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A writer, editor, publisher, designer and musician, Erik Jay rightly called himself a polymath. To the staff at Metro, he was also a good friend and admired colleague. Jay died of complications of liver cancer April 21 at his home in Felton. His wife, Lydia, was with him.

Jay worked as a proofreader for Metro and its sister publication, Santa Cruz Weekly, for three years.

His long history in publishing and media included a decade as the executive editor and publications director for the Magazine Corporation of America and serving as the managing editor for The New American Magazine and The Foothills Paper.

Jay was born Erik Johnson in 1953 in Maryland and raised in Palo Alto.

He attended college in Los Angeles.

He and Lydia married in 1985 at the Church of the Valley in Santa Clara Jay maintained a lifelong career in publishing, all the while keeping up a second career in performing and writing music. In the 1980s, he worked with pianist Vivian Grant, former accompanist for jazz singer Anita O’Day. Jay’s own composition style blended elements of jazz, pop, Latin, rock, country and R&B. An arranger and producer, Jay was also a multi-instrumentalist.

He recorded two albums, Heart, Mind and Soul and Conjurer, and earned an Honor Award from the Great American Song Contest. For six years, Jay served as the music director for a community church in HIghland Park.

“He was a genius,” Lydia Jay says.

“And he was a good man. He had the best heart of anyone I know, helping all the homeless people in Felton.

He was a helper and he just had a tremendous heart.”

Jay is survived by wife Lydia; siblings Karen, Kristen and David; daughter Monica and son-in-law Lamont and grandchildren Tiana, Lamont Jr. and Aliyah. (Also, as Lydia notes, Jay would have wanted to mention the family dog, Max.) Information on services is still pending. Donations may be made in Jay’s name to local organizations that serve the homeless.

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THE T HE FL FFLY LY

Never N ever Too Tooo Late Late Councilmemberss in San Jose can be a notoriously tar dyy bunch,, running fr om one tardy from event to the nex xt,, shaking the occasional next, baby and kissingg the occasional hand.

(W Waait,, is it the ot ther way ar ound?) But (Wait, other around?) it appears the mayor m ’s race race has been mayor’s especially time consuming c ffor or a couple of elected officia als A als. nd their colleagues officials.

And ar more than a little annoyed.. Several Several aree more sour ces on the council c tell Fly that in the sources last couple mon ths R OSE H ERRERA and months ROSE HERRERA SSAM AM LICCARDO LICCARDO have consistently walked into closed sess ion meetings late—and session sometimes extr e emely late—only to ask extremely questions that fforce orce city staff to rrepeat epeat their rreports. eports.. “W When someone comes “When in late and start startss asking questions about somethin somethingg that happened an ho our hour They ago it ’s really really not noot fair,” fairr,,” it’s Did one politico lam ented. lamented.

What?

Liccar do told Flyy he’s he’s Liccardo been late on occ casion occasion SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O FLY@ FL Y@ but deadpanned d,, “One deadpanned, METRONEWS. METR ONEWS. sour ce of annoy yance source annoyance COM CO M to my colleague colleaguess is that I’m runni ng running against a candid date that they support ffor or candidate mayor .”” Closed session s items discussed mayor.” and voted on behind beehind closed doors can include potentia al litigation,, rreal eal estate potential tr ansactions,, labor labbor negotiations and transactions, personnel evalua ations—basically some of evaluations—basically the biggest issu es the city ffaces. aces. A nother issues Another councilmember told Fly that ““most most days days”” closed session it tems ar more important items aree more than what’s what’s discussed disccussed in open meetings.

Her rera has the only unexcused absence in Herrera the last two mo nths,, according according to city staff months, staff,f, but an inter estinng detail came out of Fly’s interesting rresearch. esearch.. Councilmembers Counciilmembers must attend closed session,, open o session and the occasional even ing session or have their evening pay docked if ann absence is unexcused.. But ther alty for for showing up for for the theree is no pena penalty last ffew ew minutess of a meeting,, as long as they sign their name n on a closed session rroll oll sheet. sheet A staffer stafffer for for Mayor Chuck Reed said ““general general tardiness” tarrdiness” is always an issue but he doesn’t doesn’t rrecall ecall Liccar do and Her rera Liccardo Herrera missing key votes. votees. As As ffor or the other two mayor al wannab bes,, sour ces say Vice Mayor mayoral wannabes, sources M ADISON N GUY YEN would get an apple ffor or MADISON NGUYEN her attendance while w PIERL UIGI O LIVERIO PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO 10 minutes behind. has occasionallyy run 55-10

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Battle Shift

BOATS B BO ATS A AND ND H HOLES OLES Rival mo model odel warship clubs have been trading barbs ev ver since they were barred fro om competing at P enitencia Cr reek pond. ever from Penitencia Creek

Accusations of stray bullets bullets, s, water pollutio pollution on fly in war off model warship warsship clubs BY B Y JENNIFER W WADSWORTH ADSWOR A RTH

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nemy warships warships are closing in. The USS IIowa owa veers back and forth to defend the Alli as well Allies ll as go on the h offensive—a o ffensive—a risky move. But But Admiral Fox A Admir al F ox is new to the command. co ommand. And it’s it’s beginning beginniing to o show show..

The Axis ccombat ombat b boats oats pla play ay a gam game me off ccat at and mouse d dmiral F oxx mouse,, luring A Admiral Fox further fu urther fr from om the vvessels eessels it is his dut duty ty to o pr otect. In an at ttempt t protect. attempt to sink and de estroy, he has left his own fleet of ccargo arrgo destroy, sh h op hi hips en to enem my fir fi e. Pummeled ld ships open enemy fire. b tillery, thr ee of the Allies’ ships si ink byy ar artillery, three sink to o the deep ffeer thee deep.. In time time,, others suff suffer in ndignitty of surr enderr, including the indignity surrender, fformidable o ormidable Fr ench battleship batttleship t Dunk keerrque q .

French Dunkerque.

The Axis of Evil wins this balm balmyy Se eptember da ay. The victors ging September day. victors,, bragg bragging ri ghts and rremote emote ccontrols ontrols firmly rights

in hand, let lo loose ose a he hearty arty rround ound of high fiv fives. es.

“It’s “It t’s a fight to the end,,” sa says ayys R Rob ob o Wood, W ood, sec second-in-command cond-ino co ommaand at W Western eestern Warship Club Club,, a gr group ro oup of o mo model del b boaters oaters that meets at nor north rtth San JJose’s ose’s P Penitencia enitencia Creek Cr eek to rre-enact e-enact W World o orld War I and W World o orld War II bat tttles with 3- to 6-f 6 foott--long battles 6-foot-long rreplica eeplicca bat ttleships t .“P eop ple lo ove it. The ey’r y e battleships.

“People love They’re ha avving the time of their liv llives vees out ther e.” having there.

But a gr eater bat tttle iss br ewing—one greater battle brewing—one with p olitical implic atio ons and public political implications saf feetty cconcerns oncerns that thr e eaten to run the safety threaten club out of town.

“Someone out ther re has a vvendetta, eendettta,” there W ood sa ayys ominously y. “II don n’t ’ know Wood says ominously. don’t what the ey st and to gain … but it puts they stand our hobb by in the cr osshaairs.” hobby crosshairs.

N ot long after the gr e Axis & eat Not great Allies skirmish of 2013, someone s sent an anon nyymous let tter t to San JJose’s ose’s cit ty anonymous letter city at ttorne t ey w aarning of the p ond bat tttles, attorney warning pond battles, with their pr ojectile fir projectile firee and radio radio-ccontrolled ontrolled b oats ccareening aareeniing ar ound boats around in public drinking w ater a r. Bat ttteries water.

Batteries in sunk keen vvessels essels e ccould ould leach l toxins sunken into the p ercolation p on nds, the let ttter percolation ponds, letter

w aarned. An nd BBcalib a er ammo ccould ould warned.

And BB-caliber p eg someon ne in the eeye ye or p elt a peg someone pelt duck. (Skipp pers pr otest that cceaseease(Skippers protest allled whene fir es ar veer w aaterfo owl fires aree ccalled whenever waterfowl paddle thr o ough one of these maritime through onslaughts . .) onslaughts.)

In JJanuary, anuaary, the P enitencia p onds Penitencia ponds b ecame pa art of the cit ty parks ssystem, ystem, became part city shifting p errmitttting rresponsibilities esponsibilities permitting fr om the Sa anta Clara V alle a y Water from Santa Valley ose’s parks division.

District to San JJose’s W orried o ab bout the public saf fet e y risk Worried about safety and a mun nicipal rule that outla aw ws municipal outlaws pr ojectile llaunching, aunching, the cit ty held off projectile city on appr ovi ving a p ermit to W estern e approving permit Western Warship ood lobbied C ouncilman Warship.. W Wood Councilman Kansen Ch hu ffor o or an eexception, xception, sinc Chu sincee the p onds lie in n his district. ponds The mot tion is b eing held up to giv ve motion being give Ste ve Ham mmack, a deput ty dir ector in Steve Hammack, deputy director the parks depar d tment, time to study department, the issue issue..

“W We w aan nt to mak ke sur “We want make suree that if we go thr ough thee tr ouble of changing the through trouble or rd dinance that t we pr otect against toxins ordinance protect in the p ond ds and mak ke sur fe ponds make suree the wildlif wildlife blic is saf fe,” Hammack sa ays y, and the pub public safe, says, hinting tha at the back k--and-ffo orth b ettween w that back-and-forth between the clubs on nly ccomplicates ompliccaates mat ttters. only matters.

It ’s a mo o p ot oint ffor or o the time b eing, It’s moot point being, because b eccause a thee w water aater district drained the ponds drought. p onds to ccope o e with the dr op ought. bee nic nicee to ha have access “But it would w b ave ac ccess to spot future, Wood says. this sp ot in the futur e,” W ood sa ayys.

$1,000. $1,000. Man Many ny of them get out outfitted tfi fitttted with pneumatic ccannons annons a and ar aree mo modeled deled after early 2 20th-century 0th-century bat battleships ttleships t lik like ke the USS USSS Des Moines M Moines,, HMS Dr Dreadnought readnought e or the infamou infamous us German Bismarck.

Bismarrcck. want moree p people ““All All I w A aan nt is ffor or o mor eople to learn ab about hobby, says Wood, out this hobb by,” sa ays y W ood, who plans anoth another vs.. Allies showdown her Axis vs before audience 1,200 Maker beffor o e an au udience of 1,20 0 at the Mak keer Faire have Faire in San Mateo this month. “I ha ave nothing aga against any club.. … I just ainst an ny other club don’t want fire. don n’’t w aant ours o ccoming oming o under fir e.” between The ffeud eud e db ettw ween the ttwo wo clubs w goes about over goes back ab bout a yyear eear and stems o ver e a disagr disagreement boats eem ment on the size of the b oats and the le level artillery.

Years ago,, Haole vel e of ar tillery. Y eears ago and some off his ccolleagues Pacific olleagues in the P acific Model Warship weree memb members Mo del Wars ship club wer ers of W Western Warship.. But the gr group estern e W Warship roup o splintered, new splintered, and a the ne ew club fformed o ormed with the ffocus larger-scale ocus c on building lar gerr-sccale a warships, with moree mo modeling detail waarships, wi ith mor deling det taail and fewer guns.. fewer guns emphasis was “Our Our em mphasis w aas as much on the building attention craft of build ding and the at tttention to details dettails a as thee ccombat, ombat,” Haole eexplains. xplains.

“You look “Y You o lo ok att their ships and yyou’ll ou ou’’ll three see duct ttape aape and ttwo w wo or thr ee times as man many guns. ny gun ns. One of their ships has 32 guns guns.. On others yyou’ll ou’ll see that the o superstructure isn’t superstructu ure isn n’’t eeven veen built.”

Public offi officials have been hesitant fficials ha ave b een hesit ant to p permit armed 12-foot model ermit ar rmed 12-f foot mo del ships— basically basically thee size of a manned ccanoe—on anoe—on a small pond. sunken ll park kp ond. d Pulling P lli up sunk keen boats herculean boats can can also alsso be be a her culean ttask, aask, as some weigh pounds. h close to 400 400 p ounds.

Last Pacific Model Last year, yeearr, Haole and his P acific Mo del Warship club clu ub rejoined rejoined Western Weestern Warship in hop hopes permit play. es of jo jjockeying ck keying y ffor or a p o ermit to pla ay.

When that didn didn’t happen, d ’t happ en, and Haole saw city Wood saaw the cit ty working with W ood to come with permit come up wit th a plan that would p ermit only the smaller-scale smaallerr-sccaale ships, ships, he quit and offensive, blogg went on thee off ffeensivve, firing off blo posts about political stray posts ab bout p olitic li i all fa ffavors avors o and d stra ay BB bullets hit hitting leg. ttin t ng ffolks olks o in the leg g.

“There’s kids,, par parents, “There’s kids k reents, animals at risk of get getting hurt, Haole’s Pacific Model tting t hu urt,” Haole ’s P acific Mo del Warship allyy Gary says.

“We Gary Marshall sa ays y . “W We don’t have way don n’’t ha ave a w ay to ccontrol ontrol that vvery er ey well. If we we’re large bearings ’re firing those lar rgge b earings with 21 or mor moree guns at one time time,, ther there’s m e’s bound bee some damage damage..” bound to b Wood attack W ood ccalls a those lines of at alls ttack untrue and childish. toy boats aree “This hi is ab aabout bout to oy b oats and d these h ar grown wrote blogg p post. grown men, men n,” he wr ote on a blo ost.

“Does [Pacific Model acifi “Does [P fic Mo del Warship] clamor to ha have these ‘dangerous’ ave thes se ‘danger ous’ activities banned fr from No, om m San JJose ose parks? N o, of course because about course not, b ecause this is not ab out safety It’s about personal saffet ety at all. It ’s ab out p ersonal ffeuds euds e and vvendettas. eendetttas.”

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The dela delay ay w was aas a ccoup oup ffor or P o Pacific acific Model Mo del Warship Club Club,, an n upst upstart art faction that builds b boats oats ttwice wic w e ass long long,, ttwice wice as w wide and, in some ccases, aases, se sseveral veral e times as hea heavy avvy as W Western eestern War Warship’s. rship’s. Der Deryk yk Haole,, head of the ne new club Haole ew cl lub and an embittered Western embit tter t reed eex-member xx-member of o W eestern Warship,, ac accuses Wood’s group Warship cuses W ood’s gr oup of jeopardizing safety jeopar dizing saf feetty ffor or o the th he thrill of projectiles. hurling pr ojectiles. have group “What yyou ou ha o ave is a private p gr oup trying political tr ying to gain a p oliticcaal fa ffavor avo or while safety ccompromising ompromising the health h and saf feetty public,,” Ha Haole says.

“You of the general public aole sa ayys. “Y Yo ou heard? heard they know what I hear d? I hea ard that the ey about having Councilman brag ab out ha avving C oun ncilman [Chu] in pocket. their back p ock keet.”

Wood scoffs W ood sc offs at such a suggestion. wrote because “Kansen wr ote up a motion m b ecause likes us,,” sa says Wood, seemingly he lik kees us ayys W ood, se eemingly flustered over “Years ago,, fluster ed o veer the allegation. tion. “Y Yeears ago allegati wife, Daisy, weree w walking him and his wif fe, Dais sy, wer w aalking around ar ro ound the park and ran n into our club they during one of our big eevents veents and the ey were impressed byy what we wer weree doing doing, wer re impr essed b g, people seeing p eople of all ages enjo eenjoying oyying the having good park and ha avving a go od time ttime..” help,, When it ccame ame time to o ask ffor or help o Wood Chu, W ood rreached eached out to Ch hu, who obliged.

“Not aree their act activities social “N ot only ar tivities so cial nature, and rrecreational ecreational in natur re, but the club provides educational outreach also pr rovvides educ ationall outr reeach to entiree ccommunity, offering the entir ommunitty, off ffeering classes ff and workshops ffor local o or lo cal families f who model building, wish i h to t learn l mo d l build del b ild di , rrobotics ding ob botics ti U.S. history, wrote and U ..S. histor y”” Chu wr y, rote in a glowing February memo,, while also F ebruary memo a asking city Western the cit ty to allow W eestern n Warship pretend warfare. to ccontinue ontinue its pr reetend w aarfare. “In addition, the club honorss and seeks to provide pr rovvide integration help to rreturning eturning vveterans. eeterans.”

Chu’s proposal Hammack eexpects xxpects Ch hu u’s pr oposal August to ccome ome up ffor or discussion o n at an A ugust meeting. ccouncil ouncil meeting g.

“There’s bows “Th “Ther re’s an eexception xc x eption i ffor or o b ows and d crossbows firearms cr ro ossbows and an eexception xxceptiion ffor or o fir earms ranges,, but not one ffor model warships, ranges or o mo m del w aarships,” Wood says.

W ood sa ayys. “The rreason? eason? An eexception xxception never been necessary. has ne eveer b een nec ceessary. y” y” now, though, He needs one now w, th hough, or risks raree spot “play war” losing a rar spot to “pla ay w aar” and cultivate an obscur obscuree hobb hobby that’s actively by that ’s activ veely (RC) rrecruiting. ecruitingg. Radio-controlled Radio-controllled (R RC C) warship originated Texas w aarship ccombat ombat originat ted in T exxas in the late 1970s—just dudes,, some 1970s— —just j a ffew ew dudes Navy indulging off them h Na avvy vveterans, eterans e , in ndulging d l i in war fantasies childhood w aar fant asies and childho ood impulses to up.. blow stuff up Today, hobby T odaay, the hobb by rremains em emains rrelatively elativveely Unlike many models, unknown. U nlik n ke man ny mo dels, bee b bought parts, which ccan an b ought in a kit of par ts, scaled-down warships have bee built sc caaled-down w aarships ha ave to b from upward fr om scratch. Ships ccan aan ccost o upw ost waard of

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Madison M adisson Nguyen ffor o M or Mayor ayor In a Mar March ch 20 2012 012 ccover over stor story, y, “The Sam and Da ave Show w,” we pr edicted a rac Dave Show, predicted racee ols b between ettw ween ttwo w wo pr p products oducts of elite scho schools and cconnected onnected d families ow w, after families.. N Now, seeing Big Bus Business, siness, Big De Developers, veelopers, Big Media, Big L Labor ab bor and Big P Political olitical P Party arty anoint M hi anoin Machine intt their th i ccandidates— andidates— did t b before effo ore a singlee rregular egular p person’s erson n’s vvote o ote w was aas suree lo looks like was ccast—it astt— —it sur ooks lik ke the fix w aas in.

W Wee think Sa San an JJose ose citizens should buying mayorship byy rreject eject the buyi ing of the ma ayorship b sp special ecial inter interests. estts. And the b best est w way ay to say Putin-style sa ay no to Putin n-sttyyle election-rigging is to vvote ote o ffor o or onee of the ccandidates andidates who ha haven’t aven en’’t ho hocked ck keed d themselv themselves es wholesale to the usual susp suspects. ects.

The smar smartest rttesst of the nonaligned is fi fisc fiscally-conservative/socially caally lly-co onservativ v ivee/so / cially i ll pr progressive rogrreessiv ive Pierluigi Oliv Oliverio, ver erio, who has crafted a ccampaign ampaign a ar around o ound rrejecting ejecting the institutional en endorsements ndorsements that he w wasn’t aasn n’t ’ lik likely keely to get an anyway. nyw yway. His grasp of p policy olicy issues is far eno enough ough ahead of the pack it sometimes ma makes ak kes e him a bit of a lone wolf wolf.f.

Displa Displaying ayying indep iindependence endence along with enough emotional e intelligenc intelligencee to b bee an eff effective ffeecttivve or organizer ganizer is Madison Nguy Nguyen. yen. e The cit ccity’s tyy’s vic vicee ma mayor ayo or has b been een bat battle-tested tttle-tested and an nd shown the ccourage ourage that leadership p rrequires. equires. San JJose’s ose’s ne next xt ma mayor ayo or wi will ill need to mak make ke tough decisions decisions,, and we b believe elieve Nguy Nguyen yeen would ccontinue ontinu ue to bring ccommon ommon sense and balanc balancee to o the dais dais.. Her rise fr from om humble rroots oots to the cit city’s ty’ ysN No. o. 2 sp spot ot sp speaks eaks to her achie aachievements, eveements, and she

equipped give is uniquely equipp ed to giv ve vvoice oice to o o th the he demo demographic graphic winds transf transforming fo ormin ng California.

C a fo alif ornia.

Sam Lic Liccardo cardo has displa displayed ayeed a sinc sincere ee er interest in nterest in fforging orging an urban vision o m mark marked keed b byy bicy bicycle yccle lanes lanes,, mass transit transit, t, pop-up stores, sidewalk ttrendy tr rendy d p op-up stor t es, side id walk alk ccafes affees an and nd highrise rresidential esidential buildings buildings..

H enthusiasm ffor His o or clamping down on n nightclubs nightclubs,, ccannabis annabis a ccollectives, ollectives, bikini sidewalk bicyclists, bi ikini bars and side waalk bicy yclists c , ho however, owever e ,b betrays etraays y a bias ffor or o idealism o over veer pragmatism. makes runoff, pr ragmatism. If he mak kees the runoff ff,, w we we’d ’d lik like ke to see him cconnect onnect his top top-do down own vision with str street eet smar smarts. ts.

Da Dave ave C Cortese ortese has ccalled alled ffor or a “ne o “new w di direction, irection,” but that sounds mor moree lik likee a rreturn e eturn to the h Alice Ali e in Alic i Wonderland-style Wo onderlandd l d st styyle l ec economics conomics that nearly bankrupted Sa San an JJose. ose. He failed to sp speak eak up again against nst ccorrupt o orrupt ccolleagues olleagues and must o overcome veercom me hi his is willingness to pla play ay along b before effo ore he h ea earns arns his leadership strip stripes. es.

Our hop hopee is that the N November ovember el election lection will b bee something other tha than an an no oversimplified versimplified punchc punchcard ard p polarized olarizzed b byy ttwo wo w classes of or organized ganized ec economic onomiic in interests. nterests. Giv Given veen the lar large ge field, ther there’s e’s no o assuranc assurancee how that ballot will sh shake hak ke ou out, ut, but we think Madison Nguy Nguyen yeen rrepresents e esents the b epr best est shot at ha having avving a runoff ccandidate andidate a with lo loyalties oyalties y to cconstituents o onstituents rather than p powerful owerful lo lobbies obbies with lots of mone money. ey.

That That’s ’s wh why hy we we’re ’re supp supporting orting her in i th the he JJune une primar primary. y.

Don Gagliar D Gagliardi di is a longtime longtime neighborhood ne eighborhood organizer or rganizer and champion ch hampion of parks pa arks and so soccer ccer fields. eflects fie elds. He rreflects downtown’s do owntown’s id idiosyncratic diosyncratic Don Gagliardi na nature ature just fine and knows the cit ocks well. He ’s cityy blo blocks He’s b been een ar around ound Cit Cityy Halll enough to underst and the le vers of o p ower and understand levers power brings the p perspective erspective of an urban homeowner and smalll businessman to the ccouncil. ouncil.

Kath hy Sutherland ha as b een a Kathy has been neighb neighborhood orhood or organizer ganizzer as well and ser ved on a numb ber of rregional egional served number ccommittees. ommittees. She She’s ’s the fformer ormer o aff to Almade en V aalley chief of st staff Almaden Valley ccouncilmember ouncilmember Nancyy Pyle Pyle..

Raul P eralez is a p olicceman who Peralez policeman stuck it out after Measu Measure ure B and ser serves vees as pr esident of his neigh hborhood president neighborhood asso association. ciation. But P Peralez eralez is far to too o gr green een ffor or the job o avving just w aded a into job,, ha having waded p politics olitics a ffew ew yyears eears ago ago.. He cites ccounty ountty Sup ervisor and lab or machine m leader Supervisor labor Cindy Cha Chavez avez as his me mentor, entorr, which lea leaves avees lit little tttle question wh who ho he he’ll ’ll ttake ak ke mar marching ching or orders ders fr from. om.

Gagliar Gagliardi’s di’s our choic choicee to rre-energize e-energize downtown downtown’s n’s business di district istrict while championing neighb neighborhood orrhood qualit quality ty and ttackling ackling tough issue issues, es, lik like ke the much-needed cleanup of o St. JJames ames P Park. ark.

MAGDALENA CARRASCO MAGDALENA CA ARRASCO DISTRICT DIS TRICT 5

Magdalena Magdalena Carrasco

It’s a shame this It’s isn’t isn n’t a rre-election e-election endorsement, en ndorsement, because b ecaause ec M Magdalena Carrasco C a arrasc o deser deserved veed to o win the District 5 seat s ffour o our yyears ears ago. aggo. Rather than riding rid ding a primary primary win w to the runoff in n 2010, she had

to def defend fend e herself h against a fraudulent p oliticcaal ma ailer that framed her as a political mailer ccommunist. ommunistt. That illegal mailer has sinc sincee b een link keed d back to the 2010 ccampaign aampaign been linked of C Councilman ouncilm man Xa Xavier avier v C Campos, ampos, who rrefuses efuses to discuss d the mat ttter publicly matter and in invoked nvok oked e the F Fifth ifth Amendment rand jur ear e . during a gr grand juryy hearing last yyear.

Ass har A hard d as a it ma may ay b bee to b believe, elieve, C ampos’ tim me in offic Campos’ time officee has actually been b een worsee than we initially ffeared. ear e ed.

Riding his sister’ ssister’ss ccoattails oatttails into the District 5 se seat, eat, he has b been een one of the least eff ffeectiive memb ers of the ccouncil, ouncil, effective members ap pocket ock ket e vvote o ffor ote or o lab labor or and cconsistent onsistent in nvestigateee. investigatee.

Carrasco C arrasco brings eexperience xperience as a fformer ormer o non nprofit eexecutive xxecutive and ccounty ountty nonprofit worker, work er, and d she’s she’s b beefed eeffed e up her rresume esume b ving as a a trustee on the East Side byy ser serving Union U nion High h Scho School ol District. C Carrasco arrasco w as a the best besst ccandidate andidate ffour our o yyears eears ago was ago,, and that rremains e emains true to today. daay.

DON R ROCHA OC HA DISTRICT DIS TRICTT 9 Don R Rocha ochaa has oftentimes b been een the decisive decisiv ve sswing wiing vvote w o ote on the ccouncil ouncil these last ffour our yyears, o ears, showing a willingness to break br eak rank ranks ks with lab labor or supp supporters orters o over ver p pension ension rreform effo orm at the b behest ehest of his cconstituents. onstituents.

While he demurr demurred ed early in his first term, term citing a lack of eexperience, xperience, he has gr grown own into the job and b become ecome Don R Rocha ocha one of the mor moree interesting inter esting ccouncilmembers. ouncilmembers.

Rocha’s R ochaa’s memos m of late ha have ave shown a nuance nuance and d sophistic sophistication ation that would have ha ave seeme seemed ed far far-fetched r-f -feetched just a ccouple ouple yyears eears ago ago.. His H willingness to challenge ccolleagues olleagues ll i a welc is welcome l ome de d development. veelopment. l t Too T oo man many ny elected e officials would rather ccongratulate ongratulatte one another rather than debate the issues with vigor vigor.. W We’ve e’vve poked modeling gigs,, but p ok keed fun at a his mo deling gigs Rocha proven bee mor moree than just R ocha has pr p oveen to b pretty face. impatiencee ffor political a pr ettty fac ce. His impatienc or o p olitical appears genuine.. games app e genuine ears

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Shirakawa Shir akawaa Out of Jail

BY JOSH K KOEHN OEH HN

In the end, end it to took ok longe longer er to put Geor George ge Shirakawa Shirak awa JJr. r. in jail than n the time he actually ser served. ved. e But thatt might not b bee the ccase ase ffor or long o long..

An official at Sant Santaa Rit Ri Ritaa JJail, ail, wher wheree the fformer ormer o ccounty ountty sup supervisor errvisor had b been een in custo custody dy sinc sincee N November ovem mber of last yyear, eear, told San JJose ose Inside on T Tuesday uesdaay that Shirakawa Shirak awa w was aas transf transferred feerrred to Sant Santaa Clara C County ounty jail officia officials als on Frida Friday, ay, May Ma ay 9, b because ecause he had a hold ffor or a o warrant. w arrant aarrant.

Deputy Deput ty K Kurtis urtis Stende Stenderup, erup, a spokesman sp okesman ffor o or the Sant Santaa Clara C County ountty Sheriff ’s ’s Office, Office, said thatt Shirak Shirakawa kawa was w aas rreceived eceived on that dat date, te, but had ffew ew other details. details. He added, “He “He’s ’s no longer in our custody. custodyy.”

The deputy deputty said he wo would ould need to sp speak eak with ccounty ountty ccounsel oun nsel to mak makee sure sure he w was as not br breaking eakingg privacy la aw ws by by disclosing more more details details of laws Shi Shirak kawa’s release. release l .

Shirakawa’s On N ov. 8, rroughly oughly eig ght months Nov. eight after Shirakawa Shirakawa resigned resigned d fr om offic from officee and pleaded guilt ty to fiv ve ffelonies eelonies and guilty five se ven misdemeanors, misdemeanors, Judge Judge u Daniel seven T Nishigaayya sentenc ed the t fformer ormer o T.. Nishigaya sentenced anta Clara top elected official in Sa Santa C ountty to a yyear eear in jail— —minus one County jail—minus da ay ser ved—ffor o pilf feeringg mor day served—for pilfering moree than $130,0 00 fr om his 20 08 sup ervisor $130,000 from 2008 supervisor ccampaign. ampaign.

I Septemb In S ber 2012, Metr M o br b ok ke September Metro broke the stor kawa’s failur ffailuree to file storyy of Shirak Shirakawa’s ccampaign ampaign disclosur orm o ms, which he disclosuree fforms, ffo o t ccover or over e up his did not submit in an eff effort funneling of ccontributions ontributions to a secr et secret bank ac count. He used th his mone account. this moneyy eewheeling lif fest e tyyle and to fund his fr freewheeling lifestyle gambling addiction, as well w as pa ay the pay

salaries of fri friends iends and family family. y. Shirak Shirakawa kawa and his chieff of st staff, taaff ff,, Eddie Gar Garcia, cia,, would laugh off thee issue in an inter interview. view.

A subsequ subsequent uent Metr Metro o rreport eport ffound ound o that Shirak Shirakawa kawa w was aas also misusing thousands of o ttaxpayer axpaayeer dollars on meals and vac vacations. ation ns. He later rreimbursed eimbursed some of thee eexpenses xpenses and the ccounty ountty would eeventually ven entually rrevise evise nearly all of its employee emplo oyeee eexpenditure x enditure p xp policies. olicies.

Shirakawa’s Shirak awa’s rrelease elease rroughly oughly six months afte after er his sentencing is not a surprise,, as each surprise e da day ay ser served veed in go good od cconduct onduct earned earrned him an eextra xtra x da day ay cr credit. edit.

He w was aas cconfined onfi fined to the infirmar infirmaryy ffor or o much of hiss st stay ay at Sant Santaa Rit Ritaa JJail. ail.

A messag message ge left at his home w was as not immedi immediately iately rreturned, eturned, and a ccall all to Lindaa Delgado Delgado,, who ser served veed as Shirakawa’s Shirak kawa’s ccampaign ampaign tr treasurer easurer and is the mother of one of his childr children, en, also went unans sw wered. unanswered.

Whil Sh While hi kawa is hirak i outt off custo t dy dy, Shirakawa custody, his legal tr oubles ar om o veer. He troubles aree far fr from over. will b k in ccourt ourt this fall on a mail bee back fraud char g after his DNA w ge aas ffound ound o charge was al p olitical mailer cconnected onnected on an illega illegal political to Xa avier v C a os’ 2010 San JJose amp ose Cit ty Xavier Campos’ City C ouncil ccampaign. am mpaign. Delgado ser veed Council served easurer e to b oth Shirak awa and as a tr treasurer both Shirakawa C ampos, wh hich led the Fair P olitical Campos, which Political Practic es C o ommission Practices Commission to launch an in nveestigatio on into C ampos’ ccampaign ampaign investigation Campos’ i April in A il off la llast ast yyear. earr.

In Octob er, C ampos in nvoked the October, Campos invoked F ifth Amen ndment to aavoid vo oid ans wering Fifth Amendment answering grand jur q ch of juryy questions questions,, but a sear search Shirak kawa’s home turned up materials Shirakawa’s and rreceipts eceiptss that ccould ould b onnected to bee cconnected the mail fra aud scheme awa’s ne w fraud scheme.. Shirak Shirakawa’s new trial is eexpected xxpeccted to b egin in Septemb er. begin September.

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QUICK Q UICK ST STOP OP F Former orme er county Supervisor George Sh Shirakawa hirakawa Jr Jr. r. served the last six months in jai jail, l, but he will be back in court on o a new charge this fall.

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SILICON SILICON ALLEYS ALLEYS

Wilde Days TWINNED T WINNED CITY’S CIT Y ’S SON SON Oscar W Wilde ilde is com commemorated mmemorated by a statue in D Dublin’s ublin’s M Merrion errion Square. in 188 1882, 2, Wilde Wilde himse himself elf visited San Jose, which man many ny years later became sister ci cities ties with Dublin.

F Famed am amed author Osca Oscar ar W Wilde’s ilde i ’s U U.S. .S . . lecture e tour included a stop p in San JJo se Jose BY B Y GARY GARY SIN SINGH GH

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ATER A T TER R THIS SUMMER, San JJose ose will w host the Sister Citiess International Citie Conference, Conf erence, expected to attr attract act hun hundreds ndreds of delegates from cities across the globe, all expounding expound ding the virtues of internation international nal diplomacy. diplomacy.

“Sister Cit City” y” is the term we use y” in the US ountries it ’s US,, butt in other ccountries it’s also ccalled alled ““twinning. twinning w .” In San JJose's ose's ccase, ase, we're we're twinned tw wiinned with many man ny cities, cities, in par ticular, Dublin, D , Ir eland—a particular, Ireland—a

relationship relationship e launched 28 yyears eears ago o byy then Ma b Mayor ayor T Tom o om McEnery McEnery and his D Dublin ccounterpart, ounterpart,, Ber Bertie tie Ahern..

Dublin is one of the literar literaryy ccapitals apiitals off the world,, claiming numer o numerous ous legends le egends and laur laureates, eates, but the one w st who stands ands out the most ffor o or me is Oscar O Osc ar W Wilde. ilde i . He w was aas mor moree ec eccentric centriic and an nd dr dressed essed b better etttter than the rrest, est,, hee sauntered sa auntered ar around ound with a p pet et lobste lobster er on o n a leash,, and he was was also the onlyy one visited o ne of those legends that eever ver visit ted San Sa an JJose. ose.

When I visited Dublin last mon month, nth, I made a p point oint of visiting the famo famous ous Oscar Wilde statue O Osc ar W ilde i st atue in Merrion Square, Sq quare, right acr across oss the str street eet fr from om m

his childhood childhood home Since our cities home.. Since ar w winned,, he ffelt eelt lik ke a dist ant aree ttwinned, like distant br other to me essult,, the brother me.. A Ass a rresult, eexperience xperienc i e dr d ove me to o shat h ttter the h drove shatter spac e-time ccontinuum ontinuum m and rresearch esearch space-time the ccelebrated elebrated o occasion ccasion n when W Wilde iilde actually ccame ame to m eighborhood myy ne neighborhood 132 yyears eears ago ago..

W iilde first visited Americ A 1882 Wilde Americaa in 1882 omoted ffor or a highly pr o promoted d lectur lecturee tour ab out A hat to ok him to estheticism that th about Aestheticism took ab out 100 100 cities, cities, including inclu uding San JJose. ose. about C ontroversy surr ded him fr om Controversy surrounded ound from the vvery ery b beginning, eginning, primarily prrimarily due to the w ay he dressed, dressed,, and he w as way was ridiculed b newspaper e ccolumnists olumnists byy newspaper from fr om ccoast oast to ccoast. oast. When W it ccame ame to rreporters, eporters, Wilde Wilde i w a a master as was of theatrical theatrical behavior behaavvior and often tr eated inter views as p erfo ormances, treated interviews performances, manipulating entir e ounters just enc entiree encounters to pr opagandize his ow wn notoriet y. In propagandize own notoriety.

sense,, he w was decades that sense as dec ades ahead time. of his time e.

1882, population In 18 82,, San JJose's ose's p opulation was about 13,000. w as ab out 13,0 00. The town's most lavish California Theatre la avvish vvenue, enu ue, the C aliffornia o Theatre (unrelated (unr elated d to the curr current ent C California aliffornia o Theatre) Theatr e) extended extended x one cit city ty block block from from First F irst Str Street eett to Sec Second ond Street, Street,, right about ab out whe where ere San JJose ose Bar & Grill is now. now w. Somee cit city ty dir directories ectories plac placee it at 81 S S.. Sec Second, ond,, while others sa say ay 85 S.. Second.

S Second. In I any an ny case, case, the 958-seat 958-seat ccomplex omplex w was as a at that time the finest facility facilit ty in San S JJose, ose, b before effo ore it burned down se several ver eral yyears ears later later..

Oscar Osc ar W Wilde iilde app appeared eared at the California C aliffornia o Theatree on April 3,, 1882— Theatr 1882— just a lit little tttle more more than a ccentury entury b before effo ore McEneryy b McEner became ecame ma mayor—to ayo or—to deliv deliver ver e a lectur lecturee on n the English R Renaissance. eenaissance.

He also sp spoke o e ab ok about out cconcepts oncepts of b eauty and d “art “art for for o art's art's sake. sak ke.” A recap recap beauty in the San J oose Daily Heraldd opened opened Jose ith the th ffollowing: o ollowing: ll i “The “Th High Hi h Priest Pi t with Esth hetes lectur ed last night to of the Esthetes lectured audiencce which filled the dr ess an audience dress circle of th he C aliffornia o Theatr e. All circle the California Theatre. ashionable and cultur ed the most fa fashionable cultured people of San S JJose ose wer there and the people weree there atttention t the tthey ey paid to every every word word of attention the lectur lecturee showed how deeply the theyy were interested interested e lecturer and his were in the lecturer subject.”

Wiith euphoric eu uphoric intrigue With intrigue,, The Herald continued i db i i that h M Mr continued byy mentioning Mr..

Wiilde “was “w was as dressed dressed in the usual vvelvet eelvvet e Wilde coat,, knee br eeches and silk sto ckings, coat, breeches stockings, rt,, front front and lac ruffs,” and ruffled shir shirt, lacee ruffs, a “a tall, as tall,, well-proportioned well-proportioned that we w was ery boyish boyyish fac e, smo oth man,, with a vvery face, smooth womaan's, and made to look look mor as a woman's, moree eff ffeeminatee b effeminate byy the hair hair,, which is long ound the fac e. His and hangs down rround face. eyes eyes are are beautiful, beautiful, e , shaded with long xpression.” lashes and full of eexpression.

Unlike San S JJose ose Bar & Grill,, the Unlike never toyed toyed e with a dr ess code code theater never dress prohibitingg neck ttattoos, attto t os, baggy bagggy pants prohibiting xcessivve gold chains kees me or eexcessive chains.. It mak makes wh hat would happ en if W iilde wonder what happen Wilde were alive alive today todaay and tried to sneak were b with his p et lobster. lobster. into that bar pet an ny eevent, veent,, that first American American In any ere Oscar Oscar Wilde Wilde i honed his tour is whe where ideas on b beauty e y and ar eaut art, t,, and it proved proved to be be fertile fer e tile ground ground for fo or the extremes extremes of ambiguity, ambiguitty, sarcasm sarcasm and paradox he so brilliantly emplo eemployed oyeed in The Picture Picture of Dorian Gra Gray ay just a ffew ew years years later. later. The time is right righ ht ffor o or a p permanent ermanent plaque on Second Second Str Street eet de devoted voted to Osc Oscar ar Wilde's Wiilde's appearance app pearance in San JJose. ose. I'm sure our ne ext ma ayor will b ed sure next mayor bee cultur cultured enough to find a w way ay to pa pay ay ffor o or it.

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ollowing g their springtime springtiime break, Sacramento Sacr ame ento lawmakers lawmakers headed capita back to the capital al city faced with an enormous eno ormous number of bills to o consider— around 1,900 at last lasst count.

Metro be M etro thought it would w instructive to take e a spin through the offeri offerings ings now making their w way ay through the legislative process, pro ocess, and highlight an A-to-Z Z sampling of what’s what’s currently currentlly under consideration. consideration.

ABALONE A BALONE and other otther shellfish

har h harvesting vesting e i iis a k key ey California Calif liffo ornia i industr iindustry, d y, and A Assemblymember ssemblymemb s er W Wesley eesleey Chesbr Chesbro, o, D D-Santa -Santa R Rosa, o osa,, has intr introduced oduc d ed a joint rresolution esolution that aims to enhanc eenhancee state state eff efforts ffo orts at building a ccommercial om mmercial aquacultur aquaculturee infrastructu infrastructure. ure. Chesbro Chesbro off offers ffeers supp support ort ffor o or a clean clean, n,, healthy health hy marine en environment nvir v onment th that hat pr protects otects shellfish b beds eds and pr provides ovvid des “access “access to additional acr acreage eage ffor o or shellfish sh hellfish farming and rrestoration. estoration.” It also pushes p ffor or o gr greater eater ccooperation ooperation i b between ettween w iindustry, industr d y, en environmental, nvvironmental,, and ffederal eedeeral and st state ate officials to de develop evelop a p permitting errmitttting pr process ocess that that’s ’s “efficient and a ec economical onomical ffor or o b both oth shellfish rrestoration estoraation and ccommercial ommercial farming. farming.” (AJR-43) (AJR A R--43)

BICYCLE B ICYCCLE T TAXES A AXEES

sound lik like ke yyet eet another w way ay ffor o or Big Go Government vernmen e nt to squee squeeze ze p pennies ennies fr from om p people eople just tr trying yingg to mak make ke the ear earth th a gr greener eener spac spacee b byy p pedaling edalin ng to the ccorner orner deli instea instead ad of firing up the Esc Escalade. alade. But B there’s there’s a fine public public-policy -policy ration rationale nale b behind ehind C Concord oncord Demo Democratic cratic se senator enator Mark

Proposed P ro oposed new sta state ate laws from A to Z B BY YT TOM OM GO GOGOLA O GOLA DeSaulnier’s proposal, r’s pr oposal,, which would DeSaulnier open door localities en the do op oor to lo calities to slap point-of-sale bicycle ap ointt-off-sale ttax ax on adult bicy yccle use moneyy to fund and sales and us se the mone maintain bike trails.. (SB 1183) maint ain bi ike trails

CCAMPAIGN AMP PAI A GN

financee rreform financ effo orm is one of thos o-democracy cconceits onceits thosee pr pro-democracy .S S. Supreme Supreme C ourt has that the U U.S. Court thrown und der the bus avo oring a thrown under bus,, fa favoring money--is-sp peech appr oach to money-is-speech approach financing el lections that elections gives the ad dvantage to gives advantage deep p ockets e o ver empt ty pockets over empty ones ens U n nited ones.. Citize Citizens United gaave unduee p ower to gave power ccorporations’ orporation ns’’ abilit ty ability influence elections to influence elections,, and the rrecent ecent McCutcheon ruling disp ensed with w limits on how dispensed ash Daddy Warbucks or his much ccash under world dC orporate C ampaign underworld Corporate Campaign Cabal ccan an throw th hrow at a ccandidate. andidate.

Cabal Growing public pu ublic outrage o ver these Growing over supremely undemo u cratic mo oves is supremely undemocratic moves reflected in A ssemblymember Bob reflected Assemblymember W iieckowsk ki’s House R esolution e 377, Wieckowski’s Resolution 37, eellow la aw wmak keers on the which puts ffellow lawmakers spot spot by by asking askiing that the they ey support support his resolution, resolution,, which proposes proposes the notion that demo c cracy is b y, ffor o or and of the democracy by, People.

P eople l . Rad R Radical di dic d all thought, th ht, that. th t (HR 37))

DOGS D OGS

in n outdo outdoor or rrestaurants, estaurants, a.k.a. the “F “Fido Fido Alfr Alfresco esco bill,” would undo a st state atte ban on bringing yyour our lovable lo vablee b beast east into an anyy par partt of a rrestaurant, estaurant,, including the outdoor o outdo or dining ar area. ea. That seemed a lit little tttle eextreme, xtreme, no? W Well, eell,, it it’s ’s a health ccode ode d , and yyou deal, ou know how t those p people eople ar are, e, alw always ayys ccounting ou unting bugs and stuff in thee kitchen. But do dogs gs are are wagging w agging th their heir ttails ails in anticipation of the bill,, off offered ffeered b ff byy A Assemblymember ssemblymember Mariko Marik oY Yamada, aam mada,, which lea leaves aves it to lo localities calities to o mak make ke their own rules

governing pets fresco go verning p ets in al fr esco settings. settin ngs.

Cats aree said to b bee livid at the sl slight, C ats ar ight, frisky we’ve but ffear ear e not,, frisk ky ffelines, elines e , we ’vve got American Cat Liberties Union the Americ an C at Lib erties U nion one.. F Ferrets, we’re suree on line one errets, we ’re not so o sur about guys.. ((AB 1965) ab out yyou ou guys AB 19 65)

EELECTRIC LECTRIC CA CARS ARS

are are ccoming oming just as fast as you you o ccan an sa say ay “Get Get a hor horse, rse, eco-freako, ec o-freako,” but ther theree are ae ar a whole host of asso associated ciaated logistical lo gistical issues dogging doggingg the industry’s industr y’s asc ascent. ent. But le let’s et’s say sa ay yyou ou ha o have ave an electricc ccar ar and ar aree mo moving ovving into a ne new n w apartment. apar tment. C Congrats. ongrats. Y Your our o landlord, landlor d,, he’s he’s a T Tea eea Party Party dude who thinks his patriotic dut duty ty is to waste waste a as much gasoline as is hum humanly manly possible, possible, and to resist resist b befouling effo ouling th the he world with those horridly quiet li little itttle t machines of gr green. een. Well, Well, e , too too bad.. A proposed pr oposed bill fr from om Al Muratsuch Muratsuchi, hi, D-Torrance, D -To orrance, would require require your your o landlord landlor d to work with yyou, o ou,, the tenant, teenant, to establish establish an on-site on-site charging charrgging station station apartment in the apar tment ccomplex. omplex. The ccatch a is atch tenants ffoot oot the bill. (AB (AB 2565) 2565)

‘‘FISH’ FISH’ is one of

those wor words ds yyou ou used to see on the rrestaurant estaurant menu, and yyou’d ou’d sa say, ay, “I’ll ha have ave the fish. fish.”” What kind of fish? Di Didn’t dn’t mat matter, ttter, yyou ou wer weree or ordering dering the fish. fi R Restaurants eestaurants ar aree a lot mor moree sp specific eccific these da days, ayys, but Big Gr Grocery ocery hass a bad habit of mislab mislabeling eling the monkfi monkfish— fish— or did. Public aawareness wareness of the rampant mislab mislabeling eling of fish, orr “fish fish fraud,”” ccourtesy ourtesy of a 2013 rreport eporrt b byy the cconservationist onservationist or organization ganizatio on Oc Oceana, eana,, has led to a push b byy Se Sen. en.

Alexx P Ale Padilla, adilla, D D-Pacoima, -Pacoima,, to man mandate ndate accurate ac curate lab labeling eling of the fish at yyour our local lo cal gr grocer. ocer. Guess what what?? Ther Theree ar aree all sor sorts ts of diff different ffeerent fish out the there, ere,

some ttastier astier than o others—and thers—and some moree endanger endangered otherwise mor ed or o other wise o overfished verfished than oth others. hers.

GGMO MO

eling isn labeling lab isn’t n’t just something that’s b eing pr omotted on yyour our b ottttle that’s being promoted bottle of Dr. Dr. Bronner’s Bronner’s soa soap. ap. C California aliffornia o voters rrejected ejected a 201 12 push, voters 2012 Proposition 37 7, to rrequire e equir e the lab eling Proposition 37, labeling genetically mo difi fied O O’ s; thanks of genetically modified O’s; fo or that,, Big Ag. Ag. Now, Now w, Sen. N oreen for Noreen Evans, D -Santa R o osaa,, has ttaken aken up Evans, D-Santa Rosa, all with another anotheer pr oposed GMO the ccall proposed GMO-labeling la aw. (SB1381 1) labeling law.

(SB1381)

HOUND H OUND D DOGS OGS

ar aren’t en n’’t just the subject of an Elvis Pr Presley resleey song; ther there’s e’s a legal designation se set et up b byy st state ate F Fish ish and W Wildlife iildliffe p people eople to t diff differentiate ffeerentiate between b etween rregular egular g do dogs ggs and lic licensed ensed hound do dogs gs that ar aree used to chase off bears b ears or other b beasts, eastss, esp especially ecially when said b beast east w wanders anders onto o ranchland in sear search ch of a BLM eemployee mplo oyee e or a quickie bur burger. ger. A Assemblymember ssem mblymember T Tim im Donnelly Donnelly, y, the T Tea eea P Party arty GOP ccandidate andidate ffor o or go governor, overn e nor, has off offered ffeered a bill th that hat rrepeals epeals the state-mandated st a -mandated ate de designation, esignation,, so that an ny ol’’ do an ggo any dogg ccan rig ght ahead and right cha ase a b ear, so yyou o ou chase bear, ccan an sho ot it iit—in t— —in the name shoot of sp ort. Sp ort hunting h b ears and sport.

Sport bears b obcats with houndss w aas banned in bobcats was 2012. JJust ust let it go i ((AB im.

AB 2205) go,, T Tim.

IIMMIGRATION MMIGRA ATIO ON

is this am amazing mazing thing that help h helped ed st stand and up the U United nited St States atess of Americ Americaa as it i str strode ode d into i “i ccentury” “its entury”” (the (h 20th) and needed a whole w bunch of ne new wp people eople to ma man an the rampar ramparts ts of industrial ccapitalism. apitalissm. These da days, ays y, people p eople ccome ome to this ccountry ountry b because ecause they they think,, wow, wow w, we ha have ave some

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THEEP People’s P eop ople’’s BUS BUSINESS SINESS

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prettty gr pretty great eat stuff goingg on o over ver her here: e: Democracy, Demo cracyy, Philadelph Philadelphia hia cheesesteak sandwiches, sandwiches, Real Reeal Housewives Houssewivvees of New New JJersey. ersey. What What’s ’s not to lo love? ovee? Then the they ey get her heree and L Louie ouie Go Gohmert hmert w wants ants to b beat eat the crap out off them. Some do eeverything verything the they ey ccan an n to assimilate into the Americ American an lif life, fe, which includes p pa paying ayyingg ttaxes. axes. A noncitizen ccan an get a ttaxpayer axpaayeer ID numb number. n er. But yyou o ou ccan an file yyour o our ttaxes axes lik likee a go good od citizen-to-be citizen-to -be and still find fi yyourself ourself o on the rreceiving eceiving end of a dep d deportation ortation order. or der. A Assemblymember ssemblymemb ber L Luis uis Alejo Alejo,, D-Watsonville, D -Watson nvville, has off offered ffeered a bill that would ask that Ho Homeland omeland Securityy la Securit lay ay off on the dep deportation ortation of undo undocumented cumented immig immigrants grants who file their ttaxes. axes. Good Good luck with that. (AB (AB 2014)

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Stop by by the information table to enter contests conntests and pick p up giveaways (while supplies la ast). last).

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Santa Clara County Democratic Club presents

Dr. Eugene Cordero Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University on

Climate Change and its impact on the U.S.

Monday, May 19, 7 PM Harry's Hofbrau Banquet Room

390 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose No host dinner at 6 PM For information 408-247-9513 www.Democratic Club-SCC.org

JJUVENILE UVENILE JUSTICE JUSSTICE

days, states ates is a big issue these da ayys, as st grapple with pr progressive ogresssive notions likee “r “restorative justice” lik estorative justic ce” in an ec economic onomic climate tha that at often lea leaves aves people limited yyoung oung p eople of limit ted means with ffew ew options b beyond eyond Bur B Burger ger King life crime.. The “scho “schools-toor a lif fe of crime ols-to prison pip pipeline” eline” ccontinues ontiinues to plague lawmakers’ best efforts la aw wmakers’’ b est eff ffo orts t to undo or undermine that aawful w wful dynamic dynamic,, Assemblymember Nora and A ssemblymember e N ora C Campos, ampos, D D-San -San JJose, ose, has h off offered ffeered an state penal amendment to the st a p ate enal ccode ode that rrequires equires ccorrections orrectio ons officials officials,, when seeking grant monies m ffor o or job-training programs like, job -training pr ogramss and the lik e, at-risk to include at -risk yyouth outth as a ttarget arget population.

1920) p opulation. ((AB AB 1920 0)

KLANSMEN K LANSMEN

off the Ku Klux variet Ku varietyy won won’t ’tt lik likee it much, but 2014 ma marks arks the 6 60th 0th anniv anniversary ersary of the landmark Brown Brow wn vv.. Boar Board d of Educ Education ation decision that set the st sstage age ffor o or desegr desegregation egation in sschools chools and universities. universities. A rresolution esoluttion intr introduced oduced byy A b Assemblymember ssemblymember Shirle Shirleyy W Weber, eb e er, D-San D -San Diego Diego,, rreads, eads, in n par part, t “The t, The United U nited States States Supr Supreme em me C Court’s ourt’s decision b became ecame the legal l imp impetus etus to scho school ol desegr desegregation egation thr throughout oughout the United U nited States, States, and led d to one of the most profound proffo ound so social cial mo movements vements in the histor historyy of the U United nited St States.” ates.”

Tell Teell it to the “N “New ew JJim im m Cr Crow” ow”

segregationists aree tr trying segr egatio onists who ar ying to clock. turn back that clo ck. ((ACR ACR 140)

LLOW-INCOME OW-INCOME

p people eople get thirsty, to thirsty, too. o. And yyet et the theyy ar aree often faced faced with h immense w water ater bills that theyy ccan’t the an’t pa pay, ay, or ccan an only do so after a visit to tthe he lo local cal pa payday aydaay lender lender..

Assemblymember A ssemblym bl memb ber Marik M Mariko iko Y Yamada, amada, a d D-Davis, D -Daavvis, has h off offered ffeered a bill that would set up a low-inc low-income ome w wateraterrate rate-assistance -assistanc a e pr program ogram to pr provide ovide subsidies and a w water ater bill disc discounts. ounts. ((AB AB 1434)

MARIJUANA M ARIJUANA

is vvery ery p popular opular in California, Califforn o nia, sour sources ces sa say, ay, but the state’s st ate’s medical med dical disp dispensary ensary la laws aw ws ar aree a ho dgepodge d of b ong-spillage mess ong hodgepodge bong-spillage messyy whereby whereby lo localities ocalities ha have ave cr created eated la laws aw ws that don ’tt ccarry arry o ver into the ne xt don’t over next bud-unfriendly bud-unfrieendly bur burg. g. Earlier this year, year, the cconservative aliffo ornia L eague onserrvative C California League of Cities aand olice nd the C California aliffornia o P Police Chiefs A sssociation wisely dr opped Association dropped their long longstanding gstanding opp opposition osition to uniffo orm m set of disp ensary la aw ws a uniform dispensary laws throughout thr oughou ut the st state. ate. N Now ow Sen. L Lou ou C orrea, D -Anaheim, has intr oduced Correa, D-Anaheim, introduced a bill off offering ffeerring a plat platform tfo orm ffor o or st egulation. W ave high statewide atewide rregulation.

Wee ha have hop hopes es ffor or o its passage passage,, which lo looks oks pr etty go od giv en the ttwin win pillars pretty good given of dop dope-hate e-haate ha have ave dr dropped opped their opp osition n. Heck, the p olice chiefs opposition. police eeven ven help helped e write the bill. (SB 1262) ed

NAXOLONE N AXOLLONE: eever ver hear heard d

of it it?? Ther There’s e’s a rreason eason wh why hy yyou ou u ha haven’t—California aven’t— Califfo ornia p pharmacies have ha ave b been een fforbidden orbidden o fr from om dispensing disp ensing the opioidoverdose o verdose medic medication ation to fa families of her heroin oin addicts addicts..

While Wh hile we appr appreciate eciate that the preferred pr effeerred stupidstupid-drug drug of choic choicee in these pa parts arts is meth,, her heroin’s oin’s the sleep sleeper er in this unf unfortunate for o tunate bid ffor o or bragging rights r to which drug ccan an ruin mor moree liv lives. es. Naxolone is said to bee an eff b effective ffeecctive w way ay to sa save ave yyou ou fr from om an o overdose verdose cr croak-out. oak k- out. Cut to the sc scene ene whe where ere JJohn ohn Tra Travolta avolta plunges a needle in into nto U Uma ma Thurman Thurman’s ’s hear heartt in Pulp F Fiction. iction. The pr proposal oposal b byy A Assemblymember ssemblym member Richar Richard d Blo Bloom, om, D-Santa D -Santa Monic Monica, M a, is a far far-less-less-

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OIL AND GAS OIL GAS FRACKING FRACKING is badd juju all

ar around. ound. T Tap aap w water ater thatt ccan an turn into blue flame with a flick k of a lighter lighter??

Ar ou fracking kiddi ng? AntiAree yyou kidding? fracking fforces o orces ar ding a home in aree find finding S Sacramento t , wher h e Ho H olly ll Mitchell Mit h ll Sacramento, where Holly and Mark L eno, Demo ocratic senators Leno, Democratic b oth (fr om L os Angele es and San both (from Los Angeles Francisc o, rrespectively), espectively), ha ave off ffeered Francisco, have offered a bill that would put a moratorium on the practic a gas practicee of oil and eextraction, xtraction, which, if yyou’ve o ’ve b ou een been living under the Mont terey Shale Monterey Shale,, esh w ater uses vast amounts of fr fresh water on the w ay to mar ginaally rreducing educing way marginally the pric gy. Th hen pricee of ener energy.

Then ther h e’s that h whole h l bi bit wher w h e there’s where fracking has b een ccausing aussing been ear thquakes in Ohio SB earthquakes Ohio.. ((SB 1132)

‘‘PAID PAID A SICK LEA LEAVE’ AV VE’

sounds like like a basic righ right ht that any any worker worker should enj enjoy. joy.

Not Not so. so. Assemblymember Assemblymem mber Lorena Lorena Gonzale Gonzalez, z, D D-San -Saan Diego, Diego, has a bill that ccompels o els omp emplo employers yers to off offer ffeer at le least east three three days daays y of paid lea leave ave ffor o or workers. workers. By w way ay of pus pushing shing back on the job job-killing -killingg howls of opp opposition osition ccoming o oming fr from om the likes likes of the C California aliffo ornia Chamb Chamber er of Commerce, Commerce, Gonzale Gonzalez ez sa says ayys on her website that “providing “providin ng emplo employees yees with paid sick leave leaave ccould ould rreduce educe healthcare healthcare ccosts osts b byy allo allowing owing work workers ers and their family memb members bers time to visit a primar primaryy ccare are ph physician ysician to address address an illness ra rather ather than rushing to an emergency emergen ncy rroom oom to seek care care due to their ffear eear of missing work.” work.” (AB (AB 1522)

QUICK Q UICK

, what do yyou o think is ou the most C California-centric aliffo ornia- centric of all possible possible “a “awareness awareness we weeks” eeks”” on a vast roster roster that includes th thee Armenian genocide geno cide and ccolorectal olorectal a rresearch? esearch? Oh, come come now: it it’s ’s C Compost ompost o A Awareness wareness Week, W eek, e which to took ok plac place ce earlier this month.

REVERSE R EVERSE MORTGAGES MORTGAGES

ccan an pr provide ovide a chunk of welc welcome ome ccash ash

o others industry to seniors or others,, but the industry growing faster f than rregulators egulators ccan an is growing keeep up, up, with wiith vultur circling keep vulturee lenders circling post-subprime crash to push in the post-subprime off ffeers on seniors seeniors that sound gr eat offers great ou rread e fine print loaded with ead until yyou feees and other oth her weir d charges charges and fees weird stipulationss. The st ate is get ttting tough stipulations. state getting by putting putttting in i pr otections such as by protections off ffeered e in Riv erside Democratic Democratic those offered Riverside Assemblym bl memb ber JJose ose M Medina di a’s bill, bill Assemblymember Medina’s wou uld “prohibit “prohibit a lender from from which would taking a rreverse everse mortgage mortgage application application taking ny fees” feees”” until a week or assessingg an any more after aft fter a pr ospective reversereverseor more prospective mortgage applic aapplicant ant has ccome ome fforward. o orwaard. mortgage me much-needed brak kees on It puts som some brakes juggernau ut that ’s already already seen more more a juggernaut that’s ew buyer-beware b err--bewaare stories. buy stories. (AB (AB than a ffew 1700) 1700)

SSUGARY U RY DRINK UGAR DRINKSS

are one of those “nann are “nanny ny state” st a ” issues that ffolks ate o olks lik likee Sarah Sar rah P Palin alin lik likee to tout when wh hen the theyy need a whip do dogg ffor orr their anti-go o anti-government vernment hysteria, h yssteria, itself gr grounded ounded in a fant fantastical astical vision of apocalyptic ap ocalyptic A Ayn yyn Randian selfishness selfi fishness wher whereby eby “Don “Don’t ’t Tread Tread e on Me Me”” eextends xtends to yyour our right to a pair of wrecked wr e ed kidne eck kidneys. ys. A bill offered off ffeered b ff byy Sen. Bill Monning Monning,, D D-Carmel, - Carmel,, would slap a lab label el on sugar sugaryy drinks d w warning arning of ob obesity esity and a host of rather unpleasant diseases.. W diseases Wee lik likee the o occasional ccasional ccan an just next of Coke Coke jus st as much as the ne xt rrededblooded American livee b byy the blo oded Am merican and liv credo “Everything Moderation”— cr edo “Ev errything in Mo deration”— emphasis moderation, with an em mphasis on the mo deration deration, nanny-state a cconcept oncept lost lost on the nann ny-state hysterics oppose h yysterics now no ow lining up to opp ose Monning’ss bill. (SB 10 100) Monning’ 0)

‘TRAFFFICKING IN ‘TRAFFICKING HUMAN NS’ spans a range of HUMANS’

human behaviors beh haavviors under the st state ate penal penal ccode, ode, some mor moree o odious dious than others. new penalties others. Among Am mong other ne wp enalties related sex-trafficking, related to child c se x-trafficking, an amendment California penal amendmen nt to the C aliffo ornia p enal code penalties solicitation code stiffens stiff ffeen ns p enalties ffor or solicit o ation of prostitution byy tossing a wouldprostituttion b be lockup be john in the ccounty ounty lo ckup ffor o or at least two days.

Currently, there’s two da d ayys. Curr entlyy, ther e’s no

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draconian lif draconian life-saving fe-saavving measur m measure. e. It It’s ’s a pill. ((AB AB 1535)

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mandatory--minimum mandatory-minimum m sentenc sentencee ffor o or solicitation, solicit ation,, which ccan n get yyou an ou up to months.. Watch ho how six months ow yyou ou rrespond espond ads, to those Craigslist ads s, ffellas. ellas e . The sponsored byy a trio senators,, bill is sp onsored b t of senators Ted and T eed Lieu, JJerry erry Hill an nd Holly Democrats 1388) Mitchell, Demo crats all. a (SB 138 8)

‘‘UNSAFE UNSAFE HANDGUN’ HANDGUN N’

is either an ox ymoron n or a oxymoron rredundancy, edundancyy, dep depending endin ng on yyour our vie w of the Sec ond Am mendment. view Second Amendment.

A Assemblymember ssemblymember R Roger oger g Dickinson, D -Sacramento, tends tow ttoward ard the D-Sacramento, ying lat latter ter interpr interpretation—he etation— —he is tr trying to add alter ed semiau utomatic pistols altered semiautomatic and single single-shot -shot pistolss to a st ate rroster oster of “unsaf fe state “unsafe handguns” that ccan’t an’t b ld or other th wise i bee sold otherwise transf feerred b etween transferred between non-familial par ties, parties, closing what ’s known what’s as the “single -shot “single-shot eexemption” xemption” lo ophole. loophole.

The gun lobb lobbyy is naturally not happ aabout out happyy ab this AB 19 64) this.. ((AB 1964)

VIVA V IVA LA H HERMANA ERM MANA EESTADO! STA ADO! CCalifornia aliffo orrnia and the

Mexican st Mexican state ate of JJalisco aliscco enjo enjoyy a sister-state sister -state relationship relationshiip that that’s ’s b been een rreupped eupped in a senate rresolution e esolution offered off ffeered b byy Sen. Ben Hueso H Hueso,, D D-San -San Diego.. Ar Diego Aree yyou ou wonde wondering ering how many man ny C Californians aliffornians o gett dep deported orted from fr om JJalisco alisco each yyear? earr? (SCR 82)

WINE W INE GR GROWERS OWERS

throughout C throughout California aliffo orniaa rrejoice! ejoice!

April mark marked annual, ual, st stateateed the ann Earth” wine-sanctioned “Down to Ear th” wine during ccelebrating elebrating month,, du uring which many efforts aree af afoot man ny eff ffo orts ar foott to highlight statewide the $61.5 billion st atewide w wine industry.

Speaking liver, industr y. Sp eaking of yyour our liv er, last happened bee Alc Alcohol month also happ ened d to b ohol Awareness California, A wareness Month in C aliffornia, o offered byy thanks to a rresolution esolution n off ffeered b Livermore assemblymember Liv ermore assemblym member JJoan oan Democrat.

Buchanan, a Demo craat. (SCR 94, ACR A CR 83)

X-RATED X -RA ATED T FILM FILMMAKING MMAKING

is a big industr industryy in L.A L.A., A.,, but ther there’s e’s a whole world of p porn orn out o ther theree that includes a p porn-mecca orn-mecca w warehouse arehouse in

Francisco that’s open tours..

San Franci isco that ’s op en ffor o or tours Setting aside argument ting asi Set ide the ffeminist eminist e ar gument against p porn o ffor orn o or the moment, ccan an agree porn here, it’s we agr ee that t p orn is her e, it ’s oftentimess queer queer,, and it it’s ’s not going anywhere?

Ass such, we we’d likee our an nyywhere?? A ’d lik porn bee disease disease-free, thanks,, and porn to b -free, thanks we’d industryy to we ’d like like fo ffor o or actors in the industr have worker-safety Porn haave work ker-saffet e y protections. protections. P p orn actors in L.A. already have L alr eady ha ave to slip a jimmy partt of that cit city’s jimmy as par p y’s antiinfectious HIV (and other inf fectious e diseases) campaign, want open campaign,, and if yyou ou w ant to op en ap porn Milpitas, “porn orn studio stu udio in Milpit as, the “p orn condom” from Assemblymember condom” bill b fr om A ssemblymember Isadoree Ha Hall, D-Compton, Isador all, D - Compton, would extend those protections statewide. extend tho ose pr otections st atewide. would It wou ld also rrequire equire rregular egular STDs. testing ffor or o S TDs. ((AB AB 1576) 57 )

YOU REALLY YOU REALLLY THOUGHT THOUGHT we we’d ’d

get thr through ough this list without working in a mention of L.A. Clipp Clippers ers owner Donald Sterling?

W Well, eell, check yyourself ourself b before effor oe yyou o wr ou wreck eck yourself. yourselff. If yyou ou happen ha appen to see that racist ffool ool o sk skulking ulking ar around ound at a game and ffeel eeel ccompelled ompelled to givee him a smack, A giv Assemblymember ssemblymember Marcc L Mar Levine, evin ne, D D-San -San Rafael, has offered off ffeered a bill b that slaps a fine fr from om $8,0 $8,000 00 to $16,0 $16,000 00 on an anyone yone cconvicted on nvvicted of fan-violence fan-violence assault or battery. bat tery. (AB (AB A 2457)

ZZIP IP LIN LINES NES AND B BARS ARS

were were singled singled out in a rreport eport b byy the st state ate audit auditor’s tor’s offic officee this yyear, ear, when it w was as revealed revealed e that o over ver $6 $600,000 00,000 had b been een sp sspent ent at the V Veterans eeterans Home of C California aliffo ornia in Y Yountville ount o ville on such fr frivolities, ivolities, when mean meanwhile, while, the state state has h thousands of homeless vets vets on its str streets. eets. A Assemblymember ssemblymember Mariko Mariko Y Yamada, a amada, ,D D-Davis, -Daavvis, has offered off ffeered a bill b that would ramp up accountability accountab bility ffor or eexpenditures o xpenditures needing ap approval pproval fr from om the California C aliffo ornia Depar Department tment of V Veterans eterans e Affairs, Affairs, with witth an emphasis on regulating regulatingg the outside outside-contracting - contracting ser services vices th that hat led to the Y Yountville o ountville controversy. controverssy. ((AB AB 158 1580) 0)

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BITES

POP-UP ART Kansui, a pop-up restaurant, serves ramen with a creative spin and a burger topped with wok-fried cabbage and bonito flakes.

Outside the Bowl

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APANESE RAMEN is hardly a traditional dish. It’s actually a fairly modern invention, a mash-up of Chinese-Japanese cuisine popularized after World War II when cheap flour from the U.S. swept the Japanese market. Still, ramen lovers are a captious crowd and the noodle soup has spawned something of a cult following, particularly in the South Bay.

So when Kha Lu began experimenting with the flavor profiles of ramen at his new lunchtime pop-up eatery, Kansui, customers got a bit defensive.

“People freaked out,” says the chef, an alumnus of Plumed Horse in Saratoga and Charlie Trotter’s Michelin-starred Chicago establishments. “We can get pretty whimsical with the ramen.”

Since launching Kansui with Hay Market chef-owner Joe Cirone in January, the ramen offerings ($10-$12, bowl) have featured a global amalgam of flavors, all with house-pulled noodles and a whole seasoned egg. BLT ramen with braised bacon and spiked tomato broth. Red curry ramen. Reuben ramen with goat pastrami and pumpernickel noodles. Duroc pork belly ramen. Ramen de pollo with masa noodles, coriander, lime and crema Oaxequeña. Chinese herb ramen with ginseng, dates, longan and dandelion greens.

Earlier this month, Lu introduced duck confit ramen, served with a crispy duck leg and a heap of noodles doused in an oily sherry-citrus broth topped with seaweed, bamboo shoots and green onions. Breaking up the richness, an unusual addition: pickled shiitake mushrooms.

Lu adds them to several of his ramens, even the more common variations like miso, shio, shoyu and the 72-hour pork-bone tonkotsu.

“We’ll keep the staples,” says Lu. “We’ll stay with a small menu and focus on making it really, really good.”

Kansui opens from 11:30am to 1:30pm, Tuesday through Saturday, out of Cirone’s farm-to-table Hay Market in Willow Glen. It’s a completely different restaurant during the day, which initially confused folks.

“It was sort of a punch in the face for Willow Glen,” says Cirone, the guy who hosted Anthony Bourdain’s after-show shindig last year. “People came in asking what happened to the burgers, the hot dogs, the food they were used to.”

Lu and Cirone caved and put a burger on the menu, but, of course, with a Japanese twist. The okonomiyaki burger ($11) comes served between halfsourdough, half-okonomiyaki buns and wok-fried cabbage with smoky bonito fish flakes that curl as they wilt from the heat.

The plan is to keep the menu tight, to focus on the main course. Lu also offers small plates of savory seared cabbage-topped okonomiyaki cakes ($7), edamame ($5), hot wings ($10), pickled sockeye salmon ($9) and beef tripe chili ($7). To drink, there’s a range of chilled or warm sake and beers by the bottle or on tap.

—Jennifer Wadsworth KANSUI (open 11:30am-1:30pm, Tue-Sat inside the Hay Market), 1185 Lincoln Ave, San Jose. kansuiramen.com

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BITES

LOU’S BLUES LIttle Lou’s BBQ began hosting live shows about seven or eight months ago, and now draws a variety of musicians.

Dinner and a Show

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ANCE WAGNER EARNED an aeronautical engineering degree at San Jose State University, but like a lot of college graduates he ended up in a different career from his major.

Before moving to Florida for flight school, an opportunity arose to purchase a restaurant called Lou’s.

After Lou’s went through several changes in their offerings and location over the years, Wagner decided to make Lou’s a barbecue restaurant in Campbell, and recently began hosting live music. Ahead of a big show with Frank Stallone (see page 25), Metro sat down with Wagner to discuss Little Lou’s menu and music.

METRO: TELL ME ABOUT THE BARBECUE SAUCE. Wagner: It’s gluten-free and allnatural. It’s made up in Healdsburg. The sauce originates from the original owners who opened Lou’s, but I created the spicy version about 10 years ago.

I also took it one step further and made labels and marketed the sauces.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE ITEM ON THE MENU? We recently started serving Pho and I love it. It’s my wife’s family recipe. The pork ribs are also really good WHAT ITEM ON THE MENU DO YOU GET THE MOST PRAISE FOR? When I look around during lunch time it’s an even split between ribs and Pho. We’re looking to expand the menu further with more Asian dishes.

I SEE A BAR OVER THERE, WHAT’S TO DRINK? We have 18 craft beers on tap, and I try to get a lot of beers you can’t find anywhere else. We often host beer nights.

WHAT’S THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU’VE FACED WITH THE RESTAURANT? Definitely keeping up with the times on the food and menus. The live music has been a challenge as well because there’s so many people that want to play. I’m trying to please everyone so I have to make sure bands fit right with the crowd. I have so many musically-inclined customers that have come to expect good music. I try to do the best I can.

DID LITTLE LOU’S ALWAYS HAVE LIVE MUSIC? We started about seven or eight months ago and it’s really taken off. I’ve linked myself up with some really good artists, such as Aki Kumar, a harmonica player that runs our Thursday night blues jam. Things are happening a lot quicker than I thought they would.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR LOU’S TO HAVE LIVE MUSIC? Because there’s a lot of good artists in the Bay Area that nobody knows about. This is a way for those artists to express themselves. For a lot of them it’s not about the money, they just want to play.

—Jerry J. Salas LITTLE LOU’S BBQ 2455 S. Winchester Blvd, Campbell. 408.796.7852 or littlelousbbq.com

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Johnny V’s, V’s, San Jose Fri, 7pm, $8 adv/$10 door

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CCHOICES HOICES B BY: Y: Aaron Carnes Amulya Datla Keenan Keenan Fry Stephen L Layton ayton H Heather eather Zimmerman

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This is thee CD rrelease elease party ffor or the it’s band, butt it ’s available already already on iTunes. iT unes. (SL) (SL)

A fter tthe Cactus Cactus Club closed in After 2002, the San Jose music scene was att an all-time low low.. Slowly but surely sur ely new ffaces aces came along and rrebuilt ebuilt it. One of them was Pinup Productions, Pr oducctions, which booked all over town— —and in atypical venues like town—and Nickel City.

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May M ay 23-26 23-26 at City National Civic

KLOSE KL OSE T TO OM MY Y SOUL May M ay 25 at SSAP AP Center

HUGH UGH LLAURIE AUR RIE AND T THE HE CCOPPER OPPER BOTTOM BOTTOM B BAND AND May M ay 27 aatt M Montalvo ontalvo A Arts rts Center

GGARY AR RY A ALLAN LLAN May M ay 28 aatt the M Mountain ountain Winery

LLIVE IVE 10 105’S 5’S BF BFD D June 1 at Shoreline Shoreline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre

MERLE M ERLE HAGGARD HAGGARD June 1 aatt the M Mountain ountain Winery

LLADY ADY GAGA GAGA June 3 at SSAP AP Center

SUPERSUCKERS SUPER SUCKERS June Ju une 6 at the Blank Club

ACOUSTIC A COUSTIC A ALCHEMY LCHEMY June 6 aatt M Montalvo ontalvo A Arts rts Center

JEFF JE FF D DUNHAM UNHAM June 22 aatt the M Mountain ountain Winery

MAXWELL M AXWELL June 23 aatt the M Mountain ountain Winery

SSTEVE TEVE W WINWOOD INWOOD June 25 aatt the M Mountain ountain Winery

THEE P TH PIANO IANO GGUYS UYS June 27 2 at City National Civic

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FRANK FRANK SSTALLONE TA ALLONE

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Homestead Bowl & X Bar, Barr, Cupertino C upertino Door Sat, 8pm, $5 Adv / $6 Doo or

aree us usually Blues and barbecue ar sually a casual pairing, but Little LLou’s o BBQ is ou’s going Hollywood to mark the t only Bay Area appearance Frank A rea appear ance of Fr ank SStallone. tallone.

The platinum-selling musician’s musiician’s draws versatile sound dr aws on everything e from fr om big band to blues andd Stallone’s Stallone’s wide-ranging wide-r anging résumé résumé includes incluudes writing music for for films as well as numerous numer n ous acting credits credits in movies and an nd TV. TV. He lent both his musical and acting actinng talents to the Rock Rocky ky films (star (starring ring hhis is big br bro, o o, Sylvester), Sylvester), y , had a star turn in i Barflyy and earned Grammy Grammy and Golden Goldeen Globe nominations ffor original or nine origin nal songs he wrote wrote for for SStaying ttaying A Alive. live. This Thiis evening with Stallone Stallone is a dinner show sh how and suggested dr dress semi-formal. ess is semi-f o ormal.

The Aki with Aki KKumar umar Blues Band, wit h special show. guest Chris CCain, ain,, opens thee show w. (HZ)

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What’s better than What’s thaan a sunny Saturday Satur day afternoon afternooon with barbecue, brews br ews and good tunes? t This Saturday, Pablo Satur dayy, DJs P abblo Picasso, Jymmi teviaan bring the music James and SStevian Park. to the Sunnyvale Baylands P ark.

The trio of SF DJss mix obscur obscuree dance gems and house classics.

The music starts at noon so there’ll ther e’ll be lots of fun, sun and had. dancing to be had d. Headlining Area the party is Bay A rea DJ legend Rick Preston, Preston, who’s whoo’s been spinning dance cutting-edge dan nce music since the ’80s. TTeam eeam So Sol ol will be also donations accepting donatio ons at the event Giselle Ayala, ffor or their friend Gi iselle A yala, who thirdd time. is fighting cancerr ffor or a thir ((AC) AC)

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CCHER HER July 2 at SSAP AP Center

RINGO R INGO SSTARR TARR AND HIS H IS A ALL-STARR LL-STA ARR B BAND AND July 1133 at City National Civic

MOVE MO VE FFEATURING EAT EA TURING JULIANNE AND DEREK DEREK HOUGH HOUGH July 14 14 at City National Civic

KENNY LLOGGINS OGGINS July 16 aatt M Montalvo ontalvo A Arts rts Center

JJUSTIN JU STIN T TIMBERLAKE IMBERLAKE Aug A ug 11 at SSAP AP Center

BRUNO BR UNO M MARS ARS Aug A ug 15 at SSAP AP Center

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Size Matters

ROCK R O CK S SOLID OLID Carleton W Watkins atkins used mam mammoth mmoth negatives to produce p prints rints that would do justice to the massive scale of Y Yosemite’s ose o emite’s landscape, as in this pi piece, iece, ‘‘Mirror Mirror V M View iew i of El Capitan Capitan, n, Y Yosemite, osemite, o 1865–1866.’

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L Less ess pain painterly nterly is the jumble of dark and light,, thick t and skinn skinny, ny, tr tree ee trunks in the fforeground o oregground of Mult Multnomah tnomah n Falls Falls, s, C Cascades, aascadess, Co C Columbia oolumbia Riv River veer (18 (1867)— 67)— eeven ven e the fa falls alls ar aree split in ttwo wo and w di displac displaced l ed d horizont h horizontally i ally ll b byy the h ttangle angle l of midgr midground ou und ffoliage. oliage o . The eexpansive xpansivve or orderliness derlinesss of Y Yosemite o osemite is supplanted b byy an almo almost ost junglelik junglelike ke cconfusion onfusion of vvegetation. eegetation..

His 1867 18677 image of the sprawling spraawling w set settlement ttlement t of Portland Portland is mark marked ked e b byy a bar baree ruined d tr tree ee stump in the ccenter enter fforeground. o oreground d. It intrudes lik like ke a w warning aarning b beacon eacon of what w civilization can can do to wilderness. ness. the wildern This adm admonitory monitory trunk raises the question off just how Watkins vie viewed wed progress. pr ogress. His H photos add to our image bank of Y Yosemite o osemite as a bastion of pristine b beauty, eautty, butt the tourists wer weree alr already eady ther theree b byy th the he time Watkins arriv arrived. ved. e Watkins Watkins’ s’’ photos of the Malak Malakoff off Diggings in n Nevada Nevada C County ountty eevince vince cconsiderable onsiderab ble ambiguit ambiguity; ty; he cr creates eates st stately ately pat patterns tterns t of w water aater noz nozzles zles against a cliff ccollapsing psing under the pr pressure essure of ollap h hydraulic yd draulic mining m mining. g. Mo Modern dern interpr interpreters eters (including R Robert o obert Da Dawson awson w in one of the essa essays ayys in i the show’ show’ss ccatalogue) atalogue) ccan’t aan n’t ’ help but rread e an early en ead environmental nvir v onmental cconsciousness onsciousn ness into such images images,, but Watkins le left eft lit little ttle t b behind ehind in the w way ay of eexplication xplication n ab about out his intentions intentions..

One of Watkins’ W ’ gr greatest eatest photos—

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WONDER W ONDER F FALL A LL A long lon ng exposure time helped W Watkins atk kins capture a sense of the water’s water’s movemen movement nt in ‘The L Lower ower Y Yosemite osemite o F Fall, all,, Y Yosemite, osemite, o 1865–1866.’

Cape C aape Horn, Near Celilo Celilo e (1867)—depicts (18 867)—depicts a lonely vista vistta of empty emptty ra railroad ailroad tracks rreceding eceding past a nearly black blaack cliff on the right and a low horizontal horizonttal ridge on the left with a single telephone telepho one pole pole (an artificial ar tificial tr tree, ee, rreally) eally) at th the he vanishing point. p oint. It lo looks oks lik like ke a p portrait ortrait t in despair to our eeyes—cold yees—cold comfort comffor o t wilderness wilderness..

But ma maybe ayb y e Watkins wel welcomed lcomed the arrival of settlers settttlers or was waas just j taken tak keen by by the arrangement of fforms. orm o ms. For For whatever whateever e rreason, eason,, his photos along the Columbia Columbia River Riv ver e and the Or Oregon egon C Coast o ar oast aree bleak bleaker, keer, moree auster mor austeree than his Y Yosemite o osemite vie views. ws.

One of the real real surpri surprises ises of the show is Sugar Loaf Loaf Island Islands ds and Seal Rocks, R ockss, Farallons (1868–69).

(1868–69).

9 A massive massivve rrock ock formation formation o juts out from from the sea,, filling the frame wit with th only some blank sky sk ky and a bit of en encircling ncircling surf surf to provide provvide an any ny geo geographical graph hical ccontext. ontext.

The cragg craggy gy pyramid pyramid y dominates dom minates until a closer insp inspection ection rreveals eveeaals fat,, ttwisting wisting w slug shap shapes—the es—the seals th that hat cling to the rrock’s ock’s base base..

It easily eclipses e Seal R Rock, ock, an oilon-canvas on-can nvvas b byy Alb Albert ert Bierst Bierstadt adt fr from om a few few years years later. laater. In the painter’s painter’s vision, the seals are are larger, larger, the skies mor moree dramatic, dramatic, th the he p pounding ounding w waves aves mor moree tempestuous. tempestuou us. The painting seems locked locked in the th he past,, while Watkins’ image is timeless, tim meless, b both oth geolo geologically gically and artistically. artistically a y.

A free free panel paanel discussion, "Photography, "Photograp ph hy, Yosemite, Yo osemite, and Stanford: Stanffor o d: The L Legacy egacy of C Carleton arleton Watkins Watkins," ," takes takes place place May Maay 15,, 5:30 pm in the Cantor Cantor auditorium. aud ditorium. St Stanford anffo ord facult faculty. ty. scholars and d curators will discuss Watkins’’ work. w

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*stagee THE BIG MEAL San Jose Rep pr presents essents a omantic comedyy about rromantic two people who m meet in a rrestaurant, estaurant, fall fall in love and begin process the messy pr ocess of creating creating a life.

Sann Jose. lif e. Thru Jun 1.. Sa

THE LLANGUAGE ANGUAGEE ARCHIVE ARCHIVE City Lights Theate Theaterr company presents pr esents Julia Cho’s Choo’s dr drama ama about a man who strugg struggles gles to pr preserve eserve and document oldd languages in while voicing his ffeelings e eelings English. May 2929-Jun Ju un 29.. $25-$30.

City Lights,, San Jo Jose. se.

TRIBE TRI BE A play that look lookss at what would happen too the LLost ost Boys if P Peter eter P Pan an wer weree to abandon Neverland. $ $15-$ $15-$20. $20. Mayy 16. $ Theatree on San P Pedro Theatr edro Square, Square, San Jose.

*concerts *c oncerts e SYMPHONY SIL SYMPHONY SILICON LICON VALLEY V ALLEY Guest artist Jon Nakamatsu N plays Rachmanin Rachmaninoff. off. May 1616-17, 177, 8pm; May 18, 2:30 2:30pm.

0pm. $40-$82.

CCalifornia alifornia Theatr Theatre, e San Jose. e,

* *art MUSEUMS MU SE U MS DEE SSAISSET D AISSET M MUSEUM USEUM “Mirang W “Mirang Wonne: onne: Fir FFiree Script,” explores explor es the ffascinating ascinating metallic workss of Bay Area work Areaa artist Mir Mirang ang Wonne.

W onne.. “Lasting Legacy: L The Family,” S Family y,” , History of the de Saisset photoss of the de showcases photo Saisset ffamily amily andd pays homage to their legacy legacy. y. Ap Apr pr 1010-Jun 10 Jun 15.

15 Santa Clar Clara. a.

DISCOVER DI SCOVER SSAN AN N JOSE JOSE “An Evening in Ita “An Italy,” alyy,,” ffeaturing eaturing color and black & white photos by various artists. artistss. San Jose.

EUPHRAT EUPHRA AT MUSEUM MUSEUM “De Anza SStudent tudentt Art Show,” Show w,,”” featuring featuring paintings, p drawings, dr awings, mixed-media mixed-media works, works, photography, graphic photogr aphyy, gr apphic design, sculpture, sculptur e and cer e, ceramics ramics cr created eated by students at Dee Anza College.

May 55-Jun Jun 12. Rec Reception ception and Awards A wards Ceremony Ceremonyy May 14, 5:30pm-7:30pm.

5:30pm-77:30pm. Cupertino.

Cupertino.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE MUSEUM MUSEUM O OFF AR ART T “David Levinthal: Make M Believe,” workss by photogr work photographer apher David Levinthal. May 88-Nov Nov 30.

“Legacy: The Emily Fisher Fishher Landau Collection.”” Junn 5-Sep 11am-5pm, 15. TTue-Sun, uue-Sun, 11am-5pm m, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JJOSE SAN OSE M MUSEUM USEUM O OFF QUILTS Q UILTS & TEXTILES TEXTILES “Quilt National.” May 3-Jul “Quilt 3-Jul 20. “Now and Then: Ea Early arly Art Quilts Quil ts by Ros Cross Cross 1973-76.”

19 973-76.”

May 3-Jul 3-Jul 20. “New SAQA SAQA exhibit: Northern CCalifornia aliffornia Inspirations.”

Inspir ations.” May 7-Jul 7-Jul 20.

TRITON T RITON MUSEUM MUSEUM O OFF AR ART T “2014 SStatewide tatewide Photography Phottography Competition/Exhibition” Competition/Exhibitio on” and Blok. paintings by LLucas ucas Blo ok. May 10-Aug 10. Opening rreception e eception ffor or both exhibits: Mayy 23, Clara.

6pm-8pm. Santa Clar a.

GALLERIES G ALLERIES ART AR T ARK ARK GALLERY GALLERY “SJSU “S SJSU Master M t off Fi Fine Arts Arts Ar t Lift Off Exhibition.”” May 2-18.

2-118. San S Jose.

THE A ARSENAL RSENAL “Broke:: New Doodles,” works “Broke: works by Joe To. Too. Thru May 30. San Saan Jose.

BRUNI B RUNI GALLER GALLERY RY Jazz-related art by Bru Jazz-related Bruni uni Sablan.

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

Jose.

CAFE CA FE STRITCH STRITCH "Lucidity Part "Lucidity Part Deux, Deux,"" travel trravel Singh.. San Jose. imagery by Gary Singh

COMMUNITY SSCHOOL COMMUNITY CHOO OL O OFF MUSIC M USIC AND AND ARTS ARTS “Dreams,”” ceramics, “Dreams,” ceramics,, drawings, drawings, Avery paintings by A very Palmer.

Palm mer. Thru May 25.. Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, 9am--7pm, 7 Sat, 9am-3pm.

9am3pm. Mohr Gallery, Gallerryy, Finn Center,, Mountain View.

Center View w.

DISCOVER DI SCOVER SAN SAN JO JOSE SE Vintage Signs by TTom oom Colla.

San Jose.

GGALLERY ALLERY HOUSE HOUSE “Silicon Valley Valley Open Studios.”

Studios.”

Thru May 31. P Palo alo Al Alto. too.

GALLERY GALLER Y SARATOGA SARA ATOGGA “The Big Picture,” Picture,”” gallery galleery by ffeatured eatured abstract abstract acrylic acrylic painter Isaias Sandoval. Wed-Sun, Wed-SSun,, 11am5pm. Big Basin Way, Wayy, Saratoga.

Saaratoga.

KALEID K ALEID GALLERY GALLER RY ““An A An Artist Artist’s ’s Trip Trrip to Baghdad,” Bagh hdad,” work ew Heine Heine and workss by Andr Andrew "T TRANSITIONS, RANSITIONS " an evolution evoolution "TRANSITIONS," in the artwork of SSteven teveen Reece.

San Jose.

MACLA M ACLA "Cosmos Codex, Codex,"" the first fi CCalifornia alifornia exhibition off VargasVargasSuarez Suar ez Universal.

Universal. Thru Aug 2.

San Jose.

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“L.O.V “L.O.V.E.: V.E. . : Cr Creativity, eativityy, Connectio Connection, on, Community”” examines the ourselves challenges of extending ours elves with to commune and connect wit th others, with an installation off drawings, sculpture, and video,, dr awings,, sculptur e,, an nd works.

11am-3pm. other work s.. Thu-Sun, 11am3 3pm.

Saratoga.

Thru Jun 8.. Sar atoga.

PACIFIC P ACIFIC A ART RT LLEAGUE EAGUE “Photogr “Photography: Photography: W Writing riting withh Scholis: Light,” May 22-21.

-21. “Zoya Sch holis: Thirdd Wish,” May 22-22.

Thir -22. “L “Louis ouis Palo Alto.

Basel,” Thru May 31. P alo Al A to.

PALO P ALO A ALTO LTO A ART RT CCENTER ENTER R “YYouth Art & CCulture “Youth ulture 27-May KKaleidoscope.” aleidoscope.”” Apr 27 -Mayy 18.

Palo P alo Al Alto. to.

PHO69 PHO 69 Watercolors by Made’ Watercolors Made’ Suke Sukerti erti Berg.

Ber g. San Jose.

SSAN AN JJOSE OSE INSTITUTE INSTITUTE O OFF CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY AR ART T “T “Toriawase,” Tooriawase,”” which juxtaposes juxtapooses traditional tr aditional and historical Japanese art and objects with selected contempor contemporary ary Western Co-curated W estern artwork. Co-cur atted

by Misako Mitsui. Feb 22 22-May -M May 17.

17 7. TTue-Fri, ue-Fri, u 10am-5pm, Sat Sat,, noon-5pm. San Jose.

SSEEING EEING T THINGS HINGS GALLER GALLERY RY "Deadbeat Club: Field TTrip," rrip," works work ks by b Gr G Grant antt H Hatfield, tfi ld Deanna TTempleton, eempleton, Ed TTempleton, eempleton, Clint W Woodside, oodsside, Hall.

Devin Briggs and Nolan Ha all.

San Jose.

WORKS W ORKS SSAN AN JO JOSE SE "Working P "Working Parts: arts: SJSU SJSU Animation/Illustration Animation/Illustr ation BF BFA A 2014."" San Jose.

2014.

ZERO ZER O 1 GGARAGE ARAGE "Data Exchange, Exchange,"" an exhibition or exhibition, organized ganized by San Jose SState tate U University niversity undergraduate under graduate students, which w explores explor es the U USB SB flash driv drive ve as an al alternative ternative form form of social sociial distribution. on. networking and distributio interactive Also on display: the inter acctive light installation Pulse by Scott S Gorham, and the animatedd game Asahi Asahi by Glenn and John J Pham. San Jose.

*events *e vents BOOGIE ON T THE HE B BAYOU AYOU A ffestival estival with 200 arts, cr crafts afts and business booths, live music and international ffood, o ood, with a ffocus ocus on CCajunajun- andd New Orleans-style cuisine s. cuisines.

May 17 -28. Fr ee admission n.

17-28.

Free admission.

Downtown CCampbell. ampbell.

GREEN MENACE Kenpachiro Satsuma donned a rubber suit for eight different ‘Godzilla’ movies. He will be on hand at the Big Wow! fest.

Monster Celebration ONE of the most famous movie monsters will stomp into San Jose to celebrate his 60th anniversary and the release of a brand-new Hollywood reboot. Godzilla will be among the cinematic creatures, superheroes and comic characters feted at the Big Wow! Comic Fest taking place this weekend at the San Jose Convention Center.

An array of panel discussions and meet-and-greets featuring guest celebrities are slated to take place throughout the event, including an appearance from Kenpachiro Satsuma, who portrayed Godzilla, starting with 1984’s Return of Godzilla, and donned the rubber suit for eight films in all. Satoshi “Bin” Furuya, who played the original Ultraman, will also be in attendance, and both will be on hand for two special after-hours screenings of the new Legendary Pictures release of Godzilla.

Big Wow! Comic Fest May 17-18 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose $10-$35 bigwowcomicfest.com

August Ragone, author of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters, a profile of the filmmaker and special effects wizard who brought Godzilla and a host of other beloved kaiju creatures to life, will introduce the duo and lead discussions at several panels and the film screenings.

Although the popular image of Godzilla in mainstream media for many years could be seen as that of a somewhat lovable, goofy creature that fought an array of rubber foes in films made mainly for children, the character got its start as a very serious, dark symbol of the nuclear age.

“The original film was important for its time—as many scholars and authors have written before, Japan was the only nation to have suffered an atomic attack, but I don’t think the Japanese were trying to work out an anxiety about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which is what everyone says,” Ragone notes, instead pointing to an incident in which a Japanese fishing boat was exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. nuclear test near the Marshall Islands. The event shocked the citizens of Japan.

“The panic that it caused in the country, and the tension between the United States and Japan, the reparations the Americans tried to pay, this was the first and foremost thing in their minds, so when the film came out in November of 1954, that’s what everybody was thinking about,” Ragone says.

Since then, Godzilla has appeared in nearly 30 films and countless television shows, comics, commercials, toy lines, and virtually every other imaginable form of mass media. The fact that this weekend’s festivities coincide with the opening weekend of the new film should make Bay Area Godzilla fans extremely happy— even those approaching the new major Hollywood studio picture with cautious optimism.—Sean McCourt

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TAKING T A KING ADVANTAGE A DVA N TAGE RULE RULE Mr. Mr. B (James Mr (J F Franco) ) is i a soccer coach h who creepily romanc romances ces April, the teenaged heroine e of ‘P ‘Palo alo Alto Alto.’.’

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AMES FRANCO’S AMES FRANCO’ C S Brett Easton Ellis-like Ellis-like list of sensations sensation ns in short story form has h been oppola’s inverted in Gia Co Coppola’s fine debut Palo Palo Alto.

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live if they live they lived lived in the time of the Eg yptians or o the knights in armor. armor.

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by Emma Roberts.

Ro ober ts. touchingly Dismissed by by her mean, p opular popular friends as a “sweet “sweet lit tle vir gin,”” she little virgin,” has the int telligence to underst and intelligence understand what ’s going goin ng wrong wrong around around here. here. what’s R ob o b erts’ t ’ Ap A pril il is i tr ttremendously emendously d l Roberts’ April eexpressive, xpressive, but not saltless saltless,, spineless or pathetic c; she does does b eguilingly pathetic; beguilingly fforlorn o orlorn things things like like p erching in the perching flo or of herr lo cker when she eats floor locker lunch, so that th hat it guards guards her back like like a tor toise’s shell. tortoise’s April lik es the sh hy T eddy ( JJack ack likes shy Teddy

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BYRNE-ING BRIGHT Rose Byrne’s Kelly leads the charge when she and her husband, Mac (Seth Rogen) go to war with their frat-boy neighbors.

Frat Row

STRANGE HOW Neighbors is Seth Rogan’s most all-killer, no-filler film. It’s so muscular it seems like a breakthrough. The bear-like icon of the Apatow-era comedy is funny— when he’s on a roll and grousing he reminds you of Albert Brooks at his best. But Rogan works in films that always seem spun out of improv and then cut back to size—it’s a form of comedy that is to comedy what slash and burn is to agriculture; it depletes the audience and the performer alike. Neighbors is directed

by Nicholas Stoller of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which exemplified the first swollen, then carved-down style.

Neighbors is by contrast, brutally cut, with reality TV show editing—deliberately idiotic novelty wipes, such as a star wipe and a clock wipe, propel the story. But the cutting doesn’t go against the grain. This comedy has a careening style, with day-glo debauchery out of Gaspar Noe and Harmony Korine (if influence is a demonstration of greatness, maybe Spring Breakers was that big a deal).

The plot is as simple as a classic Warner Brothers cartoon or a 1920s two-reeler: Mac (Rogan) and Kelly (Rose Byrne), a couple with a six-month-old baby, are living happily in their suburban house when they suddenly get Delta Psi’s frat house as a neighbor.

The twist is that the couple is all for it—life as shut-in parents was getting on their nerves. (“Why don’t you leave it at the fire station?” suggests a pal who invites them to a concert without their baby.) Zac Efron, demonstrating alarming American Psycho inflections, is the frat president, Teddy—he has his own concerns about the mark he will leave on fraternity history. Efron gets to show off his physical perfection and action-figure six-pack. The couple and the frat party together till sun up and brotherly love and handshakes are exchanged … until

that night’s wall-shaking party; the Delta Psis refuse to answer the phone, the cops get called, the gloves are off. The dubious battle begins and the baby gets sidelined, for genuinely sweet reaction shots—these include a leer recalling the brat in Von Trier’s Antichrist as it scopes its parents in midprimal scene. You do have to appreciate the first movie in 10 years with a baby in it that doesn’t have a diaper joke.

Rose Byrne is Neighbors’ Neighbors biggest surprise. Byrne is in her 30s now, terribly R; 96 MIN. beautiful, woefully Opens Fri. beautiful, lean and dark and with sad, Celtic eyebrows.

For years directors worked that sense of tragedy, even in Hollywoodized classical tragedy: she played captive Briseis in Troy.

Someone realized that all the best comedians have tragic faces and Byrne finally started doing work I felt like talking about, as in Bridesmaids and I Give It A Year. There’s no sense of a movie star bravely slumming through a dick-joke-laden comedy: she’s avid for this, and lights up with the eagerness to fight the frat-rats. Kelly is the first one in the attack when a pediatrician does something comically horrible to shame this shame-free couple.

Stoller puts the comedy where a general would, in the front, instead of making this another family feud, a boring sitcom paradigm of the put-upon man and his naggy wife. Kelly is full of vicious mischief, engineering a smooth plan to destroy the frat from within by putting “hos before bros.” Animal House is considered a classic for a dozen or so routines, but there’s more vigor and force here—Neighbors may be the ultimate frat-house comedy.Nei —Richard von Busack

(PG; 10 104 04 min.) Of limited ffascination, ascination, despitee crystalline high-def despit photog graphy which gets the tortur photography torturee test em mulating Gainsbor ough. emulating Gainsborough.

A nd th he cast is unimpeachable, And the includi ing P enelope Wil ton as a including Penelope Wilton lady off the house, Emily Watson Watson as worried aristocrat, Miranda a wor ried aristocr at, and M iranda Richardson Richar dson as the same sort of quacking quacki ing blueblood she assayed so memorably memo rably on Blackadder). ) Gugu M Mbatha-Raw batha-Raw plays Dido Elizabeth African Belle, the t daughter of an A frican woman Lindsay, woma n and one John Lindsay y, eventually who ev ventually earned the rrank ank Rearr A Admiral of Rea dmiral of the rred ed in the Britishh Navy.

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(R; 88 min.) In one of his last rroles, oles, Philip Phi li SSeymour Hoff lip Hoffman H ffman plays l Mickey, M icckeyy, a small-time crook crook whose sociopathic soc ciopathic stepson dies in a construction con nstruction ““accident.” accident.” M Mickey’s ickey’s attempts atte empts to cover up the not-soaccidental acc cidental natur naturee of the death andd comf comfort ort his grieving wif wifee ar aree thwarted thw warted by the ar arrival rival of a nosy columnist. col umnist. This dark comedy is directed

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ar aree maybe the most mem memorable, morable, but a gang called "The Punk P Punks" s" soon had auxiliary members all a over New YYork ork and Beyond. A Clockwork Orange Orange as an example, tthe he film has its own livid intensit intensity; ty; no one rides the subway at nigh ht in New night YYork oork without thinking of this movie.

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HEISENBERG HE AIN’T Bryan Cranston plays a scientist who was the only one to foresee the arrival of Godzilla.

Dinosaur Sr. CIVILIZATION is menaced by MUTOs— ancient hell-creatures that crunch nuclear waste tanks in their mandibles as if they were heirloom carrots. They resemble mile-high, leather-upholstered versions of the Art Deco gargoyles on the Chrysler building, gene-spliced with colossal daddy long-legs. Who can possibly stop them?

Am I in the wrong theater?

Only scientist Joe Brody foresaw the danger—he’s played by Bryan Cranston as a lone crank in a small Tokyo apartment covered with newspaper clippings. A small time of bonding between Brody and his soldier son Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) gives way fast: Godzilla is a short-attentionspanned movie, with a lot of distance to cover. Before too long, Ford is escorting a clockwork nuke from Lone Pine to San Francisco via what looks like the British Columbian coast.

The script has a thesis-like earnestness.

Chief explainer is Ken Watanabe, playing Dr. Ichiro Serizawa, apparently a relative of the Byronic eye-patched scientist in the original. He could have been an Ahab, but instead he’s a worshipping mourner at the First Church of Godzilla. He sets the film’s tone: director Gareth Edwards is solemn, too cautionary to get much pleasure from inundating or bulldozing tourist wonderlands. If you don’t get

enough of the wrath of Godzilla, at least you’ll basically understand what’s going on. Godzilla is trying to track down his ancestral prey while Ford tries to reunite with his wife (Elizabeth Olsen, too good for this).The King of Monsters is an excellent example of the old screenwriter’s Godzilla maxim that a character explains himself PG-13; 123 MIN. through action: a battler, Opens Fri. indomitable, heedless of being attacked two against one, who never stops for humanity’s thanks.

Edwards is an eclipser—closing the door on the first battle between monsters, showing a mushroom cloud out of the corner of a viewer’s eye. But the creature work is satisfying: the giant reptile has convincing density and rage. I thrilled to hear him roar. Godzilla is often a warning against mankind’s foolish presumption that CG is better than the best miniature work. This isn’t the case in the finale, with Godzilla renovating the San Francisco skyline; soldiers in the street watch from Chinatown, an ultimate dragon parade against red lanterns and pagoda roofs. A lot of monstrous office towers get what they deserve, as the audience gets a lot of what they sought.—Richard von Busack

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in which all of New York's Yoork's gangs have come to settle their t grievances, the messianic le eader leader CCyrus yrus is wantonly assassina ated, and assassinated, a minor gang takes the rrap ap for for firing the shot. They must fight th heir way their back to their home turf subbway turf,, subway station by subway station, bor bborough ough by bor ough. Hill has a vision n of borough. a New YYork ork divided in par cels parcels between hor ror-clown gangs; ganggs; the horror-clown Baseball Furies, dr essed in droog ddroog dressed versions of the YYankees' aankees' un iforms, uniforms,

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SSB aree so sp special.

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Way Sat: Assuming Assuming W Wee Sur Survive, vive,, When Earth Awakes, Awakes,, Behind The Fallen, CCallsign, allsign,, Bowers.. San Jose.

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Throwback Thursdays SAN JOSE STATE professor Aaron Lington’s tribute to trumpeter Donald Byrd last week launched a new cycle for Blackbird Tavern’s Thursday series, The Residency.

Next up is vocalist Ren Geisick, who will be revisiting the complex catalog and legacy of Nina Simone, followed in the coming weeks by two more tributes to jazz icons.

Geisick was previously a standout guest vocalist as part of weekly series Fatale. This marks her first time leading the bandstand at Blackbird. Asked “why Nina and why now?”, Geisick explains that Simone’s approach and respect for the craft shines through in her music.

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“She’s just an incredible artist who’s so connected emotionally to her work,” she says. “She’s not confined in any one genre. That’s my goal in the long term—to feel my voice and my presence are enough to connect all the different genres and styles that have influenced me and that I would want to sing.”

Bad Five trumpeter Shawn Williams pays tribute to two trumpet greats, the legendary Freddie Hubbard and the unsung Thad Jones, the following Thursday, May 22.

For Williams, his tribute offers him opportunity to highlight two key inspirations he wouldn’t otherwise be able to honor. Thad Jones has been particularly hard to highlight.

“I’ve never been able to bring it out because nobody is really familiar with [his work]. I thought this would be a really good opportunity to do that,” he explains.

Brian Ho closes out the month of tributes with a nod to legendary pianist Herbie Hancock on May 29. While noted primarily as a B-3 organist, he plans to pull out all the stops for this performance, utilizing organ, Rhodes, clavinet and piano.

“That’s the cool thing about these tributes: it forces you [to be creative],” admits Ho. “I don’t just want to do exactly what was on the album. I want to create my own personal touch to it.”

Over the last six months The Residency has given both leading and emerging local jazz and funk voices the opportunity to play once a month. The first two cycles focused largely on original work and included groups like the JurassiC, the Bad Five and Super Soul Bros.

With a continued focus on providing a stage for emerging musicians to hone their craft, Ho applauds Blackbird Tavern’s commitment to live music.

“They’re not just doing one genre, and they’re not just sticking to one genre or type of music. They’re really spacing it out. That’s what we need—venues that support music,” he says.—Brandon E. Roos

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Sat. 5/24 at 8 pm THE MONTGOMERY THEATRE

271 S. Market St., San Jose Roy Orbison comes to life in this amazing tribute featuring

Wiley Ray and The Big O Band a regionally touring musical group paying tribute to one of the greatest singers/songwriters of all time.

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a biological and psychological profile that makes them more prone to long for the sexual variety pack. One factor in this is being high in what psychologist Marvin Zuckerman calls “sensation seeking”— craving novel, varied, and intense sensations and experiences and being willing to take risks to get them. Sensation seeking has repeatedly been associated with high testosterone, and men with high testosterone tend to divorce more often and have more sex partners. This isn’t to say these factors are an excuse for cheating. (“Biology made me do it!”)

You ultimately have the ability to make choices—difficult as that may be in the moment when you’re feeling very much like a penis-controlled robot.

Sure, you miss your wife now, but if you get her back, will you start pining for the parade of bar floozies? Testosterone does decline significantly with age, as does sensation seeking, so you may find monogamy more doable at 40 than you do at 30. Assuming your wife, like most women, requires monogamy, what you owe her is honesty about the trouble you have with it so she can decide whether she’s willing to put herself in harm’s way.

If you do get back together, talk about what you (each) need to do to avoid temptation (like, for you, maybe finding a job where you aren’t surrounded by hot drunk girls flashing you their thong for free drinks).

This level of honesty is likely to bring you both closer and build trust, making your relationship deeper and stronger.

You’re ultimately telling your wife that you see there’s a world of women out there but what matters most to you is having her—her beauty, sweetness, and intelligence, and your connection.

You now understand that this requires consistent effort. (There’s a reason the saying is “relationships take work” and not “flings are like forced labor.”) You’re committing to doing your part to keep some sparks flying in your marriage—and not by having her find you in bed with another woman and then chase you around with a Taser.

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I’m 30, and I’ve been married to my sweet, beautiful wife for three years. I am a bartender at a club and have numerous opportunities to cheat dangled in front of me. After coming close on several occasions, I finally told my wife I wasn’t happy, and we separated three months ago as a prelude to divorcing. I moved in with a friend and started taking advantage of my new single life. However, it’s already getting old. I miss my wife and her intelligence and our connection. How do I start the conversation with her about getting back together? —Screwed Up After several years of marriage, for a lot of couples, pretty much the only way to have hot sex is to do it under an electric blanket.

Ideally, you could have the security of marriage while continuing to pick up sex snacks at the mall food court of bachelorhood. (In a perfect world, Starbucks would also serve free beer.)

But back here in the real world, a monogamous relationship demands trade-offs, and the biggie is giving up hot sex for love and constancy. Even couples who keep having sex almost never have it as hot (or as regularly) as they did at the start. There are just certain elements that can’t be replaced—sexual tension and suspense, for example—once you know for sure that you’ll not only be going home with your date but be waking up to them snoring and drooling on your shoulder for the next 50 years.

Part of the problem is the way we view monogamy—as the inevitable next step after falling in love. It’s just assumed that a couple will be sexually faithful for a lifetime; there’s typically no discussion of how, exactly, they’ll accomplish that or whether they even can. Of course, for many people—women especially—there is no acceptable alternative to monogamy.

“Open marriage, honey?” Right. You may as well suggest, “You know, I’m thinking we should spend the rest of the afternoon disemboweling squirrels.”

Also, many people mistakenly believe that a happy and loving marriage is a magical fidelity wand that wards off the temptation to wander. Infidelity researcher Shirley Glass, in Not ‘Just Friends,’ calls this a “misconception … not supported by any research,” though it is commonly cited on TV and in selfhelp books as a way to “affair-proof your marriage.” What it can end up being is a way to stick blame on the person who got cheated on, as if their saying “I love you” more fervently or keeping the living room better vacuumed could have kept their spouse’s underwear from ending up on someone else’s spouse’s hotel room floor.

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5/07/2014. (pub Metr 4, 5/21, Metroo 5/1 5/14, 5/2 8, 6/04/2014) 6/04/2014) 5/28,

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #591237 #59 1237

The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: PPeaccock, eaccock, 460 Carr Carroll oll S St., t., Sunnyvale, Sunnyv ale, CCA, A, 94086, 94086, Diana Blue.

This business is conducted bbyy a individual.

R egistrant has not yet yet Registrant begun transacting transacting business under the fictitious name. /s/Diana Blue This statement was filed with ith the th County C t Clerk Cl k off Santa Clar Claraa County on 4/2 5/14.

4/25/14. (pub Metr 4, 5/21, Metroo 5/1 5/14, 5/2 8, 6/04/2014) 6/04/2014) 5/28,

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #590131 #5901 31

The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as:1. s Elite R Realty ealty Co, 2. First Class LLending ending Co, 55520 520 Almaden EExpressway, xpresswayy, San Jose, Jose CA, CA, A 95123..

9 5123..

This business is conducted bbyy a corpor corporation. ation.

Above Abo ve entity was formed in the state of California Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein herein on 1/28/08.

1/2 8/08.

Refile R efile of pr previous evious file #504743 #504 743 after 40 days of expiration expir ation date. /s/Ivan /s/Iv an Caballero Caballero PPresident resident This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 4/01/2014.

4/01/201 4. (pub Metr Metroo 4/26, 5/07 5/07, 7, 5/14, 5/1 4, 5/21/2014) 5/21/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #591427 #59 1427

The following following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Apical Apps, 204 20422 22 V Via ia PPortofino, ortofino, Cuper Cupertino, tino, CA, CA, 95014, 9 5014, 4 PPoonam oonam Bhar Bh Bhargava. gava.

This business is conducted bbyy a individual.

Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her herein ein on 2/14/2014.

2/1 4/2014. /s/Poonham /s/P oonham Bhar Bhargava gava This statement was filed with the County Clerk of

Santta Clar Santa Claraa County on 5/01/2014.

5/01 1/2014. (pubb Metro Metro 5/1 5/14, 4 5/21, 4, 5/21 5/28, 5/2 8 6/04/2014) 8, 6/04/2014)

FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT NAME #59 90656 #590656

The following following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Nile PParking, arkking, 3354 54 s. 2nd S Street, treet, San Jose, CA, CA, 95113, 95113, Senayit Shenkute, Shenkute, 11607 607 LLos oos Suenos Ave, A ve,, San Jose, CA, CA, 95116.

95116.

Thiss business is conducted bbyy a individual.

Registrant R egiistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under business name the fictitious fi names herein or na ames listed her ein on 6/06/2005.

6/06 6/2005.

Refile previous R efile of pr evious file #462837 #46 2837 after 40 days of expiration expi iration date. /s/Senayit /s/S Senayit Shenkute Thiss statement was filed withh the County Clerk of Santa Sant ta Clar Claraa County on 4/11/2014.

4/11 1/2014. (pubb Metro Metro 5/1 5/14, 4, 5/21, 5/28, 5/2 8 6/04/2014) 8, 6/04/2014)

FICTITIOUS FI C ITIOUS CT BUSINESS B USINESS NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #590132 #59 90132

The following following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: 1st Class C R Realty ealty Co, 2 2452 452 Almaden Alma aden Expressway, Expresswayy, San Jose, CA, CA, 95124, 95124, Ivan Ivan Caballero, Caba allero, 2 232 32 Omir Omira, a, San Jose, Jose e, CA, CA, 95123.

95123.

Thiss business is conducted bbyy a individual.

Registrant R egiistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious fi business name or na names ames listed her herein ein on 3/5/07.

3/5 /077.

Refile R efile of pr previous evious file #490749 #4 90749 after 40 days of expiration expi iration date. /s/Ivan /s/Iv van Caballero Caballero Thiss statement was filed withh the County Clerk of Santa Sant ta Clar Claraa County on 4/01/2014.

4/0 1/2014. (pubb Metro Metro 5/1 5/14, 4, 5/21, 5/28, 5/2 8 6/04/2014) 8, 6/04/2014)

FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #591539 #59 91539

The following following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Radicle R adicle Seed Company, Companyy, 4860 486 0 Monterey Monterey Road, Road, Gilroy, Gilr oy, Ca, 95020, 95020, T and C Supplies, Sup plies, Inc. Thiss business is conducted bbyy a corpor corporation. ation.

Above Abo ve entity was formed in the state s California Registrant R egiistrant has not yet yet begun begu un transacting transacting business under und der the th fictitious fi titi business b i name nam me or names listed herein. her e ein. /s/Steven /s/S Steven H. Costa PPresident ressident #1292368 #1 29 92368 Thiss statement was filed withh the County Clerk of Santa Sant ta Clar Claraa County on 5/05/2014.

5/05 5/2014.

(pub Metr Metroo 5/07 5/07, 7, 5/ 5/14, 14, 5/21, 5/28/20147) 5/28/20147)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #590828

The following following person person(s) n(s) is (are) (ar e) doing businesss as: SGN SG N Petro, Petro, 2375 2375 Quimby Quimby Rd., San Jose, CA, CA, 95122, 95122, SGN SG N PPetro, etro, LL LLC. C. This business is con conducted ducted bbyy a Limited Liabilityy Company.

Company y.

Above Abo ve entity was formed forrmed in the state California Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting businesss under business the fictitious busines ss name herein. or names listed her e ein. /s/Rajinder Brar /s/R ajinder Br ar Manager #201400810129 #201 400810129 This statement was fifiled Clerk with the County Cler rk of Claraa County on Santa Clar o 4/16/2014.

4/1 6/2014. (pub Metr Metroo 5/07 5/07, 7, 5/ 5/14, 14, 5/21, 5/2 5/28/2014) 8/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEM MENT #591335 #59 1335

The follo following wing person(s) personn(s) is (ar (are) e) doing busine business ess as: Golden Finances Finances,, 200 Burnett Ave., Ave., Sp. Sp. 170, 170, 0 Morgan Mor gan Hill, CA, CA, 95037, 950 0377, Jason Abr Abraham aham Gold Golden. den.

This business is con conducted ducted bbyy a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun tr transacting ansacting bbusiness usiness under the fictitious business b name or names liste listed ed herein. her ein ein. /s/Jason A. Golden This statement was filed fi with the County Cler Clerk rk of Santa Clar Claraa County on o 4/29/2014.

4/29/201 4. (pub Metr Metroo 5/07 5/07, 7, 5/ 5/14, 14, 5/21, 5/2 5/28/20140) 8/20140)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #59 1333 #591333

The follo following wing person(s) personn(s) is (are) ((ar e)) doingg businesss as: Hoa Beauty Supply Supply, y, 11826 826 San Carlos St., St., San JJose, ose, CCA, A, 95128, 9 5128, Hoa YYuu Hoan Hoang. ng.

This business is con conducted ducted bbyy a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting transacting bbusiness usiness under the fictitious business b name or names listed listeed herein. her ein. /s/Hoa YYuu Hoang This statement was fifiled with the County Clerk Clerrk of Santa Clara Clara County on o 4/29/2014.

4/29/201 4. (pub Metr Metroo 5/07 5/07, 7, 5/ 5/14, 14, 5/21 5/2 5/21, 5/28/2014) 8/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #591316 # 591316 The following following person person(s) n(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business busineess as: Adv Advocali ocali Design, 11370 370

Whitehurst Ct., San Jose, CCA, A, 95125, 9 5125, R Reynaldo eynaldo Lambatin.

This business is conducted bbyy a individual.

Registrant R egistrant began tr transacting ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her herein ein on 1/01/2012.

1/01/2012. /s/R eynaldo Lambatin /s/Reynaldo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 4/29 2014.

4/292014. (pub Metro Metro 5/07 7, 5/1 4, 5/21, 5/07, 5/14, 5/2 8/2014) 5/28/2014)

the fictitious fi business name or na names ames listed her herein ein on. /s/Jeffery /s/Je effery A A. Jokinen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Santta Clara Clara County on 4/17/2014.

4/1 7 7/201 4. (pubb Metro Metro 4/30, 5/07, 5/077, 5/1 4 5/21/2014) 4, 5/21/2014) 5/14,

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #590892

The following f wing person(s) is follo (are) (ar e) doing business as: BMO B MO O Engineering, g g, 11260 260 W W..

Washington W ashhington Ave., Ave., Apt #21, Sunnyvale, Sunn nyvale, CA, CA, 94086, 94086, YYuanyuan uannyuan Li. This business is conducted bbyy a individual.

Registrant R egisstrant began tr transacting ansacting business busin ness under the fictitious business busin ness name or names listedd her herein ein on 4/2 4/28/2014.

8/2014. /s/Yuanyuan /s/Y u uanyuan Li This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Sant ta Clara Clara County on Santa 4/2 8 8/201 4.

4/28/2014. (pubb Metro Metro 4/30, 5/07, 5/077, 5/1 4 5/21/201 4, 4) 5/14, 5/21/2014)

The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: JJKommunications, Kommunications, o LL LLC, LC, C 2050 Southwest Southw est EExpy., xpyy.., Apt 95, 95, San Jose, CA, CA, 95126, 95126, .

This business is conducted bbyy a limited liability company y. company.

Abo ve entity was formed in Above the state of California R egistrant has not yet yet begun Registrant tr ansacting business under transacting the fictitious business name or names listed li t d her h ein. i herein. /s/Jennifer K eltner Keltner Manager ‘#201 4086101 ‘#2014086101 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 4/1 7/2014.

4/17/2014. (pub Metro Metro 5/07, 5/077, 5/1 4, 5/21, 5/14, 5/2 8/2014) 5/28/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #590875

The following following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Cooper’’s S Stuff, tuff, 21 2152 52 TTasman aasman Drive, Driv e, Santa Clar Clara, a, CCA, A, 95054, 9 5054, Jeffery A. Jokinen.

This business is conducted bbyy a individual.

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

FICTTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #591259 #59 91259

FICTTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT STATEMENT T

The ffollowing following person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: Shoots Shoo ots Cuts Flicks, 117963 7963 Helenn W Hele Way, ayy, LLos os G Gatos, atos, CCA, A, 95033, 9 5033, Eddie K Kestermont. estermont.

This business is conducted bbyy a individual.

Registrant R egisstrant began tr transacting ansacting business busin ness under the fictitious business busin ness name or names listedd herein herein on 4/17/2014.

4/17/2014. //s/Eddie /s/E /Eddie ddi K Kestermont eestermont This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Santta Clara Clara County on 4/28/2014.

4/2 8 8/201 4. (pubb Metro Metro 4/30, 5/07, 5/077, 5/14, 5/1 4 5/21/2014) 4, 5/21/2014)

CUBESOULS CUBESOUL LS

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEM MENT #591027 #59 1027

The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: DJ Chido San Jose Jose, 4 472 72 N. N 110th 0th St., S t., Unit #A, San Jose, CCA, A, 95112, 9 5112, Juan R Ramon amon Bautista Cuiriz.

This business is conducted The follo following wing person(s) personn(s) is bbyy a individual. (are) (ar e) doing businesss as: R egistrant has not yet yet begun Registrant V an a Carpet Cleaning and Van tr ansacting business under transacting Handyman Service, Service, 2151 2 51 21 Oakland Rd., #481, San S Jose, the fictitious business name or names listed her ein. herein.

CCA, A, 95131, 95131, TTuan uan u Van Van a Ho. Ho. /s/Juan R amon Bautista Ramon This business is conducted condducted Cuiriz bbyy a individual.

R egistrant began tr ansacting This statement was filed Registrant transacting with the County Clerk of business under the fictitious fi Santa Clar Claraa County on ames business name or na names 4/1 7/2014.

4/17/2014. listed her ein on 04/15/14.

04/115/14. herein (pub p Metr 3, 4/30, 3 Metroo 4/2 4/23, /s/T uan Van Van a Ho /s/Tuan 5/07 7, 5/14/2014) 5/14/2014) 5/07, fi This statement was filed with the County Clerk Clerrk of Santa Clar o Claraa County on FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS 4/2 2/2014.

4/22/2014.

BUSINESS B USINESS (pub Metr 5//077, Metroo 4/30, 5/07, 5/1 4, 5/21/2014) 5/21/2014) 5/14, NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #59 1033 #591033

The follo following wing person(s) personn(s) is (are) (ar e) doing businesss as: Ensiweb, Ensiw eb, 6 6388 388 TTamalpais aamaalpais Ave., A ve., San S Jose, J CA, CA, A 95120, 95120, Ensiweb, Ensiw eb, LL LLC. LCC. This business is cond conducted ducted bbyy a limited liability company. company y.

Above Abo ve entity was formed forrmed in the state of Californiaa Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet e begun transacting tr ansacting businesss under the fictitious busines business ss name. /s/Lawrence /s/Lawr ence I. Flammer Flamm mer Manager #20140410175 #201 40410175 This statement was fifiled with the County Clerk Clerrk of Santa Clar Claraa County on o 4/22/2014.

4/2 2/2014.

4 (pub Metro Metro 4/30, 5/07, 5//077, 5/14, 5/1 4, 5/21/2014) 5/21/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEM MENT #590864

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The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as: ShadeS tays, 99 San Juan ShadeStays, Ct., LLos os o Altos, CCA, A, 9 4022, 94022, Blob Products, Products, LLC. LLLC. C This business is conducted bbyy a limited liability company y. company.

Ab Abo ve entity tit was fformedd iin Above the state of California.

R egistrant has not yet yet begun Registrant tr ansacting business under transacting the fictitious business name ein. or names listed her herein.

R efile of pr evious file Refile previous #5804 70 with changes. #580470 /s/K Kaarl Grame Grame /s/Karl Managing Member #201 328810304 #201328810304 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 3/26/201 4.

3/26/2014. (pub Metr 3, 4/30, Metroo 4/2 4/23, 5/07 7, 5/14/2014) 5/14/2014) 5/07,

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #590631 The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (ar e) doing business as:

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #590690

The follo following wing person(s) is (ar e) doing business (are) as: 1. R ene R ose Island Rene Rose Cuisine, 2. R ene R ose Rene Rose Philippine Cuisine Cuisine, 33.. Rene Rene R ose Filipino Rose Kitchen, 6 21 Caliente Dr r.., 621 Dr., Sunnyv ale, CA, CA, 94085, 94085, Sunnyvale, Natalie Nepomuceno, 5555 55 N. Eden Ave., Ave., Sunnyv ale, CA, CA, 94085.

94085.

Sunnyvale, This business is conducted by by a individual.

R egistrant began Registrant tr ansacting business transacting under the fictitious

bussiness name or business names nam mes listed her herein ein on 6/10/2009.

6/1 10/2009.

Refile R efifile of pr previous evious file #523085 #5 23085 with changes. /s/Natalie /s/ /Natalie Nepomuceno Thiss statement was filed Thi withh the County Clerk of wit Santa Claraa County on San nta Clar 4/11/2014.

4/1 11/2014. (pub Metroo 4/2 4/23, (pu ub Metr 3, 4/30, 5/07, 5/14/2014) 5/0 077, 5/1 4/2014)

FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT TA #590677 #5 590677

Thee follo following wing person(s) is (a (are) are) doing business as: W Wamo amo a Limo, 55300 300 TTerner ernner W Way, aayy, #91 #9120, 20, San Jose, Jose e, CA, CA, 95136, 95136, Abdi Amin, Am min, Yonnis Yonnis o Faracade, Faracade, 821 8 211 Morse Ave., Ave., #120, #120, Sunnyvale, Sun nnyvale, CCA, A, 9 94085.

4085.

Thiss business is Thi conducted con nducted by by a gener general al partnership. par rtnership.

R eggistrant began Registrant tr annsacting business transacting und der the fictitious under bus siness name or business nam mes listed her ein on names herein 4/1 11/2014.

4/11/2014. /s/ /YYoonnis FFaracade aracade /s/Yonnis Thi Thiss statement was filed wit withh the County Clerk of San nta Clar Santa Claraa County on 4/1 11/2014.

4/11/2014. (pu ub Metr 3, 4/30, (pub Metroo 4/2 4/23, 5/0 077, 5/1 4/2014) 5/07, 5/14/2014)

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By CECIL CECIL AD ADAMS AMS

CECIL CE CIL@METRONEWS.COM METRONEWS.COM

Several yearss ago I turned in a gun for cash h during a police buyback program. progrram. impa For F o or me it wass a practical exchange. But do these t programs have any impact? act?

Are communities communities with buybacks experiencing experienciing less gun-related injury and/or and d/or —Tom crime? —T To om m in San Jose Generally sp peakingg, no. no. Gun buyback speaking, pr rograms op errate on the pr reemise that programs operate premise society crimes,, ffewer ew wer guns in so ocietty means ffewer ew wer crimes suicides,, and ac accidents—or suicides ccidents— c or at least ffewer ew wer from Many deaths fr rom o those hose ccauses. aauses. Man ny cities th ha ave offered off ffeerred e bu uybacks, but studies of their have buybacks, eff ffeectivveness e alm most alw ways y find no impact. effectiveness almost always Examples: Neither saw N either St. Louis Louis nor Seattle Seatttle t sa aw in mur murders rreductions eductions e m rd ders or assaults with guns after enacting enaccting buyback programs. prrograms.

Boston’s Boston n’s sizable sizaable gun buyback programs programs decrease city’s ccoincided o oincided with a decr ease in the cit ty’ y s crime rate,, but crime decr decreased rate eased at similar rates in buybacks.. cities without buybacks b Buffalo’s A multiyear multiyear study of Buffalo ’s gun b b k programs buyback prrograams ffound ound o d a reduction reduction d ti guns,, but no in armed rrobbery o obber ery using guns significant difference gun-related signific caant diff ffeer e encce in other gun-r related e crime.. crime why don’t programs So wh hy don n’t ’ gun buyback pr rograms work? programs aree lo local Most U.S. U.S. pr rograms ar caal and scattered, opposed sc cat atttered, as opp posed to national or statewide.

Sincee guns ccan bee eeven ven st tate a ew wide. Sinc aan easily b transported, isolated efforts transp orted, iso olated eff ffo orts amount to bailing the o ocean. ceeaan. teaspoon And bailing with a teasp oon at that. that Typical 1,000 guns..

T yypical haul per per e buyback: 1,0 00 guns Total the U.S.: 300 To T o ottaal guns in th he U .S . .: 30 0 million. T o put way, theree wer were 10,000 it another w ay, in 2011 ther re 10,0 00 homicides.. Giv Given number gun homicides ven e the numb er of firearms, any fir earms, that means m an ny particular parrtticular gun 1-in-30,000 chance being involved has a 1-in-30,0 00 chanc ce of b eing in nvolved killing. unlikely in a killing g. On the unlik ely assumption number that the numb er of gun deaths is strictly proportional number guns,, the pr ro oportional with w the numb er of guns byy ttypical ypic y cal a buyback k rreduces educes the death toll b one-30th one one e-30th -3 of on ne ccorpse. o orpse p .

Some ttake aak ke advantage a advant age of gun buyback programs dispose weapons. pr rograms to dis spose of useless weap ons. In quarter Sacramento a quar q rtter of the guns ccollected ollected were broken; Seattle were. wer re br rok oken; e in n Seat ttle t a sixth wer re. tend Buybacks ten nd to yield a lot of rifles shotguns (aka and shot tguns g (a aka long guns), smallhandguns firearms ccaliber aaliber handgu uns and other fir rearms e not used byy criminals or in suicides suicides.. ccommonly o ommonly use ed b Boston’s 1993 1994 In Boston n’s 19 9 and 19 93 94 buyback programs, percent pr rograms, onlyy 2 p errcent of the guns weree lar large-caliber handguns.. rretrieved etrie e eved e wer rge g -caaliber handguns substantial new incentives Despite subst taan ntial ne ew inc entives ffor or o handguns,, in 20 2006 figure increased handguns 006 this figur re incr eased to percent. only 26 p erceen nt.

No seriously N o one serio ously eexpects xxpects criminals to deprive themselves turn in a gun and a depriv ve themselv es tool trade.. U Upshot: of a to ol of the trade p pshot: buyback programs weapons pr rograms ttake aak ke low-risk weap ons aaway way from fr rom o low-risk individuals. in ndividuals.

Unhappy earlier Un nhapp py with the rresponse esp e onse to its ear rlier efforts, eff ffo ff orrtts, Boston took took several seeveral e steps to improve imp prrove the th he impact of the 2006 2006 buyback buyback—offering k—off ffeerring $200 Target handgun a $20 $ 0T ar arget g gift ccard aard ffor or o each handgu un (but providing (b but none ffor or o long guns) and pr rovvidingg alternative drop-off alt ternativve dr rop o -off locations locaations that weren’t werren en’t ’ in n police policce stations. sttations a . However, Howeever er, it also required requi e irred e present eeveryone ver eryo one turning in a gun to pr reesent ID D keep out-of-staters from (to ok eep e out t-off-sttaters a fr rom o ccashing aashing in worthless the turn-in wo wor thless old handguns). Result: Result: e tu urn-in numbers nu umbers ffor or o 2006 2006 were werre at b best est no b better ettter t than th han in ’93 and ’94. ay we need a national Some will sa say bu uyback program. program. Ignore Ignorre the fact thatt buyback su uch a program prrogram is p oliticcaally imp ossiblle in such politically impossible th he U .S.—would it work? T o get an ide ea the U.S.—would To idea Australia, banned we ccan aan lo llook ok k to t A ustralia, t li which hi h banne b ed d some a 1996 masssacrre so ome long guns following following o 1996 massacre were in n which 35 wer re killed and 23 others byy a gunman using assault wo wounded b rifles. partt of the ban, the go government rifl fles. As As par vernme e ent launched nationwide program offering lau unched a nation nwide w pr rogram off ffeeriing market newly prohibited m mark keet value ffor or o the ne ew wly pr ohibited d weapons. was 650,000 guns,, we weap ons. The take taak ke w as a 650,0 00 guns about percent firearms. ab bout 20 p ercent e of the ccountry’s ountr o y’s fir rea earms.

Granted, A Australia ustralia w was as a a sp special ecial ccase— aasee— borders an n island nation can caan ccontrol o ontrrol o its b orrder d rs more places.

More m mor re easily than most plac cees. Mor re im mportaant, the buyback w as a at ttaached to t important, was attached a gun g ban—those who hung on to ille egal illegal we weap ons fac ed criminal char rges g . weapons faced charges.

Ev ven e so Au ustraliaa’s Even so,, the impact of Australia’s program pr rogram is disputed. One study ffound ound o n no benefits b e enefits at all, while another claimed the he th homicide 5 to 10 percent. ho omicide rate decreased decrreased e perrceentt.

Gun-related suicides decreased significantly, Gu un-rrelated e decrreeased signific cantly a y, but overall didn’t. bu ut the o verall e suicide rate didn n’’t.

True,, yyet credited True et e another study cr reedited thee Australian buyback percent A u ustralian y with a 774 4p errcent decrease de ecrease in the gun suicide rate and a 35 3 to percent decrease homicide 50 0p errceent decr ease in the gun homici ide rate. attributing ra ate. But the eevidence vvidencce ffor or o at tttributing the drop he gun homicide dr op to the buyback k th unpersuasive. is unp ersuasivve. Gun and non-gun homicides between ho omicides fell fell e at the same rate b ettwee w en 1995 2006.

19 995 and 20 06. While gun homicides weree some somewhat more we wer ewhat w mor re ccommon o ommon than the t non-gun aree lesss no on-gun kind 30 yyears ears e ago and ar now, happened ccommon o ommon now w, the rreversal eversal e happ ened cir ccirca rca 1988, before 19 988, well b effor o e the buyback. doesn’t This do esn n’’t mean gun buybacks do o no good whatsoever.

They bucks go ood whatso ever er. The ey put a ffew ew buck ks pockets people like in n the p ockets of p eople lik ke yyou ou o who want unwanted firearms, w a to get rid of un ant nwanted a fir rearms e , and a they accidents from cconceivably o onceivably the ey rreduce educ e ce ac ccidents c fr om m “unloaded” around house. “u unloaded” guns lying ar ro ound the hou use.

But they killings, Bu ut overall, overall, e do the ey rreduce educ e ce gun killing gs, or killings, period?

Don’t No. kil llings, p eriod? Don n’’t kid yyourself. ourself o f. N o.

FREE W WILL ILLL A ASTROLOGY STROLOGY ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): Wh When hen the path ahead divides in two, Aries, I am hopingg you can work some magic that will allow you to takee both ways at once. If you do master this riddle, if you can cr eatively figur creatively figuree out how to split yourself withou withoutt doing any harm, I have a str ong suspicion that the two paths will once again strong come together no later than Aug gust 1, possibly bef ore.

August before.

But due to a curious quirk in thee laws of lif e, the two life, fforks orks will never again conver ge if i you ffollow ollow just one converge now.. of them now TAURUS T AURUS (April 20-May 20): I see you as having

moree in common with a mar marathon mor athoon runner than a speed emerge you’ree rracer. acer. YYour oour best qualities tend too emer ge when you’r process takes unfold. committed to a pr ocess that tak kes a while to unf old. crucial lifee lesson. That That’s Learning to pace yourself is a cr rucial lif ’s body’s how you get attuned to your bod dy’s signals and master the art of caring ffor or your physica al needs. That ’s also physical That’s how you come to understand th hat it ’s important not that it’s comparee yourself constantly to the pr progress to compar ogress other aree making. Having said all that, TTaurus, people ar aurus, a I want temporary exception to rrecommend ecommend a tempor ary exce eption to the rule. Just now,, it may make sense ffor ffor or now or you y to run ffast ast ffor or a short time.

GEMINI (May 2121-June June 20): If you y fling handfuls of zucchini seeds on the gr ground today, ound off a vacant lot today y, you shouldn’t ripe shouldn’t expect neat rrows ows of ri pe cucumbers to be growing backyard couple weeks. growing in your back yard in a co ouple of week s. Even if you fling zucchini seeds in you your backyard today, ur back yard today y, you shouldn’t straight shouldn’t expect str aight rrows ows of o cucumbers to be growing theree by June 1. Let Let’s get moree pr precise growing ther ’s ge et even mor ecise here. carefully zucchini here. If you car efully plant zucch hini seeds in neat rrows ows in your back backyard today, should yard today y, you shou uld not expect ripe cucumbers to sprout here’s sprout by August. But her e’s the kicker: If you car carefully backyard efully plant cucumbers sseeds eeds in your back yard today, waterr them as they gr grow, today, and weed them and wate ow, you can indeed expect ripe cucu cucumbers umbers by August CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): “Iff we want the rrewards ewards Kreider, of being loved,” says cartoonist TTim im Kr eiderr, “we have ordeal to submit to the mortifying or deeal of being known.” aree you doing with this tr trade-off, How ar adde-off, CCancerian? ancerian?

Being a Cr ab myself aaree sometimes inclined Crab myself,, I know we ar to hide who we rreally eally ar e. W ave mixed ffeelings eelings are.

Wee ha have about becoming vulner able and available enough to vulnerable be fully known by others. W ght even choose to live Wee mi might crave prop without the love we cr ave so as to pr op up the illusion strength from being from of str ength that comes fr om bei ng mysterious, fr om coming weekss will be a concealing our depths. The com ing week good time ffor or you to rrevisit evisit this conundrum.

LEO LE O (July 23-Aug. 23-Aug. 22): Ther There’s e’s a piece of art on the

moon: a cer ceramic drawings amic disk inscribed with w six dr awings by noted American artists. It was ca carried arried on the landing module of the Apollo 12 mission mission, delivered n, which deliver ed two astronauts surface astronauts to the lunar surf ace in November 1969. One arhol, dr ew the of the artists, Leo maverick Andyy W Warhol, drew image of a stylized penis, simila similarr to what you might estroom. o “He was being see on the wall of a public rrestroom. the ter terrible boy,” project’s organizer rible bad boy y,,” the pr ojectt’s or ganizer said about Warhol’s Warhol’s contribution. YYou ou o know w me, Leo. I usually love playful acts of rrebellion. weeks, ebellion. But in tthe he coming week s, I advise against taking W Warhol’s you’ree called arhol’s appr aapproach. oach. If you’r on to add your self-expr self-expression tiltt ession to t a big undertaking, til in the dir direction dignity.. ection of sincerity and rreverence everence and dignity

VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23 23-Sept.

-Sept. 22): Thee planet we live on is in

transformation.

Nothing constant tr ansformation. Nothin ng ever stays the same. survive, TToo succeed, let alone sur vive, wee need to acclimate ourselves to the rrelentless elentless fforward orwaard motion. “He not Dylan’s busy being born is busy dying,” was w Bob Dylan ’s way of fr aming our challenge. How aare re you doing with this framing aspect of lif e, Vir go? Do you hat life, Virgo? hatee it but deal with it grudgingly? TTolerate oolerate it and aspir re to be a master of it aspire someday? Whatever your cur rennt attitude is, I’m her current heree to months tell you that in the coming mont ths you could become moree comf comfortable thee ceaseless flow—and much mor ortable with th Aree you rready even learn to enjoy it. it Ar e eady to begin?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23-Oct. 22): “It is isn’t sn’t that I don don’t ’t like

der,” said English aut thor Vita SackvilleWest, sweet disor disorder,” author Sackville-West, “but it has to be judiciously ar arranged.”

That’s ranged.” That ’s your theme ffor Libra.

Please precise or the week, Libr a. Pleas se rrespect espect how pr ecise a fformulation ordinary disorder ormulation this is. Plain old or rdinary disor der will not provide breakthroughs provide you with the epiphaniess and br eakthroughs ve and need. The disor rder must be sweet. If it you deser deserve disorder doesn’t make you ffeel eel at least a little excited and mor doesn’t moree e, avoid it. The diso order must also be in love with lif life, disorder judiciously ar arranged. can’t ranged. What that means is that it can ’t

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SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oc (Oct. ct. 23 23-Nov. -Nov. 21): I have thr three ee sets of ’s or you u, Scorpio. First, ar questions ffor you, aree you anyone anyone’s aws inspir ation fr om muse? Is ther theree a person who dr draws inspiration from e’s my second query: Ar the way you live?? Her Here’s Aree you str ong medicine for for anyone? Are Are you the sour ce of strong source ound and intrigue them, compelling riddles that conf confound outgrow w their narrow narrow perspectives? Here’s Here’s my them to outgrow third inquiry: Are Are you anyone’s anyone’s teacher? Ar third Aree you an ducates someone about the meaning influence that ed educates e? If you do play any of these rroles, oles, Scorpio, of lif life? ansform. orm If you don ’tt they ar aree about too heat up and tr transform. don’t currently serve serve at a least one of these functions, there’s there’s a currently u will start to soon. good chance you SSAGITTARIUS AGITT TA ARIU US (Nov. (Nov. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): A According ccording to my reading reading of the the astrological astrological omens, you should dr aw inspiration inspiration from from this Chinese proverb: proverb: “Never do draw anything standing standinng that you can do sitting, or anything c do lying down.” In other wor ds, sitting that you can words, Sagittarius, you need n extra downtime. So please say NO extra to any influence that says, “Do it now! Be maniacally efficient! Mul titaask as if your lif Multitask lifee depended on it! The mor moree active you ar aree the mor moree successful you will be!”

Instead, give you urself ample opportunity to play and yourself daydr eam and ru uminate. daydream ruminate.

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): In Raymond y

Chandler ’s pulp fiction novel Far Chandler’s Farewell, ewell, My LLovely, ovelyy, his main char acter iss detective Philip Marlowe. A character Att one point Marlowe sa ays, “I needed a drink, I needed a says, lot of lif an nce, I needed a vacation, I needed a lifee insur insurance, home in the cou ntry. What I had was a coat, a hat and country. a gun.” In accor d dance with your astr ological omens, accordance astrological CCapricorn, apricorn, I’m as king you to figur asking figuree out how you might be like Marlowe. Ar erences between what Aree ther theree diff differences you think you ne eed and what you actually have? If so, need now is an excelle ent time to launch initiatives to fix the excellent discr epancies. discrepancies.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS ((Jan. Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s There’s a slightly better chance th an usual that you will have a whirlwind than aff air with a Bollywood Bollywood movie star who’s who’s on vacation. affair aree als alsoo higher than normal that you will The odds ar rreceive eceive a temptin ng invitation fr om a secr et admir err, tempting from secret admirer, or meet the soul twin you didn ’t even know you wer didn’t weree sear ching ffor, orr, or get an accidental text message fr om a searching from str anger who tur rns out to be the rreincarnation eincarnation of your stranger turns beloved fr om a pr pprevious evious lif etime. But the likelihood from lifetime. of all those scen arios pales in comparison to the scenarios possibility that you y will learn big secr ets about how to secrets make yourself ev ven mor eady ar e. even moree lovable than you alr already are.

PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 119-March ch 20): Author Eva Dane defines writer ’s block as what happens “when your imaginary writer’s ing to you.” I suspect that something friends stop talk talking n happening ffor or you lately like this has been lately,, Pisces— ot a writer even if you’r you’ree no not writer.. What I mean is that some of eliablee and sympathetic voices in your head the most rreliable own quie et: ancestors, dear friends who ar have gr grown quiet: aree no g in yyour lif e,, ex-lovers yyou still have ffeelings eelings g ffor, orr, longer life, former teachers who have rremained emained a str ong pr esence former strong presence ion, animals you once car ed ffor or who in your imaginat imagination, cared a maybe even some good, oldhave departed, and fashioned spiritss and angels. Wher fashioned Wheree did they go? What em? I suspect they ar ely taking a happened to the them? aree mer merely break. They may have thought it wise to let you ffend end break. for yourself ffor or a while. But don ’t wor ry. They will be for don’t worry. back soon.

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