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STEP S TEP UP R Residents esidents want the city c to do something about the e thousands off visitors who flock to Commu Communications nications HIll’ HIll’ss sweeping stair staircases. rcases.

Communications Communicatio C ons Hill residents residen nts are fed up with visiting vissiting stair-climbers, stair-clim mberss, drinkers, drinkerss, smokers smok kers and fornicators fornicators BY B Y JENNIFER W WADSWORTH ADSWOR A RTH

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elow the window, window w, a personal trainer trainer in a skin-tight, intensely blue tank top jauntss u p the stairs, stairs, pausing every y up se several everal paces to exhort a co ouple of sweat-drenched couple fe female emale clients. clients. A handful off jjoggers o oggers in similarly bright sp spandex pandex sports bras bras and ti tights ights sprint past them—up them up p a and nd down the 252 steps that tha at h have become the bane of Zora Zo ora K Kabic’s abic’s existence.

“This is nothing nothing,,” she sa says ayys on a rrecent ecent weekdaay afterno weekday w afternoon, on, eexasperated, xasperated, peeking p e eeking thr through ough the cur curtains tains of he herr ttwo-story w -story townhome wo townhome,, which sits

kittty ccorner kitty orner fr from om the base b of what Communications C ommunications Hill denizens d ccall all the Grand St Staircase. aircase. “Y “You Yo ou should s see at night. Music Music,, drinkin drinking, ng, drugs drugs,, se sex. x.”

Sounds lik like ke a go good od ti time. ime.

“N “Not ot ffor o or the p people eople who liv live ve here, her e,” sa says ayys Kabic, Kabic, 67 67, 7, a tech teech work worker keer turned fragranc fragrancee mo model deel (yes, (yyees, that’s that’s a thing) who shar shares es herr immaculate home with her eex-husband, x-husb band, a rretired etired schoolteacher, scho olteacher, and a gr gray raay ttabby abby named Lucky.

Lu ckyy.

One late night, she p peered eered out the window to see ttwo wo sha w shadowy adowy figur figures es on the stone b bench ench acr across oss the w way. ay.

“One on top of the other o other, r,” she sa says, ays y, wrinkling her nose in di disgust, isgust, flipping thr through ough a binder brimm brimming ming with emails,, notes emails notes,, p police olice rreports ep ports and photos do documenting cumenting the lit litany an ny of off offenses. ffeenses.

“You “Y Yo ou ccould ould tell what th they hey wer weree doing doing..

Making noises noises.. Ha Having aving v se ssex. exx.”

Mornings ar aree no b better. ettter. F Fitness itness

bootcamps before dawn b ootcampss show up b effo ore da aw wn with their techno techno-blaring -blaring sp speakers, eakers, irrepressible epressible eexuberance yawps irr xuberance and ya aw wps of enc encouragement. ouraagement. “So early and already alr eady so loud,” Kabic gr groans.

Skaters, oans. Sk aters, stoners,, dri stoners drinkers, inkers, shut shutterbugs, ttterbugs, cy cyclists, clists, Crossfitters, loiterers hornyy Cr ossfitters, loiter ers and horn teenagers.. P teenagers People eople park in the rred ed zone zone,, block blo ck her driv d driveway, eway, def defecate feecate in the bushes and d lit litter ttter the ar area ea with b bottles, ottles, wrapp wrappers ers and a cigar cigarette ette but butts. ts. Pr Promomgoers, ggo ers, fa fawning aw wn ningg ccouples ouples p and weddingg par parties ties st stage agge photo sho shoots. ots. Kabic ccan’t an’t sleep witho without out the windows closed, some soft music m pla playing. ayying.

When she s b bought ought her plac placee on Mullinix Driv D Drivee eight years years ago ago,, the staircase st aircase w wasn’t asn’t built yyet. et. So ser serene ene was w as the set setting ttting that wild animals would mea meander ander ar around ound her home home— — turkeys, turk eys, ccoyotes, oyo otes, sk skunks, unks, rac raccoons. coons. A ffox ox would fr o frequent equent her do doorstep orstep ffor o or bites of ra raw aw C Costco ostco chick chicken en and b boiled oiled eggs.. She named eggs n it Bella and she k keeps eeps a photo off it in her living rroom. oom.

Likee ma Lik many ny homeowners who moved mo ved e to C Communications ommunications Hill in the mid-au mid-aughts, ughts, Kabic had no idea that the hi hilltop illtop vie views ws and majestic

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8 itt’s open open to an aanyone. nyo one. Bec ause it w aasn n’t ’ it’s Because wasn’t p no one ccan an a enf fo orce zoned as a park, enforce curfews.

There aree no public bathr bathrooms, curfews. The erre ar ooms, little and only after the littttle public parking p fact did the city c ty install cit install trash ccans. ans a .

Development Deeveelopm ment plans submitted submitttted to the city propose moree st staircases, citty pr oposee building 28 mor taaircases a , five heavily fivve or six off them similar to the hea avvily trafficked Staircase across from traffick keed Grand G St taaircase a acr oss fr ro om Kabic’s staircases K bi ’s house.

Kabic’ h se. “More hous “M e st “Mor tair i caases would ld only multiply problem, insists.. multip ply the pr oblem,” Kabic insists “They something..” U Upward “Theey must do something pw p waard of 20 200 0 rresidents esid dents showed up to a late August August eevening ven ening community communitty meeting hosted by city Homes,, by cit ty planners and KB Homes which built out the first phase of the project. many project. So man m ny rresidents esidents ccomplained omplained about byy ab out the public pu ublic nuisance nuisance wrought wrought b the st staircases developers airrcasees that de eveelopers rready eeady to share Communications share a loftyy vision ffor or o C ommuniccaations Hill ccould word. ould o ld barely barely ba l get in i a wor d d. quite show, says “It was waas qu uite a show w,” sa ayys JJones, ones, who lives good distance from livves e a go od dist tanc a e aaway way fr om the busiest st staircase. wasn’t aircase. “[KB Homes] w aasn n’t ’ have successful meeting.

They able to ha ave a suc cessful meeting g. The ey couldn’t about futuree de development couldn n’’t ttalk aalk k ab out futur velopment e because they 200 beccause a the ey had to deal with 20 0 people about current issues..” people ttalking alkin ng ab out curr ent issues transforming Though the t vision of transf fo orming the C Communications area ommu unications Hill ar ea into a dense urba urban been an ccenter enter has b een in the books decades, books k ffor or o de d ecades d , its actualization li i caught guard, says Strangis,, caught ffolks olkss off guar o d, sa ayys JJerry erry Strangis a lobb lobbyist helped byyist who w help ed push ffor or the o development’s deevelopmen e nt’s original land-use plan in the early ’9 ’90s.

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0s took specific “It to ok 10 1 yyears ears e to get the sp ecific plan adopte adopted, says. that’s ed,” he sa ayys. ““And A And that ’s what we w wanted: aanted: a mixed-use housing element wit with jobs,, ccommercial th jobs ommercial space, byy public transit. It It’s space, cconnected onneected b ’s always been city wants alw ways y b een n a site the cit ty w aants to see developed they want deevelop e ed and a one the ey w aant to see developed right. deevelop e ed ri ight.” blueprint The blue eprint adopted ffor o or the area designed byy ar architect area and des signed b chitect Daniel Solomon w was modeled Telegraph a mo as deled after T eelegraph Hill in San Francisco, F Francisc o, where where a 400-step 400-step staircase stairrcase draws draaw ws an incessant incessant crush of tourists w walking from Coit Tower. aalk king to and fr om C oit T ower o r.

Solomon, professor Solomon n, a pr offeessor emeritus of ar architecture rcchitectu urre and urban design at University California, Berkeley, Un nivversit e ty of o C aliffo ornia, Berk keeleey, has won numer numerous shapee rous aawards waarrd ds ffor o or helping shap modern mo dern cconcepts on ncepts of urban design. He considered Communications Hill unique considered C ommuniccations a from bulk development from the bu ulk of de evelopment e in the past thr three decades favored sprawl ee de eccades a that fa avo ored spra aw wl and strip ma malls over dense,, w walkable alls o veer dense aalk kaable communities. spread-out communitiees. Instead of spr reead-out homes and strip malls,, he mapp mapped s malls ed out a

tight grid of str streets eets and blo blocks cks o over veerr steep terrain—row terrain—row houses and flats with h spac spacee futuree high-rise towers and rretail ffor or futur o ettail a easy walking distance. within eas sy w aalking dist tanc a e. was partt of his vision ffor what they “It w aas par or wh o hat the ey ‘New Urbanism, says. ccall all ‘N ew U rrbanism,’” Strangis sa ayyss. “He was visionaryy who ccame with w aas the visionar aame up wi ith staircases, steps.. Wh What the st aircaases, the granite steps hat he didn’t 255 yyears later, those didn n’’t know is that 2 eears later r, th hose steps become popular t would ld b ecome the th mostt p op pular l facility fitness facilit ty in the rregion. egion.”

Communications Hill’ss final pr project C ommunications Hill’ p oject 67,500 up ffor or cconsideration o onsideration includes 67 7,,500 squaree ffeet space, squar eeet of ccommercial-retail ommercial-retail spac e, parks,, trailss and 55 acres acres of industrial parks infrastructuree within a 332-acr 332-acree sswath infrastructur wath of land.

“We’re says ones, who “W We’re eexcited xcited x ffor o or it,” sa ayys JJones, nuisancee ccomplaints fields public nuisanc omplaints ffor or his o HOA. “We’re basically have HO OA. A “W We’rre basic caally going to ha ave a second sec ond d downtown. d ” say bee a But rresidents esidents sa ay there there has to b better way staircases, b etttter w ay to manage the st aircases a , because people keep Thee b ecause p eople k eeep ccoming. oming. Th Tuscany HOA says shelled T uscan ny Hills HO A sa ayys it has she elled $100,000 out more more than $10 0,000 in the past p 18 months to hir hiree off off-duty ff--dutty ccops ops to t patrol neighborhood.

Sgt. patr ol the neighb orhood. Sg gtt. JJason asson Pierce, spends Pier ce, a SJPD vveteran eeteran who sp ends his weekends policing staircase, walks week ends p olicing the st aircase, w aalks stairs times up and down the st airs a ffew ew tim mes per drinkers p er shift, hift telling lli loiter lloiterers, i ers, drink d i kerrs and d smokers move along.. “The big biggest smok keers to mo ve along ggest presence thing is just making our pr esence says. known,” he sa ayys. become penKabic has b ecome a rregular egular p en ndirectly pal, emailing rreports eports to him dir ecctly instead of dialing 9-1-1. “My eeyes yes e on o ground, Pierce says, laugh. the gr ound,” Pier ce sa ays y , with a lau ugh.

With Nguyen’s help,, the ccommunity W iith Nguy yeen’s help ommun nitty city install cconvinced on nvvinced the cit ty to inst all parking ng parkin thee signs and paint strips of rred ed on th curb.. That, at least, giv gives Pierce and curb vees Pier ce an nd enforce. his ccolleagues olleagues something to enf fo orrce.

During his time working ffor o or the HOA, Pierce arrests HO A, Pier ce has ccounted ounted 10 arr essts outstanding warrants, 80 arrests ffor or outst o anding w aarrants, 8 0 arr e ests detainments alcohol and det ainments ffor or o drug and alc cohol offenses 400 citations. off ffeenses and 40 0 parking cit ation ns.

“It’s start, “The “It ’s a st tar a t,” Zabic cconcedes. oncedes. “Th he problems aren’t now. parking pr oblems ar en’t as much now n w.”

She rrecently ecently added a ffew ew signss bee of her own, imploring visitors to b $50,000 worth mindful of the $50,0 00 wor th of o landscaping city They landsc aping the cit ty planted. The ey “Respect rread: ead: “R Reespect our ccommunity, ommunitty, please p walk through bushes!!!” do not w alk thr ough the bushes! !!!”

Zabic spies a trampled bush a ffew ew strides away away and sighs. sighs. “They “Theey don’t don n’t ’t care, care,” she says, saayys, walking waalking away. away. “It’s “It’s not theirs, theeirs, so they theey don’t don n’’t care. care.”

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staircase that app staircase appealed ealed to t ne new w buy buyers ers would neighborhood w ould turn their neighb borhood into trendiest fitness one of the tr endiest fitne ess destinations Bay Area—and, Kabic murmurs,, in the Ba ay Ar ea—and, Ka abic murmurs pick-up hard-bodied, a pick k-up - zone ffor or the ha o ard-bodied, health-conscious promiscuous. healthco onscious and pr o omiscuous . ““It’s It’s like bar,,” rremarks neighbor.0 lik ke a singles bar emarrks a neighb or.0 around word Sometime ar ound 2010, wor d got out on so social Communications cial media that C om mmunications 114-foot microwave Hill named ffor Hill—named or the 114o 114 -ffoot micr ow wave summit—doubled tower at the summit t—doubled d as an outdoor analog outdo or ggym, yym,, with an an nalog stairmaster sttaairmaster and a quar quarter-mile loop. terr--mile trail lo oop.

A Yelp Yeelp page popped popped up u with a ffourourro star rave st ar rating and ra ave rreviews: eviews: w “The hill with a lot of ccommunication! ommuniccaation! Nah, more morre like lik ke cardio, cardio,” wrote wrote a JJustin ustin n P.,. adding that he ffeels eeels bad ffor or o the residents residents who live there.

Facebook, liv ve ther e. On Flickr and Fac F ebook, post stunning visitors p ost photos of stu unning orange sunsets and, d after ft dark, d k sparkling sp parkling kli views valley floor. became vie ws of the valle ey flo or. It I b ecame as popular Peak, p opular as Mission P eak,, a public trail hills.. that snakes snak kes e up Fremont’s Fremontt’s eastern hills Neighborhood groups say moree than 8 80 N eighborhood gr oups sa ay mor 0 percent Communications p errcent of C ommunicatiions Hill visitors don’t live area—many from don ’t liv ve in the ar ea—m man ny ccome ome fr om far-flung Bay Area.

“That’s far r--flung corners corners o of the Ba B ay Ar ea. “That ’s necessarily thing, offers not nec ceessarily a bad thin ngg,” off ffeers JJeremy erem my Tuscany JJones, ones, 34, a trustee of the T usc u caan ny Hills Association bought Homeowners A ssociatio on who b ought place 2005.

“We weren’t hi plac his l e in i 20 05. “W We ju jjust ust wer en n’’t rready eady d ffor or that kind of demand.” o But the issue ccomes omes to o a head this city month, as the cit ty of San JJose ose cconsiders onsiders greenlighting 2,200 new gr eenlighting plans for fo or 2, ,200 ne ew homes,, a rretail homes etail ccenter enter and d six additional over next seven grand staircases staircases o veer the ne ext x se ven e yyears. eears.

Vice Nguyen, V iice Mayor Maayo or Madison Ngu uyyeen, who moved nearby 2006, asked mo oveed to a nearb by ccondo ondo o in 20 06, ask keed her ccolleagues olleagues on the ccouncil ou o uncil to cconsider onsider cconcerns oncerns of residents residents before beffo ore giving KB go-ahead out what what’s Homes the go -ahead to build b ’s currently largest development curr ently the lar rggest de eveelopment proposal pr ro oposal in San JJose. ose.

“I’ve “I’vve had hundreds hundreds off residents residents rreach each out to me ab about petty problems out p ettty pr roblems o that add up, says who walks around up,” sa ayys Nguyen, Nguyyen, e wh ho w aalks ar ound stairs the trail and st taairs a ffew ew times t a week.

“Traffic,, parking, loitering, “Traffic parkingg, loiterin ngg, drinking in public,, smoking p pot—we have address public ott— —wee ha ave to addr ess these things b before move effo ore we mo m ove fforward. orwaarrd o d.

We’re opportunity W e’re using this opp ortu unitty now that developing next KB Homes is de veeloping the ne exxt phase make suree the they understand to mak ke sur ey unders sttaand how critical critic al it is that we find a solution.”

The pr problem ro oblem for fo or many man ny residents residents isn’t crowds isn n’’t so much the cr owds as the lack of accommodations them.

Because ac ccommodations ffor o or the em. Bec cause a the stairs public right-ofst airs were were zoned as a pub blic right t-offway—like passage,, alle alley w ay— —lik ke a passage ey or rroadway— oadw way—

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Santa Clar Claraa County lau launched unched a new rrestaurant estaurant gr grading g ading system, giving diners some s useful insight on the cleanest places to eat eat—and —and a ffew ew rrestaurants estaurants that rrecently ecently had vermin-in vermin-infested nfested kitchens. T The he easy-toperuse database mana managed aged by the county’s Departmentt of E Environmental nvironmental H Health ealth notes a list 20 eateries that were w e temporarily wer temporarily ordered ordered to shut down in the pa past ast six months, rranging anging fr from om ffast-food astt-food chains like B Burger urger King (sewage) and U Una naa M Más ás (vermin) to an assortmentt of mom-and-pop shops.

The closure-worthy covered cockroach T he bulk of closur e-wo orthy citations cover ed cockr oach sightings and inadequate cold closure, supplies of hot and co old water. water. Most Most re-opened re-opened within hours or days of closur e, after the owners rreportedly eporrtedly rresolved esolved the issues.

BLACKED OUT OU UT Downtown San Jose’s 200 S. First St. has been the location n of

a series of restaurants re estaurants going under—most under mostt recently Blackbird Tavern.

Blackbird B lackbird Loses Loses its Tune Tuune Blackbird Blackbir dT Tavern aveern closed Monday, Mondaay, just a lit little tttle more m e than a yyear mor eear after op opening ening its do doors. oors.

The downtown downttown rrestaurant estaurant and bar bar,, which ccatered atered d craft beer beer and ccocktails ocktails while also ho hosting sting liv livee music and ccomedy omedy shows, show ws, is the most recent recent vventure enture to fail faiil on the on the ccorner orner of Paseo Paseo de Sa San an Antonio and South First F irst Street.

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In a statement statem ment posted posted on the restaurant’s restauran nt’s Facebook Facebook page, page, cco-founders o-ffo ounders Chris C Esparza, Pilar Aguero-Esparza Brendan A guero-Esparrza and Br endan Rawson was Ra aw wson wrote wrotte that Blackbird Blackbird w as project “an ambitious ambitiou us pr oject for for o us and, unfortunately, aree not able to unf fo ortunatelyy, we ar ccontinue ontinue our long-term vision.”

It’s It ’s just thee latest in a series of

sh short-lived hort-lived rrestaurants estaurants at the 20 200 0S S..

First F i St. lo irst location. cation. The sp spot’s ot’s pr previous eviou us incarnations in ncarnations included A Asqew sqew and Casa C asa Castillo.

Castillo. The JJune une closure closure of the t nearby n earby San Jose Jose R Rep eep ccertainly ertainly didn didn’t n’t help h elp the mor moree recent recent ccase. ase.

Political P olitical obser observers vers might rremember emem mber that th hat San JJose ose mayoral maayo oral candidate candidate Sa Sam am Liccardo Li iccardo held his primary primary election night n ight bash at Blackbird.

Blackbird.

In their announc announcement, ement, Blackbird Blackbiird ffounders o ounders added that the theyy b believe elieve downtown do owntown is headed in a “p “positive ositive direction” di irection” and the small bar and Park also rrestaurant e aurant Naglee P est ark Garage, Garage, als so owned open. ow wned by

by Esparza, will rremain emain op e en.

“We another “W We can can always alwayys squeeze squeeze in anot ther bar ba ar stool stool ffor or o yyou, ou,” he wr wrote. ote.

—Nick Nick V Veronin eerroonin

KKnight night Cities Cities Puts $5 Million M up for for Gr Grabs abbs F Five ivve million n dollars is up ffor or grabs o grabs,, and a slic slicee of th the he pie only rrequires equires a go good od idea and a T Twitter wit w tter t ac account. count.

The Knightt Cities Challenge Challenge—a —a Knight F Foundation ound dation pr program— ogram— announc announced ed a first fi first-of-its-kind t-off--its-kind grant that will be be op open en to t an anyone nyone who has an inno innovative ovativ v e idea ideea to make make his or her city citty mor moree successful. successfu ful. A pool pool of $5 million is available, available v , wi with ith submissions b being eing ac accepted cepted through throu ugh N Nov. ov. 14.

“What we’re we’rre tr trying ying to make mak ke clear is this is open o en to anyone, op an nyo one, not just the usual susp suspects, ects,” sa says ayys Geor George ge Abb Abbott, otttt, of thee Knight F Foundation’s oundation’s

Sa San an Jose/Silicon Jose/Silicon V Valley aalleey branch. The ffoundation o oundation has identified thr three ee “driv “drivers veers off success” success” ffor or cities: at o attracting ttracting t and rretaining e aining talent; et talent; eexpanding xxpanding ec economic onom mic op opportunities; pportunities; and cr creating eating a cultur culture re off civic engagement.

The application application pr process ocess is simple simple..

Th The he Knight Cities website rrequires equires vi visitors isitors to cr create eate an ac account count and wr write rite a br brief rief description of how their idea will w m mak make ke their cit city ty b better. ettter t r. Fr From om ther there, e, the t ap applicant pplicant needs to send out a T Tweet weet w t ab about bout their grand plan.

The minimum grant amount is $1 $1,000, 1,000,, but there there is no maximum.

Honda, KKhanna haanna Debate a Dud D It’s It ’s ne never ver a go good od sig sign gn when hen the over setting debate o ver set ting up p a debate rreveals eveals mor moree than the actual debate itself. was itself f. But that w as eexactly xaactly the ccase ase Monday, Monda ay, when R Rep. eep. Mik M Mikee Honda (D-San challenger Ro (D -San Jose) Jose) and chall lenger R o Khanna sp spent ent 75 tele televised v vised minutes to sleep. rrocking ocking voters voters ever-so-gently ever-so -gently sleep.

The most inc incendiary endiarr y topic of faceoff—internal eoff the over-hyped over-hyped fac ff— ff —internal emails that San Jose Jose Inside I Honda’s published, bli h d showing h i Honda’ H d ’s staff staff ff violated House rules by by impr improperly operly ampaign ccoordinating o ordinating with hiss ccampaign staff—was st aff ff— —was presented presented as a a silv silver er platter plat ter question, accompanied accompanied o with a side of b benefit-of-the-doubt enefit- off-the - - doubt malaise.. malaise ““Are Ar A e you you an ethical ethicall and ccongressman?" ongressman?" NBC host h Raj asked debate moderator mo derator Ra aj Mathai ask ed Honda. viewers If vie i wers were w ere eexpecting xpecting seventhe se venterm incumbent incumb ent to ffold old o under the pressure pr essure of such Ro Khanna a loaded theyy wer weree so sorely question, the orely disappointed. he’s disapp ointed. Honda surmised he ’s ethical ethic al but was was “disappointed” “disap pp ointed” in his chief of staff, staff ff,, Jennifer Jenn niffeer Van Van a der Heide,, who attempted Heide attempted d to trade invitations official State in vitations to an offic cial St ate Department Depar tment ffor or o ccampaign amp paign ccash ash and endorsements.. endorsements

“She’s “She’s “Sh ap ologized d apologized to me and d told me it won’t won’t happ en happen again,”” Honda said, saiid, thaat adding that he pr effeerred preferred not to go Mike Honda i into d ail det ill detail because b ecause it is “a p personnel ersonnel issue issue.” .”

Khannaa whiff ffeed when giv en the whiffed given ask, chanc chancee to ttake ake his opp opponent onent to ttask, sp ending as a much time lauding spending Honda’s Honda’ ’s go good-guy ood-guy rrep ep as asking ffor or a o p ersonal ap aapology ology fr om Honda. That personal from should b bee ccoming oming just ab about out ne never. ver.

Minutess into the p post-debate ost- debate spinfest, spinf feest, opaque o or order der w was as rrestored estored when Honda Hon nda campaign campaign sp spokesman okesman Vivek V iivek Kembaiyan, Kem mbaiyan, flanked flanked by by the NBC pressroom’s presssroom’s amply stocked stocked turkey turk ey sandwich san ndwich plates, plates, refused refused to clarify clarif fy if V Van aan der Heide Heide’s ’s “p “personnel ersonnel issue”” was issue was in regards regards to her rrole ole as chief off st staff aff or a ccampaign ampaign vvolunteer. olunteer.

Honda’s Honda’’s p people eople ha have ave pr preferred effeerred to ffocus ocus on a rrestraining estraining or order der against Ruchit R uchit A u Agrawal, g awal, a fformer gra o ormer Honda staffer st aff ffeer and d the sour source ce of internal emails giv given e to San JJose en ose Inside Inside..

Agrawal A graawal w was as arr arrested ested last winter ffor or allegedly o alleged dly thr threatening eatening to sho shoot ot Van V aan der Heide H and her 10-year-old 10-year- old daughter,, although no char daughter charges ges wer weree eever ver filed. The vveracity eracity of the emails he provided, provideed, howe however, ver, has never never been b een dispu disputed.—Josh uted.—Joosh K Koehn oehn

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’Monster’ Show

SETTING S ETTING T THE HE S STREET TREET S SCENE CENE M Members embers b off L Los o Angeles’ os l ’U UGLARworks GLARworks G k created d this hi large-scale l l collaborative ll b i pai painting. i i The inting. h piece i during will be shown n with a story that explores what might m have happened before, dur ring and after the scene depicted in i the painting.

Mysterious spectral creatures take Mysterious over Empire Seven Studios for the interactive Beware!

Yokai! i Bew ware! Y okai! o BY B Y GARY GARY SINGH

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OME OMETIMES ETIMES THE word 'monster' 'mon nster' is not specific enough. enou ugh. In the case of this week's missive, the Japanese Japanesse word yokai often tr translates monster, anslates as monster r, spirit, gobli goblin, in, ghost, demon, spectral ph spectral phenom, henom, hysterical animated umbrella u or just plain old mysterious m creature.

Wherever mythology m and the supernatural supernaturral start mingling collective with the co ollective unconscious in Japanese Japanese e culture, yokai are usually present. pre esent.

In the ccase aase of Empire Empire 7 Studios in from JJapantown, aapantown, ttwo apantown, w wo legends fr ro om the ttattoo attttoo art ar rt ccommunity, ommunitty, Christopher Brand from UGLARworks Los fr rom UGLAR Rw works in L os Angeles and a Takahiro Kitamura from State Grace T Ta akaahiro Kit ak amura fr om St ate of Gr race Tattoo have T aattto t o in JJapantown, apantown,, ha ave curated a slew spectrally artists sl leew of sp ectrally phenomenal ar tistts to transform entiree galler galleryy int into h transf help fo orm the entir to a sorts.

Beware!

Yokai! h haunted house of sor ts. Be war are! e Y ookaai!

Weird, Wild, A Art Exhibit Exploring the W An eir e rdd, W ild ild, and Wonderful World Japanese Yokai an nd W oonderrfful W orld o of J aapanese Y ookaai opens Friday op pens this Frida ay during the JJapantown apanto own Artt Walk and will include traditiona traditional A Ar al painting, sculpture, p aintingg, sculptur e, animation and site-specific si ite-specific murals, murals, all to create create a transdimensional playground plunging tr ransdimensional pla aygr y ound plung ging the observer/participant yokai th he obser veer/participant into the yok kai rrealm. e ealm.

Kitamura Both Brand and Kit amura acknowledge many ac cknowledge that yokaii means man ny

diff different ffeerent things to man many ny diff different ffeerrent e p eople. 'Monster' just ha appens to b people. happens bee the de facto blank keet term,, in n English,, ffor or lack o blanket of an ny other word. worrd d. any “'Monster me, me eans a whole lot “'Monster,',' to me, means of stuff, ff,” Brand said. “Th ff” hat ccould ould b “That bee a vampir e. That ccould ould b ewolff. That vampire. bee a wer werewolf. ccould ould be be just a rreally eally eevil vviil human b eing. being.

It could could b nyythingg. Th here's so man ny bee an anything.

There's many w ayys yyou ou o ccan an at ttach thee wor d monster ways attach word to an nyythingg, in our cultu ure. Fr om m anything, culture.

From myy underst taandingg, it's the ssame. ame. It's a understanding, br roado spectrum term. You've Yo ou'vve got ghosts, ghosts, broad-spectrum yyou've ou'vve got to o ols that ha ave b een used tools have been and imbued with lif fe-so ource ffor or o o veer a life-source over hundr ed yyears eears that ar re now n a yokai.” hundred are Kit taamura adds that yo okaii don't ha ave Kitamura yokai have to b caary. The ey ccan an b al bee sc scary.

They bee whimsic whimsical phenomena just as well. welll. ““As As a child gr owing up u to JJapanese aapanese growing par ents, yyou'd ou'd hear all th o hese other ones parents, these that were were humorous humorous orr funn ny, or almost funny, lik ke w ayylaayying tra aveelers,” Kit amura said. like waylaying travelers, Kitamura “[Sometimes] dishes wil ll ccome ome to life, liffe, will and it's almost lik ke inan nimate household like inanimate objects ccan an a b bee yokai.”

Which is the best best thing thin ng ab out a about

gr oup show w lik ke this iith so man ny group like this.. W With many p eople p in nvolv o veed,, each ar tist off ffeers people involved, artist offers his own int terpretation of the yokai interpretation phenomen non. The piec es will function phenomenon. pieces lik ke actual yokai y i themselv ves e . Some will like themselves. b ttle t bit sp ook ky, cr eeping up bee just a lit little spooky, creeping to brush ag gainst yyour o our leg a bit,, while against others migh ht b might bee horribly violent or eeven veen rip -roaaring funn ny. One of the rip-roaring funny. ar tw works might m ccapitalize aapittalize a on p eoples' artworks peoples' ffears eears and su uperstitions, or eexploit xxploit senses superstitions, of the unkn nown,, while another might unknown, simply mak ke us laugh. In that sense make sense,, the show will unf u fo old as a giant rrelationship eelationship unfold b ettween w ob bserver/par e ticipants and the between observer/participants yokai a if one is dir reectly immersed yokai,, just as directly in the storie es. stories.

A esu ult,, this will not b Ass a rresult, bee an or thodox ar aartt show wher ver e yo one orthodox wheree eeveryone just st ands ther ttheree and passiv veely st taares stands passively stares at ar ging on a w all, a , not that artt hangi hanging wall, ther e's an nyytthing wr ong with that. A there's anything wrong par ticipatorry eexperience xp x erience aawaits waaits visitors participatory visitors,, just in timee ffor o or Halloween.

“W Wee're tr rying to cr eate an “We're trying create en nvvironment,, not just a spac ay environment, spacee to displa display ar tw work,” B Brand eexplained. xxplained. “T To cr eate a artwork, “To create world with hin this spac ce, an en nvvironment within space, environment within this spac e.” space.

A tttendeees won't b ve Attendees bee able to high-fiv high-five an nyythingg, but b the an a eexpect xxpect light anything, theyy ccan displa ayys, vid deo pr ojection,, painting g, lar gedisplays, video projection, painting, largesc ale structu ures, te exxt ac companiment scale structures, text accompaniment and mor re. In I one par ticular ccase, ase, more. particular memb ers of o UGLAR Rw works—Brand works Brand, members UGLARworks—Brand, along with Evan Skr reederstu,, Espi, Skrederstu, Ste ve Mar yyan Gat tttis—all tiinez and R Steve Martinez Ryan Gattis—all ccollaborated ollaborateed on a 6'x10' painting g. (See painting. photo .) Gat tttis then wr ote a shor photo.)

Gattis wrote shortt stor storyy out whatt ma ab ay b ening b effor ore, about may bee happ happening before, during and d after the sc ene depicted in scene the image T stor ayeed image.. The storyy will b bee displa displayed ne exxt to the painting g. next painting.

All of thi is ccomes omes acr oss as a sup erb this across superb eexample xample x off how much JJapantown apantown is ccoming oming aliv ve these da ays y . II'd d rather see a alive days. w aarehouse full off yyokaii than one mor warehouse moree A sian hipst ter tt-shirt -shirt rretailer etailer an ny da ay.

Asian hipster any day.

The Emp pire 7 galler Empire galleryy spac spacee is not huge ever er. W ould ther o re b oom huge,, howe however.

Would there bee rroom ffor or eeverything? o veerythiing? I thought.

“That's going g to b bee the challenge challenge,,” Brand said. “How much of an en nvvironment ccan an a we cr eate in a shor environment create shortt amount off time? And how much le eveel level of ffear eear and unknown and distraction and disorien ntation ccan aan we giv ve p eople?” eople? disorientation give people?”

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BEWARE! YYOKAI! OK AI !

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In Check

Predatory payday lenders have run rampant while the state looked away窶馬ow local governments are reining them in BY TOM GOGOLA

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“We “W We ha have ave ttwo wo (pa (payday ayda day lenders),”” Morgan Hill Ma Morgan Mayor ayor Ste Steve eve T Tate aate said from fr om the dais dais,, “we don don’t n’t need an anyy more.” mor e.”

The ccouncil ouncil vvoted oted un unanimously nanimously to allow the eexisting xisting ttwo w businesses wo to rremain emain but not eexpand xpaand or move. mo ve. The vvote ote w wasn’t asn’t driv driven en b byy specific sp ecific ccomplaints omplaints aga against ainst the ttwo wo businesses businesses,, but b byy a gr growing owing cconcern oncern that the theyy disp disproportionately roportionately ttarget arget Afric African an Americ American a and L an Latino atino ccommunities—and ommunities—and thee fact that Capitol C apitol la lawmakers aw wmakers ar aree sp spending ending moree time ttaking mor aking ccampaign amp paign mone moneyy from fr om pr predatory edatory lender lenders rs than ccombating ombating the check check-advancing -aadvancing succubae suc cubae with strict leg legislation. gislation.

State State Sen Sen. n. N Noreen oreen Evans (D (D-Santa -Santa Rosa) Ro osa) says saayys that t in her 10 yyears ears as a Sacramento o la lawmaker, aw wmaker, ““the the biggest part part of wha what at I ha have ave done is to kill bad b d bills bills.” bill .”

There There have haave b been een a lot of them.

But one st stands ands as a sor sortt of benchmark benchmark k ffor o or Evans Evans,, whose 2nd District sea seat at ccomprises omprises much of the North North Bay: Baay: A Assembly ssembly Bill 1158 fr from om 2011, which h would ha have ave lifted a $300 “payday $300 state state ccap ap on individual “pa aydaay loans”—one loans”— on ne of ffew ew rrestrictions estrictions placed financial-services lobbyy placed on a financialservices lobb that holds ssway way among Sacramento lawmakers. laaw wmakers.

The bill fr ffrom om rretired etired Assemblyman Assemblym man Charles C Calderon alderon (D-Los (D -Los Ang Angeles) geles) would ha have ave let an individual b borrow orrow up to $1,0 $1,000 00 against a fu future uture pa paycheck, aycheck,, in an attempt attempt to eexpand xpand smallsmall-dollar dollar loan opportunities opportunitties ffor or p o people eople of limited means—while means—wh hile also pleasing a lobb lobbyy that’s moree than $16,0 $16,000 that’s poured poured mor 00 into C Calderon’s alderron’s ccampaigns. ampaigns.

The fightt o over says, ver 1158, Evans sa ayys, was hand-to-hand was “basically “basically a hand-to -hand ccombat. ombat.

I killed it several times.”

Eventually, seeveral times .” Ev entuallyy, the bill was brought wass finally br ought to heel in the Senate judiciar judiciaryy ccommittee. ommittee. That fight was was emblematic. em mblematic.

California states Califfo orniia is one of 32 st ates that have proliferation haave allowed alloweed the pr oliffeeration of

paaydaay lenders o payday over ver the past ttwo w wo decades. dec ades. O Others, thers, lik likee N New ew Y York, o ork,, have ha ave had longst longstanding anding bans on n the ccontroversial ontroversial lending practic practice. e.

Payday P ayda day llenders d ar aree a p popular opular l r borrowing b orrowing option ffor o or p people eople off lesser means without ac access cess to credit. cr edit. And the deal lo looks oks go good, od, d, at least on pap paper: er: The lenders off offer ffeer e small-dollar smalldollar loans meant to b bee paid off in weeks weeks,, ffor or a ffee o eee ($15 ffor o or eevery very $100 $10 0 loaned under C California aliffo ornia la law). aw w).

Theree ar Ther aree hundr hundreds eds of business businesses ses spread spr ead ar around ound the st state, ate, with high h cconcentrations oncentrations in urban ar eas with w areas signific ant L atino p opulations. significant Latino populations.

But rrepayment epaayyment plans often drag d out ffor o or months aaree months,, and the loans ar fr equently rre-upped e-upped as so on as frequently soon the y’re paid off ff.. And then ther e’s the they’re off. there’s small print: Outsized ser vice ch harges service charges and inter est-rate spik es along th hey interest-rate spikes they w ay, if the b orrower happ ens to o miss way, borrower happens a pa ayyment. Annual inter est rat es, payment. interest rates, when ccompounded, ompounded, ccan an someti imes sometimes ballo on past 40 0p ercent. balloon 400 percent.

The st ate has failed to enact an ny state any limits on pa aydaay lenders beyond beyond payday what ’s alr eady on the b ooks, Eva ans what’s already books, Evans sa ayys. Sinc ayd daay lending b ecam me says.

Sincee pa payday became legal in C aliffo ornia in 19 96,, the industry in ndustry California 1996, has b een on hand at eevery very turn to t been st tyymie rreform, effo orm,, and has relentlessly relentlesssly stymie ccalled alled ffor o or greater greater lending limits than t

allowed under C California aliffornia o law. laaw.

It’s It’s a stalemate, stalemate, an and nd st state ate eff efforts ffo orts to rreform efform o the indus industry stry ha have ave b been een an “epic fail,”” sa says ayys Li Liana iana Molina,, an organizer organizer i on pa payday ayda day rreform effo orm with i h the h California Califfo ornia R Reinvestment ein e vestm ment C Coalition. oalition.

One problem: problem: C Compliant o ompliant politicians politicians whose pockets pockets ha have ave b been een lined with payday-loan paaydaay-lo oan ccash. ash.

Online rrecords ecords sh show how that Calderon Calderon w was as amon among ng the top ten rrecipients ecipients of payday paaydaay lender campaign accepted campaign ccontributions. ontributtions. He ac cepted $16,100 from industry between $16,100 fr om the in ndustry b etween 2009 2009 and 2012, ac according cor o ding to dat dataa assembled by by the w watchdogs atchdogs at Maplight.org.

Maplight.org. But up u upon on fur further ther review, review, almost nonee of the Bay Baay Area’s Area’’s state state legislators ccan an sa say ay the theyy ha haven’t aven’t accepted accepted mone moneyy fr from o the pa om payday/ aydaay/ y title loan industr industry. y.

Perhaps Perhaps as a rresult, esullt, eeven ven the most seemingly ccommon-sense-level ommon n-sense-level reforms reffo orms have haave failed in Sacramento Sacramento..

For state says For eexample, xample, the st a sa ate ayys yyou ou ccan’t an’t borrow moneyy off a futur futuree pa paycheck borrow mone aycheck more oncee at a giv given payday more than onc en pa aydaay lender. lender.

But there aree no rules against there ar going to another pa payday aydaay lender and getting another.. getttting another loan. loan n. And another And another. another.

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GAINST THE GAINST TH HE BACKDROP BA CKDROP of an impotent state s legislature and a growing awareness awarenesss of the predatory nature of o payday lenders lenders,, local governments gove ernments have had to pick up u the slack and adopt la laws aws to stifle the industry. industry. Last week in Morgan Morgan Hill, the ccharge harge was was to take action before befo ore bad news comes in the e form of three—or more. more

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CHECKS C H EC K S A AND ND S SOME OME BALANCE B A L A NCE L Local ocal gov governments, vernmentss, including those of Santa S Clara County and the ci city ty of San Jose, have passed d laws aimed at stopping payd payday ay lenders from exploiting the e most vulnerable citizens citizens..

“Theree is widespr “Ther w widespread ead rrecognition ecognition that this finan financial ncial pr product oduct ccan an cr create eate pr oblems ffor or o cconsumers, onsumers, esp ecially problems especially those living pa p paycheck aycheck to pa paycheck,” aycheck,”” sa ayys Molina. says “F Folks thatt ar alk ab out “Folks aree willing to ttalk about the pa payday aydaay lender len nder will often sa say, ay, ‘I love lo ve the payday paayday lender lender,, I lo love ove that theyy ar the aree her here, e, I got what I ccame ame ffor, o or, I got what I needed, n ” she adds adds.. “But ther e’s a lo ve-hate rrelationship there’s love-hate elationship when theyy ar aree in th that cycle, because the hat cy cle, b ecause it is hard out That’s theyy har d to get ou ut of it. That ’s when the say sa ay things lik like: e ‘I wish I had mor e: moree time to pa ay itt off ff. I wish it ccost ost less pay off. less..’

The rresult esult is what Molina ccalls alls slavery.” shared Metro “debt sla avery.” She shar ed with Met ro the eexperience xperiencce of a C Californian aliffornian o named Micha Michael, ael, whose dallianc dalliancee with payday paaydaay loans l shows how a product product adv advertised e tised as a shor er short-term t-term emergency emergency infusion in nfusion ccan an cr create eate financial havoc. haavoc.

Michael is on disabilit disabilityy and gets

government go overnment checks eevery very month.. getting advances H was He was get ting advanc es on his government from halfgo overnment checks fr om a half fdozen do ozen pa payday aydaay lenders on each che check eck byy the time he met with Molina’ Molina’s b ’s organization, about ago. or rganization, ganization ab out six months ag go. was income He w as living on a meager inc om me from Social Security fr om So cial Securit ty and disability, disabilitty, about $12,000 ab bout $12,0 00 a yyear, ear, and eevery very m month would ha have ave to get on a buss to pay payday lenders.. “It w was pa ay off his six pa aydaay lenders as his day personal hi is da ay of p ersonal hell,” Molina says. saays y.

Payday P ayday P Politics olitics In n 2012,, San JJose ose b became ecame the lar largest gesst U .S. cit ty to limit pa ayd daay lenders U.S. city payday lenders,, ccapping a apping the numb er of mone ops number moneyy sho shops att 39,, and the first to ban them fr om m from lo ow-income neighb orhoods. The ru ule low-income neighborhoods. rule al lso rrequired equired a minimum quar ter-m mile also quarter-mile di istance fr om other pa ayd daay lenders s. distance from payday lenders.

C ouncil member member A sh Kalra,, who ose Council Ash whose di istrict ccovers overs e the cit ty’ y s eastern district city’s

corridor heading south corridor h on Monter Monterey ey Street Str eet and High Highway hway 10 101, 1,, led the charge. charge.

“The state’s state’s inaction by by itself has grown gr own the problem, problem,” he he says. saayys. “When I was waas trying trying to get the city c ty to come cit come down on payday paayd daay lenders, lendeers, [the state] state] increased incr eased the cap cap from from m $250 $250 to $500— $500— the amount they they can can borrow borrow per per paycheck. pa aycheck. c It went completely comp pletely against what we were were trying trying to o do. do. That only quick keens the cycle cycle of poverty. poverty.” quickens Bay payday The South Ba ay has pa p aydaay lenders over map—65 total, all o ver the map —65 tot al,, with 39 in just San JJose. ose. W Wells eells Far Fargo go and U .S. Bank ar t pa aydaayU.S. aree also in the paydayAss eevidence vid dence of how business.. A loan business hard har d the fight ccan an b bee ffor or lo o local cal jurisdictions,, it to took ok 118 jurisdictions 8 months to get the lo cal or dinaance passed. local ordinance The rresult esult w as ““the the most m eexpansive xpansive was payday pa aydaay lending or ordinance dinaance of an anyy big cit cityy in the nation,”” Kalra sa says, ayys, adding that it put a ccap a on the ap number numb er of businesses businesses,, set dist distance ance

rrequirements equiremeents pr evented pr edatory prevented predatory ting up shop in lowlenders fr from o set om setting inc ome ne eighborhoods, which wer income neighborhoods, weree determined determine ed b byy ccensus ensus designation.

“It w as basic b ally a p ermanent was basically permanent moratorium,” moratoriu um,”” Molina sa says. ays y.

Cit ou uncil memb ers Sam Cityy ccouncil members Liccardo, Lic cardo, Xa X Xavier avier v C Campos, ampos, A Ash sh Kalra and Don R ocha noted in a joint Rocha memo tha that at the theyy hop hoped ed the cit city’s y’s st tance on the tth issue i would ld “send “ d stance a message to our st state ate legislators that the tim me has ccome ome to ttake ake time meaningful meaningfu ul action to addr address ess cconcerns oncerns ssurrounding urrounding pa aydaay lenders payday in California.”

Califfo orn nia.”

Ar ound the same time Around time,, Sant Santaa Clara County C ounty ba banned anned pa payday aydaay lenders fr from om ttaking aking rrefuge efu uge in uninc orporated unincorporated areas. ar eas. Ev Even en n affluent L Los os Altos took to ok steps to pr prevent event an any ny fr from om opening op ening i up p within i hi the h town limits; li i one ccouncilman ouncilman ccalled alled it a moral obligation sinc sincee the st state ate off offers ffeers so little lit tttle protection proteection to cconsumers. onsumers.

In 2013,, Sunn Sunnyvale yvale passed a six-store sixstore cap, cap a , a 1,000-foot 1,000-ffoot buff buffer ffeer between b etween pa p payday aydaay lenders and rrestrictive estrictive zoning and op operational erational rrequirements. equiremeents.

Gilroy Gilr oy to took ook a similar action in JJanuary, anuary, revising revising its zoning rules to businesses offering payday eexclude xclude l d bu businesses i off ffe ffering pa ayda day lending.. Ma Mayor lending M ayor Don Gage noted that payday the six pa aydaay loan businesses in cityy liee on the east side of town, the cit Gilroy’s home to Gilr G oy’s “most vulnerable populations.” p opulation ns.” group Molina sa ssays ayys her gr oup has shifted from local advocacy its ffocus ocus fr o lo om cal adv ocacy to lobbying lobb byying ffor o ssweeping or weeping ffederal eederal rreform. effo orm.

“We’re “W We’re gearing g up ffor o or a fight,”” she ssays. ays.

The C Consumer on nsumer F Financial inancial Protection Pr otection n Bur Bureau, eau,, fformed o ormed ffour our o yyears ears ago in i the thick of ec economic onomic crisis to pr provide rovide o oversight versight to the financial in industry, ndustry, has b been een studying the pa payday aydaay loan business ffor or o a ccouple ouple yyears ears now now.. It plans to issue a ne new w set of rules go governing overning pa payday aydaay lending sometime in the ne next xt yyear—a ear—a prospect pr ospect th that hat has ccompanies ompanies shilling high-interest high-inter e financial pr est products oducts ramping up u in def defense. feense.

Earlier this t yyear, ear, the bur bureau eau issued a damningg rreport eport that illustrated how so so-called - callled “shor “short-term” t-term” loans rroutinely outinely drag d on ffor o or months months,, eeven ven yyears, ears, as consumers consumers o dig themselv themselves es deeper deep er int into to debt.

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‘But, it’ it’s ’s more about about how are you y protecting g your constituents constitue ents ffrom egre egregious g egious g financial fi i l predatory d y entities?’’ three specific issues.. First, thr ee sp ecific issues Firstt,, the debt trap. trap.

“People “P eople get stuck in this vvery, ery, vvery ery cycle says. difficult cy cle of debt,”” Molina sa ayys.

“Theyy get such a high inter “The iinterest est rate shortt term term.

Theyy don don’t with such a shor m. The ’t have pay enough ha ave enough to pa ay en nough of the Wee loan and juggle their eexpenses. xpenses. W want that.”” w ant to fix that. second The sec ond issue is something s ability Molina ccalled alled ““the the abil lity to rrepay epaay standard.”

Payday lenders don’t st andard.” P aydaay lend ders don ’t vverify eriffy pay whether a customer ccan a pa an ay back theyy ask ffor a loan. All the o orr is a bank account source income— ac count and a sour ce of o inc ome— it’s unemployment eeven ven if it ’s an unemplo oyment disabilityy pa pay government check, disabilit ay orr go vernment assistance. assist ance.

Finally, Molina’s wants F inallyy, Molina a’s ccamp am mp w ants to direct access bar lenders’’ dir ect ac cess e to customer accounts. bank ac counts.

“With “W Wiith that kind of rreach, each, the aree the first in line to get lenders ar

paid,”” she says. saayys. “The “Theyy don don’t ’t see whether that th hat mone moneyy has to go to groceries groceries orr rrent. ent. The Theyy don don’t ’t ccare.” are.”

Dollar D ollarr SSwap wap In spite of her h opp opposition osition to its “predatory practices—”I “pr edatory lending” practic es—”I have payday ha ave really really ttaken aken on the pa aydaay industry,” says— lending ind dustry,” Evans sa ays— y North Bay state the h N orth h Ba B ay st ate senator has h also rreceived eceived e ccampaign ampaign funds from fr om payday paaydaay lenders in rrecent ecent incongruity between yyears. ears. This inc ongruity b etween rreceiving eceiving financial fi supp support ort and a stated st ated ccommitment ommitment to fight the payday pa aydaay ind industry dustry pr presents esents some uncomfortable moree unc omffo ortable questions ffor or o mor lawmakers. than a ffew ew la aw wmakers.

Records Maplight.org, R eecords at a Maplight.or g, an money’s online site that tracks mone y’s politics, iinfluence influenc fl e on o p olitics li i , show h that h accepted $7,500 from Evans ac cep pted $7 7,,500 fr om the industryy b between 2008 industr e ween 20 et 08 and 2012.

Bay Area Luis Ba ay Ar ea assemblymembers asssemblymembers L uis (D-Watsonville), Nora Alejo (D -Watson W nvville),, N ora Campos (D-San Paul Fong C ampos (D D -San JJose), ose), P aul F ong (D-Cupertino) Gordon (D - Cupertiino) and Rich Gor don (D-Menlo Park) moree (D -Menlo P ark) each rreceived eceived mor from payday/title than $4,000 $4,000 fr om the pa aydaayy/title industry beginning loan indust try between between the b eginning according of 2011 and d end of 2012, ac cording Maplight. to Mapligh ht. And rrecords ecords show that state (D-San st ate Sen. JJerry erry Hill (D -San Mateo) rreceived eceived $18,550 $18,550 over over a three-year three-year period, spanning from 2009 p eriod,, spa anning fr om JJanuary anuary 20 09 December to Dec emb ber 2012,, while Sen. JJim im (D-San $4,000 Beall (D -Saan JJose) ose) ccollected ollected $4,0 00 over same frame.. o ver that sa ame time frame oft-repeated defense In an oft ft-repeated def fense e elected officials,, Evans amongst el lected officials says sa ays y her cconstituents on nstituents eexpect xpect her to money raise mone ey ffor o or her ccampaigns— ampaigns— she’ll but also eexpect xp pect that she ’ll put the interest before public inte rest b effo ore those of She’s her ccorporate orporaate ccontributors. ontributors. She ’s that adamant th hat she has done just that, there was curve, eeven ven if ther re w as a learning cur ve, of sorts, payday issue.. sor ts, on the th he pa aydaay loan issue have “I ha ave also a ttaken aken ccontributions ontributions from banks,” notes,, “but I fr om banks s,” Evans notes wrote also wr ote the Homeowners Bill of Rights.”

Rights .” looking Molina ccautions autions against lo oking too to o closely at ccontributions ontributions as bellwether support ab ellwetheer of supp ort ffor or the o industry. industr y.

“Moneyy in p politics “Mone olitics is a big issue beyond payday lenders,” says. b eyond pa aydaay lenders ,” she sa ayys. money, “If eeveryone veryon ne is ttaking aking mone y, yyeah, eah,

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to rreform effo orm the industr industryy as a the (st (state) ate) legislaturee has b legislatur been een unwilling un nw willing to pass any an ny cconsumer onsumer pr protections, otections,” Molina says. saayys. charge Kalra, who led the ch harge in makee a run San JJose ose and plans to mak m State Assembly ffor or the St o ate A ssemblyy in the near future, agreed futur e, agr eed that thee onus lies with Capitol lawmakers.

C apitol la aw wmakers. ““As As much as yyou’re ou’re able a to do in San JJose, ose, the rreality eality is that t the rreal eal opportunity make opp ortunit t ity to t mak ke signific ssignificant i ifi antt payday lending change on pa aydaay lend ding eexists xists in Sacramento,, at the st state level,” Sacramento atte le vel,”” he says. sa ayys. “But rather than ttaking aking the opportunity opp ortunity to rrein ein in the eeververgrowing industryy of pa payday lending,, gr owing industr aydaay lending facilitated Sacramento has facilit a ated their growth” gr owth” Consumer protection advocates C onsumer pr otection n adv ocates want address w aant ffederal ederal e rregulations egulationss to addr ess

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The indus industry stry wanted d to o make sure e it had the e power to cut c off ff service e ffor anyon anyone y ne who h puts up a smartt pho phone hone as collaterall and ffails to re repay epay their h i bill on o time. state wheree the theyy get the st ate ccould ould track wher w payday loans,, bu butt ther theree isn isn’t these pa aydaay loans ’t anyy supp support legislature.” an ort in the legi islature.”

Ironically, bill payday Ir onicallyy, the only bi ill on pa ayd daay last lending to pass in the la ast ffour our o was industry: yyears eears w as a a victory victory for fo or the t industr y: “kill sw switch” The ccontroversial ontroversial e switch h” bill authored byy Sen. Mark Leno author ed b Leno (D-San (D-San Francisco) law Francisc o) and signed into in nto la aw by

by Gov. Go ov.

Brown August.

JJerry erry Br own in A ugust. Predatory Predatory interest lenders’’ inter est in the bill, b , as one was hardly might eexpect, xxpect,, w aas har dlly altruistic. altruistic. industryy w wanted makee sure The industr anted to o mak sure it power service had the p ower to cut off ff ser vice for fo or anyone an nyone who puts up a smar ssmartt phone as ccollateral ollateral and fails to rrepay ep paay their bill time.. The ne new on time w law laaw will w only affect aff ffeect after phones made on or afte er JJuly uly 1,, 2015.

The C California aliffo ornia R Reinvestment eein nvestment Coalition Coalition w was as among a gr group oup of adv advocacy ocacy gr groups roups fr from om ar around ound the country country that thaat fielded a 2013 rreport eport on the payday paayda day loan industry. industry. It notes that the ind industry’s predation dustry’s pr edation on the poor played geographic poor has pl laayed out on geo graphic lines. lines. The rreport eport identifies “a rregional egional divide amo among ong legislators legislators,, with the San Francis Francisco sco Ba Bay ay Ar Area ea and nor northern thern C California alif liffo ornia i memb m members bers mor moree often ft vvoting oting in su support upport of pr proposals oposals to rrein ein in the payday paayda day loan industry, industry, and those fr from om the gr greater reater L Los os Angeles rregion egion siding with h the trade asso associations ciations and pa payday aydaay loan n ccorporations. orporations.”

L Lenders enders ha have ave also b been een get getting ting a lo looking oking o over ver fr from om the U U.S. .S. Depar Department tmen nt of JJustice, ustice, but Evans says sa ayys not to eexpect xpect much of it.

Later Federal L ater thiss yyear, eear, the F ederal Consumer Protection Board C onsumer Pr P otection i B Boar d is i eexpected xpected d new proposed to issue ne w pr oposed guidelines ffor o or payday-loan industry, the pa ayda day--lloan industr y, subject to approval. ccongressional ongression nal appr ovval. myy br breath,” “I’m nott holding m eath,”” says, Evans sa ayys, “because “because nothing productive pr oductive ccomes omes out of this Congress.”

C ongress.”

Meanwhile, Lou Correa Mean wh hile, Sen. L ou C orrea ((D-Santa D -Santa Ana), A who is 10th on the moneyy list ffor state mone o or st ate senators who payday rreceived eceiv i ed d pa ayda day lender l d ccash ash h in i rrecent ecent ($14,700), authored yyears ears ($14,7 700),, has author ed a bills new legislativee series of bil lls ffor or the ne o w legislativ that makee it easier sessions tha at would mak people income ffor o or p eople with low inc ome and poor credit borrow—especially p oor cr editt to b orrow— especially in between $300 $2,500, the range b etween $30 0 and $2,50 0, the which is th he black hole range ffor o or borrowers means.. b orrowers of limited means email, Correa says In an em mail, C orrea sa ayys his proposed law “provides pr oposed la aw “pr ovides needed flexibility non-profits aree fle xibility tto o non-pr ofits that ar offering Californians off ffeering a bridge b to C aliffo ornians incomes credit scores have whose inc o omes or cr edit sc ores ha ave their access affordable limited the eir ac cess to aff ffo ordable products.” financial pr roducts.”

For customers F or custo omers who now rrely ely on payday lenders, new Correa pa aydaay lend ders, the ne wC orrea law bee of some help help—even la aw might b — even there’s payday if ther e’s no o pa aydaay lender rreform effo orm legislativee in it, or anywhere an nywher y e on the legislativ matter. horizon ffor orr that mat o ter.

“It’s “It ’s been been n a long struggle just to maintain the current protections,” maint ain th he curr ent pr otections,” says Evans.. sa ayys Evans Jennifer J eenniffeer W Wadsworth aadsworth and J Josh osh o K Koehn oehn ccontributed ontributteed ttoo this rreport. eport.

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they should stop they stop.. But, it it’s ’s mor moree about ab out how ar aree yyou ou pr protecting o otecting yyour our cconstituents onstituents from from egr egregious e egious financial predatory pr edatory entities?” state whole,, she sa says, The st ate as a whole ayys, has failed when it ccomes omes to o meaningful payday-loan pa aydaay--loan reform. reffo orm. hapless The situation the ha apless Michael would ffound ound himself in woul o d seem a problem easyy fix: A pr oblem in search search of an a eas says rregulation egulation l ti that th t sa ayys yyou o ccan ou an only l $300 per ttake ake out one loan of up p to $30 0p er paycheck. pa aycheck.

“We “W We tried ffor o or yyears ears to t get that to happen,” says.

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LITTLE RAMEN while you shop? Bowls of noodles may not be the first thing you think of while browsing through clothes at Nordstrom in Valley Fair mall, but the department store’s newest eatery, Raam, occupies a spot smack in the middle of the second floor.

The sleek and modern noodle bar serves a small menu of ramen and steamed buns. The signature items are two ramens, made with char siu beef or spicy red chile pork. Other items on the short menu include the steamed buns, made with either the beef or pork, but are also available vegetarian with shiitake mushrooms.

The red chile pork steamed buns (three for $8.95) were my favorite.

Crisp cucumber bites and Granny Smith apple kimchi complement the spiciness of the pork. The green apple kimchi, which subs julienned green apples for the standard Napa cabbage, is available on its own as a tasty small plate ($1.95). The veggie steamed buns ($8.50) with spinach, shiitake mushrooms and a Szechwan glaze were also enjoyable, but if you’re split between the two, my vote is on the pork buns.

Now ramen is where it gets complicated—people will have their favorite ramen house in the Bay Area. And although Raam’s offerings may not necessarily compete with more authentic restaurants, but that doesn’t seem to be what they’re going for. Instead, Raam is a nice getaway from the often crowded Valley Fair Dining Terrace.

The steamy noodle soup is prepared to order with Chinese-style wheat noodles (slightly undercooked, that is the style of ramen not an error on the kitchen) in a hot broth with shredded beef, veggies and a boiled egg, the yolk still slightly runny.

Often, the broth is what makes or breaks a ramen dish. That is why popular ramen houses spend hours simmering bones, fat and spices in preparation of the perfect broth—even though ramen is traditionally served as a fast food dining option. The tasty beef ramen was filling but not overboard. The char siu ramen ($10.25) at Raam is predominantly flavored by sweet, peppery allspice.

Thankfully, someone had the foresight to install quality ventilation because, as fragrant as the noodle soup is, the scent does not waft into the women’s section at Nordstrom. —Jeff Cianci

RAAM inside Nordstrom, Westfield Valley Fair Mall, 2400 Forest Ave, San Jose.

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CHOICESS B CHOICE BY: Y: Aaron Carnes Veronin Nick V eronin e

SHORT FILM FEST

DON MCMILLAN

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THE SHREWS SHR REWS Blank Club, San n Jose Wed, W ed, d 8pm, 8 FFree Fr eee

There’s Ther e’s nothing like some rockin’ rockin’ licks, guitar lick s, driving drivving beats and hooks—and catchy hook s— —and San Jose quartet the Shr Shrews rews have all these that’s in spades. But th hat’s not all. The Shrews Shr ews demonstrate demonsstrate quite a bit subtlety.. It falls of subtlety falls in category of post-punk, power-pop, poower-pop, New Wave—something W ave—somethhing like the CCars ars meets the Pixies Pixies meets Weezer.

Weezer. As As infectious lead inf ectious as lea ad singer Anthony Gullicksen’s melodies are, theree Gullick sen’s me lodies ar e, ther is a little bit of sadness s and delivery,, giving it melancholy in his h delivery some depth. Thee band formed formed only already earlier this yearr and alr eady have belts, an excellent EP under their bel ts, music as well as a mus sic video in the works.

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DON NM MCMILLAN C N Rooster T T.. Fe Feathers, eathers, Sunnyvale Wed, W ed, 8pm, $14 $ troubles, Relationshipp tr oubles, the differences diff erences between b men and humor.. women, bathroom bath hroom humor Whatever.. Don Whatever Doon McMillan isn’t isn’t interested. inter ested. He’s H ’s too busy trying to He while through stay calm wh hile he sits thr ough PowerPointyet another tortuous P owerPointmeeting—one driven meeti ing—one with way too many bu bullet ullet points and infographics. confusing in fographics. If you feel feel you’ree liv living like you’r ving inside a Dilbert strip, probably cartoon strip p, then you’ll pr obably get a laugh out o of McMillan’s McMillan’s set this week at Rooster T. T. Feathers.

Ass part of th thee Ner Nerdd Night Comedy A series at the local club, McMillan lampoon, will mock, la mpoon, satirize and naturee of the lament the ttortuous ortuous natur white collar existence. With the purposefully help of a pur rposefully awful slideshow,, of course. show course. (NV)

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INTEERNA INTERNATIONAL AT TIONAL SHOR RT FILM FEST FEST SHORT CineArts Theatre, Theatre, San Jose Thu-Sun,, $12-$150 $12-$150 The sixth annual a San Jose International Internation nal Short Film Festival opens thiss Thursday at Santana Row Jose. in San Jos e. The festival festival will ffeature eature films, 14 short fil lms,, ranging ranging widely in matter.. Ther Theree are style and subject s matter are animated shorts,, a ffew ew sci-fi and post-apocalyptic drama post-apoc calyptic films, some dr ama spoof and a spoo of western in which the protagonist narrator. pr otagonisst can hear the nar rator. The talkss with ffestival estival will will also ffeature eature talk filmmakers the filmma akers and other panels, ffood, ood,, drinkk and entertainment.

Though many m of the films ffeature eature marquee-name mar quee-name actors, the people from over.. behind thee shorts come fr om all over Hargreaves Festival ffounders o ounders Bill Har greaves and

Sinohui Sinohu ui Hinojosa sa say they want to attract attract filmmakers who are are utilizing the latest lateest technology to make great, great, independent independent films outside of Hollywood’s Hollyw wood’s studio system.. (NV)

showcase this shoowcase at Café Café Stritch Stritch t h Friday, Fridayy, with witth local headliners Super Soul Brothers—who funnel video game Brothers—who o songs sonngs though a funk/soul filter. filter. Also on the bill, San Francisco Francisco chiptune rockers rockers Crashfaster, Crashfasterr, Santa Cruz metal video videeo game band Viking Guitar, Guitarr, and video videeo game parody parody singer Lady Game Lyric.

Lyri y ic. If you are are a nerd, nerd, you will be in heaven. heaaven. (AC) (AC)

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They aare re working on expanding their popular populaar event to this coast. Their first step, which w they rrecently ecently announced, is a partnership parrtnership with San Jose’s Jose’s Rockage moree modest ner nerdd ffest Rockag ge (a mor est now inn its ffourth ourth year). Rockage and MAGFest aree holding a pr pre-Rockage MA GFeest ar e-Rockage

Bacck Bar SoF Back SoFA, A, San Jose Fri,, 8pm, $10 Though Tho ough Ruckatan has been a band ffor or a while—and w the individual members have Area hav ve been part of the Bay Ar ea Latin, rreggae eggggae and jazz j scenes ffor or decades now—the now w—the current current Ruckatan sevenpiece new. piec ce line up is rrelatively elatively new w. And it’s it’s clear approach clea ar that their appr oach has been turning firee turn ning heads. They have been on fir lately—mixing late ely—mixing Latin beats,, rrock, ock,, pop andd jazz songwriting with a ton of percussion. per rcussion. The beauty of the band is hardcore how w well they play both to a har dcore

oncerts * cconcerts Oct 10 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre

PHENOMENAUTS

SNOOP DOGG Oct 10 at SStudio tudio 8

ENRIQUEE IGLESIAS/PITBULL ENRIQU IGLESIAS/PITBULL Oct 14 at SSAP AP Center

DARYL D AR RY YL HALL & JOHN O OATES ATE T S Oct 116 6 at City National Civic

BRIDGE BRID DGE SCHOOL BENEFIT Oct O ct 25 & 26 at Shoreline Shoreline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre

ELECTRONIC ELE CTRONIC O BOUNCE HOUSE Oct 29 at SSAP AP Center

JJACK ACK Y YO O LANTERN: FLOSSTRADAMUS, FLOSSTRAD T AMUS, MADE MADEON ON Oct 331 at SJSU SJSU Event Center

ALIEN ANT FFARM ARM Nov No ov 2 at RockBar Theater

TEDESCHI TED ESCHI TRUCKS TRUCKS B BAND AND Nov 4 at City National Civic

RUSTED R USTED R ROOT OOT Nov 6 at at Montalvo Arts Center

HERB ALPER ALPERT T Novv 77-8 -8 at thee Montalvo Arts Center

JUDAS JUD AS PRIE PRIEST ST Nov 16 6 at Civic National Civic

Latin music fanatic,, and casual fans of live dance music.. It’s It’s an eclectic eclecttic blend of great great music.. (AC) (AC)

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PHENOMENAUTS PHENOMENA AUTS San Jose Rock Shop, San Jose J Sat, 8pm, $10 aree not the The Phenomenauts ar th he kind of band that simply play songs full-scale on a stage.. No,, theirs is a fullscale performance, theatrical perf ormance,, replete replette with papercostumes,, props props and toilet pa aperspitting guns. guns. It’s It’ss quite the sci-fi sciii-fi fi adventure. adventur e.. (And if you believee their story, from story y, they actually come fr om m outer Appropriately, space.) Appr opriatelyy, their music mu usic is Wave, Devo-influenced New W ave, a which w sounding has to be the most sci-fi soun nding planet, music that exists—on this pl anet,, at interest least. In the inter est of taking their allfurther,r, consuming experience a step further

the ggroupp has released a number of books, Phenomenauts-themed comic c book s, Shop and the upcoming Rock Sh hop show markss the rrelease Grave mark elease of their latest:: Gr ave From Space.

(AC) Robbers Fr om Outer Space e.. (A C)

JJASON ASON VIEA VIEAUX AU X Le P Petit etit T Trianon rianon r Theatre, Theatr e San Jose e, Sat, 7:30pm, $15-27 $15-27 Being a classical guitar virtuoso virttuoso can things—many different mean a lot of things—ma any diff erent countries have their own acoustic a traditions. guitar classical tr aditions.. Jason J Vieaux, from who hails fr om New YYork, ork,, and a started studying the guitar when hhe was 8 incorporate years old,, tries to incorpor a as many ate different cultural diff erent cul tural approaches approachhes to the possible. acoustic solo guitar as pos ssible On his ssible. rrecent ecent album,, Play, Playy, he rreworks eworks songs from France, originating fr om Fr ance,, Mexico, M , Spain, and more. the United SStates, tates,, CCuba uba an nd mor e.. He wizard, is a true technical wizar d, who w has performing been perf orming professionally professioonally ffor or 20 years. It is as captivating captivating to watch difficultt parts him play these difficul parts as it is gorgeously to listen to his gor geously layered layered

melodies, counter melodies and complex arrangements. arrangementss.. (AC) (AC)

‘THE W WORKOUT’ OR RKOUT’ SSAYS AYS GOODBYE GOO DBYE

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MACBET H BY MACBETH BY SHAKE SB BEERIENCE SHAKESBEERIENCE

YO Y O GABB GGABBA A GABBA! GABBA! LIVE! Nov 21 2 at City National Civic

BRANTLEY BRANTLE Y GILBER GILBERT T Nov 21 at SSAP AP Center

JOAN JO AN SEB SEBASTIAN ASTIAN & LOS LOSS TIGRE TIGRESS DEL NOR NORTE TE Nov 23 at SSAP AP Center

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Johnny V’s, V’s, San Jos Jose se S t 9pm, Sat, 9 FFree-$5 Fr ee-$5 $5

Cafe S Cafe Stritch, tritch, San n Jose M 7pm, Mon, 7 FFree Fr ee

Nov 24 24 at SAP SAP Center

countless drinkss and After six years,, countles ss drink Division, a whole lot of Joy Divisi on,, CCure, ure,, New Order, Or derr, LLCD CD Soundsystem, Soundsystem m,, Cut Cut Copy and Empiree of the Sun,, one of San Jose Jose’s Empir ’s alternative is saying best al ternative dance parties p goodnight—forever. goodnight—f orever.The Th he Workout, Workout, which began in 2008 at a Agenda moved current LLounge ounge and later move ed to its cur rent V’s, was home at Johnny V ’s, wa as ffounded ounded as an alternative al ternative to the standard standdard Top Toop 40 dance scene where scene, where DJs could spin weirder, weirderr, moree obscu obscure darker and mor ure dance music mainstream than the mainstr eam cclubs lubs would ever play.

Adultt and Atomic play y. Like the Adul Atomic dance parties hosted at The Blank B Club,, it was one of the better placess to end your night after catching a punk p show at The CCaravan, aravan,, or taking down n too many shots Cinebar.. (NV (NV) of Jamo at Cinebar V)

“I think a lot of thee rresistance esistance that people have inn going to see Shakespearee is tha that it’s Shakespear at they ffeel eel like it ’s written in a fforeign oreignn language,”” says Lee players KKopp, opp, one of the pl layers who rregularly egularly performs ShakesBEERience perf orms ffor or Shake esBEERience San presenting Jose, which is pr esenting a staged rreading eading of Macbet Macbeth thh at CCafe afe SStritch tritch on Monday.

Mondayy. Kopp Kopp promises p omises that the pr relaxed relaxed atmosphere atmospherre and the skill of the director director and actors acctors will ensure ensure that even those with with no familiarity familiarity with theater or Shakespeare’s Shaakespeare’s work will be able to follow folloow the production. production.

“Whether you’re you’re a fan fan of theater or not, whether you’re you’re a fan fan a of shakespeare shakespeare or not,, you will understand understand this play,” playy,,”” he says. And if not, the there’s ere’s always the ffood ood and drink to enjoy. enjoyy. (NV)

Nov 25 at SSAP AP Center

FLEETWOOD FLEETW OOD MA MACC MYTHBUSTERS: MYTHBUS TERS: BEHIND THE MYTHS Dec 118 8 at City National Civic

Y&T Decc 31 at RockBar Theater

CAKE Dec 31 3 at City National Civic

HARLEM HARLE EM GL GLOBETROTTERS OBETROTTERS Jan 9, 9 16 & 17 at SSAP AP Center

CHERRY CHERR RY POPPIN’ D DADDIES ADDIES Jan 31 aatt Montalvo Arts Center For music mussic updates and contest giveaways, giveawa ays, like us on Facebook metrofb.com at metr ofb.com

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A Little Faith

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ART A RT A seemingly-innocuous blan blankk white painting drives a trio of o French friends insane in this Fr ench comedy.. Thru Oct 19. $17-$32. comedy $17-$322.

Company, City Lights Theater Company y, San Jose.

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THE GREA GREAT AT DIV DIVORCE ORCE C.S.. Lewis Lewis’s ’s Dantesque tale off from a man’s man’s journey fr om Hell to Paradise, P aradise, and the spectrum off lifee he sees along the way: from lif from o outrageously the outr ageously funny to thee 8pm.. chillingly human. Oct 10,, 8pm Theatre, $29-$89. CCalifornia alifornia Theatr e, San Jose.

THE IMPOR IMPORTANCE TANCE EARNEST OF BEING EARNE ST An Oscar Wilde classical “trivial comedy for for serious people” people” satiree and wit as two plays on satir characters char acters maintain fictitious escape double lives as a means of esca ape from society. thru fr om Victorian society y. Oct 17 th hru Museum-Nov 9.. $16-$18. TTriton rriton Museum Pavillion, Clara.

Hall P avillion,, Santa Clar a.

KISSS ME, KA KIS KATE AT TE The delightful rrendition endition of a ““play-within-a-play,” play-within-a-playy,” ,” Kiss Me, M award-winning tale KKate ate is an awar d-winningg ta ale andd of messy passion, humor an rromance. omance. Thru Oct 18. $20Saratoga Theatre. $39. Sar atoga Civic Theatr e.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC The legendary story of a governess of seven and her from om Nazi-occupied escape fr Jose.

Austria is coming to San Jos se.

Nov 14-23.

14-23. $14-$18. $14-$18. Children’s Childrenn’s Musical Theater San Jose.

THE SPOOK SHO SHOW W The Roughhouse Th R hh pr presents esents t an evening of ““chill-arious” chill-arious” comedy. sketch comedy y. The delicate macabree hor horror mix of macabr ror and surely slapstick jokes will sur ely rrock occk anyone’s anyone ’s bones that night. Oct O Theatree oon 31, 8pm. $15-$20. Theatr n Pedro Square, San P edro Squar e, San Jose.

SSWEENEY WEENEY T TODD ODD A story of rrevenge evenge hitting the musical stage, as an exiled barber fights against the man with his trusty pie shop owner $25-$74. sidekick. Thru Nov 2. $25-$7 4.

Mountain View Center ffor or the Performing P erforming Arts.

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CHILDREN’S DISC DISCOVERY OVERY MUSEUM “Images of India.” Thru Nov 30.

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Henri’s California California Portraits: Portraits: Realism,, Race and Region,, 1914191425.””Thru Jan.. TTue-Sun, uue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon.. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF SAN QUILTS TEXTILESS QUIL TS & TEXTILE “International TTECHstyle ECHstyle Art Biennial 3,”” thru Nov 9.. Returning thirdd incarnation, IT ITAB ffor or its thir TA AB is a juried exhibition of work merging by artists mer ging fiber media information with new inf ormation and communication technologies processes, in their artistic pr ocesses, as a expression, medium of artistic expr ession, and/or in the content of their Garrick: work.. ““Vel Vel Gar rick:: Conversational Watercolor Quilts,” W atercolor Quil ts,”” thru Nov novelty 9.. Pieces of prints and novel ty ffabrics abrics come together to make landscapes,, ffantasy, antasyy, florals, florals, characters more. cartoon char acters and mor e.

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TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM OF AR ART T “Ron Dell’Aquila: Dell’Aquila: Photography,” Photographyy,” , an exhibit of unapologetic intensity and hue. Thru Nov Arastu: Celebration 16.. “Salma Ar astu: Celebr ation of CCalligraphy,” alligraphyy,” ,” ffeaturing eaturing the texturee and calligraphy blend of textur calligraphy sacred on sacr ed texts. Thru Nov 16.

“Karim “K arim Alwali: The Civilization abstract Code,”” abstr act paintings. Thru Nov 23. Santa Clara.

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GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “The Bride Series,” solo Jennifer Vaiola exhibition by Jennif er V aiola aka CAKE. Thru Oct 18. San Jose.

ART AR T ARK GALLER GALLERY Y “In 3-D: 3-D: Selected Art,”” by Pacific Group.

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“Inclinations”” by John KKurtyka urtyka “Inclinations plays color on digital media create to cr eate a meaningful visual metaphor.. Thru Aug 29.. San Jose. metaphor

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depicting the elements. Cabrera will be showing his work at the Latino Comics Expo this weekend.

Graphically Latino LONG BEFORE FRANK MILLER mapped out his first edition of Sin City or R. Crumb put his pen to a pad, Mayan scribes were hard at work compiling some of the first stories ever told using pictures scrawled on paper codices—books, as we call them today.

Most people will never get to hold one of those historic artifacts, but you can certainly get your fill of modern Latino graphic art this weekend when the Latino Comics Expo (LCX) makes its first ever stop Latino Comics Expo in San Jose.

This Saturday and Sunday, the Martin Luther King, Oct 11, 10am-6pm; Oct 12, Jr. Library at San Jose State University will host the 1pm-6pm, Free fifth LCX since 2011. The event will highlight Latino Martin Luther King, Jr. Library comic book and graphic artists both in the U.S. and latinocomicsexpo.com abroad. Special guests will include brothers Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez, who together created the Love and Rockets series—one of the first major works to emerge from the alternative comics movement during the ’80s.

While the Hernandez brothers certainly have name recognition in the alternative comics world, Mario Hernandez says the work of his brothers, Gilbert and Jaime, is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to talented Latino graphic artists. “I show up every year for the exposition,” he says. “I get to meet a lot of cool Hispanic artists, and lots of really nice people still hacking away at this stuff.”

Expo co-founder Javier Hernandez (no relation to the Hernandez brothers) says he doesn’t understand why no one had organized an event centered around Latino comics before he and LCX Executive Director Ricardo Padilla launched their expo. “I’m surprised no one had done it before,” Hernandez says. “We try to highlight Latino artists’ amazing contributions to comics and related fields like pop art and animations—as well as creating mainstream superhero comics, Aztec myths or slices of life.”

Hernandez and Padilla first began working on the festival in Los Angeles. “L.A. is ground zero for Latino culture,” Hernandez says. It took some time to get organized, but now that they are on their fifth event in a little over three years, he says he and Padilla are looking toward growing the festival and sharing the prolific output of the Latino comics and graphic artist community with everyone.

“You don’t have to be Latino to be here,” Javier Hernandez stresses. “It’s a great place to come for the weekend, and we’d love to see you.”— Richard Von Busack

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New Ne w ADDICTED (R; 105 min.) A su successful uccessful gallery riskss her well-established life owner risk w life affair when she enters into an aff air with a painter.. (Opens Fri.) talented painter

ALEXANDER AN AND ND THE TERRIBLE, VERY BAD DAY HORRIBLE, NO GOOD G VER RY B AD D AY (PG; 81 min.) Whe When en Alexander grumbles to his cheery c ffamily amily about a bad day—one that starts off with ggum in his hair and a ggoes downhill from fr om there—he there—he wonders if he’s he’s the only one to whom w bad things happen. Nope. (O (Opens Opens Fri.)

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(PG-13; miin.) Nadav Schirman’s Schirman’s documentary slippery docu umentary about Mosab Hassan Yousef, Yoouseef, the son of Hassan major YYoussef, ooussef, a ma ajor Hamas leader. leader. The younger YYousef ooussef became a bornagain Christian Christiaan and a spy against people.

Klawans’’ his own peop ple. SStuart tuart Klawans piece excellent piec ce in The Nation points out that thaat The Gr Green een Prince is almost completely completely “fact-free”—all “fact-free”—all confessional, confessional, nothing that can be pinned down dow wn or vetted; darker motives for for collaboration coollaboration eclipsed in favor favor of feel-good feeel-good ffantasies antasies of the end of Muslim/Israeli Mu uslim/Israeli strife. strife.

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(R; 112 min.) minn.) Gary W Webb, ebb, the martyr martyred ed San Jose Mer M Mercury cury News investigative reporter, reporter, deser ddeserved ved a bigger film, and unless you source u rread ead the title sour ce book

by Nick Schou, Scchou, you won’t won’t completely understand wrong understannd what went wr ong ffor or him. Kill th the he Messengerr is shot in Georgia, Area Georgia, which w is tough on Bay Ar ea locals trying figuree why snow is trying to figur falling It’s falling in CCupertino. upertino. It ’s directed directed by Michael Cuesta Cuesta (of TV’s T V’s Homeland and the ve very ery good indie L.I.E.).

CCuesta uesta didd what he could with the budget—an budget— —an abandoned Georgian Georgian credible ffactory actory makes maakes a cr edible Nicaraguan Nicaraguan prison—but prison—b but the script is bumpy turnarounds ounds with clichés, clichéés, puzzling turnar uneven Garcia and uneve en casting. Andy Gar cia breezes through Contra, br eezes th hrough as a Contr a, but if you want wannt some suspense about editor’s ’s spine whether or o not an editor hiree is going too disintegrate, disintegrate, don’t don’t hir Platt Jeremy Oliver Plat tt to play him. Jer emy (whose interest Renner (w whose inter est in the story film sturdy, got the fil m made) is stur dyy, likable and colorless colorless as Webb.

Webb. Kill the Messenger Messengeerr is as much about Webb’s Webb’s lifee as it is about him hunting ffamily amily lif connections contras the conne ections between the contr as coke lords. and the co oke lor ds. Rosemarie DeWitt is a rreal eal asset to the film wife; shares as Webb’s Webb’ss wif e; DeWitt shar es a praiseworthy characteristic pr aiseworrthy char acteristic with Helen Hunt: Hun nt: neither of the actresses actresses aree easy smilers in an industry that ar s

The do dozens ozens of entries in the Sixth Annuall San Jose International Short Annua Festival 9-12) Film Fe estival (Oct. 9-12) seem to two have tw wo things in common: a high grade proficiency gr ade of o technical pr oficiency and presence marquee the pr e esence of a mar quee name in a European director Thierry small rrole. ole. Eur opean dir ector Thier ry LLorenzi’s orenzzi’s On/Offf, alr already eady loaded with festival festival awards, awards, is an example of how much magic can be got on a pittance. m The fact facct that On/Offf has one of the basic seven science fiction plots may s be immaterial imm material to how much space stationn and gleaming earth Lorenzi Lorenzi wreaked…at wreakeed…at times, almost as much as Alfonso Cuaron Alfonso o Cuaron got in Gr Gravity avityy. IInn one line: lin ne: Meredith Meredith (Carole (Carole Brana) Brana) a beautiful beautifful but unwell astronaut, astronaut, has a very bad baad day. dayy. Daniel “Cloud” Campos’ Campos’ TToday’s oday’s o s The Dayy is about a happygo-lucky go-lucky clerk at a talent agency who longs dancer.. Campos longs to be a dancer Campos has restaged resstaged the MGM Arthur Freed Freed unimpressed style inn an office with an unimpressed (at first) first) Mr. Mr. Big agent called “Mr. “Mr. Bees”—he’s Bees”— —he’s played by a very niceguy actor actor ffamed amed for for portraying portraying crapulent crapuleent little men. Among the other offerings, un-previewed eviewed Spanish offerings, the un-pr film Zu Zugzwang ugzwangg is pr promising—the omising—the title comes coomes from from a useful word word in chess, meaning “being in the position of having having to make a disadvantageous move.”” A Day in the Lif Life fe of a Bathroom Bathroom o Mirror Mirror or is narrated narrated by Tim Tim

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THEE TWO TH TWO FACES FACES OF JANUARY JANUARY (PG (PG-13; G-13; 96 min.) Patricia Patricia Highsmith’s Highsmith’s 1964 196 64 novel is adapted by Hossein Amini Am mini (The Wings of the Dove) … and by the t way, wayy, that sense you have that a movie is off just by the sound of m its title?

That sense is your friend.. In t 1962, 196 62, a dodgy trio of Americans— held h ldd together t th by b blackmail bl k il andd lost l t passports—hide passsports—hide in Crete, Crete,, one step ahead aheead of the police. Rydal (Oscar Issac, Issaac, very humid,, so there’s there’s that) is a professor’s professor ’s son haunted by his family. familyy.

Thee seemingly affluent Chester and Colette Coleette (Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst) Dunnst) turn out to be not as clean andd cool as they look.. Amini may have havve been seeking the look of one of the t best Highsmith adaptations, Rene Clement’s Renne Clement ’s Purple Noon, but the soundtrack souundtrack by Alberto Iglesias keeps wringing wringing its hands over the evil.. Dunst is allegedly a trophy a trophy wife, wife,, but she’s she’s ripening; ripeening;; Mortensen is as confidently mature mature as Jimmy Stewart Stewart (even though thoough he’s he’s been made up to look older—if oldeer—if you had your choice for for any actor Chester,, it it’d actoor in history to play Chester ’d be Wendell sharee Wendell Corey).

Corey). Since we can’t can’t shar the tension the married married couple’s couple’s age gapp is supposed to have, it has to be underscored. undderscored. (“She’s (“She’s young enough to be b his daughter,” daughter,”” a character character notes.) nottes.) Handsome costumes and vistas, visttas, but this movie leaves owing us something—some som mething—some love scene,, some outburst outtburst of humor. humor. (Opens Fri.) (RvB) VIGGO

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THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Lawyer Hank (Robert Downey) reconnects with old flame Samantha (Vera Farmiga) when he’s in town to defend his dad in a court case.

Family Law EMBITTERED HIGH-END attorney Hank Palmer (Robert Downey, Jr.) returns to his practically perfect small town in Indiana for his mother’s funeral.

Palmer intends to leave, but that’s when his father Joseph (Robert Duvall)—a judge of some 42 years standing—is arrested for a hit-and-run automobile accident. Evidence suggests Joseph had a personal motive for the accident, and he needs the best lawyer he can get …

David Dobkin’s film is contrived and shameless, and it derives some of its court-room methods by a close observation of Judge Judy. All this is mitigated by one fine cast—the Oscar-bound Downey, leading them, demonstrating lashing impatience and bursts of intelligence. Downey proves that so much of what we describe as great acting is just a matter of clearing air fouled by the distinct smell of moldy corn.

Vera Farmiga, as the tattooed girl Hank left behind, is a Howard Hawks type who likes The Judge to start things; she’s too good to be true, but R; 141 min. she’s a hotshot. What a pleasure they didn’t Opens Friday go for the manic pixie as usual. (And in this patriarchy-pampering drama, Farmiga gives the movie some physicality and some common sense; the only girl in the film, if you don’t count Hank’s studiously cute little girl.)

Thomas Newman’s soundtrack is unnoticeable until you notice it—which is a good way to furnish such a film. If some of the driving scenes are shot like car commercials, they found a fairly ravishing hamlet (it’s not Indiana, but a town in Massachusetts where Bill Cosby has a house). During a drought you start to crave the look of water.

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In early Septemb err, Mo on Duo September, Moon rreleased eleased the sixsong Liv LLivee In R aavenna, six-song Ravenna, rrecorded ecorded one blisterin ngly hot night blisteringly

in the nor th hw western It alian cit northwestern Italian cityy named a ed in tthee album aalbum’s bu ’s ttitle t e. And d title. this Satur day, Mo da on Duo will bring Saturday, Moon JJeffrey, effrey, alo ong with a st ack of limited along stack edition vin nyyl pr essings of Liv vinyl pressings Livee In R av a enna, tto oC affé Stritch, wher Ravenna, Café wheree the h yyet et another theyy will headline (((f fo olkYEA AH!)))-hosted show at the (((folkYEAH!)))-hosted SoF A vvenue. enu ue.

SoFA ow will mark one of The sho show on Duo the first tim mes that Mo times Moon has eever ver pl laayed in the U .S. with played U.S. a liv mmer. Y aamada sa ayys she livee drum drummer.

Yamada says is "ps yched d" to pla ay in the St ates "psyched" play States again afterr se veral trips thr ough several through Eur ope. Moon M on Duo fans should b Mo Europe. bee eexcited xcited to o —both to hear the ne w too—both new lineup liv e, and to grab a ccopy opy of the live, limited ed dition vin nyyl pr essing of Liv edition vinyl pressing Livee In R av a ennaa, which the band will b Ravenna, bee selling at their t mer ch b ooth. merch booth.

Liv aavenna is imbued with Livee In R Ravenna a diff ffeerentt kind of ener gy than different energy an on Duo ccollection, ollection ollection, anyy other Mo Moon and much h of that is clearly due to JJeffrey—and effrey—and — his fr ee will. A free Ass a drummer eat drummer,, he demonstrates gr great discipline in i holding to the rrepetitive epetitive pat terns o riginally pr ogrammed patterns originally programmed b on Duo D en so byy Mo Moon Duo.. Ev Even so,, the human b ehind thee b eat shines thr ough in behind beat through b oth a har rd-to - qualiffy ener gy and in both hard-to-qualify energy JJeffrey's effrey's o ccasional off ff--script fills and occasional off-script flourishes flourishes..

The vversions erssions on the liv livee album also ffeel eeel mor m gent and visc eral, moree ur urgent visceral, which ma ay also b may bee due to human imp erfecti e ion and the tendency ffor o or imperfection liv erfor ormances to b livee p performances bee a bit faster than their studio ccounterparts. ounterparts.

While th he title track of Mo on the Moon Duo ’s Maz zes sor Duo’s Mazes sortt of hops and skips to a st art, with w the drum machine ’s start, machine’s kick k-snare beat beat and Johnson’s Johnson’s guit ar kick-snare guitar b ound tigh htly to gether. The R av a enna bound tightly together.

Ravenna vversion, ersion on ersion, n the other hand, hand p ositively positively eexplodes—the xplodes— —the rat tttling, rumbling rattling, rumbling,, rroaring oaring tom m-tom whacks of JJeffrey’s effrey’s tom-tom kit fight ag gainst the fuz ohnson’s against fuzzz of JJohnson’s guit ar, which whiich is so dr enched in guitar, drenched rreverb everb tha at the chor d changes ar that chord aree less distinc ct, and mor distinct, moree lik likee a flowing riv er of fuz zz. river fuzz.

Mo on Duo D is in the midst of Moon finishing up d fullu their their thir third length album, album, which is slated ffor or o length rrelease elease som metime ne xt spring sometime next spring..

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Workout Fri:: TTrap rap Shop. Sat:: The W orkout Party.

P artyy. Every Sun:: Sundaze w/ DJ $pen Money and Bartender Heidi.. Sat,, Oct 11,, 9pm: The Workout W orkout (last ever).. San Jose.

NORMANDY NORMANDY HOUSE LLOUNGE OUNGE Every Thu, 9:30pm: DJ night Vex. w/ DJ BenofďŹ cial & DJ V ex.

Everyy Fri and Sun, 9:30pm: p NoWrath.

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Cr ashfaster, Viking Guitar Sat, Oct 11, 9pm:: Moon Duo, Evergreen, Seventeen Ever green, Matt Baldwin. San Jose.

CASCAL CA SCAL Every Sat, 9pm-midnight: Group.

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THREE DE DEGREES GREES Every Thu 6:306:30-9:30pm 9:30pm & Fri, 7:30-10:30pm: 7:3010:30pm: Live music. All Free. os Gatos Ages. Fr ee. LLos

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Fer rara. Sat, Oct 11, 8:30pm: 12,, Johnny Neri Band. Sun, Oct 12 Ferrara.

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CLUB CL UB FFOX OX Every W Wed, ed,, 8pm: Club Fox Blues Jam. $5. Every Fri, 8pm: Salsa Spot. $15.. Redwood City City. y.

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Santa Cruz Music Festival Pre-Party Friday, October 10: Main Room 7 p.m.

FAR EAST MOVEMENT, TWO FRESH, ILL-ESHA, VOKAB KOMPANY Friday, October 10: Atrium 7 p.m.

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THE GASLAMP KILLER, THRIFTWORKS, DIMOND SAINTS, THUMPADELIC, MIHKAL Saturday, October 11: Atrium 2 p.m.

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THE THURSTON MOORE BAND

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Fri-Sat, 66-9pm: 9pm: Jazz ffor or dinner.. San Jose. dinner

POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO TRO Every W Wed, ed, 6pm:: Ron Thompson. Thu, Oct 11, 6pm: to Howlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wolf TTribute ribute r Howlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; W olf w/ TTebo. ebo. e . Fri, Oct 10,, 6pm:: Dennis Jones.. Sat, Oct 11,, 6pm:: School of Blues SStudent tudent Performance.

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Blues Society y. Mon,, Oct 13, 6pm: Laraa Price & Laur Lauraa Chavez, Lar unplugged. TTue, uue,, Oct 77,, 6pm:: PHB Open Mic Night. San Jose.

C&W/Folk C&W W/F /Folk o CHARLEY'S CHARLE Y'S LLGG Every W Wed, ed, 10pm: Wi3r Wi3rdd Wednesdays.

W ednesdays. Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/ live Country music. Every TTue, ue, u 7pm: TTuesday uuesday Bluesday w/ live Blues music. music LLos os Gatos.

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Sun-Tuue, 10pm: KKaraoke.

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CCupertino. upertino.

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

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KYOTO K YOTO P PALACE ALACE Wed, W ed, 7pm: KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

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

Karaoke. San Jose.

IMPROV IMPR OV Wed, W eed,, 8pm:: American Me Comedy, Comeddyy, Throttle $15..Thu, 8pm: Full Thr ottle Comedy, yy,, $15. $ . Fri-Sun,, various $17.77.. San Jos Jose. times:: Orny Adams,, $17 se.

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

Downtown San Jose.

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

Open Mic. Mountain View

ROOSTER R OOSTER T. T. FEA FEATHERS AT THERS Wed, 8pm: Ner Wed, Nerdd Night Comedy.. Thu-Sun, Oct 99-12: Comedy 12: Barcena.

Willi Bar Willie B cena. Sunnyvale.

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MARIANI’S Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clar Clara. a.

THE CA CATS ATS

THE NE NEW W JER JERSEY’S SEY’S

Mon: Star Star Wars Wars Party.

Partyy. All Day Happy Hour Drink Specials, TTrivia rivia r 5-6pm, KKaraoke araoke 7pmclose. LLos os Gatos.

Sat: KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

Wed: W ed: Karaoke.

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

KKaraoke. araoke. Santa Clar a.

OASIS O ASIS

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Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Wed Doug. Sunnyvale.

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

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EFFIE’S RE RESTAURANT STAURANT Wed-Sat & TTue, Wed-Sat uue, 9pm-2am, 9pm-2am, & last Sun of every month, 22-7pm: -77pm: B&S Karaoke.

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Wed-Thu W edd-TThu Th andd Sun, S 9pm: 9 Wild Fremont.

Nights KKaraoke. araoke. Fr emont.

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

Sunnyvale.

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

No cover

KATIE KA AT TIE BL BLOOM’S OOM’S

BOGART’S BOGAR T’S LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, Fri & Sun, 9pmWed, 9pm-1am: 1am: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

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

Mon, 9pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. San Jose.

PLAZA GARIB GARIBALDI ALDI

PIONEER SSALOON ALOON

THE HUDDLE

Fri, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke Friday Clara.

Nights. Santa Clar a.

O’FLAHERTY’S O’FLAHER TY’S IRISH PUB

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

Fri-Sun, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke. Willow Glen.

BLINKY’S BLINK Y’S CAN’T SSAY AY

Wed, W ed, 9pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

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

KKaraoke. araoke. Mountain View

THE GOOSET GOOSETOWN OWN LLOUNGE OUNGE

Sat, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke evenings evenings..

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

OFF THE HOOK

Wed, 9pm to closing: Karaoke.

Wed, Karaoke.

Free.

Fr ee. Los Los Gatos

Wed-Sat, 9pm: KKaraoke.

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

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

NORMANDY HOUSE NORMANDY LLOUNGE OUNGE

DASILVA’S D ASILVA’S BR BRONCOS ONCOS

7B BAMBOO AMBOO

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

San Jose.

Thu: Karaoke.

Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

TTue: uue: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

Karaoke Kar aoke

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LILLY LILL Y MA MAC’S C’S LIQUID

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

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TTue, uue, 8:30pm: A Acoustic coustic karaoke kar aoke with Sam Marshall.

Woodside.

W oodside.

POINCIANA LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, W eed,, 9:30pm: Wildside.. No cover cover..

Sun,, 9pm:: Joe.. Santa Clara.

Clara.

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

CCampbell. ampbell.

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

1:30am.

San Jose.

THREE FLAME FLAMESS RESTAURANT RE STAURANT Every Mon, Wed, Wed, Sun, 8pm to closing: KKaraoke. araoke. Every TTue uue and Thu, 9pm to closing: KKaraoke. araoke. k San S Jose.

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

Wed, San Jose.

KHARTOUM KHAR TOUM Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. CCampbell. ampbell.

WOODHAMS W OODHAMS LLOUNGE OUNGE TTue-Thu uue--TThu & Sat: KKaraoke. araoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

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TTop oop 40 and R&B. Fri, 9pm: Flashback Fridays. $10. Mon: Industry.. San Jose.

Industry

Fri: DJs & dancing. Every 4th Sat: Thrive. Sun: Members Only.. San Jose.

Only

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MYTH T TAVERNA AV VERNA LLOUNGE OUNGE

Mon: ReToxx.

ReTTooxx. Tue: Tuue: Trap Trap Shop.

San Jose.

Thu, 9pm:: Therapy Therapy Thursday Thursday.. Fri, 9pm:: Soul Therapy.

Therapyy. San Jose.

KATIE KA AT TIE BLOOM’S BLOOM’S AGENDA A GENDA Wed: Salsa W Wed: Wednesdays. ednesdays. Th Thu: u: Shakalosos Banda Nights. Sun: S Vybez.

Reggae V ybez. San Jose.

AJ’S B BAR AR DJs and dancing every nigh night. t.

6pm-1am; 8pmMon-Sat, 6pm1am; Sun, 8p pm12:30am. San Jose

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

BAMBOO B AMBOO LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri Sat: DJ or Live Fri-Sat: info.

Entertainment. CCall all ffor or inf o..

San Jose.

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Every Thu, 8pm: A Atomic tomic Dan Dance nce Club. $5. San Jose.

SSAN AN JOSE B BAR AR & GRILL

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. CCampbell. ampbell.

Every W Wed: ed: Wingy Wednesdays.

W ednesdays. d d E Every Th Thu: w/VJ TTanked aanked Thursdays w/V VJ DVS Dave. Every Fri: VJ VJ One. 2nd Saturdays, and 4th Satur days, 10pm: Dluzion. San Jose.

LIQUID Fri:: DJs & dancing.. Every 2nd Sat: Girls & Champagne.. San Jose.

LLOFT OFT B BAR AR AND BIS BISTRO TRO Fri:: Loft Loft Fridays w/ DJ Exrated, Exrated, Party J-Quest. Sat: The Upstairs P arty w/ DJ Howhigh, DJ RQ, RQ, DJ Sequence,, DJ Christylz.. San Jose.

SONOMA CHICKEN CCOOP OOP

LLOS OS GATOS GA ATOS BAR BAR AND GRILL

TRESS GRINGOS TRE

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

San Jose.

Fri, 10pm: Foundation Fridays at LLGBG. GBG. Sat: Video Killed the DJ.. Los DJ Los Gatos.

Every Thu: Everybody Get Get’s ’s Lei’dd with DJ Aspect.

Lei Aspect. spect Every Saturday day Cooldown Sat: Satur DJ-Luzion, Illtraxx, with DJ-L uzion, Ill traxx, WreckaNoize HiGrade.

W reckaNoize & HiGr ade. Every TTues: uues: TTWOSdays.

WOSdays. San Jose.

MILANO Every 3rd 3rd Fri:: Strictly Strictly Freestyle.

Freestyle.

Every 4th Fri: Fuz.. San Jose.

BLUE BL UE PHEA PHEASANT SANT Wed-Sun & TTue, Wed-Sun uue, 7pm: DJ andd dancing. CCupertino. upertino.

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BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed: Almaden V Wed: Valley alley Beer P Pong o ong ONEmanARMY. with DJ ONEmanARMY Y. Thu: Pop, Vintage (80s, 90s, P op, Rock,, Q.. Fri:: Hip Hop) with DJ David Q Control.

Quality Contr ol. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS DO DOWNTOWN WNTOWN N Wed: DJ 512. Thu: DJ Nico & Wed: Neeber.. Fri: DJ Benofficial. Sat: Neeber S DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

Of Montreal

CARDIFF LLOUNGE OUNGE

IMELDA MAY

Every 2nd and 4th Sun: Retu Return urn underground of the Boom Zap, under grouund electronic electr onic music. music CCampbell. ampbell ampbell.

CHARLEY’S CHARLE Y’S LLGG Wed: EDM Music. Fri-Sat, Wed: (follows music).

10pm: DJ (f ollows live music c).

LLos os Gatos.

CREEKSIDE CREEK SIDE LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri & Sat: Dance Club events events. s.

San Jose.

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Irish-born singer and songwriter plays a mix of rockabilly, surf and blues. Oct 9 at the Fillmore.

SHONEN KNIFE All-female pop punk trio from Japan has been rocking the world over since 1981. Oct 10 at Bottom of the Hill.

DAVID BAZAN Pedro the Lion songwriter performs new versions of his tunes with the Passenger String Quartet. Oct 11 at the Independent.

TOGETHER PANGEA

Thu, 10:30pm: Rotating Gue Guest est DJs.

L.A. rockers headline “Burger Records Caravan of Stars,” with Natural Child, the Coathangers and others.

Oct 14 at Slim’s.

EL RANCHO SPOR SPORTS TS B BAR AR R

OF MONTREAL

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Party.

Dance P arty. San Jose.

FFAHRENHEIT AHRENHEIT Wed, 9pm: Wine W Wed, Wednesdays. ednesdayys.

Thu: Liquid Thursdays, with hip-hop, guest DJs spinning hip-hop p,

Innovative indie pop band, led by Kevin Barnes, appears for two psychedelic nights. Oct 14-15 at Great American Music Hall.

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My boyfriend and I are spendin spending ng Christmas with his family. family y. I like liike them and get me to join along well with them. However, Ho oweverr, they’re very religious, religiouss, and he wants w them in going to holiday church h services. services. I grew up secular in a conservative town, and because of all I wentt through, I developed a deep distaste disstaste for religion.

His family knows I’m an atheist atheisst but doesn’t doesn’t know the extent off my aversion to religion. I explained to my boyfriend bo oyfriend that the idea of sitting through church and going through the motions, motionss, given how I feel about religion, n, is downright upsetting to me. Though he’s he’s no o longer religious, religiouss, he doesn't share are my aversion, sha and he insists I go out of respect respecct for him and his family. family y. Should d I just go and grin and bear it as a favor to him? him m? —I’m —II’m m (Not) (N No ot) A Believer It's Jesus' birthday, Jesus' bir thdaay, but seeing ass yyou ou guys aren’t aren’t that close, close, you you figured figured he wouldn't mind if yyou ou skipped skipped it.

Believe Believe it or not, this isn’t isn n’’t the first firrst time religion religion has caused caused tension in the world.

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You bearing it” it” at the op era. Y o ou probably probaably aren’t Verdi principle, aren n’’t opposed opposed to V eerdi on princip ple, and it’s unlikely it’s unlik ely to ccall all up childhood childho ood memories like like “My mommy momm my says saayys yyour our mommy momm my is in bed bed with the devil” deevil” v and a fun neighborhood neighborhood games like like “Burn “Bu urn The Little Littttle Heathen At At The Stake.

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LEGAL & PUBLIC FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS B USINESS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #596367

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The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Quality PPet et Spot supplies and ser services, vices, 4614B 46 14B Meridian Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95124, 95124, Jose Mar Marquez quez Jr Jr., r.., 4532 4 532 Samson W Way., aayy.., San Jose, CA, CA, 95124.

95124.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

R egistrraant has not Registrant yyet et begun tr ansacting transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her ein. herein. /s/Jose Mar quez Marquez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa

County on 9/ 9/11/2014. /11/2014. (pub Metr 0/08, Metroo 110/08, 110/15, 0/15, 10/22, 10/22, 2 110/29/2014) 0/29/2014))

FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUSS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #5972022 #59720 The follo following wingg person(s) is (ar ((are) e) doing busine business ess as: Bernal & Jime Jimenez enez Maintenance, Maintenance e, 31 3152 52 Rocky R ocky Mount Mountain tain Dr Dr., r.,.

San Jose, CA, CA, 95127, 95127, Jose De Jesuss Bernal, Salvador Jimenez, Salv vador a Jim enez, Brigadoon Way., 33242 242 Brigado oon W aayy.., San Jose, CA, CA, 95127.

95127. businesss is This busines conducted by by a copartners. copar tners.

Registrant began R egistrant be egan transacting begun tr ansaacting under business und der the business fictitious bus siness

name or names listed her ein on 10/6/14.

10/6/14. herein /s/J.B Jose Bernal This statement was filed with the C t Cl County Clerkk off S Santa t Clar Claraa County on 110/06/2014.

0/06/2014. (pub Metr 0/08, Metroo 110/08, 110/15, 0/15, 10/22, 10/22, 110/29/2014) 0/29/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #596901 The following following person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Star S tar Dental Office, 2114 211 4 Senter R Road, oad, Suite #4, San Jose, CCA, A, 95112, 95112, Da-Huong Nguyen, Nguy en, DDS, IINC. NC. This business is conducted by by a corporation. corpor ation.

Above Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant Registrant began transacting transacting business under d the th fictitious fi titi business name or names listed her herein ein on 7/19/04.

7/19/04.

Refile previous Refile of pr evious file #521127 #521127 with changes. /s/Da Huong Nguyen Nguyen Owner/President Owner/President #C2723662 #C2723662 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Clara Countyy on 9/25/2014.

9/25/2014. (pub Metro Metro 110/08, 0/08, 10/15, 10/15, 110/22, 0/22, 10/29/2014) 10/29/2014)

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #596669 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar e)) (are) doing business as: a Makeup By YYeya, eya e a, 21 43 A za Dr r.., #5, #5, 2143 Aza Dr., Santa Clar a, CCA, A, Clara, 9 5050, PPablo ablo So oto.

95050, Soto.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

R egistrrant a has Registrant not yet yet begun tr ransacting a busin ness transacting business under the fictitio ous fictitious business name or o names listed her rein. herein. /s/P ablo M. Sotoo /s/Pablo This statement was w filed with the Co unty County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 9/1 8/2014.

9/18/2014. (pub Metr 0/0 01, Metroo 110/01, 110/08, 0/08, 110/15, 0/15, 110/22/2014) 0/22/2014)

This business is conducted by by a i di id l individual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her ein. herein. /s/Y Yooung S. YYang aang /s/Young This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 9/2 5/2014. (pub 9/25/2014.

Metr 0/01, 110/08, 0/08, Metroo 110/01, 110/15, 0/15, 10/22/2014) 10/22/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #5962155 #59621

The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e)) doing business as: a Cultur Culturee Speech Communications, Communications s, 59 s. 5th S Street, treet, #2, San Jose, Jose CA, CA, A 95112, 95112, 2 Arjun Buxi.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrrant a has not yet yet begun transacting tr ransacting a busin business ness under the fictitio fictitious ous business name or o names listed her herein. rein. /s/Arjun Buxi This statement was w filed with the Co County unty Cl k off Santa Clerk S t Claraa County on Clar 9/26/2014.

9/26/201 4. (pub Metr Metroo 110/01, 0/0 01, 110/08, 0/08, 110/15, 0/15, 110/22/2014) 0/22/2014)

The follo following wing person(s) is (ar e) (are) doing business as: Self Disco very Discovery W ellbeing S tudio, Wellbeing Studio, 465 FFairchild aairchild Dr r.., Dr., #1 22, 2 Mountain #122, V iew, CCA, A, 9 4043, View, 94043, S vetlana Tikhonova, Tikhonova, Svetlana 30 Ave., 3033 Chiquita Ave., Apt 21, Mountain V iew, CCA, A, 9 4041, View, 94041, Marina Benkina, 11214 214 Linder Hill Ct., San Jose, CA, CA, 95120, 95120, Gr eg A. Ger gel, Greg Gergel, 4 17 Millwood Ct., 417 Mountain V iew, CCA, A, View, 9 4040.

94040.

This business is conducted d t d by by an unincorpor raated unincorporated association other than a par tnership. partnership.

R egistrant began Registrant tr ansacting business transacting under the fictitious business name or names listed her ein herein on 09/08/201 4.

09/08/2014. /s/S vetlana /s/Svetlana TTikhonova ikhonova This statement was filed with the Countyy Clerk of Santa Clar ra County on Clara 9/08/201 4.

9/08/2014. (pub Metro Metro 10/01, 10/01, 110/08, 0/08, 110/15, 0/15, 110/22/2014) 0/22/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #596876

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596909

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #596952

The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e)) doing business as: a Giants Liquor & FFood ood Service, Service, 235 235 E. Middlefield Rd Rd, d, #1, Mountain V View, ieew, CCA, A, 94043, 94043, Young Yoounng S. YYang, ang, a 2 254 54 Skylar Skylark rk Dr., Dr r.., #3 #3,, San Jose Jose,, CCA, A, 95125.

9 5125.

The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: LLee ee K Kaa Ja San Jose, 33561 561 El Camino R Real, eal, #90, Santa Clara, Clara, CCA, A, 95051, 9 5051, LKJ Design Inc. This business is conducted by by a corporation. corpor ation.

Abbove entity was Above formed fo rmed in the state off California C lif i Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting tr a ansacting business under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or na ames listed her ein names herein onn 2/1 4/2012.

2/14/2012.

R e of pr efile evious Refile previous fil #56130 with filee #56130 ch hanges. changes. /s s/Jooman LLee ee /s/Jooman PPresident resident #C C3607507 #C3607507 Th his statement was This fil ed with the County filed Cl lerk of Santa Clerk Cl larra County on Clara 9/ /25/20149.

9/25/20149. (p pub Metr 0/01, (pub Metroo 110/01, 110/08, 0 0/08, 110/15, 0/15, 110/22/2014) 0 2/2014) 0/2

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #596781 # 596781 The Th h follo he ffollowing ll wing i person(s) pe erson(s) is (ar (are) e) doing do oing business as: as s: PPurple urple TTree ree PPublications, u ublications, 11658 658 Nora No orra W Way., aayy.,. San Jose, CCA, A 95124, A, 95124, Jessica Lindstrom.

Lin ndstrom.

This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a individual. in dividual.

Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting tr a ansacting business under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names na ames listed her herein ein onn 9/2 9/23/2014.

3/2014. /s/Jessica /s s/Jessica Lindstr Lindstrom om This Th his statement was filed fil ed with the County Clerk Cl lerk of Santa Clara Cl larra County on 9/23/2014.

9/ /23/2014. (pub (p pub Metr Metroo 110/01, 0/01, 110/08, 0 0/08, 110/15, 0/15, 110/22/2014) 0 2/2014) 0/2

FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #595532 # 595532 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) pe erson(s) is (ar (are) e) doing do oing business as: PPeter’ e ’s K eter’ Kyokushin yokushin Karate K a ate and B ar BJJ, JJ, 4606 Cosmo Co osmo Place., San Jose, Jo se, CA, CA, 95118, 95118, Brizono Br rizono Delfino, 11255 255 PProspect rospect S St., t., Seaside, Se easide, CA, CA, 93955, 93955, PPeter e Mouttapa. eter This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a general ge eneral par partnership. tnership.

Registrant R e ant has egistr not no ot yet yet begun transacting tr a ansacting business under un nder the fictitious

business name or o names listed her herein. rein. //s/Peter /s/P / eter Moutta Mouttapa apa This statement was w filed with the Co County unty Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 8/1 9/2014.

8/19/2014. (pub Metr 7, Metroo 9/1 9/17, 9/2 4, 110/01, 0/01, 9/24, 110/08/2014) 0/08/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #595709 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: a B&H R Remodeling emodelingg Construction, 11085 085 TTasman aasman Dr Dr., r.., #56 #565, 5, Sunnyvale, Sunnyv vaale, CCA, A, 94089, 9 4089, Surinderr S. Chana.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant begann transacting business tr ansacting busin ness fictitious under the fictitio ous business name or o herein names listed her rein on 8/22/14.

8/22/14. /s/Surinder Singh Singgh Chana This statement was w County filed with the Co unty Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 8/22/2014.

8/2 2/2014.

Metroo 9/1 9/17, (pub Metr 7, 9/24, 9/2 4, 110/01, 0/01, 110/08/2014) 0/08/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #596660 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: a Amazing Gr Green een Landscaping Services, Ser vices, i 110043 0043 TTorrance oorrance Ave., Ave., Sa San an Jose, CA, CA, 95127, 95127, Irma Cortez.

Cor tez.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant begann transacting tr ansacting busin business ness under the fictitio fictitious ous business name or o names listed herein herrein on 09/18/2014.

09/18/2014. /s/Irma Cor Cortez tez This statement was w filed with the Co County unty Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 9/18/2014.

9/1 8/2014. (pub Metr Metroo 9/2 9/24, 4 4, 110/01, 0/01, 110/08, 0/08, 110/15/2014) 0/15/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596567 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar e) (are) doing business as: Thir dSpace Fintess, ThirdSpace 5550 50 S. 1st S t., San St., Jose, CA, CA, 95113, 95113, Thir dSpace Inc, 1193 93 ThirdSpace G arden Hill Dr., Drr.,. LLos os Garden G atos, CA, CA, 95032.

95032.

Gatos, This business is conducted by by a corpor raation. corporation.

Abo ve entity was Above formed in the state of California R egistrraant has Registrant not yet yet begun tr ransacting a business transacting under the fictitious business name or names listed her ein. herein.

R efile of pr evious Refile previous file #59 3028 due #593028 to publication rrequirement equirement not met on pr evious filing. previous /s/Mitchel Lance Miller PPresident resident #3646 971 #3646971 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 9/1 7/2014.

9/17/2014. (pub Metro Metro 9/2 4, 9/24, 110/01, 0/01, 110/08, 0/08, 110/15/2014) 0/15/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596510 #5965 510 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e)

dooing business doing as: as s: SA SAMcon, Mcon, 4229 4229 Littleworth Lit ittlewor l thh W Way., aayy.,.

San Sa an Jose, CA, CA, 95135, 95135, Samia Sa amia Michaiel.

This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a in dividual. individual.

R e ant has egistr Registrant no ot yet yet begun not tr a ansacting business transacting un nder the fictitious under bu usiness name or business na ames listed her ein. names herein. /s s/Samia Michaiel /s/Samia Th his statement was This fil led with the County filed Cl lerk of Santa Clerk Cl lara County on Clara 9/ /16/2014.

9/16/2014. (p pub Metr 4, (pub Metroo 9/2 9/24, 110/01, 0 0/01, 110/08, 0/08, 110/15/2014) 0 5/2014) 0/1

FIICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT # #596034 The Th h follo he ffollowing ll wing i person(s) pe erson(s) is (are) (are) doing do oing business as: TTacos a Y Mariscos acos Santa Sa anta Cruz, 11 1148 48 S Capitol Ca apitol Av., Av.,. Unit 1, San Sa an Jose, CA, CA, 95127, 95127, Abelina Ab belina G Garcia arcia Santiago, Sa antiago, 114453 4453 Chrisland Ch hrisland Ave., Ave., San Jose, Jo ose, CA, CA, 95127.

95127.

This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a individual. in dividual.

Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting tr a ansacting business under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names na ames listed her herein ein onn 9/1/1 9/1/14.

4. /s/Abelina /s s/Abelina G Garcia arcia This Th his statement was

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filed with thee County Clerk of Sant Santa ta Clara Cl Clar ra Countyy on 9/0 9/03/2014.

3/2014. (pub Metr Metroo 9/2 9 9/24, 4, 110/01, 0/01, 110/08, 0/08 8, 110/15/2014) 0/15/2014)

FICTITIOUSS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595769 The follo following wingg person(s) is (ar ((are) e) doing busine business ess as: Ho How w Hea Healthy lthy Wellness W ellness Cen Center, nterr, 20570 205 70 V Valley aalleyy Gr Green een Dr., Dr r.,. Cuper Cupertino, tinoo, CCA, A, 95014, 9 5014, Spen Spencer cer Hau Chiropractic.

Chir opractic.

This businesss is conducted by by a corporation. corpor ation.

Above Abo ve entity was formed in thee state of California Registrant R egistrant be began egan ttransacting tr ansacting ti bbusiness i under the fict fictitious titious business nam name me or names listed her herein ein on 8/2 8/25/14.

5/14. /s/Spencer Hau H CEO #3658063 #365806 3 This stateme statement ent was filed with thee County Clerk of Sant Santa ta Clara Clar ra Countyy on 8/25/2014.

8/2 5/2014. (pub Metr (p Metroo 9/1 9 9/17, 7, 9/24, 9/2 4, 110/01, 0/01, 110/08/2014) 0/08/2014))

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596299 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar e) (are) doing business as: Eastside TTechnology, echnology e y, 2005 Sereno Sereno Ave., Ave., LLos os Altos, CCA, A, 9 4024, 94024, Ser ano Capital LL C. Serano LLC. This business is conducted by by a limited liability company y. company.

Abo ve entity was Above formed in the state of California R egistrant has Registrant not yet yet begun tr ansacting business transacting under the fictitious business name or names listed her ein. herein. /s/Joseph Larkins Manager #201 326810227 #201326810227 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 9/1 0/2014.

9/10/2014. (pub Metr 7, Metroo 9/1 9/17, 9/2 4, 110/01 0/01 9/24, 110/08/2014) 0/08/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596332 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: 1.

Harmony, Harmony y, Bir Birth th and FFamily, amily a y, 2. Harmony Birth Bir th R Resources, esources, 3321 21 E. Campbell, Campbell, CCA, A,

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596323 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Shastha FFoods, oods, 2205 2205 Ringwood Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95131, 95131, Bondsforever Bondsfor ever Inc. This business is conducted by by a corporation. corpor ration. a Above Abo ve entity was formed in the state of California Registrant R egistrrant a began transacting tr raansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her herein ein on 6/1 6/10/2004.

0/2004.

Refile R efile of pr previous evious file #4 #446142 46142 due to publication rrequirement equirement not met previous on pr evious filing. /s/Subramanian /s/Subr amanian Krishnan PPresident resident #C2266386 #C2 266386 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 9/10/2014.

9/1 0/2014. (pub Metr Metroo 9/1 9/17, 7, 9/24, 9/2 4, 1/01,

10/08/2014) 10/08/2014) FFICTITIOUS ICCTITIOUS BUSINESS B U INESS US NAME N AME STATEMENT STATEMENT #596176 #5 96176 Thee follo following wing person(s) pe rson(s) is (ar (are) e) doing doing business as:: Diva Diva Homes & Investments, Inv vestments, 7746 46 N. White Wh hite Rd., San Jose, CCA, A 95127, A, 95127, Marilu Nieto.

Nie eto.

This Thi is business is conducted con nducted by by a individual. ind dividual.

Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under un der the fictitious business bu siness name or names na mes listed herein herein 9/1/14. on 9/1/1 4. /s/Marilu /s/ /Marilu G. Nieto This Thi is statement was filed file ed with the County Clerk Cle erk of Santa Clara Cla arra County on 9/08/2014.

9/0 08/2014. (pub Metroo 9/1 9/17, (pu ub Metr 7, 9/24, 9/2 24, 4 110/01, 0/01 0/01, 110/08/2014) 0/08/2014)

FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596169 #5 596169 Thee follo following wing person(s) pe rson(s) is (are) (are) doing doing business as: Mauby Ma auby Landscape Service, Se rvice, 566 5669 9 Snell Ave., A ve., e #34 #342, 342, San Jose, J CCA, A 95123, A, 95123, Brian Debasitis, De ebasitis, 6 6283 283 Mahan Ma ahan Dr Dr., r.., San Jose, CCA, A 95123.

A, 95123.

This Thi is business is conducted con nducted by by a individual. ind dividual.

Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under un der the fictitious business bu siness name or names na mes listed herein herein on 9/5/14.

9/5/14. /s/Brian /s/ /Brian Debasitis This Thi is statement was filed file ed with the County Clerk Cle erk of Santa Clara Cla arra County on 9/05/2014.

9/0 05/2014. (pub (pu ub Metr Metroo 9/1 9/17, 7, 9/24, 9/2 24, 110/01, 0/01, 110/08/2014) 0/08/2014)

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Above Abo ve entity was formed in the state of California Registrant R egistrrant a began transacting tr raansacting business under the fictitious business name or herein names listed her ein 9/10/14. on 9/1 0/14.

Velisek /s/Jackie V elisek e CEO #201423810034 #201 423810034 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 9/10/2014.

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Couple C ouple issue issues es we need to get sor sorted ted out. The first iss assuming a singularit singularity ty ccould ould app appear ear all a b byy itself itself—a f— —a so so-called -called a nak naked keed singular singularity. ritty. While theorists ha haven’t aven en’’t been b een able to ru rule ule this out, yyou o ou rreally eally don’t don n’’t w want aant it to t b bee p possible. ossible. i is that yyou ou o and The bigger issue T im, at least, se eem to b onfusing a Tim, seem bee cconfusing singularit ty wit th a black hole ommon singularity with hole,, a ccommon mist tak ake ffor or o spa ace-time ne wbs. Allow me mistake space-time newbs. to eexplain. xplain. x A black holee is a rregion eegion of spac ce wher space wheree mat tter t has been beeen packed pack keed together together so matter densely its gra avit v ty is str ong enough to gravity strong k eeep light fr om m esc caaping. Most p eople keep from escaping. people underst taand th he general cconcept: oncept: yyou ou o understand the k hole ou get crushed to o fall into a black hole,, yyou nothing ver e. nothing,, gamee o over.

But ther e’s mor m there’s moree to it. Onc Oncee a black hole has h fformed, orme o ed, ed nothing othi g ccan aan k eep e the keep mat tter t inside it i fr om ccontinuing ontinuing to matter from ccompress ompress till itt rreaches eaches infinite densit ty: density: a singularit ty. A ty, the usual la aw ws singularity.

Att infinit infinity, laws of natur o the window w. This has naturee ar aree out window. giv veen rise to much m wo olly sp eculation: given woolly speculation: Our univ veersse and eeverything veerything in it universe w aas spa aw wned b ty and ma ay was spawned byy a singularit singularity may someda ay ccollapse ollap pse back into one someday one..

A singularit ty ccould ould b ecome a so -called singularity become so-called white hole sically a black hole that hole,, bas basically runs back b kwaard in i time i . backward time.

Y o ou see whe ere this is going: all our shit You where would b keed up bee fuck fucked up..

T o aavoid void o suc ch things ave To such things,, theorists ha have ccome ome up with the ccosmic osmic ccensorship ensorship h yypothesis, wh hich p osits that singularities hypothesis, which posits ar en n’’t allowed to go ar ound nak keed in aren’t around naked our univ verse; e tthey’re the ey’r y e alw ways y inside black universe; always holes emem e mberr, no light esc cap a es fr om holes.. R Remember, escapes from ty is b ehaavving a black hole hole.. Iff a singularit singularity behaving in a disruptiv ve manner inside ares? disruptive inside,, who ccares? i h out o off mind. i d Out off sight, Sinc an an’t ’ usefully sp eculate ab out Sincee we ccan’t speculate about singularities et’s turn our at ttention t to singularities,, le let’s attention black holes W would happ en if one holes.. What happen wer eaar in yyour our o living rroom? oom? weree to app appear h would ha ave to b The black hole have bee ph hyysiccaally tin ny to lea ave yyou ou outside its o physically tiny leave eevent veent horizon— —the b oundary past horizon—the boundary

wh which hich onc once ce yyou’re ou ou’r ’ e in, yyou ou don o don’t n’t ’ get ou out ut (although see b below). elow) Ev elow).

Even veen outsi outside ide th the he eevent veent horizon yyou’d o ou’d ha have ave to b bee far fa en enough nough aaway way that the black hole hole’s ’s gr gravity raavvitty wo wouldn’t ouldn n’’t immediately suck yyou ou o in.

L Let’s et’s assume yyou ou ccan o an rresist esist a fforce o orce eq equal qual to half of ear earth’s th h’s gra gravitational avit v ational pull, p orr 1/2 gg.. If the ear earth th w was aas ccompressed ompressed into o a black b hole it would ha have ave a marble marble-sized -sized eevent veent horizon, and would pull yyou o ou in into nto it with a fforce orce eexceeding o xc x eeding 1/2 g fr om a from disstance of ab out 5,6 00 miles distance about 5,600 miles..

Ma ayybe Donald Trump ’s living rroom oom o is Maybe Trump’s th hat big g. N ot mine that big.

Not mine..

A proton-sized proton-sized black hole, hole, though— though h— th hat might work. It would weigh jus st that just 65 52 million tons ou ccould o ould d 652 tons,, meaning yyou ap pproach as close as nine ffeet. eeet. approach What happ ens if yyou ou get closer o T happens closer?? The un npleasant phenomenon known as unpleasant sp paghettttificcation. a Y o ou’ll b hreds spaghettification.

You’ll bee torn to sh shreds b xp x onentially incr easing tidal fforces orces as o byy eexponentially increasing yyou’re o ou’re suck ked e into the black hole —332 g sucked hole—32 att one ffoot, oot, ot 1,024 1 024 g att ttwo wo inches w iinches. he .

How ccould ould a proton-scale prro oton-sccaale black hole ho ole ccome o to eexist? ome xxist? What we need ar me aree som some sp pecial cir rccumstances: special circumstances: When the universe univverse e was waas b orn, it ’s born, it’s th hought man ny black holes of various thought many m masses wer re cr eated, some of which ma m ay were created, may ha ave shrunk to micr o sc cale a b ue to have micro scale byy now du due qu uantum thermal radiation, as pr ediccted quantum predicted b aw wking in 197 74 4. The byy Stephen Ha Hawking 1974. lik keelihood of one drifting to ear th, mu uch likelihood earth, much lless les ss showing h i up in i yyour our o living li i rroom, oom, is i on th he or der of onc ce eevery ver e y 10 million yyears. eeaars. the order once P owerful par ticle ac celerators ccould oulld Powerful particle accelerators sm mash subatomic par ticles to getherr, smash particles together, cr e eating a tin ny rregion egion of sup er high creating tiny super de ensitty. But the black holes ther eb by density. thereby cr e eated would eevaporate vap v orate almost created in nstantaneouslyy. instantaneously.

In shor t, the o dds of a close enc ou unter short, odds encounter wi ith a black hole ar mall. with aree vanishingly sm small.

H oweveerr, Ha awking w in a rrecent eeccent e pap err However, Hawking paper sa ays ay y black bl k holes h l “should “ h ld b edefined dfi d says bee rredefined as met astable b ound st tates a of the metastable bound states gr raavvitational field,” which I ttake aak ke to mean m gravitational th heey ma ay not nec essarily b -way -w they may necessarily bee the one one-way tic ck ket e to oblivion pr eviously assumed d. ticket previously assumed.

In n other wor ds, whate eveer the quotid dian words, whatever quotidian vic cissitudes, long-term ther re’s hop o or vicissitudes, there’s hopee ffor ou ur shit. our

FREE W WILL ILLL ASTROLOGY A STROLOGY ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): Sit Situation tuation #1: If you meet ’t resistance or doubt, say this: “Ha resistance “Ha! a! This diversion can can’t slow me down, because I am in possession of an invisible magical swor d!” And th hen br andish a ffew ew sword!” then brandish charismatic swipes of your swor rd to pr ove that you sword prove mean business. Situation #2: If angst a and wor ry ar worry aree pr eventing your allies fr om sync chronizing their assets preventing from synchronizing with yours, say this: “Begone, dr read! For with the power dread! of my wicked cr azy songs, I am the t destr oyer of ffear.” ear.” crazy destroyer And then sing your wicked cr azyy songs. Situation #3: If crazy you’r erence between you’ree finding it har hardd to discern the diff difference useless, ugly monsters and usef ful, beautiful monsters, useful, say this: “I am a useful, beautifu ul monster!” YYour oour kind beautiful will flock to your side.

TAURUS T AURUS (April 20-May 20): IInn her poem ““Advice A Advice

Myself,” Erdrich speakss of the human heart to Myself ,” LLouise ouise Er drich speak think as “that place you don’t don’t even th ink of cleaning out.

That closet stuff stuffed ed with savage mementos.” I invite you to use her obser observations vations as a pr prod, od, TTaurus. aurus. a Now is an excellent time to pur purge ge the ssavage avage mementos fr from om your heart, and clean the whole place up as best as don’t There’s you can. YYou ou o don ’t have to get aallll OCD about it. Ther e’s no need to scour and scrub unti untill everything’s spotless. effort promising Even a half-hearted eff ort will sset et in motion pr omising transformations tr ansformations in your love lif life. e e.

GEMINI (May 2121-June June 20): I hhope ope you will learn mor moree in the next eight months than yyou ou have ever bef before ore learned in a compar comparable able period. period I hope you will make a list of all the subjects you wouldd love to study and all the skills you would love to mas master, terr, and then devise a plan to gather the educational experiences e with which you will rreinvent einvent yourself yourself.. I hopee you will turn your evelations curiosity on full-blast and go in quest of rrevelations and insights and epiphanies, sm mashing thr ough smashing through the limits of your understandingg as you explor exploree the fr frontiers ontiers of sweet knowledge.

CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): Th Three hree times a week, I take a hike along a rrough ough path thr through ough an oak fforest. orest. I say it’s it ’s rough rough because it’s it’s strewn strewn with with loose rocks. rocks. If I don’t don’t survey ground sur vey the gr ound as I move, I’m m constantly turning my ankles. Or at least that was the case c until last week.

For two days, with the help of a rrake, ake, I clear ed many of cleared al those bothersome obstacles off the tr ail. It took sever trail. several hours, but now the way is smoo ther. My eyes ar ee smoother. aree fr free to enjoy the sights that aren’t aren’t soo close to the gr ound. ground.

I rrecommend ecommend that you do simila top toler ating similarr work. SStop tolerating inconveniences and ir ritations tthat hat hobble you. Get irritations your ffoundations oundations in shape to se rve you better serve better..

LLEO EO (July 23 23-Aug. -Aug. 22): America American an author Edgar Allan P Poe oe (1809(1809-1849) 1849) was ahead of his h time. He cr created eated the genr ed the art genree of the detective story and master mastered of Gothic hor horror ror tales. A According ccordingg to the Internet Movie Database, 2240 40 films have referenced referenced themes from from his work. British writer Aldous Huxley Huxleey wasn’t wasn’t a ffan an of Poe, Poe, though. He said P Poe oe was “too po poetical—the oetical—the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on ev very finger .” Judging every finger.” fr from om the astr astrological ological omens, I su suspect uspect you may be at risk to lapse into a diamond-r diamond-ring-on-every-finger ring-on-every-finger phase yourself yourself,f, Leo. Leo While I am all a in ffavor avor of you unveiling mor adiant beauty bbeauty,, I’m hoping you moree of your rradiant won won’t ’t go too ffar. ar. How about wea wearing aring diamond rings on just ffour our of your fingers?

VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23 23-Sept.

-Sept. 22): Rep Republican publican Jody Hice

is running ffor or the U.S. House of Repr Representatives esentatives in Georgia’s Geor gia’s 10th Congr Congressional essional Di District. strict. TToo bolster his authority, authority y, he repeats repeats quotes by revered revered figures figures from from history.. One of his favorites American history favoorites has been a gem from fr om the sixth U.S. President, President, John John Quincy Adams: “If inspiree others to dr dream more, more, your actions inspir ream mor e, learn mor e, moree and become mor more, aree a leader leader.” do mor e, you ar .” The problem only pr oblem is, those words words were weere actually written by Parton, country singer Dolly P arton, not by Adams. Don’t Don’t get comparable ffooled ooled by a compar able case of mistaken identity, identityy, Virgo.

Virgo.

Be on the alert ffor or unwarranted unwarranted substitutions and problematic pr oblematic switcheroos. switcheroos. Be a staunch staunch fact-checker. fact-checker.

Insist on verification.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23-Oct. 22): “I am m naughtiest of all,”

wr wrote ote poet Emily Dickinson in a playful letter to Maggie Maher Maher,r, dated October 1882. In aaccordance ccordance with the astr astrological ological omens, I authorize you y to let that same declar declaration ation fly fr frequently equently fr from om your y own lips in the free coming week. Feel fr ee to invokee other variations on the theme of naughtiness, as we well: ell: “I am exploring the fr frontiers ontiers of naughtiness,” ffor o example, or “Y or “You Yoou

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naughtier” need to be naug ghtier ” (said to a person you’d like to with), current get naughty with h), or “Being naughty is my cur rent practice.” spiritual pr acticee.”

SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oct. (Occt. 23-Nov. 23-Nov. 21): "Ther "There’s e’s a way not to be

broken takes brokenness it,"" writes Naomi br oken that take es br okenness to find it, her Shihab Nye in he er poem “Cinco de Mayo.” I suspect this describes your ssituation ituation right now now.. The bad news is aree ffeeling broken. that you ar eelling a bit br oken. The good news is that this is a special kind k of br brokenness—a okenness—a br brokenness okenness secret that contains a valuable v secr et you have never been rready eady to learn be before efore now now.. Allow yourself to ffeel eel the full intensity of the t br brokenness, okenness, and you will discover a broken way to never be br oken like this again. again

SSAGITTARIUS AGITTARIU US (Nov. (Nov. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): In a competitive game show on Japanese Japanese TTV, V, 13 people had slabs of their meat tied to the ir fforeheads. oreheads. They then poked their heads up fr from om below, b below , through through holes in the floor of an platform, elevated platf orm m, where where a hungry lizard lizard was stalking around. ar ound. But not one of the contestants stuck around around lizardd came to nibble the meat; they all when the lizar ducked down out ouut of their holes and fled to safety. safety. That was pr probably wise, se, al although though it meant that the prize obably wi unclaimed.. Now I’m wondering, Sagittarius, about went unclaimed what might happ happen pen if a similar event wer weree staged neighborrhood. I suspect there’s in your neighborhood. there’s a chance you would will yo ourself to stand calmly as the lizar yourself lizardd ffeasted easted on the meat m just inches from from your eyes. As As much as I admir admiree that kind of poised cour courage, age, I want you to t know k th tha th b tt ways to t expr ess it. it thatt ther theree ar aree better express Be on the lookou ut ffor or noble challenges with goals that lookout ar aree truly worthy of you.

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): Dir Director ector Michael

Bay makes big, loud, loud, fast, fast, melodramatic melodramatic action films, including Armag Armageddon, geddon, Pearl Peearl Harborr, and the ffour our TTransformers ransffoormers mo movies. ovies. The critics hate him, but he he’s ’s unf unfazed. azed. “I makee movies ffor or teenage boys,” he says. dear,r, what a crime,” he adds sarcastically.

“Oh, dear sarcastically. I love what he’s that stance. He knows k he’s good at, and makes no apologies for forr doing it. I recommend recommend that you cop some of that attitude atttitude right now now..

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. ( 20-Feb. 18): While walking in San Fr Francisco, ancisco, I pass passed ed the P Pacific acific Heights Heal Health th Club. The front said, tailored here.” sign g out fr ont sa aid,, “Birthdayy suits tailor ed her e.” It was a witty rreference eferencee to the idea that working out at a gym helps people gett their naked bodies in good shape. I’d like to interpret interpret the sign’s sign’s message in a diff different erent way way, y, and apply it to yyou. ou. The time is right ffor or you to get back your self,, and give it the in touch with yo ur rraw, aw, original self caree and the fue fuel treats car el and the tr eats it has been missing.

Who did you sta start rt out to be? What does your soul’s blueprint say ab about out who you must become? Home in on your sour source ce code c and boost its signal.

PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 19-March ch 20): Hor Horror ror novelist SStephen tephen King has sold mo more ore than 350 million book books. s. But when and he was young an nd destitute, still honing his craft, craft, his breakthrough self-confidence was low. low. His br eakthrough work was CCarrie arrie, about a tteenage eenage girl who develops telekinetic powers. But whe when en he was first writing that manuscript on his old manu manual al typewriter typewriter,r, he got so discour discouraged aged threw his draft trashcan. that he thr ew hi is first dr aft in the tr ashcan. LLuckily uckily ffor or him, his wif wifee rretrieved etrieved it and convinced him to keep away.. Eventually he finished, and later sold plugging away E the paperback rights riights ffor or $400,000. I hope you have an ally who will go digging in your garbage to fish out the good stu stuff uff you unwisely discar discard. d. Or maybe this hor horoscope oscope will w convince you not to scr scrap ap it in the first place.

Homework: What’s W ’s the most amazing ffeat What eat you ever pulled of off? ff? What will you do ffor or your next amazing ffeat? eat?? T Truthrooster@gmail.com. rruthrooster@gmail.com.

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