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Ten’s T een’’s a CCrowd rowd KANSEN CCHU’s HU’s decampment fr from om the San Jose City City Council Council ffor or the SState tate Assembly A ssembly has spun off a cr crowded owded rrace ace him.. So far, to rreplace eplace him far, 10 people have expressed expr essed an iinterest nterest in running ffor or North San Jose’s Josee’s D District istrict 4 in a special election April 7, 7, which could lead to a June 23 runoff runoff.f. Given that ffewer ewer than 10,000 people cast a vote in the last D ction in 2007—a measly D44 special elec election percent turnout—the 27 per cent turn nout—the winner could end up decidin ng deciding They matters ffor or a city c of a Did million rresidents esiden nts after What? rreceiving eceiving ffewer ewer than a ffew ew thousan thousandd votes.

SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O CContenders ontenders t d inc iinclude clude l d FLY@ FL Y@ a host of ffamiliar amilliar METRONEWS. METR ONEWS. COM CO M ffaces. aces. Ex-OBAMA Ex-OBAM MA administr ation tr ade administration trade advisor T ERESA CCOX, OX, who challenged CChu hu TERESA Assembly ssembly D District, istrict,, may in his bid ffor or thee 25th A vie to fill his council cou uncil seat. JOHNNY LLEE, EE, who was up agains againstt T TAM AM NGUYEN A NGUYEN in D D77 until he ffell ell ffour our signatures signatures short of making it to the ballot,, says he moved to the B Berryessa erryessa neighborhood back b in April to get rready eady ffor or the race. race. Chu’s Chu’s wife, w e, DAISY wif DAISY CHU, CHU, already already has the name rrecognition ecognition in the district and political ex experience perience as a fformer ormer Santa Clara Clara County County Board Boar o d of Super Supervisors visors policy aide.. (Unfortunately, (Unfortunaatelyy, it’s it’s with felonious felonious ex-supe GEORGE GEORGE G SHIRAKAWA SHIRAKAWA JR.) JR.) Also potentially in the t running: Rep. Rep. Mike Mike Honda congr congressional esssional aide A ALLEN LLEN CCHIU, HIU, lone R Republican epublicaan D DAVID AVID V N NEIGHBORS, EIGHBORS, school trustee T HELMA BO AC, banker THELMA BOAC, A ALEX LEX T TORRES, ORRES, Realtor Realtor BO BOB BD DHILLON, HILLON, San Jose cop T AM TRUONG, TRUONG, who got crushed TAM

by KKansen ansen CChu huu in 2012, and attorney DIEP. Newly Berryessa LLAN AN D IEP. New wly elected B erryessa Union District DAVID School D istrict trustee D AV VID CCOHEN OHEN has been saying sayin ng for for years that he’d he’d or a seat in D 4, but with like to run ffor D4, young childr children it’s enn it ’s just not the right Meanwhiile, San Jose’s Jose’s CCity ity CCouncil ouncil time. Meanwhile, t accomplish much of may struggle to anything in thee next eight months. CChu’s hu’s won’t be seated until August, successor won’t uncil with an even 10 leaving the cou council or members and a potential tie in votes ffor est of the fiscal year the rrest year..

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retu RETRACING R RETRA CING STEPS Frank H Harper, arperr, a V Vietnam ietnam i veteran, returned urned after decades aw way to track down people he photographed p during the war r. away war.

Veteran V eteran e t F Frank kH Harper’s arper’’s conce concern ern for young boy boys ys he helped in n Vietnam Vietnam i sparks spa arks document documentary tary BY B Y JENNIFER W WADSWORTH ADSWOR A RTH

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OR O R SIX HOURS, HOURS, Frank Frank Harper rode his motorcycle in the tropical heat of the So outh Vietnamese countryside, countryside, South tr rying to find someone who o trying w would recognize faces in a photo taken nearly four d decades ecades before.

His b beat-up eat-up bik bikee to took ok him acr across oss rrocky ock ky dir di oads d , past tumbledown bl d n dirtt rroads, sh hacks and flo oded ric shacks flooded ricee paddies th hat spr ead acr oss the valle or that spread across valleyy flo floor b e elow T ou Mount ain. This below Taa K Kou Mountain. time, tim me, to an outsider outsider,, the landsc landscape ape b o e no visible signs of w or ar—road ds bore war—roads an nd bases he built nearly 40 yyears earss and ea arlier as a Seab ee, the Na avvy’ vy s earlier Seabee, Navy’s

construction bat construction battalion, ttalion n, wer weree long sincee dismantled. sinc “It lo looked oked so p peaceful,” eacefful,”” sa says ays y Harper, back, “removed Harp er, thinking back k, “r emoved from fr om the violenc violence.” e.”

Off ccourse, O ourse, the lush scenery belied elied the scenery b psychic human toll and the ps sycchic rremnants emnants of the V Vietnam War.. On One October iietnam War ne late Octob er day flew from da ay in 1971, he fle w out fr om Bien Hoa Air Base Base.. Fr From om the run runway, nway, he w watched aatched Vietnamese V iietnamese women w walk a past a bunk alk bunker. keerr. home,, the they While he got to rreturn eturn home ey had war-ravaged to rremain emain in a w ar ar-ra - avvagged ccountry. ountry.

Children Children would suff suffer ffeer bir b birth th def defects feects from Agent fr om 11 million gallons of A gent Orange dumped from byy Americ American dump ed fr om the skies b an planes.. An planes Anyone nyone o known to help U U.S. .S. troops bee sent to tr oops would b o rre-education e-education ccamps, amps, sentenc sentenced ed to yyears ea ears of har hard d lab labor. or.

British photojourn photojournalist nalist Philip JJones ones Griffiths onc oncee no noted oted that the Vietnam Veterans b ac granite black g a te V iietnam et am V ete a s eeterans

Memorial M i l in i Washington W hi ton Washing t D.C., D.C C., yards which is 150 1550 yar ds long to fit 58,282 names of Americ American soldiers,, would A an soldiers eextend xtend ffor or miles if it included those o of the 1.8 million Vietnamese m V iietnamese who war.“I asked myself, died in thee same w ar.“I ask ed m yselff, theyy do?’ do?’”” Harp Harper says.

‘What willl the er sa ayys. was onee of the saddest moments “It w as on of m myy lif life. fe. The months of danger dangerous ous and difficu difficult ult work work—would —would it b bee all nothing?” ffor or nothin o ng?”

Harper H Harp er ccame ame back b k to San S JJose—he ose—he h grew gr ew up on n a small farm on the ccorner orner of White and a Quimb Quimbyy rroads—plagued oads—plagued byy guilt an b and d def defeat. feeat. Lik Likee man many ny Vietnam V iietnam vveterans e eterans facing indiff indifference ffeerence and hostilit hostility ty at home home,, he lo locked ck ked e aaway way his w wartime aartim me eexperience. xperience. “I ffelt elt e it w was aas best b est just to ob bee quiet ab about out b being eing a Vietnam V iietnam vveteran, e eteran, ” he sa says. ayys.

Se Seven ven yyears ears ago he rreturned eturned to Vietnam V iietnam to o rreconnect, econnect, ccompelled ompelled byy the b h mem memory mory off the h p people— eople l — especially esp ecially the t childr children—he en—he left behind. b ehind. In n his knapsack, he k kept ept a stack st ack of ph photographs hotographs to guide his journey. journe y. One O of the images shot in 1971 showe showed ed eight V Vietnamese iietnamese b boys oys perched p erched on n a st stack ack of sandbags and

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Likee his father Lik father,, Harp Harper er gra gravitated avvitated toward helping children tow ard he lping childr en ccaught aught in the middlee of w war. ar.

“Theyy st stand says.

“Theyy “The tand out,”” he sa ays y . “The just want want to t liv livee their liv lives es and her heree the e, tr rapped in these situations theyy ar are, trapped b eyond th eir ccontrol.” ontrol.” beyond their

Another Anoth her Journe Journeyy

BACK B ACK IN TIME After finding the negatives in an old shoebo shoebox, ox, Frank photo Vietnam Frrank Harper Harper developed this ph hoto and took it back to V ietna i am to war. o find the boys he photographed photographe ed during the war r.

8 su surrounded urrounded b byy sswirls wirls of dust, som some me smiling sm miling and flashing the p peace eace sig sign, gn, another an nother holding up a cigar cigarette etttte to his h lips. lip ps. The They’re y’re all ar around ound 7 to 8 yyears ears old ol ld in the photo photo.. A soldier sits b beyond eyond o them, th hem, near a milit military ary truck.

Harp Harper er w wanted aanted to find those b boys. oys y.

Find F i out what b ind became ecame of their liv lives. ess.

For F o man or many ny years years e he tried to fforget o orget th the he war. w ar. But he h ccould ould ld ne never veer shak shake h ke the h memoryy of those childr m memor children. en. The Theyy wo would ould flock flo ock to his milit military ary ccamp, amp, b befriend efriend d American A Americ an soldiers and rifle thr through ough h the th he trash ffor or an o anything nyything salvageable to t bring br ring back to their families. families. By now now, w, they th heey would b bee grandpar grandparents. ents.

“I spent spent most of m myy lif life fe haunted byy the war, b war a ,” sa says ayys Harp Harper, err, now 64 and on a documentary about out w working documentary ab rretracing e etracing his at attempts ttempts t to rreunite eunite with h th the he kids he photographed photographed as a 21-year21--yeearrold ol ld soldier soldier. r. “I chose to black it out in m myy m mind.

But these photos pulled me ba back. ack.”

After hours of riding on his rrented enteed motorcycle m motor cycle that summer da day ay in 20 2007, 077, Harper H Harp er stopp stopped ed b byy a rroadside oadside w water aterr stand, st and, hot and dust dusty. y. A woman w walked allked up pb behind ehind him and ttapped apped him on the shoulder. sh houlder. She heard heard he was waas lo looking okingg ffor o the b or boys oyys in a photo photo.. N Neither either ccould ou uld speak sp peak the other’ other’ss language language,, so she m motioned tow toward ard the pictur picturee and guided ow gu uided him to ffollow ollow her on her own o wn motorcycle.

Theyy dr drove across narrow m motor cycle. The ove acr oss narr o ow dusty through du ustty rroads, oads, thr ough a rice rice paddy and an nd into was in nto a small hut. Her husband w aas one o boys photo.. Bef Before long, off the b oys in that photo fo ore lon ng, Harper those H Harp er had rreunited eunited with six of tho ose eight picture. ei ight boys boyys in the pictur e.

“One of the most memorable m fe,” Harp H er moments of m myy lif life,” Harper describ es it. “T To hear ab aabout out their liv es, describes “To lives, their childr en and thei ir families w as children their was incr edibly healing incredibly healing..”

Generation Gener raation Ne N Next xt In 1943, Harp Harper’s er’s fathe father, er, W World o orld War II vveteran eteran Osc Oscar ar Harp Harper, e ,w er was as shipp shipped ed overseas o verseas to fight fi h Axis A i tr ttroops oops in i It Italy. aly ly.

During a b bombing ombing rai raid id that same yyear, ear, he sa saved aved a small It IItalian alian b boy, oy, Tony, T on ony, and his sister sister,, wh who ho wer weree hiding in a hole in the gr ground ound ffor or o shelter shelter..

Tony T on ony and his sister st stayed ayed ffor or o se several veral months with U U.S. .S. tr troops, oops o , ccared ared ffor or o b byy the R Red eed Cr Cross, oss, and a the b boy oy vvolunteered olunteered as an inte interpreter. erpreter. Bef Before for oe Harper Harp er rreturned eturned St Stateside ateeside after the war w ar with a Purple Hea Heart, art, he op opened ened a bank ac account count ffor o or T Tony on o ny with his gambling winnings winnings..

Oscar Osc ar Harp Harper er is 9 96 6 yyears ears old now now, w, gravely gra avely sick. He He’s ’s blind d and still suff suffers ffeers shell sho shock—what ck k— —what we now know as Post P ost Traumatic Str Stress ess Disor D Disorder— der— which mak makes es ttalking alking ab aabout out the w war ar esp especially ecially difficult. He w was as shot in the back. F Fire ire fr from om a flamethr fl flamethrower ower burned out his eeyes. yes. In n a ffoxhole, oxhole, a o mortar mor tar hit the soldier b beside eside him.

“He went thr through ough living l hell in the w war,” ar,” the yyounger ounger Harp Harper er sa says. ayys.

“But gr growing owing up up,, he would w alw always ays y bring up T Tony. o on ny. That w was as a bright sp spot ot in his memor memory. y. He alw always wayys wonder wondered ed what happ happened ened to him m and his sister sister,, wondered wonder ed what b became ecam me of their liv lives es after the w war. ar. But now now, w, it it’s ’s to too o late late.” .”

In the yyears ears r sinc sincee his rreunion eunion with those b boys oyss in the photo photograph, graph, Frank Harper Harp er ha has as tra traveled aveled to and fr from om Vietnam V iietnam se several everal times times.. He raises money money ffor o orr orphanages in Hue and Saigon and d a nonpr nonprofit ofit that pr protects otects the primat primates tes on T Taa K Kou ou Mount Mountain. ain.

On Monday, Mon ndaay, he left ffor o or V Vietnam iietnam oncee again onc again, n, ac accompanied companied b byy 24-year-old 24year- old dN Norwegian orwegian filmmak filmmaker er Oscar Osc ar Beck Beckmann. kmann. The Theyy ccall all their documentary-in-the-making do cumenttary--in-the-making “Retracing “R Retracing e gF Footsteps.” ootsteps.” Harp Harper er hop hopes es t find to fi d tho th those ose last l t ttwo wo b boys oys in i the th photo.. photo This tim time, me, Harp Harper er is bringing ttwo wo Seab Seabee ee bu buddies, ddies, K Ken en Het Hettler tler and Dan Bower,, wh Bower who ho work worked ed alongside him 43 yyears ears ag ago, go, jackhammering and blasting rrock ock ffor o or 15 hours a da day ay to build a rroad oaad up T Taa K Kou ou Mount Mountain, ain, which is al also lso ccalled alled Buddha Mountain Mount ain ffor o or the chalk chalk-white -white 49meter rreclining eclining st statue atue on its slop slopes. es.

B Bower vi idl rremembers vividly ememb bers one off the b boys oys in n the photo photograph, graph, Huong Huong,, and this tr trip rip off offers ffeers him his first chancee to rreturn chanc eturn sinc sincee b being eing pulled out of T Taa K Kou ou in 1971. Bower made belts b elts ffor or th o the he b boys oys and would giv givee cigarettes them cigar rettes ffor o or their dads or to sell. But hee had to lea leave ave suddenly after his b best e friend died in ccombat, est ombat, to esc escort ort th the he b body ody back home home.. He never ne ver got to t sa say ay go goodbye odbye to Huong Huong..

For F or 43 yyears, eaars, he h he’s ’s held h ld on to a pack k off smok smokes es hee meant to giv givee to him the day da ay he left left. ft. So Soon, on, the they’ll y’ll rreunite. eunite.

Huong,, now in his 50s with six kids Huong and grand grandchildren, children, will get to meet Bower ffor or the first time sinc o sincee he left ccamp. amp. U Unlike nlike Harp Harper’s er’s rreunion eunion with the b boys oys in the photo photograph, graph, this meetin meeting ng will b bee ccaught aught on video video..

While som some me V Vietnam ietnam i vveterans eterans ha have ave a tough tim time me ccoming oming to terms with their w wartime artiime eexperience—some xperience—some rrefuse efuse to eeven ven eat in a V Vietnamese ietnamese i rrestaurant, estaurantt, Harp Harper er sa says—Bower ayys—Bower wants w ants to mak m makee p peace eace with the past.

“I wish I ccould ould ha have ave filmed m myy own eexperience xperrience rreconnecting econnecting with those fami families ilies yyears ears ago ago,” ,” Harp Harper er sa says. ayys.

“This one one,, I w want ant to shar share.” e.”

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BY T THE HE NUMB NUMBERS ERS

While supporters of Dav Dave ve Cortese’s unsuccessful bid prefer to become mayor of San n Jose would pr efer people demarcation believe that San Jose is a city divided—a demar cation straight through separate line cutting str aight thr o ough the middle to separ ate from moree diverse affluent white voters in the west fr om mor east—there voters to the east—the ere is an underlying detail that incumbency. has rreceived eceived almost no attention: a : incumbency y. LLooking ooking at vote totals,, one would d rreason eason the division is real real Liccardo outt his opponent with just 50.8 per percent with Liccar do edging ou ceent of the vote.. And this comes pension would be true when it co omes to the divisive issue of pensio on rreform. eform.. But beyond low hurt moree than Liccar Liccardo, voter turnout, which hur rt Cortese mor do, the rreality eality is that Cortese had built-in a buil t-in advantage that thaat only an uninspiring candidate could cou uld squander. squanderr. Going back to 1969, a Cortese has rrepresented eprresented voters in the East Side/Evergreen Side/Evvergreen areas areas of San Jose. served Board Supervisors Dave’s ffather, atherr, Dom, ser ved on the county Boar d of Super vissors ffor or an 11-year period that served area ending in 1980. After tha at he ser ved the same ar ea of San Jose ffor or 16 years in the state Assembly, before board A ssemblyy, bef ore joining g Alum Rock’s school boar d ffor or ffour ourr years in 1998.. Dave ffollowed ollowed before in his ffather’s ather ’s ffootsteps, ootsteps,, joining the East Side Union High School S District in 1992,, bef ore Jose years moving up to the San Jo ose City Council in 2000. Eight year rs in that office,, ffollowed ollowed county supervisor the by the past six as a coun nty super visor like his ffather, atherr, and th he Corteses have a legacy combined That’s that accounts ffor or a com bined 53 years of rrepresentation. epresentation. That T ’s the kind of name campaign. rrecognition ecognition money can’tt buy—at least not in a single cam mpaign.

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THE WATCHE WATCHER R Next year this device could be e tracking San Jose police suspec suspects. cts.

Police P olicee Open Dialog Dialogue ue on Dr Drone one The public gets another chanc chancee this weekend to le weekend learn earn ab about out a dr drone one the San Jose Jose Police Policce Department Department b bought ought on the sly sly. y. Th The he outr outreach each meeting ttakes akes placee from plac from 10am 10 0am to no noon on Saturday Saturdaay at City Cit ty Hall.

S Jose San Jose police polic oli e ac acquired quir i ed d the h unmanned aerial aeerial system system (UAS), (U UA AS), basically basic ally a 3-f 3-foot-wide foot-wide $7 $7,000 7,,000 GoPr GoProoequipped equipped hobby hob bby helicopter, helicopter, from from the Department Depar tment of o Homeland Securit Securityy earlier this yyear. e . But it w ear was aas appr approved oved as a rroutine outine cconsent onsent item on a Cit City ty Council C ouncil agenda agenda with no public input. until Vice It wasn’t waasn’t un ntil July, Julyy, when V iice Media-sponsored Mediasponso ored outlet Muckrock Muckrock about dug up information inffo orm mation ab out San Jose’s Jose’s drone dr one purchase, purchaase, that the ccommunity ommunitty heard about device. hear d ab out the t de vice. advocates Privacy adv vocates lambasted the city citty for for o itss secrecy, secrecyy, arguing arguing that a camera-armed camera-arm med flying machine, machine, however small, howe ver e sma all, merits some public before it’s deployed.

Wee discussion b effo ore it ’s deplo yeed. W later learned that it would rrequire equire the blessing of Federal o the F ederal Aviation Avviation Administration, A dministratio on, anyway. an nyyway.

Police drone P olice say saay they t y got the dr the one to help their regional reggional bomb bomb squad, to scope dangerous keep sc ope out dan ngerous areas areas to k eep officers offic ers safe. saffe. never While the SJPD S neveer quite issued leaving an apology apology ffor o originally lea or avving the community communiitty out of the loop, loop, the agency admitted ad dmitttted it could could have haave handled the process p ocess better. pr betttter.

“In hindsight, SJPD should ha have ave do done one a b better ettter t job of ccommunicating ommunicatin ng the th he purp purpose ose and ac acquisition quisition of thee UAS U AS de A device vice to our community, community,” the th he agency said in a statement. statement.

“The “T The ccommunity ommunitty should ha have ave the opportunity op pportunit ity to pr provide ovide id ffeedback, eeedback, db k ask ak questions, qu uestions, and eexpress xpress their cconcerns oncerrns before b effo ore we mo move ve fforward orward with this o project. pr roject. T To o this end, we will first develop de evelop e a ccommunity ommunitty outr outreach each pla plan an before b effo ore we ttake ake steps to deplo deploy oy the UAS. U AS.” Police P olice held their first public m meeting on the drone drone in midNovember City About N oveember at Cit ty Hall. Ab out 50 people up.. Some rresidents p eople showed up esidentss said theyy would supp support police sa aid the ort p olice usee weree off the drone, drone, as long as there there wer clear about cl lear guidelines ab out how to use it.

Others bee use used O thers worried that it ccould ould b ed surveil to o sur veil ccertain ertain rresidents. esidents.

According new department A ccording to a ne w depar tmentt press currently pr ress rrelease, elease, SJPD is not curr entlyy using drone, specifically Century u sing its dr one, sp ecifically a C entu ury 660 Hex-Rotor.

N NEO 6 60 He x-R Ro otor.

“If and when p policies olicies and procedures aree drafted and finalize finalized, pr rocedures ar ed, the ensuree the U UAS th he SJPD would ensur A AS usage bee ccompliant FAA u sage would b ompliant with F A AA state law, rregulations, e egulations , ffederal eederal and st ate la aw,” the agency stated ag gency st ated in its rrelease. elease.

Saturday’s Satur daayy’s meeting will include a presentation proposed pr resentation of pr oposed uses ffor or the o t drone, byy a question and dr rone, ffollowed ollowed o b answer session.—Jennifer Wadsworth an nssw wer session.

—Jeenniffeer W aadswortth

ROV RO V Puts Election E to Bed Conspiracy C onspiracy theoriess turned out to b bee just that, as the Sant Santaa Clara C County ounty R Registrar eegistraar of V Voters oters o cconfirmed onfirmed its vvote ote tot totals tals T Tuesday uesdaay from fr om the rrecent ecent electi election. ion. Sam Liccardo Lic cardo maint maintained ained victor vvictoryy in the San JJose ose ma mayoral ayoral ccontest, onttest, put putting ttting theree wer weree to rrest est suspicions thatt ther errors err ors in the vvote ote ccount ou unt due to the ROV’s director quitting R OV’s head IT dir ecto or quit ting the day da ay b before effo ore the electio election. n. The ccounty ounty hand-counted percent handcounted 1 p ercen nt of ballots race, in the rac e, a rroutine outine final step in anyy election, and man manual an nual ccounts ounts machines’ cconfirmed onfirmed the machin nes’ accuracy accuracy in races. all rac es. While the mini m rrecount ecount is

routine, it ccame routine, ame under mor moree scrutin scrutiny ny this year year when w concerns concerns wer weree raised after the rregistrar’s egistrar’s head IT dir director ector quit right b before effo ore the election. In the fac facee off such criticism, R Registrar eegistrar of V Voters o oters Shannon S Bushe Busheyy ask asked ed Secretary Secr etary of o St State ate Debra Bowen to cconduct onduct a rreview eview to validate rresults. esults. leaving officee But with Bowen B leaavving offic Bowen’s officee in just a month, m Bowen ’s offic rresponded esponded d with a rather sswift, wift, ‘Nah, we’re good.’

Confirmed we ’re go od. d’ C onfirmed rresults esults show Liccardo garnered that Lic carrdo garner ed 91,840 vvotes, otes, percent which ccomes om mes out to 50.8 p ercent of defeat Supervisor the vvote, ote, to t def feeat ccounty ounty Sup ervisor Dave Cortese.

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“She doess like to acknowledged.” be acknow wledged ” wledged.

A senior-r senior-ranking anking City Hall H official, who asked not be named, rregarding egarding the potential appointment of Herrera (pictured) Rose Her rera (pictur e as vice mayor of San Jose. ed) Rose Herrera

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Music in the Glen

SOUNDS S OU N D S O OF FS SILENCE ILENCE Sound engineering g pioneer Don Buchla, pictured pictured, d, used to haunt the now-vacant Willow Glen. now-vaccant Stevens Music building on n Lincoln Avenue in W illow Gle en.

An ode e to urban bligh blightt and the histor history ry San Jose’s of Sa an Jose ’s abandoned abando oned spaces BY B Y GARY GARY SINGH

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N HIS HEYDAY, H HEYD AY, this urban blight exploration e explor ation junkie created d smash hits on Stockton Stockto on Avenue, 24th Street, Willow Willow Road and Phelan Phelan Avenue, Ave enue, among many other decrepit decrepit thoroughfares. thoroughfares.

In the latter latte er case, he wrote a column called l c ll d “Phelan “Phelan h l Groovy.”

There Groovy .” Th here were many of these caustic caustic screeds. screeds. You You can go look them the em up, up, if you wish.

For For example, example, just Google “Gemco” my name and “Gemco” with w see what happens. h happens .

Here's Her e's the skinn skinny ny in ccase ase yyou o ou weren't ther w e: The junkie w as weren't there: was ad ddicted to the pr ocess of eexploring xplorin ng addicted process ab bandoned plac es. Back when he abandoned places. w as still in the machiner an was machineryy of urba urban b light addiction,, the junkie was was blight o ften o verwhelmed with ffeelings eelings e often overwhelmed elessnesss, o off abandonment and hop hopelessness, so o he had to go sear ch out the mo ost search most n neglected, rundown neighb orhoods neighborhoods ass he ccould ould p ossibly find. These are arre possibly p laces with which he ffound o ound a sens se places sense o ation. Didn't ha ave to off identific identification. have b orhood; ma ayybe, bee a whole neighb neighborhood; maybe, p erhaps, simply a particular particular shining shinin ng perhaps, ssymbol y ol of what San JJose ymb ose has thrown throw wn aaway way and disc arded. A defunct discarded. h har dware store store on the outskir ts off hardware outskirts W illow i Glen. A weed-filled yard yard of o Willow b roken shopping ccarts. arts. Rat-infested Ratt-inf - feesteed broken ccouches o ouches on the railr oad tracks b railroad byy

Monterey Highway.

Monterey High hway. A According ccording therapyy he rreceived from to the therap eceiived fr om acquaintances ac quaintances on the str sstreet, eet,, these weree some of the b best wer est columns columns he wrote. eever ver e wr ote. days, These da ayys, the blight bligh ht junkie hard still works har d to aavoid void o rrelapsing elapsing bender and going on a b enderr at some ffeeble, eeeble, der derelict elict shoppin shopping ng ccenter enter near Meridian, surrounded Hillsdale and Meridian n,, surr ounded byy tract-house b tract-house wastelands wastelaands and ugly 1970s medical-office medical-office buildings. bu uildings. He ccould ould snap at any an ny given given moment,, so he takes takes lif life fe one da day ay att a time time.. He has learned to fforgive or o give the junkie still rresiding esiding deep inside him, hiim,, the one who still o occasionally ccasionally rises to t the sur surface face trouble. and d ccauses auses him hi tr oubl blle l .

These da days ayys he simp simply ply str strolls olls down Lincoln Linc oln A Avenue, venue, enga engages ages in w walking alking meditation, medit ation, and ccontemplates ontemplates the fformer o ormer blighted days daayys (daze?) in a moree pr mor productive oductive fash fashion. hion. This is precisely transpired pr ecisely what transp pired during a rrecent ecent urban pr prowl owl aalong long W Willow iillow

Glen's ma ain drag Yees, it is indeed main drag.. ((Yes, a drag .)) drag.)

W iith th at, ffor or o the rrest est of this With that, week's scr e , allow me to briefly eed, screed, ccontemplate ontemplaate 1202 Linc oln A ve.,, the Lincoln Ave., fformer ormer sitee of Ste o vens Music ormer o Stevens Music,, fformer global inno ovative epic enter of the innovative epicenter Gor don St tevens Empir Gordon Stevens Empiree of San JJose ose Musicc R eetail Histor y, a fformer ormer o Retail History, kitsch mas sterpiece in all its ignor ed masterpiece ignored glor y, a bu uilding now on its w ay to glory, building way b eing ccompletely om mpletely fixed up and thus being ruined fforever. o orever. Gor don abandoned Gordon Ste vens Mu usic in 19 84,, but he k ept Stevens Music 1984, kept using the building b until a ffew ew yyears ears ago rically sp eaking, Ste vens ago.. Histor Historically speaking, Stevens Music w as a diamond in the rrough, ough,, a was gor geous eexotic xotic oasis of m ystery amid gorgeous mystery the surr ou unding genteel w asteland. surrounding wasteland.

The stor ries fr om that building ar stories from aree legendar y. In the 1960s, 1960s, Stevens Stevens Music legendary. supplied man m cal bands with their manyy lo local instrumen nts. Y ou o know ount instruments.

You know,, the C Count F i e, the iv th Cho Ch C colate l t Watchband, W t hb d Five, Chocolate Mob

by Grap pe—all those characters Moby Grape—all characters.. I w as onc ven told b ymous was oncee eeven byy an anon anonymous sour ce thatt Don Buchla might source ha ave done LSD in the back rroom oom have when build ding his own mo dular building modular ssynthesizer. ynthesizerr. Y es e , craz zy geniuses fr om Yes, crazy from the East Ba ay lik Bay likee Buchla did indeed ccome ome dow wn her down heree to the hinterland ffor or fun. A o ccording to Gor don,, P atrick According Gordon, Patrick Simmons of o the Do obie Br others Doobie Brothers b ought h hi hiss first fi guit i ar fr ffrom om Ste S vens bought guitar Stevens Music ou untless others ha ave similar Music.. C Countless have stories stories..

By the ti ime I ccame ame ar ound,, that time around, building w as the first plac ver was placee I eever to ok musicc lessons oom took lessons.. The Theyy had a rroom filled up with w ridiculous L owrey Lowrey Or gans and d I learned I-IV V-V chor d Organs I-IV-V chord pr ogression ns at age 9. That plac progressions placee ignited m est in music theor y, myy inter interest theory, eeven ven if all we w pla ayed w as chees played was cheesyy simplific attions of horrid eas simplifications easyy listening st andards. In that sense oln standards. sense,, 1202 Linc Lincoln is par w made me who I am partt of what to daay. Sinc ce m om W illow i today.

Since myy mom is fr from Willow Glen,, I telll p eople I w as the first Indo people was Indo-W iillow- Gllenian of the entir Willow-Glenian entiree damn cit y. In oth her wor ds, after m city. other words, myy dad, I w as the ori iginal eexotic xotic intruder of was original that wholee stinking neighb orhood. neighborhood.

And sinc ew up pla ayying chees sincee I gr grew playing cheesyy or gans in that t building w me organs building,, it ble blew aaway way dec ad des later when Gor don decades Gordon told me th hat his dad,, T o om Ste vens e , that Tom Stevens, w as the on ne who put K orla P andit on was one Korla Pandit the map andit w as the go dfather of map.. P Pandit was godfather eexotica, xotica,, of ccourse. ourse. L ook it up Look up..

W iith suc ch thinking With such thinking,, the urban blight junk kie now ffeels eeels mor ene junkie moree ser serene and cconnected. onneccted. On nward and upw war a d.

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COMEDY OF LETTERS Tim Lee’s putting his PhD to use as a stand-up comedian. His girlfriend left him, but he seems to be having the last laugh.

BY NICK VERONIN

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hose familiar with The hose Mar rch of Progress— March thatt iconic scientific illus stration depicting illustration h humanity’ l f humanity’ss evolution from hunched apes a to upright homo sapiens—will sapiens—will immediate ely get the joke. joke. immediately Ab bespectacled espectacled a man dr dressed essed in a white lab ccoat o and clutching a oat clipboard clipb oard is sh shown hown st standing anding on the left side of o the single single-panel -panel Moving theree ccartoon. artoon. Mo v ving to the right,, ther is a silhouet silhouette tee of a Cr Cro-Magnon o -Magnon man, clutchin clutching ng a sp spear. ear. Then ther there’s e’s what app appears earss to b bee Homo er erectus, ectus, paranthropus, paranthr opuss, and finally at the far right, a man cr ccrouching, ouching, holding a microphone, micr ophone, and lo looking oking o over ver his

sh houlder at eeverything verything he has left ft shoulder behind. b e ehind.

Tim Lee. That man is T im L ee.

L ee is a C aliffo ornian thr ough and Lee Californian through through—from th hrough—from his laid-back, laid-back, shagg shaggy gy surfer su urfer e hair haircut, cut,, to his Hollywo Hollywood od smil smile. le.

H spent He spent his childho childhood od in Monter Monterey ey County C o ty in C ount Carmel armel V Valley aalleey V Village, illage i , and d has lived liv ved e in Sant Santa ta Cruz,, San Francisc Francisco o an and nd Davis D Da avvis and now rresides eesides in L Los os Angele Angeles. es.

After sp spending ending the b better etttter part part off a dec ade earning an under graduate decade undergraduate degree de egree in biolo biology gy from from UC–San UC–S San Diego,, and then a PhD in ec D Diego ecology ology an and nd eevolution volution o from fr om UC UC-Davis, -Daavis v , Lee Lee walked waalked e aaway way fr om academia, academia,, which he ffound o oun nd from stifling,to sti tiflingg,,to become become a standup standup ccomedian. omed dian.

“I changed ccareers,” areers,” L ee sa ayys, Lee says, rreferring efeerring to the decision he madee ef ab bout 10 yyears ears ago to put aaway way about

his micr microscope oscope and pi pick ick up a micr ophone. “I w as ju ust unhapp microphone. was just unhappyy with what I w was as doing doing. g. I decided I would tr tryy ccomedy, omedyy, not n b because ecause I thought I would b eccome a become ccomedian, omedian, but just b ecause I needed because something diff different ffeerent that th hat would makee m mak myy lif life fe inter interesting estiing again. again.””

L ee ne ver ended up p finding the Lee never academic satisfaction in the ac ad demic world, would which he assumed wo ould allow him to challenge the st sstatus atus quo and pursue truth.

“Freedom speech ou “Fr eedom of sp eech h allows yyou to question things tha at need to b that bee questioned,”” he sa says. ayys. “T “That That is rreally eally at the hear heartt of ac academia”—or, ademiaa””— or, at least, it should b be. e. But, ac according cor o ding to L Lee’s ee’s p ersonal eexperiences, xperiences, the rreality eality of personal the situation is quite diff d different. ffeerent.

culture academia “The cul lture of ac ademia is about about pr protecting otecting p people’s eople’s ffeelings eelings e at all ccosts, osts,” Lee L ee says. saays y . “I don don’t n’’t know how yyou o ou ccan an have ha ave op open en discussions and pr protect otect people’s p eople’s ffeelings eeeelings at the same time time..”

It mak makes ess sense sense,, then,, that L Lee ee would b bee dra d drawn aw wn to st stand-up and-up ccomedy—an omedyy—an ar artt fform, orm,, which at its o b est harne esses the p ower of humor best harnesses power to illumin illuminate ate some of the human ccondition’s ondition’s har hardest dest and ugliest truths,, wh truths while hile disp dispensing ensing with the need ffor o or se ensitivity. sensitivity. performance During a 2013 p erfo ormance at byy his alma a TEDx eevent vent hosted b mater,, UC–San Diego,, L Lee mater UC–San Diego ee used investigate linear rregression egrression to in vestigate what people post watch kind of p eople p ost and w atch ccat at online. videos onl line.

“T To do an a inf fo ormal rregression— egression— “To informal

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pretty pr ettty simple—you simple—you o just take tak ke all your yo our dat dataa p points, oints, yyou o ou plot them theem out,, and then yyou ou o draw draaw the best best possible possible line yyou o ou ccan aan in b between ettw ween them them, m,” he says saayys in a dryy monotone dr monotone,, plot plotting ttting p points oints on the X-Y X-Y axis pr projected ojected onto the t lar large ge screen screen behind b ehind him. “I ffound o ound a signific ssignificant ant between rrelationship elationship b etween the th he amount of fr free ee time the individu individual ual has ...” he ccontinues, ontinues, drifting off an and nd allowing chortles through audience. chor tles to ripple thr ouggh the audienc e.

“I also ffound o ound a significant significan nt rrelationship elationship between b ettw ween the number number off friends the individual has …”” clip,, Lee In another clip Lee explores explores the similarities b between etween Ra Raiders aiders fans and nuclear fission. In or order der to achieve achieve nuclear fission,, he eexplains, xplaains, a fissile material,, such as uraniu uranium um 235,, is rrequired. equired.

“The ura uranium inherently anium is inher ently unstable unstable and an nd has a ccertain ertain probability breaking probability of just br eaking down and ejecting a neutr neutron on at its neighb neighbor, o , which dest or destabilizes abilizes the neighbor, neighbor, causing causing it to eject multiple neutrons, neeutrons, and the entir entiree process process is pr p propagated opagated in a chain reaction,” reaction,”” he h says, saays y , cy cycling cling thr through ough a series of dia diagrams slides,, which agrams on slides demonstrate demonstraate the eexplosive xplosive pr process. ocess.

“I’ve “I’ve actually actu ually seen the same thing happen happen at a Raiders bar bar,” ,” he sa says, ays y, pulling up the ne next slide—a screen xt slide —a scr een filled with 10 eevenly venly plac placed ed cir circles, cles, all labeled with letter “R.”” labeled wit th the let ter “R. “Just likee the uranium atom, the “Just lik Raiders fan inherently unstable, n is inher ently unst able, and has a ccertain probability ertain pr obability of just breaking breakin ng down and striking its

neighbor,” neighb or,” L Lee ee ccontinues, ontinues, as an arr arrow ow and the wor words ds “C “Cold old C Cock” ock”” cconnect on nnect circles adjacent one of the cir cles to an adjac ent circle. cir cle. “That neighb neighbor or w was as unab unable ble to identif identify fy the sour source ce of the pu punch, unch unch, and this pr process ocess w was as rrepeated”— epeated”— — “R” circles into the field of “R R” cir cles bursts int to a latticework “cold lat ttticework of “c old ccocks.” ocks.”

The jok jokes es wer weren’t en n’’t alw always wayys this go good, g od, Lee L ee sa says. ayys. Back in 20 2004, 04,, when he w was aas getting just get ttting his start, start,, the fledglingg ccomic omic was w aas honing his craft thr through ough triall and error err or at op open en mic nights ar around ound San S Francisco.

Francisc o. His first gig w was aas at Brainwash Braiin nwash a Café—a Francisco shop, C affé—a San Francisc o ccoffee off ffeee shop p, laundromat laundr omat and liv live ve p performance erformanc o e vvenue. eenue. It w was aas there there that he sa says ayys hee learned his first lesson in st standup: andup p: how to embrac embracee the inadv inadvertent veertent jok joke. e.

“I had a ccouple ouple of jok jokes es that got

laughs,” Lee some laughs ,” L ee rrecalls e alls of that ec eevening, vening, “and I said one thing that made p people eople laugh,, which I didn didn’t ’t think w was as a jok joke.” e.”

Lee says was pretty L ee sa ayys he w as p rettty much hooked ho oked on ccomedy omedy fr from om that night likee I w wanted on. “After “After A that, I ffelt elt e t lik anted to get b better.” etter.”

Ever Ev er scientifically scientificallyy minded, L Lee ee says sa ays y he w was as intrigue intrigued ed b byy the craft of successful joke. writing a suc cessful jok e. “It seemed likee an intellectual challenge lik c to write a joke joke and see if yyou ou u ccan an mak makee it funny,” says.

‘Well, funn y,” he sa ayys. “I thought, th hought, ‘W Weell, if I kept kept working on that, t , I ccould ould get good go od at it. it.’” ’” In an eff effort ffo ort to im improve, mprove, L Lee ee b began egan treating tr eating eevery very p performance erformanc o e as if it were were a laboratory laboratory eexperiment— xperiment—

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recording his act eevery recording very night and analyzing analy zing it. He obser observed ved which am jokes jok es work worked ed and ccame me up with theories ab out wh hy. So ometimes what about why.

Sometimes app eared to b me jok appeared bee the sam same jokee would b omb one night and get g rroaring oaring bomb laughter the ne xt. He sa ayys it ma ay next. says may b ter of timing— —a p erfeectly bee a mat matter timing—a perfectly plac ed pr egnant pause e, or when he placed pregnant pause, changes a slide ffeerent cr owds also slide.. Diff Different crowds rreact eact diff ffeerently to thee same jok es. differently jokes.

In the Ba ay Ar ea, L eee sa ayys, he Bay Area, Lee says, usually do es quite wel ll—a fact he does well—a at tributes the ar eaa’s n erd- centric, attributes area’s nerd-centric,

‘People see ‘People se ee that there therre is a reward d to eative, being cre creative, technica technicall and smart, which w you don ’t don’t see in oth her other places in n the country— —not country—not the way you y do in the e Bay Area.’

Area a.’ techh obsessed b d cultur l e. tech-obsessed culture.

“P eople see that the ere is a rreward eward “People there to b eing cr eative, tech hnical and being creative, technical smar t,”” he sa ayys, “which h yyou ou don ’t see smart,” says, don’t in other places places in the country—not country—not the w ay yyou ou do in thee Ba ay Ar ea.” way Bay Area.”

P erhaps for fo or this reason, reaason, his Perhaps up coming show Dec. Dec. 10 at the upcoming San Jose Jose Improv Improv should shou uld land well with an audience audience thatt speaks speaks the language language..

“I lo llove ve ccoming oming i to p erfo orm iin S San perform JJose—particularly ose—particularly at the t Impr ov, Improv, b ecause ther eaat cr owds,” he because theree ar aree gr great crowds,” sa ayys. “P eople ccome ome the ere with an says.

“People there eexpectation xpectation of a go od show good show.. And the audienc es ar ly vvery ery smar t.” audiences aree generall generally smart.”

L ooking back, L ee sa ssays, ays y , he had Looking Lee no idea what his passi ion would passion

ultimatelyy ccost ost him.

He w was as alw always ays y able to supp support ort himself—working himself f— —w working as a ccomputer omputer pr ogramm mer ffor o or a numb er of programmer number ccompanies, ompaniess, including He wlettt Hewlett P ackard,, Charles C Sch wab and a Packard, Schwab handful off st artups—most of them startups—most in the Ba ay Ar ea. Howe ver, he did Bay Area.

However, enc ounterr some serious pushback encounter fr om his ccolleagues o olleagues and his thenfrom girlfriend when w he decided to pursue ccomedy omedy fu ull time in 20 08. full 2008.

“My girl lfriend at the time did not girlfriend lik it—at all, a ” Lee Lee recalls. recalls. “She told me likee it—at that,, basically, basically a y, I w as not good good and that was I needed to o stop ’t,, she left. stop..” He didn didn’t, He also rremembers emembers cco-workers o -workers who quitee clearly wer weree hoping he would fail en’t happ fail.. “The “Theyy wer weren’t happyy with what the theyy wer weree doing and if the theyy failed it wo ould validate their decision would to k eep do oing what the .” keep doing theyy wer weree doing doing.”

In the en nd,, L ee hasn ’t failed. And end, Lee hasn’t that ’s a cr e to his ccomic edit omic abilit y, that’s credit ability, though it ’s also clearly a pr oduct of it’s product his ir on wi ill. “If I set m iron will. myy mind to something g, I basic ally do eeverything verything something, basically in m ow wer to k eep it going ,” L ee myy p power keep going,” Lee sa ays y . “One w ay to sa ay that is I work says. way say well indep pendentlyy. Another w ay independently. way to sa ay thatt is that I don ’t work well say don’t with other rs, and I tend to question others, authorit o much much. authorityy tto too much.””

F or the past six yyears ears he has b een For been a professional proffessio e onal touring ccomedian, omedian, and sa ayys h der than says hee is working har harder eever ver to gr o his p ow ersonal brand. He grow personal ccontinues ontinues to pitch tele vision shows television to net work ks and has ccome ome close a networks ffew ew times to landing a deal. T w wo of Two L ee’s script ts ha ave b een giv en pilot Lee’s scripts have been given episo des, though t neither wer ed. episodes, weree air aired.

“That wasn’t wasn’t easy easy to take,” take,” he admits d i . But But he’s Bu h ’s moving he moving i forward. fo orward. d If admits. ther e’s onee thing he’s he’s learned over over there’s the past decade, deecade, it’s it’s that no matter matter how hard hard he has to work at being being a professional proffeessio onal comedian, comedian, he can’t can’t imagine d oing an ything else ’s doing anything else.. “It “It’s basic ally th he only job I ccan an en nvvision basically the envision m yself with witth now that would make make myself me happy, happy, so I think I made the right decis sion.” decision.”

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CHEMICAL BROTHERS Mixx executive chef Ryan Shelton with his sous chef, Joel Whitaker.

Like a Modern Man

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AN JOSE native Ryan Shelton’s wide-ranging résumé includes local institution Chez TJ, where he worked alongside chefs Christopher Kostow and Bruno Chemel.

He followed Chemel when the chef opened Baumé four years ago in Palo Alto—he was chef de cuisine when Baumé received its second Michelin star in 2011. Shelton now serves as executive chef at the newly opened Mixx, a contemporary American restaurant in downtown Mountain View. He sat down with Metro to talk about his past and current work.

WAS BAUMÉ YOUR INTRODUCTION TO MODERN COOKING TECHNIQUES SUCH AS MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY? Actually, I did a lot more molecular gastronomy at Chez TJ. [Bruno’s] style is actually very, very traditional. He and I just kind of played with all the molecular techniques and the different modern stuff people were doing and sort of developed a style together at Chez TJ. It’s kind of weird, because there it’s contemporary French, that’s what it says on the door. And Baumé was French cuisine moderne—we had never said molecular gastronomy. At Chez TJ, I would have dishes made of powders, and spheres and foams and stuff. At Baumé we would use one technique and people would be like, ‘This is insane—wild!’ So, we actually had to tone it down at Baumé.

WHAT KIND OF MENU HAVE YOU PUT TOGETHER AT MIXX? We’re not doing fusion.

Everything we’re doing, we’re trying to maintain the integrity of all the individual dishes. For example, I have an Indian dish where, basically, all the techniques that I use to create the dish would be used in an Indian restaurant. It’s made in the style of a skewered tandoori chicken and we do it with curried kale, rice and grilled bread. Something popular has been our pork belly steamed buns. The pork belly is braised really slow and then we sear it crispy and it’s stuffed into a steamed bun. The most popular is the chicken and waffles. We do a cornmeal waffle, the chicken is sous vide before it is battered and fried, so it’s actually really juicy and tender—I think that’s kind of the surprise element to the dish.

ON THE SURFACE THE MENU LOOKS PRETTY CASUAL AMERICAN, BUT YOU’RE DOING A LOT OF MODERN COOKING TECHNIQUES FROM YOUR BACKGROUND, SUCH AS SOUS VIDE? Exactly! I heard one time, that the best technique is the one that you don’t see. So we use sous vide and we use a lot of that stuff in an attempt to create consistency and sort of ease for us in certain elements, so we can really focus on all those final touches. But we are not trying to do anything out of the ordinary—the wow factor is not the technique, it’s the quality of the ingredients, the deliciousness of the flavors.— Jeff Cianci MIXX 420 Castro St, Mountain View. 650.966.8124 or mixxmv.com.

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HOMECOMING PARTY The Continental hosted F/X The Club’s annual Black Friday party.

A Return to Roots

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ONG GONE are the $1 Thursday night well drinks, but the new iteration of 349 S. First St. offers a welcome boost to San Jose’s SoFA district.

Festival impresario Fil Maresca, who produces the SoFA Street Fair and other well known events, tells Metro that The Continental Bar, Lounge and Patio is yet another sign of SoFA’s resurgence. In the district’s earliest days, Maresca founded F/X The Club, which once occupied the theater on the corner of S. First and San Salvador streets.

The Continental is the newest venture of Sam Ramirez, owner of The Cardiff Lounge and El Guapo’s in Campbell. It’s so new that last week it hosted Maresca’s annual F/X The Club Black Friday party, which featured four DJs spinning ’90s alternative and house music, as part of a “sneak preview.” The official opening is Wednesday, Dec. 10.

“I’m really excited,” Maresca says, noting the successful launch of Café Stritch, the soon-to-be-completed South First Market and the enthusiasm for the rejuvenated SoFA Street Fair. “It’s becoming more of a community again. There’s a lot more people in the neighborhood who care about what’s happening.”

Ramirez certainly falls into the category of people who care about the district, and the opening of The Continental represents a return to his roots. Born and raised in San Jose, Ramirez learned the ins and outs of the nightlife business working for Maresca at F/X, throwing parties at the Cactus Club and working at the Agenda Lounge. After cutting his teeth in the SoFA district, he opened Cardiff.

“I feel like I’m coming back home,” he says.

Ramirez has transformed the inside of what was once Brix and Hunters, and before that a pasta restaurant, Sal & Luigi’s. He went for a rustic look, using reclaimed wood, salvaged metal and exposed cement floors. The Continental will feature DJs spinning electronic music, including acid jazz and rare groove beats, much like the Cardiff’s programming. Ramirez also plans to occasionally host live music.

Leather couches, arm chairs and a back patio area will give the spot a “lounge feel,” Ramirez says, while the bar menu will no longer be restricted to the stuff of bottom-shelf binging, but focus instead on craft cocktails.

Ramirez says he plans to stock mostly high quality and small-batch spirits, micro-brew and craft beers, and fine wine—with a few exceptions: “I might do a Coors Light, or something like that,” he says.

Overall, The Continental wants to offer a more refined but not stuffy atmosphere, where young people can “come in, enjoy their time, have conversations and enjoy great cocktails.”— Nick Veronin THE CONTINENTAL 349 S. 1st St., San Jose, CA 95113

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TRIPLE HO 5.0 SAP Center, SAP Centerr, San n Jose Wed, $31.50-$138 W ed, d 8pm, 8 $31 50-$138 $31.

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What started as primarily a hip-hop evolved “Who’s show has evolve ed into a “Who ’s Hot Pop Music”” sh showcase in P op Music howcase over the year,r, TTriple years. Now in itss fifth year rriple moree poppop-oriented ever..

Ho is mor -oriented than ever year’s headliners aree Aussie This year ’s head dliners ar rrock-pop ock-pop quartet quarteet 5 Seconds of Summer.

Summer. Only a couple years ago weree mode moderately they wer erately rrecognizable ecognizable YYouTube ouTTube u stars. A tour with One Direction Dir ection and a couple c hits have catapulted catapul ted them m to a full-blown sensation. Child star-turned-pop icon Demi LLovato ovatto is another of year’s the big names on o this year ’s bill.

Other acts includ include de sassy British pop singer Charli XCX, XCX X, English R&B and Jessiee J and Nick Jonas pop singer Jessi Brothers (AC) of Jonas Br otherrs ffame. ame. (A C)

LEO LE O HA HAZE A AZE Back Bar So SoFa, Fa, San Jose Wed, W ed, 9pm, Free F ee Fr burgeoning Out of San Diego, D burgeoning from rrapper apper Leo Haze H stands out fr om current the cur rent swell s of young hip hiphop artists with w a tranquil tranquil style cushions that cushion ns his steady-flowing rhymes. His raspy, raspyy, verbose flow simmers, bubbles bubbbles and pops over sometimes sometimes smooth, s stilted stil ted soul-sampling soul-ssampling beats.

His strong strong start—consisting sttart—consisting maturee mixtape and a ffew of a matur ew assertive ffeatures—suggests eaatures—suggests Rapper,, the counter Chance the Rapper R culturalist cul turalist crew crrew Odd Future, Future, and traditional a young Kid CCudi. udi His tr udi. aditional chops aree rrounded hip-hop cho ps ar ounded out by electronic production elements of electr onic pr oduction seamlessly integrate that seamles ssly integr ate the ffamiliar amiliar and fforeign. oreign. He may have just turned 119, 9, but Leo Haze is heree to stay stay.. (JF) her

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YANNIS Y ANN A NIS PAPPAS PAPPAS Rooster T. T. Feathers, Sunnyvale Th S , 7:15pm, Thu-Sun, 7 15 $20 Pappas Brooklyn-born YYannis annis a P a appas is a Br ooklyn-born who had been standup comedian c steadily climbing c the rranks anks until lifee wa was irrevocably. his lif as changed ir revocably. night, show,, P Pappas One night t, after a show appas headed was head ded to his car with a when friend wh hen he was shot in the leg during a robbery. robbery. As As he rrecovered ecovered from traumatic fr om this tr aumatic experience, he did social work ffor or 9/11 victims, homeless the home eless and people with needs. special ne eeds. He has slowly brash rreturned eturned to the stage, with a br ash comedy style of co omedy that hits on topics justified towardd guns, like a just tified anger towar unblinking Derek an unblin nking devotion to Der ek Jeter,, andd a theory on how iPhones Jeter boredom. killed bor edom. (JF)

RON R ON N CARTER CAR RTER E TRIO Oshmaan Community Center, Oshman Centerr, Palo Palo Al to Alto Thu, 7:30pm, 7 $40-$60 It’s It ’s likely likeely that you’ve heard heard Ron CCarter’s arter ’s work,, though g you y might g know not kn now it. Carter Carter is one of the most revered revered and prolific prolific jazz bassists bassis ts of all time. Featured Featured on moree than 2,500 albums, he has mor t been an a omnipresence omnipresence in music half-century.. He rrose ffor or thee last half-century ose to prominence Davis’’ pr ominnence as part of Miles Davis Great eat Quintet and has Secondd Gr playedd alongside artists rranging anging from Harry Jr.. to A TTribe fr om H Harry Connick Jr rribe CCalled alled Quest, as well as taken the lead rrole o on dozens of his own ole albums. grooves album s. He captains gr ooves by tickling, caressing ticklin g, thumping and car essing double his do uble bass with the calm confidence confid ence of a master. master. He’s He’s a professor living legend, l a pr ofessor emeritus with the thhe City College of New YYork, ork, and a must-see ffor or any jazz ffan. an.

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RIKK R IKK AGNEW AGNEW BAND BAND Blaank Club, San Jose Blank $10 F i, 8pm, Fri, 8 There aree ffew moree associated The ere ar ew people mor with—or wit h—or influential within—the second sec cond wave of punk and first wave of hardcore har rdcore than guitarist and songwriter Rikkk Agnew.

1978, Rik Agnew w. He got his start in 197 8, andd was in a ton of important bands (some (som me of them at the same time). YYou oou can n find his name attached to some of thee best songs by the Adolescents,, D.I., Christian Chr ristian Death,, Detours and Social Distortion. several Dis tortion. He’s tortion.

He’ss also rreleased eleased sever al soloo albums over the years.. He brings some brand som me Beatles influence into his br and of hardcore hhardcore and punk. Though he’s he’s now w clean and sober, soberr, he still brings a certain cer tain maniacal living-on-the-edge intensity inte ensity to his live shows—and people (AC) peo ople can’t can’t get enough. (A C)

TRIPLE HO SHO SHOW W Dec 3 at SAP SAP Center

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THEE RIKK AGNEW TH AGNEW BAND BAND D 5 at The Blank Club Dec

THE ALLAH LAHS Dec 9 at The CCatalyst atalyst A Atrium trium

SPONGE Decc 10 at Rockbar Theater

BILLY BILL Y IDOL Decc 11 at Rockbar Theater

SUPERSUCKERS SUPER SUCKERS Decc 12 at Rockbar Theater

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

THE LIMOUSINE LIMOUSINESS Dec De ec 19 at The Blank Club

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

BARB B ARB WIRE DOLL DOLLSS Dec De ec 27 at The Blank Club

Y&T Decc 31 at RockBar Theater

CAKE Dec 31 3 at City National Civic

PRIMUS Decc 31 at the Fox Theater De

GUY FOX FOX Café S Café Stritch, tritch, San Jose Free Fri, 9pm, Fr ee The members of Guy Fox gr ggrew ew up weree lur lured on the East Coast, but wer ed West out W est by the mystique of o San Francisco. tune, Fr ancisco. Their rrecent ecent tun e, “San Francisco,” Fr ancisco,”” pays tribute to that nostalgic city with a ffeel-good, eel-good, nosta algic charm—perhaps mirroring mirroringg weree the emotional state they wer w arrival. lush, in upon their ar rival. The lu ush, grooving tune chilled-out and gr ooving tu une incorporates alternative incorpor ates bits of al ternaative Afrobeat electrorrock, ock, soul, Afr obeat and ele ectrogroup indie. Everyone in the gr ouup sings, harmonies so the lead vocals and harm monies aree some of the group’s greatest ar group’ss gr eatest strengths. str engths. They released released a video ffor or “San Francisco” Francisco” a ffew ew m months great shotss fr from back with some gr eat shot om all over town. You You can just ffeel eel the have goosebumps they must ha ve had (AC) filming it. (A C)

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DIRTY DIR TY PILL PILLOWS OWS Chromatic Coff Chromatic Coffee, ee, Santa Santa Clara Clara Sat, 4pm, $5 It’s It ’s been six years since Millhows M their and Jeff Jagged fformed ormed th heir indie two-piece, Dirty Pillows, and a not any only have they not lost an ny of their off-kilter off-kil ter charm, but they’ve theyy’ve become one of the best working bands b in energy San Jose. They have a rraw aw w ener gy prods animalistic that pr ods at the most an nimalistic nature. elements of our natur e.. And A yet their sound is also smart and cer ccerebral. ebral. incorporate Dirty Pillows incorpor ate angular a rhythms—taking post-punk rhythms—tak king pieces garage, of jangle-pop,, punk, soul and gar age, and blending them into a fferocious erocious old-fashioned blast of good,, old-f ashion ned rrock ock & rroll. oll. Their latest rrelease, elease, CCassette aassette Mixx (which you can listenn to on Soundcloud) is a collectio collection on of raucous, carefree (AC) raucous, car efree tunes. (A AC)

WINTERBASH WINTERBASH 2014 20 14 RockBar Theater Theater,r, Sa San an Jose Sat, 2pm, $10-$13 aree her here, The holidays ar e, but that doesn’t shouldn’t doesn ’t mean you sh houldn’t do love all the things you lov ve doing year—namely the rrest est of the year— —namely moshing. headbanging and mo oshing. The Theater’s RockBar Theater ’s Winter W Bash 2014 will ffeature eature 14 llocal ocal and rregional egional bands in thee metal, hardcore punk and har dcore genr ggenres. es. This Productions is a Pinup Pr oduction ns event and theree ar aree too many bands ther b to list here, highlights her e, but some highl ights include hardcore outfit Mastiff,, East Bayy har dcore ou utfit Mastiff pop-punkers San Jose pop-punke rs Nothing Francisco metalcoree Planned, San Fr ancissco metalcor band Kriminals, and of course the headliner,, the Bay Area’s headliner Arrea’s Lionheart, national a big name in the na ational metalcoree scene. (A (AC) metalcor C C)

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A CHARLI CHARLIE IE BROWN BROWN CHRIS TM MAS CHRISTMAS Montalvo Arts Ce Center, enterr, Sar Saratoga atoga Sun, 4pm

A Charlie Br Brown roown Ch Christmas hristmass is known for for two things:: its bittersweet b contemplation of th the he holiday season and Vince Guar Guaraldi’s soundtrack. aldi’’s jazzy soundtr ack.

David Benoit is a Gr Grammy-nominated rammy-nominated pianist who has cha charted arted 25 albums and performed performed in tthe he White House for presidents. for three three pr esidentss.. He will use his considerable considerable prowess proweess on the piano to enhance a scr screening eenin ng of this Christmas classic with a live pperformance erformance of the timeless accompanying accompannying music.. His deft touch will give yet another reason reason to love this cherished, cherisheed,, award-winning award-winning yarn about a “blockhead” “blockkhead” with a tiny tree heart—searching tree and a big hear rt—searching ffor or the true meaning of o Christmas.. (JF)

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

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

SSTRANGELOVE TRANGELOVE (DEPECHE (DEPECHE MODE TRIBUTE) Dec De ec 16 at The Blank Club

THE MO MOTHER THER HIPS HIPS Jan 16 at Moe’s Moe’s Alley

THIS TH HIS CHARMING BAND BAND (SMITHS TRIBUTE) Jan Ja an 24 24 at The Blank Club

PATTI P AT TTI SMITH Jann 26 at The Rio Theatre Theatre

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

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MY M YH HERO ERO ‘S ‘Super Super p H Hombre’ ombre’ by y Linda V Vallejo allej a jjo is one off the p pieces showing g at the ‘5th 5 Chicana/o / Biennia Biennial.’ al.’

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This is ccertainly ertainly a the ccase ase in the Chicano art. rrealm ealm of Chic ano ar t. The “5th Chicana/o Biennial” Chic anaa//o Bie ennial”” eexhibition, xhibition, opening Dec.. 5 at MA MACLA op ening Dec CLA (Movimiento Arte vimiento de Ar (Mo te y Cultura Latino Americana), atino Ameri L icana),, will eexplore xplore bee a Chic Chicano what it meanss to b ano or Chicana artist. looks Chic ana ar tistt. The “Biennial”” lo oks

ffor o ccommon or ommon threads threads across across multiple multip ple ge enerations of Chic ano and Chicana Chicana a generations Chicano artists, dialogue ar rtists, and eexamines xamines the dialo gue between Chicano b etween older and yyounger ounger Chic a ano and Chicana artists. an nd d Chic Chi ana ar tists i . oncee eevery Held onc very ttwo wo yyears, w ears, the “Chicana/o began 2006 “C Chicanaa/o / Biennial”” b egan in 20 06 way survey local, ass a w ay to sur vey the various lo call, national artists n ational and international ar tists identify Chicana Chicano, w identif who fy as Chic ana or Chic ano, according Reyes, ac ccording to JJoey oey R eyes, curator of engagement dialogue MACLA. en ngagement and dialo gue at MA C CLA. was started way offer “It w as a st arted as a w ay to off ffeer platform look a plat tfo orm to lo ok at this idea of Chicano Chicana art, Reyes C Chic ano and Chic ana ar t,” R eyees says sa ayys of the “Biennial”—noting that narrativee arcs threads th hat narrativ arcs and thr eads ccan an n bee ffound anyy specific artistic b ound in an o specific ar tistic movement, m mo veement,, and that includes Chicano art. was C Chic ano ar t. “This show rreally eally w ass a way energy. w ay to ccapture apture that ener gy. I think k it was way w as really really a w ay to kind of open open itt up little moree and to ha have dialogue a lit tttle mor ave a dialo gu ue

about Chicano ab out what Chic ano ar aartt constitutes constitutes means..” and what it means the In previous previous years years th he “Chicana/o “Chicanaa//o Biennial”” has b been een run nb byy a single curator, but this year year R eyes and his curator, Reyes team at MA CLA wanted wantted to ttake ake a MACLA slightly diff ffeerent appr o oach.

The different approach.

Theyy ask ed leaders in the Ch hicano ar asked Chicano artt mo vement—both lo cally a and fr om movement—both locally from ar ound d the th ccountry—to ountr t y—t —to t select l ta around yyounger ounger ar tist whom the ttheyy b elieved to artist believed b arrying the tor o Chic ano ar ch of bee ccarrying torch Chicano artt into the 21st ccentury entury in n cr eative and creative inter esting w ayys. interesting ways.

A eyes eexplains, xplains, hee de veloped the Ass R Reyes developed idea after ha avving a discussion disccussion with his having fformer ormer o San JJose ose St ate U niversitty ar State University artt pr offeessor R u upert Gar cia. A pr ominent professor Rupert Garcia. prominent Chic ano ar tist, Gar cia suggested that Chicano artist, Garcia R eyes lo ok into a ne w Chicano Chicano ar tist.

Reyes look new artist.

“He said, ‘I don ’t know kno ow if yyou o ou know don’t this ar tist,, but he is someone som meone who artist, yyou ou should cconsider o onsider ffeaturing eeaaturing in the galler y,’” Reyes Reyees recalls. recalls. The Th he artist artist w aas gallery, was someone R eyes e w as a fam miliar with and Reyes was familiar rrespected, espected,, and it got him m thinking g. “I thinking. w aas inter ested in this cr ross-generational was interested cross-generational thing that w aas happening. happeniing.” was

The Chi icano ar vement isn ’t Chicano artt mo movement isn’t eexactly xactlyy yyoung, ou ungg, but it isn ’t ancient,, isn’t either ano” and either.. Thee terms “Chic “Chicano” “Chic anaa” first enter ed the le xicon “Chicana” entered lexicon in the 19 60s 0 as a w ay to describ 1960s way describee a rapidly gr o owing demo graphic—those growing demographic—those individualss of Me xican desc ent who Mexican descent also ffeel eeel th hat the U nited St ates is that United States their home e. A ccording to R eyees, it is home.

According Reyes, the idea off b eing b oth Me xican and being both Mexican Americ an,, or p erhaps just Me xicanAmerican, perhaps MexicanAmeric an.

American.

In the ea arly yyears ears it w as asso ciated early was associated with civil rights r leaders lik esar likee C Cesar Cha avez, an nd it w aas imp ortant b ecause Chavez, and was important because it w as a ter rm that ccame ame fr om within was term from the ccommunity ommu unity it w as meant to was describ e. “H Hispanic w as a term that describe.

“Hispanic was w as giv en to t them,” R eyes eexplains, xplains, was given Reyes rreferring effeerring to o Chic anos. ““‘Chicano’ ‘Chicano’ w aas a Chicanos. was term the eated ffor o or themselv es.” theyy cr created themselves.

The ar tist Ester Hernande artist Hernandezz might b onsideered as b eing a par bee cconsidered being partt of the first w ave of o Chic ana ar tists, and her wave Chicana artists, work w aas most m ccertainly ertainly p olitically was politically char ged. Hernande H esponsible charged.

Hernandezz is rresponsible ffor or the ic o on nic rrepurposing epurposing of the iconic Sun-Maid lo go. In a work of p olitical logo. political satir e, mea ant to dra aw at tttention to satire, meant draw attention the eexploitation xploittation of farm work ers, workers, Hernande eplaced the happ y, Hernandezz rreplaced happy, smiling fac ce of the Sun-Maid Girl face with a sun n-bleached sk ull. sun-bleached skull.

Hernand dez,, who will eexhibit xhibit x her own Hernandez, work in thee up coming “Biennial” Biennial,” also upcoming “Biennial, chose the yyounger ounger Chic o caana ar tist Shizu Chicana artist Saldamand do to show her work as well.

Saldamando In somee w ayys it mak es p erfeect ways makes perfect sense that Hernande Hernandezz would select Saldamand do. Both ha ave ties to San Saldamando. have Francisc o —Hernande — z mo ved to the Francisco—Hernandez moved cit om her h bir thplace in the San cityy fr from birthplace JJoaquin oaquin V aalley, while Saldamando Valley, w as b orn in i San Francisc ob effor oe was born Francisco before mo ving to L os Angeles tists moving Los Angeles.. Both ar artists emplo ghly rrealistic ealistic illustration employy hig highly in their wo ork. And b oth shar work. both sharee a rrebellious ebellious and punk rrock ock aesthetic aesthetic..

O ther ar rtists ffeatured eeatured in the Other artists eexhibition xhibition include JJuana uana Alicia, C armen Ar A gote, JJesus esus Barraza, Carmen Argote, Melanie C ervantes, A driana Gar cia Cervantes, Adriana Garcia and man ny mor e. The op ening many more. opening rreception eception will w b bee held Dec Dec.. 5 at 7pm. The eexhibit xhibit runs W eednesdaays y Wednesdays thr ough Sa aturdaayys until Mar ch 14. through Saturdays March

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4-14. $30. Children’s Children’s Musical Theater.

Theater. San Jose.

THE BE BEST ST CHRIS CHRISTMAS TMAS PAGEANT P AGEANT EEVER VER

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Barbara Robinson’s Barbara Robinson’s comedy about couple struggling to putt on pageant a Christmas pageant. The page eant bunch turns to mayhem when a bunc ch children of inventively awful childr en aare re cast as the actors.. Nov 28 thru u Theatre D 20.

Dec 20. $15-$38. $15 $38 Theatr Th t e on San S Pedro Square, P edro Squar e,, San Jose.

December 9 it’s

Big Band with

7th Street Big Band

TRUCE: A CHRIS TRUCE: CHRISTMAS TMAS FROM FIRST WISH FR OM THE FIR ST GREAT WAR GREA AT W AR A Scenes, Vignettes, Live Music, Musicc, Accounts about and Historical A ccounts abou ut the “Christmas Truce” Truce r ” on the France battlefields of Fr ance during WWI. W WI. Nov 20 thru Dec 21. $17-$32. $17 -$32.. City Lights Theater Company, Company y, San Jose.=

FFOX OX ON THE FFAIRWAY AIRWAY A blistering rromp omp which ““pulls pullss from the rug out fr om underneath private the stuffy denizens of a priva te Dec country club.”” Nov 20 thru De ec 14. $18-$28.. Bus Barn Theater.

Theater. Los Los o Altos Altos.

Al tos Stage Stage Company.

Companyy. LLos os Al toos.

SUPER VILLAIN!

Make a Pumpkin $99 Liven up the season with a lustrous pumpkin that you design and create.

Written and dir Written directed ected by the Pear's P ear's own James KKopp, opp,, this irreverent superhero ir reverent spin on the superhe ero supervillain who saga ffollows ollows a super villain wh ho dispatching becomes lonely after dispatch hing Pear his nobel nemisis. The P ear Avenue Theatre.

21.

A vvenue Theatr e.. Dec 5 thru 21 1.

View. $15. Mountain View w.

OKLAHOMA

Make a Snowman $99 Surprise that special someone with a unique and personal gift this year.

Create a new family heirloom!

Bay Area Glass Institute

A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

408-993-2244

www.BAGI.org 401 E. Taylor Street, Suite 115 San Jose 95112 (in Japantown)

Roger and Hammerstein’s Hammerstein’s all all-great time gr eat American Musical that brings laughs and rromance omance too cattlemen the dispute between cattleme en and ffarmers armers in Indian Territory Teerritoryy during the turn of the 20th Century.

Century y. Nov 8 Thru Dec 6.

6 $20$20 0West Valley Opera. $39.. W est V alley Light Oper a.

Saratoga Theatre.

Sar atoga Civic Theatr e.

THE NUT NUTCRACKER CRACKER The Holiday classic is br brought ought lifee when young Clar Claraa is to lif Nutcracker given the Nutcr acker by her Herrr beloved grandmother, grandmother, Her Drosselmeyer, Dr osselmeyer, and visits the Kingdom of SSweets. weets. Dec 5: 7pm 7 $25-$30..

Dec 6:: 1pm & 7pm. $25-$30 Western View W estern Ballet. Mountain Vi ew Performing Center ffor or P erformingg Arts.

DISNEY’S MAR DISNEY’S MARY Y POPPIN POPPINS: NS: THE MUSICAL The tr treasured easured ffamily-friendly amily-friendlyy tale of a magical nanny will serenade ser enade audiences with thee ““A ffavorite avorite tunes such as ““ “A Sugar,” “Let’s Spoonful of Sugar ,”” “Let ’s Goo Fly Cheree,” a Kite,” “Chim Chim Cher ee,”” and

Herbert Siguenza wr wrote ote and stars in this original play about the most influential modern artist.. Featuring live drawing drawing and painting,, the play offers offers a glimpse French inside Piccasso’s Piccasso’s Fr ench SStudio tudio for for one weekend in 1957.

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

Stage.

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

Every Fri, 7-9pm.

7-9pm. San Pedro Pedro Squaree Market, San Jose.

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TOSPS T OSPS TUESDAYS TUESDAYS A weekly showcase of Bay Area’s Area’s budding music scene across across genres.

7pm. all genr es. Most Tuesdays, Tuesdays, u Thru Dec. Theatre Theatre on San Pedro Pedro Square, Squar e, San Jose.

*art MUSEUMS ART MUSEUM ART GATOS OF LLOS OS GA ATOS “The Manresa Manresa Seasons:: Exhibition off SSanta t CCruz Sculptor S l t David D id Kimball Anderson.”” An exhibition inspired displaying works works inspir ed by natural Zen philosophies and natur al provide phenomenon that pr ovide peace and provoke provoke contemplation.. Nov 6- Jan 31.. Los Los Gatos.

CANTOR CANT OR AR ARTS TS CENTER “SSyympathy ffor “Sympathy or the Devil.”This captures exhibit captur es the visual history of Satan in art. The centerpiece of the exhibit is the acquired Pollock, newly acquir ed Jackson Jackson P ollock ollock, titled LLucifer uciffeer. Thru Dec 1.. “Robert Frank Fr ank in America.”This collection of 130 photographs photographs examines Frank’s Robert Fr ank’s work from from the 1950s. Thru Jan 5.. Stanford.

Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY DISC OVERY MUSEUM “Broken? Fix It.”” From “Broken?

From the wheel to the laptop, this exhibit shows how to fix it. San Jose.

DE SSAISSET AISSET MUSEUM “Creative in Common” “Creative Common” ffeatures eatures Francis work by artists like Sam Fr ancis and Fletcher Benton and the work of their artistic rrelatives. elatives.

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

by Andy Warhol Warhol and Wayne Wayne Thiebaud. Thru Mar. Mar. Santa Clara.

Clara.

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METROACTIVE.COM METR OACTIVE.COM EUPHRAT EUPHRA AT MUSEUM Various art and photogr Various photography aphy created cr eated by students at De Anza College. CCupertino. upertino.

HISTORY HIS TORY P PARK ARK SSAN AN JOSE “Silicon Valley Valley a Bikes:: P Passion, assion, Politics Innovation & P olitics Since 1880.”

“Shirlie Montgomery:: Picturing San Jose Since 1938,”Thru Dec 14.

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

Taanzania.

“Woodcarvings Gardena, “W oodcarvings of Val Val Gar dena, Italy,” handcrafted Italy y,” , ffeaturing eaturing handcr afted woodcarving figures. woodcar ving figur es.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF SAN QUILTS TEXTILESS QUIL LTS & TEXTILE ““Antique Antique Ohio Amish Quil A Quilts ts from from the Darwin Darwin D. Bearley earley Collection” Collection” breadth creativity show the br eadth of cr eativity in quilt-making the quil t-making tradition tradition from from 1880-1940.

1880-1940.

1 Bearley popularized quilts the quil ts when he took them out of the community and sold broader them to the br oader American Mar.. 1. “Two public. Thru Mar “TTwo w Color Wonders” demonstrate ate how W onders” demonstr limiting a color pallette to only create two colors can cr eate stark contrasts contr asts and complimentary dynamics. San Jose.

TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM OF AR ART T “Holly V Van an a Hart:: P Possibilities ossibilities Large Abound”” Lar ge paintings exploring the concept of Clara. potential. Thru Feb 14.. Santa Clar a.

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

San Jose.

BRUNI BR UNI GALLER GALLERY Y Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan.

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

DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SHALA “San Shui,” paintings by Altice Russell Al tice Case.

Case. San Jose.

GALLERY GALLER Y HOUSE Holiday Show Show.. Nov 18-Dec 24.

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Palo Alto.

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

HIGHER FIRE CLA CLAYSPACE AYSPACE First Fridays ffeature eature new demonstrations, artwork, demonstr ations, and conversations with artists.

San Jose.

KALEID GALLER GALLERY Y “Hark” work by over 60 artists.

Thru Jan 16. San Jose.

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FORE! FOR E! ‘The F Fox ox on th the he F Fairway,’ airway y,,’ playing at the L Los os Altos Stage Company Company, y, takes notes from ‘Cad ‘Caddyshack’ the Marx Brothers.. ddyshack’ and the farces of th eM arx Brothers MACLA MA CLA “5th Chicano/a Biennial” rreflects eflects on the critical edge interventions and aesthetic inter ventions contemporary Chicanoo within contempor ary Chican art. Dec 5- Mar 14. San Jose.

MAIN GALLER GALLERY Y

Foley, Michael Foley y, Michael Borja, Valery V alery Milovic, CCarlos arlos Villez, Eric Joyner,, Laur Lauraa CCallin Joyner allin Bennett, John Hageman and Robert McColley.

McColley y. San Jose.

between art and geoengineering.

Thru Dec 19. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE SAN INSTITUTE OF CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY ART ART

THE FRIGHTMARE BEFORE BEF ORE CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS

“Merry Art “Merry Art”” local artists display their work in this seasonal showcase. Thru Jann 4.

City..

Redwood City

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

Thru Jan 224.

4.. San Jose.

MONTALVO MONT ALVO AR ARTS TS CENTER R

“Full Bellies and Empty CCalories” alories”

by Sean Boyle.. San Jose

“Perceptual”” LLucas “Perceptual” ucas Artist F ll Fellows Ch i Fr Chris FFraser aser andd Justin LLowman owman explore explore the rrelationship elationship between perception, per ception, light, space, and Saratoga. place. Thru Feb 1. Sar atoga.

PACIFIC P ACIFIC AR ART T LEA LEAGUE GUE “Winter W Wonder” onder ” Thru Dec 19 19.

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Palo Alto.

P alo Al to.

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

Dec 14.

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SEEING THING THINGSS GALLERY GALLERY

SLIDING DOOR CCOMPANY OMPANY “Frida and Friends Friends”” Dec 5. Rich Jacobs curated curated “Move” “Move” Dec 13.

San Jose.

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

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

San Jose.

SSTUDIO TUDIO BONGIORNO

Watercolors by Made’ Watercolors Made’ Sukert Sukerti ti Berg.

Ber g. San Jose.

“Healing the Planet, Healing Ourselves”” Thru Dec 5. call for Ourselves for info. inf o. Santa Clara.

Clara.

PSYCHO P SYCHO DONUT DONUTSS

ZERO ZER O 1 GARAGE GARAGE

Works by John Renzel, Lacey Works Bryant, Nicolas CCaesar, aesar, Murphy Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin,

"The Cloud Collection" by KKarolina arolina Sobecka investigates exploree the intersection clouds to explor

*events *e vents This unique holiday tr tradition adition adds a little spookiness to the Already magic of Christmas. Alr eady World-Class known ffor or their W orld-Class Halloween Haunted House, Dreams Dead TTime ime Dr eams is bringing thrills and chills to those looking t br to bbreak eakk up th the monotony t off cheer.. 7pm7pm-11pm. holiday cheer -111pm. Nov 28-Dec 14.. $15. Dead Time Time Dreams Dr eams Haunted House.

DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN ICE Skate ar around ound an one-of-a-kind around Palms rink ar ound the Circle Circle of P alms in Downtown San Jose.. $13-$17. $13-$177.

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

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New N ew ANTARCTICA: ANT ARCTICA: A YEAR ON ICE (PG; 911 min.) A natur naturee chr chronicle onicle also captures that al so captur es the experience spending Antarctica. of spen nding a year in Antar ctica.

(Openss Fri.)

FFOXCATCHER OXCA ATCHER (R;; 134 min.) See rreview eview on page 30.

(Openss Fri.)

A GIRLL W WALKS ALKS HOME AL ALONE ONE (Unrateed; 99 min.) See rreview (Unrated; eview on this page. (Opens ( Fri.)

KFFJC KFJC J P PSYCHOTRONIC SYCHOTRONIC FILM FE FFESTIVAL STIV VA AL

IRAN SO FAR AWAY Director Ana Lily Amirour puts a new spin on the vamp genre by setting her nightstalker in an Iranian ghost town.

Hijab of Horror EVEN IF YOU won’t see many movies as cool and beautiful as director Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, it needs a little sifting to distinguish its accomplishments. It’s not the first time a Persian filmmaker, scripting in Farsi, has used the New World for a forbidden Iranian location; Silicon Valley’s own Mohammad Gorjestani re-created a modern Iranian roadside in British Columbia for his short “Sayeh” (The Shade). In Amirpour’s voluptuous re-creation of a half-empty oil town nicknamed “Bad City” (Taft and Bakersfield provide the desolation), this highly talented director/writer works in the trad of Von Sternberg’s Morocco and Welles’ Touch of Evil. She isn’t pioneering the black and white avant-garde vampire movie with allegorical heroin use.

Almereyda’s Nadja and Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction—films made almost a generation ago—depicted the quest for numbness by those young and hurt by love. And this year Jim Jarmusch did his own avant-garde vamp film Only Lovers Left Alive. Jarmusch is likely an influence in one of Amirpour’s ideas—the way the show stops to listen to a vintage British tune “Death” by White Lies. The old song speaks, as it were, for a lovely female vampire of few words.

Here’s what is all Amirpour: the surprising vision to transform a hijab into a vampire’s cape when The Girl (the startlingly expressive Sheila Vand) goes on her rounds as parasite and avenger.

Unique to Amirpour is the vision of The Girl commandeering a skateboard so she can glide just like Dracula, or to have her play an uncanny mirror game with A Girl Walks Home a passerby on an Alone at Night otherwise empty street. Amirpour also Unrated; 99 min. found Arash Marandi, Opens Fri. as Arash, a troubled young drug-dealer who charms The Girl. Marandi has a soulful comedic side to counteract the horror-show material—it’s a quality Brendan Fraser has when he’s at his best.

Arash is suffering from family angst; mother (Mozhan Marno, recalling Melina Mercouri) is a witchy prostitute, his father (Marshall Manesh) is a junkie, and there’s something uncanny about the family cat, too. Amirpour’s taste also shows in hiring director of photography Lyle Vincent, equally superb at illuminating the blurry edges of the night, or in using a fine enough grain to highlight the dust motes in a moribund man’s apartment. — Richard Von Busack

The us usual sual cornucopia of 16mm weirdness: trailers, ailers, weir dnness: ancient movie tr antiquee commer commercials, antiqu cials, scavenged and salvaged salvag ed material that makes your optic ner nnerves ves talk back, in a Goofy nope nope nope, I ain’t voice: “Uhyuk, “ ain’t conveying brain nossir,, convey ying this to the br ain nossir nohow.” future, nohow w.”” Jet men of the futur e, dinosaurs past—literally dinosa aurs of the past—liter ally entire the en tire spectrum of the human experience experie ence condensed into a ffew ew outree nonsense. (Plays Dec hours of o outr 6 at 7p 7pm Altos pm in LLos os Al tos Hills at Foothill Collegee Room 5015. Bring $3 in quarters quarteers for foor a parking permit.) (RvB)

Revivals Re vivals LITTLLE W LITTLE WOMEN/ OMEN/ THE SE SSECRET CRET GARDEN ( (1933/1949) (1933/ /1949)) Geor George gge CCukor ukor dir directs ects KKatharine atharrine Hepburn as the striving Jo; Frances the rrest esst of the cast includes Fr ances Dee ass Meg, Joan Bennett as Amy Edna March. ch. and Ed dna May Oliver as Aunt Mar WITH BILLED DW ITH The Secr Secret et Garden Garden.

Still Still at the top of the list of child actors:: Margaret Margaret O’Brien best seen in Mee Meet et Me in SSt. t. LLouis— ouis—a young actor can c still get master lessons in their craft her.. This is the craft watching her last childhood childhood rrole ole of this peculiarly affecting affecting and un-movielike gamine; after her parents h British par ents are are killed by cholera, draughty, cholera, a she’s she’s shipped to a dr aughtyy, looming loominng house in the English countryside. countrryside. (Plays Dec 55-77 in P Palo aalo Alto Alto att the Stanford Stanffoord Theatre.)

Theatre.)) (RvB)

Ongoing On ngoing BIRDMAN BIRDM MAN (R;; 119 min.) m Back in the Bill Clinton Riggan days,, Ri iggan Thomson (Michael starred Birdman eaton) star KKeaton) red in a series of Bir dman movies—blockbusters movies s blockbusters about a dark s—blockbusters Hawkman Hawkm man with telekinetic powers.

It madee Thomson ffamous. amous. The film ffollows ollows the turbulent Riggan during the previews Wee TTalk pr eview ws of his play What W aalk About Wee TTalk Director When W alk a About LLove. ove.. Dir ector Alejandro Alejand dro Gonzalez Iñnáritu’s ffour our scriptwriters introduce magical-realist scriptw writers intr oduce magical-r ealist business—the gravelly busines ss—the gr avelly I-am-the-night

voice voic ce of Birdman Birdman rasps rasps in Riggan’s Riggan’s mind, deriding der iding sissy ffoo-foo oo-foo acting.. He still has his super powers:: the first shot is the actor underwear acto or is levitating in his under wear in problems a lotus lootus position.. Riggan’s Riggan’s pr oblems as director/writer/actor aree dir e ector/writer/actor of his first play ar numerous. num merous.. His angry daughter (Emma fresh haywireSStone) tone) is fr esh out of rrehab. ehab.. A haywir enerved Watts) ner ved co-star (Naomi W atts) is having troubles. her own tr oubles.. Her co-star, co-starr, Mike (Edward caricaturee (Edw ward Norton),, is a splendid caricatur of tthe he monster actor who sees the world, were, lifee is as iitt wer e,, in negative—the rreal eal lif on the t stage.. In this bewilderingly funny film, film m,, Iñnáritu is talking about what he knows problem oblem of handling kno ows about:: the pr a menagerie m of people with bruised egos ego os and insatiable demands. We We can almost alm most see how the childish behavior here. ccompliments ompliments an exacting science her e. diree fun Few w movies have had so much dir process withh the pr ocess of getting the show to Birdman go on. o . Bir dman is necessary viewing ffor or all theatrical from Broadway thea atrical actors,, fr om toasts of Br oadway to crusty c little-theater toilers.. (RvB)

THE HUNGER GAMES: THE GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART MO OCKINGJAY P ART 1 (PG ((PG-13; G-13;; 123 min.)) Hunger Games victor/ survivor sur v KKatniss vivor atniss Everdeen Everdeen (Jennifer (Jennifer Lawrence) transformed Law wrence) is tr ansformed into the rreluctant eluuctant figurehead figurehead of a rrevolution evolution presidential by yet y another shifty pr esidential type (Julianne Moore).

(Jul lianne Moor e). The rrevolution evolution aims to ooverthrow overthrow the oppressive oppressive regime regime of President Pr esident Snow (Donald Sutherland)— andd just to complicate things,, Snow holds hold ds Katniss’ Katniss’ pseudo-fiance,, Peeta Peeta (Josh (Jos sh Hutcherson),, captive.

HORRIBLE HO ORRIBLE BOSSES BOSSES 2 (R;; 108 (R 1 min.) i ) Dale, D l , KKurt urtt andd Nick Ni k ar aree att it ag again gain after plans ffor or starting their ownn business go awry and they turn to a harebrained haarebrained kidnapping scheme to track. get things back on tr ack. That scheme, however, doesn’t either,, how weverr, doesn ’t go as planned either andd hilarity ensues,, natch. (Opens W Wed.) ed.) e

DEAR DEA AR WHITE PE PEOPLE OPLE (R;; 108 1 min.) ItIt’s ’s a very good thing Justin Jus tin Simien’s Simien’s Dear White People People e e was made—it theree where madde—it gets in ther where the dirt is. Tessa Tessa e Thompson is Samantha,, a film studies severee internal studdies firebrand firebrand with sever doubts. douubts.. Lionel (Tyler (TTyler y James Williams) is a wary afro. w underdog underdog with a sky-high sky-high afr o.

Samantha’s (Teyonah Sam mantha’s opposite,, Coco (T Teeyonah Parris), Parris),, is a vlogger who seeks seeks popularity at all a costs.. At At the lily-white Winchester University, Universityy, Samantha’s Samantha’s show on the college chafes college radio radio station chaf es a lot of nerves. nerves.. In the proud proud tradition tradition of fraternity fraternity row row w movies,, the administration administration is up in arms broadcasts. arm ms about her br oadcasts. Dear White People Peeooplee is a str strong ong critique of pulppulp-TV -TV trashiness, tr asshiness, the banal ho-and-pimp masquerade mas squerade d the th white hit kids kid love. l Wisely Wi l ridicules it rid dicules the assertion that America is post-racial pos st-racial after Obama’s Obama’s twin victories. bravery Thee film’s film’s br avery and open ending is credible, cr eddible,, despite the dead spots,, and thatt woeful self-seriousness that poxes tha student stud dent wit. You You o can hit the nail on the head hundred hea ad a hundr ed times and still have a rickety structure. rick kety structur e.. (RvB)

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ARE A RE W WE ET THERE H ER E Y YET? ET ? Dustin Brown, Brown center center, r, says he feels like his band NTNT is close to breaking through. through

Portland P ortland electro-pop e gro group up NTNT cultivate cultivat te a sound thatt could ssend end tthem hem ssoaring oaring BY B Y JOHN FL FLYNN LY YNN N

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VER SINCE SINCE he he was was a boy, boy y, Dustin Brown B has music is understood that t his calling. And And though he struggled with formal f lessons in his youth, youth h, it is clear that he has found his h voice as the frontman of Portland-based Portland rtland-based based electro-pop outfit NTNT. N NTNT .

Brown’s Br own n’s brainchild,, NTNT NT TNT is a genre-splicing amalgam of o fforce or o ce and genre-splicing bubblegum,, which Br ow wn has describ ed Brown described “sunshine thump t will bring thump..” The trio their maturing sound to The Blank Club tonight,, Dec Dec.. 3.

“When I w was aas 9 or 10,, I picked picked up guitar around the guit ar ...... and just messed ar ound Brown says with it,” Br o own sa ayys rrecalling eccalling a his earliest started memories of o ccomposing. omposingg. “I st arted music and—it’s making mu usic and—it ’s kind of a age—but that’s knew yyoung oung age o — —but that ’s when I kne wI wanted make was w aanted to mak m ke music and that w aas all wanted do..”

Iw aanted to do has been Brown’s NTNT ha as not b een Br own n’s project—nor guitar ar the only only pr ro ojectt— —nor is guit plays. began instrument he pla ayys. In fact,, he b egan eexperimenting xperimentiing with what would become li l b ecome NTNT while hil still ill ultimately playing drums pla ayying drum ms ffor o or another band. started secret, sortt “I st arted d writing music in secr et,, sor of,f, and rrecording myy workstation, of ecorrding it on m workstation,” Brown says.

Br own sa ayys. “Then I put it up on the blogg stuff Internet and d it got a bunch of blo that’s wanted and that ’s when w I decided I w aanted to project. go with thiss pr oject.”

Since then,, Brown Brown says, saayys, “there’s “therre’s been been a Since cirrculating c gr oup of p eople pla ayyin ng with circulating group people playing me.” But now, now w, the band is solidif fyyin ng me. solidifying around Chad V aan Dyke Dyk ke on guitar guitar and around Van John Boyd Bo oyd on drums. drums.

John “They’re able to put their “They’re personalities into it and mak ke it fe ffeel eel personalities make nvvading on thee music genuine without in invading gw writing itself, itselfff” f,,” Brown Brown says. sayys. sa or the song songwriting NTNT’s first album,, a 12-song 12-song effort effo eff ort NTNT’s iind Y oou In The C oolorrs wa w as entitled I’ll F Find You Colors was released in 2012. It is characterized characterizeed b released byy ether eal melodies melodies that undulate and a ethereal ver e bouncy bouncy beats. beats. Br ow wn’s intersect o over Brown’s vocals sur veer the eclectic tunes with vocals surff o over shapeshifting pr esence, channeling channelling a shapeshifting presence, energy of an unbuttoned unbuttttoned loun nge the energy lounge singer, a tightly y--trousered indie rrocker, ock ker e, singer, tightly-trousered full-throated o a mantra-leading DJ DJ,, or a full-throated ’80s frontman f ontman at various fr i p oints i ’80s points throughout the album. throughout ire” features featur e es Br ow wn “Spinning on F Fire” Brown swaggering a o ver e a buz zzy ssynth, yynth, swaggering over buzzy reggae-paced alien guit ars and massive, masssivve, reggae-paced guitars snares. It is an inf feectiouss danc emphatic snares. infectious dancee ommands the ffoot oot to t ttap ap anthem that ccommands d. and the head to no nod.

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On The Cusp

NTNT’s most rrecent ecen nt effort eff ffo ort is a fivefivveNTNT’s eleased earlier earllier this yyear. eear. Titled Titled songg EP rreleased Moon, the t EP works lik And Then The Moon, likee conceptual p op op e era—guiding the a conceptual pop opera—guiding own n’s personal personal journey journeey listener along Br Brown’s from a rreligious eligious upbringing, upbrringing, through through from es as a “alcohol-fueled “alcohol-fueled a phase he describ describes fi a ccenter enter nihilism,” on to him finding errsonal moral and orienting his p personal compass on his own terms tterms.. compass om mbined rresult esult of The EP is the ccombined semi-comp pleted songs that nearly 50 semi-completed Brown workshopp ed d without the help Brown workshopped ments. of traditional instrum instruments.

“Y Yo ou know how yyou o ou get a song fr om “You from our head and yyou’re ou’re the radio stuck in yyour ?”” he asks just humming alongg to it it?” asks.. n I rrealize, ealize, ‘Oh! “I’ll do that and then That’s not actually a song ’s just That’s song,, that that’s imagiiningg.’” something I’m imagining.

Brown first demo e the songs he ed Brown demoed was hearing in his he ead b eatboxing, was head byy b beatboxing, whistling, and singing singin ng snipp ets of lyrics whistling, snippets effo orre ever ever picking up into his iPhone b before guitar or sit ttting down dow wn at a drumset. a guitar sitting realize I’m maki ing something and “I realize making h says. saayys. then go finish that,” he Brown says saays y his cur rrent ambitions Brown current don’t rrevolve evolve ar ound d selling albums— don’t around rather, the singer hopes hop pes to build a rather, following o , and perhaps perhaaps ccatch atch the ear following, television ccommercial omm mercial pr oducer of a television producer ay. along the w way. leveel aren’t aren n’t ’ rreally eally “Bands on our level uch as the ey are are selling albums as mu much they EPs,” he says. saayys. “It seems selling singles or EPs, lik ke people people digest mu usic in mor like music moree of a plaaylist y fform. o orm. Y o ou’re gonna make mak ke your your playlist You’re money from from lic ensin ng and tick et sales. sales. money licensing ticket ’s just like: lik kee: ‘Pleas se, ha ave our music So it it’s ‘Please, have music,, share it with yyour o our friends, friiends, and if you you share lik ke it come come out and see a show w.’” like show. people ar o oming to the And people aree ccoming shows. NTNT is beginning begginning to turn shows. orner toward toward cconsistent onsistent work, the ccorner but the band is still in the stick stickyy ound b etween w b eing thr ee middle gr ground between being three plaay music mu usic to gether dudes who play together becoming an es stablished vvoice oice and becoming established a ophony of ac within the online ccacophony modern music. music. modern eeels lik ke right b effor o e yyou ou get a o “It ffeels like before o ou kno ow yyou’re o ou’re ab out blowjob and yyou know about to,” Brown Brown jokes. jokes. “It can can be be discouraging discouraging to, times, but we’ve we’vve ac ccomplished at times, accomplished tttle things and d now we ha ave to these lit little have accomplish these bigg ger things accomplish bigger things,, so the problem solving ccontinues. onttinues.” problem

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Rock/Pop/ Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop AGENDA A GENDA LLOUNGE OUNGE Every W Wed, ed, 8pm:: Salsa Wednesdays free W ednesdays w/ fr ee dance Banda l lessons.

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

ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BIS BISTRO TRO Thu, Dec 4, 8pm: The Bobs- A Show.. Fri, D Dec CCappella appella Holiday Show ec 5,, 8:30pm: Groovy Groovy Judy and the t Collective. Redwood City

ART AR T BOUTIKI Thu,, Dec 11,, 7pm:: De Anza Daddios. Fri,, Dec 12,, 7:30pm: Conley, Leah Elflock TTotonoko, Elflock, otonoko, Eli Conley ootonoko, y, Le eah CCapelle. apelle.. $10.. Sat,, Dec 13,, 7:30: Hurricane Hur ricane Roses,, Lakes, Anthony Anthony Lady.

Jose.

Ruptak and the Lady y. San Jose e.

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

Fall. Sat, Dec 6: V Vulture ulture Smile. Sun,, Dec 7: Behold the Desecration Desecration w/ Bloodscribe, Stages Stages of Decomposition, Logistic Logistic Slaughter.San Slaughter.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 Presents Roger Mor ehouse Pr esents Foxy Thursdays.. CCampbell ampbell

CHARLEY'S CHARLE Y'S LG LG Sun,, Dec 7:: X X-Mas -Mas P Parade arade Wed, Holiday Open House.. Every W ed, e Wi3rdd W Wednesdays.

10pm:: Wi3r ednesdays. Every Thu,, 7pm:: Speakeasy Saloon w/ live Country music.. Los Los Gatos.

THE CA CATS ATS Wed,, Dec 3:: Johnny Neri. Thu, Wed, Dec 4:: Original, Sweet Sweet Hayah & Moet.. Sat, Dec 6:: Out of the Blue. Every Sun, 6pm:: Joe Ferrara.

Fer rara. LLos os Gatos.

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

Live bands. Fr ee. 21 and over Fremont.

Fr emont.

JOHNNY V’S Every Wed: Wed:: Geology w/ Benny Medicina,, Rock & Roll KKaraoke. araoke.

27-29: Thu-Sat,, Nov 27 -29:: 80s,, 90s Rock Hits.. Every Sun:: Sundaze,, a house and EDM night.. San Jose.

MOUNTAIN MOUNT AIN WINER WINERY Y BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Fri, Dec 5: SStompbox. tompbox. Sat, De Dec ec 6: DJ Roots. 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.

Rock San Jos se se.

CAFFE FRA FRASCATI SCA AT TI Thu, Dec 4, 7:30pm: The V Valko alko Brothers Br others & Jake. First Fri, Operaa Night. Every TTue, 8pm: Oper uuee, 7pm: Open Mic. San Jose.

THE CARA CARAVAN VA AN Fri, Dec 5:: A Thousand Shall

Every Mon, Wed Wed & Thu: Pr Proo Jam. Sunnyvale.

SSAP AP CENTER Wed, Dec 3: TTriple Wed, riple r Ho Show ft.

Summer,, Demi 5 Seconds of Summer LLovato, ovato, Charlie Xcx, Jessie J, J, & Nick Jonas. San Jose

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

San Jose.

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 BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed, Dec 3, 8pm:: NTNT. Wed, NTNTT. Fri, Dec 5,, 8pm: The Rikk Agnew Band, The Boneshavers, The Creatures Fascinating Cr eatures of the Deep. $10. Sat, Dec,, 6, 8pm: Cover CCash’d ash’d Out (Johnny CCash ash Cov ver Band).. $15. San Jose.

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Sun, Dec 77,, 11am: Sangria Perdidos.

Sunday ft. Santos P erdidos.

Saratoga.

Sar atoga.

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.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

NUMBER ONE BR BROADWAY OADWAY Wed, Dec 3: JJ.C. Wed, .C. Smith Jam. Thu, Dec 4: Bobby Love Love & Sugar SSweet. weet. Fri, Dec 5: Spang-A-Lang Spang-A -Lang w/ Tony Toony Lindsay.. Sat, Dec 6: TTouch Lindsay oouch N Go. LLos os Gatos.

THREE DE DEGREES GREES Shake It Up Wednesdays.

Wednesdays.

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

-10pm. Los Los Gatos

THE X B BAR AR Every Thu: No Cover night.

Saturday day Nite Live Every Sat: Satur Show.. CCupertino. upertino.

Music Show

JJazz/Blues/ /Bl / World W orld o AGAVE A GAVE Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

Every Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo. San Jose

BLUE BL UE NO NOTE TE LOUNGE LOUNGE Every TTue, uue, 7:30pm: YYoshi ooshi Senzaki Band. Every Sun: Jazz or Blues.

Bl Mil it Milpitas.

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.

CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH Wax W ax Wednesdays.

Wednesdays. Every Sun, 7pm: Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. San Jose.

CLUB CL UB FFOX OX Wed, Dec 3, 7pm: Club Fox Wed, Blues Jam: The Ford Ford Blues City..

Band. $7. $77. Redwood City

HEDLEY CLUB HEDLEY CLUB AT A T HOTEL HOTEL DE ANZA Every 1st and 3r 3rdd W Wed: ed: Jazz Jam. San Jose.

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CONCERT

Old Soul FOR MANY TWENTYSOMETHINGS electronic dance music is the latest and greatest form of musical expression. Producers like Kaskade, Skrillex and Avicii pack festivals full of college-aged men and women with their high energy, synth-based beats.

But for 24-year-old San Jose denizen Jackie Gage, horns, upright bass and analog, brush-beaten drum kits are where it’s at.

Gage was born in Mountain View and raised in Sunnyvale by parents who loved soul and jazz. She grew up listening to the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Dionne Warwick and Stevie Wonder.

Jackie Gage Dec 7, 7pm, $10-$15 City Lights Theater Company cltc.org

For much of 2014, Gage served as the co-founder and host of Fatale, a weekly series spotlighting local female soul, R&B and jazz vocalists at Blackbird Tavern and the Pagoda Bamboo Lounge in downtown San Jose.

A singer since childhood and a songwriter since college, Gage says that the women she saw singing at Fatale inspired her to write an entire album of original material and take her show on the road.

Gage played the final Fatale last week at Pagoda and then embarked on a short California tour, which took her to Oakland, San Rafael, Sacramento and down to Los Angeles, where she spoke with Metro on her cell phone about the upcoming release of two singles from her forthcoming LP, Ladies—named for the women singers who inspired her to take on this challenge in the first place.

“I really want as many ears as possible to hear this,” she says of Ladies, which she hopes to release in full some time in 2015. “I want the world to hear these stories and this music.”

For those who want to hear Gage’s material sooner, she will be performing at City Lights Theater Company in San Jose on Sunday, Dec. 7. It’s the second-to-last show of her brief tour, which will wrap up with one more stop in Los Angeles on Dec. 9—the same day she’ll be releasing two singles from Ladies.

Gage’s voice has been described as “velvety,” like a “smooth wine,” and indeed, her vocal ability is impressive, as she has shown in original songs like “Let Me Know,” a live version of which can be found on YouTube, and her jazzed-up cover of Rihanna’s hit “Umbrella.”— Nick Veronin

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Aimee Mann JASON MARSALIS VIBES QUARTET Youngest member of Marsalis family lends bluesy element to intricate jazz combo. Dec 4-7 at SF JAZZ Center.

AIMEE MANN Celebrated songwriter returns with her Christmas show, featuring guest Ted Leo and others. Dec 5 at the Fillmore.

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Worldwide, Wo orldwide, the lives livvees of people people in n the very have veerry lowest-income lowestt--incco ome countries countries o have ha improved—or imprroved—or at least they theey last longer longger and are arre punctuated by by fewer fewer w diseases. diseases. Dramatic D progress prrogrreess has been been made over over the last laast two two w decades particular: Life deccades a in par rticular: t Liffe expectancy exxpecttan ancy for quarter for o the bottom botttom t quarrter t has improved imprroved by by twice twic w e as much as in the highest-income highestt--incco ome countries.

Nearly people countries o .N early ttwo wo w billion p eoplle have haave gained access accceess to what the World Wo orrld Health Organization Orrgganization calls calls a “improved “imprroved e sanitation” (i.e.,., saf safe sanitation n” (i.e fe drinking water waaterr and hygienic hygienic y latrines). Mortality Mortalit a ty as a rresult eessult of TB, TB, malaria, AIDS, AIDS, and measles have haave all gone down. The maternal and under-five und derr-fiv - ve mortality morrtalitty rates are are significantly significcaantly lower, low werr, and theree ar aree fewer children. ther fewer w underweight underweight childr reen.

Progress Progress in these areas arreeas has vastly exceeded exxceeded that for for o the top quarter, quarrtterr, and poverty poveerrty has dropped dropped from from 40 to 14 percent perrcent worldwide. worrldwide.

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From direction. Fr rom o the end of World Wo orld War W II into the mid-’70s, mid-’70s, overall oveerall U.S. U.S. economic eccono o omic growth growth h was waas high, hi h and d income income inequality inequ ualit lity significantly declined—the bottom significcantly a botttom t m fifth of the population’s population n’s income incco ome increased increased by by more more fifth’s than the top fifth h’s did for for o two two w decades. deccades a .

Right around arro ound the time the mullet mulleet was waas becoming becoming a popular popular hairstyle, hairsttyle y , though, thou ugh, it was waas growing growing increasingly incrreeasingly clear thatt the golden years yeears were were over. overr. Every Evver e y academic accaadeemic paper pinpoints paper pinp oints a slightly different diff ffeerreent year year things started sttar a ted to go south, but the graphs g all look look essentially the same: between bettw weeen 1980 1980 and 2005 quintile’s 2005 the bottom botttom t quintilee’s income incco ome becomes horizontal becomes a straight horizont tal a line (less ( than half a percent percent e growth) growth) while the t top quintile is at a 45-degree 45-degree angle (four (ffou our times that much). The bottom fifth’s botttom t fifth h’s share sharre of the overall oveerall wealth has deteriorated. deteriorated d. In fact, the bottom 90 sharee of wealth botttom t 90 percent’s perrcentt’s shar w has dropped drro opped by by 25 25 percent. percent. e The richest rich hest 3

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percent percent e of Americans Americcaans now n own more more than half of the country’s country’s wealth. w But the inequality inequalitty goes g es further go furrtther than income. inc ome. The gap in life liffe expectancy exxpecttancy a between b ettw ween the rich and the t poor poor has increased incr eased since sincce 1980, 1980, as a has the risk of death from frro om cancer canc a ceer and d cardiovascular car ardio d vascular disease.. The rrelative disease elativve risk rissk of infant mortality mortalit a ty ffor or o the poorest poorrest e quintil quintile le ccompared omparred e to the richest has doubled.

And the recession these recession exacerbated exxaccerbated e differences: diff ffeerences: Between Bettw ween 2007 2 07 and 2012 20 bottom fifth’s the b otttom t fifth h’s income incco ome dropped dropped by by 11 percent. p ercent. e The top fifth’s fifth h’s income income decreased decreased byy only 2 percent, b perrcent, and d the top five fivve percent percent e suffer of Americans Americcaans didn’t didn n’t ’ su uff ffeer any an ny change economically liberal at all. The ec conomic o call a ly lib eral will argue ar rggue that our social social safety saaffeetty net needed poverty-relief to work harder—but harrder d r—but — poveerty--rreelief spending steeeply after 2009, spending increased increased steeply 2009, U.S. and U .S . . poverty poverty would woulld have haave been been 14.5 percentage points p ercent e tage a p oints higher high her without those added benefits. benefits. Conservatives Conserrvativ v vees will say saay the laws issue is la aw ws restricting restricting e g commerce—but commer o rce—but profits ccorporate orp o orate pr ofits have haave never neever e been been higher. higherr. on The problem problem is that only nly a tiny tin ny handful of people benefits p eople receive recceiv e e the b en nefits of these profits. prro ofits.

It’s It ’s not hard harrd to see thiss as evidence evidenc v e for for o the threshold thr reeshold hypothesis: hyp y othesis: the t idea that for for o eevery veerry state state there's therree's a point point o where where economic ecco onomic growth gr rowth o stops benefiting benefitin ng society societty as a whole, whole, and instead only serves servees to make mak ke the rich richer. richer r.

So wher where’s Hood e’s the Robin Ro obiin Ho od in this situation? Some ar argue rgguee we need more morre ccollege ollege o graduates in order orrder d to take tak ke advantage advant tage a of the skilled-unskilled skilleed-unskilled wage waage gap.. This gap hi worked work ked d 70 years yeears ago, ago, when h a huge wave wave of new neew high h school school graduates helped help ed provide provide v a more more highly skilled workforce any other workf for o ce than an ny ot ther in the world.

But the globalized economy ecco onom my means American degree-holders facee Americ caan degr ee-hold ders would fac more mor re competition comp o etition than eveerr, and anyway an nyyw way thaan ever, bottom quintile would likely the b otttom t w likely remain remain e unaffected. unaff ffeected.

Have Haave things improved imprroved for for o the poor poor in the last 50 years? yeears? If you’re yo ou’re a white American male,, not by Americ caan male by much. much (We (We left out the whole females-and-minorities females e s-and-minorities end of the discussion, but hey, hey, we’ve he wee’’vve only got Aree we therefore 850 words.) worrd ds.) Ar thereffor ore screwed? screwed? w Probably Pr ro obably not, but I will willl say saay I’m glad I’m not the one in cha charge arrgge of the policy policy decisions veen if it me ans I’m staying sttayying out decisions,, eeven means of the top quintile. quintile.

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Foundation estimates that we each e think at least 12,000 thoughts per day st majority of them, day.. The va vast however eruns of impr essioons that have passed however,r, ar aree rreruns impressions thr ough our minds many times bef ore. But I am pleased through before. to rreport eport that in the coming wee eks, you Aries ffolks olks weeks, ar ar less rrepetitive ou o epetitive than normal. YYou aree primed to be ffar have the potential to churn out a pr ofusion of original profusion ideas, fr esh per ceptions, novel ffantasies, a antasies, and pertinent fresh perceptions, questions. TTake aake full advantage ooff this opportunity opportunity..

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TAURUS T AURUS (April 20-May 20): I enjoy getting spam

emails with outr outrageous declarations aree at odds ageous declar attions that ar with common sense. “Eating sal salads lads makes you sick” is one of my ffavorites, with “Water avorites, along wit h “W ater is worse for for you than vodka vodka”” and “Smokin “Smoking ng is heal healthier thier than exercising.” exercising.” Why do I love rreading eadinng these laughable claims? W Well, that ell, they rremind emind me th hat every day I am barraged delusion from barraged by nonsense and delus sion fr om the news media, the Internet, politicians, celebrities, c and a host of fanatics. fanatics. “Smoking is heal healthier thier than t exercising” exercising” is just eme and obvious lie than many others that a mor moree extr extreme are better disguised. The mor al of o the story ffor or you in are moral the coming week: Be alert ffor or ex exaggerations xaggerations that clue you in to what what’s below the surface. ’s going on discreetly discreetly e surface.

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me, has h blind bli d spots t about b t the th ar rts t off intimacy i ti andd arts collabor ation. Every one of us su uffers fr om unconscious collaboration. suffers from habits that interf ere with our ab bility to get and give interfere ability the love we want. What ar aree yourr blind spots and unconscious habits, Gemini. Ha! TTrick rrick question! They wouldn ’t be blind spots and unc conscious habits if you wouldn’t unconscious alr eady knew about them. That ’ss the bad news. The already That’s good news is that in the next sixx week weekss you can catch glimpses of these block s, and make m a good start towar blocks, towardd rreducing educing their power to distort your y rrelationships. elationships.

CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): No Now ow and then, it is in ffact act

possible to fix malfunctioning machines m by giving them a ffew ew swift kick s. This str ategy kickss or authoritativ authoritativee whack whacks. strategy is called ““percussive percussive maintenanc maintenance.” ce.” In the coming days, you might be inclined to use it a lot. That That’s ’s probably probably OK I suspect it OK. it’ll ’llll work even better better than it usually does. does Ther oblems, though, if you adopt a similar Theree will be pr problems, approach appr oach as you try to cor correct rect gglitches litches that ar aree mor moree psychological, interpersonal, andd spiritual in natur e. For nature. those, I rrecommend ecommend sensitivity and a finesse. eelings or subjects have LLEO EO (July 23 23-Aug. -Aug. 22): What ffeelings you been wanting to talk about, but have not yet been able to? Ar Aree ther theree messages youu ar aree aching to convey to certain people, but can can’t ’t sum summon mon the cour courage age to be as candid as you need to be?? CCan an you think of any secrets secr ets you’ve been keeping ffor or rreasons easons that used to be good but ar en’t good anymor e? The time has come to aren’t anymore? rrelieve elieve at least some of that ten tension, nsion, Leo. I suggest you smash your excuses, br break eak dow down n bar barriers, riers, and let the rrevelations evelations flow. flow. If you do, you will w unleash unforeseen unforeseen blessings blessings.

VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23-Sept.

23-Sept. 22): In 1662, 1 Dutch painter

Rembrandt Rembr andt finished The Oath of o Claudius Civilis. It was 18 ffeet eet by 18 ffeet, eet, the lar largest gest ppainting ainting he ever made.

For a short time, it hung on a wall w in Amsterdam’s Amsterdam’s TTown oown Hall. But local burgomasters burgomasters soon decided it was offensive, offensive, and returned returned it to t the artist to be Rembrandt ultimately rreworked. eworked. Rembr andt ul timately chopped off threethreeffourths ourths of the original. What’s What’s left left is now hanging in a SStockholm tockholm museum, and the rrest est has been lost. Art critic SSvetlana vetlana Alpers wishes th the he entir entiree painting still existed, but nevertheless rraves aves about the rremaining emaining portion, calling it ““aa magnificen magnificent nt fr fragment.” agment.” I ur urge ge you to think like Alpers. It It’s ’s time to celebrate celebrate your own magnificent fragments. fragments.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22): YYou oou now have a special talent ffor or connecting things tha that at have never been connected. You You o also have a magic maggic touch at uniting things that should be united but buut can’t can’t manage to do so under their own power power.. In ffact, act, I’m I inclined to believe that in the next three three week weekss yo you u will be unusually luck luckyy and adept at fforging orging link links, s br s, brokering okering truces, building bridges, and getting opposites oppposites to attr act. I attract. won won’t ’t be surprised if you’r you’ree ablee to compar comparee apples and or oranges anges in ways that make good sense and calm everyone down.

By yR ROB OB BREZSNY week of December 3

SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oct. (Occt. 23 23-Nov. -Nov. 21): In 1989, Amy TTan aan birthed

her first novel, The T Joy LLuck uck Club. Her next, The Kitchen God’s Wif fe, camee out in 1991. Both wer Wife weree bestsellers.

Within a ffew ew yea years, ars, the student study guide publisher CliffsNotes did with w them what it has done with many masterpieces of world literature: literature: produced produced condensed summaries ffor or use u by students too lazy to read read all of the originals. “In spite of my initial shock,” TTan aan said, “I admit tha at I am per versely honor ed to be in that perversely honored CliffsNotes.” It was w a sign of success to get the same tr treatment eatment as sup superstar perstar authors like Shakespear Shakespearee and James Joyce. Thee CliffsNotes appr oach is cur rently an approach currently oper ative metap phor in your lif e, Scorpio. TTry ry r to find operative metaphor life, it in your heart to t be honor ed, even if it ’s per versely honored, it’s perversely so. For the most part, trimming and shortening and compr compressing essing will will be beneficial.

SSAGITTARIUS AGITTARIU US (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): With both symbolic practical Pope Francis and pr actical actions, actiions, Sagittarius-born P ope Fr ancis has tried to rreframe eframe the t message of the CCatholic atholic Chur Church. ch.

He’s public He ’s having publi ic showers installed ffor or the homeless in V Vatican atican City City.. Hee has made moves to dismantle the Chur Church’s ch’s bigotry towar towardd gays. He rregularly egularly criticizes growing economic inequality, gr owing econom mic inequality y, and keeps rreminding eminding politicians that there th here can be no peace and justice unless they take care care of poor and marginalized marginalized people. He iconic even invited icon nic punk poet Patti Patti Smith to perform perform Vatican Christmas at the V aatican Ch hristmas Concert. YYou oou now have extra extra this sphere, power to exert th his kind of initiative in your own spher e, Sagittarius Be proactive Sagittarius. prroactive as you push for for constructive transformations tr ansformations that will benefit all.

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): The limpet is an

aquatic snail. Wh When hen it it’s ’s scared, scared, it escapes at a rrate ate appr oaching twoo inches per hour ed approaching hour.. If you get fluster flustered in the coming w week, eek, CCapricorn, apricorn, I suggest you flee at a speed no ffaster aster than the limpet limpet’s. ’s. I’m making a little joke her here. e. The tr truth uth is, if you do get into a situation that pr provokes ovokes anxiety, annxietyy, I don’t don’t think you should leave the scene at all. Why? Ther Theree ar aree two possibilities. First, you may be under undeer the influence of mistaken ideas or habitual rresponses esponsses that are are causing you to be nervous nervous about somethingg there’s there’s no need to be ner vous about. nervous Or second, if youu ar aree indeed in an authentic bind, you rreally eally do need too deal with it, not run away away..

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. ((J 20-Feb. 20 F b 18): 18) Science-fiction S i fi ti novelist Philip K.. Dick has been one of my ffavorite avorite authors since I discover ddiscovered ed his work years ago. I love how he rreconfigured econfigured my mind with his metaphysical riffs about politi politics cs and his pr prophetic ophetic questions about what what’s ’s real real and what’s w ’s not. Recently I discover what discovered ed he once lived in a hhouse ouse that that’s ’s a ffew ew block blockss fr from om wher wheree I now live. While he was ther e, he wr ote two of his there, wrote best book s. I wen nt to the place and ffound ound it was books. went unoccupied. Tha Thatt night I slept in a sleeping bag on the back por ch, hopi ing to soak up inspir ation. It worked! porch, hoping inspiration.

After Afterwards, wards, I hadd amazing cr creative eative br breakthroughs eakthroughs ffor or days. I rrecommend ecom mmend a compar able ritual ffor or you, comparable greatness Aquarius. Go in quest q of gr eatness that you want to rub off on you.

PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 19-March ch 20): Do you enjoy telling people what to do? d Ar Aree you always scheming to increase influence lifee you increase your infl fluence over everyone whose lif touch? If you ar aree a typical Pisces, the answer to those questions is no. The T kind of power you ar aree inter interested ested in is power over yourself yourself.. YYou oou mostly want to be the boss of you. Righ Right ht now is a ffavorable avorable time to intensify your eff efforts orts to ssucceed ucceed in this glorious cause. I suggest you make aggr aggressive essive plans to incr increase ease your contr control ol over your own ddestiny. estiny.

Homework: What W gifts do you want for for Christmas, Ha Hanukkah, anukkah, K Kwanzaa, wanzaa, Yule, Yule, and the winter winteer solstice? Write Write to Buddha Clauss at uaregod@comcast.net. uaregod@comcast.net.

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