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Dave’s Da vee’’s D Dominoes ominoes The South Bayy political machine knows how to or chesttrate high str orchestrate strategy ategy better than just abou ut anybody allout about anybody,, but ffallout fr om the San Jose J mayor ’s rrace ace could from mayor’s lead to one aw wkward encounter next awkward year ew years yeaars ago, organized organized labor year.. A ffew tapped county Super visor D AV VE CCORTESE ORTESE Supervisor DAVE to run ffor or mayor. mayyor. And yet, if he succeeds CHUCK REED REED,, hhee They could leave thee Did union deck a lilittle ittle What? less stacked on n the Boar rvisors.

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SEND TIP TIPSS TTO O NORA CAMPOS FLY@ FL LY Y@ terms out of th he the METRONEWS. METRONEWS. COM COM A ssembly in 20 016, Assembly 2016, and oddsmake ers see oddsmakers her giving up her h last year in Sac so she can rreplace eplace Cortese on the county boar d. Running ffor or office board. has become a way of lif for Campos, Campos, lifee for who ser ves tw o-year terms at the serves two-year state level, so a special election in 2015 should go like clockwork—assuming she doesn’t doesn’t th row a tantrum, or phone, throw or chair no (at staff ers) in public. chair,, or pia piano staffers) But her depart ture would then set off departure another specia al election ffor or one of San special Jose ’s seats in the state A ssembly. Baby Jose’s Assembly. br AV VIER CAM MPOS had been gr oomed broo XA XAVIER CAMPOS groomed to inherit that rrole, ole, just as he stepped into his sister ’s pumps on the San sister’s Jose City Coun cil, but good buddy and Council, incar cerated former former o incarcerated county supe GE ORGE SHIRAKAWA SHIRAK KA AWA JR.’s conviction GEORGE continues to hhang ang over his head. Amidst allegations tha at Shir akawa helped that Shirakawa Xavier steal ann election, he faces faces tough competition in this year ’s council rrace, ace, year’s not to mentionn ongoing investigations by the Fair P olitical Pr actices Political Practices Commission (F FPPC) and the District (FPPC) A ttorney’s offic ce. That leaves San Jose Attorney’s office.

City Councilma an A SH KALRA Councilman ASH KALRA,, perhaps labor ’s most eequipped quipped candidate, to labor’s move up the Assembly Assembly ladder ast ladder.. But ffast moving countyy education trustee D ARCIE GREEN might also run ffor or that DARCIE seat. Adding th he dash of awkwar d, KKalra alra the awkward, and Gr een date ed ffor or five years, meaning Green dated we may have our o first Assembly Assembly rrace ace in which rival can ndidates have seen each candidates other naked.

CAUGHT CA AUGHT IN THE M8TRIX Goodwi Goodwill ill between Casino M8trix and an nd the city of San Jose appearss to have been short-lived

SStraight traight Flushe Flushed ed A rule of thumb ffor or the pr o protracted otracteed baatttle battle t b between ettw ween C Casino asino M8trix and th the he city cit ity off San JJose: it ose: When h things hi seem to t bee going sswimmingly, b wimminglyy, introduce introduce ne new w actors ac ctors to vvent eent into the micr microphone. ophone.

Late L ate last month, the deep fr freeze eeze off litigation app appeared eared to tha thaw aw a bit, w when the tower ccard aard club announc announced ceed it w was as a withdra withdrawing aw wing its la lawsuit aw wsuit agains against st the th he cit city. ty. The general cconsensus onsensus w was aas that th hat negotiations b between ettw ween the cit city ty and an nd C Casino asino M8trix had impr improved, roveed, and an nd op opening ening the top flo floor or to gamingg w would so soon on b bee ccomplete. omplete. F For or ttwo wo yyears, w e , ears the th he ccasino’s asino’s cr crown own je jewel—an wel—an eighth floor flo oor with panoramic vie views ews w and p poker ok keer

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ttables—has ables—has b been een shut shuttered ttteered due to the cit city’s tyy’s cconcerns onc o erns ab about ou ut its abilit ability ty to monitor i the h action. i The ccasino asino dr dropped ro opped its i lo local cal la lawsuit, aw wsuit, which demanded ccompensation omp pensation ffor o or a ffour-month o ourr-month dela delay ay in op opening, peningg, and ask asked keed ffor o or a 9 90-day 0-daay st stay ay in its fe ffederal eederal filing filing. g. L Last ast week, howe however, eveer, the cit city ty ccalled aalled the ccard aarrd club club’s ’s bluff and filed a motion m to den deny ny a st stay tay in the ffederal eederal ccase, ase a e, infuriating M8trix owners and min minions. nions.

“It “It’s ’s almost lik like ke the le left eft hand do doesn’t esn n’’t know what the right ha hand and is doing doing, g, or the theyy just w want aant to p perpetuate errpetuate the animosit animosity, tyy, y”” said Sean Ka Kali-Rai, ali-Rai, a lobb lobbyist byyist ffor o or the ccard aarrd club club..

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City Attorney Cit Atto torney Rich Ri h Do oyyle l ’s rresponse: esponse: City Doyle’s “That’s lobbyist lobbyist y spin, quite frankly y.”

“That’s frankly. wo w o-yeear skirmish b ettw ween The ttwo-year between Casino M8 trix and the cit ty fits the Casino M8trix city verse e fight ccard. ar a d. F irst to bill of a div diverse First square off w aas fformer o ormer p olice chief square was police ore and ccard ard club lobb byist y Chris Mo Moore lobbyist o osa, who clashed on the Rich de la R Rosa, latttter’s fundraising draising rrole ole with the p olice fund latter’s police foundation o n. Then M8trix owner Eric foundation.

Sw wallow a called a out Richar dT eeng, a Swallow called Richard Teng, police administrator adm ministrator ffor or the Division o police g, as a V eegas sab oteur of Gaming Gaming, Vegas saboteur onfliicts of inter est. Sw waallow with cconflicts interest.

Swallow mo oved on to railing against Ed later moved Shikada, who w rreplaced eplaced Debra F igone as Shikada, Figone Jose’s cit ccity ty manager and pr efferr e ed San Jose’s preferred sccap a egoat. scapegoat.

Now w, Doyle Do oyyle and Kali-Rai ar en’t Now, aren’t w ds ab out a fight that mincing wor words about remains, more m e or less mor remains, less,, the same as it began. began. ct of the mat tter t is ther “The fac fact matter theree is no connection nb ettween w connection between the litigation and ermittt ttting pr ocess ffor o or the eighth the p permitting process floorr,” Do oyylle said. “If the aant to use floor, Doyle theyy w want o satisf fy cconcerns, oncerns, the y’re litigation to satisfy they’re ou ut it the wr ong w ay.” going ab about wrong way.

“Now th hat I think ab out it,,” Kali“Now that about perhaps it has b een the Rai said, “p “perhaps been Citty Attorney’s Attorn t neeyy’s offic een City officee that has b been promotingg if not dir ectly ccausing ausing all promoting directly ettw ween the cit ty and C asino the ill will b between city Casino M8trix.

“It’s not that the cit ty is against “It’s city eighth floor floor o gaming gaming,, but we need to be satisfied d that the securit ty cconcerns oncerns be security concerrns ab out ccash ash handling and and concerns about [police] access access ar essed,” Do oyyle [police] aree addr addressed, Doyle “A And in i our vie w, the ave not said. “And view, theyy ha have even e ccome ome close to half fway on that.” even halfway —J osh o K oehn Josh Koehn

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When City of San Jose officials sold pe W pension ension rreform eform to voters in 2012,, taxp taxpayers payers wer weree told it would year.r. That cl claim wo ould save $68 million a year aim has since come under scrutiny countless times. The latest circulated Jazeeraa America, lat test salvo came last week in a widely widelly cir culated story by Al Jazeer Ameerica, which called the 2012-13 performance th he city's 2012 -13 investment perf orm mance ““atrocious” atrocious” and argued argued that tthe he city could've saved twice riskyy investments and perf performed tw wice that amount in 2012 alone if it had h rreined eined in risk ormed as well as the Standard strategy money from th he S tandard & Poor Poor 500.. San Jose's investment i str ategy of ““shifting shifting mon ney fr om stocks and bonds bo onds to high-risk, low-transparency low-transparency 'alternative 'alternative investments' … may be a bigger factor factor in the financial generous fin nancial crunch”” than gener ous rretirement etirement e benefits to employees,, the news neews agency rreported. eported.

But Andrews, director Bu ut Arn Andr ews,, the city's assistant dir ector of finance,, is calling BS.. “That “Th hat is not a comparison that Jose unfair th hat makes any sense,”” he told San Jo ose Inside.. “I think it's rreally eally unf air to o use only a year or two information program future.”

Roberto Peña, ormation to make a pointt on a pr off rreturn eturn inf ogram that is rreally eally looking 20 to 30 years in the futur e.”” Rober rto P eña,, the city’s director director of services, career. rretirement etirement ser vices,, added that it's like likke saying an athlete's first two yearss on a team will determine the rrest est of o his or her car eerr.

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Mayor Mayo or Reed: See You You o in 2016 San Jose Jose Ma Mayor M ayo or Chuck Reed Reeed is ccoming oming off a rrollercoaster ollercoaster week. A da ay after a court cour o t ruling cleared cleared him day of political political wr rongdoing and rrescinded escinded wrongdoing $ fine levied levied by by the a whopping $1 Fair P olitical Practic es C ommission Political Practices Commission (FPPC), anoth her ccourt ourt decision—b another decision—byy the same judg ge—dealt a deathblow to judge—dealt the mayor’s maayor’s statewide sttatewide pension pension reform reffo orm ampaign. ccampaign.

That means mean ns R eeed, who terms Reed, out of offic a the end of this yyear, ear, officee at ay in iinvolved volv o ved e in civic lif fe plans to st stay life to some eextent xten nt for fo or another couple couple yyears. ears. While he h sswears wears he won ’t run won’t ffor or another offic o o e, he ’s aiming to put office, he’s p ension reform reffo orrm on the 2016 ballot. pension “It's an imp portant issue to me; it's important an important importantt issue to the st ate,” R eeed state, Reed said. “The onee thing I've I'vve learned as ma ayor is issue es ar d, and yyou ou mayor issues aree har hard, ccan't an't quit justt b ecause the y're har d.” because they're hard.

When he announced a announc ed plans ffor or a o C aliffo ornia-wid de initiativ California-wide initiativee that would

al allow llow lo local cal go governments vernments to chang change ge la abor ccontracts ontracts ffor or eexisting o xisting emplo oyees, labor employees, si imilar to San JJose, ose, the backlash w as similar was fa ast and fier ce—especially when fast fierce—especially h enlisted help fr he om out t-off-state from out-of-state R epublic e an hedge -fund billionair e. es Republican hedge-fund billionaires.

R eed e eff ffeectively lost the chanc Reed effectively chancee to o land the initiativ ear'ss initiativee on this yyear's b ballot when he sued the offic officee of st tate A tttorney General Kamala Ha arris state Attorney Harris o ver the w ay it wor ded the ballot over way worded la anguage. R eeed ar gued that Harris s’ language.

Reed argued Harris’ vverbiage e erbiage w as biased against the was m measur e. measure.

The ccourt ourt ccase ase ate up time thatt ccould've o ould'v eb een sp ent gathering been spent so ome of the 8 077,,000 signatur es some 807,000 signatures n needed to land the measur his measuree on th this yyear’s e sN ear’ ovember ballot. While no ot November not im mpossible, R eed e said, it w as ccertainly ertaiinly impossible, Reed was im mpractical to pursue the ccampaign ampaiggn impractical an ny fur ther this yyear. ear. any further But, he y, at least he got his $1 ba ack. hey, back.

— Jeenniffeer W ads a worth —Jennifer Wadsworth

WORDS W ORDS W WITH ITH FRIENDS “You have your story. Whatever.

Wh hatever. Do what you want to o do. The real story is this guy is trying to pull the wooll over people’s eyes about the skating rink. This is crazy. craz zy.

This is not the way we’re e supposed to be behaving ass councilmembers. This is completely unprofessional.”

Johnny Kham Khamis mis

— San Jose Councilman John Johnny nny Khamis blames his council Ash Kalra guy”) colleague A sh K alra (“this guy y”) after being caught in a lie Inside. himselff fr from

by San Jose In nside. Khamis had to rrecuse ecuse himsel om voting on his own memo after it became known that he had a potential financial interest subject inter est in a San S Jose skate rink that was the su ubject of the memo.

“I don’t know kn now what he’s talking about. aboutt. This is so odd.”

— Councilman Co ouncilman Ash Ash K Kalra alra Ash Kalra K

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WIN SOME, LOSE L SOME San Jose Mayor Chu Chuck uck Reed won a FPPC appeal, but his final legacy as mayor won’t include e statewide pension reform.

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Sibling Revelry JJERSEY ERSEY SCORE SCO OR E San Jose officials officials, s, includin including ng councilmember Sam Liccar Liccardo do (right), presented Oisin Qui Quinn, inn, Lord Mayor autographed Earthquakes Lord M ayor of o Dublin, with an autographe ed jersey from the San Jose Ear rthquakes soccer team.

San Jos Jose se and Dublin ce celebrate elebrate sister ci city ty bonds Mayor’s bond ds with Lord Lord M ay yor’’s annual visitt BY B Y GAR GARY Y SINGH

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AN JOSE AN JOSE and Dublin, Ireland, Irela and, have been sister siste er cities for 28 years year rs now—quite an impressive e scenario to say the least. Every Every year, yearr, the Lord Lord Mayor of Dublin brings a D delegation of colleagues from government governmen nt and academia across the pond to the San Jose p Jose area for numerous nu umerous meetings and activities. activities. This year, yearr, Lord Lord Mayor Oisin Oisin Quinn attended a San Jose Party Jose Bike B Party journey journey through the th he streets and even toured TechShop, Tech hShop p, since one of those fine fin ne establishments is expected d to open in Dublin some time in the future.

Much mor moree seems in the w etween the two two cities, cities, works b between so o the Anti-ManAbout-To own Anti-Man-About-Town in nfiltrated a luncheon at Cit all infiltrated Cityy Ha Hall to o ingest some up dates. A updates.

Att the eevent, vent, ent the L ord Ma ayor h yped up p Lord Mayor hyped so ome initiativ es unf fo olding in hiss some initiatives unfolding ci ity, wher ogram of city, wheree he said a pr program ci itywide adv ertising eexists xists to hel lp citywide advertising help p romote eevents vents and pr ograms. promote programs.

A After listening to the skinn t skinnyy on this in nitiative, I'm guessing it would b initiative, bee th he equivalent of ha avving digit allyy the having digitally d distributed banners emer ge on emerge vvarious arious windows windows,, buildings and p ublic plac es thr oughout San public places throughout JJose—from o —fr ose f om Blossom Bl Hill R o oad d Road to o Berr yessa, fr om Ev ergreen to Berryessa, from Evergreen W inchester i Boule vard—all to he elp Winchester Boulevard—all help cconnect o onnect p eople in disparate par t ts people parts o ap e, so the ould b off the landsc landscape, theyy ccould bee m mor fo ormed as to what ffestivals eestivals moree inf informed ar re o ccurring, which marathons are occurring, ar re about ab out to unfold unffold o or which citycittyare

sp onsored sponsored d eevents vents are are taking taking ki plac place. l e. ompanies And in Dublin, tech ccompanies aree par partnering cityy to ar tnering with the t cit support infrastructure help supp or t the infr rastructure of this idea. An equivalent equivvalent might benefit especially sincee b enefit San JJose, ose, esp e ecially sinc landscape sprawled the landsc ap e is so sp praaw wled out manyy people aree una unaware that man p eople ar aware of cityy what goes go es on in the rrest est of the cit outside their own ne neighborhoods. ighb orhoo ds. better It would work much b etter than all placards those amateur plac arrds inside the looks buses that nobody nobody eeven ven lo oks at aanyway. nywayy.

Concerning initiatives C oncerning initiat tives already already in place, plac e, there's there's actuallyy a scholarship program between eexchange xchange pr ogram b e ween et Cityy University SJSU and Dublin Cit University (DCU), supported byy Cypr Cypress (D CU), supp orted b ess Semiconductor.

Ass off right now now,, Semic onductor. A Andrew an Andr ew Kiernan of Dublin, D attends engineering student, at tends SJSU Cypress partt and sets up shop at Cypr C ess as par of his master's curriculum. curricu ulum. Of Of the 2,000-plus 2,0 00-plus sister city city relationships relationships established U.S., est ablished in the U .S S., the SJpartnership Dublin par tnership iss the only incorporating master's-level one inc orp orating a master's-le m vel program scholarship eexchange xchangee pr ogram So,, after the lunch luncheon So heon in the

unfolded rrotunda, otunda, a rreception eception unf fo olded engineering in the eng gineering building at State, wheree the entir entiree San JJose ose St S ate, wher watched delegation nw atched Kiernan and from DCU, rrepresentatives epresentativ a es fr om D CU, Cypress Cypress Semiconductor Lord Mayor Semic onductor and the L ord Ma ayor speak over sp eak all o ver again. All of them importance travel testified to o the imp ortance of trav vel education.

Andrew Wright, in one's ed ducation. Andr ew W rright, Cypress a vveep eep at Cypr C ess and an Irishman himself, broke himself f, eeven ven br oke out the famous Augustine St. A ugusttine quote: “The world is book and travel ab o ok an nd those who do not tra avel page.” rread ead only one page .” testify myself. began I ccan an te estiffy m yselff. I b egan traveling 255 and ne never stopped, tra aveling at a 2 ver stopp ed, study-abroad including a summer study -abroad program Italy fivee weeks pr ogram in i It aly ffor o or fiv gave credit that SJSU ga ave me cr edit ffor. o or. It opened entirely new op ened up p entir ely ne w aavenues venues of creativity. cr eativity.

Now, there's N ow, iff ther e's an engineering scholarship whyy scholarshi ip eexchange, xchange, wh theree b bee arts shouldn't h ld 't ther th ar ts t and d literaturee eexchanges between literatur xchanges b etween DCU SJSU and D CU as well? After UNESCO Cityy of all, Dublin n is a UNESC O Cit Literature.

Well, before Literatur e. W eell, b effor o e I eeven ven had chancee to a chanc t ask that question, it was answered.

According w as ans weered. A ccording to those spoke who sp oke at the scholarship academic rreception, eception,, a similar ac ademic eexchange xchange in the humanities is in works.. It's just a mat matter the works ter of getting the bureaucracies get ting i th he bur b eaucracies i off the h ttwo wo universities dovetail univ ersitiees to do vetail with one another.. another With that, already W ith i th hat, I ccan an alr eady think several ways enhancee of se veral other w ayys to enhanc the San JJose-Dublin o -Dublin rrelationship. ose elationship.

Downtown Downtow wn San JJose ose has a rrock ock & bar,, th the Club,, owned rroll oll bar he Blank Club byy an O'B O'Brien, theree should b rien, so ther bee a sisterr rrock b ock club in Dublin somewhere. neighborhood some wherre. The neighb orho od also great has a gr eatt tea shop that should bee ttwinned b winneed with its equivalent in Also,, Dublin. I ccan an go on and on. Also theree in the Cit Cityy Hall rrotunda, right ther otunda, locals gave autographed lo cals ga ave an auto graphed San Earthquakes jerseyy to the L Lord JJose ose Ear th hquakes jerse ord Mayor, with posed Ma ayor, wi th which he p osed ffor or o a picture. anything pictur e. I ccan't an't think of an ything moree appr appropriate mor ropriate than a sister club somewhere. in Dublin some where. Doesn't Doesn't eeven ven have bee first division. Whiche Whichever hav ve to b ver makes sense.. I mean, club mak e the most sense es international internatio onal punk rrock, ock, tea and soccer aree elements so ccer rrelationships elaationships ar cityy in the U U.S. no other sister s cit .S. has right now.. That would mak makee going righ ht now moree inter interesting San JJose ose a much mor esting place.

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Garden to Table and other urban ag startups plant the seed for a new Valley of Heart’s Delight Colin Quirt

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH AN A N ACRE ACR E AT AT A TIME TIME Zach L Lewis ewis created Garden to oT Table able out of an empty one-ac one-acre cre lot in downtown San Jose.

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ACH LEWIS crouches ACH down and unsheathes u a knife-like tool from up a his hip. hip. He He digs d wild fennel sprout sprout from the outer edge of a raised-bed raiised-bed garden lush with fava fava beans and fringed g with upwardup ardupw creeping pea vines. vines.

“It “It’s ’s a hori hori hori,,” he eexplains, x xplains , displa displaying aying y the glinting half half-spade, f-spade, half half-soil-measuring f-soil-measuring stick. sticck. “Some type tyype of JJapanese apanese tool. tool. It looks look ks sc scary, ary, but it it’s ’s rreally eally useful.”

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he wields itt to unear unearth th weeds that sprang up with bean w the inaugural b ean crop Taylor crop on what wh hat he ccalls alls T ayylor Street Street Farm,, an ac acre-small pocket cre-small p ocket of land bordered byy a thor thoroughfare, bordered b oughfare, a Citibank parking paarking lot and a line of rrow ow houses. around houses. Cars Carrs zip ar ound the western perimeter perimeter fr ffrom om the Highway High hway 87 Taylor occasional Tayylor Street Streeet off-ramp. off ff--ramp p. The o ccasional low-flying jjetliner etliner rroars oars in the clear sky from sky overhead, overheaad,, still gaining air fr om takeoff takeoff at San S JJose’s ose’s nearby nearby airport. airport.

“If you don’t here, it’s easyy you don d ’t know it’s it’s her e, it ’s eas to miss miss,,” rremarks Lewis, sandyem marks L ewis, a ttall, all,, sandy yhaired laborer’s hair ed 30-year-old 30-year e -old with a lab orer’s build.

To To the soundtrack of passing engines, engines, he tends the plot he ffought ou ought six months to ac acquire. ago, quire. A year year ag go, as a San JJose State University ose St ate U niversity urban urrban planning grad student,, he began began n lobbying change,, asking lobbying for fo or a zoning change assking cityy to allow farming on up to the cit an acre acre of industrial and ccommercial ommeercial land—in the thick of a cit city ty where where nutritious ffood hard by. ood is har d to ccome ome b y.

October Cityy In an Octob er vvote, ote, the Cit Council Council obliged. By the end of the t month,, Lewis Lewis secured secured a deal with witth developer developer Barry Barry Swenson,, who agreed agreed to lease a lot that had satt empty empty for for o years, years, accumulating accumulating trash t

along its outer edge edge.. V Volunteers o olunteers helped help ed raise the ho hoop-houses o -houses and op hammer together together b boards oards ffor o or the planter b boxes. oxes.

“It w was aas a triple wi win, in,” L Lewis ewis sa says. ayys. “I got land to farm,, thee pr property operty owner doesn’t do esn’t ha have ave to worr worry ry ab about out blight and the cit cityy gets p positive ossitive PR out of the whole thing—br thing—bragging g ragging gg g rights g and another ccommunity ommunitty gar garden. den.”

One of man many ny mor more re to ccome, ome, L Lewis ewis hopes. hop es.

If his T Taylor ayylor Str Street eet eexperiment xperiment go goes es as planned,, his nonp nonprofit profit Gar Garden den to Table T aable will gr grow ow enou enough ugh ffood ood to grac gracee

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the menus of rrestaurants—starting estaurants—starting Blackbird Tavern, agreed eed with Blackbir dT avern n, which agr Lewis’ to buy L ewis’’ winter gr ggreens—and eens—and makee enough mone moneyy to mak t fund the organization’s charitable efforts. or ganization’s charit ab ble eff ffo orts.

Part Garden Table’s P art of Gar den to T aablle’s mission is families teaching needy familie es how to farm backyard and ccollecting ollecting back kyyarrd fruit ffor o or the Second Harvest Food Sec ond Har vest F ood Bank.

“We’ll “W We’ll see how this works w out,” he says. optimistic,, b because have sa ayys. “I’m optimistic ecause we h ha ave gotten support from city. got ttten so much supp o t fr or om the cit y. people I think elected officialss and p eople in aree st starting moree general ar arting to rrealize ealize mor locally sourced the value of lo cally sou urced ffood ood and urban life. how that fits into urba an lif fe.”

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Yoga: ga a: T The h he Ar Artt of T Transformation ransformation is tthe he w world’s orld’s first st major ar artt e exhibition xhibition about yyoga. oga a. It e explores xplores yoga’s ga a’s fascinating histor historyy and its tr transformation a ansformation into o a g global lobal phenomenon. Hig Highlights hlig ghts include masterpieces astterpieces of Indian sculptur sculpture e and a painting; pages from illustrated book ge es fr om tthe he first illustr ated bo ook of yyoga oga postures; Thomas stures; and a T homas Edison film, ffilm Hindoo Fakir movie ever kirr ((1902), 1902), tthe he first American mo vie e ver produced od duced about India.

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Yoga: Y oga: o T The h he Ar Artt of T Transformation ransformation w was as or organized ganized by tthe he Ar Arthur thur M. Sackler G Gallery, allery, Smithsonian S mithssonian Institution wit with h suppor supportt fr from om tthe he F Friends riends of tthe h F he Freer reer and Sackler Galleries, G alleriies, tthe he Ar Artt Mentor F Foundation oundation Lucerne and tthe he Ebr Ebrahimi ahim mi F Family amily F Foundation. oundation.

Presentation P resen ntation at tthe he A Asian sian Ar Artt Museum is made possible wit with h tthe he gener generous ous suppor supportt of The T he B Bernard ernard Osher F Foundation, oundation, Helen and Rajnikant Desai, E. E Rhodes and L Leona eona B. Carpenter Carrpenter F Foundation, oundation, Kumar Kumar and Vijaya Vija aya Malavalli, Malavalli, Society Socie ety for Asian Asian Art, Art, and Walter W alter a r & Elise Haas F Fund. und. Image: T The he chakr chakras as of tthe he subt subtle le body b (detail), page 4 from fr om a manuscript of tthe he S Siddha iddha S Siddhanta iddhanta Paddhati, Paddhati, 1824, 1824, byy Bulaki (Indian, activ active e ear early ly 1800s).

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Urban agriculturee b became U rban agricultur ecame a social wake ggrassroots-led grassr oots-led so cial ccause a ause in the w ak ke massivee ec economic of the massiv onom mic downturn, spawning gardens ommunity gar spa awning w ccommunity dens in hardest-hit byy the ccommunities ommunities har dest-h hit b crisis,, fr from Central Valley housing crisis om C e entral V aalley New York City suburbs to N ew Y ork Cit o C ty rrooftops ooftops Detroit brownfields.

Years later,, and Detr oit br ownfiellds. Y eears later organizations, including Silicon those or ganizations, in ncluding Silic on Valley’s inner-city farms likee Gar Garden V aalley’s inner -city farm ms lik den Table, have grown to T able a , ha ave gr own out o of their and emerged eexperimental xperimental phase an nd emer ged as fixtures viable fixtur es in theirr ccommunities. ommunities. ascendant subculture largely An asc endant sub cultu ure lar gely led byy yyoung, first-generation b oung, first -generattion farmers oncee ffought attention that onc ought ffor o o or public p at tttention affected political has aff ffeected p olitical cchange, hange, rresulting esulting new land-use policies in ne w municipal land d-use p olicies state law byy cr creating eating and a st ate la aw that,, b zones,, ccould urban ag zones ould eeventually ventually property owners rreward eward pr operty owne ers who lease land to ffood-growers. ood-growers. offers spacee at 19 While San JJose ose off ffeerrs spac gardens on ccommunity ommunitty gar dens o n 35 ccollective ollective acres across 900 acr es acr oss town to 9 00 rresidents, esidents, 500 waiting another 50 0 sit on yyears-long eaars-long w aaiting lists.. Surr Surrounding cities lists ounding citie es see similar trends. several tr ends. Though se veral private nonprofits throughout Santaa Clara nonpr ofits thr oughou ut Sant County have attempted keep C ountty ha ave at tttempteed to k eep up demand—Laa Mesa V Verde, with that demand—L eerde, Valley Verde, Veggielution, Yummy V aalley V eerde, V eeggielu ution,, Y umm u my Tummy Village Harvest, T ummy Farms and V iillage Har vest, sample—it appears to name a small sampl le—it app ears interest local outpaces supply. inter est in lo cal ffood ood outpac o es supply y.

Silicon Valley The Health Trust off Silic on V aalley supports partt of a supp orts urban farms as par broader initiativee to im improve access br oader initiativ mprove ac cess to healthful ffoods oods in what w ffederal eederal “food deserts, areas rregulators egulators ccall all “f food deser d ts,” ar eas populated byy ccorner stores offer p opulated b orner st tores that off ffeer little way fresh produce. lit tttle in the w ay of fr essh pr oduce. In

a 2013 rreport, eport,, the ccoalition oalition ffound ound o percent that only 15 1 p ercent of ffood ood sellers offer healthy in San JJose osee off ffeer health hy options and moree than half of all adults in that mor aree ob obese overweight. the ccounty ounty ar ese or o verweight. spring,, the nonpr nonprofit Beginningg this spring ofit bring new plans to br ring ne w options to deserts byy giving some these ffood ood deser ts b pushcarts locally rresidents esidents pushc p arts to sell lo cally grown produce. program, gr own pr oduce. Another pr ogram, also l launch llaunching hi hing h thi this month, th, would ld encourage stores fresh es to sell fr esh enc ouragee ccorner orner stor fruit and vvegetables. egetables. produced byy our “The ffood ood pr oduced b agriculturee ssystem, industrial agricultur ystem,, while incredibly partt to incr edibly cheap due in par government subsidies,, has alienated go vernmen e nt subsidies from what says us fr om wh hat we we eat,” sa ayys Kris head Collective Roots, JJensen, ensen, hea ad of C ollective R oots, a 12-year-old nonprofit school 12year- old d nonpr ofit that runs scho ol gardens and markets gar dens an nd ccommunity ommunity mark ets in Palo Alto.. ““And E P East alo l Alto Al A A d the And h rreal eall ccosts osts aree pla playing of this ssystem ysttem ar aying y out in increasing the incr eassing rates of diet rrelated elated like obesity, diabetes diseases lik ke ob esitty, diab etes and heartt disea disease. income hear ase. The widening inc ome gap,, esp especially heree in Silic Silicon Valley, gap eciially her on V aalley, is making matters worse..” just makin ng mat ters worse way address this,, he sa says, One w ay to addr ess this ayys, is families “radical step”” to help fam milies ttake ak ke the “radic al step growing portion of gr owingg a p ortion of their own ffood. o ood. perception ““There’s “Ther h e’s this hi outside id p erception area that this iss the richest ar ea in the was world, so I w as astonished to see how manyy und underserved man derserved ccommunities ommunities here, says Cerruti, eexisted xisted her re,” sa ayys Raffaella C erruti, moved stateside from Italy who mo ved e st ateside fr om It aly as policy was olicy grad student. “I w a ffood ood p as a many astonished d that so man ny families insecurityy [not eexperienced xperienced e ffood ood insecurit wheree their ne next knowing wher w xt meal from] days would ccome om me fr om] a ffew ew da ayys of month, Facebook the month h,, so close to Fac ebook Google and Go oglle and other rich tech likee I needed to ccompanies. ompaniess. I ffelt elt e lik nonprofit addressed work ffor o or a nonpr ofit that addr essed problem. this pr obleem.” discovered Valley Verde She disc covered V aalley V eerde ttwo wo became operations yyears ears ago and a b ecame its op erations manager.. C Community organizer manager ommunity or ganizer Raul Lozano started nonprofit L ozano st a ted the nonpr ar ofit to set throughout up needy families f thr oughout the valleyy with gardens theyy valle h their own gar dens so the themselves maybe ccould ould ffeed eeed d themselv es and ma ayb y e start business.. st art a ccottage otttage business “In the middle m of a rregion egion with perfect weather growing, it’s p erfeect we eather ffor o or gr owing, it ’s shocking many people sho cking to t see so man ny p eople immediate access healthy without im mmediate ac cess to health hy Cerruti says. ffood, ood,” C errruti sa ayys.

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FRUITS F RUITS OF OF LABOR L A B OR H Homeless omeless workers pick fruit to o donate to local food for vouchers.. banks in exchange fo or housing vouchers to rrely ely more more on ccommunity ommu unity gar gardens dens in times of ec onomic rrecession—as e ession—as ec economic during WWII,, when 4 4 percent percent 44 of the nation ’s pr oduce ccame ame fr om nation’s produce from go vernment-sponsored d “Victory “V Viictory government-sponsored Gar dens”—this is the first fi time urban Gardens”—this agricultur d itself to agriculturee has branded this eextent xtent as a multifa ceted so cial multifaceted social issue to addr ess p overty, hunger address poverty, hunger,, en vir i onmentall pr oblem bl ms and d eeven ven environmental problems neighb orhood crime D soaring neighborhood crime.. Despite land pric es and dec adess of spra aw wl prices decades sprawl that displac ed thousands thousand ds of acr es of displaced acres farmland in Silic on V aallley, hundr eds Silicon Valley, hundreds of gr owers ha ave ccarved arved out a niche in growers have the cit yscape, whether in fr ont yar ds cityscape, front yards ownfields, to rreclaim eclaim or industrial br brownfields, some of the rregion’s egion’s heritage heeritage as an agricultural hub hub..

“I ccertainly ertainlyy hop pe tha at this emphasis p hope that on lo cally gr own and get ggetting ting urban locally grown ccommunities ommunities in nvolvveed in gr owing involved growing their own ffood ood ccontinues…to ontinu ues…to gain momentum p olitiically and politically culturally y,” sa ayys Hilar N , who culturally, says Hilaryy Nixon, teaches urban and rregional egio onal planning at SJSU and help ed kick kstart Gar den helped kickstart Garden to T able a aas still sttill L ewis’ Table when it w was Lewis’ master’ oject. master’ss pr project.

The ne xt step is to fig gure out how next figure t mak to ke pr ojects j t lik ke Garden G den Gar d to t make projects like T aable and V alle a yV er e de ec onomically Table Valley Verde economically sust ainable while supp o ting that or sustainable supporting so cial mission,, par ticularly in one of social particularly the nation ’s most eexpensive xpen nsive cluster of nation’s zip ccodes. odes.

“That ’s the trick ky part, part, t ” Lewis Lewis says. saayys. “I “That’s tricky think we ’re all trying trying to crack that one we’re one..”

Park Park to to FFarm arm a Amie Frisch Friisch points points to the southern perimeter perimeter of o Emma Prusch Park, Park,, a 46-acre 46-acre parcel parcel of farmland flanked flanked by by freeways freeways y and an nd working class homes in San Jose’s Jose’s East E Side.

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“You “Y Yo ou can’t can n’t see them from from here, here, but that’s that’s where w e we planted our wher first orchard orchard trees trees last year, year,” she says, saayys, pulling herr hand back to shield her eyes eyees from from the the sun.

Dozens of o volunteers volunteers planted the citrus and stone fruit seedlings last s spring afterr San Jose Jose signed a ninenineyear the year lease with w Veggielution, Veggielution, e community communitty farm nonprofit nonprofit Frisch founded fo ounded in 2008 2008 to take take advantage advantage of the largely largely unused stretch stretch of land left to the city citty 60 60 years years e ago by by lifelong liffeelong valley Prusch. valle ll y resident resid identt Emma E P h “We “W We took took k that as a metaphor, metaphor, that we’re we’re really reallyy setting setttting down roots roots in this space, space,” Frisch says. saayys. “Orchards “Orchards are are considered considered a long-term investment in nvestment and here here we w are are planning to plant some more. more.”

It’s It’s an about-face ab bout-face from from the early days. daayys. Six years years ago, ago, when Frisch first asked asked the city ciity to farm the park,, she was was an aspirational aspiirational environmental en nvvironmental studies di undergrad und d grad der d who h spent spent most of her free tending backyard free time t back kyyard gardens San JJose gardens in downtown d ose with a group group of eight eigght classmates. classmates.

“We “W We went wen nt door door to door door asking people people if we w could could use their garden, garden,” she recalls. recalls. “We “We just wanted “W wanted to grow grow 17 food, food,, drink k beer beer and have haave

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This confe conference rence made possi possible ble with g grants rants ffrom rom the Roshan R Cultu Cultural ral Herit Heritage age Institute (a man managed aged fund of the Silicon V Valley all a ey Com Community munity Foundation), Foundation), the PARSA PA ARSA Com munity FFoundation oundation (in coll aboration with w IHF America) and C AL Humanities (with a g rant for the Com munity Stories P roject).

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‘W ‘We We wentt door to door d asking people pe eople if we could cou uld use theirr garden. We We just wanted wanted to grow food, f drink beer bee er and have parties parrties and d celebrate celeb l b brate t all the time.’ tim me.’

Today, Veggielution seven T odaay, V eeggielution farms se ven acres acr es of the park, which h divides into several gardens, se veral sections of gar dens, dining patios,, w washing stations, patios ashing st ationss, tool tool sheds livestock pens—all overrun byy and liv estock p ens—alll o verrun b an assor tment of fr ee-range hens assortment free-range hens,, p eacocks and guinea ffowl. o owl In 2013, owl.

2013 peacocks vvolunteers olunteers har vested mor m harvested moree than 56,0 00 p ounds of vvegetables egeetables fr om 56,000 pounds from the lot. N early eevery very Sa aturdaay, Nearly Saturday, 20 0 vvolunteers olunteers work the th he land and 200 shar vest in a meal m w ashed, sharee the har harvest washed, pr epped and ccooked ooked a ffew ew strides prepped fr om where where the ffood ood gr rew. On from grew. week daayys, community communitty memb ers farm weekdays, members their lit tle plots or brin ng their kids to little bring ga aw wk at the roaming roaming liv vestock. gawk livestock.

If the farm sold its pr roduce at produce mark ed-up rates to triple-dollartrip ple- dollarmarked-up signed rrestaurants estaurants or att farmers mark ets to lo cavores with w disp osable markets locavores disposable inc ome, the y’d actuallyy turn a pr ofit. income, they’d profit.

But the bulk of the b ou unty is giv en bounty given aaway way or sold at mark ed d-down rates marked-down to p oor families h rrelies elies on poor families.. Frisch

grants and donations to make make up the difference. diff ffeeren nce. Thanks to the city’s cittyy’s support, support, sh she he sa says, ayys, V Veggielution eeggielution doesn’t doesn’t have haave to worr worryy ab about out relocating. stability gives people relocating. That T st abilitty giv es p eople more more incentive incen ntive to invest in nvest in the organization. organizatio on.

“The city city never never had a project project like like this, this,” says saayys Frisch.

Frrisch. “We “W We broke broke a lot of ground proved ground and d rreally eally pr oved our staying stayying power. people po ower e . I think thiink p eoplee ar eop aaree used to the t e idea—I think theyy appr appreciate thin nk the eciate the idea—of having idea— of urban urrban farms ha avving that charitable it’s charitable element, e , so it ’s something they want support. they w aant to t supp ort.”

When V Veggielution eeggielution first got started, Frisch looked Full Circle started,, Fris sch lo oked to F ull Cir cle Farm ffor 11-acree o or guidance. gu uidance. The 11-acr counterpart Sunnyvale established counterparrt in Sunn yvale est ablished itself as an educ eeducational ational farm park a year Frisch’s year earlier, earlierr, and aligned with Frisch ’s vision ffor wanted from o or what w she w anted fr om Veggielution.

Veeggielutio on. Unlike Unlike Valley Vaalley Verde, Veerde, Collective Table, Collective Roots Roots and Garden Garden to T aable, which propagate prop pagate gardens gardens in backyards back kyyards and on vac vacant parcels, Full Circle a par ant cels, F ull Cir cle and Veggielution static Veeggielutio on rremain emain on st atic sites, sites, secured leases.. secured by by long-term leases Paul McNamara, Paul Mc cNamara,, Full Full Circle’s Circle’s executive executive director, d ector, has an orchard dir orchard lining his fa farm hopes arm but hop es to develop develop kitchens in the interior ffor o or picnics and demon demonstrations. nstrations.

“I’m eexcited, xcited,” he says, saayys, surveying surveying the property, property, which lies across across the street from neighborhood street fr om m a quiet neighb orhood and elementary school.

“There’s elementary scho ol. “Ther e’s a lot we want makee it more want to do with this to mak more like walking like a park, with w aalking paths and benches areas. benches and an nd dining ar eas.”

Part the enjoyy Part of th he rreason eason vvolunteers olunteers enjo coming Hummingbird coming to Hollyhill H Hummingbir d 10-acre homestead in the Farm, a 10-acre lls of Cup ertino, is b ecause western hil hills Cupertino, because they ccan an ea at close to wher they eat wheree the food is gr ow wn. Da avvid W eest turned food grown.

David West parents’’ backyard backyard hill into a his parents’ communitty farm after get tting t ffed eed community getting “weapons of w ar”” as up making “weapons war” an engineerr ffor o or L ockheed-Martin.

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Home Gr Grown ownn Eliseo A Aceves ceves ttalks alks passionately p about ab out his eggplant and d tomatillo seedlings while he eatss homemade Valley enchiladas at a V alle a y Verde Veerde potluck. graduation p otluck. More M e than a Mor Aceves, have ffew ew dozen,, including A ceves, ha ave gathered Los gather ed at L os Arboles Arbolees Elementary Elementary School, wheree the theyy ac accept Scho ol,, wher cept ccertificates ertificates nonprofit’s ffor or o ccompleting ompleting the non nprofit’s gardening classes.. The spr sprouts gar dening classes outs at Aceves’ Aceves’’ south San JJose o home, ose home, sheltered byy gr greenhouse shelter ed b eenhou use heat,, will family, bring in eextra xtra money money for for o the family y, wife children. his wif fe and their ttwo w wo childr en. tryy to cconvince “I tr on nvvince my my neighbors neighbors to front says. plant in their fr ont lawns, laaw wns,” he sa ayys.

“Without garden, “W Without i a gar den,, it’s it’s wasted wasted space. space.” oncee The seasonal ccarpet-layer, arpet-la - ayer, who onc helped harvest nurseryy p help ped har vest nurser plants in the Central Valley, become C entral V aalley, has b eccome something farming.. of an eevangelist vangelist ffor o or backyard bacck kyyard farming He ffell eell into planting during d a slow work—broke season at work k— —broke and frustrated unwanted free time.. V Valley with the un nwanted fr e time ee aalley Verde offered odd jobs,, building V eerde off ffeered him o dd d jobs boxes. working planter b oxes. And wo orking with people about p eople eexcited xcited ab out gr ggrowing owing sparked their own ffood ood spark ed his own interest.

Now, family inter est. N ow w, his fami ily gets most produce from theyy gr grow of its pr oduce fr om ffood ood the ow themselves. themselv es.

Sincee launching in 20 2012, Sinc 012,, Valley Vaalley Verde 100 like V eerde has ttaught aught 10 0 families faamilies lik ke the Aceveses garden, A ceveses how to gar den n,, while also scores boxes building sc ores of planter plantter b oxes in Gilroy, throughout Gilr oy, Morgan Morgan Hill and d thr oughout Meanwhile, Garden Table San JJose. ose. Mean nw while, Gar G den to T aable backyard gardens has planted eight back kyar y d gar dens and families trained dozens of famili ies to tend them.

“We moree p people, “W We want want to rreach each mor eople, don’t b t we don but d ’t have have much ha much h off th the manpower xpand outside this manp ower to eexpand area, Monsur, small ar ea,” says saayys Sami Monsur M ,a Garden Table trustee opened Gar den to T aable truste ee who op ened up her front seven front yard yard nearly nearrly se ven years years tinyy community ago as a tin communitty farm ffor o or neighbors. neighb ors. property squareHer pr operty spans 77,500 ,,500 squar eFive ffeet eet e of a ccorner orner lot in San S JJose’s ose’s F ive Wounds neighborhood, historically W ounds o neighb orhood, historic ally enclave a Portuguese Portuguese encla ave but b now a predominantly Latino pr edominantly L atino o immigrant abloom om with ccommunity. ommunity. The space, space, ablo grapee vines, kiwi and grap vines, persimmons, persimmons, artichoke, stalks, cilantro, ar tichoke, ccarrot arrot st alkss, cilantr o, fava garlic and fa avva beans, beans, ssomehow doesn’t place do esn’t ffeel eeel out of plac ce less than a from heart city. mile aaway way fr om the he eart of the cit y.

Maybe it’s judicious spacee Ma ayb y e it ’s the judiciou us use of spac

outline or the outl line of hotels and ccondo ondo Chickens towers on the horizon. Chick ens in a byy ffenced-off eenced- off ccorner orner of the back lot, b boxed-up beehive, peck scattered ab oxed-up pb eehive, p eck at sc attered broccoli stalks. br occoli st a . alks “We want moree of this this,,” Monsur “W We w an ant mor says little farmyard. sa ays y of her lit tttle urban farm yard. “And “A And naturee of Gar Garden thanks to the t fluid natur den Table, throughout to T able a , we w ccan an eexpand xpand thr oughout city. doesn’t depend the cit ty. It do esn’t necessarily necessarily dep end having permanent site, likee on us ha h avvin ing a p ermanent site i , lik Veggielution, it’s V eeggielutio on, though it ’s great great we have too. ha ave that,, to o.”

Garden den to Anotherr element of Gar Table hopes amplify T aable she hop h es to see amplif fy in fruit gleaning.. N Nearly rreach each is fru uit gleaning early eevery very weekend, group week end,, a gr oup of vvolunteers olunteers homeless join home eless rresidents, esidents, who trade work k ffor o or housing vvouchers. ouchers.

Theyy visit pr previously scouted-out The eviously sc outed- out addresses unwanted addr esses to t ttake ake un wanted fruit and donate it to t the ffood ood bank. An app Trimble ccalled alled Trim mble tracks the homes of residents who agr agreed eed to donate their residents w backyard bounty. back yard b ounty. On aaverage, verage, the 2,000 pounds gleans net 2,0 00 p ounds a month Second Harvest Food to donate to Sec ond Har vest F ood Ngo,, an Americ Americorps Bank, says saayys Lan Lan Ngo orps staffer st aff ffeer assigned assigned to help manage the program. pr ogram.

“So much would’vee gone to mucch of this would’v waste, says Ngo,, 23, who rremembers w aste,” sa ays ys Ngo emembers standing st anding in n line with her mom eevery very week k at the ffood ood bank as a kid growing Side.. gr owing up p on San JJose’s ose’s East Side “There’s literally here, “Ther e’s lit terally tons of ffood ood her e, it’s matter getting it ’s just a mat m ttter of get ttting it to the people who p eople wh ho need it.”

Smalll Sc Scale ale Gr Growth owth While urban u planners in the past decades have ffew ew dec adees ha ave pushed ffor o or denser growth metropolitan gr owth in metr m opolitan centers, centers, San lingered JJose ose has lin ngered in its suburban sprawl.

For largest city spra aw wl. F orr the 10th lar gest cit ty in nation,, thir third California the nation d largest largest in C aliffo ornia population strong, opu and a p ulation a million str ong, it’s larger than Francisco it ’s lar ger th han San Francisc o yyet et generally cconsidered onsidered to lack a ccohesive, ohesive, marketable character.. Veggielution mark keetablee character Veeggielution Medeiros believes cco-founder o-ffo ounderr Mark Medeir os b elievees emerge from big-city San JJose ose ccould o ould emer ge fr om its bigcity identityy crisis byy re-branding—not identit criisis b re-branding—not technopolis, just a techn nopolis, but as an urban ag fitting, utopia. It seems seems fit ttting, with the city’s city’s squaree miles of spac spacee and 6,0 6,000 177 squar 00 acres vacant lots.. acr es of vac cant lots “Imagine metropolis “Imagin ne a metr opolis that is around known ar o ound the world ffor o or its successful open space, suc cessful integration i of op en spac e,

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working farmlands and d wellwell-designed designed areas, urbanized ar eas,” Medeiros Medeiiros says. saayys. “We “W We have opportunity create ha ave the opp ortunity to o cr eate a world-class city.

Local farming bee a worldclass cit ty. L ocal fa arming ccan an b key partt of our identit identity k ey par ty as San Jose Jose and Santaa Clara V Valley, the Sant aalley, and a one of the people eople are are drawn rreasons easons that p draaw wn here. here.

Wee still ha have land create W ave a lot of lan nd to cr eate a sustainable local sust ainable lo cal ffood ood ssystem. yystem.”

Santaa Clara V Valley The Sant aallley Food Food Alliance—a farmers, Allianc e—a band of far rmers, health groups political leaders—echoes gr oups and p olitical lea aders— echoes that vision. In a rreport eport out this winter,, the gr group says winter oup sa ayys that t despite decades policy efforts protect dec ades of p olicy eff ffo orts t to pr otect has farmland,, the rregion egion ha as lost 200,000 acres, percent, sincee errcent, sinc 20 0,000 acr es, or 8 p 1984. mid-1980s, 19 84. During the mid-1 1980s, San JJose ose declared orchards declar ed the fields and or chards in the northern nor thern rreach each of the cit ccityy “blighted” blighted justify spending Redevelopment to justif fy sp ending R eed development Agency dollars.. The cit city A gency dollars ty grew grew the officee industrial ttax ax base and built offic housing.. F Fifty-five percent ift parks and housing ftyy--fivve p ercent agricultural of rremaining emaining agricultur ral and range being over, land is at risk of b eing built b o ver, according Greenbelt Alliance, ac cording to the Gr een nbelt Allianc e, protect Coyote which also aims to pr ottect C oyote Valley southern border V aalley past the souther rn b order of San Jose.

Jose. With Wiith large-scale large-scale a farming way on the h w ay out,, the h rregion eggion i should h ld invest farms,, whether on in vest in smaller farms inner city, the urban edge or inne er cit ty, the ffood ood alliancee advises advises.. allianc Of Of course, course, small-scale small-scalle farming challenges.. ccomes omes with a unique set seet of challenges social often The so cial mission ofte n cuts into profitability, omm pr ofitability, and ccommunity munity farm

groups byy people groups are are often run b people with little litttle t business busineess eexperience xperience or limited knowledge of ccomplex omplex land-use policies. want policies. Urban Urban r farmers who w ant to focus crop focus on n cr op ccalendars alendars and the grander scheme access sch heme of ffood ood ac cess and sustainability sustainabiliity have haave to write grants and solicit donations stay d to st ay afloat.

But urban proponents urbaan ag pr oponents have haave celebrated celebrated a ffew ew big victories so far this year. year.

In February, Febru uary, 88-year-old 88-year-old farmer Walter C Cottle otttle t Lester Lester bequeathed bequeathed 284 acres farmland acres of farm mland along the lower edge of San n JJose ose to the ccounty. ounty. He could could have haave sold the property property to a developer developer for fo or hundreds hundreds of millions of dollars dollars.. IInstead preserved nstead he pr eserved it open as farmland d and op en space. space. The first phase of development o de velopment will create Cottle Park, create Martial Martial t C ottttle P ark,, named for fo or Lester’s Lester’s grandfather. grandfather. The park should b bee completed byy the end of completed b next next year, year, thanks th hanks to $26 million in voter-approved funds,, and it will voter-approved funds include lan land nd ffor o or farming, farming, agricultural exhibitions, visitor’ss ccenter, exhibitions, a visitor’ enter, picnic area trails. area and tra ails.

County governments County and a municipal go veernments also now have haave the go-ahead go-ahead to create create urban ag in incentive zones,, thanks to ncentive zones AB 551 b becoming law ecoming o la aw in JJanuary. anuary. one’s locally Though no one ’s taken taken action lo cally yet, Garden Table, yet,, Lewis, Lewis, of o Gar den to T aable, hopes hopes to rally lo local cal a lawmakers laaw wmakers to ttake ak ke action like like San JJose ose did last fall.

“That rreally way us,,” eaally paves paaves the w ay ffor or us o Lewis gives Lewis says. saayys. “It giv es us a better better chance chance to grow. grow w.”

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mejdara, salad, dolmas, pita and hummus.

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HE ANGULAR turquoise chairs in the dining room might have been swiped from Betty Draper’s breakfast nook while the multicolored, weathered boards that adorn a few accent walls suggest a brighter take on shabby chic. Diverse influences run rampant in the decor at Amir Mediterranean Restaurant, but it’s the array of jewel-like, mosaicked Moroccan lanterns dotting the space—the focal point of the small restaurant—that reflect the menu’s straightforward focus on casual Mediterranean cuisine. (Cushions heaped on the banquettes that flank the front door offer a clue, as well.)

Amir’s decorators knew what they were doing: the midcentury elements and bright colors give the restaurant a playful feel, but the glowing lanterns are the main event.

Amir employs the fast-food format of ordering at the counter and service was fast and helpful. Food was delivered to our table about 10 minutes after we ordered. The menu includes salads, kebabs, wraps and entree plates that combine some of the smaller items from the menu.

A generous amount of chopped parsley gave the taboule ($5.99) a fresh, green taste, complementing the diced tomatoes. The bulgur wheat had less prominence in Amir’s taboule than some versions I’ve had, but that made for a less chewy texture that was appealing. Garlic was a prominent but not overpowering note in the dressing.

My companion ordered the combo shawarma plate ($11.99), like a deconstructed shawarma wrap, with a combination of beef and chicken shawarma served alongside a pita and green salad, and a choice of hummus or tzatziki. Diners also have their choice of rice or French fries to accompany the dish. The beef was slightly dry, but the chicken was quite tender—my companion said he might order the dish again but just with the chicken shawarma, and in a wrap. The French fries were just a bit oversalted, while the tangy tzatziki—a dip that blends yogurt, cucumber, garlic and herbs—played up the yogurt’s sourness.

The vegetarian plate ($10.99) included three falafel balls, two dolmas, hummus, a green salad, pita and mejadara, a mix of rice and lentils. Despite its simple ingredients, the mejdara had a savory richness while the falafel were unusually light and crispy with an almost fluffy, crumbly interior—some of the best I’ve had—and complemented by hummus that was creamy and garlicky, with a earthy note.

To accompany the meal, minty lemonade ($3) has a tart sweet quality that sets off the subtle spiciness of the food. Diners looking for more heat could boost it considerably with the addition of spicy, vinegary orange sauce presented in a squeeze bottle alongside a far less volatile condiment: ketchup.

—Heather Zimmerman AMIR MEDITERRANEAN RESTAURANT 86 N. Market St, San Jose. 408.971.1516.

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(Fast) Food Talk

EATING FAST ISN’T usually fun. Growing food fast is pretty much impossible. But presenters will be speaking fast, or at least somewhat quickly, about all things food during “Pecha Kucha Night: Food For Thought” at the San Jose Museum of Art. From how food is grown to how it’s distributed to how it’s prepared and eaten, speakers at this event, which is offered in conjunction with the museum’s current “Around the Table: food, creativity, community” exhibition, will share their insights using the fast-paced Pecha Kucha format. Though most of the topics are broad issues, speakers are limited to presentations of just six minutes.

Presenters include Paul Ringgold of the Peninsula Open Space Trust; Zach Lewis of Garden to Table; Amie Frisch of Veggielution, Cindy McCown of Second Harvest Food Bank and Ewell Sterner of TEAM San Jose.

—Heather Zimmerman Pecha Kucha Night: Food For Thought takes place Thursday, March 20, 6-8pm, at the San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St., San Jose. Admission is $5. sanjosemuseumofart.org

Hero Roll

FOR THOSE WHO like more punch with their sushi rolls than just regular old wasabi, a new sushi joint that has opened near downtown San Jose serves rolls inspired by samurai warriors. Sushi Heroes christens its substantial rolls after real-life samurais and nobles of medieval Japan. Despite the historical sources of the names, the rolls aren’t strictly in the Japanese tradition: more Western additions to rolls include mayonnaise, avocado or lettuce. For instance, the Takeda Shingen roll, named for a powerful lord, includes fried chicken, red bell pepper, cabbage, mayo and teriyaki sauce.

—Heather Zimmerman

SUSHI HEROES 1335 N. First St., San Jose. 408.772.8369 or sushi-heroes.com.

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Sofaa every Thursday T at the Back Bar Sof wheree DJs spin all the best old school wher know.. This rrap ap andd R&B that they know Killer,r, one of San Jose Jose’s week, IIchy chy the Killer ’s best—both DJ,, and as best— —both as a solo DJ Dan’s Dirtbagg Dan ’s right g hand man—will spinning (AC) be spin nning along with CCasp3r. asp3r. (A C)

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people A lot of pe eople rreminisce eminisce about the good old days d of soul and hip-hop weree simple and when the beats wer vibrant, and weree still vibr ant,, an nd the artists wer carving out car ving ou ut the rules of the game. grow But for for someone som meone that didn’t didn’t gr ow up around aroundd this music, how do they through all the good and bad? wade thr o ough people “Classic”” Now peop ple can check out “Classic

Knight”” is one of the slower “Whitee Knight tracks Picturee A Atlantic’s tr acks off of Pictur tlantic’s 2012 bustling indie-rock bustlin ng indie-r ock LP Digital TTension ension e .

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of my m black knight deeds”). deeds”). Fittingly, Fittinglyy, the visuals in the music video are are entirely enttirely in dramatic dramatic slow motion. But before before the world gets to glimpse this new w video, the band is throwing throwing a video videeo release release party p y this Friday.

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March Mar c 22 at the Blank Club ch

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

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

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

REVEREND RE VEREND HOR HORTON TON HEA HEAT AT March Mar c 29 at the Blank Club ch

PAULA P AULA CCOLE OLE March Mar ch 29 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

408 FIGHT FIGHTSS March Mar ch 229 9 at City National Civic

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

REVEREND RE VEREND HOR HORTON TON HEA HEAT AT March Mar c 29 at the Blank Club ch

ANTHONY BOURD A BOURDAIN AIN & ERIC RIPERT RIPERT Aprill 13 at SSJJ Center Ceenter ffor or P Performing erforming Arts

JOHNNY CLE CLEGG GG May 3 at at Montalvo Arts Center

MORRISSEY MORRIS SEY May 7 at City National Civic

KEB’ MO’ at Montalvo Arts Center May 3 at

FFANIME ANIME CCON ON 2 2014 014 May 23-26 23-26 at City National Civic

year or two. The trio of Andy ((singer/ singer/ guitarist),, Jason (violinist) andd KKozza ozza (percussion) (per cussion) have the chops, the t songwriting and the sound too go the Mraz. way of John Mayer or Jason Mr M az. create polished, Theyy cr eate the kind of ppolish hed, tight g pop ballads and rrock-out ock-out jams jam ms (and thee two) songs that segue between th time that catch listeners the first ti me around ar ound and never try to shakee ’em loose.. And with their slightly unusual u arrangement ar rangement of instruments,, and Suzuki's penchant to put a bitt of country twang and harmony into his out vocal parts, the band turns ou ut some fresh, heartfelt fr esh,, heartf elt pop rock. rock.. (SL)

RUCKATAN/ R UCKA ATA AN/ AVANCE A VANCE Club Fox, Redwood City door Sat, 8pm, $15 adv/$20 do oor When it comes to Latin rrock, ock, Santana is pretty pretty much God,, so when selfdescribed Santana super ffan an Lisa

Delgado (the head of Santana’s Sanntana’s ffan an club) wanted to go all outt ffor or her party, birthday party y, she did thee next best Great One—she to booking the Gr eat One —she Bay Area’s booked a couple of the Ba ay Ar ea’s best Latin rrock ock bands at Club C Fox. passionate Ruckatan fuses passionat te Latin rrock ock energetic andd CCaribbean with ener getic African an aribbean jamming rhythms. They’ll be jamm ing with player,r, Raul long time Santana conga player Rekow, bassist Fred Rekow w, and El Chicano ba assist Fr ed Sanchez.. Avance Avance are are a 13-piece 13-piece salsa genree a sul sultry, band who gives the genr tryy, flair.. (AD) rromantic omantic old-school R&B B flair

DENITIA AN AND ND SENE SENE. SP2 Bar and Restaur Restaurant, an nt, San Jose Sat, 9pm, $5 adv/$10 door d Dragon For all those Little Dr agoon ffans ans who can't wait until the next (overdue) here's (over due) album, her e's a duo checking well worthwhile checkin ng out in the meantime. Denitia and a sene.,

a singer/songwriter and rrapper/ apper/ producer pr oducer rrespectively, espectivelyy, met at a Brooklyn Br ooklyn party a ffew ew years back creating and wound up cr eating some electronic rremarkable emarkable electr onic slow jams.

The duo pputs soulful vocals over dreamy their dr eamy synths as the eir harmonies aree pr propelled electronic ar opelled by elec tronic bass grooves, gr ooves, rresulting esulting in a kind of that's experimental R&B th hat's catchy yet mysterious. The songwriting s on stickss cl close their first LP stick lose to those R&B themes of love and a loss, not all.l. They've got a to its detriment at al winter.. second LP slated ffor or winter

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EDDIE RIC RICHARDS HARDS Cardiff LLounge, Cardiff ounge, C Campbell am mpbell Tue, Free T u ue, 10pm, Fr ee For all those rrecent ecent cconverts to

hey, dance music (andd hey y, I'm one here's of them), her e's a set to go to. dubstep electroBeyond the dubst tep and electr oeveryone house most every yone is ffamiliar amiliar theree ar aree a myriad of with, ther electronic genres electr onic genr ess that rrequire equire a bit moree patience mor ti tto gett iinto t (i (i.e., they th meltt faces don't try to mel faces every 30 suree everyone's seconds to make sur attention), aree well still paying attent tion), but ar Richards worth the time. Eddie E Richar ds has house been on the hous se scene since the he's beginning, and he e's often called the UK's “godfather “godfathher of house” house” ffor or championing his rrole ole in champ pioning the music there. ther e. CCurrently urrently he's h working in genre, the tech house ge enre, which— surprise—combines hardd surprise—combi ines the har groove gr oove of techno and the melodies create of house to cr eate tunes easy to drop. get lost in. Don't wait ffor or the dr op.

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LADY LAD Y GAGA GAGA June 3 at SAP SAP Center

SUPERSUCKERS SUPER SUCKERS June Ju une 6 at the Blank Club

QUEEN/ADAM QUE EEN/ADAM LAMBERT LAMBERT July 1 at SSAP AP Center

CHER July 2 at SSAP AP Center

RINGO SSTARR TARR AND HIS ALL ALL-SSTARR TA ARR B BAND AND July 1133 at City National Civic

JJUSTIN JUS TIN TIMBERLAKE Aug 11 at SSAP AP Center

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*stagee FFAREWELL, A AREWELL, FITZ FITZGERALD ZGERALD A one-man show by actor KKurt urt Gravenhorst about lifee of Gr avenhorst abou ut the lif Fitzgerald. writer FF.. Scott Fit z ald. Thu-Fri, zger 8pm, 8pm,, Sat 3 or 8pm m, Sun,, 2pm. $12-$36.

Marr 23. Theatr Theatree on $12 -$36. Thru Ma Pedro Square, San P edro Squar e, San Jose. e,

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND TheatreWorks pr TheatreWorks presents e esents a musical set on a CCaribbean aribbean island about the rromance omance between a young peasant girl aristocrat.

Wed-Sat, and a young aristo ocrat. W ed-Sat, 8pm,, Sun, 7pm, TTue, u 7:30pm. Thru ue, Mar 30. $25-$73. Lucie Lucie SStern tern Theatre, Palo Alto.

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THREEPENNY OPERA O San Jose SStage tage Company Coompany presents pr esents the landmark landmark early musical 20th century mus sical by KKurt urt Weill Bertoltt Brecht.

W eill and Bertol B echt. WedBr WedFri-Sat, Thu,, 7:30pm, Fri-S Sat,, 8pm and Sun,, 2pm. Thru Mar Maar 30. $25-$50.

*dancee *danc BALLET B ALLET SSAN AN JO JOSE OSE The company’s se second econd pr program ogram of the season ffeatures eattures ffour our company premieres, premierres, including Vicente Nebrada’s Nebrada’ss Nuestr Nuestros ros o Valses V aalses, Ugal P Perry’s erryy’s Infinityy, Dwight Roden’s Roden’s Evermor EEvermoree and Paul Paul Taylor’s Taaylor ’s Piazz Piazzolla zolla CCaldera alder a ra.

Fri-Sat, 8pm;; Sun,, 1:30pm. $21$105.. San Jose Center Ceenter for for the Performing Performing Arts,, San S Jose.

kind,, small edition,, andd digital artists' books books with mixed mixxed media.

Thru Mar 20. De Anza College, C Cupertino.

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LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS CCOMPANY OMPAN NY “Zulugr “Zulugrass ass Jewelry Gal Gallery”, lery”,, ffeaturing eaturing the colorful clothing c adorned and ornaments adorne ed by the Great Maasai tribe of the Gr e Rift eat Valley V alley of KKenya enya and TTanzania. aannzania.

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

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Identity y..”” Jan 29-Apr 27 7. San Jose.

29-Apr 27.

TTasty, aastyy, too! Starts Starts Jan 29 9-Apr 27 7.

GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “We’s Gone Be Fine “We’s Fine”,”, work w workss by Jeremiah Jer emiah Maddock. “I Stand Stand For workss by Billl Dunlap.

Sacrifice,” work Thru Mar 22. San Jose.

“Cross Pollination”, “Cross Pollination”, coll collaboration aboration between the art ffaculty acultyy and staff working in the Art Departments Departments Valley. of Silicon V aalleyy. San Jose.

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THE AR ARSENAL SENAL Recent work by Katherine Katherrine LevinLau. Thru Mar 28.. San Jose.

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BRUNI BR UNI GALLER GALLERY RY Jazz-related art by Bru Jazz-related Bruni uni Sablan.

Mon-Sat, 1-6pm.

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“Unmasking the SStage: tage: The Behind Visual Artists Behi ind the Theater Experience.”Thru Mar March ch 30.

LLos os Gatos.

CANTOR CANT OR ARTS ARTS CENTER “Her SStory: tory:: Prints by Elizabeth Murray.”

Wed-Sun, Mur rayy..” Thru Marr 30. W ed-Sun, 11am-8pm.

11am-5pm,, Thu, 11 1am-8pm.

SStanford. tanford.

DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN CAMPBELL CA AMPBELL Third Friday Artwalk.

Third Artwaalk. Visit with exploree boutiques artists and explor and galleries. galleries Every Everry third third Fri of 6-9pm. the month,, 69pm m.. E.. CCampbell ampbell Ave. A ve.

EUPHRAT EUPHRA AT MUSEUM MUSSEUM “Deep Reading”,, a look at the humanity intersection of hu umanity and traditional technology and tr raditional practices digital pr actices in the di igital age.

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New W Work ork by ZooK 58 (aka) Antonio Nava TTorres. oorres. Fri, Frri,, 7pm.

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FIRST T FIRST TO O MARKET RESTAURANT RE STAURANT “Portraits of Things,”” po “Portraits portraits ortraits by South Samantha YYee. eee.. 399 Sou uth First SStreet. treet.. San Jose.

GALLERY GALLER Y HOUSE “Embracing Space,”” pa “Embracing paintings intings and mixed media by KKyoko y yoko Lewis.

Fischer and SSydell ydell Lew wis. Thru Palo Alto.

Mar 29. P alo Al to.

GALLERY GALLER Y SSARATOGA ARA ATOGGA “The Big Pictur Picture,” e,”” galle gallery ery by acrylic ffeatured eatured abstract abstract acryl ic painter Wed-Sun, Isaias Sandoval. W ed-SSun,, 11am5pm.. Big Basin Way, Wayy, Saratoga.

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KALEID GALLER GALLERY Y “Siddharta YYear”, ear e ”, exhib exhibit it by Bryson Bost.. “Fracture”, “Fracture”, exhibit

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MACLA MA CLA “Latino Art Now!” 16th An Annual nual Exhibition.

Art Auction and Exhibition n. Fri, 7pm. San Jose.

MONTALVO MONT TA ALVO AR ARTS TS CENTER CENTER “L.O.V.E.: Cr “L.O.V.E.: Creativity, eativityy, Connec Connection, ction, Community.”

Community .”” examines thee challenges g of extendingg ourselves to commune and and connect with others, with an drawings, awiings, installation of video, dr sculpture, works. sculptur e, and other work s s.

11am-3pm.

Thu-Sun, 11am3pm. Thru Jun Saratoga.

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PACIFIC P ACIFIC AR ART T LEA LEAGUE GUE “Abstractions” and “S “Abstractions” “Stamps tampps Paper”.

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Crafts on P aper ”. Thru Feb 27 7. Cr a afts exhibit by Phyllis Lee. Thruu Mar Palo Alto.

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“Imagined Spaces, pain paintings ntings

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Mon-Fri,, 9am-7pm, 9am--77pm,, Sat, Satt,, 9amCenter,r, 3pm. Mohr Gallery, Galleryy, Finnn Center View..

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“Pencils Down” “Pencils Down” explor explores es th the he creating artistic possibilities of cr eaating intricate graphite graphite drawings. drawinggs.

Palo Alto.

Thru April 13. P alo Al to.

SAN JOSE INS SAN INSTITUTE TITUTE OFF ART CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORAR RY AR T “TTooriawase,”” which juxtapo “Toriawase,” juxtaposes oses traditional tr aditional and historical Japanese art and objects with selected contemporary contemporary Western Co-curated W estern artwork. Co-cur atted 22-May b Misako by Mi k Mitsui.

Mit i Feb F b 22 -M M May 17.

Sat, 17 7. TTue-Fri, uue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat t, noon-5pm. San Jose.

SEEING THING THINGSS GALLERY GALLER RY “TTaangible” a hand printed “Tangible” Photography exhibition. Photogr aphy byy Gore, Ben Gor e, Nich KKunz, unz, CCarson arsoon Lancaster,, Sam Milianta, Espen Lancaster E Jarod SStokke, tokke, Jar od TTaber, aber a , Segej Vutuc, Ramirez, V utuc, Seth Ramir ez, Jasonn Lecras, Brandon Getty, Lecr as, Br andon Getty y, KKohlton oh hlton Ervin.

Er vin. San Jose.

SSTUDIO TUDIO R ROCK OCK CLIMBING GGYM Y YM “eYE mUNUDO” by Al Pr “eYE Preciado. eciado.

San Jose.

TECH TE CH SHOP SSAN AN JOSE Computerized ffabrication abrication pieces by artist KKat at Russo..

San Jose.

WORKS W ORKS SSAN AN JOSE “While You Yoou Are Are Here” Here” collaborated collabor ated pieces by TTrina rrinna Merry Theresa Because.

Mer ry and Ther esa Becaus se.

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ZERO ZER O 1 GARA GARAGE GE “ZERO1 Fellowship/xx,” ,” a ggroup roup exhibition that showcasess early prototypes prototypes of innovation innovaation challenges given to each of o the artists. San Jose.

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HANDS UP ’On the Cusp’ will introduce collections by local and regional artists, including BRRYBNDS.

Border Town WHEN revealing their city of residence in more respected places like San Francisco or Los Angeles, San Jose dwellers are often met with the question, “Why?” To the uninitiated, the city’s character is seen as flat, uncultured, flatulent, stunted and dangerous. Even certain locals revel in fantasies where they are able to move to a more cultured location (I usually suggest they go and live in a barrel of yogurt—nothing more cultured than that). Contrary to the beliefs of those folks, San Jose is doing quite well in the culture department, growing right under the noses being thumbed at it. One of many examples of this growth is Shona Sanzgiri’s pop-up at Black and Brown: “On the Cusp.”

Shona is a South Bay native with a lot of frequent flyer miles. Most of those miles were earned flying to LaGuardia Airport, which is probably why his show will include artists from NYC. He’s also invited artists from San Francisco, Los Angeles and (obviously) San Jose, to share the walls and racks of Black and Brown.

On the Cusp Opening: March 22, 5-pm.

Black and Brown 850 The Alameda, San Jose

“On the Cusp represents Shona’s efforts to bridge the distances that separate artistic centers, and the space between art and consumables. As Sanzgiri puts it, “What would it be like if you put skaters into a bookstore next to fashion designers, pornographers, photographers and yuppies? What would that conversation look like? Where could that happen? In a place as unassuming and centralized as San Jose.”

Ideas like these come at the price of worn-out shoes, and a passport littered with border-crossing stamps. “When I was 20, I went to school in Spain and met some subversive artists who worked in advertising and business. But they had fascist haircuts and could articulate their feelings. I didn't get it. I thought artists were supposed to look like plumbers and be purposely elusive and incapable of sincerity. These guys were the exact opposite—brash, lucid, genuine,“ Sanzgiri says.

That experience seems to have inspired Sanzgiri to create moments and content in which the audience gets the benefit of being surprised, and challenged to recognize the world as a place where things are pleasantly not how we assume they are. When asked about the separation of art and consumable products Shona replies, “A pager was and is such a thing: it was used as an access point for communication, then it evolved into the preferred tool for drug dealers, and now it's kitsch.”

He explains “On the Cusp” as “…a response to a perceived lack of a middleground—not just economically, but culturally. It's also because I very strongly believe in the people—most of whom are forced to go to other cities in search of work or culture—and because I think San Jose's history is fascinating.”

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VETERAN’S INK Jason Deitch shows his military-inspired tattoo.

War Records JASON DEITCH WENT under the needle while adjusting to civilian life after a decade serving as a U.S. Army medic. The tattoo on his right forearm depicts a coffin-encased skeleton, its disembodied skull at its feet. Around it, Latin text, which translates to, “Deformed from head to heel.”

The phrase, from the Roman Legion of the Republic, referred to the view amongst soldiers that their strength came from their diversity, Deitch says. Soldiers from Africa, Spain, Gaul and every corner of the Roman Republic made up the legion, a cohort “deformed and misshapen,” made up of disparate identities.

In talking to veterans over the years, Deitch, now 45 and a veterans rights activist, realized that so many had similarly allusive stories behind their body art, signposts to memorialize events, people and experiences on their skin.

“I thought someone should capture this,” he says. “Tattoos have been part of military life for generations, but younger veterans have become so good at expressing themselves to tattoo artists and the art of it has evolved so what we see is so much more meaningful.”

With that in mind, he teamed up with Bay Area libraries and the StoryCorps to launch “War Ink,” an exhibit of Iraq and Afghanistan veteran memorial tattoo art.

The project, which launches in time for Veterans Day in November, is looking for inked-up Bay Area veterans to participate, to give the public a chance to “explore the unfiltered record of war that veterans have documented on their bodies,” Deitch says.

The exhibit, co-created by Deitch and Contra Costa County Library Project Director Chris Brown, will consist of a multimedia display accessible from library websites of tattoo art of 30 veterans throughout California. StoryCorps, the national nonprofit dedicated to preserving oral history, will record each chosen veteran talking about why they got their tattoos. Photojournalist Shaun Roberts will take photos of the tattoos.

Deitch will choose veterans who best depict the region’s diversity in terms of geography, gender, branch of service and type of tattoo. He hopes the resulting exhibit will give civilians insight into the minds of returning veterans, who might otherwise feel unwelcome to share their experience after years immersed in a stoic, suck-it-up military culture.

“This project is a chance for the public to hear the authentic and honest voice of veteran culture,” Deitch says, “reaching into and interacting with the communities veterans are struggling to rejoin.”—Jennifer Wadsworth Veterans interested in participating can contact Deitch at jasonadeitch@gmail.com or 510.593.8423.

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partners—a sane,, logical of multiple par tners—a sane l gical lo pattern escaped pat tern which might have haave esc a ed a ap maniac’ss eye. maniac’ eye. deliberately neo-In delib erately stilted, neo documentary scenes, do cumentar y sc enes, we see JJoe o e in sleepless-eyed adolescent her sleeplesseyed adolesc ent yyears ears played Martin as pla ayed by

by Stacy Stacy Mar tin losing losin ng her virginity moped-riding thug vir ginity to a mop ed-riding thu ug Leboeuf, about more (Shia L eb oeuff, ab out which m ore hollow-eyed, later). Later, Later, JJoe oe is a holloweyed, leather-clad cherryy b bomb prowling leather - clad cherr omb pr ow wling Railways the British Railw ayys to the sounds sou unds Steppenwolf, of Stepp enwolff, seeking whom m she devour.

For time,, she she’s might de vour. F or a time ’s also teenage the ring leader of a gang of tee enage seductresses (“We ourselves seductr esses (“W We called called oursel lves Little Unfortunately, The Lit tle Flock”).

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hearing her and fforgiving her?? Or is o orgiving g her Nymphomaniac the rreiteration eiteration of an ancient Sc Scandinavian duty? andinaavviaan dut y? When explicitly sexual emerged explicitly se xual film m emer ged in the 1960s, wrapped 19 60s, it ccame ame wrapp p ed in Swedish and Danish assuranc assurances ces that all this copulation was copulation w as all rrevolutionary evolutionar y informative director infformativ o e fun. Has Haas the dir ector of Melancholia and Anti Antichrist ichrist suddenly turned to making th therapeutic art— herap eutic ar t— when if ther there’s anyy place e’s an p e “chaos plac reigns!” sex? reigns!” it rreigns eigns in the t field of se x?

Nymphomaniac is smar ssmartest test in one chapter ab about out fucking f the pain away—Christian aw way— Christiaan Slater is vvery ery good wise,, beloved father,, goo d as JJoe’s o e’s wise b eloved father making a dignified quote q of the Stoic Epicurus and dying d with shit on his sheets anyway. bee anyway. This might b von Trier’ss idea of a jok joke. von Trier’ e. His humor seems to elude the mass; m the critics I sa saw scarcely snickered aw this with sc arcely snick ered at Uma melodramatic Uma Thurman as a melo dramatic mom who hauls thr three children ree childr en to Joe’s humiliate Jo e’s lair to humiliat te her cheating husband. She ccalls alls Joe Joe “the “the pretty pretty miss!” and mak makes her es he er family gaze at the lascivious love bed: love b ed: “Let’s “Let’s go see Father’s Unhinged, Father’s favorite favvorite place!” nhinged, plaace!” U Uma starts Uma st ar ts quoting the rrenunciation enunciation scene from Christina scene fr om Queen Ch hristina (1933).

But the man JJoe oe ccan an neither keep discard keep nor disc ard is her h first,, JJerome erome (Laboeuf creaky (Laboeuf ). The eevil vil Shia S has a cr eaky British ac accent think cent ((“II thi ink yyou ou should take off, take your your knickers knickers off ff,, ja?”) which ff sounded lik likee C Canberra Australian; anberrra A ustralian; despicably, little despicablyy, he injectss a lit tle 50 Shades of Gr Grey works byy b being ey into the wor rks b eing her b boss time.. “That do-oss ffor o or a time ““That’s ’s a do over,” over,” he says saayys when she s brings in the breakfast wrong tray. breakfast on the wr o tra ong ay. This is all legitimately disgustin disgusting.

No nookie ng. N o no okie ffor or o plagiarists! F For precision, or all his h pr ecision, vvon on Trier ccan makee mess messes an mak ses that ccould ould use a do-over; onee clear mission do - over; he has on in this murkiness murkiness,, an and that’s trying nd that ’s tr ying his b best lost between est to find the lo ost link b etween porn “legitimate” sincee he porn and “legitimate e” film, sinc creates both kinds.. Still, cr eates b oth kinds S , vvon on Trier may bee planning to blow maay b b all this humanism up in V Volume o ollume 2: ccount ount this as a mer meree bafflin baffling preamble ng pr eamble to the actual p perversity erversity to ccome. ome.

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New N ew w (PG-13; 13 (PG-13; 139 9 min.) In a futuristic Woodley) Chicago, TTris ris r (Shailene W oodley) is ““divergent,” divergentt,” and doesn’t doesn’t fit into any of the fivee ffactions actions into which people aree categorized. naturee ar categoorized. Her unique natur brewing ewing allows herr to discover a plot br seemingly society.. in this see emingly utopian society (Opens Fr Fri.) ri.)

what a bloody mess.” Reteaming with Michell, collaborator M his collabor ator on the TV T V version of The Buddha of Suburbia, Suburb bia, KKureishi ureishi is approaching approaching a similar similar blatancy. blatancy. What keeps us tolerant opinion—it’s tolerannt is a matter of opinion—it ’s either our affection affection for for the actors, who ar are great, guiltt that many re gr eat, or the guil lumpy spouses ffeel eel about having mates who outclass them. (Opens Fri.; Fri.; read reaad a full-length review review at metroactive.com) metroaactive.com) (RvB)

worrk—if you love Ray, work—if Rayy, you’ll love this—Batra this s—Batra intricately weaves in protest pr otest about the position of women pressures andd the crushing pr essures of life life in urban urb ban India. He sometimes goes in ffor or one-bit-of-information one-bit-of-information per scene storytelling, sto rytelling,, and in the finale he keeps us on o the hook too long, but this movie from is a welcome escape fr om Indian film escapism. esc capism.. I can’t can’t wait to see what Batra B atra will do next.(Opens Fri.) (RvB)

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While Wh hile touring Europe, Europe, the Muppet cast cas st gets drawn drawn into a jewel heist masterminded ma sterminded by Kermit Kermit the Frog’s Frog’s evill twin. With Tina Tina Fey, Feyy, Ricky Ricky Gervais Gervais andd Ty Ty Burrell.

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French. She’s She’s the envy and despair d of her husband, a philosophy professor ultimate philosophy pr ofessor ffacing acing ul timate futility at the end of his career. career.

They’re marriage They’re att the stage in the mar riage where where they’re theey’re both best friends and nemeses. The question is whether sentimentt will keep Meg attached to her flailing, flailing, needy husband. It gets worse worse when Nick’s ffailure ailure is contrasted contrastedd with the mad success of his old school schhool chum (Jeff Goldblum), a fountain fountainn of nigh-embarrassing nigh-embarrassing American compliments, a wif wifee half his age and annd a tremendous tremendous view of the Place from Placce de la Concorde Concorde fr om his window. window w. The only time I saw scriptwriter scriptwriteer Hanif Kureishi, Kureishi, back in the 1980s, 1980ss, he was denouncing a rival’s writing: writting: “heart on his sleeve—

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Batraa commences Batr c with documentary ffootage ootagee of the dabbawallas of Mumbai—they’re Mumbaai—they’re a group group of porterss who, through through bicycle, train train and human huuman muscle, deliver homecookedd lunches to office workers.

Considering Considering the number of meals they shift shhift and the appalling traffic, traffic,, it’s it’s a real and they pride real achievement, a themselves th themse elves l on their th i accuracy. accuracyy. But B t one afternoon, afternooon, a middle-aged bureaucrat bureaucrat (Irrfan (Irrfan Khan, recalling recalling vintage Alec Guinness Guinneess in the wistfulness and reserve reservee of his emotions) gets the wrong wrong lunch. The food food was intended for for the viciously remote remote husband of Ila (Nimrat (Nim mrat Kaur); Kaur); the passed lunchpail becomes becomes a way of corresponding corresponding between betweeen strangers: strangers: the restrained restrained bureaucrat bureauucrat and the walled-in, lonely wife. wife.. Batra Baatra uses matching shots to indicate indicatte the links links between the two, and there’s theere’s a surprising amount of sensuality sensuaality for for a film in which the two leads are ar a e apart from from each other. other. (The puritanical puritannical side of Indian film makes this seem seeem all the more more like a classic movie made during the American Production Producction code.) As As in Satyajit Ray’s

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Latin funk Grupo L atin fu unk band Grup o Fantasma Fant asma a is another ggroup group p that we Austin, run into eevery very yyear ear in A ustin, and do,, we stop and listen. when we do d Recruited Princee on several R eecruited to back Princ several occasions, nine-piece group o ccasions, the nine -piece gr oup Austin’s best. is among A ustin’s b est. Houston underground under grou und vveteran eteran Trae the Truth,, on one manyy rappers Truth ne of the man rapp ers from H-Town fr om HTo own that made the trip to Austin, was A ustin, w a another highlight. as

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Likee Vegas, Lik Veegass, it’s it’s limitless debaucher y and debauchery a sensor sensoryy o overload, verload, and eevery very da ayy ends up str etching day stretching fr om no on until u the early morning from noon hours of the ne xt day. daay. On nearly next eevery ver y blo o the ffestival estival e in ck of block downtown A ustin, ther e’s a party par ty Austin, there’s with corporate-sponsored corporaate-sp onsored free free

drrinks and ffood drinks ood ffor o or those with th the he ri ight wristband or enough patien nce right patience to o get inside inside..

It ’s the ultimate music al pub It’s musical cr raw wl. Ther e’s a vvenue enue designed to t crawl.

There’s lo ook lik ending machin ne, a look likee a giant vvending machine, vvenue e enue with p ole- dancing clowns s, a pole-dancing clowns, vvenue e enue with a half pip e, a venue venue with w pipe, ra app ers T w wista and Trinidad JJames am mes rappers Twista w alking outside among the cr ow wd, walking crowd, an nd so on. and Mean while, st ars lik Lady Gaga Gaaga Meanwhile, stars likee Lady p erfo orm ar ound the ccorner orner fr m om perform around from b ands just get ting their ffooting, o oting, bands getting su uch h as S Sant C ’s Eliquate, Cruz’ Eli Eliquate , such Santaa Cruz’s w which dr ove 36 hours straight to o drove th he ffestival eestival ffor o or a handful of gigs the in n hopes hop es of finding ne w fans and d new ccatching a atching a br eak in the industr y. break industry.

U nffor o tunatelyy, among the Unfortunately, h ighlights of one of the b est mus sic highlights best music eevents vents in the world is the dark

rreality eality that p eople ge et hur people get hurtt and sometimes die ther e. These things there. happ en at eevents vents whe ere hundr eds of happen where hundreds people partying thousands of p eople ar aaree par tying at day all hours of the da ay aand night.

The tragic ac accident Thursday cident Thursda ay three lives night that claimed th hree liv es and injured injur ed almost two two dozen dozen more more driver attempted when a driv er at temp pted to eevade vade police byy driving thr through p olice b o ough a ffestival eestival was acute rroadblock oadblock w as an acu ute rreminder. eminder.

Wee wer weree st standing accident W anding at the ac cident scene before happened. sc ene ttwo wo hours b effor o e it happ ened. from the Highlights fr om th he ffestival: eestival:

Texas T exas Musicc Something often o overlooked verlooked in ccoverage overage fr om SXSW from SXSW:: Ther Theree ar aree a great from Texas.

Wee wer weree lot of gr eat acts fr om T exas. W impressed Suffers, most impr essed with The Suff ffe ers, 10-piecee soul band fr from a 10-piec om Houston healthy R&B,, jazz with a health hy mix off R&B jazz Latin influences byy and L atin influenc es fr ffronted onted b Kam Franklin on vvocals. ocals a . Fans of Sharon on JJones ones and the Dap Kings will Shar appreciate new group. appr eciate this ne w gr roup.

Wee ha W have ave watched watched The C Coup oup perform p erfo orm several several times in the Bayy Area Ar ea sinc sincee our first chanc chancee to see the 2000s, them in th he early 20 00s, but the Oakland band b has ne never ver sounded better mid-day b etter than thaan the middaay set we ccaught aught at a div divee bar on Sixth Str Street, eet, artery the main ar tery of the ffestival. eestival.

Boots Riley climbed Bo ots Rile ey climb ed on a bar adorned with w antler chandeliers as a spacee inside ssweaty weaty crowd crowd o filled the spac surrounded door and surr ou unded the do or from from the street. scene was str eet. Thee sc ene w as perfect p erfect e for fo or the band’ss high-energy band’ higgh- energy funk.

Another L.A.’s Anothe er vveteran eteran act, L.A. ’s People Under Stairs, P eople U n nder the St airs, debuted new new music music at SXSW and rrocked ocked party a Pandora Pandoraa par ty with golden era hip-hop showmanship. hip -hop sh howmanship. Thes One echoed the overall ed th echo he o verall theme of the Street Sixth Str eet vvenues, enues, dousing himself Lone Star with a L on ne St ar before beffo ore jumping “Beer”: into “Beer r”: “If you you don’t don’t like like beer, b eer, fuck outta get the fuc ck out ta here.” here.”

Life LLessons Life e ons ess FFrom rom Diddy A humble humb ble Diddy sp spoke oke with F oorbes writer wriiter Zack O'Malle Forbes O'Malleyy G Gr eenbur b g on a variety variet i ty off topics t i , Greenburg topics, including entr epreneurship and the entrepreneurship curr ent st ate of the music industr y, current state industry, while also o ans wering questions fr om answering from the ccapacity apaciity crowd crowd and off ffeering tips offering ffor or o makin ng it in the music industr y. making industry.

On wh at N otorious B .I.G. would what Notorious B.I.G. b i he wer alive today: todaay: “I bee doing if weree alive think he would w b bee an R&B singer; he lo ved R&B R and I think he would loved ha ave trans sitioned. He was was a gr eat have transitioned. great singer i d he h lo lloved ved d R&B songs h and songs,, he lo ved L uth her V aandross." loved Luther Vandross."

On entrepreneurship: enttrepreneurship: “What I'm doing g, yyou ou ccould ould do to o. Y ou o doing, too.

You just ha ave to t work as har d as me and have hard b elieve as har d as me. me. … There There has believe hard to b star a ting point, p oint, where where you you bee a starting put that pr p essure on yyourself. ourselff. … pressure

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TRAGEDY T R AGEDY IIN NA AUSTIN USTIN A makeshift memorial stan stands ds just feet away from the entrance to M Mowhawk, popularr S SXSW venues, owh hawk, one of the most popula XSW venues s, where h three h people l were w kill d by killed b a drunk d k driver d i fl i police. fleeing li Any suc Any successful cessful entr entrepreneur, eprreneur, they're they're not doing it ffor o or the mone m money, y, they're they're doing it b because ecause that'ss what the theyy love lo ve and that's their dr d dream. eam. And don't w wait ait until yyou're ou're 35 to do it."

On the curr current ent state statee of hip hip-hop: -hop: “The bar lower lowered ed after after Biggie and Tupac T upac died, and now I think that bar is get getting ting raised ba back ack up b byy a new ne w generation of ar artists." tists."

On millennials: “This “Th his is one of the most intelligent ge generations enerations that we'v we'vee eever ver had an and nd this is one of the most entr entrepreneurial ep preneurial generations that we'v we'vee eever ver had. had.””

Allen Stone’s Stone’’s Birthda Birthdayy Sett Allen Stone deliv delivered ered e an inspiring late -afterno on set on his h bir thdayy, late-afternoon birthday, full of soulful ho hooks oks and a a brief bir thdaay ccelebration. elebration. His H band birthday shared shar ed some random gifts g on st stage age (a pack of smok es and d a liter of 2 smokes percent p ercent milk) b before effo ore the t audienc audiencee br oke out into an imp promptu broke impromptu birthday bir thdaay song song..

The set ffelt eelt particularly particularly eminding meaningful with Ston Stone ne rreminding eeveryone ver yone that we ’re never neever promised promised we’re tomorrow tomorr ow after the tr tragic agic ac accident cident just hours earlier in which w thr ee three people p eople wer weree killed b byy a driv driver er fleeing p olice. Stone finished fi the set police. leading the audienc i a two-step two -step audiencee in dance before beffo ore joining them t on the dance flo or to sing with the cr owd. floor crowd.

Neil Y Young ooung Fights FFor or HD D Audio Neil N eil Young You oung intr introduced o duced a Kickstar terr ccampaign ampaign ffor o or P ono, his Kickstarter Pono, high-resolution high-r esolu ution music technolo technology, gy, during a k eynote address, address, claiming keynote nothing sh short hor t of a “r “revolution evolution to tr tryy to rescue rescue and a d sa ave an art ar t form” fo orm” that h save is suff suffering ffeeringg fr from om lowlow-quality quality MP3s MP3s..

Y o oung hasn h ’t had an Young hasn’t anyy luck selling the idea to o Silic Silicon on V Valley aalley investors investors and is hopi ing cr owdfunding will hoping crowdfunding bee the ans b answer w to launching the wer technolo gy that he claims will technology ou "bring yyou u the rreality eality and let yyou ou underst d what the ar tists did in understand and artists the studio studio.” .” That’s That’s as opp opposed osed to MP3s ch, with ccompressed ompressed files MP3s,, whic which, files,, only off ffeer about a out 5 p ab ercent of the offer percent audio rrecorded ecorrded on studio masters masters,, ac cording to t Y o oung. according Young.

Y o oung mak m es a go od p oint: Young makes good point: Digit al technology tech hnology has impr oved Digital improved the qualit o ormats, qualityy of other media fformats, including HD H video and TV V, while TV, the quality quality of music fformats o ormats has decr eassed ffor o or the sak decreased sakee of cconvenience. onveniencce.

"W With i audio aaudio,, ther e's ne ver b een "With there's never been such low qualit q qualityy and the abilit abilityy to cr eate som mething gr eat," Y o oung create something great," Young ssays. ays.

P ono’s campaign campaign on Kickstarter Kickstarter Pono’s had, at pr ess time, time, reached reached nearly press $4 million in less than a week (the goal w as $8 8 00,000). Appar ently was $800,000).

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

Rock/Pop Rock/P op ART AR T BOUTIKI Fri, Apr 4, 7:30pm: A YYawn aawn Worth Dogcatcher,, Mr Mr..

W orth YYelling, elling, e Dogcatcher M Kind. San Jose

BLACKBIRD BLA CKBIRD T TAVERN AVERN Wed, W ed 7pm: Fatale, ed, Fatale ffeaturing eaturing Jackie Gage, SSteely teely Nash, Rabbit Quinn. Thu, 7pm: No Water W ater After Midnight – The Residency.

Residency y. Every TTue, ue, u 7pm: Now Dig This! Guest DJ TTuesdays. uuesdays. San Jose

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed,, 8pm:: Six Mile SStation.

Wed, tation.. Fri Fri,i, Drunken 8pm:: Speaker Box Riot, Drunk en SStarfighter, tarfighter, YYeshua eeshua & The J-Padilla.

Hightones,, DJ J-P adilla. $10.. Sat, S 8pm:: The Bang, Bang, The Inciters, Inciters, The Th he Ballantynes.. $10. San Jose.

CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH Wed, 9pm: W Wed, Wax ax W Wednesdays ednesdayss with Battlehooch. Thu, Quartet.

8:30pm: Jeff Denson Quarte et.

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Eric Alexanderr & Pepe Merolla P epe Mer olla Quartet. Fri, Mar M and 28, 8pm: The She’s, She’s, TTrails rails an nd Ways.

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Sunnyvale.

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New Orleans institution, recently seen on HBO’s Treme, make their way to SF. Mar 22 at Mezzanine.

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Are re guys scared scarred of politically active women?? My boyfriend of two months just ju ust broke roke up with witth me over my support for animal anima al rights, rightss, and I’ve generally had difficulty keeping kee eping boyfriends because of this. thiss. This boyfriend was bothered by b two incidents. incidentts. In the first, I got into an argument argum ment about zoos with one of hiss friends at a party. p y. Another time, we were driving party driiving alongside a car with a pro-hunting bumper bum mper sticker, stickerr, and I rolled down my m window and shouted something someth hing to the driver. driverr. I’m trying to do good—protect creatures without a voice. Does that mean I don’t d ’t deserve a boyfriend? —Yes, don —Y Yes es, I Stand For For o Something o like lik ke it when a woman Men tend to screams passion natelyy, but it’s itt’s less sexy seexy if screams passionately, what she’s she’s screaming screaaming is “McDonald’s “McDonald’s is mur rder d !” murder!” waaitt—you o ’re tr ryying to do some But, wait—you’re trying good; don’t “deserve” boyfriend? go od; don n’’t yyou o ou u “deser ve” a b oyyfriend?

Y o ou, lik ke the rrest e of us est rve not to b You, like us,, deser deserve bee run o veer b ruck. The Declaration of over byy a tr truck.

Independence “life, Indep endencce also spells spells out that “lif fe, liberty lib erty and thee pursuit of happiness” stuff we’re supposed That’s we ’re all supp o to get. That osed t’s right; have right yyou ou o ha ave a righ ght to chase happiness. happiness pp . It doesn’t delivered door. doesn n’’t get deli ivveerred e to yyour our do orr. (“Sign here, please..”) ”) And is,, eevery here, please A the rreality ealit e ty is veerry requirement have boyfriend requir e rement e yyou o ha ou ave ffor o or a b oyyfriend and eevery, well,l, nonst nonstandard practice veerry, well taandarrd practic ce yyou ou o have being ha ave (like (lik ke Wicca, Wic icca, ab eing a serious Civil War hobby throwing rre-enactor, e-enactorr, or a hobb by of thr owing fake fak ke blood people blo od on p eop ple in fur) narrows narrrows o your yo our options.. The size options sizze of a person’s person n’s dating pool pool byy their level is determined b leevel of hotitude factored hard factor red e with how h har d they theey are are to be be around.

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social eevery very so cial gathering into an animal rights protest rally.

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(Some say they scream (S Some sa ay the ey scr reeam when you yo ou drop drop p ‘em m in boiling boiling water.) waaterr.) .

I m dating a guy I’m g who who’s ’s in the neighborhood off perfect. perfect The problem is his nose. nose.

He Semi-frequently. major nostril H e picks it. Se emi-frequently y. He He isn’t isn’t doing ma ajor digging, just more inner nost tril want he’s scraping than n I’m comfortable with. I don’t don’t wa ant to tell him he ’s grossing me out, o nose-picking.—Yuck but I also can’t can n’t deal with witnessing regular daily d nose-picking.—Y Yuck u If yyou’re inspired ou’re ins spired to buy something new boyfriend wear,, it ffor o or yyour our ne wb oyfriend to wear bee a sweater should b sweater w that shows off his broad guard br oad shoulders, shouldeers, not a nose guar d to keep fingerr fr from scampering k eep his finge om sc ampering up to Booger Hollow. aren’t Bo oger Hollow w. If his eexcavations xxcavvations ar en’t largely chances aree he lar gely absent-minded, absentt--minded, chanc es ar rationalization, likee that h some ratio has ionalization, li i lik h it i doesn’t nose-picking do esn n’t ’ count count as nose -picking unless it involves moree than a half half-inch of finger finger.. in nvolves mor f-inch Well, W ell, e it ccounts o or yyou, ou, and yyou ou need ounts ffor know. to let him kno ow w. To To send the message

with wait wiith a minimum of humiliation, w a ait till tilll you you ccatch atch him in action, and use a light nobody’s ligght touch: “Checking that nob ody’s made m off with yyour our sinuses?” or “Do o yyou ou store passwords there?” should sto ore pass swor w ds up ther e?” This shou uld be be one of those ccases ases in which a guyy is quick hint—lest bee to qu uick to ttake ake the hint —lest yyou ou b ttoo o grossed have sex Sure, grossed d out to ha h ave se ex with i h him. hi Su S ure, when somebody, wh hen yyou’re ou’re dating someb odyy, yyou ou want what’s their want a to know what ’s going on in the eir head, don’t want heead, but yyou ou rreally eally don n’’t w ant to see seee them around it. th hem up there there rrooting ooting ar ound ffor o or it t.

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CECIL@METR CECIL METRONEWS.COM ONEWS.COM Autism has gone from m being a mental disorder to an ab absolute bsolute fad. NASCA NASCAR R has run races named after it. It I has its own “spectrum ferential diagnosis ovie “spectrum”” for diffe differential diagnosis.. M Movie brag People stars and athletes bra ag about their children's autism. P e eople with some condition “spectrum”” wri write themselves. in the “spectrum ite books bragging on themselves s. It even has its celebrity quackery. promoted cranks and medical qu uackery y. When did autism get pro omoted from an unhappy malfunction of the bra rain to something special? Or is it,, like the pink stuff for brain breast cancer r, simply a result of aggressive and succes ssful marketing? Does any of cancer, successful that marketing do any ything for the people with autism m and their families? Or r, for anything Or, that matter r, further re esearch into the condition with an a eye to curing or at least matter, research improving it? —Y Your o retired r reference-librarian fan, fan K athleen athleen, a aka Bookworm —Your Kathleen, Nothing lik ke a go od rant, r eh, Kathleen?

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Autism was onc ce believed belieeved to be be rare, rarre, affecting aff ffeecting no once mor 2,000.

0 There Therre was was a no moree than one in 2,000. mist taaking those who ha ad it: the ey wer re mistaking had they were se eveerreely withdra aw wn, inc capable a of normal severely withdrawn, incapable cconversation o on nveersation or interacti ion, and often interaction, eexhibited xxhibited o ddball, somet times violent oddball, sometimes b ehaavvior or fixations behavior fixations..

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Disorders (DSM-IV), published 1994. bjectivve, based ASD assessment is sub subjective,

ke lack of eeye ye ccontact, ontact, hand on things lik like flapping g, and nd p oor language skills—ther re’s an flapping, poor skills—there’s egan no ph hyysiccaal test or sc can. a Clinicians b physical scan. began seeing ASD Ds eeverywhere. ver erywher y re. T odaay the ASDs Today C enters ffor o or Disease C ontrro ol estimates Centers Control about one in i 8 8p eople has an ASD about 88 people ASD.. oint aid alarmed sk keptics e . The p Whoa, sa said skeptics. point of declaringg something a disor rder d is to disorder identif fy tho ose who need help rt identify those help,, not sor sort out futur re ccomputer omputer scienc ce majors ey future science majors.. The They got the diag gnostic criteria ffor o or A ssperrger ger's g s diagnostic Asperger's ssyndrome yndr y ro ome and a other ASDs tightened in DSM-5, pub blished last yyear. eearr. It ’s thought 10 published It’s errceen nt of those pr eviously v assessed to 40 p percent previously with an ASD D will no longer qualif fy. qualify.

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Nothing like good Nothing lik ke a go od rant, r eh, Kathleen? ar areeful. If yyou ou o st tar art going on But b bee ccareful. start obsessiv vely e ab out somet thing long after obsessively about something eeverybody veerybody else has lost in nterrest, e someone ’s interest, someone’s ou ass autistic going to diagnose yyou autistic..

Morre precisely, preciselyy, they theey may may claim you ma yo ou More ha ave A sperrger's g ssyndrome, yndr y om me, one of the have Asperger's autism sp ectrum disor deers ((ASD) ASD) A yyou o ou spectrum disorders rrefer eeffeer to yndr y ro ome, to.. Those with the ssyndrome, named after Hans A sperrger g r, the A ustrian Asperger, Austrian p ediatrician who charac cterized it in 194 4 4, pediatrician characterized 1944, ffocus ocus obsessiv veely and lac ck so cial skills or obsessively lack social empathy.

Att the same tim time—and here empath hy. A me—and her re why become we see wh hy this ccondition o onditio on has b eccome o fashionable—often they have fashionable e—often the ey also ha ave above-average become intelligen ab ove-aaveerage intelligence nce and b ecome successful powers wildly suc ccessful e due to their t p owers of willingness cconcentration o oncceentration and willin ngness to trample eeverybody veerybody else. else.

One guy famously sai said have id to ha ave a touch Asperger’s Facebook of A ssperrger’ g s is Fac ceebook k ffounder o ounder Mark Zuckerberg, Z uck keerberrg, whose flat aff aaffect ffeect and general were geekiness wer re ccaricatured aric a catur a reed in The Social Social Network.

Net twoork. Other Other tech moguls mo oguls supposedly supposedly displaying displa ayying the signs include inclu ude Craigslist Cohen ffounder o ounder Craig Newman, New wman n, Bram C ohen of BitTorrent, Microsoft’s Gates..

BitT To orrreent, and Micr ro oso oft’s Bill Gates You may say: should bee such You o ma ay sa ay: we shou uld all b mental ment tal a cases. cases a .

Just mental Just my my point. point. If a so-called so-called a ment tal a disorder broadly any disor rd der is defined so br roadly o that an ny number self-made billionaires aree numb er of self f-made bill lionaires ar believed have b elieeveed to ha ave it, the diagnosis d is useless and needs to b bee rrethought. eethougght.

Some background.

Autism was back kggrro ound. A u utism w as a onc ce believed belieeved to be be rare, rarre, affecting aff ffeecting no once mor 2,000.

0 There Therre was was a no moree than one in 2,000. mist taaking those who ha ad it: the ey wer re mistaking had they were se eveerreely withdra aw wn, inc capable a of normal severely withdrawn, incapable cconversation o on nveersation or interacti ion, and often interaction, eexhibited xxhibited o ddball, somet times violent oddball, sometimes b ehaavvior or fixations behavior fixations..

Sttar a ting in the mid-20 0th ccentury, eenturry, Starting mid-20th sychiatri c ists b egan defining though, some ps psychiatrists began autism i more morre broadly b oadly br dl to include i l d children childr hildreen with serious ps sycchosociaal disor ders but psychosocial disorders mor guage skills moree or less normal lang language skills.. This culminated in the inclus sion of A ssperrger’ g s inclusion Asperger’s disor rd der in the ffourth o ourrth t ed dition of the disorder edition Diagnostic and St tatistical a M Manual off M Ment tal a Statistical Mental Disor rdderrs (DSM-IV V), ) pub blished in 19 94.

Disorders (DSM-IV), published 1994. bjectivve, based ASD assessment is sub subjective,

ke lack of eeye ye ccontact, ontact, hand on things lik like flapping g, and nd p oor language skills—ther re’s an flapping, poor skills—there’s egan no ph hyysiccaal test or sc can. a Clinicians b physical scan. began seeing ASD Ds eeverywhere. ver erywher y re. T odaay the ASDs Today C enters ffor o or Disease C ontrro ol estimates Centers Control ab out one in i 8 8p eople has an ASD about 88 people ASD.. oint aid alarmed sk keptics e . The p Whoa, sa said skeptics. point of declaringg something a disor rder d is to disorder identif fy tho ose who need help rt identify those help,, not sor sort out futur re ccomputer omputer scienc ce majors ey future science majors.. The They got the diag gnostic criteria ffor o or A ssperrger ger's g s diagnostic Asperger's ssyndrome yndr y ro ome and a other ASDs tightened in DSM-5, pub blished last yyear. eearr. It ’s thought 10 published It’s errceen nt of those pr eviously v assessed to 40 p percent previously with an ASD D will no longer qualif fy. qualify.

Wee'll see how that works out, but a We'll lot of damag ge has alr ready e b een done o damage already been done.. T To bvvio ous ccase aase in p oint: W iith ASDs cite an ob obvious point: With seemingly epidemic eepidemic,, p eople lo ok ked e ffor o or people looked something to t blame 98 a team led blame.. In 19 1998 b hyysician Andr rew Wak keefield byy British ph physician Andrew Wakefield published an n ar rtticle in the medic cal a article medical journal Lancet Laancceet purp orrtting to link ASDs to purporting (meaasles-mumps-rubella) vac MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) ccine c . vaccine. ersonaalitty JJenny TV p enn ny McC arrtth hy made personality McCarthy headlines ffor o or yyears ears e claiming not only that her son n’s aut tism w aas ccaused aaused b ccinations c , son’s autism was byy vac vaccinations, but that she e’d suc ccessfully e tr reeated it with she’d successfully treated an vit tamins a nd diet. Wak keefield’’s ar ticle w aas vitamins and Wakefield’s article was ultimately discr d redited e and rretracted, etracted, e but discredited not b effor ore the t MMR vac ccination c rate in the before vaccination UK had dr ro opped to 8 0p errcent. e dropped 80 percent.

Au utism adv aadvocates vocates a and par reents of kids Autism parents with honest t--to-God ccases ases a of the disor rd der honest-to-God disorder ma ay say: saay: OK, OK K, maybe maayb y e ASDs have haave been been may o veerrdiagno d sed. So what t? Ther re’s str reenggtth overdiagnosed. what?

There’s strength in numb erss, and the publicit ty has ccertainly er ertainly numbers, publicity raised autism m aawareness. war areeness. The ans swer w to answer that is: yyes, ees, but b at the ccost ost of obscuring the actual ccondition. o ond dition. o hand yyou’ve o ou’ve got p eople On the one people thinking A ssperrger's g ssyndrome yndr y ro ome is the mark Asperger's re tech t of a futur future genius and thus nothing to worr bout; on the other hand, if ther worryy ab about; theree actually ll wer re an en nvir vironment o all ccause ause a off were environmental autism, with h so man ny false p ositivves e b eing many positives being rreported eeporrted t we e’d ne ever e know w. The biggest we’d never know. fa avo or activis sts ccould o ould do ffor or o the objects favor activists eople en neevo olencce is to mak ke p of their b benevolence make people underst and d: her re ar o ou’ve got understand: here aree the signs yyou’ve pectrum disor rd derr, and, equally an autism sp spectrum disorder, imp orrtant, a her re ar re the signs yyou ou o don ’t. important, here are don’t.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #588482

The following following person(s) person(s) is (are) (ar re) e doing business as: Holy Cannoli, 441 441 Bundy Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95117, 95117, Jamie Jamie Whitmire. business Whitmir e. This busine ess is individual. conducted by by a indivi idual.

Registrant R egistrraant has not yet yet e begun transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious businesss name or names listed herein. herein. /s/Jamie Whitmire Whitmirre This statement was fifiled with the County Clerk of Santa Santa Claraa County on 2/20 2/20/2014.

Clar 0/2014.

Metroo 3/1 3/19, 3/26, (pub Metr 9, 3/2 26, 4/02, 4/09/2014) 4/09/201 4)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #589465

The following following person(s) person(s) is (are) (ar re) e doing business as: Armor Bearers, 930 Bear reers, 9 30 Alexis Ct., C San Jose, CA, CA, 95116, 95116, Michael Michhael L. business Gonzalez. This busin ess is individual. conducted by by a indivi idual.

Registrant transacting R egistrraant began tr annsacting under b i business d the h fictitious fictitious ii business name or names names herein. /s/Michael listed her reein. /s/Mic hael L. statement Gonzalez. This statem ment was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Clara Countyy on 3/14/2014.

3/1 4/2014. (pub Metro Mettrro 3/19, 3/19, 3/26, 4/02, 4/09/2014) 4/09/20 014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #589401

The follo following wing person(s) person(s) is (are) (ar re) e doing business as: Care, Brilliant Starters Starters Day Car re, e Street, 11230 230 S. 2nd S treet, San S Jose, CCA, A 95112, A, 95112, 2 Ai Aissa Garcia.

Garcia. ci conducted This business is cond ducted Registrant bbyy a individual. R egisstrant transacting business began tr ansacting bu usiness business under the fictitious bu usiness name or names listedd herein herreein 04/01/2013. /s/Aissa on 04/01/201 3. /s/A Aissa L. Garcia. statement G arcia. This statemen nt was filed with the County Clerk Claraa Countyy on of Santa Clar 3/13/2014.

3/1 3/2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #58934 #5893499

The following following person(s) person(s) is (are) (ar re) e doing business as: Neat!

Organization, Home & Office Or gannization, 310 Village Lane, 31 0 Elan V illage Lane e, Unit 221, 2 21, San Jose, CA, CA, 95134, 95134, Monica L. Newman. conducted This business is cond ducted Registrant bbyy a individual. R egisstrant transacting has not yet yet begun tr a ansacting business under the fictitious fictitious names business name or na mes herein. /s/Monica listed her reein. /s/Mon nica statement Newman. This statem ment was filed with the County Clerk Claraa Countyy on of Santa Clar 3/13/2014.

3/1 3/ 3/2014 3/ 4.

3/19, 3/26, (pub Metro Metro 3/1 9, 3/2 26, 4/02, 4/09/2014) 4/09/201 4)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #589419 #5894 19

The follo following wing person person(s) (s) is (are) (ar re) e doing business as: Bay Realty Services, Saratoga R ealty Ser vices, 960 Sar atoga Ave., A ve., Suite 208, San Jose, J CCA, A, 95129, 95129, Carlos Bernardo, Berrnarrdo, d

2692 Apollo Dr 2692 Dr., r.., San Jose, CCA, A, 95121.

95121. This business is conducted by by a individual individual.

Registrant transacting R egistrant began tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names herein listed her ein on 3/7/2014.

3/7/2014.

Bernardo /s/Carlos M. Bernar rddo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara 3/14/2014.

Clar ra County on 3/1 4/2014.

Metroo 3/19, (pub Metr 3/19, 3/26, 4/02, 4/09/2014) 4/09/201 4)

the fictitious fi business name names herein. or na ames listed her reein.

Refile previous #583472 R efille of pr evious file #58 3472 with changes. /s/Michael Sherman.

Sher rman. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Santa Claraa County on of Sa anta Clar 3/10/2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #58831 #5883199

The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e)) doing business as: TTonie onie o PP.,., 147 147 Brooklyn Brroooklyn Avenue, Avenue, San Jose,, CA, Jose CA, 95128, 95128, Nattinan ateeepsut, Mike Ramer.

PPateepsut, Ramerr.

This business is conducted by by a married maarried couple. Registrant Registrraant transacting not yet yet begun tr ransacting a business busi ness under the fictitious business busi ness name or names listedd herein. herein. /s/Nattinan PPateepsut. ateeepsut. This statement was filed with the County Clara Clerkk of Santa Clar ra County on 3/07/2014.

Metro 3/07 7/2014. (pub Metr ro 3/12, 3/12, 3/19, 3/1 9, 3/26, 4/02/2014) 4/02/2014)

The follo following ow wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: 1.

LinParker LinP arker Productions, Productions, 2. Red Red Rum R um Productions, Productions, 3.

3. Lin Parker Parker PProductions, roductions, o 4. FindPeace, FindPeace, 33567 567 Burton Burton St., St., 333, 333, Santa Clara, Clar raa, CA, CA, 95051, 95051, Linda PParker. arker.

This business is conducted by by Registrant a individual. R egistrraant began transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name herein or names listed her reein on 2/14/14.

2/1 4/14. /s/Linda Parker Parker This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara 2/14/2014.

Clar ra County on 2/1 4/2014.

Metroo 3/12, (pub Metr 3/12, 3/19, 3/19, 3/26, 4/02/2014) 4/02/201 4)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #5892733 #58927

The follo following ow wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Growing Vending, Gr rowing Healthy V eending, 2530 Sierraa Meado Meadow 2 530 Sierr w Ct., San Jose, CA, CA, 95116, 95116, Harjinder Singh. This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. herreein. /s/Harjinder Singh. This statement was filed fil d with i h the h Clara County Clerk of Santa Clar ra 3/11/2014.

County on 3/11/201 4.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #588670

The following folloow wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Bay Area 20555 Grant Ar reea Health Spa, 205 Grant Ste Rd., S te 1100, 00, Los Loos Altos, CCA, A, 94024, 9 4024, Wrap Wrap World World LC. LC. This business is conducted by by company. a limited liability company y.

Registrant R egistr i t antt began b tr ttransacting ansacting ti business under the fictitious business name or names herein listed her ein on April 2008.

Refile previous R efile of pr evious file #507908 #507 908 after 40 days of expiration expir ation date. /s/Song J. LLee eee Manager #200808810112 #200808810112 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara 2/25/2014.

Clar ra County on 2/2 5/2014.

Metroo /312, (pub Metr /312, 3/19, 3/19, 3/26, 4/02/2014) 4/02/201 4)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #589227

The follo following ow wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: X Fire Fir re Protection, Protection, 1230 1230 Old Old View Mountain V iew Alviso Rd., Sunnyvale, #D, Sunnyv ale, CCA, A, 94089, 94089, Michael Sherman, 1398 1398 Cherrywood Sq., San Jose, CCA, A, 95117.

95117. This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting business under

FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #589216 #58 89216

FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #589201 #58 89201

The following f wing person(s) is follo (are) ((ar e)) doingg business as: Om Repair-Smog Autoo R epairr--Smog Check, Kumod Kishore K um mod Kishor re Kumar, Kumarr, 1148 48 Aurora City,, Aur ror o a Plaza, Union City 94587.

CCA, A, 9 4587. This business is conducted cond ducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egiistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr rans a sacting business under the fifictitious business name names herein. or na ames listed her reein. /s/Kumod /s/K Kumod Kishore Kishore Kumar Kumar This statement was filed with the County C Clerk of Santa Clara 3/07/2014.

Clar ra County on 3/07/201 4.

Metro 3/19, (pubb Metr ro 3/12, 3/12, 3/1 9, 3/26, 4/02/2014) 4/02 2/2014)

FICTITIOUS FI CTTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #588989 #58 88989

The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e)) doing business as: The Maziquarium, Maz iquarium, 1460 1460 Main Street., Walton.

S treeet., Kevin Keevin W aalton.

This business is conducted by by a individual. inddividual. Registrant Registrraant began transacting tr rans a sacting business under the fifictitious business name names herein or na ames listed her reein on 11/1/2002.

Refile previous 11/1 /2002. R efile of pr evious file #418445 # 18445 with changes. #4 /s/Kevin /s/K Keevin Walson.

Waalson. This statement state ement was filed with the Santa CCounty Coun nty t Clerk Cl k off S t Clara Cl Clara County 3/05/2014.

Coun nty on 3/05/201 4.

Metro 3/19, (pubb Metr ro 3/12, 3/12, 3/1 9, 3/26, 4/02/2014) 4/02 2/2014)

FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #588365 #58 88365

The following f wing person(s) is follo (are) (ar e)) doing business as: MeganNicole, Meg ganNicole, 1082 1082 Lincoln Ave., A ve., San Jose, CA, CA, 95125, 95125, Megan 3161 Sylvan Dr., Meg gan Brasil, Brraasil, 31 61 S ylvan Dr r.., San Jose, CA, CA, 95148.

95148.

This business is conducted Registrant bbyy a individual. R egistrraant transacting has not yet yet begun tr ansacting business busi ness under the fictitious business busi ness name or names listedd herein. herein. /s/Megan Brasil Brasil This statement was filed with Clerk of Santa the County C Clara 2/18/2014.

Clar ra County on 2/1 8/2014.

Metro 3/19, (pubb Metr ro 3/12, 3/12, 3/1 9, 3/26, 4/02/2014) 4/02 2/2014)

FI FICTITIOUS CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #588169 # #588 88169 6

The follo following wing person( person(s) (s) is (are) (ar ree) doing business as: a Salvaged Wood TTerra err e ra Amico Salv aged W oood 255 Fitzgerald FFurniture, urniture, LLC, LLC, 2 55 Fit zgerraald Avenue, Martin, A venue, San Mar tin, CA, CA, 95046, 4182, Mystic 9 5046, 4 182, M ystic Cour CCourt, t, San Jose, CA, CA, 95124.

95124. This T business is conductedd by by a Limited Liability Company.

Comppanyy.

Registrant transacting R egistrraant began tr ran ansacting business under the fictitious ficctitious business name or names nam mes herein listed her reein on 1/27/2014.

1/27//2014.

Refile previous #569492 R efile of pr reevious file #56 9492 with changes. /s/Joe Rainen.

Rainen.

Managing Manager #201401410422. #201 401410422. This with statement was filed w the County Clerk of Santa Saanta Claraa County on 2/1 2/12/2014.

Clar 2/2014.

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FI FICTITIOUS CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #588990

The follo following wing person( person(s) (s) is (are) (ar ree) doing business as: a Bravo Bravo EEvent vent Productions, Productions, 1460 1460 Street, Clara, Main S trreeet, Santa Cla arra, a CCA, A, 95050, Kevin Walton.

9 5050, K evin e W aalton.

This business is conducted conduucted by by individual.Registrant a individual.R egistrannt began transacting tr ransacting a business uunder the fictitious businesss name herein or names listed her einn on 1/1/2009.. R Refile previous 1/1/2009 efile of pr reevious #516171 changes. file #5 16171 with chan nges. /s/Kevin /s/K Kevin e Walton.

Walton. This with the statement was filed w County Clerk of Santaa Clara Clara 3/05/2014.

County on 3/05/201 4 4.

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FI FICTITIOUS CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #588844

The follo following wing person( person(s) (s) is (are) (ar ree) doing business as: a Color 257 North Street, One, 2 57 Nor th First S treet, Brenda Br reenda Goti Domine, 5754 5754 Chambertin Chamber tin Dr., Drr.., San Jose, Joose, CCA, A, 95118.

95118. This business business is individual. conducted by by a individ dual.

Registrant transacting R egistrraant began tr ran ansacting business under the fictitious ficctitious names business name or nam mes herein listed her reein on 9/26/2006.

9/26/2006.

Refile previous #453786 R efile of pr reevious file #4 53786 /s/Brenda with changes. /s/Br renda e Goti statement Domine. This stateme ent was filed with the County Clerk C Clara of Santa Clar ra Countyy on 2/28/2014.

2/2 8/2014.

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FI FICTITIOUS CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #588926

The follo following wing person( person(s) (s) is (are) (ar ree) doing business as: a Liyu Catering Services, Servicess, 1932 1932 Jose, S. Bascom Ave., Ave., San Jose, Saraa Dadie, CCA, A, 95125, 95125, Sar Dadiee, 2838 Grasslands, #2421, 2 838 Gr asslands, #2 421, Sacramento, Sacr raamento, CA, CA, 95833.

95833.

This business is conducted conduucted Registrant bbyy a individual. R egisttrant transacting h not yet has yet begun b tr ansacting i business under the fictitious ficctitious business name or names nam mes herein. listed her reein. Refile Refile off previous pr evious file #588606 6 with /s/Sara Dadie changes. /s/Sar ra Dad die This statement was filed filed with Santa the County Clerk of Sa anta Claraa County on 3/0 3/03/2014.

Clar 3/2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT # 88 8 #588787

The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) re) e doing business as: Bay Mobile Services, Ser vices, 419 419 Fremont Fremont Ave., Ave., e 94024, Marcel LLos os Altos, CCA, A, 9 4024, Mar cel Vinson.

V inson. This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant transacting R egistrraant began tr raansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein her ein on 2/24/14.

2/24/14. Refile Refile of previous pr evious file #588784 #588784 with /s/Marcel Vinson changes. /s/Mar cel V inson This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar 2/27/2014.

County on 2/2 7/2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #587539

The following following person(s) is (ar (are) re) e Maxpros doing business as: Maxpr roos Electronics, 11797 Brook Electr onics, 11 797 Pine Br roook Ct., Cupertino, Cupertino, CA, CA, 95014, 95014, Raphael R aphael K.Y Hwang. This business is conducted by by a Registrant individual. R egistrraant began transacting tr ransacting a business under the fictitious business name herein or names listed her ein on 1/28/2014.

Refile previous 1/2 8/2014.

4R efile of pr evious #520694 file #5 20694 with changes. /s/Raphael /s/R aphael K.Y Hwang This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar 1/28/2014.

County on 1/2 8/2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #587694

The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar ree) doing business as: The Guy, Garrans Dr., Lab Guy y, 11398 398 G arrans Dr r.., San Jose, CA, CA, 95130, 95130, David Moncayo.

Moncay o. This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrraant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ransacting a business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. herein. /s/David Moncayo Moncayo This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar 1/30/2014.

County on 1/30/201 4.

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FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #588495 # #588 8884 8 95

The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Just B. Massage, Maassage, 15814 15814 Winchester Winchester Blvd., Gatos, atos, Blv d.., Suite 1102, 02, LLos oos G A, 95030, CCA, 95030, Bridget Eding, 916 916 St., 203, Unionn S t., Apt 20 3, Alameda, CCA, A, 94501.

94501. This business is conducted cond ucted by by an individual.

Registrant transacting R egisstrant began tr ansacting business busin ness under the fictitious business busin ness name or names listed herein her reeiin on 5/01/2008. Refile Refile previous of pr reevious file #509024 #509024 with changes. chan ges. /s/Bridget Eding.

This statement s was filed with Claraa the County C Clerk of Santa Clar County 2/20/2014.

Coun nty on 2/20/201 4.

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FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #588078 #588 8078

The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Lucky Lucky 0th YYou oou Furnishings, Furnishings, 775 775 N. 110th St., S t., Suite S 192, 192, San Jose, CCA, A, 95112, 9 5112, Shane Costanza, 471 471 Wainwright W aainnwright Ave., Ave., San Jose, CCA, A, 95128.

95128. This business is conducted cond ucted by by a individual.

Registrant R egisstrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr rans a sacting business under the fictitious fi business name or names name es listed herein. herein. /s/Shane Costanza.

Costa anza. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Saanta Clara Clara County on 2/10/2014.

2/1 0/2014.

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FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #588513 #588 8513

The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: FCPWORKS, FCP WORKS, 8401 Washington Washington a Albuquerque, NM, Pl., N.E., N Albuquer que, N M, 87113, SIMPLEMENTE 8 7113, S IMPLEMENTE US, US, Inc. is conducted by This business b by Corporation.

Above a Cor rporation. Abo ve entity in the state of was formed f California.

Registrant Califo ornia. R egistrraant began transacting tr rans a sacting business under business name or the fictitious fi names name es listed herein herein on 117-Feb7-F -Feeb2014.

201 4 /s/Monica Reina 4.

Reina PPresident reesident

#2717486. This statement #2717486. statem ment County was filed with the Cou unty Clara Clerk of Santa Clar ra County Coounty on 2/20/2014.

2/20/2014. (pub Metro Metro 2/26, 3/05, 3/12, 3/12, 3/19/2014) 3/19/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENTT #588426

The follo following wing person(s) person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: a 1.

Omnicentrix, 2. Centrixx Realty, Realty, 33.. Centrix Mortgage, Mortgage, 5598 5598 FFarmhouse armhouse Ct., San Jose, Joose, CA, CA, 95123, Nguyen.

9 5123, TTuan uuan Nguy en.

This business is conducted conduucted by by Registrant a individual. R egistrraannt began transacting tr ansacting business under u the fictitious businesss name or names listed herein herrein e n on 02/01/2014.

02/01/201 4. /s/Tuan /s/TTuuan Nguyen Nguyen filed This statement was fil led with Santa Claraa the County Clerk of Sa anta Clar 2/19/2014.

County on 2/1 9/2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #587699

The follo following wing person(s) person(s) is (are) (arre) e doing business as: Billionaire Billlionairre Hippies, 1491 1491 Goldenlake Goldenllake Rd., San Jose, CA, CA, 95131, 95131, Jaylene Jaaylene business Caampued. p This busin ness is individual. conducted by by a individ dual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yett begun transacting tr ansacting business under u the fictitious businesss name or herein. names listed her rein. e /s/Jaylene Caampuedd This statement was filed filled with Santa Claraa the County Clerk of Sa anta Clar County on 1/30/2014.

1/30/2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENTT #5883744 #58837

The follo following wingg person(s) pperson(s) is (are) (arre) e doing business as: Japonica, Japponica, 592 59 2 N. 5th Street, Street, Sann Jose, CCA, A, 95125, 95125, Ngoc Yen Yen e T Do, 11674 674 St. St. Anthony Dr., Drr.,. San S Jose, CCA, A, 95125, 95125, PPaul aul Sakamoto, Sakam moto, 2437 2 437 Bookisin Ave., Avee., San San Jose, Ken CCA, A, 95125, 95125, K en e Matsumoto, Matsuumoto, 6555 Palm 65 Palm Haven Haven Ave., Ave.,, San Jose, CA, CA, 95125.

95125. This business general is conducted by by a gen eral partnership. par tnership. Registrant Registrannt has not yet transacting yet begun tr ansaccting

business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. her reein. ein /s/Ngoc YYen en e TT.. Do This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar County on 2/18/2014.

2/18/2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #588405

The follo following ow wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: J & V Machining, 671 671 Aldo Avenue, Avenue, Suite #9, #9, Santa Clara, Clara, 95054, 95054, Kelvin 6222 Rubicon K elvin e Nguyen, Nguyen, 6 222 R ubicon Ave., A ve., Newark, CA, CA, 94560, 94560, Vivian V ivian Nguyen, Nguyen, 11782 782 Oakland Rd., #15, #15, San Jose, CA, CA, 95131.

95131.

This business is conducted general partnership. bbyy a gener al par tnership.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name herein. or names listed her reein. /s/ Kelvin K elvin e Nguyen.

Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clara Clerk of Santa Clar ra County on 2/19/2014.

Metro 2/1 9/2014. (pub Metr ro 2/26, 3/12, 3/19/2014) 3/05, 3/1 2, 3/1 9/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #588383 5 3 3

The follo following ow wing person(s) is (ar (are) re) e doing business as: AC AC Energy Energy Solutions, 115220 5220 Oak Ridge Way., W ay ay.., Los Loos Gatos, Gatos, CA, CA, 95030, 95030, ACC Mechanical Systems, A Systems, Inc. This business is conducted by by Corporation.

Above a Corpor ation. Abo ve entity was formed in the state of Registrant California. R egistrant has transacting not yet yet begun tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Robert her reein. /s/R obert Herzig #C3313405 PPresident reesident #C3 313405 This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar on 2/18/2014.

C County 2/1 / 8/201 8/ 4.

Metroo 2/26, 3/05, 3/12, (pub Metr 3/12, 3/19/2014) 3/1 9/2014)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #587439 #587 7439 4

The follo following ow wing person(s) is (ar (are) re) e doing business as: CD Smog TTest eest Only, Only, 468 Auzerais, Auzerais, San Jose, CA, CA, 95126, 95126, Cindy Dinh, Dr., 55469 469 Ellyridge Dr r.,. San Jose,

FI FICTITIOUS CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #5883811 #58838

The following following person(s) is (are) (ar re) e doing business as: Service Monster TTree reee Ser vice of the Bay, South Bay y, Inc, 745 745 E. San Salvador Street, Salv ador S treet, San Jose, CCA, A, 95112, 95112, Santa Clara Clarra Valley Care, V aalley TTree ree Car re, e Inc. This business is conducted corporation. bbyy a corpor ration. a Above Abo ve entity was formed in the state of California Registrant R egistrrant a has not transacting yyet et begun tr ransacting a business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. herein.

/s/TThomas Gay /s/Thomas Gay CEO O #C3636597 #C3 3636597 Thiss statement was filed withh the County Clerk of Santa Clara San nta Clar ra County on 2/18/2014.

2/1 8/2014. (pubb Metr Metro (pu ro 2/26, 3/05, 3/12, 3/19/2014) 3/1 2, 3/1 9/2014)

FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #588339 #5 88339

Thee follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar e doing business as: e) Group, LLeon eoon Phillip Motors Gr oup, St., 11638 638 3 E. San Antonio S t., Sann Jose, CA, CA, 95116, 95116, Alan Nguyen.

Ngu uyen.

Thiss business is conducted bbyy a individual.

Registrant R eggistrant has not transacting yyet et begun tr ansacting business bus siness under the fictitious ficti itious business name or names herein. nam mes listed her reein. /s/Alan /s/A Alan Nguyen Nguyen Thiss statement was filed withh the County Clerk of Santa Clara San nta Clar ra County on 2/14/2014.

2/1 4/2014. (pubb Metr Metro (pu ro 2/26, 3/05, 3/12, 3/19/2014) 3/1 2, 3/1 9/2014)

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V s. Unicorn and Doctor Morton's Clown P oison. And you'ree a lipstic lipstick user,, you shouldn't be content to if you'r ck user standard, use yyour old sta ndard,, but should instead opt p ffor or kinkyy types like Sapphir Sapphiree Glitter Bomb, Alien Moon kink Black Witch. As Goddess, and Cackling Cackling a As ffor or love, it adventures wouldn't make sense s to seek out rromantic omantic adventur es thousand before. you've had a tho ousand times bef ore. You Yoou need and deserve something sacred deser ve someth ing like wild sacr ed eternal ecstasy screaming sweaty flagrant or scr eaming sw weaty flagr ant bliss or blasphemously waggling rreverent everent wagglin ng rrapture. apture.

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): A Actor ctor Gary Oldman was born and rraised a aised in LLondon. ondon. In the course of his long car eer he h has portr ayed a wide rrange ange career portrayed of char acters wh ho speak English with American, characters who German, and Russian Russian accents. He has also lived in LLos os Angeles ffor or years. When he signed on to play a British intelligen intelligence nce agent in the 2011 film TTinker inker i TTailor ailor a Soldier Spyy, he realized realized that over the years he had l t some off his lost hi native ti British B iti h accent. t He H had h d to t take t k voice lessons to restore restore his original pronunciations. pronunciations. I suspect you have havve a metaphorically comparable comparable project project ahead of you, CCapricorn. a apricorn.

It may be time to get back to wher wheree you once belonged.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every now and then,

you're blessed with w a small mir acle that inspir es you you're miracle inspires to see everyday things with new vision. Common objects and prosaic prossaic experiences get stripped of their expectaations, allowing them to become habitual expectations, anting to you as they were were before before almost as encha enchanting numb familiarity familiarityy set in. The beloved people you take for granted granted suddenly sudddenly rremind emind you of why you came to for love them in thee first place. Boring acquaintances may reveal reveal sides of themselves themselves that ar aree quite entertaining. are you ready readyy and eager for for just such an outbreak outbreak So are of curiosity and a surge surge of fun surprises? If you ar are, e, they will come. If If you're you're not, they won't.

PISCESS (Feb. 19-March PISCE 1 19-Mar ch 20): Bef Before ore she died,

Piscean actress actress Elizabeth TTaylor aaylor enjoyed mor moree than 79 years of life life on o this gorgeous, gorgeous, maddening planet.

But one aptitudee she never acquir acquired ed in all that time was the ability to t cook a hard-boiled hard-boiled egg. Is there there a pocket of ignorance in your own rrepertoire ignorance a epertoire that rivals this lapse, Pisce Pisces? s? Ar Aree ther theree any fundamental life life skills that you probably prrobably should have learned by now?

If so, now wouldd be a good time to get to work on mastering them. them.

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