deliver to your chosen one? I hope so. Be greedy for lyrical bonding. Lust for springy intimacy. Feed your churning yearning. Try saying this, lifted from the book The Last Unicorn: “We are two sides of the same magic.” And be sure to say this, paraphrased from Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh: “I love you in a way that will always make you feel free.”

else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself,” writes blogger Sahaj Kohli. Nothing else rescues you from that quest, either, I would add. Sooner or later, whether it’s now or 20 years in the future, you will have to master this fine art. It’s not enough to merely feel affection for yourself; not enough to seek pleasure and avoid pain. You’ve got to make extensive investigations to discover what it means to love yourself; you have to develop rigorous plans for how to accomplish it; and you must fire up a deep commitment as you actually carry out those plans. By the way, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to work on mastering this fine art.

I shouted at him furiously, ‘Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!’” So says a character in a prose poem by Charles Baudelaire. And now, even though I am neither drunk nor furious nor consumed with madness, I am whispering the same command to you. I hope you will respond by embarking on a heroic effort to make life beautiful everywhere you go. The astrological omens suggest that if you do, you will be inundated with practical blessings that are as valuable as money. This will also be an excellent way to drum up the kind of love you crave.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s what I wish for you during the Valentine season: to be happily in love with an intimate partner who loves you back. If that’s not feasible, here’s what I hope: that you are learning provocative lessons about yourself through your growth-inducing relationship with a close ally. And if you’re not blessed with either of those experiences, here’s a third alternative: that you cherish your fathomless longing for its own sake, feeling wonder and reverence for its wild power even if it’s unfulfilled.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Making eye contact is essential for building potent links with people you care about.

It bypasses rational thought, stimulating chemical reactions in your bodies that enhance empathy and intimacy. In practicing the art of love, it’s one of the most potent moves you can make. This Valentine season would be an excellent time for you Leos to explore the frontiers of what’s possible through prolonged eye contact. Start here: Cultivate a sincere desire to know what’s simmering inside the souls of your dearest allies. With that as your driving force, your gaze won’t be clouded by shyness or selfconsciousness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I prefer an ecstatic orgasm to a lot of angst,” says Filipino artist David Medalla. I hope you consider making that your battle cry during this Valentine season. It would be in rapt harmony with the current cosmic omens. There really is no need for you to get sidelined by anxiety or distracted by stress when the natural remedy is so easily available.

In every way you can imagine, Virgo, fight off sourness and dourness by engaging in acts of joy and pleasure.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In her poem “Implications

of One Plus One,” Marge Piercy marvels at the way she and her long-term partner keep finding new nuances in their love-making. “Ten years of fitting our bodies together / and still they sing wild songs in new keys,” she writes. What’s their secret? It’s “timing, chemistry, magic and will and luck.” What I wish for you this Valentine season, Libra, is that you will have access to all five of those ingredients as you reinvigorate your relationship to love. More importantly—based on the current cosmic omens—I predict you will have access to them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “People think a

soul mate is your perfect fit,” says author Elizabeth Gilbert. “But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back . . . They tear down your walls and smack you awake. . . shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you . . . transform your life.” Does that sound like the kind of person you want in your life, Capricorn? Or do you prefer someone who likes what you like, appreciates you just as you are, and makes your life more secure and comfortable? This Valentine season is a good time to make or renew your commitment to one choice or the other. Whatever you decide, you’re likely to experience it on a richer, deeper level during the next 12 months.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you feel

oppressed by Valentine’s Day? Maybe you’re single and reject the cultural bias that says being in an intimate relationship is the healthy norm. Or maybe you’re part of a couple but are allergic to the cartoonish caricatures of romance that bombard you during the Valentine marketing assault. If you’d rather consecrate love and intimacy in your own unique way, untainted by the stereotypes flying around, I invite you to rebel. Make this the year you overthrow the old ways and start a new tradition: Valentine’s Day 2.0.

Mock sappy, sentimental expressions of romance even as you carry out futuristic experiments in radically slaphappy love.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I have come to be fascinated with the messiness of desire,” writes novelist Ashley Warlick, “with the ways people fit themselves together, take themselves apart for each other, for want of each other, for want of some parts of each other.” Your assignment, Pisces, is to celebrate the messiness of desire; to not just grudgingly accept it as an inconvenience you’ve got to tolerate, but rather to marvel at it, be amused by it, and appreciate it for all the lessons it provides. Your motto this Valentine season could be, “I bless the messy largesse of my longing.”

Homework: Write yourself a nice long love letter. Send a copy to me if you like: FreeWillAstrology.com.

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