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Domino D ominno T Theory heory With so many elections—primary elections—primary,, runoff and spe ecial—taking place the special—taking last ffew ew years, a bit of voter ffatigue atigue should be expe ected. B ut one small detail expected.

But that hasn’t hasn’t got tten a whole lot of play gotten is just how ma any extr races would many extraa races have commenc commenced ced had D DAVE AV VE CCORTESE ORTESE def eated SSAM AM LLICCARDO ICCARDO in the San Jose defeated mayor ’s rrace. ace. A move by Cortese fr om mayor’s from the county Board Boaard of Super visors to City Supervisors Hall’s 18th floorr would’ve al county set off a specia special They election, with State State Did Assemblywoman Assemblywomaan What?

N ORA CCAMPOS AMPOS (D-San NORA Jose) likely giv giving ing up SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O her last term ((which which FLY@ FL Y@ METRONEWS. METR ONEWS. she just won, by b the COM CO M gainst way) to run ag against Milpitas Mayor Mayorr Milpitas JOSE EESTEVES, STEVES, amongst others,, ffor or anket of 12 years the security bla blanket years’’ salary and few few tough decisions. While Campos Campos d county supe is no shoo-in,, despite CIND DY CCHAVEZ HA AV VEZ attempting a to engineer CINDY for months, m Campos p ’ defection defection the move for Campos’ mp-started the 2016 East East would have jum jump-started ssembly rrace ace a year early y, pitting Side A Assembly early, cilmember ASH ASH KALRA San Jose Counc Councilmember against council colleague and V ice Vice M ayor M ADISON N NG UYEN (and maybe Mayor MADISON NGUYEN R OSE H ERRERA),, as well as county ROSE HERRERA), education trust tee D ARCIEGREEN trustee DARCIE GREEN.. A victory by any of thosee ffour—except our—except Nguyen, who terms out this year—then would have set off a special s election ffor or their re spective sseats, eatss,, potentially leaving a respective local school boa ard absent a member until board election infinity y. The political car eer ladder is infinity. career costly ffor or voterss and campaign contributors drawbacks but appears to have ffew ew dr awbacks ffor or Off course,, none of this even ooffice ffice sseekers. eekers. O takes into acco unt that KANSEN CCHU’s HU’s account victory ffor or BO BW IECKOWSKI’s termed-out BOB WIECKOWSKI’s seat in the A sseembly means San Jose Assembly alr eady has onee special election on the already District Theree ar aree str strong horizon in Distri ict 4. Ther ong indications KKansen’s anssen’s wif wifee and personal stylist, D AISSY CCHU, H , will make a move ffor HU or DAISY the seat, while attorney a LLAN AN D IEP, who DIEP, rrepresented epresented Vietnamese Viettnamese fisherman after the B P oil spill,, is another another name being floated.

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WALK W ALK THE LINE The numbe number er of South Bay girls and young g women involved in gangs inc increased creased fr rom 3 to 15 percent in the last decade. P rison populations ha ave mirrored that trend. from Prison have

L Local ocal outreach groups comba combat at sharp h growth h off girls i l in i gangs BY B Y JENNIFER W WADSWORTH ADSWOR A RTH

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T’S D T’S DARK ARK out when Brittn Brittney ney Elaban drives her v an van up to Grew Grewal al Liquors on M cLaughlin A venue. v Her McLaughlin Avenue.

Her husband R h husband, Richard ichard Lopez, Lopez, opez sits in n the passenger seat. The The fl fluorescent glow from the st torefront offers just enough h storefront li light ght for him to recognize th the he fa face ace of the man in the parked parke ed re red ed sedan—Martin P Perez, erez, wh who’s ho’s w his boys “Oso with “Oso”” and “Lip “Lips,” pss,,” Sureños. att least two of them S ureñoss.

“Oh shit,” L Lopez opez hisses hisses,, lo locking cking eeyes yeess with P w Perez. erez. Elaban pulls up alongsidee the th he ccar aar and kills the engine engine.. L Lopez opez disembarks, di isembarks, eexchanges xchanges x a quick handsh handshake hak ke w an ac with acquaintance, quaintance, who happens happens to ob bee out fr front—a ontt— —a quick distraction.

Then, Th hen, he div dives vees thr through ro ough the rrolled-down olled-dow wn w window of the rred eed ccar, arr, thrashing P Perez errez w a closed fist and a knif with knife. fe.

The bra brawl aw wl spills onto the parking lot and P Perez erez scrambles outt his passenger side.. The blade has alr side already reead dy punctur punctured reed his chest and the back off his head. L Lopez opez stabs st taabs him ttwice wic w ce mor moree in the stomach before b effor o e he ccan an a run aaway. way. Elaban st starts arts the van again. “V “Vamanos!”

Vaamano os!” she barks barks,, rreversing eveersing the vvehicle eehicle wit with th the passenger door do or still op open. en. L Lopez opez ru rushes ushes back in the van and the ttwo wo driv w drive ve off off. ff. ff Elaban’s Elaban n’s decision to help h her husband get away away that night in Ma M May ay 2011 made her a cco-defendant o-deffeendant in he her er husband’ husband’ss attempted at ttempted t mur murder der ccase. ase. She pleaded guilty guilt ty as an ac accessory cessory aft after fter the fact fact— t— prosecutors pr osecutors ar argued gued that the st stabbing abbing w was aas pre-meditated pr e-medittaated in those sec sseconds onds b between ettw ween rrecognizing ecognizing the victim victim’s m’s fac facee and parking the van.

Both husband and wi wife iffe rreceived eceivveed gang enhanc enhancements. ements. L Lopez op pez claimed the at attack ttaack w was aas to pr protect otectt his family family. y. But the scuffle to took ok plac placee on nN Norteño orteño tur turf,f, which, in investigators nvestigators e said said, d, L Lopez opez w was aas eexpected xxpected to violently def defend. feend. Detectiv Detectives vees ffound ound the apar o apartment tment wh where herre Elaban and Lopez L op pez liv lived—with ved—with e theirr ffour our childr o children— en—

clut ttterred e with w gang paraphernalia. cluttered Though shee w aasn n’’t a validated gang wasn’t memb er, El laban “showed showed a unique member, Elaban ommitmeent to the gang” b ccommitment byy helping her husband nd get away, away, an investigator in nveestigator husban testified in the t ccase. aase.

“W Wo omen n pla ay an essential rrole ole in “Women play gangs ta Clara C ountty Deput ty gangs,,” Sant Santa County Deputy Attorney Seeryy sa says, District A ttorne t ey Anne Seer ays y, pointing Elaban’s p ointing to o Elaban n’s ccase ase a as an eexample. xxample.

“We more associate “W We see mo ore ffemales emales e in the asso ciate They byy b being rrole. ole. The ey help h the men b eing the getaway driver, byy ccarrying weapons, get taway dri ivveerr, b arr a ying the weap ons, byy hiding th the drugs,, b byy ttaking three-way b he drugs aking thr ee-w way from jail, they provide alibis,, ccalls alls fr om ja ail, the ey pr ovide v the alibis they the ey sneak kites k (messages). Gangs have more because ha ave rrelied elied on women mor re b ecause they always wouldn’t the ey alw ways ys thought that we wouldn n’’t prosecute pr osecute the th he women.”

Women, That has changed. W omen, and girls o are increasingly getting under 18, ar re incr easingly get ttting ccaught aaught up on gangg char charges rges g and violent crimes— and a lack of gender-specific o gender r-specific intervention interveention means lo local have cal a authorities ha ave only started rrecently ecently tl st tar a ted t d ccatching atching t hi up to t the th tr ttrend. end. d According Bureau A ccorrding d to t the Bur eau off JJustice ustice Statistics, the population St atistics, th he ffemale emale e inmate p opulation grew byy 11 p percent between gr ew b ercent b ettw ween 2010 population and 2013, while w the male p opulation behind dipped percent.

Female b ehind barss dipp ed 4.2 p errcent. F emale delinquency percent delinquenc cy has risen 2 p erceent a yyear ear e

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since 19 since 1985—twice 85—ttw wice the ra rate ate ffor o or men. In the South Ba Bay, involvement byy girls ay, gang in nvolv o vement e b has risen fr om 3 p ercentt to 15 p ercent from percent percent of the p opulation in thee past dec ade, population decade, ac cording to ccounty ountty JJuvenile uvenile e Pr ro obation. according Probation.

W omen ha o ave always alw ways y b een involved in nvolv o ved e Women have been in gangs ey’r y e the wiv vees, mothers gangs.. The They’re wives, mothers,, girlfriends and often thee par reents who parents raise childr reen while the father f ser vees children serves time ey fform o orm their own time.. Sometimes the they all-f feemale gangs h authorities all-female gangs.. Though ha ave do cumented only fiv fi ve all-girl gangs have documented five in the South Ba ay, ac cording d to Seer y.

Bay, according Seery.

“Gang violenc e violencee is an equal opp ortunitty lif fe destr oyeerr,” sa ayys Angel opportunity life destroyer, says Rios ciate dir ector of o San JJose’s ose’s Rios,, asso associate director P arks, R eecreation and N eighborhood Parks, Recreation Neighborhood Ser vices and a memb er of o the Ma ayo or’s Services member Mayor’s Gang Pr reveention T aask F orce. “But we Prevention Task Force. emale e viole encce now w, which do see mor moree ffemale violence now, fforced orced o d us to sa ay, ‘OK, ‘OK how h w ar i to say, aree we going addr ess this?’ address this?’””

A part of the current-year currentt-yeear budget Ass part appr oveed in JJune, une, the Sa an JJose ose Cit ty approved San City C ouncil agr eed to sp end d $267 7,,000 to Council agreed spend $267,000 hir re thr ee female feemale outr work keers to eaach workers hire three outreach deal with girls in nvo olvveed in i gangs involved gangs.. Rios is in the pr ocess e of hiringg thr ee p eople process three people ffor or the job o art of their ttask aask will b job.. P Part bee to ccollect ollect dat eemale gang nvo olvveement gaang in dataa on ffemale involvement ty has mor n cursor so the cit city moree than cursoryy st taatistics i i and d anec d taall eevidence. dot videnc vid e. statistics anecdotal ““Already Already 49 p A erceent of o the p eople percent people in our [gang] task task fforce o orce pr p ograms ar programs aree women,” Rios says. saayys. “But we lack ffemaleeemalesp ecific pr ogramming. A ou lo o ok specific programming.

Ass yyou look deep err, yyou ou see that we need o n to handle deeper, this mor eff ffeectivvely e y.” moree effectively.

V iictims of trauma, esp peciallyy, tend to Victims especially, rrequire equire a gender r-specificc approach. approach. Rios gender-specific ounseling sa ayys the pr ogram will in clude ccounseling says program include ab out dating violenc ce an nd se exxual abuse about violence and sexual abuse..

It ’s ccommon ommon to hear girl ls describ It’s girls describee fforced orced se o ex as par relationships, sex partt of theirr relationships, without even eveen knowing that t what the ey they eexperienced xxperienced w aas rap e, hee sa ays y. was rape, says.

“When yyou’re ou’re dealingg with girls o girls,, yyou ou ha o ave to work through through trauma,” have agrees Razelle Buena avvistta, a dir ector of agrees Buenavista, director outpatient ser vices ffor o or Asian Asian s Americ caan services American R eecoveery Ser vices, whos se team ccounsels ounsels Recovery Services, whose ers. In fact, f 8 0p ercent e teen gang memb members.

80 percent of inc car arcerated yyouth o outh ha ave eexperienced xxperienced incarcerated have trauma, ac cording to thee National according Ment taal Health A ssociatiion. Se veentty Mental Association.

Seventy p ercent of girls in the cri iminal justic percent criminal justicee ssystem ystem y rreport eeport b eing se exu xually victimized. being sexually Ev veen if girls ar en’t alw ways y jump ed into a Even aren’t always jumped gang ey ar exu xually assaulted, gang,, the they aree often se sexually pr ey to domestic abuse contract S TDs T prey abuse,, contract STDs and ccarry aarry un nwaanted pr regnancies e . “The ey unwanted pregnancies.

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learn to dist trust a lot of p eople fr om a distrust people from vvery er e y yyoung oungg age o avvistta sa ayys. age,,” Buena Buenavista says.

Angelinaa Macias runs her thumb o ver e ffour our o do ots— —sshorthand for fo or the over dots—shorthand letter ttter off the alphab alphabet, et, N N,, ffor o or 14 4tth let Norteño—tattooed N orteño—t — attttooed on her left wrist.

She ccontemplates ontem mplates ccovering oveering it up up.. P People eople have over dots.. “But I ha ave killed o veer those ffour our dots o don don’t n’’t know know, w,” she sa says, ays y , dr dressed essed in the crisp button-down shirt, uniform white hit but b ttto on-down d shir hi t, t the th unif iffo orm ffor or o her ser server’s veer’s job job.. “It kind of rreminds eminds wheree I ccome from. don’t agree me wher ome fr om. I don n’t ’ agr ee with the lif lifestyle feesttyle y now now, w, but I ccan’t aan n’’t den deny ny was partt of m myy lif life. that it w aas a par fe.”

T To o fforget orrggett that par o part, t, she she’ll ’ll wear a scrunchy watch up.. scrunch hy orr a w aatch to ccover oveer it up She She’s ’s 34 now now, w, a mother of fiv five, ve, ttwo wo w decades after getting jumped brutal dec caades afte er get ttting jump ed in, a brut taal initiation in n some guy’ guy’ss back backyard. kyyard.

“I tr tryy to use u m myy lif life fe as an eexample xample x of h to o how overcome ver e come this this, hi ,” sa says ays y Macias M Macias, i , who h ccounsels ounsels oth other her women tr trying ying to mo move ove on with the their eir liv lives. vees. “But it do does es pull yyou ou o in—these kids k without sup supervision, ervision, whose par parents e ar ents aree working all the time or in prison prison. n. F For or me me,, b being eing in a gang w was as a just, lik like, ke, th those hose wer weree m myy friends friends,, those wer weree the on ones nes who snuck off with me to the ggynecologist ynec y ollogist b because eccause a Iw was aas afraid of what m myy mom m w was aas going to sa say. ay. The They’d y’d wip wipee m myy te tears ars if a guy br broke ok ke m myy hear heart. t.

The They ey w walked aalk ked e me home home.. The Theyy made sur suree I w was aas ttaken ak keen ccare ar a e of of.f. I don don’t n’’t ccondone ondone it, but that that’s ’s how it i dra draw aw yyou ou in.” o Rios ccalls alls it the hone honeymoon ymoon phase phase— — lik likee an abu abusive usive sp spouse, ouse, ffond ond memories o ccan an bring a p person erson back, despite the hear heartbreak. tbreak k. “Ther “There’s e’s alw always ways y a quid pr pro o quo quo,, which h is unsp unspoken oken at first,” sa says ayys Rios,, who gr Rios ggrew ew up on San JJose’s ose’s East Side aawatched watch hed friends and family lose way another.. nd their w ay to t one gang or another honeymoon, it’s ““After After the hone A h eymo y on, it ’s time to do some work. say], w [[They They sa ay], y ‘I need yyou ou these drugs.. Driv Drive to ccarry arry the ese drugs ve me aaway. way.

Come C ome up with w an alibi.’ Then, you’re you’re becomes in the system systeem and it b ecomes this downward down nward spiral.”

For Macias, honeymoon F or Maci ias, the hone eyymoon ended trying while tr yingg to raise her first son alone father locked at 15. The fa ather got lo ck keed up on a drug charge, leaving char ge, lea aving v her to scramble ffor o or a job.. “I w wanted better myy job aantted something b etttter ffor or o m says.

Rios,, who met Macias family, y,” she sa y” ays y . Rios was treatment when she w as a sent to a drug tr eatment program pr ogram ass a teen, cconsiders onsiders her living proof transformative influencee of pr oof of thee transf fo ormativve influenc want women. “That’s “T That’s another rreason eason we w aant them, says. to rreach each the em,” he sa ays y . “When women change,, the they families,, to too. change ey change their families o.

They set standard.

The ey ccan aan se et the st taandarrd d.”

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Dave Cortese conceded d the mayor mayor’s ’s rrace ace to Sam Liccar Liccardo do o Monday after Day. “It’s night, a full six days aft ter Election Day y. “It ’s time to movee on,” Claraa County supervisor, wrote supporters Cortese, a Santa Clar C super visorr, wr ote his suppo orters in before Liccardo directly.

Registrar an email bef ore calling Liccar do to tell him dir ectlyy. The Registr R ar Voters, of V oters which came under oters, u scrutiny while tabulating thee rresults, esults, ts Liccardo holding 3,479-vote showed Liccar do holdin ng a 22-percent -percent lead—a 3,4 79-votee advantage. Cortese’s temper supporters message appears to tem mper expectations by his supporte ers of a state rreview eview of the Registrar Voters after director before Registr ar of V oters afte er the office’s IT dir ector quit a dayy bef ore the election. For moree on the confusion over the rrace mor ace and election results, results,, see our cover story on page weree handled iin 16. Despite speculation about how ballots wer n this election, Cortese said, the process.” he has full ffaith aith in the ability a of the agency to ““ensure ensure th he integrity of the pr ocess.”

NICKEL AND FINED F Lobbyist Richie Ross (inset) (inse et) and San Jose Councilman Councilm man Xavier Campos were cited by b the FPPC.

FPPC Fines Council Councilman, man, LLobbyist obbyist Sacramento’s Sacramento o’s most notorious lobb lobbyist byyist and San JJose’s ose’s shadiest ccouncil ouncil memb o member er each got slapp slapped ped with fines b byy the st state ate political p olitical w watchdog. atch a hdog.

Richie R Ross oss o will ha have ave to pa pay ay $5,0 $5,000 00 aft in p penalties enalties after fter the Fair P Political olitical Practicee C Practic Commission omm mission (FPPC) ruled that he purp purposely o osely plac placed ed an elected official—in th this his ccase ase termedtermed-out out st state ate Assemblyman A ssemblyman nP Paul aul F Fong ong (D (D-San -San JJose)— ose)— under p personal ersonaal obligation b byy ne never eveer ccollecting ollecting a de debt. ebt.

Sincee F Sinc Fong’s ong’’s 20 2008 08 win, the legislator has owed R Ross osss $10 o $100,000.

0,000. Appar Apparently, entlyy, that six-year-old six--yeearr-old o six-figur six-figuree past past-due t-due sum worked work ked e out fin fine ne ffor or R o Ross, oss, who ne o never eveer ash after made an any ny efforts eff ffo o ts to ccollect or ollect the ccash the first in invoice. nvo oicce. He He’s ’s in invariably nvvariably b been een able to ccount ount on F Fong’s ong’s vvote. ote o .O Off the 42 bills R Ross o oss lobb lobbied bied ffor or b o between ettw ween 20 2009 09 and 2013, 35 mo moved oved e to the A Assembly sssembly flo floor. or.

All 35 got a “y “yes” yees” fr from om F Fong. ongg.

Now, N ow w, R Ross o oss will w ha have ave to write off that debt, whi which ich won won’t ’t mat matter ttter much cconsidering onsidering hee got his mone money’s eyy’s wor worth th from fr om F Fong. ongg. Mean M Meanwhile, nw while, F Fong’s ong’s off the hook, ho ok, which iss a nic nicee par parting ting gift as he winds down after a a failed shot at San JJose’s ose’s Cit City ty C Council. ou uncil.

The p penalty, enaltty, mean meanwhile, nw while, is nothing but a rap on the t wrist ffor or R o Ross, oss, who o should pr probably obab bly b bee barr barred ed fr from om lobbying lobb byying alto altogether. g gether .A According ccording to the FPPC ruling ruling, g, R Ross oss told in o investigators nvestigators e that he didn didn’t n’t ’ eeven ven e rrealize ealize that his dual

prroffeessions as lobb professions lobbyist byist y and ccampaign ampaign n cconsultant o onsult taant pr presented esented an any ny cconflict. onflict.

Really?

R eeally?

Ross R oss w o was as a also subject to an older ccomplaint o omplaint fr from rom o 20 2006 06 alleging a sim similar milar violation. vi iolation. The ccase ase a w was aas dr dropped, opped, however, ho oweeveerr, after the FPPC cconcluded oncluded o that hee made rreasonable eeasonable at attempts tttempts to ccollect olllect debt de ebt fr from om the ccandidate. andidate a .

Back in San JJose, ose, C Councilman ouncilman Xa Xavier avier v Campos C ampos do dodged dged an any ny major violation violations, ns, but bu ut got cited ffor or a spate of questiona o questionable able practices pr ractices that will ccost ost o him $5,50 $5,500 0 in n FPPC fines fines.. C Campos, ampos, to together gether w his ccampaign with ampaign manager manager,, Linda Delgado,, didn D Delgado didn’t ’t ha have ave rreceipts eceipts ffor or som o some me ampaign. $10,000 $1 10,000 he loaned to his ccampaign.

H rroutinely He outinely o missed deadlines ffor o or ccampaign a ampaign st statements atements and failed to k keep eeep accurate, ac ccurate, ccomplete omplete rrecords. eccor ord ds. And the fact fa act that he w was aas ttaking aking ccashier aashier check checks ks raises ra aises some eeyebrows—donations yeebrows—donations are arre supposed su upposed to ccome ome dir directly ectly fr from om don donors’ nors’ bank ba ank ac accounts. ccounts. L Leading eading up to his 20 2010 010 election el lection to the District 5 seat, C Campos ampos o accepted ac ccepted eight ccashier aashier checks and money m mone ey or orders ders tot totaling aling nearly $2,0 $2,000, 00, 0 nigght including in ncluding one fr from om de developers, eveelopers, a night club, cl lub, fformer o ormer San JJose ose ccouncil ouncil memb member ber Manny M Mann ny Diaz’ Diaz’ss wif wife, fe, Sandra Diaz, and da cinnamon ci innamon br bread ead bak bakery. keery.

Neither N either the R Ross o oss nor the C Campos ampos ruling ru uling would ha have ave ccome o ome ab about out had itt not been b e ffor een or o San JJose ose Inside first rreporting eeporrtin t ng on nb both oth ccases.—Jennifer aases.—Jennif e feer W Wadsworth aadswoorth

No Char Charges gess in Ray McDonald McDonaald Case Case Th Ra The R Ray ay McDonald M D ld d ccase ase ended d d inconclusivelyy, with th he District inconclusively, the Attorney’s A ttorne t y’s Office Office decid deciding ding not to file domestic violence violence cha arges against the charges Francisco defensive San Francisc o 49ers de effeensive ttackle. ackle. police arrested San Jose Jose p olice arr e ested and jailed player the football football pla ayer on n suspicion of violence Aug. ffelony elon e y domestic violen nce A ug. 31, after rresponding esponding to a dispute at his 30th bir birthday thdaay par party ty th that hat rreportedly eportedly left his pregnant physically pregnant fiancé fianccé ph ysically hurt. said h t. Investigators hur I vestigators In i sai i she id h showed h d “visible injuries.” injuries.”

In a statement Monday, DA statement issued issueed Monda ay, D A Jeff said conflicting accounts, Jeff Rosen Rosen o confliccting ac counts,

a lack l k off credible credible dibl witnesses it d the th and victim’s refusal refusal e cooperate left victim’s to cooperate prosecutorrs with insufficient pr oof prosecutors proof of a crime. crime.

But the incident ccalled alled into question the t San Jose Jose P Police olice Department’s Departmeent’s relationship relationship with the 49ers.

49ers. Complicating Com mplicating the ccase ase w was as a cop’s home,, cop’s presence preseence in McDonald’s McDonald’s home where where thee par party ty w was as held, well before place. beffo ore thee cconflict onflict took took plac e. SJPD has off-duty h already alr l ead d suspended dy suspended d d all ll off ff- dut ffd y work with h the team after cconcerns oncerns were created were raised raised that it cr eated cconflicts onflicts of interest. interestt.

WORDS W ORDS W WITH ITH FRIENDS F

“My opponent an and d his personal SuperPAC wasted d more than replace $5 mil trying to re eplace my progressive voice with a spokesperson. corporate spokesp person. #CA17” Mike Honda

—Rep.. Mike Honda (D-San Jose Jose) e) gleefully tweeted a shot at challenger Ro Khanna while failing faiiling to mention the ffact act that support from corporate he, too, enjoyed sup pport fr om corpor ate backers.

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JJUST UST T TO OG GET ET A REP R EP Artists and establish established ed businesses like The Usual, Usual Empire E 7 and others vacant theater. have opened d up smaller shops at the vaca ant downtown theater r.

P Pop-up op-up retailers fill empty e spaces in downtown d San n Jose BY B Y GAR GARY Y SINGH

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s is often the case town, artists in this t and d independent businesses bus sinesses are transforming tr ansformiing emptiness grooviness. into groov iness. Last week, anti-man-about-town the anti-m an-about-town into slithered in nto the defunct Repertory San JJose ose Re epertory Theater b ildi to building o inspect i t the th guts of a bold new n initiative.

Pop-up retailers P op-up ret ailers have now taken overr the lobby of the squandered squandere d theater to market wares duration their w ares for the dur ation holiday of the holi day season.

For F or eexample, xample, our fa favorite avorite nou nouveau uveau boutique from way b outique fr om all the w ay down the Usuals, th he street, street, The U suals, now ffeatures eeaturres its product Rep it ts pr oduct line in the San JJose ose R eep space, from ffoyer oyer spac e, as do our pals fr om Empiree 7 Studios Studios,, a rip rip-roaring E Empir -roaring gallery Over what ga allery in JJapantown. apantown. Ov er in wh hat bee the bar facing Thir Third u used to b d Street, St treet, is now a outlet ffor o or San JJose osse Earthquakes soccer jerseys E Ear thquakes so ccer jerse ys and paraphernalia, seven-inch p araphernalia, including se ven-in nch singles club’s song,, si ingles of the club ’s theme song “Never Say Die,” byy the Old F Firm “N Never Sa ay Die ,” b irm m Casuals.

C asuals.

Ass I pr prowled around innards A owled ar ound the innar ds off the plac place, Millares from o e, Marie Millar es fr om The Usuals was busyy thr throwing together U suals w as bus owing to geth her racks clothing,, boxes books ra acks of clothing boxes of b ooks and other goods from shop.. JJuan o ther go ods fr om her shop uan Carlos from Empiree 7 w was ass C arlos Araujo fr om Empir likewise artwork byy the li ikewise hanging ar twork b artists gallery. ar rtists he rrepresents epresents at the galler y.

Araujo immediatelyy p pointed ointed to emptyy SJ R Rep windows, the empt eep win ndows, facing Paseo Antonio, P aseo de San Antonio o, and said: was likee Berlin, wheree “I wish this w as lik B , wher these.” agreed. eed. we ccould ould just paint th hese.” I agr Berlin is an apr apropos opos ccomparison, omparison, sincee that cit city’s entiree mindset flows sinc y’s entir around creation ar ound cr eation and destruction d transformation and cconstant onstant transf form o mation surrounding wreckage of the surr ounding wr reckage new into something brand d ne w and provocative.

Apparently pr ovocative. Appar enttly San JJose ose won’t won ’t let these ffolks o olks paint p the windows,, just sinc sincee it might sc scare windows are off from the all the visitors fr om th he suburbs who happen flood area just happ en to flo od the t ar ea ffor or o Park. ark Christmas in the P k. digress.

But we digr ess. Thiss pilot program—(everything pr ogram—(everythingg in San “pilot program” JJose ose is basically basically a “pilo ot pr ogram” because cityy is to too b ecause the cit o afraid of failure)—will failur e)—will honestlyy do wonders holiday ffor o or those visitors this holida h ay season.

Rep In addition to the San n JJose ose R eep building,, other spac spaces new building es with ne w pop-up Camera p op -up rretail etail include the C amera emptyy 12 building and ccertain ertaiin empt

storefronts around ‘hood.

To stor efrontss ar ound the ‘ho od. T o great success, projects have gr eat suc cess e , similar pr ojects ha ave unfolded unf fo olded in i other major cities with emptiness in their inner ccores. ores.

Ass a rresult, aree aavailable A esu ult, maps ar vailable v pop-up eeverywhere, verywherre, with a list of p op -up locations current lo cations as a well as all the curr ent that’s indie rretail etaiil that ’s eexisted xisted in the neighborhood None neighb orh hood ffor or o yyears. ears. N one see new pop-ups of them se ee these ne wp op -ups rather,, eeveryone as ccompetition; ompetition; rather veryone supports moree ffoot supp orts mor m oot traffic ffor o or the holidays, moree customers customers,, mor moree holida ays y , mor m people wandering around p eople w a andering ar ound and pedestrianeexperiencing xperienciing what a p edestrianfriendly ne neighborhood supposed eighborhood is supp osed look like, is,, with lots of to lo ok lik ke, that is different, heterogeneous storefronts diff ffeerent,, heter h ogeneous stor efronts variety and a varie ety of things to eexperience. xperience. we’re And we ’ e not fforgetting ’r o orgetting the architectural ar chitectural ccomponents. omponents. Inside the Rep, fformer ormer San o n JJose ose R eep, now deemed Hammer Center, the Hamm mer Theater C enter, things llook lo ok k qutie tie aawesome. wesome. Only w O l the th lobb llobby bby open, boarded is op en,, as the rrest est is b oarded up city-contracted cit y- contraacted ffolks olks o Araujo referred reffeerred “badass to as “bada ass ccarpenters.” arpenters.” Which access ou menas yyou u ccan’t an’t ac cess the seating area, goes, it’s ar ea, but as a far as the ffoyer oyer go es, it ’s improvement.

Oncee yyou walk an impr ovement. Onc ou w alk actually looks in, it actua ally lo oks activated. Killer string ar artt fr Tulio Flores ffrom om T ulio Flor es seems direction, from to span eevery very which dir ection, fr om alcove, likee giant eevery very ccorner orn ner and alc ove, lik rays hope. likee a 3D D ra ayys off hop h e. It I seems lik way advantage natural w ay to ttake ake advant age of aarchitectural chitectural ccomponents omponents the inner ar building, of the buil lding, which no one eever ver before.

Ass a rresult, placee no did b effor o e. A esult, the plac empty. longer ffeels eeells empt y.

“We figured Tulio “W We figu ured brining T ulio in to string artt would b bee p perfect do the stri ing ar erfeect sincee the ar sinc aartt is mainly tied to rafters different staircases there’s or diff ffeeren nt st aircases and ther e’s bunch a whole bu unch of those ttypes ypes of here,” Millares, i her e,” said Millar es, as elements in sauntered around. was we saunter red ar ound. “So it w as a great way play gr eat w ay to pla ay with the eexisting xisting architecture local art.” ar chitecture and bring in lo cal ar t.”

Amen. all, project gives All in all l,, the pr oject giv es small businesses some needed eexposure. xposure.

This,, and visitors neighborhood This v to the neighb orhood become inspired just might b ecome inspir ed to transform local emptiness.. transf fo orm their own lo cal emptiness ““Attempting Atttemp pting to bring small business to o the fforefront o orefront in unused, vacant spaces likee this is a dr dream vac ant spa aces lik eam true,” Millares me.. Bec Because ccome ome true ,” Millar es told me ause we’re seeing businesses,, small we ’re seein ng small businesses artt gallerie galleries, burgeoning sports ar es, bur geoning sp orts spaces teams use these spac es that ccould ould stay vacant emptyy fforever. st ay vac antt and empt o orever. So whyy not u use it it?” wh ?”

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THE T HE BULLPEN BULLPEN Cou County nty employees worked 12-hou 12-hour ur shifts each day last week to sort and cou count unt the 140,000-plus vote-by-ma vote-by-mail ail ballots ballots..

week to get out of its own w way ay and deliv er election rresults esultts in a timely deliver manner reasons vary—from v y— var —from manner.. The reasons a $19 million in vestment in 5,50 0 investment 5,500 disenfranchised vvoting otingg machines machines,, most of which gathered gathered e dust in a ccounty ounty w arehouse ffor o orr the last se ven warehouse seven yyears, ears, to a sharp incr increase e ease in absentee vvoting oting that k kept ept ccounty oun nty work workers ers ttabulating abulating rresults esults an eextra xtra fiv fivee da days ays y after the election. Thee lik likelihood elihood that things will impr improve ove so soon on b begs egs answer: get one simple ans wer: ge et rreal. eal.

Electoral Elect oral Dysfunction Dy sfunctionn Shannon Bushe Busheyy and Mat Mattt Mor Moreles eles looked lo oked at one anotherr W Wednesday eednesdaay eevening vening and rrealized ealized it i w was as time to go home home.. Both wer weree ttweaked weaked on ccoffee off ffeee and R Red eed Bulls and a b beginning eginning to ffeel eeel the silliness tha that at ccomes omes fr from om Neither sleep deprivation. N eiither had gotten got ten a wink of sleep p in mor moree than 37 hours h hours.. Both B h wor woree tthe h same clothes he l h they’d day before. the y’d put on a da ay b efo ef ore. Election Day Da ay and Night (and another a da day ay and monsters night) had made mon nsters of them.

Ass head of the R Registrar Voters, A eegiistrar of V o oters, Busheyy instructed herr N Bushe No. o. 2 to go sleep.. home and get some ffood ood and sleep She would do the sam same, me, mostly

una unaware aware of o the frustration br brewing ewing outside off her offic office. e. She hasn hasn’t ’t b been een to an elect election tion night par party ty in 20 yyears. ears. But the anger would b ecome become appar pp ent ttwo wo da ayys later d apparent days later,, when wor word leak ed tha at the R OV’s IT dir ector, leaked that ROV’s director, JJoseph oseph L Le, e, w walked alked off the job on election eeve, ve, ccasting asting doubt on wh why hy it to took ok so long ffor o or Bushe Bushey’s y’s offic officee to gather rresults. esu ults.

Sour Sources ces tell Metr Metro o that L Lee quit because b ecause hee ffelt elt e unfairly singled out ballots,, ffor o or a mistake mistak a e in sample ballots were September which wer re sent out in Septemb er omitted information about and omit ted inf fo ormation ab out ccandidates andidatess ffor or the b o boards oards of Sant Santaa Clara C County ou unty U Unified nified Scho School ol District Gilroy’s Gavilan Community and Gilr oy’ y s Ga avvilan C ommunity C College. ollege. Th The he eexact xact ttab ab of such a blunder is unknown,, but is lik likely ely to ha have ave ccost o tens of thousands of ost dollars dollars.. L Lee rreportedly eportedly chaf chafed feed at ha having aving v hiss work double double-checked - checked the way. rrest est of thee w ay.

Bushey Bushey wouldn wouldn’t ’t ccomment omment on the cir circumstances cumstan nces of L Le’s e’s depar departure—it’s ture—it’s matter, a personnel personneell mat ter, off ccourse—but ourse—but b insisted accuracy she insiste ed the ac curacy of vvote ote totals totals was was unaff unaffected. ffeected. “N “None one of our processes depend person,” pr ocesses dep d end on one p erson,”” says. point, Busheyy she sa ayys. To To prove prove the p oint, Bushe took to ok the unusual u step of asking Secretary State the Secr etary of St ate to eexamine xamine the offic office’s e’s eexecution. xecution. While not

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Metro was accused tell Metr o he w as ac cu used of sexual byy a st staffer— se xual harassment b aff ffeer— and a similar incident during his employment Fulton County, emplo yment as F ulton nC ounty, Georgia’s chief was Geor gia’’s elections chie ef w as apparently the pre-hiring appar ently missed in th he pr e-hiring background Before back ground check. Bef fo ore that, JJessie essie oversaw ROV Durazo o versaaw the R OV ffor o or nine tenuree w was yyears. ears. His tenur as distinguished d byy rrepeated b epeated absentee ballot b ccount ount slipups,, but he slipups he’s ’s cr credited editeed with increasing incr easing the numb number err of p people eople who vvote ote b byy mail—a customer ccustomer-friendly impr improvement ovement that, ironically, ir onicallyy, has ccontributed ontribu uted to the current curr ent mess mess..

By far far,, howe however, ver, the biggest setback to the ccounty ounty R ROV’s OV’s mission of making election rresults esu ults public in a timely fashion o occurred ccurrred in 20 2007, 077, when C California aliffo ornia Secr Secretary ettary of St State ate Debra Bowen dec decertified ertifi fied 5,50 5,500 0 electronic electr onic vvoting oting mach machines hines that the ccounty ounty had pur purchased chased ffor o or rroughly oughly $19 million fr from om Sequ Sequoia oia V Voting o oting Systems in 20 2003.

03. (F (Funds unds ccame ame fr from om a ccombination ombination of the ccounty, ounty, the state st ate and the ffederal ederal e Help H Americ Americaa Vote V ote A o Act ct of 20 2002.)

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Bowen,, interestingly i inter estingly enough, was ear earlier with the was elected d a yyear help of the vvery ery same machines that her ccampaign platform opposed. ampaiign plat form o opposed.

Six monthss after ttaking aking office, office, she enlisted a te team University eam of U niversity of California Califfo ornia ccomputer omputer scientists scientists,, who over days over the ccourse ourse 28 da ayys hacked hacked three three electronic ectronic vvoting oting ssystems: ystems: separate ele Diebolt, Hart Dieb olt,, Ha art InterCivic and Sequoia.

“Debra basically “D b Bowen B basic b i ally ll ran on a platform electronic platform o of the electr onic vvoting oting machines in California being safe nC aliffo ornia not b eing saf fe and secur secure,” says Warren Slocum, e,” sa ayys Warr en Slo cum, a San Mateo ccounty supervisor ounty sup ervisor and Bay electronic Baay Area Area eexpert x ert on electr xp onic vvoting oting systems. was supervisor systems. Hee w as elected as sup ervisor two serving ving as San two years years ago a after ser Mateo C County’s ou unty’s election chief ffor or o 25 credit theree 25 years. years. ““And A to her cr And edit ther was weree was eevidence viden nce that the cconcerns oncerns wer well-founded.” well-f ll fo ound ded. d”

Abunddance of Abundance Caution Cautio on Santa Claraa C Santa County’s ounty’s machines machines,, although ne n never ver ccompromised, ompromised,, wer weree deemed hig highly ghly susc susceptible eptible to viruses and vvote ote manipulation. m In their rreport, eport,, scien scientists ntists ffound, o ound, amongst othe cconcerns, other oncerns e , that th t the Sequoia Seq oi machines’’ cryptography c yptograph cr hy ccould ould b bee easily cir circumvented. cum mvented. A memor memoryy stick ccontaining ontaiining a virus ccould ould easily ccorrupt orrupt onee machine and p potentially otentially infect inf fect e other others rs if link linked ed together together in a precinct. pr ecinct. That Th hat ttype ype of hack might not eeven ven b bee det detectable tectable down the line line..

Later, L ater, howe however, ever, Bowen rrecertified ecertified the ccounty’s ounty’s Sequoia machines to ccomply omply wit with th the Americ Americans ans with Di bili i s A Disabilities Act, ct,, fforcing or o cing i each h pr precinct ecinct i to ha have ave onee DRE (dir (direct-recording ect-recording electr electronic) onic) vvoting oting machine machine—even — even though an anyone yone ccan an use the machine if they they w want. an nt.

County C ountty Executiv E Executive ve JJeff eff Smith,, who ccame ame on b board o d in 20 oar 2009, 09,, sounded dubious rregarding eggarding wh why hy the machines would b bee go good ood enough ffor o or the most vulnerable vvoters o oters but not eeveryone veeryo one else. else.

“The inf information fo ormation that I ha have, ave, which hi h gran granted nted d is i not eeverything verything hi that eexists, xists, is that the only w way ay these machines mach hines wer weree crack cracked ed is with multiple in individuals ndividuals sit sitting ting at the machine,, ho machine h hooked oked into the machine machine,, and that that’s ’s just j not something that

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consulted, the ccall consulted, all ffor o or a rreview eview apparently from appar ently has support support fr om her overseers. o verseers. was “I think Shannon w as making the prudent step step,, eeven ven n though we we’re ’re theree ar aree all vvery ery cconfident onfident that ther no irr irregularities egularities in thee ccounting,” ounting,” says. ccounty ounty eexecutive xecutive JJeff eff Smith S sa ayys. several Slow rresults, esults, se veral miscues on sample ballots and rumor of a mutiny ROV oncee mutin ti y within ithi th the R OV has h onc spotlight officee again ccast ast a sp otlight on o an offic undergone decade that has under gone a dec d ade of ROV, Barryy dysfunction. The last R OV, Barr Garner,, rresigned Garner esigned underr a cloud of 2013.

Sources suspicion in early 2013 3. Sour ces

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FEED F EED T THE HE B BEAST E A ST F Fourteen ourteen machines inside the county R Registrar egistrar of Voters V oters take stacks off ballots and spit them out rap o rapid-fire pid-fire for results results..

could p could possible ossible happ happen en n at a pr precinct,” ecinct,”” says.

“It’s pretty Smith sa ayys. “It ’s pr ettty much imp ossible to imaginee someb ody impossible somebody sitting sit ting at a pr precinct ecinct cracking crracking into a machine.” machine .”

But with the ccounty’s ounty’s requests requests to rrecertify ecertiffy the machiness dismissed— virtually still and vir tually no one st till with the ccounty ounty seems to rremember emem mber eexactly xactly what eff efforts ffo orts wer weree mad made de to get them back into ccompliance—the ompliance—the — R ROV OV what’s rreverted everted back to what ’s known as a “central-count “central- count voting votingg ssystem, ystem,” in which eevery very pap paper er bal ballot lot must b bee ROV officee after p polls olls rreturned eturned to the R OV offic o close at 8pm. The ballo ballots ots must then bee hand-f b hand-fed feed into mach machines hines that use optical optic al sc scan an technolo technology gy to pr process ocess rresults. esults. DRE rresults, esults, on n the other hand,, are are submit submitted ttted via viia an electr electronic onic ccartridge artridge id fr ffrom om each h pr precinct. recinct. The h ccentralized entralized ccounting ounting not n only has slowed the ttabulation abulation pr process ocess of vvotes otes ccast ast on Election Da Day ay to o a crawl—it craaw wl—it also dela ayys the commencement commeencement of delays absentee ballot ccounting. ountiing.

Busheyy aff afforded Metro Bushe ffo orded Me etro a tour of the R OV’s internal pr ocesses—an ROV’s processes—an

assembly line l with the jagged edges of a gerrymander. gerrym mander. F irst,, absentee First, ballot en velop e es are are ffed eed into a envelopes machine th hat sc ans signatur es and that scans signatures sor ts ballots ballo ots ttwice wice b ecinct. sorts byy pr precinct.

N earby, a few few dozen p Nearby, people eople in a doors open rroom oom several several e do ors down op en en velopes and flat ten ballots ffor o or envelopes flatten scanning. sc anning. There, T e, 14 machines ccount Ther ount and spit ou ut ballots rapid fir e— out fire— although the ttheyy ar ed aree so hammer hammered that one went w down. Bushe ayys Busheyy sa says the ttabulating abulaating de vices ar devices aree so old eplaccements and par parts aree that rreplacements ts ar imp ossiblee to find. impossible Pr ocesseed ballots ar ed with Processed aree mark marked rred ed ink ne ar the top and b ottom, near bottom, banded to gether and then b oxed together boxed and stor ed db ehind a steel met al stored behind metal cur tain in what ’s known as “The curtain what’s Blue l R oom m.” It ’s basic b i ally ll a holding h ldi Room.”

It’s basically pen looks likee a bat batting p en and lo ooks lik ting ccage. age.

C omplaintts ab out the leng th of the Complaints about length pr ocess ha ave rrolled olled in to the R OV process have ROV o ver the ccourse o ourse of the last week, over Busheyy sa says observers but Bushe ayys election obser vers should un derstand the limit ations. understand limitations.

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Accurate, A ccurate, No Not ot FFast aast So, how did the ccounty So, ounty scr screw ew up b byy picking a hack hackable able vvoting oting ssystem? ystem?

It’s interested It ’s a question ffew ew seem m inter ested answering.

Even Bushey, in ans wering. Ev en Bu shey, who has been b een with the offic officee ffor o 19 yyears, or ears, ccan’t an’t rrecall ecall wh why hy Sequoi Sequoia ia w was as selected.

Conspiracy C onspiracy theorists h have ave suggested Kathryn Ferguson, that Kathr yn F erguson n,, the ccounty ounty ROV R OV up until 20 2002, 02, ma m may ay ha have ave influenced purchase was influenc ed the pur as chasse that w later.. She left her ccounty made a yyear ear later ounty

position job to ttake ake a p osition with Sequoia, there’s indication was but ther e’s no indic ation she w as involved in volved in n the vvendor endor selection process later.. pr ocess a year year e later Busheyy pr prefers Bushe p effers e to ffocus ocus on the future, uncertain. futur e, eeven veen n if that rremains emains unc ertain.

Oncee the rresults aree Onc e esults ffor o or this election ar Dec.. 2— ccertified—the ertified—th he deadline is Dec Bushey says ROV Bushe ey sa ayyss the R OV will ttake ake a closer look technology hopes bee lo ok at tech hnology it hop es will b next new rready eady d in i th thee ne exxtt ttwo wo yyears, w eears, with ith a ne w possibly placee b byy 2017 2017. vvoting oting ssystem ysteem p ossibly in plac 7. want people “I w ant p eople to get the rresults esults they’re anxious,” fast, because becausse I know the y’re anxious ,” says. love she sa ayys. “And “And A of ccourse ourse I would lo ve update myy vvoting to up date m oting ssystem. ystem.

“Logically, myy mind, it only “L ogicalllyy, in m makes sensee to hold off a ccouple mak es sens ouple because we’ll have yyears, ears, b ecau use we ’ll ha ave new new technology options,,” she ccontinues. technolo gy options ontinues. “If was Iw as to go out and buy equipment ago,, l yyear, last eear, orr this hi yyear, ear, or ttwo wo yyears ears ago technology I’m buyingg technolo gy that is 15 yyears ears fine.. The pr process old. Ours iss working fine ocess produces accurate. of what it pr p oduces is ac curate. It’s It’s fast. just not fast t.” increase The incr e in absentee ballots ease any improvements would also limit an ny impr ovements e made in ttallying alllying precinct precinct vvotes, o otes, bee op opened which ccan’t an’tt b ened until after County figures 8pm. C ountty figur es show that approximately 80,000 appr oximattely 8 0,000 vvote-by-mail ote-b o by-mail weree ccast November 2002, b ll wer ballots ast in i N oveemb ber 20 02, 200,000 ccompared ompared to t nearly 20 0,000 this yyear. eear. perfect “I think it iit’s ’s the p erfeect storm—with increasing popularity the eever ver inc creasing p opularity in absentee mail m and the fact that a lot of people p eople still like like to drop drop their vote-byvo ote-b bypolls, says. mail ballot at p olls,” Slocum Slocum sa ayys. ““And A And I think thin nk it ccomes omes down to money. proposition mone y. It’s It’s an eexpensive xpensive pr oposition Not to replace replace a vvoting oting ssystem. ystem. N ot only is ther theree thee ac acquisition quisition ccost ost of the assets,, but then theree is training and assets t ther manuals and an nd testing. testing. Basically, Basicallyy, everyeverybee rredone. thing has to ob edone. All of that ttakes akes time time.. Y You ou tr o tryy to do these things non-presidential in a non-pr residential yyear, ear, which is probably pr obably wh w whyy she she’s ’s sa saying aying y 2017 2017.” .”

Political P olitical cconsultant onsultant JJude ude Barry, Barr y, who o has work worked ed on vvoter oter technology around rregistration egistration n technolo gy ar ound the ccountry, ountry, is not alone in ar arguing guing approach that the ccounty’s ounty’s appr oach is shortsighted. shor tsighteed.

“It’s truly problem, “It ’s trul ly a ssystemic ystemic pr oblem, because little incentive b ecause there’s theere’s lit tttle inc entive ffor or o local governments spend lo cal go veern nments to sp end the happens rresources esources on on something that happ ens eevery very thr three eee yyears, ears,” Barr Barryy sa says. ays y . “But it it’s ’s a mist mistake. ake. It I mak makes es lo local cal go government vernment look lo ok inc incompetent. om mpetent.”

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expectations,” she sa expectations,” says. ayys. “I mean, November went looked N ovember 2012, I wen nt and lo oked at our last rresults: esults: 4:36 6 in the morning.. I mean this is new, morning i nothing ne w, throughout that it ttakes akes us all thr o oughout the this.. I rreally don’t night to do this eallyy don ’t know anyone theree would eexpect how an yone out ther xpect o’clock.” rresults esults 11 or 12 o ’clock.”

Bushey’s officee last Outside of Bushe y’s offic o Friday, Frida ay, a ffew ew dozen ccounty ou unty employees emplo oyees through sifted ift d thr h ough h vvote-by-mail ote-b by-m mail il b ballots ll Cortese’s supporters while C ortese’s supp orters t and operatives mayor’s op eratives of the San JJose o ma ose ayor’s race’s presumptive winner, rac e’s pr esumptive win ner, Sam Liccardo, observed process.

Ass Lic cardo, obser ved the pr ocess. A provided tour,, mo motivational she pr ovided a tour otivational signs that ccould ould cconceivably onceivvably line a high-school highschool locker lock keer room room m or dentist’s dentist’s hallways bee ffound hallw ayys ccould ould b o oun nd at eevery veery Theyy ffeatured buzzwords turn. The eeatured bu zzwords one-offs like: and inspirational one -offs o lik kee: “Excellence—Some because theyy “Exc ellence—Some S eexcel xccel b ecause the are to,, most excel because are destined to exc x el b ecause theyy ar aree determined to to. the o.”

Bushey installed Bushe ey inst talled a them m after assuming ROV permanent ermanent ccontrol ontrol of the R OV on a p February.

Discussing basis in F ebruary. Discuss sing them brings tears to her eeyes. yees.

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“It’s love “Sorr y,” she sa ays y . “It ’s just I lo ve place. love people here, this plac e. I lo ve the p e eople her e, and I’v I’vee work worked ed with them t a long time.. And to me time me,, as [im [important] mportant] as a vvoting oting ssystem ystem and run running nning this offic officee is how yyou ou tr eat yyour our emplo eemployees.” yees.” treat Bushe oints to thee inspirational Busheyy p points sign ab ove her desk, which w ffeatures eeatures above the mar ch of the p engguins and the march penguins wor ds: “Walk the T aalk k.” words: Talk.”

“Wh ou think this is the first “Whyy do yyou one,, the one I lo look most?” one ok at the most ?” asks.. she asks “Bec ause yyou ou lo ve p enguins?”

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It’s myy ttalk. go od job al. It t’s m alk. I b etter walk walk it. better it.””

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his restaurant after writer Émile Zola.

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hef and owner Guillaume Bienaimé blends classical French cuisine with modern cooking techniques at Palo Alto’s newest restaurant, Zola. Previously the chef at Portola Kitchen and Marché, which the Michelin Guide named a top-25 restaurant in the Bay Area, Guillaume sat down to talk with Metro about his new restaurant.

WHERE DOES YOUR COOKING BACKGROUND START? My grandmother was a great cook and food was always a part of our life. Life really revolved around meals.

I started cooking when I was 15. After a few days working I realize, ‘why am I going to school?’ The fact that you get paid to be in a kitchen was pretty cool. I went to school perhaps a little late for a cook, at Johnson and Wales in Providence, (Rhode Island), but you know, I was lucky to do a stage at Marché in Menlo Park when I was still young and then I came back after college and Howard (Bulka) offered me a sous chef position—I took it.

HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE NAME ZOLA? I was looking for a name and searching through a French dictionary and I just couldn't find a word that was easy to pronounce, easy to write, easy to remember. I didn't want people to feel uncomfortable pronouncing the name or couldn't look it up on the Internet because they didn’t know how to spell it. Also I think there’s an association with French cuisine: It’s expensive, or it’s snotty and pretentious and I kinda wanted to step away from that. I was reading Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook and he mentioned [Émile] Zola and a book that he wrote called “The Belly of Paris” about the markets of Paris. And that was it—Zola.

BEING OF FRENCH BACKGROUND AND YOUR EXPERIENCE AT MARCHÉ, WAS ZOLA DESTINED TO BE FRENCH? I opened Portola Kitchen in Ladera a couple years ago and it had done pretty well—psychologically it made me feel comfortable opening my own thing. Although I had done a $2.2 million restaurant in Ladera, with my own money I felt more comfortable doing something a little smaller and I’ve always wanted to be in Palo Alto. It always made sense. At first I wanted to do something really casual, kinda bar food—maybe French or Spanish. I like to find the space first, knowing there is opportunity and then I create the concepts. It kinda happens to be that there is no French food in Palo Alto, so that ended up working out.

It’s French food, without a doubt. We just try to lighten things up a little bit—so not everything is butter and cream. I’m not trying to do things that differently—just try to think about the technique a little bit and not just rely on what they may have done 50 years ago in classical French food.

A lot of this is from the Marché cookbook, minus $10 a plate.— Jeff Cianci

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“We were, like, let’s just have fun with this—let’s stuff it with fries,” says Vanessa Pang, one of three owners of south San Jose’s newest sandwich spot, Off the Street. “Then we started getting crazy.” The result is a starch bomb that’s generated something of a cult following and is probably best served to competitive eaters or gluttonous groups of three or more. The poutine version comes filled with fries and drenched with gravy. The macaroni-stuffed cube comes topped with either pulled pork or bacon, smothered in melted cheese and sprinkled with croutons. Meat and cheese on bread and more bread for $15 a pop. There’s a reason it’s reserved for the late-night menu, along with chicken and waffles, chili fries and other dishes one craves after a bout of heavy drinking.

Off the Street’s strength is its simpler fare: sandwiches packed with smoked meats and bread baked with a wild starter. Co-owner Aric Dang made the starter in his home kitchen, adding persimmons from a backyard tree to give it a subtle tang. Pang, inspired by a Russian deli where she used to work, smokes all the meats herself. “We want to make sure all the ingredients are really, really good,” says Pang, who runs the place with Dang and partners Ton Luong and Vinh Quoch.

The pork belly sandwich ($9)—slow-baked pork on a sourdough roll with a crunch from cucumber and a kick from hot Korean barbeque sauce—is one of the more popular items. Also a favorite: the house-smoked pastrami ($10.50) with sauerkraut, creamy Russian dressing and Swiss cheese melted on a rye roll. Pang’s pulled pork ($9) appears not just on “The Cube” but the lunch menu, too, served atop a Dutch crunch roll packed with coleslaw and house-made barbeque sauce.

There’s cold smoked salmon with caramelized onions ($10.50), chipotle chicken with melted brie ($9) and, the lone veggie option, a grilled squash sandwich ($7).

Both Pang and Dang defected from fine dining—the uber-luxe and Michelin Star’d Plumed Horse in Saratoga—to run their own lunch spot. Tucked away in a Blossom Hill strip mall populated by chain restaurants and grocery stores, Off the Street invites like a dorm common room, stocked with board games, a widescreen TV playing Nickelodeon, an antique radio and a well-worn leather couch.

A quirky assortment of prints decorate the walls—a black cat strapped with missiles (drawn by Pang), an abstract rendering of a red fox, comic book covers and a painted-on chalkboard where patrons have scrawled a turkey (last week it was an elephant).

The deli owners favor the off-the-wall and experimental. “This is all us,” Pang says, pointing to hand-drawn art on the tabletops. “We want this to be fun and a little weird.”—Jennifer Wadsworth OFF THE STREET 484 Blossom Hill Road, San Jose. 408.905.0438. http://offthestreet.biz.

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THEE DELIRIANS Back Bar B SoF SoFA, FA, A San Jose Fri, 8pm, 8p pm, $5 garage In the past p decade we’ve we’ve seen gar age rrock, ock,, folk folk o and even emo come full circle. cir cle. And A over the past ffew ew years theree have ther h been indications that another genree rrevival anothe er genr evival movement underway—as may bee under way—as way as a number of groups from young Latino gr oups fr om SoCal SoCal have scratchy been eexcavating xcavating the scr atchy sounds classic of class sic ’60s ska and rrocksteady. ocksteadyy. from The Delirians, Deelirians, who hail fr om East aree one of these gr groups, L.A.,, ar oups,, and are they ar re killing it. The eight-piece has thee snappy bounce of Toots Toots o and Maytals, the Ma aytals, Skatalites and early Bob

Marley Marley with a bit of ’60s ’ Latin soul thrown thrown o in,, a la Willie G and Ralfi Pagan.

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They’ve Theey’ve got tender, tenderr, heart on the sleeve melodies melodies and confident,, toe-tapping beats. beaats.. Easy skanking! (AC) (AC)

THE T HE HORMONE HORMONESS Blaank Club, San Jose Blank Fri,, 8pm, $12/Adv, $12/Advv, $15/Door Thee Ramones invented punk rrock ock as it—proving we know it—pr oving that you could playy ffast, ast, simple, sneering songs that were abrasive we re at once abr asive and accessible.

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They frenetic energy The ey have so much fr enetic ener gy

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THE IT ITALIAN TA ALLIAN GIRL IN AL ALGIERS GIERS Nov 15 att The CCalifornia alifornia Theatr Theatree

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

YO Y O GABB GGABBA A GABB GABBA! A! 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 TIGRES TIGRES DEL NORTE NORTE Nov 23 at SSAP AP Center

USHER Nov 2244 at SAP SAP Center

FLEETWOOD FLEETW OOD MA MACC Nov 25 at SSAP AP Center

TRIPLE HO SHO SHOW W Dec 3 at SAP SAP Center

BILLY BILL Y IDOL Decc 11 at Rockbar Theater

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Lucie S Lucie Stern tern Theater Theater,r, P Palo a Al alo Alto to Sun, 2pm, $28-$42

Cardiff LLounge, Cardiff ounge, C Campbell am mpbell Free Sun, 10pm, Fr ee

aree an East Bay Bay-based Little Sister ar y-based from soul, trio that pull fr om classic so oul, garage gar age rrock ock and late ’70s ppostostpunk. That may sound like an a odd because combination to you, becaus se it works—in small is. But it work s—in no sma all part thankss to Little Sister Sister’s singer,r, thank ’ss leadd singer who is a fforce orce to be rreckoned eckoneed with. piercing She has the pier cing fferocity erocitty of incredible Siouxie Sioux and the incr edible vulnerability Patti vulner ability of P atti Smith. The her,, band pounds away behind her twisting and turning along with intonation, her every move and intonat tion, words accenting all the wor ds shee spits

Golden Many ffans ans of the Golde n Age willll know of American Cinema wil the story of Har Harvey vey—th —the he 1950 film starring starring James Stewart Stew wart as P.. Dowd, a friend friendly, Elwood P dly, if eccentric, middle-aged man with a giant invisible rrabbit abbit ffor or a friend (Harvey).

Palo Alto (Har vey). The P alo Al to Players aree cur currently ar rently in the midst midst of a production 1944 Pulitzer pr oduction run of the 19 944 Pulit zer play,, upon Prize-winning play upoon which that film is based. Fun for for the entiree family, entir familyy, the play begins begins with narrowly Dowd nar rowly avoidingg being committed to the sanitarium sanitaarium

prefer Some people pr efer to go big Saturday, on Friday or Satur day, but every thirdd Sunda Sunday first and thir ay of the month the CCardiff ardiff LLounge o ounge goes house ““All A All In,”” as local hous se DJs CCutso, utso, Smoovgroovs, Smoovgr oovs, Dstrukt Dstrukkt and Shea Butter spin up a mix of top 40, 40 trap, dancehall.

It’s tr ap, rrap, ap, R&B and da ancehall. It ’s a wheree every genre party wher geenre of music crew is on the table when this cr ew hop twos.

It’s on the ones and two os. It ’s a great great way to shake off thee weekend with one final party bef before ore rreturning eturning to Monday.(NV) work on Monday .(NV V)

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THE GOODNIGHT GOO ODNIGHT San Jose Rock Sh Shop, hop, San Jose Tue, $9-10 T ue, u 6pm, $910 L.A.. rockers rockers the Goodnight Gooodnight have a origin story. bit of an unusual or rigin story y. TTwo wo w started of the members sta arted playing in Montana,, rreleased eleased a rrecord ecord in Japan, toured tour ed the states eextensively, xtensivelyy, then There rrelocated elocated to L.A. Th ere they met their thirdd and ffourth members. year,r, thir ourth me embers.. Last year settled the ffoursome oursome settle ed on a sound somewheree betwe between somewher en emo-punk lighter-swaying, arena-rock and ’70s lighter-sw waying,, ar ena-rock extremely ballads. The songs ar aaree extr emely heartfelt, heartf elt,t lush and polished—filled p moree harmonies with mor harmonies than SStyx tyx or cram America ever tried to cr am into their songs. Their rrecently ecently rreleased eleased LP is titled Owlbum and ffeatures eatures a headcocked Owl on the cover cover,r, which is strikingly at odds th the naturee he earnest natur of their lyrics.. Don’t Don’tt think about it too hard. hard.. ItIt’s ’s just fun.. (AC) (A AC)

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

PRIMUS Decc 31 at the Fox Theater De

FFATHER AT THER JOHN MIS MISTY TY Jan 16 at B Bret ret Harte Hall in Fel Felton ton

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

SSTYX TYX Jan 28 28, 8, at City National Civic

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

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*stage THE IMMIGRANT Mark Har Harelik’s elik’s comedy base based ed on the true story of a TTexan eexann youngg couple that takes in a youn immigrant.

Russian Jewish immigr ant. Nov Theatree on 7 thru 22. $15-$38. Theatr Pedro Square, Jose.

San P edro Squar e, San Jose e.

TRUCE: TR UCE: A CHRIS CHRISTMAS TMAS FROM FIRST WISH FR OM THE FIR ST GREAT WAR GREA AT W AR A

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DECEMBER 5th, 6th & 7th 2014

LIVE ORCHESTRA IN SAN JOSE

SAN JOSÉ CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Featuring San Francisco Ballet Soloist and Principal SASHA DE SOLA & TIIT HELIMETS

For tickets call 408-286-9905 or visit www.sjdt.org or www.ticketguys.com San José Dance Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

West Va Valley Collegee Theater Arts Department pres presents sent

HARVEY HAR VEY

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

The classic comedy about a man whose best friend is a six-foot-tall six-f oot-tall invisible rrabbit. abbitt. $17-$42 Palo $17 -$42 Nov 8 thru 23. P aloo Alto Palo Alto Al to Players. P alo Al to

The legendary story of a governess of seven and her from escape fr om Nazi-occupied Austria is coming to San Jose.

Nov 14-23.

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

COMEDYSPORTZ COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV IMPR OV CCOMEDY OMEDY Laugh until your stomach improved battle hurts at this impr oved batt le audience-sourced of wits, all audience-sour ceed entiree and suitable ffor or the entir $12-$15. ffamily. amily. Ongoing. $12 -$15.

CCamera amera 4, San Jose.

FFOX OX ON THE FFAIRWAY AIRWAY A blistering rromp omp which ““pulls pu ulls from underneath the rug out fr om underneat th the stuffy denizens of a private country club.”” Nov Bus 20 thru Dec 14. $18-$28. Bu us Theater.. LLos Altos Barn Theater os Al tos Stage Stagge Company.. LLos Altos.

Company os Al tos.

A modern mor moral al conundrum m lifee when a gunma gunman comes to lif an blames a violent video ggamee ffor or his shooting rrampage ampage in thiss 23. gripping thriller. thriller. Thru Nov 23 3.

Theatree aatt $10-$18. LLohman ohman Theatr Altos Foothill College. LLos os Al tos Hills.

Hills.

A musical tr tracking acking ambitious ambitiouus ““professional professional Broadway Broadway gypsies”” in their quest to lan land gypsies nd show.. Nov 1 thru 16. a spot in a show $14-$30.

Community $14 -$30. Sunnyvale Commu unity Theatre.

Players. Sunnyvale Theatr e.

Novemb 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 P November PM November o 16, 23 at 2:00 PM M West We W est Valley Valle a y College Theater Theater $122 Ge $1 General eneral & $10 $10 Student/Senior Student/Senior Bring B ing this ad for Br for $2 off off

MERCHANT MER CHANT ON VENICE

Scenes, Vignettes, Live Mus Music, sic, and Historical Accounts Accounts about aboout the the “Christmas Truce” Trruce” on th he France duringg battlefields of Fr ance durin WWI. W WI. Nov 20 thru Dec 21. $17-$32.

Theaterr $17 -$32. City Lights Theate Company, Company y, San Jose.

A CHORUS CHORUS LINE

by Larry Cohen and David Crane

Roger and Hammerstein’s Hammerstein’s alltime great great American Musical that brings laughs and rromance omance to the dispute between cattlemen and ffarmers armers in Indian TTerritory eerritory during the turn of the Century.

20th Century y. Nov 8 Thru Dec 6. $20-$39. West West Valley Valley Light Opera.

Theatre.

Oper a. Saratoga Saratoga Civic Theatr e.

This inventive rreimagining eimagining of Shakespeare’s Shakespear e’s classic tale brings the action to Venice Venice Beach and infuses it with Bollywood, L.A. Punk, and Latino pop to create cr eate a distinctively American landscape.. Nov 1414- 22. $35.

EnActe EnA cte Arts. Mountain View Center ffor or Performing Performing Arts.

FIRST FIR ST PER PERSON SON SHOO SHOOTER TER R Part of the 50th Anni Anniversary iversary Lecture and Performance Ser Series ries

OKLAHOMA

KIMBERLY KIMBERL Y AKIMBO The heart-r heart-rending ending black girl comedy about a teenage gi irl causes with a condition that cause es her to age much ffaster aster thann she should. Oct 31 thru Novv Pear Avenue 23. $20-$30. The P ear A ven nue Theatre.

Theatr e. Mountain View

A WEEKEND WITH PABLO PICASSO P ABLO PICA SSO Herbert Siguenza wrote wrote and stars in this original play about the most influential modern artist.. Featuring live drawing drawing and painting,, the play offers offers a glimpse French inside Piccasso’s Piccasso’ss Fr ench SStudio tudio for for one weekend in 1957.

19577. Nov 1212- Dec 77.. $40.. San Jose Stage.

Stage.

*concerts *c oncerts MUSIC A AT T THE MARKET A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized or ganized by San Jose Jazz.

Pedro Every Fri, 77-9pm.

-9pm. San P edro Squaree Market, San Jose.

Squar

TOSPS T OSPS TUE TUESDAYS SDAYS A weekly showcase of Bay Area’s Area’s budding music scene across across all genres. genres. Most Tuesdays, Tuuesdays, 7pm.

Pedro Thru Dec. Theatre Theatre on San P edro Square, Squar e, San Jose.

*operaa *oper CAFFE FRASCATI FRASCA AT TI Opera Opera Night. First Friday of every month. San Jose.

THE IT ITALIAN ALIAN GIRL ALGIERS IN AL GIERS The sparkling Oper Operaa about a shipwrecked shipwr ecked Italian girl who search in her sear ch ffor or her lover attracts undesired affections attr acts undesir ed aff ections from Sultan. fr om a powerful Sul tan. Nov 15 thru 30. $51-$111. CCalifornia alifornia Theatre, Theatr e, San Jose.

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*art MUSEUMS ART MUSEUM ART GATOS OF LLOS OS GA ATOS “The Manr Manresa esa Seasons:: Exhibition of Santa Cruz Sculptor David Kimball Anderson.”” An exhibition workss inspir inspired displaying work ed by natural Zen philosophies and natur al provide phenomenon that pr ovide peace provoke and pr ovoke contemplation.. Nov 6- Jan 31.. LLos os Gatos.

CANTOR CANT OR ARTS ARTS CENTER “The New Landscape: Gyorgy Experiments in Light by Gyor gy KKepes.” epes.” Thru Nov 17.

177. “Sympathy “Sympathy ffor or the Devil.” This exhibit captures captures the visual history of Satan in art. The centerpiece of acquired the exhibit is the newly acquir ed Jackson Pollock, Jack son P ollock, titled LLucifer ollock, uciffeerr.

Thru Dec 1.. “Robert Frank Frank in America.” This collection of 130 photographs photographs examines Robert Frank’s Frank’s work from from the 1950s.

Thru Jan 5. Stanford.

Stanford.

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

San Jose.

DE SAISSET SAISSET MUSEUM “Creative in Common” “Creative Common” ffeatures eatures work by artists like Sam Francis Francis and Fletcher Benton and the work of their artisitic rrelatives. elatives.

“Keep “K eep Calm Calm and Collect On” On” ffeatures eatures the museum’s museum’s rrecent ecent acquisitions including prints Warhol Wayne ayne

by Andy W arhol and W Mar.. Santa Clar Clara.

Thiebaud. Thru Mar a.

EUPHRAT EUPHRA AT MUSEUM Various art and photogr Various photography aphy created cr eated by students at De Anza College. g CCupertino. upertino. p

HISTORY HIS TORY PARK PARK SAN SAN JOSE “Silicon V Valley alley Bikes: P Passion, assion, Politics Innovation & P olitics Since 1880.” “Shirlie Montgomery: Picturing San Jose Since 1938,” Thru Dec 14.

LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS COMPANY COMPANY “Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery”,, “Zulugrass ffeaturing eaturing the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Great Maasai tribe of the Gr eat Rift Valley V alley ll off KKenya enya andd Tanzania.

Taanzania. i “Woodcarvings Val Gardena, “W oodcarvings of V al Gar dena, Italy,” Italy y,,” ffeaturing eaturing handcrafted handcrafted woodcarving figures. woodcar ving figur es.

SSAN AN JOSE MUSEUM OF AR ART T “David Levinthal:: Make Believe,” workss by photogr photographer work apher David “What’s Levinthal. Thru Nov 30.. “What ’s

HIGHER FIRE CLA CLAYSPACE AYSPACE

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF SAN QUILTS TEXTILESS QUIL TS & TEXTILE

MACLA MA CLA

““Antique Antique A Ohio Amish Quil Quilts ts from from m the Darwin Darwin D.. Bearley Collection” Collection n” breadth creativity show the br eadth of cr eativity in in quilt-making the quil t-making tradition tradition from from m 1880-1940.

1880-11940.. Bearley popularizedd quilts the quil ts when he took them out o of the community and sold them m broader public. t the to th br b oader d American A i public blic.

Mar.. 1.. “T “Two Wonders” Thru Mar Tw wo Color W onderrs” demonstrate demonstr ate how limiting a colors color pallette to only two color rs can cr create contrasts eate stark contr asts and complimentary dynamics.

San Jose.

TRIT TRITON ON MUSEUM OF AR ART T “Ron Dell’ Dell’Aquila: Aquila: Photogr Photography,” aphyy,,” an exhibit of unapologetic intensity and hue. Thru Nov Arastu: 16. “Salma Ar astu:: Celebration Celebrationn off CCalligraphy,” alligr lli aphy hy,,”” ffeaturing eaturing t i th the texturee and calligr calligraphy blend of textur apphy sacred on sacr ed texts. Thru Nov 16.

“Karim “K arim Alwali: The Civilization n abstract Thru Code,”” abstr act paintings. Thr ru Clara.

Nov 23.. Santa Clar a.

GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “In the Cave Cave We We Dance” Dance” solo exhibition by Joseph LLoughborough. oughborough. Thru Nov 15.

San Jose.

Jose

ART AR T ARK GALLER GALLERY Y “Fifth Annual The Mor Moree the Merrier Mer rier Holiday Exhibit,” Bay ffeaturing eaturing the work of over B ay Area Ar ea artists. Nov 7 thru Dec 5.

San Jose.

BRUNI BR UNI GALLER GALLERY Y

First Fridays ffeature eature new demonstrations, artwork, demonstr ations, and conversations with artists.

San Jose.

"Unmasked," An exhibited on "Unmasked," superheros. rreal eal and imagined superher os.

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Thru Nov 17 7. San Jose.

ZERO ZER O 1 GARA GARAGE GE "The Cloud Collection" by KKarolina arolina Sobecka investigates exploree the clouds to explor intersection between art and geoengineering. Thru Dec 19.

San Jose.

“Perceptual” LLucas “Perceptual” ucas Artist Fraser Fellows Chris Fr aser and exploree Justin LLowman owman explor the rrelationship elationship between perception, per ception, light, space, and Saratoga. place. Thru Feb 1. Sar atoga.

PACIFIC P ACIFIC AR ART T LEAGUE LEAGUE “Science, TTechnology, echnology e y, and the Futuree of Art.”” Nov 77-27.

Palo Alto.

Futur -2777.. P alo Al to.

PALO P ALO AL ALTO TO AR ART T CENTER “I’ll Show YYou oou Mine.”” Artists exploree ffamily portraits. explor amily portr aits. Thru Palo Alto.

Dec 14. P alo Al to.

PHO69 PHO6 9 Watercolors by Made’ Watercolors Made’ Sukerti Berg.

Ber g. San Jose.

PSYCHO P SYCHO DONUT DONUTSS Works by John Renzel, Lacey Works Bryant, Nicolas CCaesar, aesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Foley, Michael Foley y, Michael Borja, Valery V alery Milovic, CCarlos arlos Villez, Joyner,, Laur Lauraa CCallin Eric Joyner allin Bennett, John Hageman and McColley.. San Jose.

Robert McColley

“Relics” explor “Relics” explores es what embraces technology embr aces and makes obsolete. Thru Jan 224.

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San Jose.

GALLERY GALLER Y HOUSE Holiday Show Show.. Nov 18-Dec 224.

4 4.

Palo Alto.

Reception:: Fri, Nov 21. P alo Al lto.

GALLERY GALLER Y SSARATOGA ARA ATOGA Judy Bingman’s Bingman’ss wildlif wildlifee photographs photogr aphs with a special Polar section on P olar Bears. Thru Way, Saratoga.

Dec 1. Big Basin W ayy, Sar atogga.

GALLERY GALLER Y 290 2905 5 call ffor or inf info. o. Universal Mediaa A ccess, San Jose.

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WORKS W ORKS SSAN AN JOSE

Art by JJ.. Danniel. Mezcal Restaurant, Restaur ant, San Jose.

DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SHALA A

“Beware! YYokai!”

“Beware! ookai!” Chris Br Brand andd Kitamura. and TTakahiro aakahiro Kitamur a. Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

Daily Classes off offered ered on Art and TTechnology. eechnology. San Jose.

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SEEING THING THINGSS GALLER GALLERY Y “Full Bellies and Empty CCalories” alories” by Sean Boyle.

San Jose

SLIDING DOOR CCOMPANY OMPANY “One Thousand Thousand Project,” workss by Jason Pr oject,” work McHenry.

McHenry y. San Jose.

SOUTH FIR FIRST ST BILLIARDS "Art Lif "Art Lifer" er" by Alfr Alfredo edo Reyes and Debbie Doherty with from om DJ Mystik Mike. music fr ““Assemble!”

Assemble!” a MESHcollective show.. W Works show orks by various artists.

San Jose.

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“Day Of The Dead.” A cul culturally turally celebrating ffestive estive exhibit celebr ating Mexico’s Mexico ’s most important holiday.. Redwood City City. holiday y.

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“Petrified,” work “Petrified,” workss by Andy Wallace.

W allace. San Jose.

"The Public is P Personal." ersonal."

Alvarado, Alexanna Alvar ado, KKaren aren Haas, and Alayne YYellum eellum exploree how personal explor affect rrelationship elationship aff ect our public conduct. d t Thru Th Nov N 15, 15 San S Jose.

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Jazz paintings by Bruni Sabl Sablan. an.

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

“San Shui,” paintings by Altice Russell Al tice Case.

Case. San Jose.

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*events *e vents SHERLOCK SHERL OCK WHO? OR A SCANDAL BARATARIA SCAND AL IN B ARA ATARIA Lamplighters Musical Theatr Theatree is hosting their annual Champagne Gala and Auction.

In their 62nd season, their newest, musical spoof will parody programming par ody BBC pr ogramming when Sherlock Holmes is sent future. into the futur e. Sun, Nov 9 at 4pm. $59-$83. Mountain View Performing Center ffor or the P erforming Arts.

SOLO SOL O FLAMENC FLAMENCO O On their 48th Anniversary Anniversary, y, Theatree Flamenco pr premieres Theatr emieres original work and ffeatures eatures from guest artists fr om Spain to perform perf orm ““percussive percussive ffootwork, ootwork, expressive stirring expr essive dance, and stir ring traditional song” with the tr aditional flair of Flamenco. Sat, Nov 8 at 8pm. $45. Mountain View Performing Center ffor or the P erforming Arts.

SOUTH FIR FIRST ST FRID FRIDAY AY ARTWALK AR TWALK A self-guided evening tour through thr ough galleries, museums, and independent businesses eaturing exhibitions and special ffeaturing performances, perf ormances, including SStreet treet Parque Eats & Live Beats at P arque Pobladores.

De LLos os P obladores.. First Friday of the Month. Venues Venues along throughout S. First street street and thr oughout downtown San Jose.

SILICON V SILICON VALLEY ALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL FE STIV VA AL In conjunction with South First presents Fridays,, the SVMF pr esents Anna Maria Mendieta.. Ms.. Mendieta, the principal harpist with the Sacramento Sacr amento Philharmonic,, has performed perf ormed as a soloist and as a member with many symphony orchestras or chestras and chamber music groups across country. gr oups acr oss the country y.

THESE WALLS CAN TALK In her new exhibit “Scarcity,” Leyla Cardenas examines San Jose’s relationship with its past using its own forgotten relics.

Reading the Ruins A LOT CAN BE gathered from a city’s leftovers. Just ask Leyla Cardenas.

The Colombian artist has long been intrigued by the things that societies willingly discard.

Leyla Cardenas: ‘Scarcity’ Growing up in a civil war-torn country, Cardenas recalls searching for meaning among the piles of Nov 15-Jan 31, debris and wreckage she would regularly find in 10am-5pm, Free her home town of Bogota. Over time she became San Jose Institute of fascinated with these once so permanent structures Contemporary Art reduced to rubble. sjica.org “I started collecting things the city would throw away,” she recounts. “Those voids in the city were very revealing to me.” Pondering over the scraps of facade, broken windows, tangles of lumber and crumbled cement walls, she wondered what the ruins suggested about her community and its reverence or disregard for its past and what they might portend for the future.

These discarded artifacts and the questions they raised in her mind eventually became the building blocks of Cardenas’ art, which has expanded over the years from considering issues of cultural identity in her native Colombia to exploring the ways other communities around the world deal with their past as they move forward into the future.

“The question I’m asking with a city or place is how they deal with memory and the past,” Cardenas says. With Scarcity, opening this Friday at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Cardenas puts these questions to San Jose.

Cardenas has a particular interest in architecture. Scarcity, which opens Jan. 15, compiles plaster impressions of historic buildings from around Market Street, which she will arrange for display on the gallery’s walls and floor, and tells the story of San Jose’s complicated, and almost adversarial, relationship to its past.

Once the “Valley of Heart’s Delight” and the first capital city of California, San Jose has since been branded the “Capital of Silicon Valley,” and its focus on progress and innovation through tech seems to reveal a community more interested in disruption than legacy.

“I feel California definitely moves at a different speed, especially Silicon Valley,” Cardenas says. “There’s not that relationship with the past. You feel it is a little bit in transition and there is nothing that takes you back.”

The exhibit is asking questions that are especially relevant in the here and now.

As this tech-oriented region comes charging out of the Great Recession and new developments spring up all over downtown San Jose, Cardenas hopes her exhibit will get people thinking about the city’s proud past even as they move inexorably forward into the future.— Brandon E. Roos

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Hitler.””

The h Do Doctor or (Mat (Mattt Smith) i h) llater cto derided the iidea dea as “going into the past to kill so someone omeone who who’s ’s already already dead,”” but th there’s ere’s a vvery ery small and non-violent noni film variation of violent indie killing-Hitler fantasy. the killing-H itler fant asy. Menno Meyjes’ 2002 was Me yjes’ 20 02 2 Max w as a prime what-if fantasy: what -if fant a y: rather than shooting as sho oting

Hitler,, it Hitler H it’d ’d b bee less nois noisyy and mor moree fun around Viennese fu un to hang ar ound 1920s V iienn nese ccoffee offeee shops with Mr off Mr.. H (N (Noah oah Taylor), T ayylor), ttalking alking him out of the p path ath hee was was going to ttake. ake.

Volker V olk o er Schlondor Schlondorff ff ’’ss Diplomac Diplomacy cy is isn’t n’t actually ab about out killing Hitler Hitler, r, bu but ut it it’s ’s the ne next xt b best est thing: it it’s ’s a si similar milar drama of dissuasion. Its su subject ubject is the night of A August ugust 24 24-25 4-25 194 1944, 4, when the Nazis wer weree ab about b out to b bee rrouted outed d out off P Paris aris b as byy the advancing Allies Allies.. It w was att this p oint that Hitler or dered point ordered have been second w what would ha ave b een his sec ond d gr reatest crime cau ust: greatest crime,, after the Holo Holocaust: French a rreprisal eprisal demolition of the Fr en nch First would ccapital. a al. F apit irst all the bridges woul ld b xcept ffor o or the P ont N e euf; bee blown eexcept Pont Neuf;

the debris would clo od the clogg and flo flood Seine nundate the Seine,, which would in inundate low-lying eastern rregions egiions such as L Laa Maraise adiating cir cle, Maraise.. Then, in a ra radiating circle, the dynamiting of L Les es In Invalides, valides, N Notre otre Dame and the L Louvre—a ouvre—a ffew ew paintings would b bee rremoved e ved first emo ffor o or Himmler’ ollecttion, though Himmler’ss ccollection, the “Mona Lisa ldn’t b Lisa”” woul wouldn’t bee one railroad stations of them. All of the ra ilroad st ations bee incinerated incinerated. would b d. All ffour our legs o of the Eiff ffeel T ower we o ere b ound with Eiffel Tower were bound eexplosives. xplosives. Sup Supervising ervisin ng the plan, an engineer ccomments, ommen nts, “If I’d I’d been been told as an ar chitecturre student that architecture I’ db arris…”

I’d bee blowing up P Paris…”

The drama is based French d on a Fr ench pla ay—I’d sa ay Schlond dor ff has had play—I’d say Schlondorff the same suc cess with h this kind success of theater adapt ation n as P olanski adaptation Polanski lately. goes has had lately y. What rreally eally go es Diplomacy on in Diplomac c y is a pair p of old through predawn men ttalking alking thr ough the pr edaawn w hours hours.. One characterr is the phlegmatic go governor vernor of Oc Occupied cupied

France, General Franc e, Gen neral vvon on Choltitz Choltitz (Niels Arestrup) supervising Ar estrup) p) who w is sup p er visingg the preparing demolition n plans and pr eparing givee the or order. to giv der. The other is the diplomat Nordling Swedish dip plomat Raoul N ordling Dusollier). ((Andre Andre Du sollier). Raised in Paris, Paris, N ordling knows k his cit Nordling cityy so well he eeven ven know ws Nap oleon III’ et knows Napoleon III’ss secr secret passage in the t Hotel Meurit Meuritzz to visit vvon on Ch holtitz’s chamb ers. ((The The Choltitz’s chambers.

Emp eror used u to visit a fa avorite Emperor favorite actr ess ther re at night.) actress there What ffollows o olllows emb o dies the embodies pr overb “Salesmanship “Saalesmanship b egins when proverb begins the client sa ssays ayys no .” Dusollier is a no.” meek, white-haired whitte-haired gent, fr ee of an free anyy insolenc hat ccould ould set off his host. insolencee tthat He ’s b oiling with ur gency and yyet et He’s boiling urgency he ’s chooses cho osees his wor ds ccarefully. arefullyy. he’s words Orson W eelles pla ayed N ordling in Is Is Welles played Nordling Paris Burnin ng?, the fforgotten o orgotten R eene Burning?, Rene Clement bl lo ckbuster ab out this blockbuster about incident; Sc chlondor ff hired hired an actor Schlondorff who lo oked d as lit tle lik Weelles looked little likee Welles as p ossible. Arestrup Arestrup is a b enign, possible. benign, rrecessive ecessive actor; acctor; humanely moist in the eeyes, yes, but bu ut with a harsh jaw jaaw full of squar eeth. Portly Portly Gert Ger t Froebe Froebe squaree te teeth. pla ayed the par played partt in the Clement mo vie; Sch hlondor ff went with an movie; Schlondorff actor mor Trevor Howard’s Howard’s style. style. moree of Trevor Schlondor ff ((The The T iin Drum Schlondorff Tin Drum)) has an inter estingg vie w of these Prussian interesting view arm ypess—when the armyy ttypes—when theyy click their heels ’s n ot lik ck heels,, it it’s not likee the electric sho shock hit them. It t’s mor like a rapid flow It’s moree like of ener gy rrolling olling up fr om the ankles, ankles, energy from up the spin ne, slapping the back of spine, the head. Almost A Y ogic. Impressive Impressive Yogic. rather than n rrobotic, obotic, for for o onc e. once.

Black ed- out o Paris Paris is half-visible halff-visible Blacked-out om the windows—the fr w familiar from shap es of d omes and ar ches and shapes domes arches towers in th the he glo gloom. om. It It’s ’s surprising how much mor moree imagination this mo dest film m has of the p ossibility of modest possibility such w anto on destruction than the wanton far mor x ensive Edge of T xp omorr o roow moree eexpensive Tomorrow had…and in i that T o om Cruise mo vie, Tom movie, the aliens actually a destr oyed the cit y. destroyed city.

N egotiation n and elo quence out foxes o Negotiation eloquence outfoxes the ffoaming o oamin ng rage of Hitler Hitler.. While Schlondor ff giv es only slight rreference effeerence Schlondorff gives to the Fr en nch R eesistance's bra ave French Resistance's brave eff ffo orts to st tall the Nazi's scheme efforts stall scheme,, the film hits itss mark k— —it’s a hop eful bit mark—it’s hopeful of histor p oving that ar tfulness ccan an historyy pr proving artfulness win out o ver e brute fforce. or o ce. over

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A FAMILY FA MILY A AFFAIR FFA IR Scissors F For or L Lefty efty are composed c of members of two musicall families—the Garzas and the Krimmels.. very musica e Krimmels

Scisso Scissors ors F For or o L Lefty efty cra crank ank up the gloom m introspection, while and in ntrospection, wh hile maintaining g sassy ‘Bangs Lashes’ the sa assy grove on ‘Ba angs & L ashes’ BY B Y BRIAN BRIANA NA HERNANDEZ

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an Fr F Francisco's ancisco's i ' campy glam-poppers, glam m-poppers, Scissors For Lefty, F or L efty y, may have been n under the rradar adar for the past passt six years but to say the group gro oup took a “break” isn't entirely entire ely accurate. accurate. Since the band's last EP, EP P, 2008’s 2008’s Consumption Consumptiion Junction, Junction, they've been bee en collecting lessons learned lea arned in the biz, making room roo om for some life off the road roa ad and getting deeper and d perhaps darker than they have ever before.

“W “We're Wee're goin going ng into some territor territoryy that standard For Lefty, is not st andard ffor o or Scissors F or L efty, y,” the y”

grro group’s oup p’s lead singer Br Bryan yan Garza sa says ayys of his band’ss rrecently full-length, hi is band’ ecently rreleased eleased full-leng gth, t Ba angs & LLashes. ashes a . “W We used to sing mo orre Bangs “We more ab bout San Francisc o and love lo ove gone g about Francisco w wr ongg. This is more more ffocused ocused on the wrong. ccomplexity o omple exxitty of wh hy lo ove go es wr ong and/ a why love goes wrong orr what's going right and how to ho ld hold on nto it and ccelebrate elebrate it.” onto “Bangs & L ashes,” the pla ayyfully artsy arts tsy Lashes, playfully vi ideo ffor o or the ne w album m’s title track,, video new album’s ccertainly e tainly er a carries a less-than-savory less-than-saavo ory carries p e eeping-tom vib e. Garza says saayys the song son ng peeping-tom vibe. its self is a rreinvention ein nvention e of Dolly P arton n's itself Parton's “J Jolene”—this time fr om the obsessiv ivve “Jolene”—this from obsessive va anttage point point i t off the th stolen t l man. vantage “Dolly P arton w aas singing g, 'Please Parton was singing, do on't ttake ak ke m xplains, don't myy man,'”” Garza eexplains, “a and this is his p erspectivve of,ff,, 'N o ple ease, “and perspective 'No please, pl lease ttake ak ke me .'” please me.'”

If Bangs & LLashes ashes a rreminds eminds yyou o ou of the t ba ack rrooms ooms of yyour our fa o avorite o nightclu ubs back favorite nightclubs w wher wheree the soundtrack is primarily

’80s-era goth-pop, ’8 0s era British0sBritish and got th pop, Garza th-p says probably something sa ays y that pr robably o has so omething to do with his band's rregular egular Thursda T ay night Thursday danc F o, wher dancee dates out in San Francisc Francisco, wheree the gr oup gra avvitated tow waard the back kgroup gravitated toward backrroom oom DJ o omier b eats.

DJss spinning glo gloomier beats.

But p erhaps what rreally eaally sets Bangs perhaps & LLashes aashes apar om pr evious Scissors ev apartt fr from previous eff ffo orts is the balanc ce it strik sstrikes kees b ettw ween efforts balance between p olished studio wizar dry and ra aw, polished wizardry raw, ener getic musicianship ays y energetic musicianship.. Garza sa says that h iis simply i l a pr roduct d t off eexperience. xp x erienc i e. product The band self f--produced and rrecorded ecorrd ded self-produced their debut LP P, Bruno on n their own time; after the ey wer gned to R o ough they weree sig signed Rough Trade the ey rrecorded eccor o ded 20 0 s Underhanded 07’ they 2007’s R omanc o e in what Garza describ ed as a Romance described “whirlwind”” ttwo-month w wo-month h sprint; this time ar ound,, the ey onc ok their around, they oncee again to took time ncorporate the time,, but wer weree able to in incorporate sophistic ated pr roduction n techniques sophisticated production the ey’ y d pick keed up on the pr evvious album. they’d picked previous The finished pr oductt is an album that product is clean,, but not sterile—emotive sterile—emotivve but not slopp py. Garza describ bes it ccomparing omparing sloppy. describes it to “a slick,, one -mic rrecording. eccording.” one-mic “T To me ’s the ulti imate w ay of “To me,, that that’s ultimate way doing it,” he sa ayys—to make maak ke it ffeel eel e rreal eal says—to and not cut t--and-paste.” cut-and-paste.

After man ny yyears eears sp ent touring with many spent

the lik kees off Smashing Pumpkins likes Pumpkins,, Blonde R eedhead an nd P anic! A o, Garza Redhead and Panic!

Att The Disc Disco, sa ayys a break break k was waas necessary—and necceessary—and — not just says to find timee to rrecord ecorrd Bangs & LLashes, ashes a , out the rigors but to aavoid vo oid d “singing ab about of the rroad oad and these trivial things that eeveryday ver e yd daay p e eople ar en't going to cconnect onnect people aren't with. W aanted to mak ke sur aas Wee w wanted make suree it w was mor ou ut our lif fe eexperiences xp x eriences instead moree ab about life of just som me kind of touring lif fe.” some life.

Some off these lif fe eexperiences xxperiences include life o lo oved e ones the deaths of loved ones,, including Garza's aun nt who ccommitted ommittted t suicide b aunt byy jumping off ff the Golden Gate Bridge Bridge..

“Things lik ke that wer sy to like weree not eas easy op album b effo ore and this work into a p pop before eally go album ga ave us a chanc gave chancee to rreally ther e,” Garz za said. “That meant a lot.” there, Garza In additi ion to delving into deep er addition deeper mor cult lyric al material and self fmoree diffic difficult lyrical selfpr oducing Bangs B producing Bangs,, the band also made some otherr signific caant changes in the significant mak keup e an nd op erations of the band. makeup and operations Due to th he ec onomic downturn and the economic the ccontinued ontinu ued ccontraction ontraction of an alr eady already shunk keen music m industr y, Garza sa ayys shunken industry, says Scissors F orr L efty had to rreassess eassess some For Lefty of its longst tanding strategies of touring longstanding and distribu uting the band’ ecordings. distributing band’ss rrecordings.

Scissors F orr L efty stopp ed sear ching ffor o or For Lefty stopped searching a lab el or rrecord e ord deal,, and now use so ec cial label social media and online str eaming ser vices to streaming services pr omote an nd distribute their music promote and music..

“W We rrealized eallized yyou o ou ha ave to do “We have eeverything ver e ything yyourself, o ourself,ff” ourself f,,” Garza sa ays y . “If If yyou o ou says. mak ke some ething aawesome, w wesome, it will find a make something w ay to shin ne.” way shine.

While th he lo caal sc ene w aas in flux, the local scene was so to ow aas the t Scissors lineup veer too was lineup.. Ev Ever sinc 06,, Scissors F or L efty w aas the sincee 20 2006, For Lefty was “marriage “marriage”” of the Garza and Krimmel families n the Garza side re w aas families.. On side,, ther there was Br ryyan,, his br b other Ste eve, and their uncle Bryan, brother Steve, R o obb by. On the t Krimmel side re Robby. side,, ther theree wer were the br ro otherrs P eter and JJames. ames. In the brothers Peter midst of rrecording eccorrd ding Bangs & LLashes, ashes a , Ste eve Steve left the ban nd,, but w aas quickly rreplaced eeplaced b band, was byy Garza a’s yyounger ou o unger ccousin, ousin,, Eric o Garza’s Eric.. And Garza sa ayys he wouldn't wou uldn't have haave it any an ny other way— way— says esp ecially when w it ccomes omes o to p erfo ormingg. especially performing. aaree just a rreally eally gr eat time “Shows ar great ffor or us to lo o ove each other We love other,,” he said. “W “We had a lot off eeye ye ccontact ont o taact at the last show and wer ust lik ke, 'He ey man! Y o ou're m weree ju just like, 'Hey You're myy ccousin! ousin! L ook o at us do this! And ther e's Look there's yyour our mom and m o ousins out myy other 15 ccousins ther aatching us It'ss theree in thee audienc audiencee w watching us.'.' It vvery eery fun.”

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Rock/Pop/ Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop AGENDA A GENDA LLOUNGE OUNGE Every W Wed, ed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays free ee dance W ednesdays w/ fr lessons. Every Thu, 9pm: Every Banda Night. San Jose. Ever ry Sunday: Hip-hop Hip hop & rreggae. eggae eggae.

San Jose.

ART AR T BOUTIKI

Roger Mor Morehouse ehouse Pr Presents esents Foxy Thursdays. Campbell Campbell

THE CA CATS ATS Wed,, Nov 12:: Contr Wed, Control ol Fr Freaks. eaks.. Sat, Nov 15,, 8:30:: Eddie TToro ooro and The Blues Rockers.. Every Thu, 8:30pm:: Out of the Blue.. Every Ferrara.

Sun,, 6pm:: Joe Fer rara.. LLos os Gatos.

CITY NA NATIONAL AT TIONAL CIVIC Sun, Nov 16, 8pm: Judas Priest plus special guest SSteel teel Panther.

P anther. San Jose.

Thu, Nov 13, 8pm: Propaganda, Pr opaganda, SSwoope, woope, 7:30pm:: JGivens. Fri, Nov 14, 7:30pm Shrews, The CCalling alling Field, The Shr ew ws, The LLords ords of Sealand.

THE B BACK ACK B BAR AR SOF SOFA A Every W Wed, ed, 9pm: The CCypher, ypherr, ffeat. e eat.

Hip-hop,, Jungle,, Soul,, Reggae, BreakBeat, House Dubstep, p, TTrap, rap, p,, Br eakBeat,, Hous se more.

Wed, and mor e. W ed,, Oct 29,, 9pm: Christina Holmes,, Joe Bust & J-Won, JWon,, Jenicyde,, Mark SSymplex, ymplexx, Cise K.. San Jose

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed, W ed,, Nov 12,, 8pm:: Moet, The Buffaloes.

TTropics, ropics, The Bitter Buff aloes.

Atomic Thu,, Nov 13,, 8pm:: A tomic with Basura.

DJ Basur a.. $5.. Fri,, Nov 77,, 8pm: Derby Shoves and Kisses: a Roller Der rby Fundraiser starring Fundr aiser event star ring The Hormones (All-Girl Ramones Cover Band), TTrucker rrucker Dad.. $15.

Sat,, Nov 8,, 8pm:: Scissors ffor or Lefty.

Lefty y. $10.. San Jose.

THE HUDDLE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: Free. over..

Live bands. Fr ee. 21 and over Fremont.

Fr emont.

JOHNNY V’S Every W Wed: ed: Geology w/ Benny Medicina, Rock & Roll KKaraoke. araoke. Thu: Planet Funk Venom w/ V enom 347.

347. Fri: Traffic.

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Birthday..

Sat: Traffic—Dan’s Traffic—Dan’s Birthday Every Sun: Sundaze, a house and EDM night. San Jose.

ART AR T BOUTIKI Sat, Nov 15, 8pm: John W Worley orley and Bari Bari. San Jose

BLUE BL UE NO NOTE TE LLOUNGE OUNGE Every TTue, ue, u 7:30pm: YYoshi ooshi Senzaki Band. Every Sun: Jazz or Blues. Milpitas.

CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH Thu, Nov 13, Thu 13 8:30pm: Michael Lifee Quartet.

Zilber LLush ush Lif Walle Fri, Nov 14, 8:30pm: W alle Schnalle Quintet. Sat, Nov 15, Dinner,, & 9pm:: Little Sisters, Dinner Wed, TTry rry the Pie. Every W ed, 9pm: Wax Wednesdays.

W ax W ednesdays. Every Sun, 7pm:: Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. San Jose.

LITTLE LLOU’S OU’S BBQ Wed, Nov 12, 7pm: Mr. Wed, Mr. P Patrick atrick TT.. McCauley.

McCauley. Thu, Nov 13, 7:30pm: Aki Aki’ss Blues Jam. Fri, Derek Irving Nov 14, 8pm: Der ek Ir ving & His Combo. Sat, Nov 15, 8pm: Burgun.

Charles Bur gun. Every Sun: Little LLou’s ou’s Jazz Jam. Mon, Nov 18, 7pm: Just Picked ampbell.

SString tring Band. CCampbell.

RED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE Fri, Nov 77,, 8pm: Lovetaker.

Lovetaker.

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Mountain View

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MOSAIC MOS AIC SONOMA CHICKEN CCOOP OOP DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN DJ’s Thursday Thursday, y, Friday Friday, y, & Saturday Satur day night. San Jose..

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Fri, Nov 14, Fri 14 10pm: The Degenerates.

Degener ates. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS BRITANNIA DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Every W Wed: ed: DJ 512. Every Th Thu: u: Neeber.. Every Fri: DJ Nico & Neeber Clay.. Every DJ Benofficial & Clay Jose.

Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jos se.

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ASha-Med, Sha-Med, Fri. Talky Talk a y TTina, ina, The Guverment, Sat Dark Seas (Utah). San Jose free 21+ fr ee 9pm/10pm.

CARDIFF LLOUNGE OUNGE Every TTues, uues, 10pm:: Resident DJ DJ presents Gabriel Black pr esents Beat CCulture. ulture.. Every Wed, Wed, 10pm: Rubber Soul w/ Wen Wen Davis, Nappy, Child Nappy y, CCutso, utso, and Golden Chi ild (Hip-Hop).. Every Thu, 10pm:

THREE DE DEGREES GREES Shake It Up W Wednesdays. ednesdays.

6-10pm Live Music 610pm w/ Wil Roberts. Happy Hour ALL NIGHT 44-10pm.

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Jazz/Blues/ World W orld o ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BIS BISTRO TRO Sat, Nov 15, 6:30pm: Susan Rancort. Sun, Nov 16, 7pm: Mike Galisatus & The College of San Mateo Big Band.

Every TTue: uue: Jazz TTuesdays. uesdays. u City..

Redwood City

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

POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO TRO Every Wed, Wed, 6pm:: Ron Thompson. Thu, Nov 13,, 6pm: Sammy Varela Varela Blues Band.

Fri,, Nov 14,, 6pm: p Con Brio Band. Sat,, Nov 15,, 6pm: Tia Tia CCarroll arroll Blues Band.. Sun, Nov 9,, 2pm:: Afternoon Blues w/ The Smokin’ Smokin’ King Snakes. Mon, 17, Nov 17 7, 6pm:: Aki Kumar Kumar & Little Jonny Lawton. San Jose.

SMOKING PIG BBQ Fri, Nov 14, 9pm: Andy Santana Blues Band. Sat, Nov 15, 9pm: RJ Mischo and his Red Hot Band. Fremont.

Fremont.

UNWINED Every 2nd and 4th Thu, 77-9pm: -9pm: Don Balistreri.

Balistreri. Every Sat, 7-9:30pm: 7-9:30pm: Live jazz.

3rdd Sat, 9pm: Every 1st and 3r Randy Whiting and “@Jazz.”

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and R&B groups thanks in no small part Ziek McCarter’s powerful voice and impressive footwork.

Grooves and Moves A FEW MONTHS AGO, Con Brio guitarist Benjamin Andrews had a revelation: Con Brio is his favorite band—and not just his favorite among those bands that he’s played in—but his favorite in general. He’s making exactly the music he wants to make.

A lot of the recently buzzed-about R&B has sailed off to weirder, electronic places, but Con Brio’s lineage is clearer. The core rhythm section of keyboardist Micah Dubreuil, bassist Jonathan Kirchner and drummer Andrew Laubacher has been playing together since 2009, and after losing their previous singer last year, they added on Andrews and frontman Ziek McCarter.

A rotating horn section rounds out their more traditional instrumentation, but nailing down their sound isn’t too easy. They check funk acts Sly & the Family Stone and Billy Preston as influences, along with Stevie Wonder and neo-soul artist D’Angelo. Really, these guys just sound tight, completely put together, and Andrews knows it.

“I’ve never had such a complete package,” he says.

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An integral part of the package is McCarter—Con Brio’s charismatic, multi-talented frontman. He can croon, he can wail and he’s got moves. He cites entertainers like Prince, Bob Fosse, and James Brown as the inspiration for his stage presence.

“I’ve been dancing since I was 2,” McCarter says. “I was kind of kid that would set up a camera, dance an hour straight and go back and watch it. I’m always asking, ‘How can I tell a story with my moves?’”

To get a sample of McCarter’s ability, go online and watch one of the band’s shows at San Francisco vintage-and-antique store, Viracocha. During a rendition of “Never Be the Same,” a song from their forthcoming EP, McCarter glides across the stage, executes spins, shimmies and at one point nails a perfectly timed drop split, James Brown-style.

McCarter’s impressive footwork compliments the invigorating power of songs like “Give It All” from their forthcoming EP, Kiss the Sun, (due out in January).The song is bursting at the seams with energy—especially when the triumphant horn section builds to McCarter’s high falsetto and Andrew’s wicked guitar solo.

McCarter says the song, co-written with Dubreuil, started out as an ode to a passionate long distance relationship before turning into a conduit for channeling the spirit of his father, who was shot and killed—while unarmed— by a police officer in 2011. “I was my father singing to my mother,” he says. “It transformed into a hybrid of both.”

“It’s ecstatic, man,” Andrews said. “Everybody is sweating half way through the intro and I don’t even know why. It’s not cardio, it’s energy.”— Stephen Layton

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

Wed-Sat & TTue, Wed-Sat uue, 9pm-2am, 9pm-2am, & last Sun of every month, B&S Karaoke.

22-7pm: -7pm: 7 Karaoke.

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

Woodside.

W oodside.

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

San Jose.

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

Milpitas.

POINCIANA LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No Wed, cover.. Sun, 9pm: Joe. cover Clara.

Santa Clar a.

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

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

CCampbell. ampbell.

THE BEAR BEARSS Fri, 9pm: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose Jose..

THE GOOSET GOOSETOWN OWN LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: 1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke. Willow Glen.

THE HUDDLE BLINKY’S BLINK Y’S CAN’T SSAY AY Fri, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke Friday Clara.

Nights. Santa Clar a.

BLUE BL UE PHEA PHEASANT SANT TTue, uue, 7pm: KKaraoke araoke w/ SSteve tevee TTiger. iger. CCupertino. upertino.

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

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: KKaraoke Wed araokke w/ DJ Hank. San Jose.

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

Sun-Tue, araoke.

CCupertino. upertino.

Wed--TThu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Wed-Thu 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 Wed W ed & Sun, Sun 9:30pm-1:30am: 9:30pm 1:30am: 9:30pmKKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

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

CCampbell.

KING OF CL CLUBS UBS Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KKOR OR Karaoke.

Karaoke.

View..

Mountain View

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THE QU QUARTER ARTER NO NOTE TE TTue: uue: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

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

9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

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

Curtis.

San Jose.

SHERWOOD SHER WOOD INN Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

San Jose.

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

SSTATION TAT TION 55 Thu: JR. Sun: JR Diaz Family Gilroy.

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

TEQUILA SHO TEQUILA SHOT’S T’S BAR B AR & GRILL Mon & Wed, Wed, 9pm: Darryl.

Darryl.

Milpitas.

THREE FLAME FLAMESS RESTAURANT RE STAURANT

Thu: KKaraoke. araoke. Sunnyvale.

Every Mon, Wed, Wed, Sun, 8pm to closing: KKaraoke. araoke. aoke Every TTue uue and Thu, 9pm to closing: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

Mon: SStar tar W Wars ars P Party. arty. All Da Day ay Happy Hour Drink Specials, TTrivia rrivia 5-6pm, KKaraoke araoke 7pm-close. LLos os Gatos.

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CCOURT’S OURT’S LLOUNGE OUNGE

Sat: Karaoke.

Karaoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

Mon, Thu & Sat, 9pm-Close 9pm-Close:: KKaraoke. araoke. aoke CCampbell. ampbell ampbell.

OASIS O ASIS

Mon,, 10pm: p Mandatoryy Monday KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

Wed, W ed, 7pm: KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

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

Wed: araoke. Thu, 9pm9pm-1am: 1am m: Clara.

KKaraoke. araoke. Santa Clar a.

DIVE B BAR AR Wed, 10pm: KKaraoke.

Wed, araoke.

San Jose.

LILLY LILL Y MA MAC’S C’S

TTue: ue: u Karaoke.

Karaoke. San Jose.

MARIANI’S

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

SAN PEDR SAN PEDRO O SQUARE SQUARE MARKET Every Thu, 7:30pm7:30pm-9:30pm: 9:30pm: KKaraoke araoke Club. San Jose.

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

WOODHAMS W OODHAMS LLOUNGE OUNGE

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

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

Wed, W ed, 9pm: Karaoke.

Karaoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

OFFICE B BAR AR Fri-Sat, 9pm, and Sun, 7pm: View..

KKaraoke. araoke. Mountain View

THE X B BAR AR Every Fri, 9pm: KKaraoke araoke w/ KJ upertino.

Vinnie. CCupertino.

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Fri, Nov 7, 7, 10pm: Foundation Fridays presents presents DJ Issac B. Sat, Nov 8, 10pm: Video Mixing with VJ VJ One. Los Los Gatos.

Every Wed: Wed:: Wingy Wednesdays.

Wednesdays.

Every Thu:: Tanked Tanked a Thursdays w/ VJJ DVS Dave. Every Fri: V VJJ One. V 2nd and 4th Satur Saturdays, days,, 10pm: Dluzion. San Jose.

MILANO AGENDA A GENDA

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Every Fri: Salsa Dancing. Every 3rdd Fri: Strictly 3r Strictly Freestyle.

Freestyle. Every 4th Fri: Fuz. San Jose.

Fri, Nov 14: DJs Nuke W Weez, eez, Danny J, J, Zen. Sat, Nov 15: DJ Kid Vicious. San Jose.

Wed: Salsa W Wed: Wednesdays. ednesdays. Th Thu: u: Shakalosos Banda Nights. Sun: S Vybez.

Reggae V ybez. San Jose.

THE MO MOJO JO LOUNGE LOUNGE Every Thu: DJ Mist. Fremont.

Fremont.

SUMMIT LLOUNGE OUNGE

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB

MOTIF MO TIF

Sat: Club Remix in Summit Saturdays.

Points Satur days. Four P oints Sheraton, Sher aton, San Jose.

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

Every 4th Sat: Thrive. Sun: Only.. San Jose.

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Nightlyy, 7pm: DJ and dancin Nightly, dancing. g.

CCupertino. upertino.

Thu, 9pm: Therapy Therapy Thursday.

Thursdayy. Fri, 9pm:: Soul Therapy.

Therapyy. San Jose.

BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE

PURE LLOUNGE OUNGE 408

Wed:: Almaden V Wed: Valley alley Beer P Pong o ong ONEmanARMY. with DJ ONEmanARMY Y. Thu: Pop, Vi t Vintage (80 (80s, 90s, 90 P op, Rock, R k Q.. Fri:: Hip Hop) with DJ David Q Control Quality Contr ol with DJ DLuzion.

DLuziion.

Lifee with DJ Kruc Krucial Sat:: LLounge ounge Lif cial NESSrock. and DJ NESSr ock.. San Jose.

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

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

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

WOSdays.. San Jose.

Thu, Nov 13, 12am: Borgeous.

Borgeous.

Fri, Nov 14, 10pm: Rick Lee. Sat Nov 15, Sat, 15 10pm: Mister Mike.

Mike Sunnyvale.

WILLOW WILL OW DEN SSun: DJs DJ Mon: M Magic M i Mike Mik Wed-Sat: Mondays. W ed-Sat: DJs. Willow Glen.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Wed, Nov 13, 10pm: DJ Jose Wed, 10pm: Melendez. Fri, Nov 15, 10pm m: DJ Nico & Neba. San Jose.

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Wed: DJ 512. Thu: DJ Nico & Wed: Neeber.. Fri: DJ Benofficial.

Neeber Benofficial Sat: S DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

C L O S I N G N I G H T PA P A R T O N E R I O T H E AT AT R E 0 I BELIEVE IN UN UNICORNS NICORNS SUN NOV 16, 7:00

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

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Mississippi indie post-rock trio moves from fast to slow, quiet to loud. Nov 13 at Thee Parkside.

Thu-Sat, 10:30pm: Rotatingg Guest DJs.

SEAN HAYES

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

Thu: Liquid Thursdays, with hip-hop, guest DJs spinning hip-hop p, TTop oop 40 and R&B. Fri, 9pm: Mon: Flashback Fridays. $10. Mon n: Industry.. San Jose.

Industry

LIQUID Fri: DJs & dancing. Every 2ndd Sat: Girls & Champagne.

Champagne San Jose.

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

San Jose.

S.F.-based songwriter carries a soulful weight to his straightforward folk sound. Nov 13-14 at the Independent.

HOT WATER MUSIC After 20 years, the Florida punk outfit is still pounding out hardcore emotional rock. Nov 16 at SlimÕs.

DEERHOOF One-of-a-kind noise-pop band plays off their exuberantly cutting new album, ‘La Isla Bonita.’

Nov 18 at Great American Music Hall.

HAR MAR SUPERSTAR R&B singer performs revealingly tongue-in-cheek and undeniably groovy-show.

Nov 19 at Bottom of the Hill.

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evenings love somebody, evenings out. When yyou ou lo ve someb odyy, no, with isn’t no, spending spending time wit th them isn n’t ’ the worst thing in the wor world. rld. But yyou ou also need time to go goof bee a p person of off and a b erson -- to cut out of ccomedy some omedy o som me night to hang with a friend at a par party ty or just sit in yyour our o underwear stare label underwear and st are at a the UPC lab el on a can beer. can of b eer.

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the high notes (singingg fr om the hear from heartt but with the vvocal ocaal st tyl ylings of a diseased stylings onsider spleen). While yyou’re ou’re at a it, cconsider eople with a health yyourself ourself luck ky. P hy sense lucky.

People healthy elationship of cconfidence onfidence mak ke th he b est rrelationship make the best par tners -- if some ew whaat ccostlier ostlier o ones partners somewhat ones,, lik ke when yyou ou need to o get yyour our house like pr offeessionally soundp prooffeed so the professionally soundproofed neighb ors will stop rreporting ep porting yyou ou ffor o or neighbors animal cruelt ty. Inter esstinglyy, the sat anic cruelty.

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©2014, Amy Alkon, all rights rese reserved. erved. Got a problem? W Write rite Amy y Alkon, 550 SS.. First St., San Jose, CA 95113 95113, 3, or email adviceamy@aol. adviceamy@aol.com. com.

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I’m an aspiring comedian -- serio seriously ously aspiring -- so I’m out most nights n doing stand-up.. My girlfriend gets ups stand-up upset set about all the time I put into th this his and expects my nights off to be spent with her her. r. R Recently, ecently y, I was going to an open mic, m when a friend called and invited me to a birthd birthday day party party. y. I ended up blowing offf stand-up for the party, party y, but later later, r, my girlfriend as asked sked me how stand-up went and I just said “fine.”

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #598112 #598 8112 following The follo wing person(s) is (are) (arre) doing businesss as: Estate, EQ1 Real Real Estate e, 11762 762 TTechnology eechnologgy Dr.,., #106, Dr #106, San Jose, CA, CA, 95110, 95110, 0 Equity One Ral Ral Estate, Inc. This business iiss conducted by by a Corporation.

Corpor ation.

Above Abo ve entity was w formed in the state s of California Registrant began R egistrant bega an transacting tr ansacting underr the business unde business fi titi busin fictitious b i ess name or namess herein listed her ein onn 110/10/2013.

0/10/2013. /s/Hector Brush Brussh CFO #C3516812 #C3 516812 This statementt was filed with tthe County Clerk off County Santa Clara Clara Co unty 11/05/2014. on 11/05/201 4 4.

Metroo 11/12, (pub Metr 11//12, 2 11/19, 11/1 9, 11/26, 112/03/2014) 2/03/2014) FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #598120 #598 8120 following The follo wing person(s) is (are) (arre) doing businesss as: Choice, 1. Buddy’s Choi ice, Choice 2. Buddy’ B dd ’s Cho Ch oice i 2359 PPet et Care, Care, 2 359 Road, TTulip uulip R oad, Sann Jose, CA, CA, 95128, 95128, 8 Mowery.

FFaye aye Mo wery.

This business iiss conducted by by a individual.

Registrant began R egistrant bega an transacting tr ansacting business under under the business fictitious busin ess name or namess listed herein herein onn 11/1/2014.

11/1/201 4.

Refile previous R efile of pr evioous file #544184 #544184 with w changes. /s/Faye Mowery /s/F aye Mo werry This statementt was filed with tthe

County Clerk of Santa Clara Clara Countyy on 11/05/201 11/05/2014.

4. (pub Metr Metroo 11/1 11/12, 2, 11/19, 11/1 9, 11/26, 112/03/2014) 2/03/2014) FI CTITIOUS FICTITIOUS B USINESS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597 762 #597762 The follo wing following person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: eNGO DERS eNGODERS iNC., 10234 10234 PParkwood arkwood Dr Dr.,., #2, Cuper tino, CCA, A, Cupertino, 9 5014, Athmane 95014, Nouiouat, Ratiba Ratiba Chermat.

This business is conducted by by a married couple.

R egistrant began Registrant tr ansacting transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her ein on herein 110/24/2014.

0/24/2014. /s/Athmane Nouiouat This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 110/24/2014.

0/24/2014. (pub Metr 2, Metroo 11/1 11/12, 11/1 9, 11/2 4, 11/19, 11/24, 112/03/2014) 2/03/2014) FI CTITIOUS FICTITIOUS B USINESS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597939 The follo wing following person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: The Markolefas TTeam, eeam, 84 8411 Blossom Hill R oad, Road, #11 2, San Jose, CA, CA, #112, 9 5123, R obert W 95123, Robert W..

Sears Corporation.

Corporation.

This business is conducted by by a Corpor ation.

Corporation.

Abo ve entity was Above formed in the state of California R egistrant has Registrant not yet yet begun tr ansacting transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her ein. herein. /s/Linda Jane Sears

Vice Vice i President President #C1527081 #C C1527081 This Th his statement w filed with the was County Co ounty Clerk of Santa Sa anta Clar Claraa County onn 110/29/2014.

0/29/2014. (pub Metroo 11/05, (p pub Metr 11/12, 11/19, 11 1/12, 11/1 9, 11/26/2014) 11 1/26/2014) FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #596768 # 596768 The following Th he follo wing person(s) pe erson(s) is (are) (are) doing do oing business as: K9,, as s: Akina K9 2999 29 999 Calle de las Flores, Fl ores, San Jose, Richardd CCA, A 95148, A, 95148, Richar Kealiikaulana K e ealiikaulana Akina.

Ak kina.

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 bu usiness under the fictitious fic ctitious business name na ame or names listed herein lis sted her ein on 9/22/14.

9/ /22/14. /s/Richard /s s/Richard Kealiikaulana K e ealiikaulana Akina Ak kina This Th his statement w filed was fil d with ith the th County Co ounty Clerk of Santa Sa anta Clara Clara County 9/22/2014. onn 9/2 2/2014. (pub Metroo 110/22, (p pub Metr 0/22, 110/29, 0 , 11/05, 0/29 11/12/2014) 11 1/12/2014) FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #597846 # 597846 The Th he following following person(s) pe erson(s) is (are) (are) doing do oing business as: FFun u with Circuits, un Circuits, 20500 20 0500 Town Town Center Ce enter Lane, #192, #192, Cupertino, Cu upertino, CA, CA, 95014, FUN WITH 9 5 4, FU 501 NW ITH CIRCUITS LLC. CI RCUITS LL LCC. This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a limited lim mited liability company. co ompanyy.

Above Ab bove entity was formed fo ormed in the state off California Registrant R e ant has egistr not no ot yet yet begun transacting tr a ansacting business bu usiness under the fictitious fic ctitious business

name or name namess listed herein. herein. /s/Rashmi /s/R ashmi Suman Sum man Manager #201408610438 #201 408610438 3 This statementt was filed with tthe County Clerk off Claraa Co County Santa Clar unty on 110/27/2014.

0/27/2014.

4 Metroo 110/29, (pub Metr 0//29, 11/12, 11/05, 11/1 2, 11/19/2014) 11/1 9/2014) FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #5970155 #59701 following The follo wing person(s) is (are) (arre) doing businesss as: KD Smog TTest e est Only, Only y, 299 Keyes Keeyes e St., S t., San Jose, CA, CA, 95112, 9 5112, TTrang rang Trinh, Trinh, r 1134 Alvernaz 11 334 Alv ernaz Dr.,., San Jose, CCA, Dr A, 95121.

9 5121.

This business is is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting business under under the fictitious business businness namess name or name listed herein. herein. //s/Trinh /s/T /TTrinh i h TTrang rang This statementt was filed with the t County Clerk off Claraa Co County Santa Clar unty 9/30/2014. on 9/30/201 4..

Metroo 110/29, (pub Metr 0//29, 11/12, 11/05, 11/1 2, 11/19/2014) 11/1 9/2014) FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #597664 following The follo wing person(s) is (are) (arre) doing businesss as: Beauty Hermosa Beau uty Salon, 1158 58 S. King K Road, R oad, #120, #120, San Saan Jose, CA, CA, 95116, 95116, 6 Augustine Nguyen, Nguuyen, Nguyen, TTimmy immy Nguy enn, 3155 S. Willard 31 Willard Ave., A ve., San S JJose, CA, CA, A 95126.

9 5126.

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

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting

business under the fictitious business name or names listed her herein. ein. /s/Augustine Nguyen Nguy en This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Claraa County Santa Clar on 110/22/2014.

0/22/2014.

Metroo 10/29, (pub Metr 10/29, 11/12, 11/05, 11/1 2, 11/19/2014) 11/1 9/2014) FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597642 following The follo wing person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: Hermosa Hair and Nails, 158 158 S. King Road, R oad, #20, San JJose, CA, CA, 95116, 95116, Augustivee Nguyen, Augustiv Nguyen, Nguyen, TTimmy immy Nguy en, 3155 S. Willard 31 Willard Ave., A ve., San Jose, CA, CA, 95126.

9 5126.

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

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting b i business under d the th fictitious business name or names herein. listed her ein. /s/Augustine Nguyen Nguy en

Thhis statement This w filed with the was County Co ounty Clerk of Santa Sa anta Clar Claraa County onn 110/21/2014.

0/21/2014. (pub (p pub Metr Metroo 110/29, 0/29, 11/05, 11/12, 11 1/05, 11/1 2, 11/19/2014) 11 1/19/2014) FICTITIOUS FI ICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597374 # #597 3774 The following Th he follo wing person(s) pe erson(s) is (are) (are) doing do oing business as: PPrecision recision Power, Powerr, 115 11 15 Nicholson Lane, La ane, San Jose, CA, CA, 95134, Advanced 9 5134, Adv anced Energy En nergy Industries Inc., In nc., 1625 1625 Sharp Dr.,., FFort PPoint o Dr oint ort Collins, 80525.

Co ollins, CO, CO, 805 25.

This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a corporation. co orporation.

Above Ab bove entity was formed fo ormed in the state Colorado off Color ado Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting tr ansacting business bu usiness under the fictitious fic ctitious business name na ame or names listed herein lis sted her ein on June 2014.

Ju une 1, 201 4. /s/Tom /s s/TToom M Gi McGimpsey EExec., xec., Vice Vice PPresident resident $ General G eneral Counsel #C2478890 #C C2478890 This Th his statement

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was filed wi with ith the Countyy Clerk Clerrk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 110/14/2014.

0/14/2014.

Metroo 110/22, (pub Metr 0/22, 110/29, 0/29, 11/05, 11/0 05, 11/12/2014) 11/1 2/2014) 4 FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUSS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597158 #5971 58 following The follo winng person(s) iss (are) (are) doing business businness Her as: POW POW He er Boutique, 360 3 Meridian Ave., Ave., APT 3323, 23, San Jose, Jose, CA, CA, 95128, Doraa YY..

9 5128, Dor Guerrero.

Guerr ero. business This busine ss is conducted by by a individual.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597284 The following following person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: 5 Links Movement Movement Fitness, 5602 Croydon Croydon Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95118, 95118, Charlene Alcanices.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant Registrant has not yet yet begun transacting transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. herein. /s/Charlene Alcanices This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Clara County on 10/09/2014.

10/09/2014. (pub Metro Metro 10/22, 10/22, 10/29, 10/29, 11/05, 11/12/2014) 11/12/2014)

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Brooks. it’s it’s said comedian Mel M Br ooks. “Even when it ’s bad, it ’s still pr pretty etty good. good.”” That That’s ’s a generalization, generalization, of course.

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SSAGITTARIUS AGITTARIU US (Nov. (Nov. 22-Dec. 22-Dec. 21): Ancient people knew about Mercury, Mercuryy, Venus, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Jupiterr, and Saturn because all of th those hose planets ar aree visible to the naked eye. Fr From om the second second millennium B.C. until the late 20th century century, y, on only ly thr three ee additional planets were were found: found: Ur Uranus, anus, Neptune, Neptunee, and Pluto. (Pluto was later rreclassified eclassified planet, however.).) Then in 1992, astr astronomers as a dwarf plane et, however onomers began to locate planets orbiting other stars. On one NASA spectacular day in February of 2014, NA SA announced it had identified 715 new planets. I foresee foresee a similar uptick for for you in the next seven months, Sagittarius. discoveries YYour oour rrate ate of disco overies is about to zoom.

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): When Evan Lattimer’s Lattimer ’s 92 92-year-old -yeear-old ffather ather died in 2007 2007, 7, she inherited his lar large g collection of odd rrelics. ge elics. It included a cigar smoked by b W W.. C. Fields, Greta Greta Garbo’s Garbo’s driver driver’s ’s license, Abr Abraham aham m Lincoln’s Lincoln’s shaving mir mirror, rorr, a bearskin coat owned by Geor G ge Custer, Custerr, and Napoleon George Bonaparte’s Bonaparte’s pen penis. nis. Many items turned out to be quite valuable to collectors. collectors. One eager bidder offered offered to buy the famous famous genitalia geniitalia ffor or $100,000. I suspect that in the coming mon months, nths, you will experience events that have some resemblances resem mblances to this story. story. For example, the legacy you receive receivve may not be what you expected, but could turn out too be more more useful than you imagined.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. ( 20-Feb. 20 Feb. 18): Here’s Here’ss your assignment: Get mor moree organized organized and purposeful about having fun fun. n. Think har harder der about what makes you ffeel eel good, and annd plan mor moree aggr aggressively essively to bring those ffeel-good eel-good experiences into your life. life. In offering offering these pr escriptioons, I’m not advocating irresponsible irresponsible prescriptions, hedonism. Not at a all. In my view view, w, you will become a better ser servant vant ooff those you car caree about by boosting your commitmen commitment nt to pleasur pleasure. e. YYou ou o will car carry ry out your moree aplomb and eff effectiveness. duties with mor ectiveness. Raising quotient your joy quotien nt is actually a fformula ormula ffor or becoming a better human be being. eing.

PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 19-March ch 20): The Appalachian from Newfoundland Mountains span 1,500 miles fr om Newf oundland Theyy ar aree the seventh longest rrange to Alabama. The ange in the world. And yyet et they have shrunk over the eons.

Th i aver Their average age he hheight eight i ht is i 3,000 3 000 ffeet, eet, t but b t when h they th weree young theyy wer weree pr probably wer obably twice that high. What There erosion happened? Ther re has been constant er osion caused by rivers, glaciers, wind, w tr tree ee rroots, oots, lichens, and oxidation.

Rain and conden condensation nsation have also played a rrole ole because when water fr freezes, eeezes, it expands, cr creating eating a wedging fforce. orce. I pr propose opose that t we make what has happened to the Appalachi Appalachians ians a symbol of what what’s ’s possible ffor or you in the next eight e months, Pisces. Thr Through ough steady steady, y, small actions, yo you ou can significantly grind down a mountainous obstacle. obbstacle.

Homework: What W What’s ’s the br bravest avest thing you ever did? Wha What at will be the next br brave ave thing you do? Testify Testif e fy at T Truthrooster@gmail.com. rruthrooster@gmail.com.

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