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Personal P ersonaal Rebuttal Wading into thee politics of San Jose’s Wading Jose’s Vietnamese community com mmunity can be a hazar dous endeavor. endeeavor. Several Several of the hazardous candidates running runnning for for mayor already already know that. MAD DISON NGUYEN MADISON NGUYEN,, the city’s vice mayo or and lone Vietnamese mayor candidate, ffaced candidate, acedd a 2009 rrecall ecall election over her opposi tion to naming a business opposition district Little Sa igon.. Councilman Saigon. SSAM AM LIC CARDO made a verbal gaff LICCARDO gaffee at his campaign ki ickoff party last ffall all when kickoff he pr omised to rrally ally support fr om her promised from heree to Hanoi. The na ame of that city y, which name city, was once the ca apital of communist North capital Vietnam,, brings back bad memories ffor or many Liccardo later said he cited the city many.. Liccardo ffor or alliter ative purposes. p alliterative They The latest ffaceplant, acepplant, Did however however,r, came at a What? candidate fforum orum m hosted last weekend byy the SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O Vietnamese Rou undtable. Roundtable. FLY@ FL Y@ NBC reporter reporter METRONEWS. METRONEWS. COM COM VICKI NGUYEN ser ved served as moder ator an nd posed moderator and a qquestion abou ut San Jose fforming ormingg a about sister city rrelationship elatioonship with Vietnam. Councilmemberr R OSE HERRERA was first ROSE to answer and stunned s some obser vers, observers, many of whom fled the communist rregime me to CCalifornia, alifornia,, by saying egime and cam came she supports th he idea and would do the anything to pr omote mor promote moree economic development. Th he next ffour our candidates, The including countyy super visor supervisor D AV VE CCORTESE ORTESE and Councilman DAVE PIERL UIGI OLIV VERIO, took a U-turn PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO, and distanced tthemselves hemselves fr om any from partnership withh a country that rremains emains under commun ist rule.. Her rera is seen as communist Herrera ’s rrace—more ace—more a dark horse in the mayor mayor’s likely to nab vot tes fr om Cortese and votes from the vice mayor— —so disenfr anchising a mayor—so disenfranchising o East San Jose voters significant set of could have been n catastr ophic.. But in catastrophic. an unorthodox move,, Her rera showed Herrera the poise,, if nott the mortification,, of a public speake speakerr who knows they’ve opriate.. Her rera said something inappr inappropriate. Herrera asked the mode erator if she could off er a moderator offer rrebuttal—to ebuttal—to he er own comments—and her attempted to se et things str aight. set straight.
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VICTIMS V VI CTIMS UNITED H Harriet arriet Sa Salarno, alarno o, middle, has campaigne campaigned ed for v victims’ ictims’ rights punishmentss since the murder of her daug daughter. ri ights and tougher punishment ghterr.
Debate D over Cal California’s ifornia’s death penalty p initiative r p up ramps p as ini itiative could g go o to November election voters in the N ovember elect ion BY B Y CAITLIN YOSHIKO YO OSHIK KO KAND KANDIL DIL
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atina Salarno knew her killer well. They lived across the streett from each other in San Sa an Francisco Francisco and dated throughout th hroughout high school. When Wh hen she sh he broke up with him the summer su ummer before college started startted she sh he thought she’d she’d have a fresh frresh start. But on the first day day of classes Steven John John Burns Burns was was there. He’d He’d enrolled enrollled without telling her, w herr, and now— now w— after affter growing g g increasingly gy aggressive—he ag ggressive—he said he just wanted wanted one last conversation conversatio on to o hash things out. “He k kept eept ccalling alling her to meet just one o more time to sa more m say ay go goodbye odb bye and then he h w would lea leave ave the scho school, ol,” sa says ays y Harriet Salarno, Sa alarno, C Catina’s atinaa’s mother mother. r.
The cconversation on nversation e did didn’t dn’t go the w way ay Burns had hop hoped. ed. A Ass C Catina a atina w walked aalk keed gun he’d aaway way he pulled out a gu un he ’d stolen from father—his own godfather— fr om her father r— —his ow wn go dfather— her.. He th then Catina and eexecuted xecuted her hen left C atina to die as he went back to t his dorm to watch w atch a ffootball. ootball. was ago, That w as a 35 yyears eears ago o, but Harriet Salarno has not fforgotten. orgottte o ten. “He’s sociopath, says. “He ’s a true so ciopath h,” she sa ayys. “If theyy don don’t way they destroy. the n’’t get their w ay the ey destr royy. y”” Catina’s murder was C atinaa’s mur der w aas the t first trauma faced. was the Salarnos fac ed. The sec ssecond ond w aas the “horrible”” trial, in which was “horrible h the family w as a the not eeven veen allowed into th he ccourtroom. ourtroom. through the justice ““After After going thr A ough th he criminal justic ce soon justicee ssystem ystem y I so on ffound ound outt that the justic o victims, ssystem ystem y is not ffor o or the vict tims,” Harriet says. “It’s perpetrator. sa ayys. “It ’s ffor or the p o erpetraatorr.” grief,f, Salarno b became In her grief ecame an activist. In 19 1991, 91, she and d her husband Victims United ffounded ounded o Crime V iictimss U nited of California, organization C aliffo ornia, an or ganizattion that advocates and adv ocates ffor o or victims an nd a tougher justicee ssystem. Sincee then, criminal justic yystem. Sinc Salarno has b become California’s ecome one one of C aliffo orniaa’s
most publi ic fac es in the fight ffor o or public faces victims’ righ hts and tougher sentencing rights sentencing.. She ’s curr en ntly in nvo olvveed with dozens of She’s currently involved public bli saf fet ety bills bill i l di an eff ffort to ffo safety bills,, including effort rreform effo orm C aliiffo orniaa’s b eleaguered death California’s beleaguered p enaltty ssystem. ysttem. penalty A pr oposed o ballot initiativ ve— proposed initiative— endorsed b ormer o go oveernors Geor ge byy fformer governors George Deukmejia an, P ete W iilson and Gra ay Deukmejian, Pete Wilson Gray Da avis—wo v ould rresume esume and eexpedite xxpedite Davis—would eexecutions xecutions ffor o or the 70 0-plus p eople 700-plus people living on C aliffornia o a’s death rrow. ow w. California’s (Salarno ’s daughter’ d (Salarno’s daughter’ss killer is not one of them.) Executions Exeecutions wer 06, weree halted in 20 2006, and b oth aadvocates dvvocates and opp onents both opponents of ccapital apital p unishment agr ee that punishment agree the st ate’s death d p enaltty is a “br ok ken e state’s penalty “broken ssystem. ystem.” Bu ut the divide ccomes omes on how it But should b fi bee fixed. “The sid de that ’s fighting to rreplace eplace the side that’s death p enaaltty (with lif fe sentenc es) sa ays y penalty life sentences) says that it ’s br okeen b ok eyond o rrepair, epair, ther e’s no it’s broken beyond there’s p olitical wil ll to fix it, and we shouldn n’’t political will shouldn’t b endingg our pr ecious st taate dollars bee sp spending precious state tr ying to fig gure out how to fix it,” sa ayys trying figure says Ana Zamor ra, senior p olicy adv vocaate ffor or o Zamora, policy advocate the American Americcaan Civil Lib erties U nion n n’s Liberties Union’s N orthern C aliffo ornia chapter r. “The other Northern California chapter. side ttorne t eyys and side,, which has district at attorneys other mem mbers of la aw enf fo orcement, sa ays y members law enforcement, says that in nveestin ng mone y, time and eexpertise xp x ertise investing money, in an at tttem mpt to change the ssystem ystem is a attempt ggood go od use off C aliffo orniaa’s rresources. esources.” California’s
reffo orm deat th rrow ow housing and victim reform death restitution, estitution rreform effo orm the app ointment of restitution, appointment appellate ccounsel o ounsel and the agency that appellate oveerlooks it t—those — ar ey things— overlooks it—those aree the k key one, ttwo wo w thr ree,” she sa ayys. one, three, says. The pr op posal she ’s backing—which proposal she’s needs at leas st 8 00,000 signatur es b least 800,000 signatures byy mid--July to mak m ke it onto N oveember’s mid-July make November’s ballott— —wou uld eliminate the need ballot—would ew write th he st ate’s lethal injection to rrewrite the state’s procedure, so s that eexecutions xecutions x ccan an procedure, resume. Thee plan would also limit the resume. appeals pr ocess to fiv ve yyears, eears, transf feer appeals process five transfer o lower ccourts ourts and rrequire equire challenges to ay rrestitution estitution to prisoners to work and pa pay s. their victims victims. “W We w aan nt the ccases ases a rreviewed evie v ew wed in a “We want ner,” sa ayys K ent e Scheidegger r, timely mann manner, says Kent Scheidegger, who help ed d draft the pr oposal and helped proposal servees as lega al dir ector of the Criminal serves legal director Justice L egall F oundation. “In the ttypical yypical Justice Legal Foundation. case, it is ent tirely ffeasible eeasible ffor o or all st ate case, entirely state courrt rreviews evie v ws w to b ompleted in fiv ve court bee ccompleted five yeears, as opp posed d to t 10 or 155 now w. It will ill years, opposed now. saave mone ey b tening the amount save money byy shor shortening oners ar eept on death rrow. ow w.” of time priso prisoners aree k kept In additio on, Scheidegger sa ayys, addition, says, xxecutions is go od ffor o or public hastening eexecutions good saffet ety. “If yyou o ccarry ou aarry it out mor safety. moree quickly m ertaintty, it ’ll ha ave a and with mor moree ccertainty, it’ll have stronger det terrent eff ffeect,” he sa ayys. stronger deterrent effect, says. Cherr a the pr alls oposal “misguided Cherryy ccalls proposal fl aw wed” b ecause it would and deeply fla flawed” because “result in en ndless cconstitutional onstitutional “result endless h ll ” that h would ld ccost ost the h st ate challenges” state eveen mor m ey. Mor ortantlyy, even moree mone money. Moree imp importantly, oints ou ut, shor tening the rreview eview he p points out, shortening process incr reases the chanc es an process increases chances innocent p e erson ccould ould b xecuted. innocent person bee eexecuted. JJust ust last month, m Glenn F ord, a Ford, 64--yearr-old L ouisiana man, w as a 64-year-old Louisiana was exonerated after sp ending mor exonerated spending moree than eears on death rrow ow ffor or a crime he o 30 yyears om mmitt— —making him the did not ccommit—making 144th Amer rican fr eed under such 144th American freed circumstancces in the mo dern era. “If it circumstances modern waasn n’’t ffor or th o hat time allowed ffor or rreviews o eviews wasn’t that ealss he would ha ave b een and app appeals have been executed a long l time ago and we ne veer executed never ave got ttten to see the eevidence vidence would ha have gotten aas inno cent,” Cherr ays y. that he w was innocent, Cherryy sa says. A cross th he nation, public supp ort Across the support for o ccapital apital punishment p is in decline for decline.. a plus the District of ates Eighteen st states Columbia ha h ave ab olished the death Columbia have abolished penaltty, and d in rrecent ecent yyears eears st ates lik ke penalty, states like Washinggtton n and Or egon ha ave plac ed Washington Oregon have placed moratorium ms on eexecutions. xecutions. moratoriums “W We shou uld b out how “We should bee thinking ab about end ou ur time and mone to sp spend our moneyy making Califfo ornia a b etttter plac e,” Zamora sa ayys. California better place, says. “Educcaation should b ty, not “Education bee a priorit priority, o multi-million dollar how to fix our own as the death p enaltty.” debacle kno known penalty.
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The origins of the deb debate bate go back to the 1970s when C California—mirroring aliffo orniia—mirr ia mirroring decisions in the U U.S. .S. Supr Supreme reme C Court— ourt— engaged in a series of lega legal al bat battles ttles t over o veer the cconstitutionality onstitutionalitty of ccapital aapital Ultimately, approved punishment. Ultimately y, voters voters o approveed the death p penalty Proposition enaltty with Pr P oposition 17 initiative in 1972. Another ballot in nitiativve would bee passed to o overturn need to b veerrturn it. Even sanctioned Ev veen though vvoters oters sa o anctioned the penalty, challenges death p enaltty, legal challe enges held up the first eexecution, byy gas xxecution, ccarried arrie a d out b chamber, 1992. chamb er, until 19 92 92. 2006, state’s lethal In 20 06, the st ate’s let thal injection protocol, began decade pr otocol, which b egan a dec ade prior, California Department prior r, the C aliffo ornia Dep partment of Corrections Rehabilitation was C orrections and R eehabillitation w aas told to disc discontinue practicee until ontinue the practic p policy. Since CDCR it rrewrote ewrote its p olicyy. Sinc ce the CD CR so,, no one in state has yyet eet to do so i the st ate has been b een put to death. W iithout a cconstitutional onstitution nal amendment Without to o ver e turn the death p e ty, a bizarr enalt re overturn penalty, bizarre ssystem ystem y t eexists xxists i t in i which hi h p e l ccan eople an b people bee sentenc ed to death but ccan’t an’’t b an xecuted. x sentenced bee eexecuted. C aliffo orniaa’s death rrow ow p o opulation has California’s population gr own so vast that it rrepresents eprresents “almost grown a quar ter of the p eople on o death rrow ow quarter people in the U nited St n taates,” ac cor o ding to Mat tt United States, according Matt Cherr y, eexecutive xecutiv x ve dir ecto or of the gr ro oup Cherry, director group Death P enaltty F ocus. Penalty Focus. Maint aining this ssystem yysttem ccomes omes at Maintaining a steep ccost. ost. T aaxpaayeers ha h ave sp ent $4 Taxpayers have spent billion on the death p en naltty sinc penalty sincee the 1970s 8 million illi p er yyear. eear. Sant S 1970s,, or $184 per Santaa Clara C ounty has senten nced just ttwo wo County sentenced p eople to death b ettw ween 20 00 and people between 2000 20 077, and the estimated d ccost ost w aas 2007, was $2.2 million. “C aliffo ornia is sentenc cing all these “California sentencing p eople to death rrow—24 ow—2 24 p eople last people people yyear—but eearr— —but the ssystem yystem is so br oken broken and eexpensive xpensivve that C aliffo ornia has not California eexecuted xecuted an nyone in yyears, eearrs,” Cherr anyone Cherryy sa ayys. “So all along it ’s b een a br ok ken e says. it’s been broken ineffective achieving and ineff ffeectivve ssystem ystem at a achie ving its stated goals..” st ated goals logical abolish The lo giccaal solution is to ab olish the penalty life death p enaltty and rreplace eplacce it with lif fe in possibility parole, prison without the p ossib bilitty of par ole, Cherryy ar argues. “save Cherr rggues. The change changge would “sa ave “guarantee millions of dollars” and “g guarantee safety public saf feetty and adequate adequaate punishment offenders. ffor or the worst off o ffeenders.” Proposition attempted In 2012, Pr oposition 34 4 at tttempted to o oters rrejected ew do just this this,, but vvoters byy a ffew ejjected it b percentage points. the p errcentage p oints. Still, th he vvote ote o showed shifted. public opinion has shifte ed. When ccapital apit a taal was 67.5 punishment w aas rreinstated einsttaatted in 1972, 67 7.5 . percent favor Forty p errcent vvoted oted o in fa avo or off it. F orty yyears eears later, number percent. later r, that numb er is onlyy 53 p ercent. answer abolition, The ans wer is rreform, eeffo orm, not ab olition, according penalty advocates ac ccording to death p enalltty adv vocates like Salarno.. “R “Reform appeal process, lik ke Salarno Reeffo orm thee app eal pr ocess,
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SMOOTH OPE OPERATOR ERATOR After running the Measure Measure A campaign in 2012, 2012 Kathlee Kathleen en King rebranded rebrand ded her organization so she could cou uld receive some of that money.
A Hea Healthy althy Campaign Campaiggn Investment Kathleen Ki King ing rreceived eceivveed quite the helping rreward ewaarrd for for o hel lping to run the ccounty's ounttyy's $450 million sales s tax tax ccampaign aampaign in 2012. the Supervisors On Tuesday, Tu uesdaay, th he Board Board of Sup ervisors made it a prio priority oritty to giv give ve her ne newly wly moree than $1.1 fformed ormed organization o organiization mor ofits million—ahead million—ahea illi h ad d off an any ny other h nonpr nonprofits fi bids that made bid ds ffor o or eextra xtra x rrevenue eveenue generated fr from om m Measur Measuree A. So,, coincidence It’s So coincideence or kickback? It ’s hard har d to sa say ay cconsidering nsidering it it’s ’s still not on altogether alto gether clear cleaar what the Healthier Kids Foundation F oundation (H (HKF) HKF) will do do.. byy ccounty A spreadsheet sprreeadsheeet sent out b ountty COO C OO Gar Garyy Gr Graves raavees in advanc advancee of Tuesday's placed T uesda u ay's y meeting meeeting plac ed King's bid ffor or HKF as thee N o No. o. 1 most deser deserving ving off ccounty ountty fund ffunds d out off 92 bids ds bid bids.. While hil she rrequested equested e almost $6 million o over ver e the ccourse ourse o of 10 1 yyears eears to help fund her rrecently ecently rebranded rebran nded or organization, ganization, the ccounty ountty is rrecommending ecom mmending a ttwo-year wo-yeear w agr agreement eement ffor orr $1,16 o $1,168,200. 8,200. What makes mak kes e the bid’ bid’ss top ranking somewhat some what alarming—besides alar arming—besides the fact that King ran the Measur Measuree A ccampaign—is aampaign—is that HKF has a rrelatively elativveely undefined mission misssion sinc sincee its rrecent ecent Ass San JJose Inside/Metro rrebranding. ebranding. A ose Inside/ /M Mettro documented do cumented in i a series of ar articles ticles spring,, much of the published last spring op operating erating ccosts ostts ffor o o or King’ King’ss health ffoundation oundation in rrecent o ecent yyears eears went toward paying tow waard pa ayyingg eexecutive xxecutivve salaries and organizing political or ganizing p olliticcaal ccampaigns ampaigns a rather enrolling low-income children than enr ollingg low-inc ome childr reen
for for o health coverage. coveerage. U Upon pon Measur Measuree A A’s ’s passage, paassage, the county countty Health Plan no longer lo onger needed King’s King’s ffoundation o oundation to help h to insurancee pr premiums. o pay paay for fo or insuranc emiums. Knowing what lay laay ahead, King b began e egan work in 2011 on Measur Measuree A with Cindy Cin w ndy Chavez—then Ch havez—then ha h executive exxecutiv ive dir di director ector off the th South Council Working So outh Bay Baay Labor Labor C ouncil and W ork o king Partnerships. Par a tnerships. After Measure Measure A passed passed, d, Chavez Ch haavez would run ffor o or and win the seat s left ft vacant vacant by by George George Shirak Shirakawa kawa JJr. r. Records Reecords obtained obttaained through through a ccourt ourt order orrder showed that King used public resources resour e rces to help organize orrgganize not only the t Measure M Measur e A campaign campaign but also her br brief rief run Board ru un for fo or a seat on the ccounty ountty Boar d of o Supervisors. Su upervisors. (Another (A Another email showed d ose that th h Chavez hat Chavez wanted Cha waanted d to sue San JJose Inside/Metro. In nside//M Mettro. All-around All-around good good times times.) .) An inspection inspection of King’s King’s curr current rent e proposal prroposal reveals reveals e that the or organization’s ganizatio on n’s rebranding rebranding e is designed to secur securee funding fu unding so it can can pigg piggyback gyyback off the work w off the county countty and other nonpr nonprofits. ofits. HKF H appears appears to b bee lit little ttle t mor moree than an a additional ad dditional safety saffeetty net ffor o or par parents ents to too o laz lazy zy to o follow fo ollow thr through ough on get getting tting t their ki kids ids proper prroper care—and car a e—and keep keeep King emplo employed. oyeed. The Santa Santta Clara Family Health Foundation, Foundation, o predecessor predecessor to HKF HKF, F, contributed at least $215,000 contributed o $215,000 to the 2012 20 012 Measure Measure A campaign campaign a ccommittee. ommitttteee. The Th he grant money moneey now aawarded waarrded d to King's she’ll Kiing's new new foundation fo oundation means she ’ll receive 5-to-1 rec e eivve at least a 5-to -1 rreturn eturn on that at investment.— Josh in nvestment.— e Josh o Koehn Koehn
WORDS W ORDS W WITH ITH FRIENDS While enjoying enjoying Washington Washinggtton D.C. D.C.’s annual Cherry Cherry Blossom F Festival, estival, C Congressman ongressman n Mike Mike Honda (D (D-San -San JJose) ose) broadcast br oadcast what one blo blogger gger ccalled allled the “dumb “dumbest est ttweet weet of the yyear. ear.” Honda shar shared ed a pi picture cture of cherry cherry blossoms and went nost nostalgic algic on 10 100 0 yyears eearrs of “friendship “friendship”” b between etween the US and JJapan. apan. After enoug enough gh ttweeple weeple fr freaked eaked out, rreminding eminding him of of, f, oh y’know y’know, w, P Pearl earl Harb Harbor, or, atomic bombs b ombs and WWII internment ccamps—which amps which Honda amps—which and his family wer weree actually forced forced to liv lived ed in—the Democratic Demo cratic ccongressman ongressman ttweeted weetted a clarific w clarification. ation.
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Failuree to Failur t Launch Spoilers Ahead: The ffollowing olllowing piece episode HBO’s rrecaps ecaps the second episo ode of HBO ’s Silicon Valley Valley a y.
Gregory wants Gregory waants to know who ar aree the essential employees, e , so Dunn begins Table.” putting together tog gether a “Cap “Cap T aable.”
Th fi The i d of of Silicon Sili Valley V alley all firstt ttwo episodes begin with startup part parties. ties.. But in the latter installment, it it’s immediately ’s im mmediately obvious that our guys are a e doing it ar wrong. wrong. They didn’t even n get Kid Rock.
Richard Richar Ri h d and an nd d Bighead Bi h d are are best b t ffriends, i d Gregory but Gr egorry wants a lean enterprise. Jared theree won’t be rroom Jar ed hintss that ther oom while ffor or him wh hile the guys talk shit about Bighead in n the other room. room.. It turns out Richard Jared Bighead,, R ichard and Jar ed have been entiree time, which standing there th here the entir third awkward. takes us to o the thir d ring of awkwar d.
Jared assistant Jared Dunn, an assistan nt to Hooli CEO/tech messiah Gav Gavin in Belson,, has come over to the crib ffor Piper’s o Pied Piper or ’s launch party party. Richard y. Dunn tellss Richar d he respects respects him for for turning g down Belson’s $10 million off offer would ould like to join er and w Pied Piper. tells scram. Piperr. Bachman te lls him to scr am. Dunn leaves,, lowering tthe party’s guest total back to zer zero o until Mochachino, a black stripper wearing early e Destiny’s Child attir attire, She’s e,, enters.. She’ ’s rready eady to dance but all of our ner nerds aree scar scared rds ar ed of women—binary code cod de is not a language of love—and d they run to the kitchen ffor sanctuary. or sanctuary y. The next morning Richard Richaard meets with investor P Peter Gregory eter Gr egory and his assistant,, Monica,, and iitt goes ter terribly ribly wrong. wrong.. He and Bachman Bachman have shown up completely unprepared. unprepared. They have no business plan.. “What is the company itself? Who iss it? What do they do? Are essential?” Gregory Are they esse ntial?”” Gr egory asks.. He says this mustt be worked out before $200K. before he gives his $20 00K. Bachman’s advice to Richard Riichard is that he needs to become an n asshole if this company has a chance of sur survival. vival.. Our protagonist protagonist begins researching reseearching the term “business plan”” on n Wikipedia, and he soon rrealizes Jared ealizes hee needs Jar ed Dunn’s help—a nod to o the fact fact that there aree lots of good id ideas there ar deas in Silicon Valley, Valley a y, but ffew ew people know k how to put a business together. togetherr.
Guilfoyle Guilf oyle compares co ompares Bighead’s place company multiple, in the com mpany to the mul tiple, unnecessary Effect unnecessa ary endings of Mass Eff ect III, guess, which,, I gu uess, is hilarious ffor or gamers who watch h HBO.. (And of course they HBO—Game watch HBO O—Game of Thrones, Thrones, airing before just bef ore the show at hand, is an RPGer’s wet dream. Dragons, RPGer ’s we et dr eam.. Dr agons, bitch.) Richard Bachman iiss pressing pressing Richar d to make a decision about firing Bighead.. He decides to be an asshole to everyone. He also decides decides that Bighead is his friend and he’s staying. Richard The next morning m Richard has sealed and the deal an nd goes to the bank to deposit hiss business-plan-approved business-plan-approved Gregory, check from from m Gr egoryy, but he doesn’t fictitious have a fict titious business name filing Piper’s to open a bank b account in Pied Piper ’s name, so he h can’t deposit his check. Richard It’s Richar d rreceives ecceives a call.. It ’s Bighead, who apparently apparrently is still loyal. The company iss in the works of stealing Richard’s idea Richar d’s id dea byy deconstructing g his code. Richard broke. The rrace ace iss on,, and Richar d is br oke. —Josh Koehn Koehn For a full recap, recap, visit SV411.com SV4411.com 1
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Ringside View TAPPING T A PPING IIN N Photographer Shirlie M Montgomery, ontg gomery y, (second from right, top p row), shot many photos of wr wrestlers restlers hanging outt at the Ringside tavern, (third tavern owned d by wrestler Angelo Cistoldi (t third from right, right top row). row) opened photo The bar open ned in the early 1950s; this pho oto was taken circa 1960.
Phot Photographer ographer Shirl Shirlie lie M Montgomery ontgomerry captu captured red candids off wrestlers at one of San Jose Jose’s first ’s fir rst sports bars BY B Y GAR GARY Y SINGH
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ARLIE ARLIER ER THIS WEEK saw of Shirlie the opening o Montgomery: M onttgomery: Picturing Piicturing Since 1938, San Jose J 1938 8,, a photo exhibit exhib bit of works by the late local legend, gend, who passed leg away aw ay in 2012 20112 at the age of 94. A photographer f l freelance ph h t apher hotogr h for f mostt Montgomery of the 20th century, c century y, M ontgomery documented d celebrities, celebritiess, politicians, politicians s, notable folk town especially, around tow wn and, especially y, professional professiona al wrestling during the ’40s, ’40ss, ’50ss and ’60s. ’60s.
She work worked ed ffor or o the San J Jose oose Merrccurry Ne M ws and the De Anza Ho otel, Mercury News Hotel, b eginning at the onset of the p osttwar beginning postwar er ra. She eeven veen ccaptured aptured the goingso on era. goings-on att L ou's V iillage whene veer p ersonallities Lou's Village whenever personalities p erfo ormed at that legendar eenuee on performed legendaryy vvenue Sa an C arlos Str eet. San Carlos Street. I ne ver met Mont gomery, but never Montgomery, I firmly b elieve those who tell me believe sh he w aas an integral ccomponent omponent of she was th he pr offeessional wrestling wrestling sc ene in the professional scene Sa an JJose, ose, most not ably bl at the h Civic i ic San notably A uditorium and Angelo Cistoldi's Auditorium R Ringside ttavern. aveern. It was waas at the Ringside Ringsside w wher eal shenanigans went wheree the rreal d down. It w as ther rwas theree that the after afterp arties unf fo olded and where where the parties unfolded w wr estlers showed up to b eated wrestlers bee tr treated li ke celebrities. celebrities. Mont gomery w aas a like Montgomery was
regular at the bar and to regular took ok hundr hundreds eds photographs wrestlers of photo graphs of wr estlers in their natural elements and simply s hanging daughter, out. Both Cistoldi's dau ughter, as well original as the daughter of orig ginal cco-owner o-owner Neece, Glenn N eece, donated tons of photos ephemera Historyy and Ringside ephemer ra to the Histor Park P ark eexhibit. xhibit. early B i i iin the Beginning h ear rly l ’50s ’’50s,, the h Ringside,, lo located 307 N.. F First Street, eet, Ringside cated at 30 07 N irst Str was probably the bona w as pr obably one of th he first b ona sports fide sp orts bars in San JJose, ose, at least in modern wrestling estling fans the mo dern era,, and wr w always alw ays y showed up to hang h with the wrestlers. wr estlers. There There were were booths booths along one side, the was side, the back of th he bar w as a lit up, Montgomery's photos,, 8x10 up, and Mont gomery'ss photos framed shots, shots, literally ccovered oveered the walls sides.. Thee wr wrestlers w alls on ttwo w wo sides estlers nines would dress dress to the nin nes and fans Montgomery rrelished elished the eexperience. xperience. Mont gomery took hundreds promo to ok hundr eds of pr om mo shots of wrestlers, partying, eating,, or the wr estlers, par tyying, eating hamming intentionally hammin ng it up ffor o or her ccamera, amera,, as they theey often did. d Angelo Cistoldi w was aass a famous wrestler himself,f, origin originally from wr estler himself nally fr om the
area, moved West Boston ar e , who mo ea, veed out W eest never occasionally and ne ver left. He o ccasionally still wrestled Civic,, while cco-owning wr estled att the Civic o-owning Ringside. the Ringsid de. Cistoldi eeventually ventually bought out Neece took over b ought ou ut N eece and to ok o ver the place, occasionally whole plac ce, o ccasionally tending himself bar himsel lf and functioning as the primaryy ccelebrity draw. primar e elebrit ty dra aw. Cistoldi also threw legendary barbecues thr ew legen ndary barb ecues at his new Valley Fair,, house nearr a rrelatively elatively ne wV aalleey Fair wheree the wr wrestlers wher estlers often ccongregated ongregated town. while in to own. Cistoldi's daughter,, Angi Cirigliano Cirigliano,, Cistoldi' Cistoldi 'ss daughter lives grew who still liv vees in San JJose, ose, gr ew up at the and memories.. Ther Theree Ringside an nd has ffond o ond memories was other place like says. w aas no oth her plac ce lik ke it,, she sa ayys. was view “It w as a vvery, ery, vvery ery early vie w of sports be, what a sp o ts bar ccould or ould b e,” Cirigliano says. charter bus,, sa ayys. “My dad d would char ter a bus bus patrons and the bu us would ttake ak ke the patr ons wrestling to the wr esstling match. And then it Ringside,, would bus them back to the Ringside of ccourse, ourse, tto pick up their ccars. ars. And,, of have drinks.. And the ccourse, ourse, ha ave a ccouple ouple drinks wrestlers wr estlers would w also ccome ome back to the Ringside..” Ringside many weree made at So man ny friendships wer Ringside, wrestling the Ringsid de, thanks to the wr estling scene. Gorgeous George sc ene. Gor g geous Geor ge eeven ven e occasion. Ass a fan and showed up p on o ccasion. A photographer, Montgomery photo grap pher, Shirlie Mont gomery was always shooting w as alw wayyss on hand,, sho oting photographs documenting photo grap phs and do cumenting the scene, matches.. sc ene, just as she did at the matches Considering predominance C onsiderin ng the pr edominance of freelance lifestyles days, 60 fr eelance li iffest e tyyles these da ayys, 6 0 yyears ears e say Montgomery was later I ccan an sa ay that Mont gomery w as the curve many ahead of th he cur ve in man ny rrespects. espects. was early, preview “Shirlie w aas an early y, early pr eview wheree women aree to today of wher w ar daay in the says Cirigliano.. “She business world, w ” sa ayys Cirigliano was single,, had her own business business,, she w as single freelanced, was way before fr eelanced,, she w aas way, way, w ay b effor oe time.. My have her time M dad would ha ave big barbecues barb ecues at our home with all the wrestlers was always there, wr estlers and a she w as alw ways y ther e, rreporting eporting it. i ” Cistoldii passed aaway way in 1971. His wife keep wif fe tried to t k eeep the bar afloat ffor o or a ffew ew yyears eears but b eeventually ventually sold it,, just partt of downtown San JJose as that par ose began descend b egan to desc d end into skid rrow. ow w. But treasure trove thanks to a vveritable eritable tr easure tr ove of photographs byy Shirlie Mont Montgomery, photo grap phs b gomery, display Historyy San JJose now on dis splaay at Histor ose through August, never thr ough A ugust,, we will ne ver fforget orget o Ringside. th Ringsid the Ri id d . de
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Social SSocial i lE Distortion Disstortion
VE VERY ERY few months or so, so, I take ta ake a moment to pause and an nd reflect re eflect on one of the few things th hings in my life that causes cause es me profound proffound and unshakable gratitude. whateve gratitud de. Thank God, or whatever er benevolent benevollent force there may be in n this universe, uniiverse, I think to myself, that Twitter Twitter did not exist when I was school. was in high h
The most m vulnerable e online aren’t targets ar ren’t always as helpless h as we think BBYY SSADY AD DY DO DOYLE YLE
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Themselves.” In one ne Themselves.” new w study study, y, Waldman eexplains, xplains, plastic sur surgeons geons rreport eport an uptick in teenage ffemale eemale clients seeking surgery sur gery because because the theyy don don't n't lik likee their appearance app earance in online pho photos. otos. In another another,, 960 9 60 ccollege-aged ollege-aged women wer weree sur surveyed veyed ffor o or disordered disordered eating pat patterns, t terns , then split into groups groups assigned to ei either ither lo look ok at Facebook Fac ebook or rresearch esearch o ocelots. celots. The so socialcialmedia-skimmers' mediaskimmers' incidences incidences of destructive destructive thinking ar around ound ffood ood inc increased. creased. The ocelots, o celots, thankfully thankfully, y, wer weree harmless h harmless.. In addition to the dat W pr esents dataa Waldman presents in her piec e, the media has produced produced plent ty piece, plenty of other eevidence vidence to back up u her asser tion assertion that so cial media is makingg yyoung oung o social women mor selff--loatthing. Similar moree vulnerable to self-loathing. studies and ar ticles ha ave b e making w een avees articles have been waves ffor o or yyears, eears, including a 2011 study sttudy that claimed
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SOCIAL DISTORTION DIST ORTION
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the mor moree time teenage women w sp spent ent on Fac Facebook, ebook,, the mor moree prone prone they they weree to de wer developing veeloping a negative neegative b body ody image.. That study inspir inspired image red a CNN essay peer essa ay in which a ccollege ollege p eer ccounselor ounselor whenever spoke noted that whene ver e she sh he sp oke to a was sobbing yyoung o oung woman, “Facebook “Facebook w aas being some way b eing mentioned in som me w ay in just about ab out eevery veery cconversation. on nversatio e on.” In turn,, this spawned spa aw wned a rroundup oundup of teen t rreflections eflections on the h web b ccommunity ommunit ity Proud2BeMe, P oud2BeMe Pr d B M, statements which included st atemeents as depressing terminally depr essing ass “people “people get positive attention in thee world b byy p ositivve at ttention t or,, simply, losing weight,” or simplyy, “the “the less moree popular clothes yyou o ou have haave on,, thee mor popular yyou o ou are. are.”
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HE NAMES Original Gravity and Paper Plane almost sound like opposing ideas, but these neighboring spots share a co-owner and in a sense, a concept: drinks and bar bites. Paper Plane serves barrel-aged and handcrafted cocktails, house-made punches and a well-rounded menu of elaborate small plates. Metro sat down with co-owners Dan Phan and George Lahlouh to discuss what makes their new establishment different.
METRO: WHAT'S TO EAT? DAN PHAN: People are loving the chicken and waffle sliders, chicharron and the tater totem, which is house-made tater tots, candied bacon and cheddar and mascarpone cheeses, one of the many creations by our chef, Andre Nguyen. WHAT'S TO DRINK? GEORGE LAHLOUH: We have three categories of cocktails, signature, old school and new school. One of our signature drinks is the "spice of life," a mix of aquavit, coccho Americano, lime, cucumber soda and a house spice mix. It's funky and vegetal. We're also barrel aging spirits and cocktails. We're infusing these spirits and cocktails with barrel characteristics of wood, vanilla and oak, which gives them more depth and volume. Any kind of angle we can play with a cocktail concept, we're going to play with it. We love to experiment. TELL ME ABOUT THE PUNCHES. GL: We wanted to provide a quicker solution for people who don't want to wait around for four hand-crafted cocktails on a busy Friday or Saturday night. The two signature punches we have on tap are Full Moon, which is rum, applejack brandy, velvet falernum, campari, cranberry, fresh-squeezed orange juice and ginger ale, and Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire, which is tequila, mezcal, port, lapsong sochung tea, grapefruit, ancho chile, spices and ginger beer. DP: This isn't jungle juice; a lot of thought goes into it. GL: We build the punches on oleo saccharum, which means oil sugar in Latin. We prepare large batches of citrus peels with sugar and let them sit and muddle for about 12 hours. The oil breaks down the sugar and creates a base that provides a floral and super-aromatic note to the punches. We'll eventually be rolling out 4 to 6 punches on tap. WHAT INSPIRED THE NAME PAPER PLANE? GL: If you think of a paper plane, it's a simple concept or it can also have an over-engineered, technical design, but it's always important not to take it too seriously. That's very much what we're all about at Paper Plane, where we can get together with this simple concept of good atmosphere, good food and technically designed drinks, but it's important to not take ourselves too seriously at the end of the day.
—Jerry J. Salas PAPER PLANE 72 S. First St., San Jose. 408.713.2625 or paperplanesj.com.
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BARRELS OF FUN Cocktail offerings at Paper Plane include spirits that are barrel-aged in-house.
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ARCADIA 100 W. San Carlos St., San Jose Michael Mina's steakhouse has put together a traditional brunch buffet, with a few surprises. In addition to omelets, bacon and waffles, Arcadia will serve tabouli, truffle mac & cheese and buttermilk fried chicken (with hot sauce, of course). Prices run at $54 per person, with children under 12 $19. Free to children under 4. LB STEAK 334 Santana Row, San Jose Items on the special brunch menu include a brioche bread pudding French toast, a butterscotch sticky bun and Dungeness crab and asparagus quiche. Other Easter specials include pan seared branzino (a European bass) and a leg of lamb with fava beans, goat cheese and eggplant. The menu is à la carte and runs anywhere from $10 to $40. LEFT BANK BRASSERIE 377 Santana Row, Suite #1100, San Jose The Brasserie focuses more on French cuisine, so some of the brunch specials include Cointreau French toast with orange cream, maple syrup and bacon; buckwheat crepes filled with Parisian ham, spinach and goat cheese, and duck confit sweet potato hash with two poached eggs and vanilla orange emulsion. All dishes are less than $20. SILVER CREEK RESTAURANT AT DOLCE HAYES MANSION 200 Edenvale Ave., San Jose This brunch features a raw bar with black tiger prawns, green lip mussels and oysters on the half shell with raspberry mignonette. Breakfast entrees include cinnamon apple-filled pancakes and eggs benedict. Prices run at $67.95 for adults, $57.95 for seniors and $20 for children ages 6-12. THE FAIRMONT SAN JOSE 170 S. Market St., San Jose As a treat for the kids, the Fairmont will offer a petting zoo and a visit from the Easter Bunny. Brunch will be a buffet affair, with roast rib eye of beef, potatoes au gratin and fresh fruit tarts. The buffet will be $69 for adults and $34 for kids ages 5-12.
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LA FORET 21747 Bertram Road, San Jose As a main course the restaurant will serve lobster tail with lime beurre blanc, fusilli with barbecued scallops or the classic scrambled eggs in hollandaise sauce combo. The menu is à la carte and entrees range in price between $20 to $60. DIO DEKA 210 E. Main St., Los Gatos The à la carte menu will feature dishes such as lamb meatballs with blistered grapes, kalamansi yogurt and a light herb-broth; a crispy puff-pastry stuffed with smoked ham, green onion, feta, kasseri and ricotta cheeses and slowcooked pork ribs rubbed with Greek spices, Attiki honey and lemon glaze, and sour cherries with ouzo. Prices hover around $15 for each item. FOGO DE CHAO 377 Santana Row, Suite 1090, San Jose The brunch menu will feature the restaurant’s variety of fire-roasted meats. Also on offer will be picanha sirloin, filet mignon, rib eye, lamb chops, chicken wrapped in bacon, and pork ribs, as well as a seafood option. Price is $51.50 for adults, children 7-12 half-price and children 6 and under free. THE SEA BY ALEXANDER'S STEAKHOUSE 4269 El Camino Real, Palo Alto The Sea is offering a special three-course prix fixe menu for Sunday brunch. Tuna tartare, lobster scrambled eggs, scallops and New York steak are just a few of the selections available. Three courses for $45, and other items à la carte.
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THE FFACTION ACTION May Ma ay 10 at the Blank Club
MORRISSEY MORRIS SEY May 7 at City National Civic
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CALLE 13 May 21 2 at City National Civic
FFANIME ANIME CCON ON 2 2014 014 May 23-26 23-26 at City National Civic
HUGH UGH LA LAURIE UR RIE AND THE CCOPPER OPPER BO BOTTOM TTOM B BAND AND May 27 aatt Montalvo Arts Center
LADY LAD Y GAGA GAGA June 3 at SAP SAP Center
SUPERSUCKERS SUPER SUCKERS June Ju une 6 at the Blank Club
ACOUSTIC A COUSTIC ALCHEMY ALCHEMY June 6 aatt Montalvo Arts Center
THE PIANO GUY GUYSS June 27 2 at City National Civic
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*stagee AMADEUS City LIghts Theat Theater ter company presents Peter Shaffer’s pr esents P eter Sh haffer ’s speculative drama dram ma about the lifee of the composer lif compooser Mozart. $25-$30. Thru Apr 30. $25 5-$30. City Lights, San Jose.
GAME ON San Jose Rep pr presents e esents a play about two sportss ffanatics anatics swankyy LLos who wind up in a swank os Altos Al tos home during durinng a cocktail funds green party to rraise aise fun nds ffor or gr een projects. Apr pr ojects. Thru Ap pr 19. San Jose.
THE GREA GREAT AT PRE PRETENDER ETENDER TheatreWorks presents TheatreWorks presents a the comedy about th he passing of puppeteer a cherished pupp peteer that consumes a children’s childdren’s TTV V host. Jul 9 9-Aug Aug 3. 3 LLucie ucie SStern tern Theatre, Palo Alto. Theatr e, P alo Al to.
AN ILIAD San Jose SStage tage Company C presents ancient pr esents the anc cient tale of the Trojan Trojan War War ass it collides with the modern world in this captivating theatrical t experience. Thru May 4. The SStage, tage, San Jose.
LOVE, LA LOVE, LAUGHTER, UGHTEER, AND LINGUINE A musical that lo looks ooks at the lifee thr through twists and turns of lif ough $12-$36. women's eyes $1 12-$36. Thru 27. Theatree oon Pedro Apr 27 7. Theatr n San P edro Square, Jose. Squar e, San Jose e.
A SSTREETCAR TREETCAR DESIRE NAMED DE SIRE Northside Theatr Theatre re Company presents Williams’’ pr esents TTennessee eennesssee Williams tragedy Blanche tr agedy of Blanch he DuBois. and Thu-Sat, 8pm an nd Sun, 3pm. 17-May $17-$22. Apr 17 -May 11. $1 17-$22. Olinder Theatre, Jose. Theatr e, San Jose e.
YOUNG Y OUNG FRANKE FRANKENSTEIN ENSTEIN Palo Al Palo Alto to Playerss present present a based new musical bas ed on the Mel Brooks Br ooks film. Apr 25-May 2 11. Theatre, $26-$48. LLucie ucie SStern tern Theatr e, Palo Alto. P alo Al to.
*dancee *danc BALLET B ALLET SAN SAN JO JOSE OSE San Jose Center ffor or the Performing P erforming Arts, San Jose.
*concerts *c oncerts e AMIR LLONDON ONDON Iranian-Americann singer/ Iranian-American songwriter Amir LLondon ondon will perform perf orm all of hiss new material
(“Lahzeh Be Lahzeh,”” “Talafy,” “TTaalafyy,” , “Golden Dreams”) Dreams”) andd old 8pm. ffavorites. avorites. Apr. Apr. 19, 8pm m. $15. Theatree on San P Pedro Theatr edro Square. Square.
*operaa *oper CAFFE FRASCATI FRASCA ATI T Opera Night. First Friday Opera Fridday of every month. San Jose. Josee.
* *art MUSEUMS CANTOR CANT OR AR ARTS TS CENT CENTER TER “American Photographs: “American Photographs: A CCultural ultural History.” History.” The Thhe 14 workss on display rrange from work angge fr om a Civil War-era War-era photograph photoggraph by TTimothy imothy O’Sullivan, too street street photography Frank photogr aphy by Robert Robert Fr ank Winogrand, and Garry Garry Winogr and,, to pieces Diane A Arbus b Di by b fr ffrom om the tth 1960s 1960 from and Helen Levitt fr om m the 1970s. Thru July 6. Wed-Sun, Wed-Sun, e 11am-8pm. -8pm. 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am Stanford. Stanford.
DE SSAISSET AISSET MUSEUM M “Mirang “Mirang Wonne: Wonne: Fir Firee Script,” S explores explor es the fascinating fascinating metallic works works of Bay Area Area artist Mirang Mirang Wonne. Wonne. “Lasting Legacy: The History off the de Family,” Saisset Family y,,” showcases showcases Saisset photos of the de Saiss set ffamily amily their that pay homage to th heir legacy.. Apr 10-Jun legacy 10-Jun 15. Clara. Santa Clar a.
DISCOVER DISC OVER SSAN AN JOSEE “An Evening in Italy,” “An Italyy,,” ffeatures eatures color and black & white white photos by various artists. Sann Jose.
DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN CAMPBELL CAMPB BELL Third Friday Artwalk. Visit Third V with exploree boutiques artists and explor booutiques third and galleries. galleries Every th hird Fri of the month, 6-9pm. 6-9pm. E. CCampbell ampbell Ave. Ave.
HISTOR HISTORY RY MUSEUM GATOS OF LLOS OS GA ATOS “American Bohemia: The “American T CCats ats Estate in Los Los Gatos.” Thru T Apr 20. LLos os Gatos.
HISTORY HIS TOR RY PARK PARK SAN SAN JOSE CCall all for for info. info.
LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS CCOMPANY OMP PAN ANY “Zulugrass Jewelry Ga “Zulugrass Gallery”, allery”,, ffeatures eatures the colorful clothing c adorned and ornaments adorn ned by the Great Maasai tribe of the Gr reat Rift Valley V alley of Kenya Kenya and Tanzania. Tanzania. a
SSAN AN JOSE MUSEUM OF O AR ART T “Around the Table “Around Table a Stage Stage One—Jitish Kallat: Kallat: Epilogue.” Eppilogue.”
SIX YEARS YEARS Empire Se Seven even Studios marks its six-year a anniversary nniversary with a show of workss by more than 40 artists artists. s. Ends Apr 20. “Around “A Around the Table: Taable: Food, Creativity, Communittyy,” Creativityy, Community,” , an exhibition that delves into in nto how food food has shaped local local culture. culture. Thru Apr 27. 277. Tue-Sun, Tuue-Su un, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
SSAN AN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS TEXTILESS QUIL LTS & TEXTILE “Metamorphosis: Clothing and Identity.” 27.. Sa San Identity y..” Jan 29-Apr 27 an Jose. TTasty, aastyy, too!
TRITON MUSEUM TRITON ART OF AR T “TTeerritories of Experience,”” a “Territories charcoal drawing char coal dr awing exhibit by b Thru. artist KKatherine atherine Meyer. Meyer. Thr ru. Clara. May 4. Santa Clar a.
GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “Millions of Colors in the Shadow,” Shadow w,,”” by Joe KKowalczyk owalczyk and “We’s “We’s Gone Be Fine” Fine” by b Jeremiah Jose. Jer emiah Maddock. San Jo ose.
ART AR T ARK GALLERY GALLER RY “Silicon Valley Valley Open SStudio tudioo Preview Jose.. Pr eview Exhibit.” San Jose
THE AR ARSENAL SENAL “Experiment #38,”” rrecent ecent work w Aprr 25. by Gilberto Barba. Thru Ap San Jose.
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC AND AR TS Call ffor Call or inf info. o. Mon-Fri, 9am9am-3pm. 7pm, Sat, 9am3pm. Mohr Gallery, Center,, Gallery y, Finn Center Mountain View
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DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SHALA A “Light + Wir Wiree + Thr Thread,” ead,” wir wire re with and paper assemblages wit th LEDs by Jonathan and Joella KKermit. ermit.
“Latino Art Now!”” 16th Annual Art Auction and Exhibition. San Jose.
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Sperry Sper ry Station. Station. San Jose.
“Ornate,” work workss by Susan Fast, Hartmetz, KKatinka atinka Hartmet z, Elizabeth Noerdlinger, Slonaker.. Noer dlinger, Ginger Slonaker Thru Apr 20. Redwood City. Cityy.
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:”Six YYears eears Anniversary” y show, shoow w, workss by mor moree than 40 with work 0 artists. Opening rreception eception April A 11, 77-11pm. -11pm. San Jose.
“L O V E: Cr Creativity, eativityy, Connection, Community,” Community y,” , examines the challenges of extending ourselves to commune and connect with others, with an drawings, awings, installation of video, dr sculpturee and other work works. sculptur s. 11am-3pm. Thu-Sun, 11am3pm. Thru Jun Saratoga. 8. Sar atoga.
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FIRST T FIRST TO O MARKET RESTAURANT RE STAURANT “Portraits of Things,”” features “Portraits features portraits portr aits by Samantha YYee. eee. San Jose.
GALLERY GALLER RY HOUSE “From the Earth, into the Sk “From Sky,” ky,,” presents workss by Thomas pr esents work Arakawa Ar akawa and Maura Maura Carta. Carta. Palo Alto. Thru Apr 26. P alo Al to.
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“Superdelic Fight Club Sho “Superdelic Show,” ow,” 17, closing night Apr 17 7, 7pm. “See “ Anthony ny The Unseen,” art by Antho 7:30pm. Barbaria. Fri, Apr 25, 7:30p pm. San Jose.
“The Big Pictur Picture,” e,” gallery abstract by ffeatured eatured abstr act acrylic Wedpainter Isaias Sandoval. W edWay, Sun, 11am-5pm. Big Basin W ayy, Saratoga. Sar atoga.
ASIEL A SIEL DE DESIGN SIGN CENTER “Sacred Heart,” devotional “Sacred workss by Lacey art show with work Lacey Patrick Bryant Jen Renzel, Bryant, Renzel P atrickk Wädl, Andree JJ.. Hart, Jonath Jonathan W ädl, Andr han Flores. 18, Gomez, TTulio uulio Flor es. Apr 18 8, 77-11pm. -11pm. San Jose.
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“Spring Mud-Fling,” gr group oup show.. San Jose. show
Jazz-related art by Bruni Jazz-related Sablan. Mon-Sat, 1-6pm. San Jose.
Spiritual Renaissance ”new Renaissance”new artworks artworks by Joe Perea Perea and “CONNECTIONS,” “CONNECTIONS,”” mixed media work by Valerie Valerie Runningwolf. Runningwolf. San Jose.
PACIFIC P ACIFIC AR ART T LEA LEAGUE GUE “Spring Awakening,” Awakening,” work workss by Miller.. Apr Ed LLucey ucey & Maralyn Maralyn Miller 1-24. 124. Palo Palo Alto. Alto.
PALO P A ALO AL ALTO LTO ART ART CENTER “YYouth “Youth o Art & CCulture ulture 27-May KKaleidoscope”. aleidoscope”. Apr 27 -May 18. Palo Alto. P alo Al to.
PHANTOM PHANT OM AR ART T GALLERIE GALLERIESS
177. Tue-Fri, 17. Tue-Fri, u 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
SEEING THING THINGSS GALLER GALLERY RY “TTaangible” is a hand-printed “Tangible” Photography exhibition. Photogr aphy by Gore, Ben Gor e, Nich Kunz, Kunz, Carson Carson Lancaster,, Sam Milianta, Espen Lancaster SStokke, tokke Jarod tokke, Jarod Taber, Taaber, Segej Vutuc, Ramirez, V utuc, Seth Ramir ez, Jason Lecras, Brandon Getty, Lecr as, Br andon Getty y, KKohlton ohlton Ervin. Er vin. San Jose.
SLIDING DOOR CCOMPANY OMPANY “One Thousand Thousand Project,” workss by Jason Pr oject,” work McHenry.. San Jose. McHenry
SOUTH FIR FIRST ST BILLIARDS “Meshy sans Fleshy: Guitr Guitron, on, Paeste. with a splash of P aeste. Chilled,” a solo exhibition Chilled, by Mario Guitron. Guitron. Also on Billiards view: the South First Billiar ds Paeste Dee Jae P aeste permanent collection. San Jose.
WORKS W ORKS SSAN AN JOSE “Shelter,”” an exhibition curated “Shelter,” curated Preciado by Al Pr eciado ffeaturing eaturing workss by 25 South Bay artists work exploree their views on who explor shelter. the concept of shel ter. 365 S. Market SSt, t, San Jose.
ZERO ZER O 1 GARA GARAGE GE “ZERO1 Fellowship/xx,” , a group group exhibition that showcases early prototypes prototypes of innovation challenges given to each of the artists. San Jose.
Call for Call for info. info. 95 South Market. San Jose.
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“The Journey Journey,” y,,” pr presented esented byy Vernon Foundation the V ernon Davis Foundatio on commemorate History to commemor ate Black Hist tory Month. Thru Apr 224. 4. Santanaa Row,, San Jose. Row
Phantom Galleries pr presents esents Gianfranco ““Journals,” JJournals,”” by Gianfr anco Paolozzi. P aolozzi aolozzi.
WHA WHAT’S AT’S T Y YOUR OUR SSTANCE TANCE A ARTS CULTURE ON AR RTS AND CUL LT TURE IN SSAN AN JOSE?
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“TTooriawase” juxtaposes “Toriawase” traditional tr aditional and historical Japanese art and objects contemporary with selected contempor ary Western Co-curated W estern artwork. Co-cur ated 22-May by Misako Mitsui. Feb 22 -May
KALEID GALLER GALLERY RY “The KKey ey to TTechnological eechnological and and
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A fforum orum moder moderated d ated t d by b SSan Mercury Jose Mer cury News columnist Pizarro Sal Pizar ro concerning the cultural cul tural life life in San Jose with mayoral mayor al candidates Dave Herrera, Cortese, Rose Her rera, Sam Liccardo, Liccar do, Madison Nguyen, and Pierluigi Oliverio. Apr 23. 77-8:30pm. -8:30pm. San Jose Rep.
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FOR THE FORUM Demone Carter, MALI program coordinator, and Nelly Torres, events coordinator, School of Arts and Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, will bring the Art/Life Forum to the Plaza.
Leading Roles WHEN Demone Carter broadened his job description from rapper to rapper/youth arts mentor a decade ago, he was struck by the alarming lack of multicultural leadership in the nonprofit world. A few years later, a study confirmed that observation: fewer than 10 percent of nonprofits are led by people of color. The statistics look worse for boards of directors. “At the end of the day, experience is the ultimate authoriThe Art/Life Forum ty,” he says. “When you have folks in leadership positions that only represent one set of experiences, the decisions that they April 25, 8:30ammake and the leadership style is always going to be tone deaf 4:30pm to certain aspects of our community.” The School of Arts That’s the impetus behind the Multicultural Arts Leadand Culture at ership Institute (MALI), a series of classes offered through Mexican Heritage Mexican Heritage Plaza that aim to foster diversity in Silicon Plaza, San Jose Valley’s arts community. Come April 25, MALI will host its Free malisv.org inaugural Art/Life Forum to showcase some of that work through a series of panels, workshops and live entertainment. “This is our coming-out party, in a way,” Carter says. “We’ve been around for seven years, really strengthening local artists and training leaders and this is our first time holding this public event to show people what we’re about.” Carter, a MALI alum himself, has seen the program’s graduates take on influential roles in the South Bay’s creative community. Wisa Uemura stepped up as executive director of San Jose Taiko. Yosimar Reyes became a nationally known poet and activist. Elisa Orona, an administrator for Asian Americans for Community Involvement, was named one of Silicon Valley Business Journal’s “Women of Influence 2014.” In 2012, Carter founded Future Arts Now, an after-school program that connects underserved youth with adult role models who excel at an art form, whether it’s breakdancing or spoken word or rapping. “As we’re growing, I’ve noticed that these groups are starting to become more connected and more collaborative and folks are really pushing to make their mark here in Silicon Valley, in San Jose,” he says. “I see more of an organic, hands-on growth in the multicultural arts scene. People of color are participating more and taking charge of this.” Stanford University lecturer Kevin McCarthy, a senior associate at leadership consulting firm Change Logic, will deliver the forum’s keynote speech. Workshop topics include one on the art of schmoozing, another on successful creative collaborations and how to tell your project’s story. “San Jose, Silicon Valley, we’re among the last urban places where you can still make a mark because it doesn’t have as established an art scene the way Oakland or San Francisco does,” he says. “We want to seize that moment by making sure the leadership positions on the ground floor represent the cultural diversity of this region. Let’s get everybody to the table, let’s make sure everybody’s voice is heard.” —Jennifer Wadsworth
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New N e ew BEARSS BEAR (G; 77 min.) m John C. Reilly narrates narrates documentary this do ocumentary that ffollows ollows the lives ooff an Alaskan bear ffamily. amily. (Openss Fri.)
FINDING FINDIN NG VIVIAN MAIER (Not rrated; a ated; 83 min.) See review review this page. (Opens ( Fri.)
THE GA GALAPAGOS ALAP PAGOS AFF AFFAIR: AIR: TO SSATAN ATAN N CAME T O EDEN (Not rrated; a ated; 120 min.) A documentary about a couple who sought absolute privacyy by moving to the Galapagos Islands, Islands s, but whose letters home weree le leaked press, drawing wer eaked to the pr ess, dr awing lots of company to their island paradise. par adise.
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WANDERING EYE Amateur photographer Vivian Maier chronicled everyday life, but guarded her own identity, changing names and location fairly frequently.
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Photo Finish THE ALOOF meets the Maloof in Finding Vivian Maier, John Maloof’s account of the detective work he did to learn more about the woman whose photographs he discovered in a locker. Vivian Maier never exhibited her photos and home movies, shot from World War II to the 1970s. Some of the immense volume of work is harderedged versions of the photojournalism that made Life magazine sometimes indelible, sometimes trite; other pieces are compassionate, invaluable images of people on the margins, taken by a brave photographer. Her best work is as good as the photography of Weegee or Gordon Parks. Maier was a mystery, and the mosaic-like fragments people remember make up this investigation. Born in New York, Maier considered herself French. Her mother was from Alsace. She dressed functionally, mannishly. In the self portraits, the angles change; she’s sometimes as horsey as Nancy “Miss Hathaway” Culp, and she’s sometimes as handsome as actress Rachel Griffiths. Something memorable she said to an employer: “I'm sort of a spy.” The spy's life is always tragic. During years of work as a domestic and a nanny, Maier hid behind identities. She changed her name and her range, from the Hamptons to Chicago. She even worked as Phil Donahue’s
(R; 87 min.) (R i ) In I this thi hor hhorror-comedy, ror-comedy dy, dream eam house holds nightmar nightmares a dr es for for Malcolm Wayans), Malcol lm (Marlon W ayans), his new girlfriend children. girlfrie end and her childr en. (Opens Fri.)
servant, though the TV personality has little recollection of her. This detective story finds out as much as could be found out about an isolated, paranoid hoarder. Maier had a startlingly vicious streak that occasionally came out when dealing with the children in Finding Vivian Maier her care—and yet the home movies show Not rated; 83 min. great tenderness toward Opens Fri. children at play. With co-director Charlie Siskel (a collaborator with Michael Moore), Maloof conducts the investigation into this tormented woman, and I wished for some of the poetry cartoonist Chris Ware brings to the lives of similar solitary types. Ultimately, if Finding Vivian Maier is the work of a promoter, it’s also the work of an ardent fan. Maloof is anxious to prove his hands are clean—his research demonstrates Maier did at one time want to promote some of her photographs, which clears him of implications of grave-robbing and privacydisturbing. Rather than echoing accusations at the person who found, restored and brought forth Maier’s haunting work, ask why, in our cultural integrity vacuum, the crowds are most fascinated by the story of a monk-like, suffering artist. —Richard von Busack
(R; 96 min.) Because selling used holds moree appeal than higher cars ho olds mor education, educat tion, a student decides to skip who’s out onn college to join his dad, who ’s working workin ng at a used car dealership. With Devon D Bostick, Christopher Meloni M Melon l i andd Bridget B id t Moynahan. M h
TRANSCENDENCE TRAN SCENDENCE (PG-133; 119 min.) See review (PG-13; review on page 34. 3 (Opens Fri.)
Ongoing On ngoing CAPTAIN CAPTAIN A AMERICA: THE WINTER W SOLDIER (PG-133; 136 min.) The Russo (PG-13; brothers’ br otheers ’ CCaptain aaptain America:: The Winter Wi t r Soldier S ldi r takes t k up the th theme th of Rogers’ Rogers’ innocence. The people who made this sequel to the m 2011 film, film, including the directors directors Anthony Anthonny and Joe Russo, understood their calmly heroo c uncomplicated her better than the people who made Man ooff SSteel teel understood the similarly squaree Superman. The similarrly squar national national security agency SHIELD is abou about ultimate ut to launch the ul timate drone program, project. drone pr ogram, the Insight pr oject. Shillingg ffor director or it is SHIELD dir ector Nick Fury (S Jackson) ((Samuel Samuel L. Jack son)) working in tandem tanddem with the presidential presidential liaisonn Alexander Pier Pierce ce (Robert Redford). already Redforrd). Captain Captain America, alr eady restless janitor”” restlesss at being “Fury’s janitor in his various clandestine ops, is v dubious. dubiouus. The agency turns out to be riddled r with moles. Fury is dealt dealt with, w and the Captain Captain and
agent Romanoff,, the age ent Natasha Romanoff Black Bla ck Widow (Scarlett Johansson) fleee the capital with an army after them. the em. The common template of thee action movie gets filled to the Marvel brim m with Mar vel fodder—some fodder—some of the t best choreographed choreographed fight scenes sce enes you get in an American movie, mo vie, explosions and flashbacks, flashbacks, andd a flying battleship dogfight. But there throughout. the ere is breathing breathing room room thr oughout. Thiss blockbuster has a surprising Thi amount am ount of ffeeling. eeling. Chris Evans isn’t actor,, but he does isn ’t a thrilling actor suggest sug ggest a little lost guy caught in the t strapping strapping body. body. He doesn’t doesn’t seem larger see em to be lar ger than Alan Ladd and if he’s in closeup, c he’s a ffearless earless battler, bat ttler, you end up ffeeling eeling a bit protective pr o otective of him. The phrase phrase is usually usu ually used as a putdown, but Evans listener.. A Att a Eva ans is an excellent listener hospital lady,, hos spital bed of a dying elderly lady Evans Eva ans keeps it tight. The scene gets heroo all due sting, emphasizing the her tragic as a tr agic immortal. (RvB)
CESAR CE SAR CHA CHAVEZ AV VEZ (PG (PG-13; G-13; 101 min.) No one could have gotten as much movie movie on such a low budget as director Diego LLuna dir e ector una did. There There was some producer som me help from from executive pr oducer John Joh hn Malkovich. He plays—with much mu ch diabolical sabor—a fictional Croatian grape Croatian o grape grower grower in Delano who who considers his striking Mexican laborers laborers “children.” “children.” Unfortunately, Unfortunatelyy, thee San Jose years don’t don’t fit into thiss bio. It follows follows Chavez from from his Community Service Com mmunity Ser vice Organization Organization days dayys in Los Los Angeles in 1962, to thee march march on Sacramento Sacramento and the conclusion grape-strike connclusion of the gr ape-strike in 1970. 19770. As As Chavez, the MexicanAmerican Peña Am merican actor Miguel P eña gives a winning, winnning, complicated performance: performance: he demonstrates demonstrates the contradictory contradictory force force c and gentleness that made our local locaal hero hero a worldwide legend. After twoo rousing rousing acts of the rise of the workers, workers, the movie starts to go a little littlle haywire. haywire. There’s There’s no good visual wayy in a movie to make a hunger strike striike look anything but petulant andd passive-aggressive. passive-aggressive. When Whhen Chavez takes to his bed and refuses refuuses to eat, we don’t don’t see what his wife wife Helen (America Ferrera) Ferrera) hadd to say about it, even though thiss film takes time away from from thee political struggle to deal with stresses in Chavez’s large stresses e large family. family. As Dolores As ffor or Dolor es Huerta (Rosario Dawson), theree to be a Daw wson), she’s she’s ther witness wittness to history, historyy, and a righthand hannd person: her most important task task in the film is intercepting intercepting a phone phoone call. So, Malkovich. He skulks skulks around brilliantly as the grower around o grower “John “JJohn Bogdanovich.” The uninflected Spanish Spaanish Malkovich speaks speaks to his
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CUB POUT POUT The docu documentary mentary ‘Bears’ follows a fam family mily of Alaskan bears bears.. field hands sounds as mena menacing acing as modest, Klingon. The movie stays mo odest, indirect. una has its most ringing indir ect. LLuna r dialogue in voiceover: “I livee in wheree a man who ppicks a world wher icks can’t fruit and vegetables can ’t ffeed e his eed ffamily.” amily.” Sometimes a film is best in viability the way it rrepresents epresents the via ability down arther do of a bigger movie ffarther own the line. (RvB)
THE GRAND BUD BUDAPEST APEST HOTEL HO OTEL (R; 99 min.) Approaching Appr oaching Wes Wes Anderson’s Anderson’s ’ mostly delightful The Grand Grand Budapest Budapeest Hotel can give you the foreboding forebboding you feel feel when encountering the wordd ““artisanal.” It’s wor artisanal.” It ’s seriously seriousslyy under-femaled, under-f emaled, and it pauses pausees to congratulate congr atulate itself for for its cleverness. cleeverness. Att worst, Anderson is a director A direcctor of duckyy films, but this nested story duck of Central Central European European skullduggery skulldugggery seems to have more more of a spine spiine than anything he’s he’s made since sin nce Fantastic Mr Mr.r. Fox. It It’s ’s a tale told by the proprietor proprietor of a declining declining
luxury hotel during the 1960s 1960s in the Slovenia-like nation natioon of Zubrowka. is the Zubrowka. F. F. Murray Murray Abraham Abraham a turtlenecked proprietor proprietor Moustafa. M Moustaf a. In a conversation over dinner, dinner, this elder tells a young writerr (Jude Law) about the life life Moustafa Mousstafa had between the wars. He was waas a lad (played by Tony Toony Revolori)) back when the carpets were were a sumptuous sumpptuous imperial crimson and nott a repulsive repulsive Intourist burnt-orange. burnt-orange. Inn those days Moustafa Moustafa was mentored menttored by the suave concierge concierge M. Gustave Gustaave (Ralph Fiennes, terrifically terrifically louche), louchhe), a heavily scented, indifferently indifferently heterosexual hetterosexual squire wealthy squire to weal thy elderlyy women. His oldest client (Tilda (Tilda Swinton, Swinton, winton w grotesque grotesque in old-age makeup) maakeup) bequeaths Gustave a valuable valuable painting. Thus the upstart upstarrt hotelier becomes involved with blue-blooded b fascists, fascists, including Adrienn Brody, Brodyy, the Black Michael of this Zenda Zen nda and his leather-wrapped leather-wrapped thug Jopling Joopling (a snarling Willem Dafoe). Dafoe). Jailbreaks, J Jailbr eaks, alpine assassination, harrowing harrrowing
castles and political discord d discor d make this an unusually ripsnorting ripssnorting Anderson film. It doesn’t doessn’t seem to be all about the art art direction. direction. Anderson styles his productions productions American Empirical, and a he finally seems to have a fully running studio: a script department, a tabletop special effects effects lab, a first-rate fi first-r ate music department and a stable staable of actors, including an artistically artistically disfigured disfigured Saoirse Ronan, Harvey Harvey Keitel Keitel as a bald convict and Jeff Goldblum, in spectacles that make him look like Sartre. Sartre. (RvB)
OCULUS OCUL US (R; 105 min.) Kaylie Kaylie (K (Karen aren Gillan) blames an antiquee mir mirror ror ffor or the catastrophe catastr ophe that bef bbefell ell her ffamily, amilyy, who once lived in a suburban mini minigolf-coursey mansion in the go olf-coursey part of the South. She’s She’s charted the provenance mirror—“the pr ovenance of thee mir ror—“the Glass”” was the property Lasser Glass property of an 18th-century Br British ritish nobleman. drove ove a halfThe looking glass dr hundred hundr ed victims too madness, selfmurder. mutilation and mu urder. KKaylie aylie has turned her ffamily’s amily’’s vacant house
makeshift parapsychological ift par apsychological into a makeshi circuit cameras, lab, with closedd cir cuit camer as, trap laptops and a deadf ddeadfall all tr ap that break can br eak the glass g with one flick of a button—“We’re button—““W button We’rre holding a head.” gun to its head d.” Her witness: estranged brother her estr anged little br other TTim im (Brenton Thwaites), (Br enton Thwa aites), who does the there-must-be-some-rationalther e-must-bee-some-rationallines. Wee know better better.. explanation lin nes. W mirror mirror-eyed wraiths The mir ror hass mir ror-eyed wr aiths lurking inside it. i It beguiles, and brother warps time, rreverting evverting the br other childhood, and sister to ch hildhood, making
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35 them rrewatch th ewatch t h th the h mental he t l collapse ll of their ffather ather (Rory (R Rory Cochrane) Cochrane) and their (Katee the demise of th heir mother (K atee Sackhoff of Batt Battlestar tlestar Galactica)).. Oculus is well-m well-made made and edited enough that it ccan an tell you the horrifying rifying thingss it’s hor it’s going to do, make and then still ma ake you jump when it does them. (RvB) (RvvB)
NOAH NO AH (PG-13; 138 min.)) In his first film, (PG-13; Pi, Dar Darren ren Ar Aronofsky onofsky pr presented esented a crazed mathematician cr azedd mathema th atician ti i who h was essentially TTravis raviss Bickle with a pocket protector—now, pr otector—now w, at last, the rrain ain is scum streets. washing the scu m off the str eets. Aided with the magic m of Methuselah Hopkins insufferable (Anthony Hopkin ns in his insuff erable Noah Crowe), saintly mode), No oah (Russell Cr owe), kinsfolk his kinsf olk and some s friendly rrockockprepare tar-slathered monsters pr epare a tar-slather ed ark, even as the meat-eating m fforces orces of King TTubal-Cain uubal-Cain (Ray Winstone, mitigating surround the film’s film’s mitiga ting ffactor) actor) sur round It’s the ship. It ’s the ultimate ultimate crankycrankymovie, vegetarian t i movie ie, humorless h l andd not sweetened by b the animals: or the ride, the critters conk out ffor anesthetized by some kind of magic incense, which aatt least deals with they’ree ffed the issue of how w they’r ed and they’ree keptt clean. Cr Crowe, how they’r owe, in sunsuits, patriarchal his burlap sunsu its, is patriar chal enough to suit aany ny fundamentalist; there’s Abraham ther e’s a lot of Abr A aham in the Isaac wrapped into story wr apped in nto this, and the combination of headstr hheadstrong ong man wifee (Jennif (Jennifer and ffountain-of-tears ountain-of--tears wif er CConnolly, Connolly lly, back b k ffor o seconds or d after ft A Beautiful Mind) may m be the part of drama that’s the dr ama that ’ss easiest to enter. enter. flood Certain of the flo ood scenes rrecall ecall Gustave Dore’s Dore’s ilillustrations—the llustrations—the clustered last of humanity cluster ed on the water theree rrocks ocks as the wat er rises. And ther aree moments where ar wh here this doesn’t doesn’t impersonally directed seem an imperso onally dir ected Aronofsky’s spectacle, as in Ar A onofsky’s skidding through storyy of warlike thr ough the stor humankind, or hhis is idea of making the apple of the TTree ree of Life Life heartbeating. It’s shaped and beat ting. It ’s odd that aree fretting rreligious eligious conservatives conservatives v ar fretting presents about this story—it story— —it pr esents the vengeful Jehovah h as cryptic, deadly approached and only to be ap pproached by murmuring, terrified terrified men. Isn’t Isn’t that what they want?? (RvB)
PARTICLE P AR A TICLE FE FEVER VEER (Not rrated; ated; 99 min.) m Director Director Mark Levinson ffollowed olloweed a bunch of nerds ner ds for for five years years to create create a documentary that that is, dare dare I say, sayy, riveting th mostt rivetin the i ti g story t ever bbasedd around In fact, ound particle physics. ar p fact, it’s it ’s really really set up like a mystery, mystery, with physicists flocking fl to the Large Hadron Lar ge Hadr on Collider, Coollider, the biggest machine ever built bu uilt by mankind. Will it be able to rrecreate ecrreate the conditions of the universe just j after the Big Bang? Will it even eveen work? Levinson
actually makes makes you care, care, a lot, since all of the fascinating fasccinating characters characters in the film treat treat e it like the fate fate of mankind’s understanding unnderstanding of the universe is inn the balance. You’ll You’ll be sweating as they attempt to determine if the Higgs boson exists—like in, “OH DEAR GOD PLEASE That’s ’s PLEASE LET THEM THEM FIND IT!” That the level of tension teension and intrigue he craftily The suspense craftily creates. creates. e is balanced, though, with some t funny and odd oddd scenes that include a hip-hop songg about a supercollider supercollider done by superdorks, supeerdorks, theoretical theoretical physicists playing plaaying with a piece of modern art arrt and a researcher researcher who compares compares e his work to making coffee: coffee: “Coffee’s “Coffee e ’s a very serious business in tthe lifee of a theorist. It It’s he lif ’s not like phys physics wheree you ics rresearch, esearch, wher can wait ffor before or 30 3 years bef ore you know if you ar aaree right. Within a ffew ew minutes, it pa pays off.. If you succeed, ays off it’s it’s great. great. If you y fail, fail, you get to try another one in another minute.” He then sum sumss up his job thus: “Jumping from om ffailure “JJumping p g fr ailure to ffailure ailure with undiminishedd enthusiasm is the big secret success.” (Steve Palopoli) secret to suc cess.” (S teve P alopoli)
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UNDER THE SKIN (R; 108 min.) A str strange, ange, immersive and nearly di dialogue-free alogue-free science the fiction film; th he only thing that's rremotely emotely likee it is The Man Who Fell To To Earth. An unnamed u har harvester vester (Scarlett of humans (S Scarlett Johansson) is blank-faced, disguised as a blank-f aced, solitary driving woman drivin ng a white panel through Edinburgh. van thr ough Edinbur gh. Like so underground, many who goo under ground, "she" troubling ouubling sympathies develops tr prey. director ffor or her pr ey. It's I dir ector Jonathan Glazer's bestt film, but it's still as rrepetitive epetitive as his Sexy Beastt and Birth; he seem seems ms to be a disciple of the KKubrick ubrick principle that only rrepetition epetitioon can make the unimaginablee ffamiliar. amiliar. But he alienated anyway, keeps us alie nated anyway y, with Mica Levi's cchittering hittering insectmusic scor score, e, with scenes of the gathered humans preserved gather ed hum mans pr eserved in a gravy-thick, gr avy-thick, velvety v black oil, and incomprehensible with the inco omprehensible accents huntress of the many locals this huntr ess brushes up aagainst. gainst. Lechers be warned—Johansson's several warned—Jo hansson's sever al aree ther theree to display nude scenes ar alienation, they'ree as cold her alienatio n, and they'r unerotic and uner otic as an art student's figuree studies. It's a big textbook of figur fi accomplishment create accomplishm ment to cr eate a film short that's on a sh hort list ffor or rrequired equired about viewing abou ut a country; this is a movie about Scotland, not jjust a movie made in Scotland, shot in the industrial post industria al rubble, the rrowdy owdy discos, and with w majestic telephoto shots of the highlands barrens. h and bar rens. Thus, Under the t Skin belongs in a small rroster oster with w films like the Bill Douglas trilo trilogy, workss by Bill gyy, a ffew ew work Forsyth, I Kno Know ow Wher Wheree I'm Going! and TTrainspotting. rainspootting. (RvB)
WEB OF LIFE Johnny Depp plays a scientist whose consciousness is uploaded to the Internet.
A Down Load PRETTY damned bad. Another example of 2014 CG used to animate 1974’s science fiction ideas. After an overlong TED-talk lecture about the importance of AI, Lawrence Livermore scientist Will Caster (a colorless Johnny Depp) is shot with a poisoned bullet by antitechnology terrorists. With the help of Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), his “partner in life and work” as she describes herself, Caster is uploaded first into a program, and then into the Internet. The bracketing story is shot on Telegraph Avenue, which already looks postcollapse. Did they go for the bracket because Transcendence’s finale isn’t as awewalloping as they’d hoped? (Humanity’s last stand seems to take place in the same depressed New Mexican town where Thor killed that fire-breathing robot.) Speaking of Marvel, it takes much of the movie to tease the audacity of a premise that took 45 seconds to establish (and love) in the Toby Jones sequence in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. First-time director Wally Pfister
is Christopher Nolan’s usual cinematographer, and yet Transcendence isn’t Transcendence distinguished visually; Pfister seems to have PG-13; 119 min. absorbed all of Nolan’s selfOpens Fri. seriousness and none of his liveliness. The blocky, stale script doesn’t play with the ideas, and the humor is unintentional: surgeon Max Waters (Paul Bettany) is told that a rhesus monkey brain was uploaded, so why not Caster? “He’s not a monkey!” Waters shouts. (We’re later informed that we don’t negotiate with terrorists.) Takeaways: if you’re unsure where you stand on a complex matter of whether Utopia means enslavement, just see where Morgan Freeman stands on the matter (he’s here as a head of security, benign and in charge). 2. Computer virus protection is clearly worth what it costs. 3. If you’re a Godlike computer being, and you don’t want to terrify the world, try turning down the bass woofer on your voice controls. —Richard von Busack
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’’HELL’ HELL’ OF OF A TIME T IME W With iith their latest release, ‘‘At A At L Least ea ast W We’ll e’ll Give ‘Em H Hell,’ ell,’ 5606 sh shares hares sentiments party-themed albums.. more mature sentime ents than their previous party y-themed albums
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IFTEEN YEARS YEARS R is a milestone for fo or any especially band, especi ially for one that formed while its members were still still in high Local school. L ocal pop-punkers pop-p punkers 5606, now in their late 20s, 20s, accomplished have accomplishe d a lot in the past decade and an nd a half, including releasing i l di releasin l ing four f albums and going on dozens tours.. They celebrate of tours cele ebrate their 15th anniversary anniverrsary this Saturday at Homestead Homestead Bowl & The X Bar. Bar. “We “W We wer weree all just lit little t kids when tle
we st started. arted. W Wee were were lik like, e, ‘we ‘we’re ’re going super to get rich and a famous and sup er powerful. We’re bee the ne next xt p owerful. W e’re going to b Metallica. off, says M Met tallic lli a.’ That T t wears off Th ff, ff,” sa ays y bassist b it Warpath. have Andy Warp path. “Our priorities ha ave little shifted a lit ttle bit. We’re We’re working jobs now. full-time jo obs now w. But the rreason eason we started still there—which play st arted is st till ther e—which is to pla ay best friends..” music with h our b est friends days, These da ayys, the trio don’t don’t tour as aggressively aggr essivelyy as they they once once did,, but theyy still wr write new Last the rite ne w material. L ast theyy rreleased Att LLeast We’ll Givee yyear ear the e eleased A east W e’ll Giv Hell,, th their ‘Em Hell heir first rrecord ecord in ffour o our Musically, it’s yyears. ears. Musi icallyy, it ’s in line with the hyper-fast, pop-punk h yyper-fast,, ccatchy atch hy p op -punk sound of lyrically their earlierr rreleases, eleases, but lyric ally it’s it’s a different much diff ffeerrent album. “We wrote “W We sat down and wr ote a rreally eally album about honest albu um ab out how we were were weree ab about ffeeling. eeeling. Half Hallf the songs wer out left—or us.. the girls wee left— or who left us
The other half is just ab about, out, ‘hey, ‘hey, we might not b bee famous famous,, we mightt not have we’re not haave the nicest nicest ccars, ars, but we ’re n ot going to go down without a fight, figh ht,’ ” Warpath says. saayys. The album marks a big chang change ge from predecessor, World’s from its pr edecessor, The W oorld’’s Most Danger Dangerous, ous, which ccaptured aptured d the members members at a different diff ffeerent time in their t lives. lives. “It’s like, ‘heyy we “It’s very veery party-pop, party--pop, lik e, ‘he ‘h got b bottles whiskey we’re ottles of whisk ey and we ’re going to party with party and hang out wit th girls and this and that.’ We We got past p all that and rrealized weree being kids,,” ealized we wer beingg kids Warpath says. saayys. However, 5606 However, whether 56 06 are are singing singing about about mindless fun or rrecovering ecoverin ng from heart, theyy ar aree from a broken broken hear t,, the steadfast in their desire desire to put on o wild,, high-energy shows. high-energy punk rrock ock sho ows. “There’s pits.. There’s “There’s still mosh pits There’s still st stage diving.. There’s people age diving There’s still p eo ople stepping on other p people’s eople’s heads. head ds. We We love good love that. I feel feeel like like it’s it’s not a go od show if ther there’s myy eye e’s not sweat sweat in m eye after the first song song,,” Warpath sa says. ayys. Reaching milestone Reeaching that 15-year 15-year milesto one spurred spurred the band to look look back aat
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everything they’d been through, everything the y’d b e thr een ough, includingg a ffew ew closee ccalls alls with record never record labels labels that ne ever panned out. Warpath do doesn’t seem byy it. esn’t see em upset b “There definitely “There were were defin nitely a ccouple ouple nights where where we ccelebrated eleebrated thinking that something w was as about about to ccome ome together. together. It never neveer quite qu uite did, ffor o or better better or for for o worse, worse,” Warpath Warpaath says. saayys. “What keeps love keeps us going now is just lo ve of music. love standing stage next music. I lo ve st andin ng on st age ne xt to those guys that I st started a ted a band with ar years ago..” years ago The band has always alw wayys drawn draaw wn well locally, same time,, has locallyy, but at the sam me time rubbed rubbed some ffolks o olks in n the San JJose ose music sc scene way. ene the wrong wrong o w ay. Warpath has a sense of humo humor about or ab out it and chalks that up to thee par party ty vibe vibe 5606 5606 used to have, opposed haave, as opp posed to their music. music. “People some preconceived “People have haave som me pr econceived about that, there’s good notions ab out us th at,, ther e’s a go od chance, incorrect, chance, are are just inc o ect,” Warpath orr says. has negativee saayys. “If someone ha as a negativ opinion I’m happ happyy to t ttalk alk as much shit about myy band as the ne next about m xt person. great person. I think I ccould ou uld get along gr eat with those p people. eople. We’re We’re really really just here here ffor o or friends and fun. How ccould ould everyone want bee in involved everyone not w ant to t b volved in that?” that?” Warpath has also worked worked as an active active promoter promoter in i San JJose. ose. He st started Productions arted Pinup Pr roductions in 2004, booked hundreds 2004, and has b ook ked hundr eds of shows in the South Ba Bay. ay. He rrecently ecently retired Productions. retired from from Pinup Pr P oductions. As As business-minded as Warpath W ccan an be, he’s 5606’s be, he ’s excited excited to play pllaay 56 06’s 15th anniversary show,, which anniversary show w he admits is something he he’s lucky bee able ’s really reallly luck ky to b to do do.. A Ass a pr promoter he’s omoter he ’s seen a lot of bands ccome go.. ome and go “You “Y Yo ou think it’s it’s going goiing to last fforever. or o ever. You aree going Yo ou think the showss ar to k keep people eep coming coming up, up, that t p eople are keep are going to k eep ccaring. a aring . All your your friends are bee yyour are going to b our friends a thousand yyears from ears fr om m now, now w,” Warpath says. sacred saayys. “Now “Now I rrealize ealize how sacr ed these shows are—and people are—and the p eople in yyour our life that’s liffe are. are. I definitely think t that that ’s a ‘me b being statement. eing old’’ kind d of st atement. We’ve just important We’ve all learned jus st how imp ortant it is to just cherish it it. t.”
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Metro’s M etro’s music calend calendar dar runs W Wednesday–Tuesday. ednesday–T e uesday y. Wed, Wed, 8pm: Club Fox Blues Jam. Redwood City. City.
ART AR T BOUTIKI Sat, Apr 19, 7:30pm: Bitter Buffaloes, Buffaloes, CCactus, actus, The Pat Smoking Flowers, P at Hull. 27, $10 Sun, $10. S Apr A 27 7, 7pm: 7 TTerakaft. eerakaft. $15-$20. San Jose.
THE B BACK ACK B BAR AR ORIGINAL Thu, 10pm: “Rock The Block” Jose. Battle of the Bands San Jose e.
BLACKBIRD BLA CKBIRD T TAVERN AV VERN Thu, 7pm:: No W Water ater After Residency. Midnight –The Residency y. Fri, 8pm:: Steep Steep Ravine. Sat, Wed, 8pm:: Amber Gougis. W ed, Apr 23, 8pm:: Fatale,, featuring featuring CCassandra assandra Davis, Davis, CCarolyne arolyne Ouya, QueenEarth. Every Tue, Tuue, 7pm:: Now Dig This! Guest DJ TTuesdays. uuesdays.. San Jose.
THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed, 8pm: The Royal Oui, Wed, Halcyonaire, Grenade. Halcyonair e, Kitten Gr enade. Fri, 8pm: The English Beat, Picturee A Atlantic. Jose. Pictur tlantic. $20. San Jos se.
CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH Wed, 9pm:: Wax Wed, Wax W Wednesdays. ednesdays. Thu, 8:30pm: p : Peter Peter Fallico’s Fallico’s Hammond B3 Thursdays. Thu,, Wally Apr 17: W ally Schnalle. Fri, Apr 18, 9pm: The Odd Numbers, Chris Landon.. Fri,, Apr 25:: Anyaa Basura. & The Get Down, DJ Basur a. Fri, May 2:: Rin Tin Tin Tiger. Tiger. May 23-24: “Super 23 -24: Rockage Fanime “Supe er Party. The Soul”” P arty. Every Sun,, 7pm: Th he Eulipions Jazz Jam. San Jose.
THE CARA CARAVAN VAN A Sat,, Apr 26, 8pm: The Flesh Villain Hammers, Rock and Roll Villai n Society, Society y, LLucabrazzi. ucabrazzi.. San Jose.
CHARLEY'S CHARLE Y'S LLGG Sat, 7pm: LLong ong Train Train Running Running.. Every Fri-Sat: Live Music. LLos os Gatos.
THE HUDDLE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: Free. over.. Live bands. Fr ee. 21 and over Fremont. Fr emont.
JOHNNY V’S Fri, 7pm: Don’t Don’t CCare, are, Utter Failure, Protest Authority.. Sat: Failur e, Pr otest Authority Pool Party, Zombie P ool P artyy, SStrange trange TTides, ides, KKevin evin Mean and the JOFA. Reptiles, JOF A. San Jose.
MOJO MO JO LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri: Henry Hawk. Sat: Fast TTimes. imes. All shows 9:30pm, $5. Fr emont. Fremont.
RED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE Fri, 8pm: Jazz LLove ove Quintet. Sat, 8pm: Jazz Quintet. Fri, Apr 25, 8pm: Rebop. Sat, Apr 26, 8pm: Blue Light District Blues Band. May 9, 8pm: Odd View.. Owl. Mountain View
RODEO R ODEO CL CLUB UB Wed, Apr 23, 7pm: Thomas Wed, Rhett. $20-$25. San Jose.
SSAN AN JOSE R ROCK OCK SHOP May 1: 90 Days of Summer Summer.. San Jose.
SAN PEDR SAN PEDRO O SQU SQUARE ARE MARKET Fri, 7pm: W Wally ally Schnalle. Sat, 8pm: Robbie Benson of Bros Super Soul Br os and Friends. Saboracito. Fri, Apr 25, 7pm: Sabor acito. Daydream Sat, Apr 26, 8pm: Daydr eam Monkey, Nation w/ Monkey y, Aloha Screwdriver. Scr ewdriver. San Jose.
SAP CENTER SAP (FORMER PAVILION) (F ORMER HP P AVILION) Apr 19, 8pm: Juan Gabriel. Van May 1, 7pm: Armin V an Buuren. Buur en. $45-$115. Jun 3, 7:30pm: Lady Gaga. $45$225. San Jose.
SSTREETLIGHT TREETLIGHT RE RECORDS CORDS Apr 19, 3pm: Recor Recordd SStore tore Day performance perf ormance by Thou and Cloud Rat. San Jose.
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Fri, 8pm: Salsa Spot. $10. Sat Sat, t, 8pm: Roy Rogers, The CCarolyn arolyyn $20-$24. Sills Combo. $20-$2 4. Every
Every Thu: No Cover Covers night. Jun 77,, 8pm: Silicon Valley Brownout. V alley Br ownout. CCupertino. upertino.
Jazz/Blues/ World W oorld AGENDA A GENDA LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, 8pm: Salsa. Thu, 9pm: Wed, Vybez. Banda. Sun: Reggae V ybez. Sun: Reggae Night San Jose.
ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BISTRO BISTRO Fri, 8:30pm: Roger Glenn Latin Jazz Ensemble. $21$30. Sat, 8:30pm: Al Zaid $21-$27. Wed, & Trio. Trrio. $21-$27 7. Every W ed, Celtic 7:30pm: Cel tic Wednesday Wednesday Four Shillings Short. $13-$18. $13-$18. Every TTue: uue: Jazz on TTuesdays. uesdays. u Every Thu, 8pm: Thursday Jr.. Soul TTrain rain with Will Russ Jr Force & The For ce of Will Band. Redwood City. Cityy.
BLUE BL UE R ROCK OCK SHOO SHOOT T Fri-Sat 8pm: Thriving Artists Artists’’ Showcase. Sun, 4pm: Jazz Saratoga. and Blues jam. Sar atoga.
CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH Thu, Apr 17: Wally Wally Schnalle.. Fri, Apr 18,, 9pm: The Odd Numbers, Chris Landon. Fri, Apr 25:: Anya & The Get Down, DJ Basura. Basura. Fri, May 2: Rin Tin Tin Tiger. Tiger. May 23-24: 23 -24:: Rockage Fanime “Super Party. Soul”” P artyy. Every Sun, 7pm: The Eulipions Jazz Jam.. San Jose.
CAFFE FRASCATI FRASCA ATI T Fri, Apr 25, 8pm: Bossa Blue. San Jose.
CLUB CL UB FFOX OX Fri, 8pm: Salsa Spot. $10. Sat, 8pm: Roy Rogers, Rogers The CCarolyn arolyn $20-$24. Sills Combo. $20-$2 4. Every Wed, W ed, 8pm: Club Fox Blues City.. Jam. Redwood City
HEDLEY HEDLE Y CL CLUB UB Thu, 8pm: Gus KKambeitz ambeitz Duo. Fri, 8:30pm: Mason Razavi Quartet. Sat, 8:30pm: Black 3rdd Olive Jazz. Every 1st and 3r Wed: W ed: Jazz Jam. San Jose.
JJ.J.’S .J.’S BL BLUES UES CAFE Blues and Jazz every night. night info. CCall all ffor or inf o. San Jose.
Every Thu: Out of the Blue. Ferrara. Every Sun, 6pm: Joe Fer rara. 8:30pm: Fri, 8pm: Ruckus. Sat, 8:30pm m: Fishook. Los Los Gatos..
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Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fri, 8pm: Hank Shr Shreve eve Band. Sat, 8pm: LLondon ondon & Friends. TTue, uue, 7pm: TTony oony Martinez and Don Nick. CCampbell. ampbell.
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TTue, ue, u 9pm: Karaoke Karaoke with Nick.
Wed, 8pm: The Funny Enough Wed, Show.. $12. Thu, Comedy Show Greg 8pm:: Gr eg Proops Proops (Podcast (Podcast Recording). Recor ding).. $20.. Fri-Sat:: Greg Greg Proops. Pr oops. $22. Sun: Todd Toodd Glass. $20. San Jose.
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BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm:: DJ Hank. Thu, Wed 10pm:: Electro-pop. Electroo-pop pop.. San Jose. Jose
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that they sometimes don’t even put the band’s name on their records.
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Heavier Than Thou
Aspect !DV $RS s P M P M
Collie Buddz
Saturday, April 19 ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 16+
WITH SLOW, chugging riffs, growling vocals and a penchant for large concept albums, Louisiana sludge metal band Thou have, by their very nature, always discouraged mainstream attention. However, lead singer Bryan Funck thinks Thou’s latest album, Heathen, is their most accessible to date. Granted, the songs are longer, slower and centered on the theme of nature and the physical world, with references to authors Thoreau, Kipling and Landstreicher. However, “accessible� is a bit of a stretch, though the album does have catchier vocal melodies and an increasing range in dynamics. There are quiet, gentle interludes that slowly intensify into heavy, consuming metal riffs.
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Thou San Jose Rock Shop April 20, 6:30pm, $5-$6
Thou are happy with their direction and aren’t vying for new fans. They have a modest online presence, and in fact don’t even have a Facebook page. (The one that exists is an unofficial fan page.)
“We’ve never been interested in beating people over the head with selfadvertising or doing any phony networking—and we’ve gone out of our way to grind away the ego of the band. We barely even put our name on the records anymore,â€? Funck says. “We’ve tried to limit it to making our music available and letting people with some level of initiative ďŹ nd us.â€?
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Thursdays & Friday Night 9pm ~ 11pm
Heathen represents the latest in Thou’s desire to push the boundaries of doom metal. In a landscape of Sabbath wannabe bands, Thou instead toys with new ways to make heavy music, which include adding layers of sounds over the riffs, and riding the mood of the chords instead of focusing on the traditional staccato metal groove. Funck doesn’t see Thou as a doom metal band, but more of a grunge band with punk roots. The members grew up listening to punk, hardcore, grunge and ’90s alternative rock. Given such inuences, Thou maintain a modest image and tackle political issues like the dangers of technology and equal rights for all people—that is when they’re not writing concept albums. “I would say that we have an aversion to tough-guy theatrics; ignorant and derisive, shock-value posturing; or exxxtreme, raging, party culture [of metal]—those things probably set us more apart than our personal taste in music,â€? Funck says. The band wants to push things even further in the future. They’ve been talking about recording an all-quiet album (kind of like the mellow acoustic interludes on Heathen, but as the main songs), as well as a black metal album and a hardcore album. “Other than the possible pretty/quiet record we might do down the line, I don’t think we’ll ever not be a heavy band or writing heavy music. We’re not looking to become some kind of spacey jam rock thing or whatever. We just want to explore other paths to heaviness that don’t solely rely on a crushing riff,â€? Funck says. —Aaron Carnes
90 Skyport Drive San Jose, CA (408)392-0212
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KHARTOUM KHAR TOUM Thu,, 9pm: DJ Davey K. CCampbell. ampbell.
Nightly kar karaoke, aoke, 9pm9pm-1:30am. 1:30am. San Jose.
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Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KKOR OR Karaoke. Karaoke. View.. Mountain View
Thu-Sat, 9pm: DJ Curtis. Curtis. San Jose.
Fri-Sun, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke. Willow Glen.
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Wed, W ed, 7pm: KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.
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TTue ue u & Fri, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke with KJ Vinnie. Cupertino. Cupertino.
Dancee Clubs Danc Clubs AGENDA A GENDA
Foxygen FOXYGEN Young songwriting duo borrows from the past to create wholly modern music. April 16 at the Chapel.
SNOOP DOGG Iconic rapper who changed his name for a recent reggae album performs his classic hits. April 17 at the Regency Ballroom.
Wed: Salsa Wednesdays. Wed: Wednesdays. Thu: Noche De Bandas. Sun: Vybez. Reggae V ybez. San Jose.
THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Every Thu, 8pm: A Atomic tomic Dance Club. $5. San Jose.
BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed:: Almaden V Wed: Valley alley Beer Pong ONEmanARMY. P ong with DJ ONEmanARMY Y. Thu: Vintage (’80s, ’90s,, Pop, Pop, Q.. Rock, Hip Hop) with DJ David Q Control. Fri: Quality Contr ol. San Jose.
MOTÖRHEAD Legendary English rockers return with metal as heavy as ever. April 18 at the Warfield.
PETER WHITE Prolific jazz guitarist combines pop and classical for a versatile and accessible sound. April 18-19 at Yoshi’s S.F.
DAVID CROSBY Classic folk-rock singer-songwriter plays solo. April 20-21 at the Great American Music Hall.
More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.
BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Thu, 10pm: Electro-pop. Electro-pop. San Jose.
BRIT ARMS DO DOWNTOWN WNTOWN Wed:: DJ 512. Thu:: DJ Nico & Wed: Neeber.. Fri:: DJ Benofficial & Neeber
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KATIE KA AT TIE BL BLOOM’S OOM’S Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. CCampbell. ampbell.
LIQUID Friday: DJs & dancing. Every second Sat: Girls & Champagne. San Jose.
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MOTIF MO TIF Fri: DJs & dancing. Every ffourth ourth Only.. Sat: Thrive. Sun: Members Only San Jose.
MYTH T TAVERNA AVERNA LLOUNGE OUNGE Every Thu, 9pm: Therapy Therapy Thursday.. Every Fri, 9pm: Soul Thursday Therapy. Ther apy. Every Sat: Social Saturdays. Satur days. San Jose.
NORMANDY HOUSE NORMANDY LLOUNGE OUNGE Thu, 10pm:: Dancing to DJ BenOfficial & DJ Vex. Vex.. Santa Clara. Clara.
PLAYHOUSE PLA AY YHOUSE Thu, 10pm: Ambitious Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Playhouse Industry.. San Jose. Fridays. TTue: ue: u Industry
PURE LLOUNGE OUNGE 408 Fri, 10pm: Ookay Ookay.. $10. Sat, Puree Satur Saturdays 10pm: Pur days - Romeo Reyes. Sunnyvale.
SONOMA CHICKEN CCOOP OOP Thu-Sat, 9pm: Late Night at more. the Coop. Live DJ and mor e. San Jose.
SSTUDIO8 TUDIO8 Fri,, 9pm:: 2Xpr 2Xpress. ess.. Sat,, 9pm: TTina ina TT.. Apr 18:: Bobina.. San Jose.
TRESS GRINGOS TRE Thu: Everybody Get Get’s ’s Lei’d Saturday with DJ Aspect. Aspect. Sat: Satur day DJ-Luzion, Cooldown with DJ-L uzion, Illtraxx, Ill traxx, WreckaNoize WreckaNoize & HiGrade. HiG HiGr ade. d TTues: uues: TTWOSdays. WOSdays. OSd San Jose.
ZEN LLOUNGE OUNGE Thu: Reverse Happy Hour Hour.. Every first Fri: Famous. Every second & ffourth ourth Fri: Diamond. Sat: Girls View.. Night Out. Mountain View
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is (are) (arree) doing business as: Thr TThread ead A Mark, 110315 0315 Shoreham Shor reham Ct., Ct San Jose Jose, CCA, A A, 95127, Romero. 9 5127, Diego R omerro. This business is conducted by by individual. a ind dividual. Registrant R egiistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr rans a sacting business under business name the fictitious fi names herein. or na ames listed her reein. /s/Diego /s/D Diego Romero Romerro This statement was filed with the County C Clerk of Santa Clara 4/04/2014. Clar ra County on 4/04/201 4. Metro 4/23, (pubb Metr ro 4/16, 4/16, 4/2 3, 4/30, 5/07/2014) 5/07 7/2014)
FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #589917 #58 899177
The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e)) doing business as: Stumpy’ s, 11 1163 S tum mpy’s, 63 Lincoln Ave., A ve., San Jose, CA, CA, 95125, 95125, Nicodemus Gaucho Nico odemus LLC, LLC, 11411 411 G aucho Ct., San S Jose, CA, CA, 95118. 95118. This business is conducted by by a limited lim mited liability company. companyy. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the sstate of California 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/James /s/Ja ames Stump Stump Memeber-Managing Mem meberr--Managing #201314910096 #201 1314910096 This statement was filed with the County C Clerk of Santa Clara 3/25/2014. Clar ra County on 3/2 5/2014. Metro (pubb Metr ro 4/16, 4/16, 4/23, 4/23, 4/30, 5/07/2014) 5/07 7/2014)
FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #590098 #59 90098
The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e)) doing business as: TTop op o Wallets, Dr.,., It Offf W allets, 11531 531 Shaw Dr San Jose, CA, CA, 95118, 95118, Courtney Courtney Hunter, 6032 Hunt terr, Fiona Judnall, 60 32 Burnbank San JJose, CCA, B Burn nbank b k Pl., Pl S A A, 95120. 9 5120. This business is conducted by by a copartners. coppartners. Registrant transacting R egiistrant began tr ansacting business ness under the fictitious busi business busi ness name or names listedd herein herein on 3/28/2014. 3/28/2014. /s/Courtney /s/C Courtney Hunter This statement was filed with the County C Clerk of Santa Clara 3/28/2014. Clar ra County on 3/2 8/2014. Metro 4/16, 4/23, (pubb Metr ro 4/09, 4/09, 4/1 6, 4/2 3, 4/30/2014) 4/30 0/2014)
FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #585543 #58 85543
The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e)) doing business as: GZines, GZin nes, 170 170 S. Market St., St., San Jose,, CA, Jose CA, 95113, 95113, Clear Choice Systems Colorado, S ystems of Color rado, a Inc, 1151 51 South Street, Sout th 4th S trreeet, San Jose, CCA, A, 95113. 95113. This business is conducted by by a Corporation. Corporation. Above Abo ve entity was formed in of Colorado the state s Colorado Registrant transacting R egiistrant began tr ansacting business busi ness under the fictitious business busi ness name or names listedd herein herein on 1/1/14. 1/1/14. /s/Richard Horton /s/R Richard Hor ton This statement was filed with Clerk of Santa the County C Clara 3/28/2014. Clar ra County on 3/2 8/2014. Metro 4/16, 4/23, (pubb Metr ro 4/09, 4/09, 4/1 6, 4/2 3, 4/30/2014) 4/30 0/2014)
FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #590110 #59 90110 The following f wing person(s) is follo
(arree) doing business as: (are) a Oaktree Oaktr reee Investments, Investments, 4140 4140 Drive, Alto, Donald Driv e PPalo e, alo Alt to CCA, to, A A, 94306, 9 4306, Shirishkumar PPatel, atel, Nikunjkumar Patel, Patel, 11202 2 202 Dr., Saddles Lake Dr r.,. Abilene, Abillene, TX, 779062. 9062. This business is conducted conduucted by by general partnership. a gener raal par tnership. Registrant transacting R egistrraant began tr ran ansacting fictitious business under the fic ctitious business name or names nam mes herein listed her reein on 1/24/2006. 1/24//2006. Refile previous #472920 R efile of pr reevious file #4 72920 with changes. /s/Bryan Knysh This statement was filed filed with Santa the County Clerk of Sa anta Claraa County on 3/2 3/28/2014. Clar 8/2014. Metro 4/09,, 4/1 4/16, 4/13, (pub Metr ro 4/09 6, 4/1 3, 4/30/14) 4/30/1 4)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #590087
The follo following wing person( person(s) (s) is (are) (ar ree) doing business as: a 1. Morgan Gilroy Mor gan Hill Times, Times, 2. Gilr roy Dispatch, 33.. Holister FFree reee MorganHill.com, Lance, 4. Mor ganHill.ccom, Monterey Road, Gilroy, ey R oad, Gilr 6400 Monter oy, Media, CCA, A, 95020, 95020, New Med ia, Inc., Street. 380 South First S trreeett. This business is conducted conduucted by by Corporation. a Corpor raation. Registrant R egistrraant has not yet yett begun transacting tr ransacting a business uunder the fictitious businesss name herein. or names listed her einn. /s/Dan Pulcrano Pulcrano #C365816 CEO #C36581 6 This statement was fifiled led with the County Clerk of Santa Saanta Claraa County on 3/2 3/28/2014. Clar 8/2014. Metro 4/09, 4/16, (pub Metr ro 4/02, 4/0 09, 4/1 6, 4/23/2014) 4/2 3/2014)
FI FICTITIOUS CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #590086
The follo following wing person( person(s) (s) is as: ((are) (ar ree)) ddoing i bbusiness i a Good G d Weekly, South TTimes imes W eeeklyy, 380 So outh First Street, S treet, San Jose, CA, CA, 95113, 95113, NUZ, N UZ, Inc.. This business is conducted conduucted by by Corporation. a Corpor raation. Above Abo ve entity was formed form med in the state of California Registrant R egistrraant has not yet yett begun transacting tr ransacting a business uunder the fictitious businesss name herein. or names listed her einn. /s/Dan Pulcrano Pulcrano CEO #C3646164 #C3646 164 This statement was fifiled led with Santa the County Clerk of Sa anta Claraa County on 3/2 3/28/2014. Clar 8/2014. Metro 4/16, (pub Metr ro 4/02, 4/09, 4/0 09, 4/1 6, 4/23/2014) 4/2 3/2014)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #589671
The follo following wing person( person(s) (s) is (are) (ar ree) doing business as: a Pollo Pollo 4112 Monterey Rico TTaqueria, aaqueria, 4 112 M Monter ey Rd., #C, San Jose, CA, CA, 95111, 95111, Bernardino 898 Vine Bernar dino Barrera, Barrera, 8 98 V ine St., S t., San Jose, CA, CA, 95110, 951110, Elias Barrera, 22106 St., Barr reera, 2 2106 Queenn S t., Castro Valley, Castr ro V aalleyy, CCA, A, 94546. 94546. This business is conducted conduucted by by general partnership. a gener raal par tnership. Registrant R egistrraant has not yet yett begun transacting tr ransacting a business uunder the fictitious businesss name or names listed herein. hereinn. /s/Bernardino Barrera /s/Bernar rddino Barr reerra This statement was fifiled led with the County Clerk of Santa Saanta Claraa County on 3/1 3/19/2014. Clar 9/2014. Metro 4/09, 4/16, (pub Metr ro 4/02, 4/0 09, 4/1 6, 4/23/2014) 4/2 3/2014)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT # #590082 8
The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) re) e Kalified, doing business as: 1. K alified, a Kalified Apparel, 2. K alified a Appar rel, e 1489 1489 Cresthaven Cr esthaven Ln., San Jose, CA, CA, 95118, Aaron 9 5118, Aar roon Wesson. Weesson. 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/Aaron /s/Aar on Wesson Weesson This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar 3/28/2014. County on 3/2 8/2014. Metro 4/16, (pub Metr ro 4/02, 4/02 4/09, 4/09, 4/1 6 6, 4/23/2014) 4/2 3/2014)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #589859
The following following person(s) is (ar (are) re) e doing business as: Heritance Crafted Archshire Cr afted Goods, 33302 302 Ar chshirre Court, Cour t, San Jose, CA, CA, 95148, 95148, Kevin K eevin Asuncion. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant transacting R egistrraant began tr ransacting a business under the fictitious business name or names herein. listed her reein. ein /s/Kevin /s/K Keevin Asuncion This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar 3/24/2014. County on 3/2 4/2014. Metro 4/16, (pub Metr ro 4/02, 4/09, 4/09, 4/1 6, 4/23/2014) 4/2 3/2014)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #588938
The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar ree) doing business as: Azad Immigration Services, A zad Immigr ration a Ser vices, Lawrence 5510 10 Lawr ence EExpwy, xpwyy, #201, Sunnyvale, 94085, Sunnyv vaale, CCA, A, 9 4085, Gurmit Saini. 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 herein. names listed her ein. /s/Gurmin Saini This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar
Counnty on 3/04/201 County 3/04/2014. 4. Metro 4/09,, 4/1 4/16, 6, (pub Metr ro 4/02, 4/09 4/23/2014) 4/2 3 3/201 4)
FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #589530 #589 9530
The following f wing person(s) is follo (are) (ar e) doing business as: Midas Midaas of Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale, 7725 25 E. Camino Real, Sunnyvale, El Ca mino R eal, Sunnyv ale, Nivinraa Inc, 3614 A, 95135, CCA, 95135, Nivinr 3614 Meadowlands Mead dowlands Ln., San Jose, CCA, A, 95135. 95135. is conducted by This business b by corporation. a cor rporation. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the statee of California Registrant transacting R egisstrant began tr ansacting business busin ness under the fictitious business busin ness name or names listedd herein. herein. /s/Ram /s/R a Iyer am Iyer PPresident reesident #3650266 #365 50266 This sstatement was filed with Claraa the County C Clerk of Santa Clar County 3/18/2014. Coun nty on 3/1 8/2014. Metro 4/09,, 4/1 4/16, 6, (pub Metr ro 4/02, 4/09 4/23/2014) 4/2 3 3/201 4)
FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #588868 #588 8868
The ffollowing followingg pperson(s) ( ) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Shark City Hoops, 1888 H 1888 Kobuk Kobuk o Valley V aalleyy Common, San Jose, CCA, A, 95131, Ronald onald Andaya, Cessmi 9 5131, R Andaya. Anda aya. is conducted by This business b by unincorporated an un nincorporated association otherr than a partnership. partnership. Registrant R egisstrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr rans a sacting business under business name or the fictitious fi names name es listed herein. herein. /s/Cessmi /s/Ce essmi Andaya This statement s was filed with Claraa the County C Clerk of Santa Clar County 2/28/2014. Coun nty on 2/2 8/2014. Metro 4/09, ( b Metr (pub M ro 3/26, / 6 4/02, / 4/09 / , 4/16/2014) 4/1 6/2014)
FICTTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #589356 #589 9356
The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: R Brothers Br roothhers Waterproofing, Waterpr a rooofing, Inc., West 7707 07 W est e Hedding Street, Strreet, e San
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Jose, CA, CA, 95110, 95110, R. Brothers Brothers o Waterproofing W aterprrooofing Inc. This business is conducted conduucted by by a Corporation. Corporation. Above Abo ve entity was formed form med in the state of California Registrant transacting R egistrant began tr ansacting business under the fictitious ficctitious business name or names nam mes listed herein her reein on 112/15/2003. 2/15/2003. /s/Rod Rodriguez /s/R od R odriguez PPresident resident e #2567657 #2 567657 filed This statement was fil led with Santa Claraa the County Clerk of Sa anta Clar County on 3/13/2014. 3/13/2014. Metro 4/09, 4/16, (pub Metr ro 4/02, 4/0 09, 4/1 6, 4/23/2014) 4/2 3/2014)
FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #589348
The follo following wing person( person(s) s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: a R Brothers Br others PPainting ainting Co. Co. Inc, 707 707 West W est Hedding Street, Street, San Jose, CA, CA, 95110, 95110, R. Brothers Brothers o PPainting, ainting, Inc. This business is conducted conduucted by by Corporation. a Corpor ation. Above Abo ve entity was formed form med in the state of California Registrant transacting R egistrant began tr ansacting fictitious business under the fic ctitious business name or names nam mes listed herein 01/03/1999. her reein on 01/0 3/1999 9. Refile #353857 R efile of previous previous file #3 # 53857 expiration after 40 days of expir ration a date. /s/Rod Roriguez origuez /s/R od R PPresident resident e #C2162662 #C21 62662 This statement was filed filled with Santa Claraa the County Clerk of Sa anta Clar County on 3/13/2014. 3/13/2014. Metro 4/16, (pub Metr ro 4/02, 4/09, 4/0 09, 4/1 6, 4/23/2014) 4/2 3/2014)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #5893811 #58938
The follo Th ffollowing ll wing i person(s) person((s)) is i (are) (ar e) doing business as: a Be A 1188 Beacon, 11 88 Lynhurst Lyynhursst QWay, QW Way a, San Jose, CA, CA, 95118, 95118, John Joohn Cunningham. This business is conducted conduucted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant has not yet yett begun transacting tr ansacting business under u the fictitious businesss name or
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names listed herein. herrein. e /s/John Cunningham This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar 3/13/2014. County on 3/1 3/2014. Metroo 3/26, 4/02, 4/09 4/09,, (pub Metr 4/16/2014) 4/1 6/2014)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #589645
The follo following owing w person(s) is (ar (are) ree) doing business as: Distance Unlimited, 1098 1098 Foxchase Foxchase Drive., #179, Driv e., #1 79, San Jose, CCA, A, 95123, 9 5123, LLeTia eTia TTybor. ybor y r. 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 herein. names listed her rein. e /s/LeTia /s/L eTia TTybor yybor This statement was filed with Claraa the County Clerk of Santa Clar 3/19/2014. County on 3/1 9/2014. Metroo 3/26, 4/02, 4/09, (pub Metr 4/09, 4/16/2014) 4/1 6/2014)
ORDER TTO O SH SHOW OW CAUSE CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CCASE#114CV262234 ASE#1144CV262234
SUPERIOR CCOURT SUPERIOR OURT OF CCALIFORNIA, ALIFORNIA, CCOUNTY OUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, NORTH SA NTTA CL LARA,, 1191 91 NO 9 RTH STREET, SAN JOSE, FFIRST IRST S TREET, SA N JOS E, CCA A 95113 THEE M MATTER 9 5113 IIN N TH ATTTER OF SHAKONDI NAKOLE JACKSON. S HAKONDI N AKOLE JA CKSON. THEE COURT TH COURT FINDS FINDS that PPetitioner(s) etitioner(s) has/have has/have filed decree for a decr ree e changing name(s) follows as follo ws PPresent reesent name: YYASHVEER ASHVEER SASIDHARAN SASIDHARAN PProposed rooposed name: YYASHVEER ASHVEER SRIESH SRIESH THEE COURT TH COURT ORDERS ORDERS that interested all persons inter ested in this before matter shell appear befor re this courtt at the hearing indicated cour below show any, belo ow to sho w cause, if any y, off why h the h petition i i ffor change h name should not be granted. granted. Notice of Hearing on June 10, 10, 2014 201 4 at 8:45 8:45 a.m. in Room Room 1107 07 located at 1191 91 located at 1191 91 North Street, Nor th First S treet, San Jose, CCA, A, 95113. 95113. order A CCOPY OPY of this or rder d to show shoow cause shall be published at least once each week week for four
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #589597
The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar re) e doing business as: West Pho LLove9, ove9, 1663 1663 W eest San Carlos St., St., San Jose, CA, CA, 95128, 9 5128, Phung My My Nguyen, Nguyen, 11009 009 Matterhorn Ct., Milpitas, CA, CA, 95035. 95035. This business is conducted bbyy a individual. Registrant R egistrrant a began transacting tr raansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein her ein on 3/18/2014. 3/18/2014. /s/Phung My My Nguyen Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Claraa County on Santa Clar 3/18/2014. 3/1 8/2014. Metro (pub Metr ro 3/26, 4/02, 4/09,, 4/16/2014) 4/09 4/16/2014)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #588629
The following following person(s) is (are) (ar re) e doing business as: Champions Bistro, Bistro, 16500 16500 Condit Road, Road, Morgan Morgan Hill, CA, CA, 95037, 950377, Rhonda Bahrami, Valley Bahr ami, 33358 358 V aalley FForge oorge Way, W aay, San Jose, CA, CA, 95037. 950377. This business is conducted bbyy a individual. Registrant R egistrrant a has not transacting yyet et begun b tr ransacting a i business under the fictitious business name or herein. names listed her ein. Bahrami /s/Rhonda Bahr rami a This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Claraa County on Santa Clar
2/2 2/24/2014. 24/2014. (pubb Metr Metro 3/19, (pu ro 3/1 9, 3/26, 4/02, 4/09/2014) 4/0 02 4/09/201 02, 4)
FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #589507 #5 89507
Thee follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar e doing business as: e) Happy Hearts Hap ppy Hear ts Daycare, Daycare, 2865 Crest Court, 2 86 65 Buena Cr rest e Cour t, Sann Jose, CA, CA, 95121, 95121, Ofelia Abuluyan, Abu uluyan, Robin Robin Abuluyan. Thiss business is conducted bbyy a married couple. Registrant R eggistrant has not transacting yyet et begun tr ansacting business bus siness under the fictitious ficti itious business name or names nam mes listed herein. herrein. e /s/Ofelia /s/ Ofelia Abuluyan Thiss statement was filed withh the County Clerk of Santa Clara San nta Clar ra County on 3/17/2014. 3/1 7/2014. (pubb Metr Metro (pu ro 3/26, 4/02, 4/09, 4/16/2014) 4/0 09, 4/1 6/2014)
FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #589475 #5 89475
Thee follo following wing person(s) is (are) (aarree) doing business as: Manila Dental Center 1,, 1613 1613 N. Capitol p Ave., Ave.,, Sann Jose, CA, CA, 95132, 95132, Christopher Viray Chr ristopher Q. V irray a Dental Corporation, 1100 Zamoraa Cor rporraation, 11 00 Zamor Ct., Milpitas, CA, CA, 95035. 95035. Thiss business is conducted corporation. bbyy a corpor ation. Above Abo ove entity was formed in the state of California Registrant R eggistrant began transacting tr ran ansacting business under the fictitious business name nam me or names listed herein 03/12/14. her rein e on 0 3/12/14. /s/Christopher Viray /s/C Christopher Q. V irray a PPresident reessident #1830484 #1 830484 This statement was filed This fil d withh the County Clerk of Santa Clara San nta Clar ra County on 3/17/2014. 3/1 7/2014. (pubb Metr Metro (pu ro 3/26, 4/02, 4/09, 4/16/2014) 4/0 09, 4/1 6/2014)
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CECIL@METR CECIL METRONEWS.COM ONEWS..COM Englan I was talking to someone at work who recently recentlly stayed with relatives in England, nd, and was surprised prised when she told me sometimes sometim mes her mother’s mother’’s food tasted like surp soap because e her family didn’t didn’t rinse dishes after affter washing them—they just sett them in a rack k to dry. dry y. She said everyone does it i that way in England. Is that true? trrue? W o ouldn’t eating eatiing soap be bad for you? —Amanda —Amanda Wyman, Rhinelander, Rhinelanderr, Wisconsin Wiiscon nsin Wouldn’t JJust ust when yyou o think nothing surprises ou yyou, ou, o somethingg surprises you. you. o I had of course courrse heard heard U.K. U..K. horror horror stories about teeth ab out bad teeth, h, inedible food, food, chilblains from damp,, ineff ineffectual stemming fr ro om m cconstant onsttaant damp ffeectual plumbing, plumbing g, football foottball hooligans, hooligans, shoddy shoddy automobiles,, tr truculent unions,, st standoffish automobiles ruculent unions andoffish people, p eople, and general gen neral torpor torpor and decline. decline. However, visiting Howe ever, on vi isiting the kingdom rrecently eccently e and finding it (London ( ondon and Oxfordshire, (L Oxffo ordshire, anyway) entirely date,, the weather an nyw yway) y entir rely e up to date fine,, and the citizenry cittizenry charming, fine charmingg, I figured figured was lingering such ttalk aalk w aas li ingering bad PR stemming from fr rom o shock shock at loss l of empire, empire, and that tales taales dishes weree lik likewise of unrinsed dis shes wer kew wise a vvestige estige off the th past. t I said saiid i as much h to t my my assistant assist i tantt Fierra, F ierra, who despite desspite having haaving v developed deeveeloped an inexplicable ine explic x caable fondness fon ondness for fo or American Americcaan muscle U.S., proclaims ccars aars during herr time in the U .S., pr roclaims origins opens her English ori igins eevery ver e y time she op ens her mouth. Fierra bore F ierra madee an eexpression xpr x reession that b orre a smile.. “L “Let share rresemblance eesemblance to o a smile et me shar re a story, stor y,” she said. “Back when n I was waas in Brownies, Brownies, they theey had a Housework Houseew wo ork badge. badge. As As part parrt of our Housework badge House ew work ba adge we had to know how to wash wash a up and d dry drry dishes. dishes. They Theey taught taught yyou ou o to run hott water waater with washing-up washing-up a liquid into the washing-up waashing-up bowl bowl and wash waash from dirty most—to start fr rom o least dir ty to most t— —to st tar art with the glassware, cutlery, glass swaare, and then t the cutler y, after that any cups,, side plates plates,, and b bowls. an ny cups p owls. Then on to platess that held gr greasy like the main plate reas e sy ffood ood lik ke potatoes, etc.. After that, rroast o oast meat, rroast o oaast p otatoes, etc pots pans,, with the yyou'd ou'd o go on to the p ots and pans tray being rroasting o oasting tra ay orr ccasserole aasserole dish b eing the last. All the dishes dish hes would go on the dish rack—you would rack k—you wou uld dry dry off whatever whateever didn't fit on the rack, but you you o certainly cerrtainly wouldn't rinse anything. an nything y g. Only if the water waater turned entirely, into soup yyou ou o might m sswap waap it out entir rely e y, or yyou ou might put p some of the pans or nasty dishes wash rreally eeally nast ty dish hes to soak, then w aash them later with fresh frreesh h water. waaterr.” “They “The ey gave gaave a badge for fo or that?” thatt?” ? I asked. ask keed. “They “The ey did.” ““And A And I am to o understand understand that this was waas that,, in the days the standard sttandar a rd off hygiene hyg ygiene y daayys before was b effor ore shared shared housework, h ework, house w waas placed placced e before b effor ore the future futu ure homemakers homemak keers of Britain Brittaain and admire?” as a model model to emulate e admire?” “You “Y You o are. arre.” occurred ““And A And it has o ccurr c ed to no one in leaving England that le eaaving v soap on the dishes means you you o taste taastte it with every everry meal?” “So you you o say. saay. I never neeveer tasted taasted it, nor did any an ny
myy family and friends. off m friends. It only seems seem ms to bee Americ Americans ab b caans who are arre complaining complaining about bout our ou ur dishes. dishes.” “I don’t don n’t ’ wish to be be disrespectful. disrespecttful. f However, gives H Howe eveerr, a ccountry ountry that giv ves e its traditional raditional dishes names such as ‘toad-in‘toad d-intr the-hole, th he-hole,’‘bubble and squeak,’ and ‘spotted ‘spot ottted dick’ di ick’ isn’t isn n’t ’ setting setttting itself a high bar, barr, foodwise. foodwise dw .” “The country countr o ry that gave gaave the world super super sizing, siz zingg, and where wherre waiters waaiters routinely routinely ask, ask k, ‘‘Are A Are you you o still working on that?’ thatt?’ as though thou ugh yyou o were ou were digging a ditch, is hardly hardly in a position to complain. ” p o osition complain. o “Surely “Sur reely Britons rinse off when they theey shower?” sh hower?” “They “Th “The ey do, d , but do b t normally ll one doesn’t d esn do n’t ’t bring br ring in the dishes when one showers. showerss. any indoor bathrooms weree a In n an ny ccase, ase, indo or bathr rooms wer luxury lu uxury in the U.K. U..K. until the 1960s, 1960s, and d showers didn’t become until sh howers didn n’t ’ b eccome o ccommon ommon unti il the an 1980s. 19 980s. Before Beffo ore that one took took a bath, and nd the th he nature naturre of a bath is such that you you o were w re wer often oft ften left with some residual residual soap. soap.” ““And A And no one minded.” “It depends depends what you you o mean by by ‘minded. ‘m minded.’ We’re We’re a frugal people, people, only rrecently e ently arrived ec arrivved e at wealth, wealth and then in the southeast of England. We’ve m mostly We’ve grown gr rown o up making do. do. Only about about four fo ou ur in 10 0 homes have haave an automatic dishwasher, dish hwaash herr, ccompared o ompar ed to 78 percent perrcent in the U.S. U.S . . In Britain Br rittaain water water a and heating costs costs o are are higher, hi igherr, sinks are arre smaller, smallerr, and rather than han th bowls served byy a single mixing ttap, ttwo w wo b owls ser veed b aap, w usually have we haave a single bowl bowl with two tw wo spigots, sp pigots, all of which makes mak kes e rinsing difficult diffi fficult Even Ev ven e so, so, of Britons who wash waash dishes by by hand, ha and, more morre than 60 60 percent perrcent rinse them theem afterward. aft fterwar a d.” “There “Ther re you you o go, go,” I said. “By your your o own n account not rinsing was ac ccount o was a once oncce the default defaault national na ational practice, practicce, and now it’s itt’s receding reccedin e ng into history. Soon habit in nto histor y. So on this disgusting habi it w be will be at an end, and with it the risk of o gastroenteritis ga astroenteritis the next neexxt time some Brit Briit invites over shepherd’s pie..” in nvvites yyou ou o o veer ffor or o shepher rd’ d s pie “Nonsense, Fierra. “N onsense,” said F ierra. “Whatever “Whateever e the theoretical th heorreeticcaal risk, there’s there’s no evidence evidenc v ce of any an ny health he ealth consequences consequenc o q es arisingg from from British Brittish dishwashing methods. di ish hwashing a methods. “Let’s perspective. “L et’s put this in p erspective. All societies have quirks.. Britons ar aren’t so ocieties ha ave their quirks n’’t en dishes,, while in the U U.S. m much ffor or rinsing dishes o .S. would ... well, let me put it to yyou: o ou: What wou uld endure—the occasional yyou o ou rather endur re—the o ccasional a ttaste as aste of soap, so oap, in the opinion of some some—or —or a lif lifetime fetime e off insipid cheese cheese,, cho chocolate, co olate, and b beer?” eerr?” ?”
FREE W WILL ILLL A ASTROLOGY STROLOGY ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): It It’s ’ss Compensation Week. Week.
If you have in the past suff ered fr om injustice, it ’s an suffered from it’s excellent time to go in quest of rrestitution. estitution. If you have you been deprived of the beauty yo u need to thrive, now is the time to get filled up. Wher rever your lif Wherever lifee has been out of balance, you have the pow power wer to cr create eate mor moree harmony. harmony. Don Don’t ’t be shy about see seeking eking rredress. edress. A Ask sk restorations. But don’t, don’t, people to make amends. Pursuee restorations. under any cir circumstances, cumstances, lust ffor o rrevenge. or evenge.
TAURUS T AURUS (April 20-May 20): “Our “ br brains ains ar aree no
longer conditioned ffor or rreverence everencee and awe,” said novelist John Updike. That ’s a sad saad possibility. possibility. Could That’s you please do something to disp dispute pute or over override ride it, TTaurus? aaurus? W Would ould it be too much too ask if I encour encouraged aged you to go out in quest of lyrical mir miracles acles that fill you with wonder? CCan an I persuade yo you ou to be alert ffor or sweet provoke mysteries that pr ovoke dizzyingg joy and uncanny br eakthroughs that heal a woun nd you’ve ffeared eared might breakthroughs wound Here’s whatt the astr astrological fforever orever plague you? Her e’s wha ological omens suggest: Phenomena that stir rreverence e ence and awe ar ever aree moree likely than usual. ffar ar mor
GEMINI (May 2121-June June 20): I wonder w if it it’s ’s time ffor or
you to modify an old standby standby.. I’m m getting the sense that you should consider tinkering with w a ffamiliar amiliar rresource esource that has ser ved you pr etty well. Why? This rresource esource served pretty may have some hidden weaknes ss that you need to weakness attend to in or order der to pr prevent event a ffuture uture disruption. Now occasions might i ht be b one off those th rrare are occa sions i when h you should h ld ignoree the old rule, “If it ain’t ignor ain’t br broke, o don oke, don’t ’t fix it.” So be proactive, what’s pr oactive, Gemini. Investigate w hat’s going on beneath the surf surface. ace. Make this your mot motto: to: “I will solve the problem before it’s pr oblem bef ore it ’s a problem—and problem— —and then it will never problem.” be a pr oblem.”
CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): “D “Do Do you rreally eally have what
it takes or do you not have whatt it takes?” That ’s the That’s wrong wr ong question to ask, in my op opinion. pinion. YYou oou can can’t ’t possibly know the answer ahead of time or one thing. TToo dwell time,, ffor on that quandary would put youu on the def defensive ensive and activate your ffear, ear, diminishi diminishing ing your power to accomplish the task at hand. He Here’s ere’s a mor moree useful inquiry: “Do you want it str strongly onglyy enough or do you not want it str strongly ongly enough?” With this as your meditation, you might be inspir inspired ed to do wha whatever’s atever ’ss necessary to pump up your desir e. And that iss the single best thing desire. you can do to ensur ensuree your ul ultimate timate success.
LLEO EO ((July July 23-Aug. 23-Aug. 222): 2): I swear my meditations ar aree more dynamic when I hike along the tr ail thr ough the more trail through pretzeled up inn the lotus position back marsh than if I’m pretzeled bedroom. Maybe I’ve been influenced by Aristotle’s Aristotle’s in my bedroom. Peripatetic School. He felt felt his students stu udents learned best Peripatetic when they accompanied him on long strolls. strolls. Then there there was philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzssche who testified that his most brilliant thoughts came to him as he rrambled ambled ffar ar and wide. Even if this possibility possibility seems whimsical to you, Leo, I invite you to give it a try. try. According According to my astrological ologicaal omens, your moving rreading eading of the current current astr body is likely to generate generate bright ideas i and unexpected solutions and visions of futur futuree ad adventures. dventures. es VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23 23-Sept. -Sept. 22): Thr Throughout roughout North America
and Europe Europe there there are are hundreds hundreds of unused rroads. oads. Many aree former ar former exit and entrance entrance ramps ram mps to major highways, abandoned for for one reason reason or another. annother. Some are are stretches str etches of pavement that usedd to be parts of main thoroughfares thor oughfares before before they were were rerouted. rerouted. I suggest we make ““unused unused roads” roads” your metaphor m of the week, Virgo. Vir go. It may be time for for you to bring some of them back into operation, operation, and maybe even relink relink them to the pathways they were were originally joined jooined to. Are Are there there any missing connections in your life life that you would love to restore? restore? Any partial bridges you y feel feel motivated to finish building?
LIBRA ((Sept. p 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22):) KKarma arm ma work workss both ways. y If
you do ignorant ignorant things, ignorant ignorantt things may eventually be done to you. Engage in generous generrous actions, and at some futur futuree date you may bee the unexpected beneficiary of gener osity. I’m ex pecting mor generosity. expecting moree of the latter than the fformer ormer ffor or you inn the coming days, Libr a. Libra. I think ffate ate will bring you sweet compensations ffor or your enlightened behavior in the pas past. t. I’m rreminded eminded of the ffairy airy tale in which a peasant girll goes out of her way to be kind to a seemingly ffeeble, eeblee, disabled old woman. The cr crone one turns out to be a goo goodd witch who rrewards ewards the girl with a bag of gold. But as a I hinted, ther theree could
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t other kind of karma lurking in your also be a bit of that vicinity. vicinity. W Would ould yo you ou like to war wardd it off? All you have to do is unleash a flur fl flurry ry of good deeds. Anytime you have a chance to helpp people in need, do it.
SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oc (Oct. ct. 23-Nov. 23-Nov. 21): A Ass they lie in the sand,
crocodiles aree in the habit of opening their African cr ocodilees ar jaws wide ffor or ho hours ours at a time. It keeps them cool and allows ffor or bir birds ds called c plovers to stop by and pluck aree stuck between the cr crocs’ morsels of ffood ood that ar ocs’ molars. The rrelationship elattionship is symbiotic. The teethfree provide service cleaners eat ffor or fr ee as they pr ovide a ser vice ffor or the large lar ge reptiles. reptiles. As As I analyze your astr astrological ological aspects, Scorpio II’m Scorpio, m incli inclined ned to see an opportunity coming your plovers’.’. way that has a certain c rresemblance esemblance to the plovers CCan an you summo summon n the necessary trust and cour courage age to advantage? take full advanta age?
SSAGITTARIUS AGITT TARIU A US (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): Ar Aree you sur suree you obstacles? afraid have enough ob stacles? I’m afr aid you’re you’re running low. low. And that wouldn wouldn’t n’t be heal healthy, thyy, would it? Obstacles keep you honest, after after all. They motivate you to get smarter. smarter. They compel youu to grow grow your willpower and develop moree cour mor courage. age. Please Please understand that I’m not talking about trivial andd boring obstacles that make you numb. I’m rreferring eferring to scintillating obstacles that fir firee up your imagina imagination, ation, rrousing ousing obstacles that excite your determination too be who you want and get what you want. So your assignment asssignment is to acquire acquire at least one interesting It’s new inter estingg obstacle. It ’s time to tapp into a deeper p strain str ain of your ingenuity. inggenuity. CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): In 1937 1937, 7, physicist George George P Paget aget Th Thomson homson won a Nobel Prize ffor or the work he did to pprove electron That’s rove that the electr on is a wave. That ’s funny, funnyy, because his h ffather, ather, physicist JJ.J. .J. Thomson, was awarded Nobel awarded the No bel Prize in 1906 ffor or showing that the electron electron is a par particle. ticle. TTogether, oogetherr, they helped tell the whole story abo about electron, ut the electr on, which as we now know is both a wave aand it’s nd a particle. I think it ’s an excellent time ffor George or you to try t something similar to what Geor ge did: ffollow ollow up onn some theme fr from om the lif lifee of one of your par parents ents or mentors; be inspir inspired ed by what he or she did, but also go beyond b it; build on a gift he or she gave the world, extending extending or expanding it. AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. ((J 20-Feb. 20 F b 18): 18) YYou ou o have h b been a pretty pretty decent stu student udent lately lately,, Aquarius. The learning curve steep,, but you master mastered curve was steep ed it as well as could be expected. YYou moree attention to the oouu had to pay mor intricate details than you liked, which was sometimes excruciating, butt you summoned the patience to tough it out. Congr Congrats! against-the-grain effort ats! YYour our o against-the-gr ain eff ort was worth it. YYou aree definitely smarter now than you wer weree oou ar four weekss ago. But you ar aree mor moree wir wired, Moree four week ed, too. Mor stressed. stressed. In the next n chapter of your lif lifee story you will need some down downtime ntime to integr integrate ate all you’ve absorbed. I suggest you sc schedule hedule some sessions in a sanctuary where moree deeply than you’ve allowed where you can rrelax elax mor yourself to rrelax elax in a while. PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 19-March ch 20): YYou oou have the power to shut what hass been open or open what has been shut. That That’s ’s a lott of responsibility. responsibility. Just because you have the power to unleash these momentous actions doesn’t doesn’t mean yo you ou should rrashly ashly do so. Make sur suree your motivations ar aree pur puree and your integrity is high. TTry rry to keep ffear ear and eg egotism gotism fr from om influencing you. Be awar awaree that whatever yo you ou do will send out ripples ffor or months to come. And wh when aree confident that you have hen you ar taken the pr proper operr pr precautions, ecautions, by all means pr proceed oceed with vigor and ri rigor. gor. Shut what has been open or open what has been shut—or s both. Homework: Co Comment omment on the ffollowing ollowing hypothesis: "Y "You Yo ou know what to do and you know when to o do it." it." Freewillastrology.com Freewillastrologyy..com
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