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By TOM TOM TOMORROW TOMORROW

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YYou ou o can sayy what you like, you can complain about a the other side and point fingers fingeers saying they are are whiners and they lost loost but the truth is this governmen nt department SCREWED government UP big time e and still did nothing e, time, rreally eally abou ut it. It ’s not just that about It’s names wer re left off the sample ballot were and statem ments, it ’s how they then statements, it’s addr essed, a simple letter was sent out addressed, that lookedd like a piece of junk mail.

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Mags M ags Goes Goes MIA MAGDALENA CCARRASCO MAGDALENA A ARRA SCO has yet to be sworn in as EEast ast Side Side’s ’s next council member,, but sh member she’s he’s alr already eady positioning San Jose’s herself to be Sa an Jose ’s most enigmatic elected official.. Just five months ago she scored stunning scor ed a stunn ing upset of incumbent XA AV VIER CCAMPOS, AMPO OS, snaring mor XAVIER moree than 53 percent runoff.. per cent of the vote to avoid a runoff CCampos, ampos, with the t help of ex-supervisor ex-supervisor GEORGE GE ORGE SSHIRAKAWA HIRAKA AWA JR. JR.,, nar narrowly rowly defeated def eated CCarrasco arrassco ffour our years ago,, in part because of a ffake/illegal a ake/illegal They mailer that cas castt her Did proud communist as a pr oud com mmunist What? to V ietnamese voters. v Vietnamese This time ar around ounnd she SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O gott rredemption— edemption d ti n— FLY@ FL Y@ thank t low thankss in part to METRONEWS. METR ONEWS. COM CO M Metro etro’s voter turnout, M sleuthing of CCampos’ ampos’ indiscretions indiscretions an and nd an independent expenditure com mmittee that bashed expenditure committee Baby X to the ttune une of $100,000 in attack Baby ads. B But ut since that t time, Carrasco Carrasco has apparently turned apparently turn ned her back on many of her supporters,, including Mayor-elect Mayor-elect SSAM AM LICCARDO. LICCARDO. Sou Sources rces tell Fly that CCarrasco arrasco repeatedly repeatedly rrebuffed ebuuffed Liccardo’s Liccardo’s attempts to set up a mee meeting eting in the final months of election seas season, son,, even though he raised raised money ffor or her campaign c and endorsed her candidacy candidacy.. EEven stranger, ven str angerr, in the weeks preceding weeks pr ecedin ng the election she took an extended meet meeting ing with mayor mayoral al runnerup D DAVE AVE V CCORTESE—despite ORTEESE—despite the ffact act ed her opponent, opponent, Campos.

Campos. ampos that he endorse endorsed votters as much at a forum forum Cortese told voters on the campaig campaign gn tr trail. ail. B But ut this isn isn’t ’t the arrassco has shifted allegiances. first time CCarrasco eceiving staunch s support fr om After rreceiving from Mayor CHUCK CHUCK R EED in 2010,, she went out Mayor REED of her way this past p year to say she never supported his pe pension ension rreforms. eforms. The obvious would be she’s she’s cozying back up conclusion would organized lab borr, but CCarrasco arrasco told Fly this to organized labor, summer not to assume a anything and that she hasn’t attackss lobbed at her hasn’t fforgiven orgivven the attack al years. years.. During the last two week s, over sever several weeks, nd fforth orth with CCarrasco arrasco via Fly went back an and arrange an a inter view w, but after saying text to arrange interview, she’d be fr ee ffor orr a quick phone call she she’d free ignored all further further contact. ignored

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Bikes ‘R’ Us B BIKE PARTY, PARTY Y, IN INC. C. After year years rs as an event with no formal organizational o structure, the th he San Jose Bike P Party arty is on th the e road to becoming a nonprofi nonprofit. fit.

San Jose’s S J ’s month Jose monthly th hl cycling hly li free ffree-for e-for f -all, ll Bike Party, Party y, faces facces identity crisis criisis as faction attempts attem mpts to go corporate corpo orate BY B Y JENNIFER W WADSWORTH ADSWOR A RTH

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HE FIRST TIME thatt JJoe oe Tate Tate encountered encountere ed San Jose Jose Bike Party Party was w as outside his home hom me in n downtown a few years ago. ago. Hearing Hearing shouts and music, he stepped out to m see se ee a whir of lights and a crush riders—thousand crrush of riders—thousands ds of of them. One was was towing a sage-green sofa (the “H Happening Couch,” he’d he’d “Happening later la ater learn). Others were decked out in costumes, costumes, decked glow glow sticks and streamers, streamers, ca arrying on conversationss carrying over the din. over

“Wow, “W Wo ow, something to t do on a Fridaay,” thought Tate, Friday,” Taate, who’d who’d already already pick ed up biking because because a it’s easier picked it’s ound downtown downto own without to get ar around ha avving to worry worry about abou ut parking. parking. He having joined the next next ride, ride, a Mardi Mardi Gras theme,, on his cargo theme cargo bike biike and fell feell in lo ve with the pandemonium pandem monium that is love San Jose Jose Bike Bike Party.

Party. It wasn’t wasn’t long b effo ore he vvolunteered olunteered d ffor o or “The Hub ,” before Hub,” the party’s party’s core core organizers organizers who map out routes routes and drum drum up ideas ffor or themes (lik o ,” (likee “Thatt ‘70s Ride Ride,” “Ride of the Gods” Gods” or “Robots “R Ro obots and L ong Socks”).

Socks”). cks”) Together, Togetheer, they they came came Long up with the idea ffor o or “R Raaven Bik es,” “Raven Bikes,” ccargo argo bikes bikes with trash h bins to clean up during the event, event, and a teamed up with local local food food trucks tru ucks to offer off ffeer sustenancee to cy sustenanc cyclists. clists.

But there’s there’s been been recent reccent murmurs t at Tate’s that Taate’s moving mo oving v g to suck suc the t e soul sou

Bike Party, Party, to t quell ll the th chaos h outt off Bike that drew drew him to the event event in the first plac e. place.

“He took took o something organic organic and vibrant and an nd turned it ccorporate,” orporate,” a bik ty vvolunteer olunteer told Met ro, bikee par party Metro, declining to t share share his name because because he’s he ’s a regular regu ular at the event. event. “That goes goes Bikee P Party.” against thee vvery ery spirit of Bik arty.”

Tate T aate did, did d, in fact, register register San Jose Jose Bikee Party Bik Party as a corporation corporation this past spring i . But B t he h insists i i his hi plans l are spring. are an ything but b soulsucking. He and anything soul-sucking.

Hub ffellow ellow e b volunteers volunteers want want to turn the amorphic amorp phic event event into a nonprofit nonprofit organization—mostly or ganization—mostly to protect protect against liability, liab bility, partly partly to be be able to fundraise.. The first step on a journey fundraise journey status incorporation. to 501c3 st tatus is inc orporation. understand people “I under rstand some p eople want organic, street-life w ant more more of an or ganic, str eet-liffe thing,” Tate, byy thing ,” says saayyss T aate, 53, who works b day vicee pr president product d da ay as vic esident id off pr oduct d management Qualcomm.

“That’s manageme ent at Qualc omm. “That ’s wheree the theyy ar aree in lif life. me,, and wher fe. But me others ’re lo oking at this a lit tle others,, we we’re looking little diff ffeerentlyy. W e’ve got to eevolve volve the differently.

We’ve pr oduct. W ant mor eople. product.

Wee w want moree p people.

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Wee w W want ant to st start art or organizing ganizing a lit little tlle bit bi it mor more.” e.” een simmeringg The debate has b been b e ehind the sc enes ffor or o ab out a behind scenes about yyear. e . JJustin ear ustin Triano ormer Hub o Triano,, a fformer vvolunteer, o olunteer , has objected T aate’s plan Tate’s att vvolunteer olunteer meetings o olks meetings.. Some ffolks ar re put off b gy T aatte are byy the terminolo terminology Tate em mploys: ccorporation, orporation, pr oduct. F or a employs: product.

For gr roup that prides itself on b eing an nti ntigroup being anties stablishment, anar chistic eeven, ven, th hose establishment, anarchistic those w wor ds seem unset tttlingly bur eaucraatic. words unsettlingly bureaucratic.

“I’m so surprised to hear someb ody somebody in ncorporated San JJose ose Bik arty,” sa ayys incorporated Bikee P Party, says D Diane Solomon, ffounder ounder of Histor o ry History Sa an JJose’s ose’s “Silic on V aalley Bik es!”

San “Silicon Valley Bikes!” pr roject. “Incorporation “Incorporation is about about project. ccontrol o ol and structur ontr e, but what m akes structure, makes Sa an JJose ose Bik arty so absolutely San Bikee P Party w wonder ful is it ’s fr ee and jo yous an nd wonderful it’s free joyous and un ncontrolled. olled”” uncontrolled.

P erhaps some of the backlash Perhaps ccomes o omes fr om the lack of an ny fformal ormall o from any an nnouncement ab out the plan, wh hich announcement about which ha as b een lab eled oligar chic. has been labeled oligarchic. ““As As of late there has b een a lot of o late,, there been ttalk a ab alk out ‘‘taking taking Bik arty to th about Bikee P Party thee ne ext le vel’,” noted bik tier C ain n next level’ bikee par partier Cain R Ramir ez. “W Wiith the Hub ’s rrecent ecent Ramirez.

“With Hub’s ac ctions, this ‘ne xt le vel’ seems to b actions, ‘next level’ bee m mor eflective of their own inter e ests moree rreflective interests ass opp osed d to t what h t the th gr eater t opposed greater ccommunity o ommunit ty is actually ccalling alling ffor. or.” o R eecords with the Secr etary of Records Secretary St tate’s offic aate filed ffor o or State’s officee show that T Tate in ncorporation on Mar ch 5. N o one e, incorporation March No one, att least not in an ganized w ay, anyy or organized way, to old Bik arty cy clists— except ffor orr o told Bikee P Party cyclists—except an n inner cir cle of vvolunteers—that olunteers—thatt circle th here’s now a legal entit ty ccalled alled SJ there’s entity Bi ike P arty, Inc Bike Party, Inc..

T aate sa ays y that secr etive action w as Tate says secretive was m d b made ecause he h and d SJ Bik ke P arty, because Bike Party, In nc.’s b oard of dir ectors would rath her Inc. board directors rather th he legal structur ake shap he the structuree ttake shapee in th the ba ackground. Out of sight, out of background. m mind, T aate figur es, cr eating as lit ttle te Tate figures, creating little im mpact on the cultur arty as impact culturee of Bik Bikee P Party lo ogistically p ossible. logistically possible.

“Ther are some p eople who ar “Theree are people aree to otally off ffeended b totally offended byy thinking of thi thiss as a pr oduct,” sa ayys T aate, an at tttorney. “But “ product, says Tate, attorney. lis sten, at the end of the da ay, yyou ou ar listen, day, aree off ffeering a pr ff oduct. By pr omoting this t offering product. promoting to op eople, yyou’re ou’re cr o eating a pr oducct. people, creating product.

Bu ut this isn ’t ab out making mone y.

But isn’t about money.

It ’s ab out pr otecting us against It’s about protecting lia abilitty. That mak kees ffor o or a b etttter liability. makes better pr roduct.” product.

T aate has a p oint. Met ro enc ounteered Tate point.

Metro encountered seeveral vvolunteers olunteers who hesit ated several hesitated

have to to ha ave their names cconnected o onnected the eevent vent out of ffear eear off b becoming ecoming a ttarget arget ffor or a la o aw wsuit. T aatte sa ays y that ’s lawsuit.

Tate says that’s a ccommon ommon worr y, one he ’s tr ying to worry, he’s trying alle viate. What if f, he p osits, someone alleviate. if, posits, p osts a rroute oute ffor or o the ffew-thousand ew-thousand posts riders ts hur riders,, one of them get gets hurtt and that injur ed par ty find ds out which injured party finds vvolunteer olunteer p osted the rroute. oute. R eegardless posted Regardless of the lik elihood, d that ’s a cconcern oncern likelihood, that’s xp se veral bik ers ha ave eexpressed. pressed. T aate several bikers have Tate got to thinking ab out it i after a bik about bikee par tier hur oute thr ough partier hurtt herself en rroute through Sant ana R ow o and sued d the shopping Santana Row on ccenter. enter. Her la awy w ers ccontacted ntacted T aate lawyers Tate and other Hub vvolunteers, olunteers, which quick ened their eff ffo ortss to get their quickened efforts pap erwork in or der. paperwork order.

N onprofits ccan an buy insuranc e.

Nonprofits insurance.

The y’re also pr otected under the They’re protected umbr b ella ll off the th ffederal edera ed all V o olunteer l t umbrella Volunteer Pr otection A ct, which ccan an limit or Protection Act, olunteer’s risk of tor eliminate a vvolunteer’s tortt liabilit y’re actin ng on b ehalf of liabilityy if the they’re acting behalf the or ganization. Whil le T aate set up a organization.

While Tate b oard of dir ectors cconsisting onssisting of ffour o our board directors Hub vvolunteers olunteers (In ven ntec eexecutive xecutive (Inventec Mark Hirsch is pr esideent, but the president, p ositions will rrotate), otate), he h sa ays y ther e’s positions says there’s no plan to giv nyonee a salar y— —now givee an anyone salary—now or eever. ver.

“Thi is “This i not ab bout making m ki mone y,” about money, T aate sa ays y . “If an nyything we w ’ll k eep Tate says. anything we’ll keep nothing mor ,000 in the moree than $1, $1,000 ac count, so we ’re not a ttarget arget ffor o or account, we’re la awsuits w .” lawsuits.

Se ven yyears ears ha ave pas ssed without Seven have passed Bik arty b ecoming an aanything nyything official Bikee P Party becoming eexcept xcept a massiv eestivaal on wheels massivee ffestival eevery very thir d Frida ay of th he month. It third Friday the w asn’t “f founded, o ” as much m as set in wasn’t “founded, motion by

by Nick L askow wski.

Laskowski.

St arting i sometime i aaround ar ound d 20 04, Starting 2004, a small gr oup tried to pull p to gether group together a rregular egular ride mo deled d after Critic al modeled Critical Mass vent, e which Mass,, the monthly eevent, st arted in San Francisco Franciscco but went started global, in which cy clistts ttake ake o ver cyclists over ccar-crowded ar-crowded rroadways. oadwayys. But that didn ’t sit well with thee ccar-centric ar-centric didn’t South Bay. Baay. Over Over the yyears, e , lar ears ge rides large would st art and p eter out. In 20 05, start peter 2005, L askowski help ed or gaanized a “get Laskowski helped organized ote” ride ar ou und Halloween. out the vvote” around N othing rreally eally to ok un ntil 20 077, when Nothing took until 2007, he teamed up with Am mber L amason, Amber Lamason, ha avving met her on Cra aigslist b ay of having Craigslist byy w way a rroommate oommate ad in whi ich she deliv ered which delivered a delight tfful critique off suburbia. delightful “It w as something to o the eff ffeect of f, was effect of, ‘I’m mo ving up to San n JJose. ose. Is ther moving theree

an anybody nyybody with w a soul up in this dead, suburban w asteland?’” L askowski wasteland?’”

Laskowski rrecalls. ecalls. He w aas into bik es, she w aas was bikes, was b ettter t at or rganizing. The ought better organizing.

Theyy br brought on anotherr friend, L auryn McC arth hy, Lauryn McCarthy, got a MySp pace page ed fly ers MySpace page,, plaster plastered flyers at ccoffee off ffeee sh hops and ar shops artt shows and managed to t lur ew- dozen riders to luree a ffew-dozen what ’s cconsidered, on nsidered, in rretrospect, etrospect, the what’s first -ever S an JJose ose Bik arty in 20 07. first-ever San Bikee P Party 2007.

The eam mt up craz arted Theyy dr dreamt crazyy themes themes,, st started ty hour” on Frida ay the rides att “par “party Friday night, shar red rroutes outes and told ffolks olks to o shared ffollow ollow alon o ng if the along theyy pleased. ““As As far as a a mission, we wer weree clear fr eginning that we w aanted to om the b from beginning wanted build ccommunity omm munity thr ough bicy cling,” through bicycling, L askowski says. saayys. “That grew grew into a Laskowski desir uild a vibrant urban spac e, desiree to bu build space, to build cu ultural eevents, vents, a cconnecting onnecting cultural spac e. A ar as a vision ffor o or what we space.

Ass fa far would b ecome, we had only the most become, tent ative fforecasts. o ecasts.” or tentative For the 10th ride ride,, 20 200 0p people eople For showed up up.

Laskowski was amped. ed. p. L askowski w as amp He sto stood od at a the st start art of the ride and hung on to streetlight, o a str eetlight, shouting to them with h a megaphone ab about out how amazing itt ffelt 200 eelt to rreach each the 20 0 mark after less th than han a yyear. ear.

Four later,, thousands gather gathered.

F our yyears eeaars later ed.

These Th da d days, ayys, vvolunteers’ o olunteers’ l t ’ click clicker-counters li keerr-counters t during the Bik Bike Party’s ke P artyy’s summer rides tally tally up to 5,0 5,000 00 cy cyclists. yclists c . Cit City ty officials officials,, celebrities, students,, celebrities, tech eexecs, xecs, ccollege ollege students kids and eeven veen the L Lord ord Ma Mayor ayor o of Dublin ha have ride.. It It’s spread ave joined the ride ’s spr ead from from San JJose’s o ’s downtown to hundr ose hundreds eds of cities ar around globe—as o ound the glob e—as far as Seoul, Korea.

Ko orea. e “People “Peoplee come come here, here, experience experience the Bike Bike Party Party and want want to take take it home, home,” says saays y L Laskowski, ask kow wski, ki who who’s h ’s pulled ll d back b k his hi involvement in nvolvemeent to ffocus ocus on his teaching career. career. “That’s “Th hat’s incr incredible edible to think about. about. It It’s ’s the t b best est of San JJose ose in that it ccould ould on only nly ccome ome fr from om a plac placee lik likee this. this. It fits our o go goofy, offy, suburban, not not-quite-city quite-city sor ssortt of cit city. y. It It’s ’s fle flexible, xible, it it’s ’s open, open, cr creative eattive and it it’s ’s fun.”

L Laskowski askow wski sa says ayys he he’s ’s not opp opposed osed to T Tate’s aate’s pl plan lan to tighten up what what’s ’s so far op operated erateed as a lo loosely osely or organized ganized phenomenon phenomen h non into a nonpr nonprofit—as ofit fi —as long as thee fundament fundamentals als rremain. emain.

“Bike “Bike pa party arty isn isn’t ’t a structur structure, e,” he says. saays y . “It isn isn’t n’t a ‘‘thing’ thing’ yyou ou ccan an hold.

It’s It’s a vision n of what our ccommunity ommunity can can b be. e. The There ere ccould ould b bee hundr hundreds eds or thousan thousands nds or millions of w ways ays y to make make that a rreality. eality.”

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BAT B AT BOYS BOYS Y Young o oung baseball players players, s, from left, H Haruo a aruo T Taketa, aketa, W a Wright right r K Kawakami, awakami, a H Hiroshi Itow Itow, w, Mitsuo Ishikawa and dN Nobu obu T o Tanabe. anabe. a Fukuda Ralph Pearce includess many historical photos such as this one.

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FTER FTE ER 15 years and nearly nea arly 500 pages of resulting resu ulting material, the definitive defi finitive history of JJapantown apantown has finally emerged.

Japantown: San Jose Jap pantown: A Journey vibrant, is a vibr ant,, gargantuan volume, myriad with myria d threads of history cranny from every nook and cr anny Hedding between H e edding and Empire, Tenth f from First Street S to T enth e h Street. covers The book co overs the time period 1890s from the 18 890s until just a few ago.. On Saturday, Nov. years ago O Saturday y, N ov. 29, launch a book laun nch party will unfold the at 1pm at th he San JJose ose Buddhist Church Bets Betsuin. suin.

Curtt F Cur Fukuda ukuda and Ralph P Pearce earce are authors, ar re officially listed as the author rs, but b ut ccountless ountless others ccontributed ontributed d photographs p hotographs and rresearch esearch information several in nffo ormation over over the last se verall Readers away yyears. e .R ears eeaders will ttake ake aw way thee essence what’s been dramatic es ssence of what ’s b een a dramati ic journey manyy residents, jo ourney ffor o or so man residents, those th hose who’ve gone,, or eeven w who ’ve ccome ome and gone ven likee F Fukuda himself. rreturned, e eturned, lik ukuda himself f. level, “journey” On another le vel, the “journe y y” in n question might rrefer effeer to the process byy which the b book p ro cess b o ok ccame amee 1999, Fukuda took to o fruition. In 19 99, F ukuda to ok ka Foothill College. m ltimedia class at F multimedia oothill C olllege.

Att the time time,, “multimedia”” w was A as still buzzword raging st till a ridiculous buz zword ragin ng throughout parts high-tech ts of the high-tec th hroughout par ch universe virtual was u univ erse and vir tual rreality eality w as still understood potential new st till understo od as a p otential ne ew technology someday te echnology that might someda ay rule ru ule the world. Along with JJim im

Nagareda, Fukuda Nagareda, Fukuda de decided ecided to multimedia project oject work on a multimedi ia pr documenting do cumenting San JJose’s osse’s JJapantown. apantown. it’s likee the “Back then, it ’s nott lik Google now,, thatt ha have Go ogle ccars ars now ave the spinning ccameras,” ameras,” Fukuda Fuk u uda said.

“Jim “J im and I would, like like idiots, idiots, go out stand middle street and st and in the midd dle of the str eet these tripods with ccameras ameras on thes se trip p ods with special panoramas.. sp ecial heads to ttake ake panoramas pictures, By hand, we’d we’d take take pi ictures, 360 360 degrees, around degr ees, and we wentt all ar ound JJapantown.” apantown.”

Historically speaking, was Historic ally sp eakin ng, that w as interactive also the era of the int teractive CDCD ROM. (Remember that?)

Fukuda R O OM. (R Rememb e er th hat?) F ukuda harbored harb ored grand-scale grand-scale plans to bring J-Town JTo own to the virtual virtual world.

“We thinking, “W We were were thinking g, let’s let’s put it CD-ROM, jewel on a CD -R RO OM put it in a je OM, wel el let’s little ccase ase and let ’s put in a lit tle eighteightbooklet with page b ooklet to go w ith it,”” he said. “I also ccame ame up with w the bee gr great if, idea: ‘Wouldn’t ‘W Wouldn o ’t it b eat if f, as navigated yyou ou na avvigated on your you ur ccomputer, omputer, through streets thr ough the str eets off JJapantown, apantown, building,, and yyou ou got to click on a building b

open little movie, it would op o en up a lit tle mo vie, and movie, bee in the mo v , someone would b vie about historyy of the telling yyou ou u ab out the histor building.’” building .’”

Ass the yyears by, moree A ears went b y, mor interested parties board inter ested d par ties ccame ame on b oard moree inter interviews up.. By and mor views piled up 2003 around, the time 20 2 03 ccame ame ar ound, eeven ven working virtual with a wo rking vir tual rreality eality prototype, pr ototype, eeveryone veryone decided a old-fashioned book was rregular, egular, ol ld-fashioned b ook w as the way go.. F Fukuda became w ay to go ukuda b ecame the lead Pearce, byy writer and d then P earce, who toils b day California Room da ay in the C aliffornia o R o om at the library, board MLK main n librar y, ccame ame on b oard a Pearce already ffew ew yyears ears later llater.. P earce had alr eady written another book, From Asahi writ ten an nother b o ok, Fr om A sahi ttoo Zebras: Japanese Baseball Z eebras: J aappanese American Baseb all in Jose, California.

Together, San J ose o e, C alif a fornia. o T ogether, their efforts gorgeous, rip-eff ffo or ts rresulted esu ulted in gor geous, rip tome history. rroaring oaring to ome of histor y.

I ccannot annott eeven ven get close to a summaryy of the b book’s summar ook’s ccontents, ontents, Fukuda radical b tF but uk kud d said da id th the radic di all eexploits xploits l it social justice in so cial ju ustice during the 1970s weree somee of the thr threads wer eads that Asians surprised him h the most. A sians Community Action ffor or C o omm munity A ction ((ACA) ACA) rrepresented epresenteed a serious activist movement decade. mo vementt during that dec ade.

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Pearce enjoyed partt P earce said s he enjo yed ttaking aking par because thrives documenting b ecause hee thriv es on do cumenting stories.. JJapantown fforgotten or o gotten stories apantown is filled entiree rrest with them m and the entir est of the cityy do doesn’t cit esn n’t seem to ccare. are. always drawn “I alw ayys get draw wn to stuff that likee it it’s being ignored,” Pearce seems lik ’s b eing ignor ed,”” P earce me.. “P “People say, ‘Whyy don don’t told me People sa ay, ‘Wh ’t about Quicksilver yyou ou write ab out the Quicksilv er stuff,’ Mines and d all this other stuff ff,,’ but know, people aree doing that yyou ou know w, p eople ar already. want save stuff, alr eadyy. I w ant to sa ave stuff ff,, that if I didn’t involved, wouldn’t didn ’t get in volved, it wouldn ’t bee sa saved.” b aved.”

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AUTHORGRAPHS A UTHORGRAPHS On the lower par part rt off an offic officee do door or at Hickleb Hicklebee’s ee’s bookshop b ookshop is a dra drawing aw wing of the Sor Sorting t ting H fr Hat from om Harr Harryy P Potter. otttter. The Sharp Sharpiepiedr drawn raaw wn sk sketch etch is ac accompanied companied b byy a

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name ffew ew had hear heard d of o when its signer stopp stopped ed b byy the W Willow iillow Glen storee 17 yyears stor ears ago: JJ.K. .K. R Rowling. owling. It o It’s ’s one of hundr hundreds eds of au autographs utographs and illustrations left b byy aut authors thors o over ver the yyears ears on the w walls alls and d do doors ors of the small b ookshop. “W We w ant writers bookshop.

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first work worked e with cla ed clay ay as a child in southern T Taiwan, aaiw waan, making kilns to ccook ook ssweet weet p potatoes otatoes on the family farm. It w wasn’t a ’t until yyears asn ears later as a mechani mechanical ical engineering student that he cconnected onnected with the ar artt of it, signing up ffor or a cceramics o eramics ccourse ourse as an elect elective. tive. The eexperience xperience br brought ought him h back to his childho childhood od and inspir inspired ed him to b become ecome a p potter. ottter t .T Today, oda day, the Fr Fremont emont rresident esident is world-r world-renowned—his e enowned—his aawardwardwinning work w favors faavors the traditional fforms orms of eeastern o astern cceramics eramics and has b been een ffeatured eatu e ured in museums museums,, private ccollections, ollectionss, b books, ooks, magazines and ar artt shows shows.. The softsoft-spoken spoken ar artist tist has also b become e ome a global Internet ec sensation. His YouTube Yo ouTube tutorials, tutorials, first p posted osted d in 2010, ha have ave garner garnered ed well over over a million views. views. The selfselffpr produced oduced videos ar aree mostly silent eexcept xcept ffor or the whirring of the o p pottery ottter t y wh wheel. heel. The Theyy show Lin, who sho shoots ots thee tutorials at his home studio studio,, sha shaping aping the cla clay, ay, sharing with an anyone yone th the he techniques he he’s ’s master mastered ed thr through ough decades d ades of craftsmanship. dec craftsmanship.

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VINTAGE V INT TAGE T TOYS OYS Marji, owner o of Radio Daze, welc Daze, welcomes omes an any ny and a all antique hunters who p pop op in, no n mat matter tter t how long the theyy sp spend end pickin picking ng thr through ough the m myriad yriad nost nostalgia-inducers: algia-iinducers: rretro etro toys, to ys, records, records, posters, posters, magazines, m magazines , yyou ou name it. It It’s ’s a gra grab ab bag bag,, but in the b best est w way. ay. Instead of o buying a gift her here, e, it might b bee eeven ven b better ettter t to ttake ake the giftee alon along ng ffor o or a da day ay of ccollecting. ollecting. Radio Raadio Daze & Collectibles, Collectibles o s, 313 E C Campbell ampb a ell A Ave, ve, Campbell.

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Answer: Krist ent ccollects ollects and d sc avenges Kristyy K Kent scavenges whate ver tickles her fancy faancy to stock stock whatever h shop her h , so those h who ho ha h ave a shop, have sp ecific gift alr eady in mind need specific already not apply y. Instead, br ow wse among apply. browse shin ny gold child st atues, dangling shiny statues, glass ffern ern e holders sans-ffeern, hipster sans-fern, tote -bags—whatever, th he gift tote-bags—whatever, the will find yyou. ou. Prices Prices vary. vaary. Frank Int teeriorrs, 9 Montebello Montteb e ello Way, Waayy, Los Los Gatos.

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UKULELE UK ULELE + LESSONS LESSONS When W or organizing ganizing cconcerts oncerts ffor or uk o ukulele kulele l l leg llegends gends d Herb b Oht Ohtaa JJr., r., Nathan A Aweau weaau and others w others,, Ha Hawaiian awaiian music pr promoters omo oters Smile Smileyy and JJanet anet Kai would oft often ften hear questions fr from om the aud audience dience ab about out wher wheree the theyy ccould ould buy a uk ukulele ulele of their own. In the Ba Bay ay Ar A Area ea at the time time,, the ans answer wer w was as nowher n nowhere. e. So So,, in 20 2008, 08, the theyy op opened ened up u their own b boutique, outique, Uk Ukulele ulele Sour Source, rce, in San JJose’s ose’s JJapantown. apantown. The pric p pricee of the quaint lit tttle instrumen nts range fr om little instruments from $6 0 st arters to a $2,9 00 rrosewood osewood $60 starters $2,900 uk ulele handcrafted b enowned ukulele byy rrenowned guit ar and uk ulele ar tissan P epe guitar ukulele artisan Pepe R o omero JJr. r. F or the b egginner, JJanet anet Romero For beginner, suggests practicing on a piec piecee in the double -digit range. range. Even Even e better, bettter t , gifts double-digit ccan an be be paired paired with lessons lessons across across the str eet at Ukulele Ukulele Jams, Jams, where where $90 $90 a street month gets weekly 45-m minute lessons 45-minute lessons..

Uk ulele Source, Source, 599 N. N. Fifth Fifth St., San Ukulele J oose. 408.998.2640. ukulelesource.com. ukulelesour u rce.com.

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408.2177..824 41. ukulelejams. ukulelejams. ccom. om. ((JW) JW J W) THE T HE NEW NEW GREAT GREA AT AMERICAN AMERICCAN NOVEL NOVEL Failing Sk Sky—an y— —an onlinee graphic no novel vel byy genderqueer b genderqueer Santa Santa Clara painter, painter,

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Tran-Cafee’s novel, TranCaffee e ’s no vel, whose ffour o our storylines bee stor t ylines li a d 30 chapters and h t will ill b they’re drawn through uploaded as a the y’re dra aw wn thr ough 2015, ffeatures eeaturres male characters who vulnerability, get rrewarded ewardeed ffor o or their vulnerabilit y, ffemale eemale pr protagonists ottagonists who suc succeed ceed through leadership thr ough lea adership instead of a good ass-kicking, sexx sc scenes go od ass-ki cking, se enes that don’t rapee cultur culture, don ’t rreinforce einffor o ce rap e, and transgender er characters with uplifting transgende narratives of sob stories. narrativ es instead i stories. The work-in-progress already work k--in-progress has alr eady earned attention Will national i l at tttention i and daW ill i Eisner Ei industry ccomic omic indu ustry aaward. ward. The author also sells prints, prrints, including an offoff ff-black linocut linocut with the novel’s novel’s title cream paper printed on cr eam ccotton otttton pap er ($20 or more, more, depending deepending on whether it’s it’s proof signed). A 20-page 2 first print pr oof edition of the novel t no vel ($8) will also bee aavailable through Available b vvailablee thr ough JJan. an. 1. A vailable online at ffailingsky.com.

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LLEATHER EA AT THER BO BOUND OUND BOOKS BOOKS Whether yyour our apar apartment tm ment smells of rich maho mahogany gan ny or not, the vint vintage age (and mo modern) dern) b books ooks at Bell’ Bell’ss Bo Books oks in P Palo alo Alto ar aaree the p perfect erfeect w way ay to ensur ensuree thatt the aavid vvid rreader eader on yyour our list st stays ayys cla classy. assy. Fr From om a first edition oad to print of T Tom om o m Sa Sawyer aw wyer Abr Abroad ne wer pap e erback titles newer paperback titles,, Bell’ Bell’ss has a wide select ion. And with ttwo-story, wo -story, selection. flo or-to - ceiiling b ookshelves and an floor-to-ceiling bookshelves assor tmentt of antique b ookends and assortment bookends other vint a knick age k--knacks, the stor vintage knick-knacks, storee off ffeers a sho opping eexperience xperience unlik offers shopping unlikee an B ’s Bo okss, 536 Emer rsson St, anyy other other.. Bell’ Bell’s Books, Emerson Palo Alt o. 65 50.323.7822 (NV V) Alto.

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USED U SED T TOMES OMEES T Take ak a e a moment to appreciate the lo appreciate locally cally owned bookstores b ookstores who ha have ave sur survived vived The Bookening Bo okeningg (a.k.a. Bor Borders, ders, then B&N and now Amazon) A and emer emerged ged as ccommunity ommunity mainst mainstays. ayys. An emplo employee yee at R Recycle ecy e cle Bo B Book ok Stor Storee in C Campbell— ampbell— there’s ther e’s also a lo location cation in San Jose— Jose— said sales ha h have ave b been een str strong. ong. It seems

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him to ccelebrity elebrity in thee p pottery ottttery spurred outpouring world and spurr ed an outp o ouring of gratitude—fans flood inbox gratitude —fans flo od his h inb ox and social accounts so cial media ac counts with w thanks improve ffor or helping them impr o rove their craft.

Etsyy and off his Lin sells his work on Ets E website.. Pric Prices from website es range fr rom $50 ffor o or teapots mugs to $240-plus ffor or teap o ots and vases.. Hsin-Chuen mypots. vases Hsin- Chuen Lin cceramics, e eramics , myp ots. net. Or at Petite Peetitte Galleria, Galleriaa, 205B Jackson Jaackson St San St., S Jose.

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L.A., has pla played ayed man many y rroles oles in man many y places: photographer, plac es: photo grapher, print artist, artist, ccommunity ommunitty activist. One O of her most popular projects line artisan p opular pr ojects is a li ine of ar tisan bags and tees sold und under der the name Tripetta Cartel. bags Trip ettta C artel. The b ags ccome ome in a variet varietyy of sizes sizes,, from from mo over-thever-theshoulder messengers (r ((roomy oomy enough ffor or a laptop) and totess to smaller o zipper pouches. aree made fr from zipp er p ouches. Most ar om vinyl—“vegan a tough vin nyyl—“vegan n leather”—and emblazoned with onee of her original prints.. Pric Prices range,, de depending prints es range epending on pouches, $60 size: $35 ffor o or small p ou uches, $6 0 ffor or o laptop-sized messenger laptop -sized messenge er bags and up to $8 $80 0 for fo or lar larger ger purses. pursees. Tripetta Trip r etta Cartel.

C art a el. tripettacartel.com. tripetttacartel.com m. Select items itteems also av available ailable at Petite Peetitte Galleria, G 205B Jackson J aackson St., San J Jose. oose. (JW) (J JW W)

WIRE WEAR Ev Even en thou though ugh m myy ’9 ’90s 0s puka puka shell necklac necklace—and e—aand half gallon of hair gel—r gel—rests essts p peacefully eacefully under six ffeet eeet of ear earth, th h, m myy fashion sense remains remains a work in pr progress. ogress.

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throughou ut. Items run fr om $15 to throughout. from hella eexpensive. xpen nsive. V Valerie aalerie Pr Preston eston Design, 151 N Sant ta Cruz A ve, LLos os Gat tos o.

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SOMETHING SOMETHIN NG LESS LESS CORPORATE CORPORA ATE T L Look, ook, we know that t yyou ou sometimes find yyourself ourself in n that one urban chain “boutiques.” there’s locally of “b ques.” But ther e’s a lo cally outiq place owned pla ace yyou ou ccan an go to get all the hip tchotchkes, skinnyy jeans, tch hotchkes, skinn jeans, boots, shoes, interesting décor b oots, sho es, inter esting déc or and humorous magnets.. Therap Therapy humor ouss fridge magnets y three Bay locations: has thr ee South S Ba ay lo cations: Mountain View, Los Mount ain V ie i w, L os Altos and C Campbell. ampbell. Plus Plus,, zer zero o ccontroversy ontroversy o over ver cultu cultural ral appr appropriation opriation and questionab questionable ble p political olitical affiliations affiliations..

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A MORE PER PERSONAL SONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Sure, yyou Sure, ou ccould ould go to Sant S Santana ana R Row ow o or St Stanford anffo ord Shopping C Center enter ffor or o yyour our highhigh-end end women women’s ’s clothing and accessories. ac cessories. But ffor or a ccalmer, o a almer , mor moree personalized p ersonalized shopping eexperience, xperience, yyou ou would do well to cconsider onsider Boutique 4 in downtow downtown wn Mount Mountain ain View.

V iiew. The stor storee has a ccozy, ozy, p personal ersonal ffeel, eel, e but still ffeatures eatur e es a lar large ge selection of hand-picked hand-picked dresses, dresses, blouses, blouses, necklac necklaces kl es and d earrings. earrings i . Boutique B i 4, 279 C Castro aastro St, Mountain Mounttaain View.

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IRST TO MARKET has a casual—if not sparse—ambience: exposed red brick walls, an absence of tablecloths and dark wood table tops. A rotating collection of local artwork complements the restaurant’s neighborhood vibe. Drawings of a perfect world are on display, and First to Market has invited guests to sketch their own version of utopia, which will then be displayed next month.

Previously home to Agenda Lounge’s restaurant (and for a short while, Bayonne Southern Dining), the space offers an intimate setting that has contributed to the renaissance of the SoFA District. Single Barrel co-owner Joe Gradillas also serves as co-owner of First to Market with Jenn Lin, both San Jose natives, and speakeasy cocktails have migrated upstairs to some extent. (Single Barrel operates downstairs.)

The cooling fall weather called for whiskey. The Drunken Bunny ($9) with bourbon, Fernet Branca, allspice dram, carrot puree and a splash of lemon juice was surprisingly delicious: slightly sweet from the carrot, with a mellow smokiness from the bourbon and a herbaceous tinge from the fernet. Gradillas also put together a delightful sour of sorts when I asked about trying something with bourbon and citrus.

Domingo Wolbert, the 27-year-old chef of First to Market, has taken a menu that originally debuted with a heavy Southern influence and expanded it to incorporate more regional dishes, including California cuisine. The plates are enjoyable for sharing. Sweet and tender St. Louis style ribs ($10) get a kick of heat from sriracha cole slaw, and also popular is the pimento mac & cheese ($9) with the option to add pork belly ($2). While tasty, it didn't rock my world—maybe because I anticipated crispy bites of pork belly as a garnish instead of tender pieces folded into the cheesy mix.

Entrees offer full-flavored options, from quail to a Moroccan pork stew. Not wanting to miss a main attraction, my guest and I sprung for the brick-seared quail ($18). The dish was an early surprise of Thanksgiving flavors, far better than the traditional setup. Quail may seem a small piece of game, but two perfectly browned and seasoned birds alongside a hearty serving of shiitake mushroom stuffing, red wine mashed potatoes and veal gravy made for an delectable shared meal for two.

First to Market also serves lunch and brunch, and the tri-tip sandwich ($13) with stout barbecue sauce on sourdough with coleslaw and horseradish spread is plenty of incentive to return. —Jeff Cianci FIRST TO MARKET 399 S. First St., San Jose. 408.600.2120 or firsttomarketsj.com.

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HOT LOU First to Market chef Domingo Wolbert pairs spicy and savory with these St. Louis style ribs and sriracha cole slaw.

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

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JOAN JO AN SEB SEBASTIAN ASTIAN & LOS LOSS TIGRES TIGRES DEL NORTE NORTE Nov 23 at SSAP AP Center

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TRIPLE HO SHO SHOW W Dec 3 at SSAP AP Center

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BILLY BILL Y IDOL Decc 11 at Rockbar Theater

THE ENGLISH BEA BEAT AT Dec De ec 12 at The Blank Club

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WAR W AR A AN AND ND T TOWER OWER OF POWER POWER Dec 220 0 at City National Civic

THE CARA CARAVAN AVA AN N PROM PR OM Caravan LLounge, Caravan ounge, San Josee Free Sat, 9pm, Fr ee their Most people want to fforget orget th heir prom.

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GHOUL San Jose Rock Shop, San Saan Jose Sat, 7pm, $15 These days the “shock “shock rrock” ock” thrash-metal thr ash-metal sounds ooff Oakland’s Ghoul might not be all that Theree ar aree bands shocking. Ther bannds with ffar ar worse, much gorier lyrics— maskss but the thing is, their mask m aree absolutely ter terrifying. rifying. The ar carry ffour-piece our-piece (who car ry names n like Digestor,, Dissector, Digestor Dissector, Cremator, Cremator, Fermentor) wear what look like wrapped around old tarps wr apped ar ou und their cut ffaces, aces, with eyeholes cu ut out and general bloodstains in the gene eral mouth Seriously.. They look like rregion. egion. Seriously maniacs. actual homicidal mania acs The acs. group gr oup has been a band since 2001, so we can all takee solace in the ffact act that they’ve yet to murder actually mur der anyonee in the leastt that we past 13 years—at leas of.. (A (AC) C) know of

DENIS KOZHUKHIN K OZHUKH IN McAfee P McAfee Performing erforming Arts Center Center,r, Sar atoga Saratoga Sat, 7:30pm, $10-$6 $10-$60 60 If you love l piano, i youu cannott miss Denis KKozhukhin. ozhukhiin. The blond, ponytailed phenom burst b onto winning the scene after winn ning first prize at the 2010 Queen EElisabeth lisabeth Brussels. competition in Bruss sels. He was 23.

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Y&T Decc 31 at RockBar Theater

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CHERRY CHERR RY POPPIN’ D DADDIES ADDIES Jan 31 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

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FROM F ROM GUT GUT‘The ‘The Italian Girl in Algiers Algiers’ deli delivers ivers plenty of belly laughs an and d powerful e singing from resid resident dent Opera San Lisa Nathan José artist Li isa Chavez as Isabella and N atthan Stark as Mustafa.

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n Ot Ottoman ttoman ruler sits at a banquet table— wild-eyed, wild d-eyed, bewigged, nearly nea arly imbecilic desire—waving with desire e—waving great fistfuls floppy fistf fuls of spaghetti escaping slaves.. It's at his escap ping slaves hardly the image that comes to mind when wh hen you think off classical l i l oper a, but b it's i' opera, e xactly what what you get in Opera Opera exactly San JJosé's osé's dizzyingly d comic production n of Gioachino Rossini's Th he Italian Girl in The Algiers w playing at the Algiers,, now California Theatre.

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Typical opera T ypic y caal of the op era buffa (or ccomic om mic opera) style, puree fluff fluff—an op pera) st tyyle, the plot is pur ff— —an n improbable shipwrecks, im mprobable cconfection onffection e of shipwr reck e ks, identities,, and rromantic cconcealed o ealed identities onc omantic machinations,, set in the eexotic opulence m machinations xxotic opule ence Turkish-ruled North Africa. off T urkish-ruled N u orth Afric caa.

Mustafa, Algiers,, is tir tired Must afa,, ruler of Algiers ed off his wife, marryy hi is wif fe, Elvira,, and plans to marr her Italian slave, Lindoro. he er off to his It alian sla ave, Lindor o.

Coincidentally, Italian soon C oincidentallyy, an It taalian ship so on flounders Mustafa's flo ounders off the ccoast, oast,, and Must afa''s Barbary spoils the B arbary pirates bring the sp oils to th he palace—including Isabella, Italian pa alace—including Isab ella,, an It alian n beauty headstrong. b e ty as crafty as she is headstr eaut ong.

Musttaafa falls ffor Mustafa o or her imm immediately mediately and her. vvows ows to ““tame o tame her r.”

Isabella, Isab ella,, of ccourse, o ourse, hass her own agenda. She has ccome ome o to o Algiers searching lover, Lindoro, sear ching ffor o or her lo oveer, Lindor L o, been since who has b een missing si ince a similar shipwreck enslavement. shipwr reeck led to his ensl laavement. e She is accompanied byy Taddeo, suitor. ac ccompanied b Taddeo a o, an aging suitor r. battle The ensuing bat ttle t off wits and wills ludicrously one-sided, is ludicr ously one -sided,, and the plot's but doesn't rresolution esolution ccontrived, ontrivved, e , bu ut it do esn't matter. opera story rreally eally mat ttter. In op era buffa, b , the stor ry merely the delivery is mer reely a vvehicle eehicle ffor or th o he deliv veery of belly hummable tunes and b elly laughs. laughs.

Rossini provided R ossini has pr o ovvided the t tunes—a melodies parade of melo dies thatt sparkle under sensitive the sensitiv ve baton of cconductor o onductor Ming Luke—and provided L uk ke—and the laughs ar aaree pr ovvided in abundance Opera abundanc ce by by the Op erra San JJosé osé ccast, aast, byy st stage director Michael l db led age dir di ector Mic chael h l Shell. h ll From note Fr om the vvery eery first no ote of the overture, aree in go good o veerture, yyou ou know yyou o ou ou ar od musically.

Luke's orchestra hands music allyy. L uk kee's or chestra like tuned Italian rresponds esponds lik ke a finely tu uned It alian sports acoustics sp orts ccar, ar ar, and the ac ousstics of the California Theatree allow C aliffornia o Theatr w the ensemble dynamic to show off its full dynam mic range while

never overpowering singers.. ne ver e o veerp powering the singers singing impressive.

The singi ggingg is also impr p essivve. Lisa Chavez brings warm, beguiling Cha avez brin ngs a w aarm,, b eguiling mezzo the Isabella, me zzo to th he rrole ole of Isab ella,, with power the full p ow wer of her vvoice o oice rrevealed evealed e opera’s second Ass Lindor Lindoro, in the op erraa’s sec co ond act. A o, Dailey mellifluous,, wo woody aileey has a mellifluous ody Michael Da tenor, tenor r, though thou ugh his vvoice o oice sounded a ttad ad opening rrehearsal-weary ehearsal-w weary on op ening night. Bass Stark (Mustafa) Nathan St a (Must ark afa) and baritone Matthew Hanscom have Mat tttheew Hansc H om ((Taddeo) Taaddeo) ha ave flexible, surprisinglyy fle exxible, eexpressive xpr x reessivve vvoices, o oices, other grace and the oth her ffeatured eeatured singers grac ce the stage polished st age with cconfident, onfident,, p olished vvocals. ocaals.

Opera San understands Op era Sa an JJosé osé underst taands that a great lovely aree gr eat orchestra orcheestra and lo oveely singing ar enough—that opera theatrical not enough h—that op era is a theatric al musical makes as well as a music al form. fo orm. What mak kees Italian wonderful their It n Girl truly wonder ful is the alian ccomic omic brio that infuses eevery veery element of production. the pr oduct ction.

Stark stand-out St ark is the t st taand-out ccomic omic performer piece. buffoonish p erfo ormer in i the piec e. His buff ffo oonish Mustafa growls whines,, blusters Must afa gr o and whines owls gapes, and gap es, while w engaging in a barrage physical words of ph hyysiccal a sschtick that wor ds ccannot annot Among ccapture. apture. Am mong a weaker weak ker e cast, cast, a , he would show, give easily steal the t show w, but his ccostars ostars giv ve money.

Ass the ill-used him a run ffor o or his mone ey. A Taddeo, Hanscom particularly T addeo a , Ha anscom has a par ticularly good opportunity go od opp orrtunitty to show his ccomic omic chops,, and eeven chops ven e the men's chorus (pirates,, slaves (pirates slaavees and eunuchs) earns a ffew ew good guffaws. go od guffa aw ws.

And it it'ss not n just the singers; the entiree pr production entir roduction d team is in on the fun.

Scenery designer Steven Kemp provides Sc enery des signer Ste eveen K eemp pr ovvides elaborately patterned Turkish an elab orattely pat ttterned T u urkish facade punctured byy cconcealed doors fac ade punc ctured b oncealed do ors windows, Ottoman and window ws, the O ttoman t vversion eersion of Laugh joke wall.

Costumer L augh In's ic iiconic onic jok ke w all. a C ostumer Lehmeyer gives Mustafa JJohn ohn L ehm meeyeer giv vees Must taafa (and Taddeo) sultan's headdress large later T aaddeeo) a sult taan's headdr ess lar ge have gravitational enough to ha h ave its own gra avvitational shipwreck pull. Even Evveen the t shipwr eck gets a laugh, presented style Terry pr esented in n a st tyyle that rrecalls eccaalls T eerry cut-out Monty Gilliam's cu utt-out animations ffor o or Mont ty Flying Circus.

Python's Fl lying Cir cus. production perfect.

The pr oduction d is not p erfeect. Some are muddy, theree of the vvocal ocaall runs ar re muddy y, and ther aree a ffew places (notably frenetic ar ew pl laces (not ably the fr enetic during act’s septet durin ng the first act ’s climax) where onstage does wher re the temp ttempo o onst age do es not quite tempo from mesh with the temp o fr om the pit. But aree minor otherwise these ar m issues in an other wise enjoyable affair.

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HALAL HUMOR Nemr Abou Nassar built a stand-up comedy scene from scratch in the Middle East.

Crack Up The Kasbah “STANDUP COMEDY” and “the Middle East” can seem mutually exclusive terms, but Nemr Abou Nassar intends to change that. The Lebanese-born comedian has taken his dream of seeing comedy in the Middle East and made it a startling reality—turning himself into the biggest standup act in the region, performing for thousands of people everywhere from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, and even landing the cover of Rolling Stone Middle East. Nassar is something of a one-man revolution.

Born in Lebanon, Nassar spent his early childhood in San Diego, where he discovered comedy at an early age—listening to Dana Carvey, Bill Cosby and Steve Martin on his mother’s Nemr Abou Nassar cassette tapes.

After earning a degree in finance from the American University in Beirut, Nassar built a standup comedy scene from scratch. There were endless difficulties, not the least of which was teaching people what standup comedy was in the first place.

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“Many venues in Beirut, including The Hard Rock Café, didn't know what standup comedy was and I had to explain it and demonstrate it,” he recalls. Even if Nassar's routine was well received, there was always the possibility of the electricity cutting out during his set. That, coupled with a dearth of comedy clubs, made his quest even more challenging.

But after six years, Nassar has become the Middle East’s best-known comedian.

Operating under the slogan, “No Politics, No Religion, One Love,” which is designed to defuse any sectarian differences in the audience, Nassar has brought his self-effacing, observational comedy to arenas in every country in the Middle East.

He performs almost exclusively in English—the region’s lingua franca—sometimes punctuating jokes in Arabic.

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Given the tense climate in the region, Nassar doesn't dare to plan too far ahead.

“When I have a show coming up, I can’t do ticket sales in advance for too long because . . .well, there is an Arabic saying that, when translated, means ‘let’s live until then.’”

These days, Nassar is bringing his comedy to America, but he remains committed to keeping the comedy scene alive in Lebanon and its neighboring countries.

Indeed, he hopes to see a new generation of Arabic comics emerge in the coming years.

Comedy is a tool for bringing people together, Nassar says. “If you make someone laugh, even if they don't agree with you, you’ve traversed something,” he says. “You've made the argument resonate. Its the strongest connection you can get.”— Tad Malone

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HE keenly k titled Force Fo orce Majeure M ajjeure is about one of those thos se little instances of cowardice cow wardice that can end a military career—or carreer—or a marriage— in a matter of seconds. seconds.

This Swedi Swedish ish film is slipp slippery ery and xpectedly e ticklish. The quite une unexpectedly blank k-fac - ed sa atire k eeps yyou ou at arm ’s blank-faced satire keeps arm’s leng th; it br eaks up the shor t-storyish length; breaks short-storyish ttale ale ((Alice Alice Mu unro is what it rreminded eminded Munro me of most) with w long black outs and blackouts whiteouts epeated sinister phrase whiteouts.. A rrepeated

off ac accordion cordion music intr introduces oduces eevery ver e y ch hapter. chapter.

It ’s set at a high-middle class It’s Fr rench Alps ski rresort esort wher French wheree a Sw wedish family of ffour o our set tles in ffor or o Swedish settles a week. T omas o ((Johannes Johannes K unke)) Tomas Kunke) verbooked, ccowed owed dad. Hi is the o overbooked, Hiss sp pouse is Ebba (Lisa L oven K unke), e spouse Loven Kunke), an n appar ently eeven-tempered ven-tempered apparently w woman with i h a slightly li h l mer il ciless merciless m mouth.

(In Strindb erg terms ba Strindberg terms,, Ebb Ebba is The Str onger; we see her back Stronger; w when she ’s changing her clothes a she’s clothes,, and sh he has muscles lik .) Th he she likee a lioness lioness.)

The ki ids ar ty, but not rud de. kids aree mildly brat bratty, rude.

Th hey’re clean and unthr eatening.

They’re unthreatening.

A fr And om 10 ffeet eeet aaway, way, the familyy is from

of such p erfeection tha at the perfection that theyy might ha ave b een sold b eaa to ac cessorize have been byy Ik Ikea accessorize the furnitur e. furniture.

Ostlund st arts to ch hill us a lit tle starts chill little b h i i what h an alien li byy emphasizing landsc ape the mount a top is; in ain landscape mountain one night sc ene he cr e eates aC G scene creates CG simulation of the p eak ks just dist ant peaks distant enough that we ar en’tt quite sur aren’t suree if we ’re in vir tual rreality ealitty or not — only we’re virtual not—only the brit tle, ar tificial ttwinkle w winkle of the brittle, artificial st ars is what tips us off ff.. Ostlund ff stars off. used to mak cu umentaries, makee ski do documentaries, Warr en Miller -wise; ra are to see Warren Miller-wise; rare an enthusiast mak avorite makee a fa favorite sp ort seem so unc ny. The hills ann sport uncanny. b oom with aavalanche valanche v e guns boom guns,, a near cconstant onstant barrage at ni ight. A night.

Ass if ccavalry avvalry ffollowed ollowed o the ar aartillery, tillery, the hillsides then cra aw wl wi ith sinister crawl with sinister,, eextraterrestrial-looking xtraterrestrial-lookin ng vvehicles, ehicles, b eeping and flashing their t lights as beeping the oom the snow w. The empt ty theyy gr groom snow. empty

eed past the the ski-lift sp chairs in the speed er cut. camera with h the sswish wish of a sab camera saber dgee, too-small too-small rrooms ooms yield In the lo lodge, to an atrium m paneled in a jaundic ed jaundiced wood. Y o ou ha ave to go outside blonde wood.

You have oom to o ttalk alk so the kids don’t don’t hear, hear, the rroom hallwayys allow about about as but these hallways privaacy as a P anopticon. There’s There’s much privacy Panopticon. joke ab out a sswarthy warth hy a running joke about e, who seems to b handyman ther there, bee keeping a special, sp pecial,, skeptical skeptical eye eye on the keeping heir meltdown b egins. family as th their begins. a outdo or lunch,, a Duringg an outdoor triggered aavalanche vvalanche gets out of triggered control and d seemed to b control bee heading fo or the th he family’s family’s café caffé table. table. Father right for To omas takes takes e the time -honored “e very Tomas time-honored “every fo or him mself ” approach, approach, stopping man for himself scoop up p his glo ves and his phone to scoop gloves beffo ore he ru uns ffor o or it. When the before runs wave of snow turns out to b deadly wave bee og fr om the snowcliff just a blast of ffog from snow-cliff falling, Ebba ba ffeels eeels b etraayed b Ebb falling, betrayed byy her Ebba is to o nic erson husband. Ebba too nicee a p person be confrontational confrontational at first,, so she to be takes a passive-aggressive passsive-aggressive appr oach takes approach try to ge et her man to ttalk alk ab out to try get about es it. And as the vac ation it. He denie denies vacation continues, she s recruits recruits old friends continues, ame along a to join the trip who ccame trip,, to allk out the incident. One help her ttalk To omas’’ long lo ong time chum (Kristofer (Kristoffeer is Tomas’ o is as good good as JJeff eff Daniels Hivju, who at mixing ccountry tiness and ountry hear heartiness fatuousnesss). s) The other is his pal, pal, a fatuousness). kinky, disheveled disheeveled girlfriend named kinky, Fanny (Fanny (Fan nn ny Metelius) who is half Fanny age. All of this rreasonableness easonableness his age. makes the quarr q el signific antly worse makes quarrel significantly worse..

It’s as if all it took took w as a str ong gust It’s was strong cold air to t split up this family. familyy. of cold effeers to the sinking of the Ostlund rrefers SS Estonia,, 20 years years ago this fall, as SS eople examplee of how civilized p an example people fo orget theirr duties eerry forget duties,, either in a fferry sstorm-wracked ed marriage disaster or storm-wrack marriage.. reat slyness But with gr great slyness,, this anticomedy goes goes e br oader to eexamine xamine comedy broader ouplees ar alwayys lo oking ffor o or how ccouples aree always looking advantage a o ver one another— another— an advantage over ertain time how after a ccertain time,, husbands wives are a e always ar alwayys gr oping ffor o or a and wives groping weapon. Force For o ce Majeur re’s title ccomes omes weapon.

Majeure’s from a legal legaal phrase that isn ’t on a from isn’t e tificate but ought to er marriage ccertificate b e; unlike unlike Gone G Girl, this icy ccomedy omedy be; Girl, make you you feel feeel b etter about ab out your your will make better menagge. own menage.

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(PG; 102 min.) Big Her Heroo 6 is i buil builtt to amaze,, and amaze it does does.. It It’d ’d take some 10 viewings to unr unravel avvel the knockout action scenes and annd properly properly enjoy its fantasy fantasy city of San San Fransokyo.

Fransokyo.

KKorii ooriii ar arches ches top the caissons caissoons of the Golden Gate Bridge. Coit Tower Toower is a Asiatic pagoda. Everything A siaticc meant to oriental give the audience an orien ntal anxiety attack in 1982’s Blade Run Runner nner—the neon, neon the noodle-shops, noodle-shops noodle shops, the th he blimps, blimps the ornaments—is her heree used u to delight an audience of 2014.

20114. Our orphaned her hero, o, Hiro Hiro (Ryann Potter), Potter), is a scruffy 14 14-year-old -year-old designer designer who fritters away his skillss in illegal robot robot fights. Big brother brother Tadashi Taadashi took a more more legitimate path path at the lab in SF Tech.

Tech. e Tadashi Taadashi works worrks with an assorted, but never really really fully differentiated, Scooby differentiated, student Sco ooby Gang of 5—particularly the Shagg Shaggyish gyish leader Fred Fred (T J Miller of TV’s TV’s Silic Silicon con V Valley aalley))..

Tadashi’s Taadashi adashi’ss breakthrough breakthrough invention invvention is an inflatable first-aid robot roboot named Baymax, a ’bot of pleasantly pleasanttly toneless calm voiced by Scott Adsit.

Adsitt.. After some plot thickening, Hiro Hiro seeks seeks to retrofit retrofit Baymax the nurse-bot nurse--bot into a warrior. warrior. And to the film’s film’s cr ccredit, edit, this upgrade upgrade has mixed rresults esultss for for the boy. boyy. Big Her Hero ro 6 is everythin everything ng you’d hope for for a superhero superhero movie, moviie, with speed,, adventure, adventure, cataclysm cataclyssm and comic relief relief in the right spots. spots.. It’s It’s not overwhelmed overwhelmed with small small spots of humor aimed for for the 12-20 12-20 year old males. This is probably probablyy the first Disney cartoon to (almost)) mention pubic hair. hair. If the producers producerss are are fishing for for young male viewers, this thhis dazzling spectacle doesn’t their doesn’t flatter th heir bloodymindedness.. It’s It’s still takess good old Comic Code approach approach to vigilantism. viigilantism.

It’s It’s not craving craving retro retro kid stuff stuff to sort of prefer prefer stories with a villain villaain alive and chastened. (RvB)

THE HOME HOMESMAN SMAN (R; 122 min.) Hilary SSwank wank stars stars in Western frontier this W estern as a tough fr onntier shepherd woman who volunteers to sh hepherd three thr ee pioneer wives driven mad m by prairie lifee away to saf safer environs. pr airie lif er env virons.

TTommy oommy Lee Jones plays an hired gun unsavoryy drifter and hir ed ggu un who accompanies them. (Opens Fri.) F

THE HUNGER GAME GAMES: S: MOCKINGJAY PART MOCKINGJ AY P ART 1 (PG-13; 123 min.) Hunger Gam (PG-13; Games mes victor/survivor Everdeen victor/sur vivor KKatniss atniss Ever d deen (Jennifer Lawrence) (Jennif er Lawr ence) is transformed transfformed figurehead into the rreluctant eluctant figur eheadd of a revolution revolution by yet another shifty s presidential Moore). pr esidential type (Julianne Moor M e).

The rrevolution evolution aims to overthrow overtthrow the oppressive oppr essive rregime egime of President Presideent Snow ((Donald Sutherland)—and ) jjust ust to complicate things, Snow holds h KKatniss’ atniss’ pseudo-fiance, Peeta Peetta (Josh Hutcherson), captive. (Openss Fri.)

Revivals Re vivals GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) 75th anniversary of the the film’s film’s release. release. In 35mm and Technicolor, Teechnicolor, the saturated saturated colors—the reds reds e and blacks, blacks, especially profound—are profound— —are only part of the reason reason a current currrent audience might greet greet Gone With W the Wind with the exclamati exclamation on "What a dark movie!" A rrevisit evissit through war,, spou spousal sal hauls you thr ough war miscarriage, illegitimacy, rrape, ape, miscar riage, illegitimac cyy, adultery—not adul tery—not bad for for a film m that epitomizes the ffamily amily era era in cinema.

The courtship of Scarlett andd Rhett mirror is like a mir ror of the Civil War, War a , in the (supposedly conflict between Rhett (supp posedly from Gable fr om Charleston, but Clark G able North)) and embodies the rrestless estless North anti-heroine the deathless anti-her oine Scarlett S shrewd, performance (a shr ewd, even cutting perf ormance Let’s

by Vivien Leigh). Let ’s honorr the producer David ffamous amous names: pr oducer Dav vid O. truckloads Selznick, who hauled trucklo oads Georgia of rred ed Geor gia earth to Culver Culveer City; Max SSteiner, teiner, composer of o the appropriately score; William appr opriately rich scor e; Will liam hard-working CCameron ameron Menzies, the har d--working production designer,, who gives pr oduction designer givves treat the eye a new tr eat in every scene.

Uncredited Uncr edited but deeply ffelt: elt: writer w script Ben Hecht, who gave the scr ript a hard-boiling. much needed har much-needed d boiling It is d-boiling. overstuffed, overstuff ed, rracist, acist, and it's ccast ast with some of the worst childd actors ever.. SStill, ever till, Gone With the Win Wind ndd is that unimaginable thing, a flexible fl masterpiece: thrilling, vivid, moving m and funny when you least ex expect xpect it.

(Plays thru Nov 21 in P Palo alo Al Alto to at the Stanford Stanffoord Theatre.)

Theatre.) (RvB)

BIRDMAN (R; 119 min.) min ) days, Back in the Bill Clinton da ys, Riggan starred eatonn) star Thomson (Michael KKeaton) red in a series of Bir Birdman dmann mo movies— ovies— blockbusters about a darkk Hawkman with telekinetic powers. Itt made Thomson famous. famous. The film m ffollows ollows the turbulent Riggan during during the previews previews of his play Whatt W Wee TTalk aalk About When We We Talk Talk a About Abouut Love Love.

Director Director Alejandro Alejandro Gonzalez Gonzallez Iñnáritu’s four four scriptwriters introduce introducce magicalrealist realist business—the gravelly gravelly a I-am-the-night voice of Birdman B Birdman rasps deriding rasps in Riggan’s Riggan’s mind, de eriding sissy foo-foo foo-foo acting. According Accoording to this super-doppelganger, super-doppelganger, Riggan could be back out in Hollywood Hollyywood flapping around, around, blowing up things and amazing the world. He He still has his super powers: the firstt shot is the actor is levitating in his underwear unnderwear in

a lotus position. Riggan’s problems Riggan’s pr oblems as director/writer/actor director/writer/actor of his first play are are numerous. numerous. His angry anggry daughter (Emma Stone) Stone) is fresh freshh out of rrehab. ehab.

A haywire-nerved co-star haywire-nerved costar (Naomi Watts) own troubles.

Watts) is having her ow wn tr oubles.

Her co-star, co-star, Mike (Edward (Edw ward Norton), is a splendid caricature caricature of o the monster actor who sees the world, woorld, as it were, were, in negative—the rreal eal life life is on the stage. In this bewilderingly bewilderingly funny film, Iñnáritu is talkingg about what he knows about: the problem p oblem of pr handling a menagerie of people with insatiable bruised egos tiable demands. g and insa Birdman Bir dmann has gr great eat pr praise a of the cr aise craft aft of acting, even if it insults insults actors in luckyy ignor ignoramuses as luck amuses in its subtitle.

Wee can almost see ho how W w the childish behavior complimentss an exacting here. movies science her e. Few mov vies have had diree fun with the pr process so much dir ocess of getting the show to goo on. Bir Birdman rddman is necessary viewing ffor o all theatrical or actors, from from toasts of Broadway Broadway to crusty little-theater toilers. tooilers. (RvB)

DEAR WHITE PE PEOPLE OPLLE (R;; 108 min.) It It’s ’s a veryy good thing Justin Simien’s Simien’s Dear White W People People was made—it gets in ther theree where where the dirt is. Tessa Thompson Tessa e Thom pson is Samantha, a film studies firebrand studies fir ebrand with severe doubts. severe internal do oubts.

Lionel (Tyler (TTyyler James Williams) Wiilliams) is a wary underdog underdog with a sky-high sky-high afro. opposite, afro. Samantha’s Samantha’s oppo osite, Coco (Teyonah (TTeeyonah Parris), Parris), is a vlogger v who seeks seeks popularity at all costs. At At the lily-white Winchester University, Universityy, Samantha’s Samantha’s show on the t college radio radio station chafes chafes a lot of nerves. nerves.

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Hitler-Youth Hitler-Youth o haircut haaircut to show she’s she’s all about business. businesss. There There are are moments.

Good robots, robots, naturally. naaturally. A planet covered covered with a layer of water as shallow as a kid’s kidd’s wading pool turns out to have ul ultra trra Maverick wavebreaks; breaks; thanks thanks to a nearby black hole, the clock runs at a hyperspeed—one hour there there equals equaals seven Earthyears. The backk and forth forth between deep space andd dusty cornfields worked in Ray Br Bradbury’s B adbury’s stories.

Here, Here, the relentless relenttless seriousness and Hans Zimmer going g full Bach on the soundtrack’s soundtrack’s organ, orggan, leaches the pleasure pleasure of exploration expploration from from this high, wide and barren barren film. (RvB)

INTERSTELLAR INTER STELLAR (PG-13; 169 min.) Matthew (PG-13; M Cooper, McConaughey is Co ooper, an exastronaut dirt astr onaut and a dir rt ffarmer armer of future. the not too distantt futur e. Under circumstances thatt would be even cir cumstances tha moree embarrassing mor embarrassingg to describe than weree to watch watch, they wer h, Cooper and daughter his cherished daug ghter (Mackenzie secret NASA Foy) stumble into a secr et NA SA NASA lab. What's left of NA N SA is trying to human through ark the dying huma an rrace ace thr ough a wormhole convenient wormh ole parked near Saturn. Interstellarr surprises you with a high rratio atio off scenes of people sitting around around tables tables to moments of flight or danger danger.. The Thhe innovations, such as scenes caught by cameraa b an IMAX camer mounted in the nose nose of a Learjet, portion out thin slices slices of excitement.

Don’t Don’t expect rromance omance with Anne Hathaway;; she’s austeree she’s ggot ot an auster

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(PG-13; min.) Here Here is one of cinema’s greatest cinema ’s gr eateest slouches:: Bill Murray, lazy Brooklyn Mur rayy, with a la azy Br ooklyn accent.

“Ya He rrejoices ejoices in the thhe motto “Y Ya work, ya get paid, ya drink.” drinnk.”” But then a new neighbor arrives: arrivess:: it’s it’s Oliver, Oliverr, a boy who needs tending ((played played as an overly polite little mann by Jaeden Lieberher).

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(Melissa McC artthyy..) The hardworking hardworking hangs Naomi Watts Watts ha angs around, around,, clearly pregnant enjoying herselff as the pr egnant pole-dancer Russian pole-da ancer Vince hires hires for for companionship.. If this film gets Mur Murray companionship ray Oscar,, ffair a body-of-workk Oscar air enough. Be paragon warned, though, thoughh, that this par agon of slack will get the the full 224K 4K gold heart transplant the tr ansplant by th he end of the film. (RvB)

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‘Cholo Goths’

KEEPING K EEPING IT IT REAL R E A L Growing up goth in a rough r Chicano neighborhood in i San Diego Diego, o, Prayers vocalist Rafael Reyes, identity—literally.

P rayers voca alist R afael R eyess, left, had to fight fi for his identity—literally y.

San Di Diego iego ‘killwave ‘killwave’ killwave’ group P Prayers rayerss meld tales d hard-knock ta ales of barrio life with minimal w dark, min nimal beats BY B Y AAR AARON ON N CARNE CARNESS

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S A TEENAGER, TEENAGER, Rafael Reyes Rey yes had to hide his love e of dark, brooding bands ban nds like Christian Death and JJoy oy Division, because but not bec cause he had overbearing overbearin ng parents worried would warp that such music m warp their child.. His story is a little different. H e had to listen on He the downlo ow because he was was downlow a gang mem mber in a rough member Chicano ne eighborhood in San neighborhood Diego neigh hborhood, where neighborhood, g as a goth would identifying have carrie ed potentially more carried serious con nsequences than consequences getting gro ounded. grounded.

“The guys fr from om m myy neighb neighborhood, orho ood, th hey didn ’t lik ay I dr essed— — they didn’t likee the w way dressed— so o I cconformed,” onffo ormed,”” R eyes eexplains xplains off Reyes hi is adolescence. adolescence. “I sha aved m d his shaved myy head an nd my my eyebrows—just eyebrows ows— —jjust lo oking and looking cr razy—but — inside I w as a diff ffeerentt crazy—but was different p e erson.

Iw as miserable ffor o or a longg person. was tim me b ecause I w asn’t living the li iffe time because wasn’t life Iw anted to liv e. I w as doing whatt wanted live. was eeveryone veryone else ffelt eelt I w as supp osed to was supposed b .” bee doing doing.”

R eyes gr ew up living ttwo wo Reyes grew liv ves. He w as sent to scho ol in a lives. was school pr redominately white par n. It predominately partt of town town. w as ther as intr oduced to was theree that he w was introduced an nd d ffell eell ll in i lo llove ve with ith the th Deathr D th ock, ck and Deathrock, p o -punk and sho ost egaze bands post-punk shoegaze th hat were were ne ver pla ayed in his that never played ne eighborhood. Back at home he neighborhood. m made the decision at a yyoung oung age th hat joining a gang and putting putting up u that a badass fac ade w as the only lo giccal facade was logical ccourse o ourse of action. He made this

Faustian bar bargain gain in or order rder to pr protect otect his family famil and himself f. himself.

And so a hanging with as so,, when he w was the neighb orhood b oys y , he endur ed neighborhood boys, endured their music ehin nd closed do ors music.. But b behind doors it w as the under groun nd,, alternativ was underground, alternativee music of the time thatt rreally eally sp oke spoke to him. He rremembers ememberrs seeing Duran Duran on MTV and dr d eaming that dreaming one da ay that ccould ould b day bee him.

Though his band, P raayers—a Prayers—a dissonant and aggr essiive industrialaggressive goth h duo d hi h he h de d escrib ibes as duo,, which describes “cholo goth ”—hasn’t b een pla ayed on goth”—hasn’t been played MTV V, the y’ve garner ed d a fair amount MTV, they’ve garnered of buz or o mation a yyear ear buzzz sinc sincee their fformation ago eyes and his ban ndmate, Da avvid ago.. R Reyes bandmate, David P arelyy, ar eing off ffeered shows all Parely, aree b being offered o ver the country—and country— —and d rreport eport that over the y’ve b een arriving to eager they’ve been eager,, highly rreceptive eceptive cr owds. It ’s a victor crowds.

It’s victoryy that R eyes has ffought o ought har d ffor—literally. or o —literallyy.

Reyes hard “I b ecame a gangste er to the p oint became gangster point wher ’t giv f ” he sa ayys of wheree I didn didn’t givee a fuck,” says his decision to op enlyy embrac openly embracee goth st yle. “I, ffor o or a lack of b etter wor ds, style. better words, ccame ame out of the closet t. I got in fights closet. with a lot of guys d the guys,, and theyy finally ga ave up o whate ver the gave up.. The Theyy said, ‘do whatever fuck yyou ou w ant. Y ou ea o arned it. ’” want.

You earned it.’”

The first ccouple b R eyes put ouple of bands Reyes

to gether, Nite N Ritual and V aampire, together, Vampire, wer avviilyy goth-influenc ggoth-influenced. ed. R eyes weree hea heavily Reyes had spent spent so much time b effo ore before then holdi ing all his dark fant asies holding fantasies back,, and the ttheyy all p oured out in poured those gr ou ups. Pra ayers is something groups.

Prayers alto getherr diff ffeerent, he sa ayys. altogether different, says. eal shit,” R eyes eexplains. xplains.

“This is rreal Reyes “In V aampire, I w as singing ab out Vampire, was about b eing a V aampire, or whate ver the being Vampire, whatever fuck I w aas singing ab out. Pra ayers is was about.

Prayers not fant asy. I’m ttalking alking ab out things fantasy. about that II’v ve b e going thr een ough: the I’ve been through: b etraayyals, the t hear tbreaks, tr ying to betrayals, heartbreaks, trying br eak ster e ypes, b eot ecause of gr owing break stereotypes, because growing up in gang gs, and how the gangs, theyy wer weree alw wayys tr yiing to put me in a b ox.” always trying box.

Pra ayers’’ raw, raaw, straight-to-the-point straight-to -the-point Prayers’ aesthetic — —with R eyes shouting, shouting, aesthetic—with Reyes rapping an nd singing o ver abrasiv and over abrasivee eats—has electr onicss and driving b electronics beats—has draw wn ccomparisons om mparisons to other out drawn out-ther rnative rap gr oups, like like theree alter alternative groups, Death Gri ps and Clipping Grips Clipping.. It has also cconnected onneected with b oth suburban both kids and th he same har d-kno ck crew crew the hard-knock that used to t rag on R eyes and his Reyes goth st yle. style.

“It resonates reson nates mor eople moree with p people b ecause it ’s all rreality,” eality,” R eyes sa ays y. because it’s Reyes says.

“Bef fo ore Pr raayers, I ffelt elt e lik eople in “Before Prayers, likee p people the music sc ene in San Diego wer en’t scene weren’t ttaking aking me seriously y. I ga ave up as seriously. gave up,, I w was lik e, ‘F uck eeveryone.’ veryone.’ I w as just angr y. like, ‘Fuck was angry.

It turns ou ut that w as what p eople out was people wer ally w aiting ffor.” or o .” weree actua actually waiting That ang ger is made cr ystal clear on anger crystal the ffourth o ourth h track of Pra ayers’’ 2013 fullPrayers’ leng th, SD D Killw ave. “I am ffeared eeared and length, Killwave. rrespected,” espected,”” R eyes w ails on the first Reyes wails vverse erse of “D Dog to Go d,”” a medit ation “Dog God,” meditation on the vio lent gang cultur ew violent culturee he gr grew up with. “L Loyal to m “Loyal myy family/Death alw ays y cha asing me/Fr om do d, always chasing me/From dogg to go god, I’m alone in i this world. world.””

And yyet, ett,, despite the bleakness of the sc en nes R eyes paints ayys scenes Reyes paints,, he sa says that these da ayys he is in a gr eat plac e, days great place, P ayers. thanks to Pra Prayers.

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

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 Banda lessons. Every Thu, 9pm:: Band da Sunday: Night. San Jose. Every Sunday y: Hip-hop & rreggae. eggae. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BIS BISTRO TRO Thu,, Nov 20,, 7:30pm: Will Russs Jr.. pr presents Jr esents a tribute to Sam Cooke.. Fri,, Nov 21,, 8:30pm:: An Cowboys.

Evening with the Alien Cowboy ys.

Sat,, Nov 22,, 6:30pm:: “The Bestt is Nancy YYet et e TToo Come,”” a tribute to Nanc cy Conspiracy Beards.

Wilson & Conspir acy of Bear dss.

Redwood City

ART AR T BOUTIKI Sat, Nov 21, 7:30pm:: Anadel, The Phoenix TTwin, win, Old Silver w TTongue. ongue. o San Jose.

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, TTrap, rap,, 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, Nov 19, 8pm:: HBA, 12 Wed, Promise, Gauge Pr omise, Grint. Fri, Novv 21,, 8pm: Supernaut, Dr. Dr. Taco, Taaco, $7.

Rebels KKamp. amp. $7 7. Sat, Nov 22, 8pm:: Club Satori with DJ Vitus Vituus & DJ KKevin. evin.. $10.. San Jose.

BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri, Nov 21, 8:30pm: Mamboo Wally.

W ally. San Jose.

CAFFE FRA FRASCATI SCA AT TI Sat, Nov 22, 8pm: Azuah Melara.

Operaa Melar a. First Fri, 8pm: Oper Night. Every TTue, ue, u 7pm: Open Mic. San Jose.

CARDIFF LLOUNGE OUNGE Every TTues, uues, 10pm:: Resident DJ presents Gabriel Black pr esents Beat CCulture. ulture.. Every Wed, Wed, 10pm: Rubber Soul w/ Wen Wen Davis, Davis Nappy, Nappy y, CCutso, utso, and Golden Child (Hip-Hop).. Every Thu,, 10pm: Morehouse Roger Mor ehouse Presents Presents Foxy Thursdays.. CCampbell ampbell

CHARLEY'S CHARLE Y'S LG LG Fri,, Nov 21,, 7pm:: Out of the Blue.

Houserockers.

Sat,, Nov 22,, 7pm:: Houser ockers.

Wed, Wi3rdd Every W ed, 10pm:: Wi3r Wednesdays.

W ednesdays.. Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/ live Country music.. Los Los Gatos.

C&J’S SPOR SPORTS TS B BAR AR Every Thu, 10pm: KKaraoke. araoke.

Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ.. Santa Clara.

DJ Clara.

THE CA CATS ATS Wed,, Nov 19,, 7pm:: Paul Wed, Paul Kent Kent and Friends. Every Thu,, 8:30pm: Out of the Blue.. Every Sun, 6pm: Ferrara.

Joe Fer rara. LLos os Gatos.

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

Every Fri and Sun, 9:30pm: NoWrath.

KKaraoke araoke w/ DJ NoW rath.

Santa Clara.

Clara.

NUMBER ONE BR BROADWAY OADWAY Wed, Nov 19: Isaiah Pickett and Wed, Green th Gr the G een Brothers Br B others th Jam. J Thu, Th Nov 20: Blind Pilots. Fri, Nov 21: Touch Toouch of Class. Sat,, Nov 22: Megatones. Los Los Gatos.

THE QU QUARTER ARTER NO NOTE TE Fri, Nov 21: Flyte Boyz. $5. Sat, Nov 22: Black Mast. $5. Every Proo Jam. Mon, Wed Wed & Thu: Pr Sunnyvale.

RED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE Fri, Nov 21,, 8pm: West West Coast Songwriters. Sat, Songwriters.

Sat Nov 22, 22, 8pm: Ashley shley Reines and the New A West W est Revenue. Mountain View.

View.

SAN JOSE SSTATE SAN TATE T EEVENT VENT CENTER Sat, Nov 22, 7pm:: Fei Yu Yu Chin. $58-$198. Sun, Nov 23,, 7pm: Della Ding.. $48-$158. San Jose.

CITY NA NATIONAL AT TIONAL CIVIC Fri, Nov 21, 3pm: Yo Yo Gabba Gabba Live. San Jose.

CLUB CL UB FFOX OX Thu, Nov 20, 7pm: Soul for for the Season: a Definitely Diva Pense, Christmas feat. feat. LLydia ydia P ense, Paula Harris, P aula Har ris, TTerrie er e rie Odabi, and Moret.

Dana Mor et. $30 Sat, Nov 22, 8pm: Dutch Uncle (Rock Hits Cover Band). $15 City..

Redwood City

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

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

6-10pm Live Music 610pm w/ Wil Roberts. Happy Hour ALL NIGHT 4-10pm.

4-10pm. Los Los Gatos

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

Live bands. Fr ee. 21 and over Fremont.

Fr emont.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Fri, Nov 21, 10pm: Superbad Superbad..

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.

CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH Every W Wed, ed, 9pm: W Wax ax Wednesdays.

W ednesdays. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S Every W Wed: ed: Geology w/ Benny Medicina, Rock & Roll KKaraoke. araoke. Thu: Planet Funk Venom 347. w/ V enom 34 7. Fri: Traffic.

Traffic.

Birthday.

S t Traffic—Dan’s Sat: Traffic—Dan ffi D ’s ’ Birthday Bi thd .

Every Sun: Sundaze, a house and EDM night. San Jose.

MOUNTAIN MOUNT AIN WINER WINERY Y Fri, Nov 21, 5:30pm: Motown Supper Club-Dinner and Saratoga. atoga.

Dancing. Sar

Jazz/Blues/ World W orld o ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BIS BISTRO TRO Fri, Nov 21, 6:30pm: Hiram Hiram KKaailau aailau Ukulele Experience.

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

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BLUE BL UE R ROCK OCK SHOO SHOOT T Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase. Every Sat: Live Featured Show.. Every Sun: Featur ed Show Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga.

Saratoga.

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bedroom beat-making hobby into a career as Giraffage. His Fool’s Gold Debut, the ‘No Reason’ EP, was released Nov. 18.

Bigtime Bedroom Beats “I fucking hate interviews,” reads one of Charlie Yin’s tweets from a couple weeks back.

It’s understandable that Yin, better known as Giraffage, would be suffering from interview fatigue. The South Bay-bred producer is fresh off a world tour with Skrillex protégé Porter Robinson, he released his Fool’s Gold Records debut, No Reason, on Tuesday, and he’s been answering the same questions over and over again, day after day.

Fortunately, Yin was happy enough to discuss his frustration with Metro— explaining that beyond the simple fact that interviews can be monotonous, he feels that the articles which follow the interviews impact the way he and others feel about his art.

“When I do read interviews it kinda changes my perception of the music a bit,” Yin says. “I don’t like it.” Yin has said that he feels it’s up to the listener to interpret any narrative or meaning behind his work, so he tries to avoid coloring anyone else’s perception of it.

Back when Yin started composing beats, he didn’t have to worry so much about these kinds of things. Giraffage began as a solitary activity, with Yin composing fuzzed-out, sample-based beats and remixes by himself in his UC-Berkeley dorm room. He would push out his beats via the web where they could stand on their own, independent of him.

But shortly after graduating in 2012, things took off in a big way. He left his dorm to find a full-time music career awaiting him, complete with attention from the likes of the taste-making blog Pitchfork and FADER. Now 25, Yin has been moving away from samples and toward original production work—for both legal and artistic reasons. “It’s more true to me,” he says of the music he’s making now. “It definitely helps reinforce a distinct sound.”

That sound can be heard in the two lead singles from No Reason, “Chocolate” and “Tell Me”—a pair of future bass numbers, which feature elements and textures that sound as if they were plucked straight from the glistening fractal waters of the Nintendo 64 game Wave Race, or perhaps Dance Dance Revolution. These shimmering sounds are mixed with laid-back dance grooves, rolling high hats and bent vocal samples.

Now that he’s back from tour and has the backing of Fool’s Gold, Yin says that he is looking forward to chilling out, hunkering down at his new home in San Francisco and producing some new music. “I’m feeling good,” he says, reflecting on his career. “I never thought that my music would have taken me this far.”

Then again, perhaps it makes sense. “I just really like music,” he shrugs. “It’s what I naturally do when I get bored. It’s just the most fun thing to do.”—Stephen Layton

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8:30pm: Jamie Baum Quinte et.

Sat, Nov 22,, 9pm: Leon Joycee Wed, Wax TTrio. rrio. Every W ed, 9pm:: W ax Wednesdays.

7pm: W ednesdays. Every Sun, 7pm m: Eulipions Jazz Jam Session.

Session San Jose.

CLUB CL UB FOX FOX Wed,, Nov 19,, 7pm:: Club Fox Wed, R.J.. Mischo. $7.

Blues Jam:: R.J $77. Fri, Free Lessons Nov 21, 8pm:: Fr ee Salsa Lesso ons Show.

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HEDLEY CL HEDLEY CLUB UB A AT T HOTEL HO TEL DE ANZA Every 1st and 3r 3rdd W Wed: ed: Jazzz Jam. San Jose.

LITTLE LLOU’S OU’S BBQ Wed, Nov 19, 7pm: Johnny Wed, 20,, CCats ats & Friends. Thu, Nov 20 Fri, 7:30pm: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fr ri, Bohler.. Sat, Nov 21, 8pm: KKaye aye Bohler S Howardd Nov 22, 8pm: Ron Howar Authentic Soulful Blues Band.

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Thu,, 9pm:: Live Music.. Sun,, 5pm: Reggae music. Tue, Tuue, 6:30pm:: Live Irish Rock. San Jose.

Every Thu: Acoustics Acoustics Music Nights. Every Fri & Sat: Acoustics/Bands A coustics/Bands Music Nights. CCampbell. ampbell.

POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO TRO Every W Wed, ed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu, Nov 20, ACC Miles Blues Band.

6pm: A Fri, Nov 21, 6pm:RJ Mischo Blues Band. Sat, Nov 22, 6pm: Mofoo Party Mof Party Band. Sun, Nov 23, 2pm:School of Blues Student Student Jam Band, Afternoon Rock w/ Featprints. Mon, Nov 224, 4, Proo Jam Night 6pm: Theme Pr ffeat. eat. the Music of Neil Young.

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THE SSADDLE ADDLE RACK RACK

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Every Thu: Live jazz in the evening. San Jose.

LLOUISIANA OUISIANA BIS BISTRO TRO Every Fri, 6pm: Jer Jerry ry Sauced Sauceda. da.

San Jose.

THE MO MOJO JO LOUNGE LOUNGE SSat, t Nov N 22 22: Red R d SSoil. il Fremont.

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MOROCCO’S MOR OCCO’S Every W Wed, ed, Fri, and Sat, 5pm 5pm: m: Belly dancing. Every TTue, uue, 4pm: Live Jazz Music w/ Thu:: Johnny Williams. Every Thu Acoustic Live A coustic Guitar Music.

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EEvery 1st 1 t Sun: S Doug D Young’s Young’s o ’ Acoustic A coustic Guitar Night. $10.

LLos os Gatos.

Fri, Nov 21, 7pm: Latino YYouth oouth Jazz Ensemble. San Jose.

SMOKING PIG BBQ Fri, Nov 21, 9pm: Ron Thompson and Sid Morris.

Morris.

Sat, Nov 22, 9pm: Ron Hacker Fremont.

Band. Fr emont.

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

Balistr B li t eri.i Every E Sat, 7-9:30pm: 7-9:30pm: Live jazz.

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

San Jose.

THE W WOODSHED OODSHED Fri, Nov 21, 7:30pm: Cosy Sheridan. LLos os Gatos.

C&W/Folk C&W W/F / olk ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BISTRO BISTRO

Open p Mic/ d CComedy omedy ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BIS BISTRO TRO Sun, Nov 23, 7:30pm: Boomer Humor with Will Durst, Dan SSt. t. Paul, Paul, Richard Richard SStockton, tockton, & Norm Goldblatt. $22. Every TTue: uue: Open Mic Tuesdays.

Tuesdays. u Redwood City.

City.

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

BLUE BL UE R ROCK OCK SHOO SHOOT T Thu, 7pm: Musical open mic.

San Jose.

CAFFE FRA FRASCATI SCA AT TI Every Mon, 8pm: CommediaOpen Mic ffor or Comedy.

Comedy. Tue, Tuue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

DANA D ANA SSTREET TREET CCOFFEE OFFEE

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CHARLEY'S CHARLE Y'S LG LG

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Every Wed: Wed: Musician’s Musician’s Jam..

LLos os Gatos.

THE W WOODSHED OODSHED

Wed, Nov 20, 7pm: Country Wed, Cougars Music and Dancing.

City..

Redwood City

Every W Weekend: eekend: Live Music..

Sunnyvale.

NUMBER ONE BR BROADWAY OADWAY

Sat, Nov 22, 8pm: Hootenanny.. San Jose.

Hootenanny

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SAN PEDR SAN PEDRO O SQU SQUARE ARE MARKET

Fri, Nov 21, 7pm: Brantley Brantley Gilbert.

Every W Wed, ed, 10pm: Wi3r Wi3rdd Wednesdays.

W ednesdays. Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/ live Country music. music Every Tue, Tuue, ue 7pm: Tuesday Tuesday u Bluesday w/ live Blues music. LLos os Gatos.

MOSAIC MOS AIC

Every W Wed, ed, 7:30pm: Country Wednesday.

Get Down W ednesday. Every Att The Thu, 7:30: Swingin’ Swingin’ A Rack Dance Lessons. Every Fri, 9pm: Country Get Down Friday.. Fr Fremont.

Friday emont.

Wed, Nov 19, 6pm: Sidesaddle Wed, & Co.. Tues, Tues, u Nov 25, 6pm: Slide Road. San Jose.

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CCanyon anyon Johnson. Fr emont.

Fri, 9pm, Sat, 7pm and Sportz.

9:15pm: Comedy Sport z.

San Jose.

CARAVAN CARA AVAN Wed, W ed, 9pm: Comedy CCaravan. aravan.

IMPROV IMPR OV Wed, Nov 19, 8pm: Nemr Wed, Abou Nassar.

Nassar. Thu, Nov 20, Laffter.. Fri8pm: Cruzzin with Laffter Sun, Nov 21-23, 21-23, varying times: Christopher TTitus. itus. San Jose.

LIQUID Wed, W ed, 9pm: Poetic Poetic Justice

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Sun, 9:30pm:: Comedy Comedy. y. San Jose.

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your feedback will at least make you feel respected and part of the process. And it’s essential in heading off problems—like being a big bruiser of a guy spending thousands on a vehicle sized for Italian slicksters who subsist on olive oil and cigarette smoke.

As “not his mommy,” you don’t get to tell him to trade in the horsiepower for horsepower. Instead, tell him there’s a problem, and lay it on the table for the two of you to take apart and solve together.

This requires making compromise your collective goal (though this may be more successful in spirit than in practice). Can you, for example, think a little more, uh, expansively about masculinity?

Realistically, maybe not. Would he consider returning the bike, or would that be too huge of a financial haircut? Or … is there some solution that works a bit for both of you, like his renting a bike on some weekends—the kind that looks like it runs on gas, not rainbows and unicorn farts?

At the very least, L’affaire Vespa could serve as a reminder to take a more partnered approach to both conflict resolution and impending major purchases—before you get all excited about his new sports car and he drives up with the sport package …in the mom jeans of motor vehicles, the minivan.

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My husband’s been saving for a motorcycle, and I was excited about riding on the back, hanging on to him—sexy and fun! But then he came home with a Vespa, the little Italian scooter. It just seems so girly. The tiny wheels make it look like a toy, and he’s a big guy, so it looks like he’s borrowed a little kid’s bike. How can I get him to take it back?—Disappointed If you aren’t European or a hipster married to another hipster, it’s a little dismaying when your husband’s new ride looks like it came in a pink package marked “Barbie doll sold separately.”

Men who ride Vespas and other scooters will tell you that they are secure enough in their masculinity that they don't need their transportation to be all hairy-chested and gladiating. But the reality is, image matters, especially a wife's image of her husband.

And motorcycles are iconically manly and badass, while Vespas are … well, it’s the imagery of Hells Angels, “Easy Rider,” and “The Wild Bunch” versus the My Little Pony of ground transportation.

Your husband wasn’t wrong to want a Vespa. But he isn’t a bachelor anymore, so he shouldn’t be making major financial decisions like a guy who’s still eating cold cereal over a toilet. Not even when he’s spending his own money. It isn’t that he should ask your permission. (You’re his wife, not his mommy.) He just needs to remember that he’s in a partnership and act like it—consult you on major purchases and decisions and make sure you fully understand what he is (and, by extension, you are) getting into.

Sometimes, you may not agree with some course of action, and he may still decide to go through with it. But asking for

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A female friend set me up with one of her girlfriends, and we went for drinks.

There was no love connection, though there was some light kissing afterward (for maybe 30 seconds). Neither of us reached out to the other post-date. Well, my friend just yelled at me for “ghosting out” on her friend. Do I really need to “break up” with somebody after one date?—Chastised each other again, which, on the first date, you really can’t have. Sure, some kindly worded goodbye is in order if you have sex on the first date or if your date texts, calls, or emails you. But otherwise, there’s no obligation for closure after the first date, because, well, nothing was really opened yet. It’s essentially the dating version of those free samples at the supermarket. After you take that toothpick of beef satay, the lady in the white apron and the paper hat just smiles and says, “Enjoy!”; she doesn’t chase you through the frozen foods section, demanding to know whether you’re going to take the whole cow.

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This friend’s notion of what you owe somebody after the first date verges on expecting you to march up to strangers in the supermarket and announce, “I’ve decided that I’m just not that into you.”

She’s accusing you of “ghosting,” which describes disappearing on somebody you’ve been dating or in a relationship with without so much as a text goodbye.

Being ghosted is humiliating; it’s the statement without the statement that you not only have no value but have ceased to exist.

However, in order to ghost someone, there needs to be a relationship of sorts and some expectation you’d be seeing

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597867 The following following person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: JJRN RN Inv Investigations, estigations, 11346 346 The Alameda, STE S TE 77-110, -110, San Jose, CCA, A, 95126-5006, 95126-5006, Martinez, Manuel N. Mar tinez, 808 Powell Powell S St., t., Hollister,r, CA, Hollister CA, 95023.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #598112 # 5988112 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) pe erson(s) is (ar (are) e) do oing business as: doing EQ1 EQ Q1 Real Real Estate, 11762 762 TTechnology echnology e Drr.., Dr., #1 106, San Jose, CA, CA, #106, 9 5110, Equity One 95110, R a Estate, Inc. al Ral Th his business is This co onducted by by a conducted Co orporation.

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0/10/2013. /s s/Hector Brush /s/Hector CF FO CFO #C C3516812 #C3516812 Th his statement was This fil led with the County filed Cl lerk of Santa Clerk Cl lara County on Clara 11/05/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #598120 # 5988120 1 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) (are) pe erson(s) is (ar e) doing do oing business as: 1. Buddy’’s Choice, 2. Buddy’’s Choice PPet e Car et Care, e, 2 2359 359 TTulip ulip u Road, R o San Jose, CA, oad, CA, 95128, 9 5128, FFaye aye Mo Mowery. weryy.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #597762 #597 77762

The follo following wing person(s) is (ar e) (are) doing business as: Akina K9, K9, 2999 Calle de las Flores, Flor es San Jose es, Jose, CCA, A, 95148, 95148, Richar Richardd K ealiikaulana Akina.

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9/22/14. /s/Richardd /s/Richar Kealiikaulana K ealiikaulana Akina This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Clar ra County on 9/22/2014.

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10/24/2014. /s/Athmane Nouiouat This statement w was filed with the Co ounty County Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 110/24/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #597939 The following following person(s) is (ar (are) e e) doing business as: a The Markolefas 8411 Bloss Blossom TTeam, eam, e 84 som Hill Road, Road, #112, #112, San Jose, CA, CA, 95123, 95123, Robert R obert W W.. Sears Corporation.

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Above Abo ve entity wa wass formed in the state staate of California Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ransacting a busi business ness under the fictitio fictitious ous business name oor names listed her herein. rein. /s/Linda Jane Se Sears ears Vice V ice President President #C1527081 #C1 527081 This statement was w filed with the County Coounty Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 110/29/2014.

0/29/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597846 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: FFun un with Circuits, Circuits, 20500 Town Town

Ceenter Lane, #192, Center #192, Cu upertino, CCA, A, Cupertino, 9 5 4, FU 501 NW ITH 95014, FUN WITH CI RCUITS LL LC. C CIRCUITS LLC. Th his business is This co onducted by by a conducted lim mited liability limited co ompanyy. company.

Ab bove entity was Above fo ormed in the state formed off California R e ant has egistr Registrant no ot yet yet begun not tr a ansacting business transacting un nder the fictitious under bu usiness name or business na ames listed her ein. names herein. /s s/Rashmi Suman /s/Rashmi M Manager #2 201408610438 #201408610438 Th his statement was This filed fil led with the County Clerk Cl lerk of Santa Clara Cl lara County on 110/27/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FI ICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #5970155 # #59701 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) pe erson(s) is (ar (are) e) doing do oing business as: KD D Smog TTest est e Only Only, y, 299 St., 29 99 Keyes Keyes S t., San Jose, Jo ose, CA, CA, 95112, 95112, TTrang rang TTrinh, rinh, r 1134 1134 Alvernaz Al lvernaz Dr Dr., r.., San Jose, Jo ose CA, ose, CA, A 95121.

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FICTITIOUSS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597664 The following followingg person(s) is (are) ( e) (ar doing business busineess as: Beauty Hermosa Bea auty Salon, 158 158 S. S. King Road, R oad, #120, #120, San Jose, CA, CA, 95116, 9511 1 6, Augustine Nguyen, Ngguyen, TTimmy immy Nguy yen, 31 Nguyen, 3155 S. Willard Willard A ve., San Ave., Jose, CA, CA, 95126.

95126.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597642 The following following person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: Hermosa Hair and Nails, 158 158 S. King Road, R oad, #20, San Jose, CA, CA, 95116, 95116, Augustiv Nguyen, en Augustivee Nguyen, TTimmy immy Nguy Nguyen, en, 31 3155 Ave., S. Willard Willard A ve., San Jose, CA, CA, 95126.

95126.

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