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D4 D 4 Foursome Fourrsome The special ele election ection to succeed former former San Jose Coun cilman KANSEN CCHU—and HU—and Councilman by extension his h tempor arily appointed temporarily fill-in M ARGIE M ATTHE T WS—has mostly MARGIE MATTHEWS—has flown under th he rradar adar to begin the the year year.. But next week the campaign takes gr eater shape, when candidates file greater their first camp paign disclosur forms for for campaign disclosuree forms 2015. Some ca ndidates began or ganizing candidates organizing bef ore the New w Year Year to get a head before start rraising aising fu unds, and Vietnamese funds, media honcho MANH MANH N GUYEN led the NGUYEN char ge with a haul of $43,085 thr ough charge through December Meaanwhile, December.. Meanwhile, civil rights atto orney attorney They LLAN AN D IEP tallie ed a DIEP tallied Did rrespectable espectable $2 21,783. $21,783.

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Diep ’s fforms orms sh how Diep’s show mor ers fr om moree supporte supporters from SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O outside t id the th cit ity, but b t city, FLY@ FL Y@ the pair has be een been METRONEWS. METR ONEWS. fier cely jockeyi ing fiercely jockeying COM CO M ffor or the Vietnam mese Vietnamese community’s ssupport. upport.

They’ll be fforced orceed to shar sharee a dual endorsement fr ffrom om the San Jose/Silicon V alley Chambe er of Commer ce.

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BO BD HILLON, owner of a rrealty ealty BOB DHILLON, company y, camee in thir company, thirdd in collecting cash with $11,2 250, but a ffourth ourth $11,250, candidate amo candidate, ong sever al other options, options among several is expected to pose a bigger challenge when all fundr aising is complete. Sever al fundraising Several candidates dr o opped out of the rrace ace dropped despite filing fforms orms to have their names on the ballot, leaving T IM O ROZCO, a staff er ffor or State State Senator TIM OROZCO, staffer BOB W IECKOWSKI, to snag labor ’s BOB WIECKOWSKI, labor’s H entry came in January y, endorsement. His January, rst disclosur meaning his fir first disclosuree filings will arrive next wee ek. That hasn ’t stopped arrive week. hasn’t al gr oups fr om rramping amping some influentia influential groups from each on n his behalf up outr outreach behalf,f, though. In addition to the South Bay Labor Council’s o , Or oval, ozco has rreceived eceived stamp of appr approval, Orozco AYMEC Y and county the support of BA BAYMEC Supervisor KEN NY EAGER. In an email blast, Supervisor YEAGER. the pair sent ou ut a fundr aiser invitation out fundraiser ffor or this Sunday touting Or ozco as “the Orozco first LLGBT GBT cand idate ffor or San Jose City candidate Council since 20 007!”” Fly’s ffact act check ffound ound 2007!” a couple issuess with the announcement: first,, the last LLGBT G candidate to run ffor GBT or council was was SSTEVE T VE KLINE, TE KLINE, who lost to P IERLUIGI O LIVERIO in 2012 while PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO running ffor or Yeager’s Yeaager ’s old District 6 seat; second, the an nouncement’s 54-point 54-point announcement’s ffont ont headline misspelled m Orozco’s name.

Orozco’s With almost tw wo months to election day y, two day, ther on out theree should bbee enough time to ir iron the br anding. branding.

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Size Doesn’t Matter

DIY GUY Bob DIY Bob, b, who preferred no not ot to give his last name, has be become ecome an expert on n small housing by building hi his is own 244-square foot cottage cottage. e.

Tiny T iiny homes present pre esent big ideass when transforming domestic d ecosystems ecosy ystems BY B Y JENNIFER W WADSWORTH ADSWOR A RTH

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OUNDED BY the OUNDED cluttered shelves of a mid-century one-carr gar age, his laboratory laboratory garage, for fo or the time being, Tim Tim M cCormick tinkers with the th he McCormick hop 64-square-foot 64 4-square-foot cube he hopes pes w “hack the housing crisis.” will crissis.”

Ass he en A envisions nvvisions it, an 8x8x8-f 8x8x8-foot foot sk skeleton keleton e of p perforated erfo orated squar squaree steel tu tubes, ubes, small sm mall enough to fit in a parking sp spot, ot,, become “erector set”” suit suitable ccould o b ould ecome an “er ector set taablle home workspace.

From there, ho ome or workspac e. Fr om ther e, onee out—as spartan ccould o build up or out ould t—as — spar taan as ap post-apocalyptic ostt--apocalyptic b bomb omb shelter or ass elaborate el laborate as a several-story seeverale storry dwelling. dwellingg.

Modules bee separate or st stacked, M Mo dules ccould ould o b ack keed d, side sid de panels sswapped, waapped, dimensions spaces, ccomplementing o omplementing eexisting xisting x urban spac e, es like yard garage.. lik ke a small yar d or a garage “It’s about creating solve “It It’s ab out cr eating ssystems ystems y to solv ve

otenttial needs in the a vvery eery wide set of p potential built en nvir v onment,” he sa ssays, ayys, “analo gous environment, “analogous to how Linux or Andr Android oiid [and other op en-source software] softw waare] are arre used in a wide open-source variety variet ty of ccomputing omputing ccontexts. on onteexxts.”

McC McCormick ormick ccalls alls a the lowllow-cost, cost, open-source op pen-source units Knight Knigh ght Houses, Houses, a rreinvention ein nvention e of the homee as a pr product oduct that cconsumers onsumers ccould ould or order rd der online or build themselv themselves. vees. U Under n nd der the aegis of Houslets Houslets,, the alternat alternative tivve housing rresearch esearrcch eff effort ffo ort he he’s ’s sp spearheading, earrheadingg, McC McCormick ormick is one of nin nine ne San JJose ose o finalists vying ffor or a slic o slice ce of o $5 million in grant mone money ey b being eing distr distributed ributed acr across oss the ccountry ountry b byy the Knight Cities C Challenge Challenge..

“If we do this right,” McC McCormick Cormick sa says, ayys, “ ccan “we an transf transform fo orm Silic Sili Silicon o V on Valley’s alle alleyy’’s urban b ecosystem. ec ossyystem.”

Tiny aree nothi nothing new.

T in ny homes ar ing ne w. If anything, they’re partt off an age age-old an nyything, the eyy’re par -old tradition of ccarving arving out spac space, e, of squatting squat ttting and o occupying, ccup c pyyingg, of highly adaptive Last adaptiv ve living ssystems. yystems. L ast yyear, ear e r, San JJose ose cit city ty officials floated the idea of

micro-cottages building micr m o-cotttages to shelter the h homeless: l 1501150-square-foot, square-ffoot, $5,000-apiece $5,000-apiec i e pods hunker p ods that ccould o hunk ould ker e down on unused empty warehouses public land d or empt ty w aarreehouses as options.. transitionall housing options “We studied “W We stud died the idea and ffound ound that o didn’t have make we didn n’’t ha h ave the public land to mak ke Ray this work,” sa ssays ayys Ra ay Bramson, San JJose’s ose’s homelessness manager.

Santaa homelessne ess rresponse esponse manager r. Sant County Clara C oun ntty is working on a similar rreview. eview. “W “We’ll We’ll see what the ccounty ountty ccomes omes up with,” hee sa says. ayys. The small units ccould ould serve ser ve a div diverse veerse demo demographic—not graphicc— —not just ffor or the hom o homeless, meless, McC McCormick ormick sa says, ayys, but also yyoung oung singles o singles,, students and the elderly lo looking ok king to downsize downsize..

“There’s “Ther re’s a global ar archetype: chettyype: fac faced ed with the hie hierarchy erarch hy and st status atus of the environment, en nvvironment, the lit little ttle t man w wants aants to ccarve arve out a piec piecee of it it—trailers, t— —trailers, rrooms, ooms, attics, at ttics t , ccottages, otttag ages, in-la in-law aw units units,,” McC McCormick ormick says. sa ays y . “That “That’s ’s what we ccan an do do,, design and implem implement ment a fleet of mo moveable oveable e housing un units, nits, which ccan an b bee quickly deployed, deplo oyeed, mo m moved oveed ar around ound and p potentially otentially ccombined ombined into i lar larger rgger units units..”

The cconcept onccept has gained mor moree traction in rrecent eccent e yyears e as soaring housing ccosts ears osts ccontinue ontinue to o pric pricee middle class families out of urba urban an job ccenters. enters e .F For or p perspective, erspectivve, cconsider onsider th that at “middle class” in the San

saayys Bob says Bob,, tr trekking e ekking up to the plac place ce in his brown br own work kb boots, oots, faded W Wranglers rranglers and pine gr green een plaid p shirt shirt with slee sleeves evees torn at the elb elbows. ows.

Wide W iide windows—the win ndows—the bulk of which he got ffor free from or fr o ree e fr om ccontractors—fill ontractors—fill o the ccottage otttage a with w natural light, giving it a rroomy oom my ffeel e despite the limited eel dimensions.. A fformer mechanical dimensions ormer mechanic o cal a engineer, from engineer r, Bob Bo ob crafted the place place fr om ruddy cuts of heartt rredwood. o ancient hear edwood. been around The logs logs had db een lying ar round o ffor o or a before slice ccentury entur t y or so ob effo ore he h decided d id d to t slic li e sawmill them to sizee with a sa aw wmill he built out of an old b boat trailer. o trailer oat r. patio,, Sixteen solar so olar panels ccover over e the patio moree tha than power far mor an needed to p ower the home,, and a sheet met metal home al rroof oof shelters the Inside,, a wo wood-burning rrest est of the house. ho ouse. Inside od-burning stove from water sto ove fashioned fashion ned fr om an old w aater ttank ank stands one st ands in on ne ccorner, ornerr, a kitchen fills up other,, a cupb overhead, the other ccupboard oard and, o veerhead, a loft. sleeping loft ft. The only separate rroom oom bathroom, i the in h house h e is i the h full f ll bathr b h oom, with ih a bathtub an and nd toilet that drains into a 1,500-gallon proper 1,50 0-gallon n septic ttank ank with a pr oper $5,000 about leach field. In n all: $5,0 00 to build, ab out panels.. another $6,000 $6,0 000 ffor o or the solar panels McCormick wants moree of McC ormiick w aants to see mor self-sufficient that self f-suffi fficient ingenuity ingenuitty applied to housing in spaces.

Given n urban spac es. Giv veen that pre-assembled he plans to work w with pr e-assembled modules, mo dules, hee thinks he ccould ould work o within an eeven veen tighter budget. microSan JJose ose has o h no zoning ffor o or micr rohomes,, per says Cheryl Wessling, homes per se sse,, sa ayys Cher yl W eesslingg, spokeswoman city’s Planning, sp ok keesswom w man for for o the cit ty’ y s Planning g, Code Enforcement Building and dC ode Enf for o cement Department.

To date,, no one has eeven Depar tmen nt. T o date veen proposed micro-home project pr oposed a micr m o-home pr oject to the city. “[However,] have process cit ty. “[Howe ever er,,] we do ha ave a pr ocess projects, that allows ffor or o ... unique pr ojects,” Wessling says.

W eessling sa ays y . “How these would ccome ome o play emerging into pla ay ffor orr the emer o rgging cconcept oncept of micro-homes micr o-homees would need cconsideration. onsideration.” pushback from The push hback often ccomes omes fr rom o neighbors worryy ab about neighb ors who w worr out parking supply and pr property values.. O Other p operty values ther issues: hook how to ho ok k up units to plumbing and rules.. McC McCormick ccomply omply with h zoning rules ormick says way make sa ayys one w ay to mak ke the idea of incorporating tiny inc co orporatin ng tin ny homes within the landscape palatable urban lands scape palat able to the public incentivize property owners.. One is to inc entivvize pr operrty owners model he’s looking new mo del he ’s lo ooking at is a fairly ne w state law that give breaks property st ate la aw tha at giv ve ttax aax br eaks to pr ro operty owners who o lease to an urban farm.

McCormick McC ormick k suggests the same idea ccould ould bee applied ffor micro-homes. b o or micr o-homes.

“Fearing people encroaching “F earing p eople encr oaching on yyou ou o but building, adapting,, is human, bu ut so is building g, adapting being environment, b eing able to o change yyour our en o nvvironment,” McCormick says.

“It’s McC ormick k sa ayys. “It ’s all in how yyou o ou present pr esent it.”

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Jose metr Jose metro o ar area ea means a household that earns $94,077 $94 077 annually annually, y, ac aaccording cording to rreal eal est estate ate site Trulia. By that t measur measure, e, only 30 p percent erceent of home homes es in the rregion’s egion n’s market mark ket e ar aree aff affordable ffo ordable en enough nough ffor or o middle-income earners.. middle -income earners how “So our challenge is ho ow to bring the says McCormick, spent ccost ost down,” sa ayys McC orm mick, who sp ent the past ffew 200-squareew yyears eears living in i a 20 0-squarePalo Alto.. ffoot oot cconverted on nver e ted garage in P alo Alto best way posits, The b est w ay to do that, he h p osits, is to cut down on size size.. Americans have Ameericcaans ha ave square-footage l learned d to t equate t squar e-ffoottage with ith value,, however, value howeeveerr, making the t notion of insurgent downsizing an insur rggentt idea.

McCormick newcomer McC ormick is a rrelative elativve ne ewc w omer tiny movement. to the tin ny home mo oveem ment. Early advocated pioneers in the 1970s adv vocaated ffor o or scaled-back sc caaled-back homes in reaction reaaction to widespread widespr ead suburbanization suburbanizattion that living spaces. normalized eexcessive xxcessivve livin ng spac es. The family aaverage verage e size of a single fam mily home decades hovered around 1,780 ffour our dec o caades ago ho oveerred ed ar ound 1,78 0 squaree ffeet.

U.S. squar eeet. Each E h new new U ..S S. Census Census Bureau Bur reau e count count broke brok ke another anotther record, record, the latest in 2013 when the aaverage verage e home size stopped squaree stopped just shy sh hy of 2,600 2,,600 squar decrease ffeet, eeet, despite a cconcurrent oncurr o entt decr ease in the family. size of the average average e family y. The housing market’s 2007 mark ket e ’s free-fall frreee-fall in 20 077 galvanized McCormick McC ormick and others’ push p ffor or smaller o quarters. living quar ters.

“We breakdown, wheree “W We had this huge br e kd eak down, wher the housing ssystem stammering, yystem is st am mmeringg,” he says. middle-class sa ayys. ““All A All ll off a sudden dd rregular egu ular l middle iddl -class l people housing. became p eople ccan’t aan n’’t find housing g. It b eccaame a first-world problem, speak. first t--world pr oblem, so to o sp eak.”

McCormick lived plenty McC ormick has liv veed in i plent ty of improbable spaces. small, sometimes impr ob bable spac es.

Growing London, parents Gr owing up in L ondon, his h par ents lived liv veed in a 1,000-square-foot 1,000-squarre-ffoot home. home. His bedroom, “box was b edrroom, ccalled alled a “b ox rroom, oom,” w aas no moree than 48 squar squaree ffeet—intended mor eeett— —intended as a storage spac space, father’ss e, rreally. eallyy. His H father’ architect moved job as an ar chitect mo oveed d the family to various urban hubs hubs,, alw always settling ways y set tttling into economical quarters. was ec onomiccaal living quar teers. “That w aas a key, informative influence, says. k ey, inf fo ormativve influenc ce,” he sa ays y . ““As As was long as I ccould ould rremember, emember e ,I w aas going to building sites sites,, low-inc low-income o housing ome projects. pr ro ojects.”

Locally, Santaa Cr Cruz Mountains L ocallyy, in the Sant ruz Mount ains Los Gatos,, tin tiny just minutes south of L oss Gatos ny permitted—dot ccottages—not otttages—not all p ermitttted—dot the landscape. property fforested orested landsc o ape. One pr p operty owner yurt, circular dwelling propped built a yur t, a cir cular dw welling pr opped byy stilts on a hillside hillside.. Another Another,, who who’d up b A o’d byy Bob Bob,, cconstructed rather just go b on nstructed a 244-square-foot 24 4-square-ffoot cottage cotttage on o a dusty dustty overlooking plateau o verlo e oking rredwood edw wood fforests or o ests and, on a clear da day, shimmering ay, a shim mmering Monterey Bay. Monter ey Ba ay.

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Commit Committee o tttee on R Rules u ules meted no discipline, di iscipline, p perhaps erhaps b because ecause the p policies oliccies on n such b behavior ehaavior v ar aree intentionally vague. va ague.

In other inst instances, ances, Harmon said, R Rajappan shifted blame to other staffers st aff ffeers to aavoid vo oid C Campos’ ampos’ wrath. On One ne eexample x xample he ga gave ave included a sp speech eech he and an nd Rajappan had writ written ttten to together. getherr.

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Harmon rrecalled ecalled C Campos’ ampos’ rreaction: eactio on: “She “S She said, ‘I don don’t n’t ’ sa say ay ‘‘thank thank yyou. ou. o ’ I am a ap powerful owerful woman. The They ey thank me me!’” e!’”

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Campos Campos won a final term in the th he St State ate A Assembly ssembly in N November, oveember, allowing alllowing her to hold offic officee until th the he end en nd of 2016. Chanc Chances es ar aree she she’s ’s hiri hiring. ing.

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Last L ast week, Lic Liccardo’s cardo’s offic officee sent out an announc announcement ementt asking the public to vvolunteer o olunteer their theeir video feeds feeeds to police. police. The goal is to o assist an understaffed underst aff ffeed force fo orce with h burglary burglary investigations—a in nvestigations—a unit that has b been een disbanded to handle higher-priority higher-prioritty ccalls. alls. But not everyone everyonee in the SJPD shares enthusiasm. shar es Liccardo’s Liccardo’s enthu usiasm. As As previously pr eviously reported, reported, P Police o e Chief Larry olic Larry Esquivel Esquiv veel and his top ccommand o ommand st staff aff have ha ave often bristled in emails e at the direction dir ection from from civilian ci ilian bosses bosses at Cit City ty Hall. One of these ema emails ails discussed the security securit ty camera camera rregistry egistrry pr program. ogram.

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Aug. 19, 2014, Aug. 20 014, fformer o ormer assist assistant ant cit cityy manager Pam Pam Antil, who has sinc sincee left the cit city ty with a ssweet weet $10 $100,000 0,000 severance se verance deal, off offered ffeered to have haave an assistant assistan nt train offic officers ers on how to ac access cess th the he ssystem. ystem. Lt. Anthon Anthonyy Mata, Mat a head a, d of SJPD’s SJPD’s Research SJPD Resear e ch & Development De velopm ment Unit, Unit, fforwarded orwarded the o email to Chief C Esquiv Esquivel, el, A Asst. sst. Chief Eddie Garcia Garcia c and Deput Deputy ty Chief Da Dave ave Knopf, Knopf f, ask asking, king, “Who “Who’s ’s inter interested??” ested??”

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In the body body of the email, Knopf added, “J “Just ust sa saying. ayying.”

A sp spokesperson ok kes esperson ffor or the ma o mayor ayor o said aid those ccomments omm ments ar aree “all in the past past”” and Lic Liccardo cardo d is “f “focused focused on mo moving ving fforward. orwaard.” One o O kicking-andkicking-and-screaming screaming step at a tim time. me. JJust ust sa saying. aying y . —Josh —Joosh Koehn Koehn

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The seams of N Nora ora C Campos’ ampos’ ccarefully arefully curated publicc image ar aree unra unraveling aveeling at a garish pac pace. ce. A yyear eear after Met Metro tro first rreported eported that t the San JJose ose assemblywom assemblywoman man had lost ccontrol ontrol of her offic office—firing e—firing — emplo employees oyeees at an unpr unprecedented clip,, w wasting eceden nted clip aasting a half-million dollars halff-million do ollars ffor or cconstituent o onstituent services—a new source services—a ne ew sour ce has ccome ome forward details about fo orwaard with det d ails ab out the embarrassing st state affairs.. ate of affairs Steve Harmon, Bay Area Steve Harm mon, a fformer ormer Ba o ay Ar ea News Group spent News Gr oup rreporter eporter who sp ent 19 months wo working Campos’ orking as C ampos’ spokesman, interviews spok keesman, granted grranted inter views last week on the tumult t that has ttaken aken place behind doors. place b ehind closed c do ors.

Shown the do door d or in JJanuary, aanuarry, Harmon said that C Campos’ staff, amp pos’ chief of st taaff ff,, Sailaja Rajappan, in par particular, created p rtticularr, has cr reated e a “toxic” “hostile” environment “toxic” and “ho ostile” work en nvvironment in which a turnstile employees were turn nstile of emplo oyeees wer re unfairly blame blamed mistakes, ed ffor or mist o tak akes e , rroutinely outinely o berated public fired. berated in pub blic and eeventually veentually fir ed. A Bay Area News Group Baay Ar ea N ew ws Gr ro oup rreport ep e orrt noted that 46 emplo employees have worked Campos’ oyeees ha h ave work keed in C ampos’ officee in just ffour offic o yyears. our eears. San JJose ose Inside spoke Harmon about spok ke with Ha armon ab out his time in Campos’ officee in gr greater detail.

Campos’ offic reater e det taail. “[Rajappan] “[Rajappan [ j pp n]] runs that show show, w,” he said. “C “Campos amposs is absentee absentee.. This isn isn’t n’t ’ to absolve absolvve C Campos. amp pos. C Campos ampos enables it all.

But Sailaja run runs ns that shop shop,, and she is responsible responsible ffor orr the terrible low morale o morale..”

Harmon rrecalled eccalled se several veeral inst instances ances in which b both oth hC Campos ampos and Rajappan flew flew into fits of o rage rage.. In one inst instance, ance, Campos’ Campos’ actio actions ons led to an official complaint complaint b byy a ffellow eellow assembly member. member. U Unable n nab able to get R Roger oger Hernandez (D-West Covina) Hernandez ((D D-Weest C ovvina)) to meet ab about one bills,, C Campos out on ne of her bills ampos reportedly stormed officee and reportedly sto ormed into his offic berated staffers. berated one of o his st aff ffeers.

“It w was as a so hostile h and so intimidating that the girl ccomplained Roger o omplained to R oger and he filed a ccomplaint, om mplaint,” Harmon said.

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SILICON ALLEYS

Crazy Good Trash

LOST L OST WORLD WO R L D V Video ideo i M Mania ania went the way y of the dodo bird and most oth other her movie rental stores stores..

No N o pla place ace offered more e guilty pleasure pleasures es Mania than n the legendary Video Video i Mania BY B Y GAR GARY Y SINGH

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IITH CINEQUEST CINEQUEST upon us, n nearly us, the a anti-man-aboutneeds to t town shatter spacetime spa acetime and reflect on a legendary legendary San Jose Jose institution n that originally taught him m about movies. movies.

We’re about W e’re not talking t academic institutions, i institutions , PBS, PBS, Gill Cable, or even books. books.

We’re W e’re talking talkiing about Video Mania, the e greatest VHS movie rental renttal store in San JJose ose history. historry.

Way Wa ay back in the last half of thee earth-shattering ’80s, located ea arth-shatttering t ’80s, and lo cated d in n a ccookie-cutter ookie- cuttter t stripmall at thee northeast monolithic no ortheast ccorner orner of the monolith hic intersection in ntersection of Branham and Expressway, Video Mania A Almaden Expr essway, V iideo Man nia was, literally, a-maze-ing. w as, literally y, a-maze -ing. One ccould ou uld easily placee and wee ea asily get lost in the plac often Comprising stories— oft ften did. C omprising ttwo wo stories s— unheard storee at un nheard of ffor o or a video stor that time—Video th hat time —Viideo Mania ffeatured eeatured d thousands boxes stacked th housands of movie movie b oxes st acked d floor labyrinthine flo oor to cceiling eiling in a lab yrinthine setup, alleys which se etup, with alle ys going eevery very whi ich direction. was shangri-la di irection. It w as an eexotic xotic shangri i-la in n the middle of suburban wasteland America. a. w asteland Americ theyy sto stocked And the cked material no one Bay Area on ne else in the Ba ay Ar ea would was Video ccarry. a y. It w arr as at V iideo Mania that

I first disc discovered overed The Incr IIncredibly edibly St range Cr eatures Who St toopped Living Strange Creatures Stopped and Became Mixed-Up Z ombies o , the Zombies, ccelebrated elebrated Ra ay Denni Ray Denniss Steckler ab omination fr om 19 6 The 64. abomination from 1964.

Theyy also ccarried arried eeverything verything b byy Herschell Gor don L ewis, the “G Godfather of Gordon Lewis, “Godfather Gor e,” the one who sin nglehandedly Gore,” singlehandedly in nvented the splat ter flick. fl Stuff lik invented splatter likee Blo od Feast, Feeast, 2000 Maniacs, Maniiacs, The W iizard Blood Wizard of Gor e, and Color Coolor Me Blo B od R eed— Gore, Blood Red— V iideo Mania had ‘em all. I ccan an sa ay Video say with a high degr ee of cconfidence onfidence that degree V iideo Mania carried carried mor m or Video moree horr horror films than the entir ttotal al ccollections ollections entiree tot of most other video st tores at that stores time as fant astic. time.. It w was fantastic.

A on as one ente t red d the th Ass so soon entered est ablishment,, a stairway stairway to the right establishment, led up to the sec ond story, sttory, where where the second theyy k ept all the horr or stuff. stu uff ff. Worn Wo orn ’80s ’80s kept horror ccarpeting arpeting and ramshac ckle wo oden ramshackle wooden ok like like someone’s someone’s shelving made it lo look grandfather had built the plac placee out of his garage, garage, but countless countleess p osters and posters

all those mo m vie b oxes transf fo ormed movie boxes transformed the sc ene into i paradise scene paradise.. The original mo vie ccovers overs e sat on the shelf ffor o or movie an nyone to lo ok at, and then the ttapes apes anyone look themselv ess wer oxes themselves weree in plastic b boxes b ehind thee ccovers. overs. If the plastic b ox behind box w asn’t ther re, it meant someone had wasn’t there, alr eady che ecked it out. The customers already checked simply br o owsed until the o ound browsed theyy ffound a ffew ew filmss the anted,, and then theyy w wanted, br ought th he plastic b oxes with the brought the boxes ttapes apes down nstairs to the ccounter. ounter. The downstairs pric as usually u thr ee mo vies ffor o or pricee w was three movies thr ee da ayys ffor o or $9.9 9,, a smokin three days $9.99, smokin’’ deal.

“The w d eever ver “Theyy wer weree the first stor storee I’ I’d hear d of th hat actually rrented ented V CRs,” heard that VCRs, rrecalls ecalls A uggust Ragone ed August Ragone,, who work worked at V ideo i Mania M b effo ore going on to Video before an est ablish hed path as an author established apaneese monster mo and JJapanese vie eexpert. xpert. movie “The -stop shop. shop. A lot of “Theyy wer weree a one one-stop p eople rremember em member T o ower V iideo in the people Tower Video 19 80s, so th hat sticks in their minds 1980s, that minds,, b tp but eople le wer d i i a long l w ayys people weree driving ways to go to V iideo Mania. Ther Video Theree wer weree p eople ccoming om ming fr om Mount ain V iiew people from Mountain View and Fr emo ont. Bec ause [the stor e] Fremont.

Because store] would get multiple ccopies opies of an ny ne w any new mo vies tha at ccame ame out.” movies that Best of all, a , I ccould ould go in ther e, under there, the age of 18, 1 , and V iideo Mania would Video rrent ent me an ny R -rated horr or flick. any R-rated horror The ’tt seem to ccare. are. If I w anted Theyy didn didn’t wanted Dr tccherr, M.D aaws of Sat taan, Dr.r. But Butcher, M.D.. or J Jaws Satan, Iw aas h homee fr ffree. ee. IIn ffact,, m ie was myy entir entire knowledgee of b elow-budget Z -grade below-budget Z-grade atr ocities b egan with V iideo Mania. atrocities began Video Ev en th ough one of the owners Even though w as a dieh hard horr or fan, the stor was diehard horror storee also ccarried arried d an obsessiv obsessivee scienc sciencee fiction ccollection, olllection,, an entir entiree aisle of m ysterious k ung-fu stuff and tons mysterious kung-fu of JJapanese apanese and other fforeign o oreign films films..

A me, no one else sto cked Att that tim time, stocked Y oojimbo or Se ven Samurai Yojimbo Seven Samurai..

Older ge enerations ffondly o ondly rrecall ecall generations how the ode their bicy cles to go theyy rrode bicycles pick apric o fr ots om vast or chards in apricots from orchards the pr evious dec ades. W eell, I ffondly ondly o previous decades.

Well, rrecall ecall drivi ing m ty, b eat-up driving myy shit shitty, beat-up Datsun do own Branham L ane, past down Lane, a div ew vac ant lots and the divee 7-11,, a ffew vacant cultural Mec M ca of Or chard Supply Mecca Orchard Har dware, straight to V iideo Mania, Hardware, Video just so I ccould o ould snar opy of snaree a ccopy R eedneck Z ombies. That stor as the Redneck Zombies. storee w was Pr and. omised L Promised Land.

“It w aas li ike the Xanadu of video was like video,,” Ragone sa ays y . “It w as a this weir d plac says. was weird placee yyou ou went into iinto,, and onc o ou w alk a ed oncee yyou walked in,, yyou ou wer o re just st aggered b were staggered byy the magic of th his plac e, which w as in this this place, was tin ny strip mall, m , in a p ocket of San JJose ose tiny pocket that most p eople would ignor e.” people ignore.

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Funny Pages

Comics remain both relevant and marginalized

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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wish to make a complaint.

There are arre exceptions, exceptions, and I’ll try to to name them, but most mainstream ma ainstream media coverage coverage of o comics sucks the air out of the t room. And this in a time when the lively w medium needs ne eeds all the help it can get.

One of the bigger ccomic-bookomic-book kwas rrelated e elated stories of 2014 w as a a ccopy op py Action Comics off A ction i C oomics i #1 # selling lli ffor o or $2.3 Ebay. m million on Eba ay. Sadly, Sadlyy, the monsterr price first pr rice of this issue ccontaining ontaining the fir rst adventure Superman doesn’t trickle ad dvventur e e of Sup erman do esn’t tri ckle down.

You-Store-It lockers, crowded do own. Y ou-Store-It lo o ckers, cr owdeed w double ccellophane-wrapped with ellophane-wrapped 1990s hologram 19 990s holo gram ccollectable ollectable ccovers overs in i varying didn’t value.. va arying ccolors, olors, didn ’t rise in value

Right ab about out the tim time me of the San Diego Comic Comic Con Con in mid-July m -July ccame midame the h ne news ws that h A Ar Archie chie hi Andr A Andrews d ews w was as going to ccatch atch a fat fatal al bullet b ffor or o defending def feending his ga gay ay frien friend nd in issue #36 of Lif Life fe W With ith i Ar Archie. chie.

“We “W We will not be be rretconning etconning o [sic], rreversing eveersing or backtrackin backtracking ng on this stor story, y,” Archie Ar chie ccomics omics CEO JJon on n Goldw Goldwater waater told CNN rreporter eporter Henr Henryy Hanks.

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rank Cirocco, owner of Pop Daddy Vintage in Willow Glen, knows a thing or two about men in tights. For two decades he has been buying and selling comic books—along with a wide variety of 20th century pop culture memorabilia. But that’s not all.

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A graphic artist by trade, Cirocco drew for Marvel in the ’80s. Comics were the first thing he was ever really passionate about. “I would say comics are the thing that got me interested in almost everything else,” he says, adding that his love of comics played a major role in his decision to pursue a career in graphic design. That, the British Invasion and a general love of popular culture. “It’s are probably where it all started—I mean comics and music.”

But something changed when Cirocco started working for Marvel. His interest in buying and reading comics began to wane.

He says he was too busy drawing to actually enjoy the genre as a fan.He left the comic book giant and never really returned— perhaps, in part, because the comic book industry turned away from storytelling to focus on spectacle.

“Since about the mid- to late-’90s until now we did get further away from the story being the most important thing about a comic book,” Cirocco says. “Publishing companies got into big splashy pages.”

As a graphic designer and former comic book artist, he can appreciate the emphasis on imagery over story. However, as a former fan, Cirocco can’t see himself being drawn in by “characters draped across the pages.” He needs more than that.

“When it comes to comics, story is the foundation that everything else rests on,” Cirocco says. “I think there was a lack of that through the ’90s and the beginning of the 2000s.”

Comic book publishers pulled in impressionable boys with bright colors and explosions, and that might have held them through their teens with over-sexualized illustrations, Cirocco says. But adults won’t continue to read in large numbers unless the stories measure up to the art.

“When I started reading comics, I was quite young. I probably didn’t know the difference between a good story and a bad story when I was 10 or 12 years old,” he says. “But to keep people coming back, you have to deliver a quality product.”

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QUEEN FOR A DAY Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drag brunch will raise money for the annual Silicon Valley Pride Festival in August.

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ILICON VALLEY PRIDE is gearing up for the 40th anniversary of the event, which takes place late summer in downtown San Jose. To garner support for the annual festival, organizers are holding a series of fundraisers leading up to the main event. The Sweetheart Ball, one such function, took place over Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day weekend.

The next one takes place this Sunday, Feb. 22, at Mosaic Restaurant: the much-anticipated Silicon Valley Pride Drag Brunch.

For $20, brunchers will be treated to a brand new menu and a show featuring local drag queens and DJs. Bottomless mimosas cost another $10.

Diners are encouraged to dress in their ďŹ&#x201A;ashy ďŹ nest so they can get their portraits taken by photographer Lawrence McCrorey.

Featured entertainers include local favorites Mona Lot Moore, in full face a dead ringer for Cher, and Alina Malletti-Galore, a longtime mentor in the South Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drag community and perennial contestant in Miss Gay USofA. Money raised beneďŹ ts the Gay Pride Celebration Committee of San Jose, a nonproďŹ t that produces Silicon Valley Pride festival and has served the local LGBT community for more than four decades.

San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst gay rights rally took place in 1971. The following year, one of the ďŹ rst gay newspapers in the nation, Lambda News, began to promote the event. Within a few years, the annual pride festival in San Jose featured political speakers, dozens of community sponsors, live entertainment and a parade through downtown.

In 2014, organizers rebranded from San Jose Pride to Silicon Valley Pride, to give the event a more regional focus.

SILICON VALLEY PRIDE DRAG BRUNCH 11am-2pm Sunday at Mosaic Restaurant, 211 S. First St., San Jose. $20, tax and tip included. For more info: 408.282.8888.

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CHOICES CH OICES B BY: Y: Hernandez Briana H ernandez John Flynn ayton Stephen L Layton Veronin Nick V eronin e

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CRISTINA CRIS TIN NA V VALDÉS A ALDÉS CCRMA S Stage, tage, Stanford Stanford Wed, W ed, d 7:30pm, 7 30 Free F ee Fr This isn’t isn’t your gr a andad’s ““classical” classical” grandad’s Cristina Valdes music.. Pianist Cris stina V aaldes is committed to play playing ying the weird weird garde stuff—the influential, influeential, avant gar de difficultt composers and difficul compposers of the 20th century.

Valdes’ and 21st century y. For example: V aaldes’ pr ogram includess work program workss by Helmut explorer Lachenmann,, exp plorer of anticonventional inst instrumental rumental techniques Scelsi—who and Giacinto Scels si—who challenged the status quo byy composing work workss ffeaturing eaturing only onee pitch.. ““Quattro Quattro P ezzi su una notaa sola” sola” employs Pezzi various instrumen nts of diff ering instruments differing timbers and micr o otonal shifts to cr create eate microtonal a highly textur ed,, anticipation-building textured, piece, which leaves leavees the listener yearning ffor or a rresolution essolution that never comes. ItIt’s ’s sure sure too be a challenging

program. program. m. But whoever w said art iss supposed to be b easy? (SL)

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PABLO P ABLO EESCOBAR SCOBAR Caravan LLounge, Caravan ou unge, San Jose Thu, 9:30pm, 9:30pm m, Free Free With br breakneck eaknecck blast beats and blistering guitar guittar work,, it makes sense that San Jose’s Jose’s ’ newest grindcor grindcoree outfit would choosee to name themselves after a notorio notorious ous cocaine kingpin. puree Coming at youu like a blast of pur Colombian ma marching arching powder, powderr, P Pablo ablo Escobar brings brings the heat.. Combining elements of ggrind, rind,, d-beat punk and the black metal,, th he band deploys two throat-shredding thr oat-shreddding vocalists—El P Patron atron Bones—who and Bones— who take turns delivering guttural growls screeches, guttur al gr owls and banshee scr eeches, shreds while the rrest est of the band shr eds as dissonantly ffast ast and disso onantly as possible.. After

listening too tthe quintet quintet’s ’s hyper-violent en tunes,you’ll tunes, you’ll be left wondering whether Pablo Don P ablo gave you a taste of his sugar booger sug gar or socked you in the nose.. (NV)

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SAN JOSE SAN JO SE B BIKE IKE PARTY P ARTY A T Downtow Downtown wn San Jose Fri, 8pm, Free Free Scrapping Scr appingg plans for for the “Lenten Repentance Fasting, R epentance and AntiMasturbation” Masturba tion” ride, SSJBP JBP has decided oon n a Mardi Mardi Gras Gras theme gathering. ffor or their February F While disappointing disaappointing to the devout CCatholics atholics among us, this Fat Tuesday Tuuesday celebration celebr atioon (on a Friday) is bound to be more more fun than six weeks weeks of self-denial. self-denia al. But be warned: enjoying

anythin anything ing is a sin. n Oh well ... as long we’re as we ’rre all going to hell, we might as welll bust out the beads, the bike, brew, the br ew, and a mask that allows ffor ew or good peripheral p peripher al vision. A Ass they say in New Orleans, Orleans, laissez les bons temps rouler roulerr (let the good times rroll). oll). Check out sjbikeparty.org sjbbikeparty.org for for details. (SL) ( )

OZOMATLI O ZO MA AT TLI Fox Th Theatre, heatre, Redwood City Fri, 7pm, 7p pm, $24-$36 $24-$36 Over th he past 10 years,, the LLos os Angelesthe based Latin L rrock ock band Ozomatli has earned an international ffanbase anbase with fusion their fu usion of salsa,, jazz,, reggae, reggae,, hiphop an andd funk.. ItIt’s ’s no surprise.The SoCal SoCal seven-piece seven sevenpiece puts on a lively show— show keepingg audiences dancing with a multitude mul tituude of percussion percussion instruments, energetic ener getic horns and woodwinds, funkyy bass funk b lines,, scratchy scratchy guitars and pas passionate ssionate vocal perf performances. ormances.

On their theiir eighth rrelease, elease, Place In the Sun, thee gr group oup mixes upbeat ska sensibilities sensibi lities with pulsing dance music.

Ozomatli Ozoomatli ar aree joined at the Fox Theatre Theatre

by Bang B Data from from San Francisco Frraancisco and fellow felloow Angeleno,, Irene Irene Diaz.. (TC) (TC)

BLACK B LACK MAP MAP Bacck B Back Bar ar SoFa, San Jose $12 F i, 7pm, Fri, 7 Forr those who came of age listening alternative to 2000s-er 22000s-eraa heavy al ternative rrock, ock,, Back Bar SoFa is the place to Friday. be this Friday y. Headliners Black Map edg guitarist comprises com mprises fformer ormer Dr Dredg Mark Firee singer Ma rk Engles, The Trophy Trophy Fir Benn Flanagan,, and Far drummer Chris post-hardcore, Chr ris Robyn. Those post-har dcore, whirring effects weree wh irring guitar eff ects that wer Dredg’s thee centerpiece to Dr edg’s sound willl make you ache ffor or Y2K, Y2K while Flanagan’s Flan nagan’s polished vocals bring us back wheree singers bac ck into the 2010s, wher singg actual notes.. Also on the bill is Balancing B The Lion,, A.K.A.. Ryan Hernandez Her rnandez of SStrata. trata. What to expect: Think Thi nk of how Kings of Leon would sound sou und if they ever danced with Molly while Antarctica. wh ile listening to Antar ctica. (BH)

TRAILS TRAILS A AND ND W WAYS AYS Feb 20 at CCafe afe Stritch Stritch

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TESS TE SS D DUNN UNN Feb 211 at SStreetlight treetlight Records Records

JIM ADKINS ADKINS OF JIMMY EEAT AT W WORLD ORLD Feb 26 at CCafe afe Stritch Stritch

RACHEL R ACHELL M MAE AE & THE H HAVENS AV VENS Febb 28 at San nP Pedro edro Squar Squaree Market

WOBBLELAND W OBBLELAND Feb eb 28-Mar 1 at City National Civic

BOB B OB SSEGER EGER March Mar ch 5 at SAP SAP Center

CCHRIS HRIS B BROWN ROWN & TRE TREY Y SSONGZ ONGZ March Mar ch 6 at SSAP AP Center

WWEE H WW HALL ALL OF FFAME AME 2 2015 015 March M Mar ch 28 at SSAP AP Center

BLUE B LUE ÖYSTER ÖYSTER CULT CULLT March Mar chh 13 at RockBar Theater

PANDA P A ANDA BEAR BEAR April ril 15 at Co Cocoanut coanut Gr Grove ove Ballr Ballroom oom

BARRY B ARR RY M MANILOW ANILOW April 18 at SAP SAP Center

THE M MOODY OODY B BLUES LUES April 28 2 at City National Civic

CCRIMES RIMES OF OF P PASSION ASSION

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Oshman Center Oshman Center,r, P Palo alo A Alto lto o Sat, 5pm, $50-$65 People tr People train ain their entir entiree lives to master classical music. They wake up at dawn,, fforgo orgo their socia sociall lives, practice fingers aree and pr actice until their finger rs ar fixing to ffall all off off.. Alek Aleksey sey Igud Igudesman esman and Hyung-ki Joo belong to a special class of genius that has h conquered conquer ed this demanding music, m but make it look so easy thatt they most can workk hhumor iinto t th the mo stt llofty ft of compositions.. Seeking to unstuff u the image of classical music, these standards savants rrepurpose epurpose music sta ndards into brilliant mutants like “I Will W Survive” Sur vive” sung over a mash-u mash-upp of Mozart. The two met at the age a of 12 in the world-class YYehudi ehudi Menuhin Meenuhin

School in England and the their eir dual prowess pr owess in comedy and music m smackss of Harpo and Chic Chico smack co Marx. (JF)

RODDY R ODD O DY R RADIATION ADIA ATION Johnny V’s, V’s, San Jose S t 8pm, Sat, 8 $15 Roderick James,, better kn known own as Roddy Radiation, came to ffame ame during the punkish late ’70s in En England. ngland. His group, gr oup,, the Specials, would be the originators of the two-ton ne genr e, two-tone genre, bounce which combined the boun nce of ska with the grit of punk.. P Penning ennning and singing period classics likee “Concr “Concrete ete Jungle”” and “Br Jungle “Bragging agging andd TTrying rying r possessed Not TToo Lie,”” Roddy possess sed a stage pr presence esence that mixedd Jer Jerry ry Lee Lewis with Sid Vicious.. Although, Although,, the Specials would open ffor or th the he massive punk band, The Clash,, theyy would would soon split and James wou ld pursue projects. new pr ojects.. His most rrecent eccent musical direction dir ection has been leadingg the Skabilly genre-defying project Rebels, another genr e-deffying pr oject in this tr trailblazer’s ailblazer’s car career. eer. (JF)

LE TTER H LETTER HIGH, I IGH, CCOMMON OMMON WAR, WA AR, SSTAY TAY WILD D Homestead Bowl, Cupertino Cupertino u Feb 21, 8:30pm, p $10 0 If your prescription prescription ffor or punk rrock ock is running low, low w, get it refilled refillled with one show this weekend. Le Letter etter High may seem sunny and sweet s on their acoustic album, but thee San Jose poppunk outfit combine th that hat lighthearted disposition with some high-thr high-throttle, ottle, 2005-eraa Fall Out Boy riff riffage.

2005-er age.. SoCal SoCal Common War punk-metal band Com mmon W ar a will surely heaviest, sur ely provide provide the heav viest, darkest with sound of the night, wit h nods to Three Grace Th i andd Thr Thrice Th ee Days D Gr G ace (at ( t th their i hardest), har dest),, while SStay tay Wi Wild ld will keep nerdy it nice and ner dy with scr sscreeching eeching call-and-return call-and-r eturn vocals that will make you remember remember it’s it’s been been a while since you’ve blasted Blood Brothers’ B others’ ...Burn, Br Piano Island,, Burn. (BH (BH))

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March Mar ch 7 at Streetlight Streetlight Records Records

SSELECTED ELECTED SSHORTS HORTS Mayy 15 at Bingg Concert Hall, Stanford Stanford

DADA D ADA LIFE LIFE March Mar ch 116 6 at SJSU SJSU Event Center

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For those of you who w take the seriously, Oscars seriously y, this swanky swanky soiree aree looking soir ee is the partyy you ar ffor. or. True, True, r tickets aren’t ar a en’t cheap. But ffor or red red carpet jun junkies nkies and die har hardd Patrick Harris, ffans ans of Neil P atricck Har ris, the LLos os Gatos Theater’s Theater ’s first-ever fi Oscars Viewing P Party arty might might just be worth it. Watch Watch the Academy Acaddemy A Awards wards on screen while the big scr een wh hile eating and drinkingg in style. y Hors d’oeuvr d’oeuvres es provided will be pr ovided by b the Purple Onion Café Café and Lexington Lexington House’s House’s mixologists expert mixologist ts will be pouring libations. Each ticket ticcket holder will entered also be enter ed into in nto a rraffle affle for for free fr ee movie passe passess and fine art provided JCO’s. pr ovided by JCO’s s. (SL)

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CATTLE C AT TLE IIS ST THE HE C CURE UR E Allan Savory has a controversial hypothesis: tha that at more cows cows, s, not fewer fewer, r, will save the e grasslands from desertificati desertification. ion.

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HE IT IITALIAN TALIAN astronomer Galileo Gali ileo Galilei w was as famously fam mously convicted of heliocentric heli ocentric blasphemy. blasphemy.

He was sentenced H ew as sen ntenced to house arrest where wherre he remained death until his de eath in 1642.

Ignaz Semm Semmelweis, melweis, a Hungarian doctor who pioneer p ed work on doctor pioneered bacteria and antiseptic a pr ocedures, procedures, h d it worse had H clashed l h d with ith the th worse.. He medical medic al est establishment ab blishment that didn didn’t ’t w ant to b old to w ash their hands want bee to told wash hands..

He went insa insane, ne, b believed elieved in par partt due to his banishm ment b ctors who banishment byy do doctors ejected his work. rrejected w He w was as ccommitted ommitttted to an as ylum wher 65 asylum wheree he died in 18 1865 after a se vere b eating at the hands severe beating

off guar guards. ds. In a sad ir irony, on ny, he died of o gangrene. ga angrene.

Biologist Savory doesn’t face Biolo gist Allan Sa avo ory do esn’t fac ce incarceration, in ncarceration,, but he he’s ’s b been een subjecte subjected ed plenty scorn belief to o plent ty of sc orn ffor o or his b elief that liv veestock,, lots of them,, ar e’s livestock, aree the glob globe’s only on nly hop hopee to rroll oll back the interr interrelated elatted crises biodiversity loss,, deser desertification cr rises of bio diversitty loss tificattion and an nd climate change change..

“I jokingly sa say ay ‘thank ‘thank Go God dIw was as a insane in nsane 50 yyears eears ago ago,,’” he says. saayys.

He’s spending days California He ’s sp ending 10 da ayys in C aliffor ornia to o get his message out,, including an appearance ap ppearance in Mount Mountain ain V View iiew F Feb. eb b.

233 as par partt of the P Peninsula eninsula Op Open en Space Trust’s Wallace S Sp pace Trust T ’s (POST) (POST) W Wallac ll e Stegner S gner Steg lecture le ecture series series..

Fifty F ifty yyears eears ago is when the Zimbabwean Z imbabwean biologist biologist b began egan his hi is inquir inquiryy into the ccauses auses of desertification de esertification and habit habitat at loss in Africa.

A Afric a. His cconclusion? onclusion? R Removal eemo ovval of livestock liv veestock from from the land has hastened, hastened,

not rreversed eveersed its decline decline.. The solution, he sa ayys, is mor vesto e ck, c , mainly ccattle. attttle. says, moree liv livestock, “W We have haave no option left but the “We use animals saayys. “There “T There isn’t isn’t an animals,,” he says. alternativ ve.” alternative.

Dr ought is eexacerbating xacerbatting Drought desertification, that’s deser tification,, a condition condittion that ’s par ticularly acute in C a fo alif ornia,, he says. saayys. particularly California, “The only thing that ccan a save an saave California Califfo ornia fr om all these dr oughtss it ’s facing is from droughts it’s liv vesto e ck. There There isn n’’t anything an nything y else. livestock. isn’t else.

Some scientist needs to o show us wher wheree we’re we ’re wr wrong. ongg.”

Globally y, Savory Saavory sa ayyss, her d animals Globally, says, herd onc numbered in the billions oncee numbered billions.. These animals cluster ed in gr oups to guar d clustered groups guard against pr edators and then t mo oved on. predators moved All that clustering awing w , munching clustering,, pa pawing, and dung dr opping w a the ccatalyst as atalyst dropping was ffor o or an ny numb er of biol logical functions any number biological that h pr omoted d wildlif ildliffe, plant l gr owth, h promoted wildlife, growth, w aater retention, retention,, and a ccooler ooler climate water climate..

A peared the Ass these animals disapp disappeared earth ear th has suff suffered, ffeered,, he sa ssays. ayys. Pr Properly operly managed,, the rreintroduction eintrodu uction of liv veestock ccan an rrevitalize evitalize ec osystems livestock ecosystems b e-wiild her ds byy mimicking onc once-wild herds of ungulates and b beating eatin ng back

desertification threatens deser tificattion that thr eatens ttwow wothirds the thir ds of th he planet. planet “We “W We have haave no option left but the use animals,,” h says. won’t animals he sa ayys. “Technology “T Teechnology won ’t save us.. It It’s failing..” sa ave us ’s all failing Sa avory has h b een praised as a Savory been visionar a writ ttten off as a visionaryy and written pr ofitt-seekiing charlatan. charlatan. “There’s “There’s profit-seeking no such th hing as a b eeff-eating thing beef-eating en nvir v onmeentalist,” wrote wrote JJames ames environmentalist, McW William i ms on Slate .com.

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Sa avory says sayys the pushback against Savory his work iss par al pattern pattttern partt of a historic historical and a failur re to understand understand his work. failure “Ev ery time tim me some scientific insight has “Every ou ccome ome ab ut that is ccounterintuitive ounterintuitive or about that go es against a the b eliefs of society societty goes beliefs yyou ou always alw wayyss get this b ehaavvior,” he says saayys behavior, fr om his ho ome in C olorado wher from home Colorado wheree he heads the Sa S avo ory Institute Savory Institute..

Sa avory has h influenc ed a gr owing Savory influenced growing numb er off ranchers and farmers number who rregard egard him as the intellectual champion of pastur e-based, -based, grassfed grassffeed pasture-based, animal hus sbandry. husbandry.

Daniel Olstein, O , POST’s POST’s vice vice pr esident ffor o or land stewardship, stewaardship, says saayys president his or ganizzation do es not fformally o ormally organization does endorse Sa avo ory’s work but he has Savory’s seen the b e enefits of grazing on POS Tbenefits POSTpr otected pr p operty in the fform orm o of protected property mor eren nnial grasslands which in moree p perennial turn incr eaases ccarbon arbon in the soil. increases One of Sa S avory’s k ey messages is a Savory’s key ccounterintuitive ounterinttuitivve one: rresting esting land is highly dest tructive. Grass that do esn’t destructive. doesn’t get munch hed b munched byy animals dries dries,, dies and oxidize es, a process process that rresults esults in oxidizes, deser tificattion. desertification.

Sa avory sa ays y institutions and Savory says go overnmen e nts ha ave b een rreluctant eluctant governments have been to heed hiss message because histor message,, because historyy shows the ey ar apable of leading they aree not ccapable leading.. A shift in pub blic opinion must ccome ome first. public “L eadership p ccannot annot eever ver ccome ome fr om “Leadership from p oliticians liti i ,” he h sa ayys mat ttter off ffactly tly. politicians, says matter factly.

“It ccannot annot ccome ome fr om univ ersities or from universities ccattlemen’s attttlemen n’s asso ciations. The leadership associations. ccan an only ccome o ome fr om p eople.” from people.

W ord is spr o eading. He sa ayys his Word spreading. says holistic gra asslands management grasslands aree b being techniquess ar eing practiced practiced on more more million acres than 50 mi illion acr es on six ccontinents. ontinents.

“It’s spread through “It ’s spr e thr ead ough individual farmers raanchers, pasturists who see farmers,, ranchers, that it mak kes sense ’s practical practical makes sense,, that it it’s and d the h y se ee the h land l d rrecover. ecover.” they see MON

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*stage TUESDAYS TUE SDAYS WITH MORRIE MORRIE The autobiogr autobiographical aphical story from of a one-time visit fr om an accomplished journalist to an professor eccentric fformer ormer college pr ofesssor master that turns into a weekly maste er life. course on the meaning of lif e.

Theatre $15-$38.. Jan 30-Feb 22. Theat tre Pedro on SSan P edr d o Squar SSquare. e.. San S Jose JJose. e.

BUILD A Fer Ferrari-driving rari-driving workaholic an and nd grounded artist a widowed,, but gr ounded artis st aree working on a sequel to the their ar eir smash-hit video game when an a interest artificially intelligent love inter est process. complicates the pr ocess.. Jan 22-- Feb 22.. $17 $17-$32.

Lights 22 -$32.. City Light ts Company.

Theater Company y. San Jose.

EURYDICE EUR YDICE The classic myth of Orpheus and a through Eurydice is rreimagined eimagined thr ouggh heroine the eyes of the her oine as shee Underworld, navigates the Under world, rreunites eunites with her beloved ffather, athher, and learns the unbending rreality eaality of death.. Jan 1717- Feb 24.

24.. $17-$42. $17-$ $42.

Palo Alto Palo Alto P alo Al to Players.. P alo Al to

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

CCamera amera 4, San Jose.

MAPLE AND VINE Exhausted by the rigors of life, aree modern lif e,, KKatha atha and Ryu ar gregarious 1950s convinced by a gr egarious 195 50s rreenactor eenactor to give up ““sushi sushi andd cigarettes cellphones ffor or cigar ettes and 29-Feb TTupperware uupperware parties.”” Jan 29-Fe eb Theater.. LLos 22.. $18-$28 Bus Barn Theater os Altos Altos.

Al tos Stage Stage g Company.

Company p y. LLos os Al toos.

SUNDAY IN THE PARK SUNDAY PARK GEORGE WITH GE ORGE Stephen Sondheim’s Stephen Sondheim’s TTonyoonywinning musical ffollows ollows thee century-apart struggles of Georges Seurat, pointillism Geor ges Seur at, the pointill ism master,, and his artist gr grandson master anddson searches in their sear ches ffor or artisticc meaning and love. Thru Ma Marr 8. $12-$32.

Theatree aat $12 -$32. LLohman ohman Theatr Altos Foothill College. LLos os Al tos Hills.

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THE LITTLE MERMAID JR JR. R. Journey “Under the Sea” Sea” in this Disney classic about an aquatic princess who yearns for for the handsome, land-dwelling Prince Eric iss performed different perf ormed by two diff erent children. casts of childr en. Thru Mar 8.

Theatre. $15-$35. Sunnyvale Theatr e e.

BETRAYAL BETRA AYAL David Pinter Pinter’s ’s 197 1978 8 masterpieces tackles a seven-year aff affair air in nonchronological chr onological order order exposing the web of betrayal betrayal between all involved. Thru Feb 22. $25Avenue $30. The Pear Pear A venue Theatre.

Theatre.

View..

Mountain View

VENUS IN FUR A playwright cannot find the perfect perf ect actress actress to star in his erotic adaption of the er otic power exchange novel ““Venus Venus in Fur.” Fur.” The auditioner is completely wrong wr ong for for the part except for for her perfect perf ect understanding of the character. char acter. Soon,, the line between rreality eality and fiction blurs. Thru Mar 1.. $42-$50. $42-$50. The San Jose SStage. tage.

*concerts *c oncerts DAYDREAM D AYDREAM Y NATION NA AT TION San P Pedro edro Square Square Market hosts its monthly last Saturday, alternative Satur dayy, al ternative concert.

Free.

Pedro Fr ee. San P edro Square Square Market.

San Jose.

MUSIC A AT T THE MARKET

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METROACTIVE.COM METR OACTIVE.COM ffeatures eatures the museum’s museum’s rrecent ecent acquisitions including prints Warhol Wayne

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

Thiebaud. Thru Mar a.

SSAN AN JOSE MUSEUM OF AR ART T “Momentum,”Thru Feb 22.

Painting “Sleight of Hand”” P ainting and Illusion. Thu Feb 22. “City Limits, City Life” Life”Thru Jun 14. Tue-Sun, Tuue-Sun, 11am-5pm,, closed Mon.. San Jose.

TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM OF AR ART T KKatherine atherine Arnold “The Impact of Language.” Joyce McEwen Crawford Cr awford “Metamorphosis.”

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

GALLERIES ART AR T ARK GALLER GALLERY Y “Cross Polination,” “Cross Polination,”” ffeaturing eaturing Faculty the work of Facul ty from from Silicon Valley’s V aalley’s 6 Community Colleges.

Mar 6-April 4th. San Jose.

ART AR T BOUTIKI Monthly Midtown Beat Show Show..

San Jose.

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

Case. San Jose.

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.

Squar

GALLERY GALLER Y HOUSE

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WHERE ANGEL ANGELSS FEAR TO T O TREAD A tense collision of cul cultures tures occurs when a rich Englishwoman proper goes against her pr oper families families desires desir es and falls falls for for a broke, broke,, but dashing Italian.. $50-$120.. Feb 77-22.

-22.. Opera Opera San Jose.

“Meeting P Point” oint” Kyoko Kyoko Fischer.

Fischer.

Palo Alto.

Thru Feb 28. P alo Al to.

“5th Chicano/a Biennial” rreflects eflects on the critical edge interventions and aesthetic inter ventions contemporary within contempor ary Chicano art. Dec 5- Mar 14. San Jose.

MONTALVO MONT ALVO AR ARTS TS CENTER “Possibilities of Paper” “Possibilities Paper ” LLucas ucas Artist Fellows contribute 40 works. work s. Starts Starts Feb 27.

277. Saratoga.

Saratoga.

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PACIFIC P ACIFIC AR ART T LEA LEAGUE GUE

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PALO P ALO AL ALTO TO AR ART T CENTER

CANTOR CANT OR AR ARTS TS CENTER “Loose in Some Real Tropics” “Loose Tropics”

by Robert Rauschenber Rauschenberg’s g’s “Stoned projects from “S toned Moon” Moon” pr ojects fr om 1969-70.

196970. Thru Mar 16. SStanford. tanford.

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

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

San Jose.

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

“Keep “Keep Calm Calm and Collect On” On”

““Abstractions”.

A Abstractions”. Thru Feb 26.

Palo Alto.

P alo Al to.

“Hear This.” discovers the artistic potential of sound.

Palo Alto.

Thru Apr 12. P alo Al to.

SAN JOSE INS SAN INSTITUTE TITUTE OF ART CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY AR T “Somebody Else’s Else’s Prints Prints”” Bruce Connors. Thru May 16.

Hazeltine.

Rebecca Hazel tine. Thru Apr 17.

177.

San Jose.

ZERO ZER O 1 GARA GARAGE GE "Origins Of Life" Life" by Adam Brown Brown Berenstein and Robert Root Ber enstein combines art and science in an investigation of some influential U of Chicago experiments in the 1950s. Thru Mar 27.

277. San Jose.

ART

Bits and Beauty IF MATHEMATICIAN and computer scientist Maria Klawe learned one thing while battling her way up through the ranks of the male-dominated fields of academia and high tech, it’s that it doesn’t pay to stand out—at least not until you’ve earned your stripes.

She learned that lesson as a graduate math student at the University of Alberta, after putting on a small exhibit of her artwork.

“I was already weird because I was female,” she says, recalling her experience working toward a math PhD in the mid-’70s. “And, it felt like being an artist as well was too much weirdness for my career to tolerate.”

And so she decided to keep her artistic ambitions a secret for another 15 years. She finally threw herself a “coming out” party for her 40th birthday—displaying some of the best work she’d been keeping secret.

Maria Klawe Feb 26, 7:30pm, Free CSMA, Mountain View arts4all.org

“After people begin to believe that what you contribute is valuable, then the fact that you have this other weird stuff about you is actually a plus, not a minus,” Klawe says, explaining that by the time she’d turned 40 she felt she had sufficiently established herself as a mathematician.

Since then, she’s only grown in stature. She’s been a department manager at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, served as Dean of Engineering at Princeton, and in 2006 Klawe began her tenure as the first female president of Harvey Mudd College. And yet, she says, “The vast majority of people who know me as a computer scientist, probably don’t know I’m a painter.”

She hopes to spread the word of her passion for painting over the next two months with an exhibit of her watercolors—on display at Mountain View’s Community School of Music and Arts through March 29. Klawe will discuss the intersection of art and science in a Feb. 26 talk—“My Double Life: From Artist to Mathematician and Back”—at the CSMA Klawe approaches her art as a mathematician—seeking out patterns and complex structures. “I like to find the abstractions in things that are natural,” she says.

Recently, she’s tapped into the organic forms of snow-laden trees, a swirling flock of terns, and the sprawling Ganges River delta, creating vibrant, whimsical compositions that enhance the inherent beauty of her subjects.

For Klawe, math and art are similar pleasures. “In both cases, it’s not something that happens overnight, it’s many hours of work,” she says. “You’re exploring things, you’re trying things, and then usually something cracks, and you start to see a path.”— John Flynn

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ART AND ALGORITHM Maria Klawe is a painter, mathematician and scientist. Her painting, ‘Snow, Trees and Shadows,’ is one of many on display at the Community School of Music and Arts.

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Grand Finale

SWAN SW A N SONG SONG G Bill R Rohan ohan (Callum T Turner) urner) and a Ophelia (T (Tamsin amsin Egerton) embrace Country,’ Boorman film.. in ‘King and Country y,’, which John Boorma n has said will be his last film

Directtor John Boorman Director Boorm man will be honored honorred and screen n his final year’ss Ci Cinequest film at a this year’ inequest BY B Y RICHA RICHARD ARD VON VON BUS BUSACK ACK

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HE THRILLIN THRILLING, G, dangerous dan ngerous visions of British Brit tish director John John Boorman Boo orman include some of the most mosst distinctive films of the last half of the 20th century.. century In P Point ooint Bla Blank ankk (19 (1967), 67),, the rrock-faced ock k--faced L ee Mar vin p rowls a p op-art C aliffo ornia.

Lee Marvin prowls pop-art California.

Bo orman n’s hitt Deliv erance (1972) is Boorman’s Deliverance one of the defi finitivve statements statements of definitive Americ an fan ntasies of violence. violence. Zardoz Zarrddoz American fantasies (197 74 4) is au ccourant ou urantt enough to b (1974) bee the subject of a full-sized fu ull-sized Burning Man

effi effigy—there, ffiggy— —there, inside the Pla Playa-clay ayya-claay cranium cr ranium of Zardoz, Zardoz,, a one-couch one-couch ccapacity a apacit y theater played plaayeed the 1974 19774 film m in n an endless loop. loop. Boorman’s Boorman’s laterr w work is just as vital: vital: the multi-Oscar multi-Oscar a nominated Hopee and Glory (1987), n ominated Hop Glorry (19 87),, the t ripping Beyond ri ipping adventure adventure Be eyyond Rangoon Rango a on (1995) beat the (1 1995) b eat The Hunger Games to th he pu punch unch and is one of P Patricia atricia Ar Arquette’s queetttte’s best films.. Le farce b e films est Le Carre Carre meets far ce in Th T The Tailor aailor il off Panama (20 (2001), 01),, and d th the h he nimble, entertaining ni imble, ridiculously enter taining The T G General (19 (1998) 98) is one of the finest films fi about Ireland. eever ver made ab out Ir eland.

Bo Boorman orman op opens ens this yyear’s ear’s 2 25th 5th annual an nnual Cinequest film ffestival eestival with h Country.

Q Queen and C oounttry. The ffestival eestival willl also director, al lso honor the dir ector, along with h

actress Rosario Dawson, actr ess R o osario Da aw wson n,, with the Maverick Award.

Ma averick Spirit A waard. d Via telephone,, Bo Boorman V iia telephone orrman claims this Hopee and Glor Glory bee his sequel to Hop ry will b aree tr trying last film,, though criticss ar ying to otherwise.

“I’vee b been wisse. “I’v cconvince on nvvince him other een encouraged another one—I’m enc ouraged to do anot ther one —I’m says.

Clint Eastwood 82,” he h sa ayys. “I “ think hi k Cl llint li East wood Oliveira is 84,, and Manuel de Oliv O veeira is 100-something 10 0-something years yeears old. o That makes makes chicken. me a spring chick keen.”

I’d Sniper I’ d sswap wap American Sn niperr ffor o or Queen Country minute— and C oounttry in a fast minute m — discarding Eastwood’s movie-derived disc arding East wood’s mo ovie v -derived military life idea of milit ary lif fe in fa ffavor avor of the fresher, anecdotes Boorman’s fr esher, wiser anec dotees of Bo orman’s National Service. own stint in the Natio nal Ser vice.

Boorman’s surrogate, Rohan Bo orman’s surr ogatee, Bill R o ohan (Callum Turner), praying likee hell (C allum T urner),, is pra ayying lik bee shipp shipped fight not to b ed to fig ght in the Korean War.. On base base,, he K orean War h deals with sardonic officers: Richard sar donic offic ers: Richa ard E. Grant and David Thewlis Boorman Da avvid The wlis among them. Bo orman being Boorman, b eing Bo orman,, the women w in the aree loaded with p personality: film ar e ersonalit ty: Dawn Rohan Bill’ss wild Da aw wn R o ohan as Bill’ w sister and

Tamsin Egerton self-destructive T aamsin Ege erton as the self f-destructive upper-class Rohan upp err-class student R o ohan rromances. omances.

Likee R Rohan, Boorman was Lik o oh han,, Bo orman w as indeed charged with from char ged wit th “Seducing a Soldier fr om Duty. boy was His Dut y.” “This “ b oy w as the son of Ian Mikardo, prominent Labor MP— Mik ardo, a pr ominent L abor MP — having myy lectur lectures, after ha avvingg listened to m es, decided wasn’t the son dec cided he w asn’t going to go Korea, Boorman says.

“Mikardo to K orea,” Bo B orman sa ays y . “Mik ardo threatened matter thr eatened to raise the mat ttter in Parliament. was scandal.

P arliament. It w as a a big sc andal.”

Boorman Romania, sincee Bo orman n filmed in R o omania,, sinc period Army h ccouldn’t he ouldn ld ’tt find fi dap erio i d British B iti h Arm A my shoot however, riverside base to sho o in; howe ot ver, the riv erside Shepperton house at Sh hepperton is an eexisting xisting location, not from spot wheree lo cation,, no ot far fr om the sp ot wher Boorman lived was Bo orman li ived when he w as a yyoung o oung escapee London Blitz. esc apee of the t L ondon Blit z. There There he watched movies being w atched mo ovies b eing filmed at the nearbyy stud studio.

Seventy later,, it it’s nearb dio. Se venty yyears ears later ’s byy the Tham Thames Boorman indicates b mes that Bo orman indic ates closing.. ““At his ccareer areer iss closing At the end of Country, Queen and C ount o ry, yyou ou see a ccamera amera down—it’s myy signal winding i di do d own—it i ’s m i l to the h myy last mo movie. world that this t is m vie.” noteworthy After a note n worth hy ccareer areer in TV, Boorman worked British TV V, Bo B orman work keed on a documentary D.W. do cumentar a y on D .W W. Griffith. Both (1968) Hell in the Pacific P (19 68) and LLeo eo the LLast ast weree inf informed (1970) wer formed o with a silent aesthetic.

Boorman’s film aesthet tic. Bo orman’s studies of the impact of the silent cinematic may have helped make image ma ay ha ave help ed mak ke the penultimate Deliverance p enultimatte shot in Deliv veerance powerful enough bee stolen b byy p owerful en nough to b films.. It It’s dozens of films fi ’s a surprise cut to shocking a sho cking image iimage,, after eeverything verything peaceful seems p eaceful e and rresolved: esolvved: e a dead thrusting water. arm thrusti ing out of the w aater. The graveside finale Carrie gra aveeside fin nale of C aarrie (1976) ccopied opied popup mandatoryy it; a last p op pup is now mandator horror “Jon Voight’s in eevery ver e y hor rror film. “J on V oight o ’s nightmare, Boorman nightmar e,” Bo orman eexplained, xplained, “is that the b body ody of the man he killed will surface betray ccome ome to thee sur face and b etraay him.

Arthurian That imagee ccomes omes out of Ar thurian legend,, and d I used it in Excalibur—the Lady Lake.

This,, to arm of the L ady in the L ake. This me,, is an im image me mage of an idea ccoming oming out unconscious. of the unc o onscious .“ Boorman was great admirer Bo orman nw aas a gr eat admir er of the Deliverance author,, JJames writing of Deliv D veerance author ames Dickey.

“We wonderful Dick ey. “W We had wonder ful times together, Boorman says. to gether,” Bo B orman sa ayys. “But he had view a macho vie ew of how the eexperience xxperience river Voight on the riv ver er made the V o oight character view was didn’t into a man.. My vie ww as a that it didn ’t do that all,, that it actually diminished him.

“When I first met Dick Dickey, key, he said ‘I’m going to t tell yyou o ou something that I’vee ne never told Everything I’v ver to old a living soul. Ev ver e ything book happened me..’ in that b ook o happ ened to me was shock!

Dickey “I w as in sho ck! Dick key made me

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Now No w Pla Playing ayyingg KINGSMAN: KINGSMAN: SECRET SERVICE THE SE CRET SER RVICE (R, 129 min.) Cinem Cinema ma at long last from discovers chavs: working w from Dave Millar’s Gibbons and Mark Millar ’s comic Matthew Vaughn book series, Matth hew V aughn (KickAss) generation A ss) gives us the new n gener ation group of spy film. A gr oup of upper-class spymasters with Arthurian A code names drills and polishes p a series Burberry-clad of Burber ry-clad LLondon ondon louts.

(Unpreviewed.

Opens (Unpr eviewed Ope eviewed. ens valleywide.) valleywide ) (RvB)

SHE’S BEA BEAUTIFUL UTIFU UL ANGRY WHEN SHE’S AN GRY

JJOHN OHN B BOORMAN OORMAN The T British director of ‘Deliveran ‘Deliverance’ nce’ and honored year’s film ‘Zardoz’ will be hon nored at this year’ ’s Cinequest fil lm festival.

Zaardoz is Boorman’s Boorman n’s Zardoz 239 93,, the wildest vision. In 2393, immortality of a ffew ew has immortality b ought br h on sterilit ili y and d brought sterility o or the wo orld. barbarism ffor world.

It’s such a straight-faced straight-faaced It’s satire that many many of the t time satire didn’t get it. Boorman Boormaan w as didn’t was inspired by

by G.B. G.B. Shaw’s Shaaw w’s Back inspired to Methuselah.

Methuselah. “I w as vvery ery to was w I frightened of death when was yyoung, o oung, and I obs serveed was observed oor o were were the rich and the p poor becoming far ther ap part; the becoming farther apart; were getting getttting richer richer and rich were acccess to living longer with access modern medicine. medicine. I guessed modern ojecteed that that if I just pr projected e, medicine med dicine into the futur future, vercome thee dec ayying would o overcome decaying odyy, and I wo ondered of the b body, wondered happen n.” what would happen.

The film pr oposed d cr ystal proposed crystal data information, inffo orrmation, storage of data ome to pass p sinc e. which has ccome since. aardoz’s ccomedy om medy Much of Z Zardoz’s e of es eluded the audienc audiences even thoug gh the the time time,, even though magician n//prankster Ar A thur magician/prankster Arthur Fraayyn explains explains his purpose pu urpose Frayn eginning of the t at the b beginning dressed d in a film. Though dressed burnt-orange dhoti sstar ar Sean burnt-orange dhoti,, st

Connery clearly underst u ands Connery understands satirical side of o the mo ovvie the satirical movie he’s in. “Sean was was a ffearless eearless he’s actor—within i hi his his range h ’d he actor—within range,, he’d an nyything,” Boorman Boorman o saayys. do anything, says. anyo one mistaken miistaken the Had anyone sc owling b earded head of scowling bearded Zardoz ffor o or Karl Marx?

M “When Zardoz was a about about to open op pen in it was France, some journalists jourrnalists ask ed France, asked a a satire as satire me if indeed it w was ommunism,, and a I said it of C Communism, wasn’t. The as wasn’t.

Theyy wer weree afraid I w was ttheyy asked ask keed lying to them, so the e st er ating me to sign a pap paper stating wasn’t taking takin ng the piss that I wasn’t out of Karl Marx. alll fr om “I just got a ccall from Fox,, and they’re they’re doing d the Fox, restoration of Z aarrdoz d in restoration Zardoz preparation ffor o or a Blu-Ra ay preparation Blu-Ray issue. I was was surprised surprised to learn issue. all th here w as ffor o or how much ccall there was movie—as it ’s said,, m the movie—as it’s myy om fa ailure to film went fr from failure ver passing classic without eever through suc cess.” through success.

(unrated, 92 min.) Mary (unrated, M Dore’s Dore’s invaluable entertaining, invalu uable documentary women’s liberation ’s lib on the women beration movement 1970s.

Interviewees: of the 1960s and 19 970s. Inter viewees: cartoonist TTrina rrina Robbins, Robbins, historian Brownmiller, Susan Br ownmillerr, the poet and Alta publisher Al ta and writer Rita Brown, welll as a 40th Mae Br own, as wel rreunion eunion of the Boston Boston Woman’s Woman’ss Health Heal th Book Collective, Collecctive, whose Our Bodies, Ourselves jjust ust came out in wealth a 9th edition. A we alth of vintage demonstrate yesterday’s atte yester visuals demonstr day’s mansplaining—a male newscaster cluckss his of the day cluck h tongue at all protest “50 this pr otest even “5 50 years since we vote.”

It’s gave them the vote e.”” It ’s inspiring oots of today’s struggles to see the rroots women’s health, care, ffor or women ’s heal thh, child car e, gay equality—even it’s rights and equality y—even if it ’s lamentable seeing how much work goes into making seemingly s selfself evident evident ffacts acts evide ent to the world. whitewashing inter-group Never whitewashin ng the inter-gr oup fighting that went on, Dore’s Dore’s film opposes the stereotyping stereootyping of ffeminists eminists group humorless as a gr oup of humo orless manhaters housewives. and upper-class ho ousewives. Linda Black Burnham of the Bla ack Sisters Union confrontation describes her own confr ontation with urban rradicals adicals whoo ffelt elt women should bearing be back home bear ring little soldiers

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Revolution. comedy, street ffor or the Revoluti ion. And comedy y, str eet weree all part theater and rrock occk music wer effort of the eff ort to educate a population.

There’s wealth heree and Ther e’s a weal th of material her Doree condensess it admir admirably.

Dor ablyy. And makes it certainly mak kes sharp counterprogramming pr ogramming ttoo 50 Shades…

(Opens Feb 13 iin n San Jose at CCamera amera (RvB)) Cinemas.) (RvB

SEVENTH SE VENTH SON N (PG-13, 120 min (PG-13, min.) n.) Ser Sergie gie Bodr Bodrov ov (who directed directed the t TTolstoy olstoy o adaptation Prisoner of the Mountains) leads and Mooree in Jeff Bridges an nd Julianne Moor an adaptation d t ti off Joseph J h Delaney’s D l ’ Apprentice.

The Spook’s Ap pprentice. Ben Barnes has the title rrole ole as a battler against Unpreviewed. medieval evil. Unpr U eviewed. (Opens (RvB) valleywide.) (Rv vB)

TIMBUKTU TIMBUK TU (PG-13, 97 min.

(PG-13, min.).) Abder Abderrahmane rahmane Sisko’s drama Sisko ’s dr ama about a the occupation of the ancient African A city by Islamic modern-day Is lamic puritans, eager to fforce orce sharia law on the citizens.

Unseen by our rreviewers. eviewers. (Opening att CCamera amera 12 iin n San S Jose.)

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A MOS MOST T VIOL VIOLENT ENT YEAR (R;; 125 min.) Ur Urgent g yet simmering: gent Miller-style moral Arthur Miller-st yle mor al accounting mixed with the kind of strippeddirector down car and ffoot o chases dir oot ector J-P. J-P P. Melville excelled excelled at. Set in a discontented winter winter of jaundiced light and low sun, suun,, it’s it’s a look at the NYC’s home heating oil o rracket acket during NY C’s crime-wracked most crime-wr a acked days in the early 1980s.. Hijackings, Hijackinggs,, fixes and beatings weree part of thee ter territory. wer ritoryy. Oscar Abel Morales, Isaacs plays Abe el Mor ales, the most legitimate member mem mber of a ffamily amily with criminal rroots. oots. He’s H ’s trying to keep his He while hands clean wh ile acquiring a riverside storage stor age ffacility, acilityy, even as government aree trying rregulators egulators and unseen u rivals ar down. to take him dow wn.. Albert Brooks Brooks excels consiglieri as the baleful co onsiglieri keeping an can’t eye on Morales.

Morales.. Jessica Chastain can ’t

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promise not to tell an promise anybody, nyyb bodyy, so of ccourse ourse I ccouldn’t ouldn’tt wait wait to tell someone someone.. I pulled d the production aside pr oduction manager as ide and me,, ‘Jim he told me ‘Jim has told d that storyy to eeverybody. stor veerybodyy.’” Dickey’s Dicck key’s skills,, or lack of ccanoeing anoeing skills o the same,, made Bo Boorman same orman doubt d author’s the truth of the author’ ’s river hands riv veer ordeal ordeal at the hand ds of hillbillies.. hillbillies Boorman puzzled zled Bo orman puz over o veer the incident. incident “He was fantasist.

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Deliverance’s Deliv erance’s ffever-dream eveerr-dream e settings set tttings seem to unhinge ge its stars.

Burtt R Reynolds’ st ars. Bur eyynolds’’ memoirs memoirs Reynolds personally claim that R eynolds p erssonally saved Ned Beatty being sa aved N ed Beat tty from from b eing sodomized byy his actually so domized b h erect er ect and slavering slaavering co-star co-star a Bill McKinney.

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sink i k he hher er teeth t th into i t the th partt off Mor Morales’ M ales l ’ wifee an and partner,, but after this, Mar Margin wif nd partner gin CCall all andd All is LLost, ost, no one was going to describe desccribe Chandor as a woman’s woman’s director anyway. dir ectoor anyway y. Still, Still,, the director’s director ’s tautness, tautne ss, as well as his critique of the power of money, three moneyy, makes this thr ee very intensee movies in a rrow ow for for him. Isaacs performance deliverss a perf ormance that can be compared Pacino. compa red to vintage P acino. (RvB)

THE BO BOY B Y NEXT DOOR (R; 91 min.) m Jennif Jennifer er LLopez opez is beguiled beguile ed by the boy next door (Ryan Guzman) Guzma an) until she finds out he’s he’s evil Unreviewed. beyondd his years. Unr eviewed.

CAKE (R; 1022 min.) A woman on the (Jennifer edge (J Jennifer Aniston) deals chronic with mysterious m chr onic pain, presence the pr e esence of a ghost and a problem. major substance abuse pr oblem.

Unreviewed.

Unr eviewed.

MORTDECAI MOR T CAI TDE

NEITHER SEXY NOR VIOLENT ‘50 Shades of Grey’ might have been more aptly titled ‘50 Lashes With a Wet Noodle.’

Golden Handcuffs LET’S BE CLEAR: 50 Lashes With a Wet Noodle is positively un-rapey; director Sam Taylor-Johnson emphasizes the consent of the soon-to-be trussed and flogged Bella Swan, I mean Anastasia Steele. Dakota Johnson’s Ana is the bright side of 50 Shades of Grey. She’s dressed down at the beginning in everything but pigtails and a giant lollipop. The film’s biggest intentional laugh is Jamie Dornan’s Christian Grey, staring at her naiveté and asking her where she’s been all her life.

The auteur of this is really E. L. James.

The 50 Shades author insisted on the trappings of this film: the gunmetalcolored clothing, grand piano and neckties. She has an Ayn Randian appreciation of the thrust of skyscrapers and of Triumph Over Her Will aerial shots.

Dornan’s pursey, covert smile can’t animate this empty-suit of a character.

“My tastes are very singular…you wouldn’t understand.” (It recalls Pee-wee Herman: “There are things about me you wouldn’t understand. Things about me you couldn’t understand!”) You know there’s been some doubt about Dornan in the role by the number of times we cut to women exclaiming over how hot he is.

Grey is yet another sadist made, not born. His mother is played by Marcia Gay Harden, who certainly looks like

she knows her way around a dungeon.

Grey reveals his inner goodness in symbolism that goes back to the 1930s.

The art direction seems thinly budgeted: the cargo-cult part of the sexual fantasy gets stinted except for the Apple product placement. Ana’s room has a little mural on silver paper of a bird in a gilded cage with the door open. The master’s chamber is strictly overpriced business-class hotel Fifty Shades of Grey décor, complete with the too-shiny floors R; 125 Min. and the usual mess Playing Valleywide of orchids. His grand piano, silhouetted against windows overlooking the Seattle skyline, makes him look like Billy Joel on an album cover.

It’s said that the object of 50 Shades is romance, not sex. Yet the script’s language is actually of the financial deal and the job interview, replete with the kind of counter-intuitive sloganeering we hear in advertisements: “if you become my slave, I will be devoted to you.” But how fictional is this? There are certainly enough punitive grey Christians with scads of money running the USA in 2015, and we’re all taking a good whipping from them.

—Richard von Busack

(R; 106 6 min.) An adaptation of cul cultt novelist novelis st Kyril Kyril Bonfiglioli’s 1973 Don’t Don’t Point Att Me, with Johnny P oint That T Thing A scoundrel Depp as a the upper-class scoundr el Charliee Mortdecai—a ffeyer eyer and moree peacock Patricia mor ppeacockyy version of P atricia Highsmith’s Ripley.. Unr Unreviewed.

Highsm mith’s Ripley eviewed.

SSTRANGE TRANGE MA MAGIC GIC (PG;; 99 9 min.) Animated film based considerable with co onsiderable looseness on A Midsummer Night’s Midsum mmer Night ’s Dream, Dream, with a story credit George soundtrack cr edit to t Geor ge LLucas ucas and a soundtr ack covers Unreviewed. of cove ers of ’60s hits. Unr eviewed.

TWO TW OD DAYS, AYS, ONE NIGHT (PG-13; 95 min.) Sandr (PG-13; Sandraa (Marion Cotillard) from Cotillar rd) is rrecovering ecovering fr om a breakdown gravity drags br eakddown whose gr avity still dr ags her.. She learns she has some 50 at her moree than a dozen hours to t rrally ally mor ffellow ellow workers to vote against her layoff at a the light-industrial ffactory actory wheree she work workss … and management wher promised has pr o omised every one of the workers Euroo bonus if they worker rs a 1000 Eur agree layoff.. Belgium Belgium’s agree tto accept the layoff ’s Dardenne brothers Dar dennne br others specialize in neodocumentary dramas docum mentary dr amas set in what Europe, might as a well be the Ohio of Eur ope, Pennsylvania ennsylvania or the rred-brick ed-brick part of P least: unglamorous, at leas t: unglamor ous, post-boom, concerned problems very co oncerned with the pr oblems finding of find ing and keeping a job. And as Sandra Sandra makes her rrounds ounds house to house, we get to see much of this unexplored unexpl ored landscape. Two Tw wo Days, One Night iiss uncommonly summery ffor or Dardennes, there's the Da rdennes, and ther e's an edge in the wayy Sandra’s of dryy humor h Sandra’s aree ffellow ellow workers fight against her or ar persuaded her.. Cotillar Cotillard’s burdened persua aded by her d’s bur dened but int intrepid heroine repid her oine impresses impresses you the with th he way she swims against tidee that that’s the tid ’s trying to drown drown her. her. else Who el lse makes movies about how hardd yo you har ou have to work just to stay working? workin ng? (RvB)

Revivals R Re vivals CAVILLERIA CAVILLERIA V RUSTICANA/ RUSTICANA/ PAGLIACCI P AGLIACCI In Sony S 4K and Dolby 5.1 5..1 fr from om the builtt by TTeatrico eeatrico Antico TTaormina, aaormina, buil the Greeks Greeks some 2700 years ago:: a customary operas. customary pairing of short oper as.. CCanio anio tragedy proves in Leoncavallo’s L Leoncavallo ’s two-act tr agedy pr oves thatt clowns ar aree evil incarnate,, and tha Mascagni’s Mas scagni’s Cavilleria Cavilleria Rusticana concerns lethal rural leth hal intrigues in a rur al village. (Plays Febb 22 at noon and Feb 2244 at 7:15PM in Sann Jose at CCamera amera 3.)

3 ) (RvB)

VERTIGO/THE TROUBLE VERTIGO/THE TROUBLE WITH WI TH HARRY HARRY (19558/1955) A beautiful society woman (1958/1955) (Kim m Novak) apparently apparently possessed by the spirit spir rit of a long-dead ancestor, ancestorr, tantalizes a guilt-ridden guil t-ridden San Francisco Francisco police detective from whoo is on permanent disability fr om PTSD. PTS SD.. Plagued by vertigo,, the detective, Scottie Ferguson Sco ottie Fer guson (James Stewart), Stewart),, is lured lured to great g eat heights again and again by the gr woman, wom man,, in a mystery that equates ffalling aalling love in lo ove with falling falling to your death.. Stewart Stewart subverts sub bverts the wholesome characters characters he usually usu ually assayed—I can still rremember emember interview him m on a television inter view rrealizing, ealizing, half-apologetically, wasn’t’t playing a nice half f-apologeticallyy, “I wasn guy.” guy y.” .” It was a misunderstood film in its timee because the implications were were a little too unpleasant ffor or a 1950s audience to fface, acee,, and the ending is probably probably the most bleak blea ak in all of Code-era Code-era American cinema. stands It st tands up to a dozen viewings as the best bes st movie ever made in San Francisco, Francisco, as well w as sporting one of the finest scores sco res a movie ever had (it was composed strange

by Bernard B Bernar d Herrmann).

Herrmann).This str ange thriller—so thri ller—so rrecognizable ecognizable as a classic that there the re was a poster ffor or it on Anastasia Alfred SSteele’s teeele’s wall in 50 Shades—is Alfr ed Hitchcock's Hitc chcock's deepest analysis of what goes through thr o the mind and heart of a blockedough off man. m BILLED WITH WITH The Trouble Trouble With Harry Har rry a cozy farce far a ce about a corpse who (slightly) (slig ghtly) discomfits a New England town in mid m leaf-peeping season.. Redder than the maples:: an endearing half-sized gamine gam mine named Shirley MacLaine in one Warding from of hher first roles. roles. oles W arding off a kiss fr om Johnn Forsythe (as who wouldn wouldn’t), Joh ’t),, she murmurs “Don’t’t light me.. I have a short mu rmurs “Don fuse.”

19-22 Palo Alto fuse e.”” (Plays Feb 1922 in P alo Al to at the Theatre.)

SStanford tannfordTheatr e.) (RvB)

WAYNE’S W AY YNE’S W WORLD ORLD (199 (1992) 92) ItIt’s ’s aged well,, Penelope Penelope Spheeris’ Spheeris’ lightweight ligh htweight SNL spinoff about a pair of IlIllinois llinois goofs with a public access TTV V show. weree over Bob and sho ow w. Some of us wer Doug MacKenzie Dou ug MacK enzie even by the time this sound-alike sou und-alike duo started turning up.. But SNL’s anniversary, SNL L’’ss 40th anniversary y, the advent of podcasting, pod dcasting,, the continuing rrelevance elevance of R Rob LLowe, owe,, and the never-ending hilarity hila arity of Queen’s Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” have from hav ve kept this bit of comedy gold fr om tarnishing. tarn nishing.. Mike Myers (in his film debut here) paroled from om movie jail her e may be par e) oled fr after afte er all.. (Plays Feb 19 at 9:30PM and Febb 21 at 11:55PM in San Jose at CCamera amera 3.) (RvB) (

Happy Trails AROUND A R OU N D T THE HE W WORLD OR LD The members of the Oaklan Oakland-based nd-based indie quartet T Trails rails r a W and Ways ays draw influence from all over the world—especially y Brazil.

Trails T rails r and d Ways Ways a combin combine ne global sounds with w punk etho ethos os and indie pop p sensibility BY B Y JOD JODY Y AM AMABLE AB LE L

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WOULDN’T W OULDN’T say I’ I’ve ’ been ’ve b a hardcore punk my m whole life,” says Keith Keith Brown, B guitarist for Oakland’s Oakland’s border-crossing, blog-darling blo og-darling Trails and Ways.

Ways a . Before band, Trails Trails and Ways Ways forming Trails with three other UC UC Berkeley alumss, he had an appreciation ap ppreciation alums, admisssion for punk—an admission pect from some might not exp expect d now a member of a band xpansively renowned for its ex expansively and-distantchill, sun-and-surf-a sun-and-surf-and-distantsquawk-of-seagulls vibe.

Nonetheless, Nonethelesss, Brown n sees a clear n the “direct “direct connection between

structure”” of early punk and his group’s “visceral hooks.” group ’s “v visceral hooks .”

Influenced Influenc e equally b ed byy Berkeley’s Berkeley’s tradition di i off so social cial i l in involvement involv l ement and d the patientt rh rhythm hyythm of South Americ America, a, Trails and Wa W Ways ayys got their st start art in the East Ba Bay ay in 2010, after Brown, Brown,, bassist Emma Opp Oppen, pen,, guit guitarist arist Hannah V Van aan Loon L oon and drummer d Ian Quirk all graduated fr ffrom om C Cal. al.

Every Ev ver e y me member ember of the band had done some tra traveling aveeliing b byy then,, and all had paid attention arrangements,, close at tttentiion to the arrangements song structu structures ures and vib vibes es of the varied musical traditions they music al trad ditions the ey encountered encountered way.

Upon they ay. U pon their rreturn, eturn,, the ey along the w together become put it all to g gether to b ecome Trails and Wa Ways, ayys, a hazy, hazzy, unhurried,, and at harrowing from times harr o owing tribute to tunes fr om across globe.

Theyy cut a ffew wispy, acr oss the gl lobe. The ew wisp py, shimmeringg singles ventually singles,, which eeventually blogosphere picked hit the blo g gospher e and pick keed up

steam,, making them one of the most m blogged-about blo gged-about bands of the early 2010s 2010s..

The singles turned to a ccollection ollection n of up-to-the-minute pop (they’re up -to-the-minute p op ccovers overs e (the eyy’re chilled-out famous ffor o or their chilledout rreworking ewo orking M83’ss “Midnight Cit City”) debut of M83’ tyy”) and de ebut EP in 2013,, and so soon—very on— —ver e y so soon, on, Brown Br own pr promises—there omises—there will b bee a fulllength leng gtth rrecord. ecord.

Tune” highlife guitars dancee On “Mtn T u une” highlif fe guit ars danc around shimmying Latin rhythm ar ound a shimm myying L atin rh hyythm m fuzzy, and a fuz zy, ssyncopated yyncopated bass line which w sounds lik like ke it might ha have ave b been een sto stolen olen from fr om a Diplo danc dancehall ehall anthem.

The video ffor o or “T “Tereza” Teereza”” op opens ens with w shots of palm-studded palm-studded beaches beaches and a wildly ccolored olored marine lif life fe swimming swimm ming through thr ough bright blue tr tropical opical w waters, a aters , before b effor o e transitioning to dust dusty, ty, dr dry ry deserts deser ts and bright white ic icebergs. ebergs g.

It’s hard through It ’s har d to get thr ough any an ny iinterview, inter vie i w, ar article ticle i l or blo bl blogg p post ost ab about bout o Trails and Wa ayys without seeing a Ways rreference effeerence to traditional Brazilian music c— —the band themselv vees cite Brazil music—the themselves influence—but they also as a major influenc e—but the ey al lso pop. ccarry arry with them a sharp sense of p op.

Brazilian “In addition to a lot of Brazili ian music,, ther there’s ’60s music e’s a lot of ’70s and ’6 60s

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music we (dra aw insp piration fr om),” (draw inspiration from), Br own sa ayys. “Ther e’s a whole histor Brown says.

“There’s historyy of p op music we w aant to wea ave pop want weave to gether into our ow wn thing together own thing..”

Ev veen if the ey don ’t come come dir ectly from from Even they don’t directly punk music ey ha ave all b een steep ed music,, the they have been steeped culture.

Every member in punk cultur e. Ev erry memb er of the lived band liv ed in a cco-op o-op p house in Berkeley Berk keeleey another. at one time or anoth her.

“For was “F or me it w as rreally eaally fformative— o ormative— houses,,” Br Brown (living) in the ccoop oop houses h own says. environs, sa ayys. Living in those en nvvirons, the members learned band memb ers learn ned to cconstruct onstruct society, and was an insular so cietty, an nd w as just as anything theyy wer weree much a lesson as an nyything the absorbing on ccampus. ampu us.

Berkeley travelling Living in Berk eley and tra avelling informed the world has also in nfformed o the band’ss p political views, band’ olitical vie w , which ws theyy shar sharee with trad traditional the ditional punk movements. mo veements. “Our cconscience o onscienc e and political beliefs p olitical b eliefs show w up in the music that’s something figuree out and that ’s somethin ng we figur go,,” Br Brown says. as we go own sa ayys. “I’m I m rreally eally interested social justicee side inter ested in the so c justic cial change.. I’ I’m personally of climate change ’m p ersonally about state vvery ery alarmed ab out the st ate of climate.. N No matter the climate o mat ttter what else happens, don’t happ ens, if we don ’tt get our act together, 100 from seriously to gether, 10 00 yyears ears fr om now…” off. now …” he trails off ff.

Even they’re Ev en though the y e known ffor y’r or o being band, theyy ha have b eing a worldly ban nd,, the ave leaving Bay Area. no plans of lea avving the t Ba ay Ar ea.

“There’s amazing “Ther There’s just an ama azing ccommunity ommunitty (here), says Brown. of friends (her e),” sa ayys Br own. “I ccan’t an’t trying live anywhere else.. imagine tr ying to liv ve an nyywhere else interdependent “What we do is so o inter dependent friends. on the help of our fr riends. The ffeeling eeeling scenes—I I get in a lot of otherr music sc enes—I there’s get the sense ther e’s very very much a,, like, like, don’t give don’t don ’t giv ve a fuck,, don n’t ccare are too too much attitude, says after at tttitude,” he sa ayys afte er stopping to think ffor o or a moment.. “I ffeel eeel like like in a lot scenes Bay of the sc enes of the Ba B ay Area, Area,, there’s there’s a strong It’s str ong sense of cconfidence. onfidence. It ’s not bad about (your) to show that yyou o ou ccare arre ab out (y yo our) message,, ccare about art. message are ab out yyour o our ar t.”

Ass cconfident Trails Ways A onfident as Tr rails and Wa ayys may bee with their message message,, it it’s easyy ma ay b m ’s eas the background ffor o or it to fade into th he back ground of a rreverb-soaked, everb -soaked, hook-heavy hook k--heaavvy track like like “Nunca. that’s too. want “N unca.” And that ’s OK,, to o. “I w ant a our music to be be something som mething you you feel feeel in body, says Brown. yyour our b odyy,” sa ayys Br o own.

“Something makes moree in lo love, that mak es yyou ou ffeel o eeel mor ve,

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WILD HARE Rabbit Quinn, nee Leila Motaei, spins an ‘eerie, dark and beautiful bedtime story’ on her album, ‘Lost Children.’

Down The Rabbit Hole THE COVER of Rabbit Quinn’s debut album, Lost Children, may look wholesomely vintage—with Quinn dolled up like a Sailor Jerry’s girl in big curls and a flute dress, cradling an adorable baby goat. But the frayed edges of the photo, the dilapidated house in the background, the tight-lipped gaze on the young girl’s face reveal the truth of the matter: We are not in for a swingin’ time.

Lost Children is a haunting record, replete with bleeding-heart vocals set to intense and lush piano. It’s an altogether eerie, dark and beautiful bedtime story—that sounds like a long-lost Tori Amos album.

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Lost Children was born of her personal savings of $10,000 and a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $3,000 to press, release, and promote the record, which she released in 2012. Recently, Quinn has been popping up in small venues around the Bay Area with her two bandmates—Grammynominated drummer Scott Amendola and veteran-virtuoso bassist Mike Sugar.

Quinn is known for her live show—which is said to be theatrical (but not campy, as Amos can sometimes be). On her most heartfelt and powerful track, “Chanticleer,” Quinn sets herself apart with a little growl and grit in the chorus, perhaps an attempt to wake herself from a nightmare of burning houses and the dead coming to life. There is this robust air of empowerment around the song, about how we can rise as warriors with the sun to escape the horrors of the night.

Lost Children’s title track paints the classic portrait of escape—of a runaway catching a bus and never coming back, and then finding there wasn’t anything waiting for them on the other side. The album’s themes are indeed bleak, but the energy behind the music couldn’t be called a downer. What seems to come through loudest is her ability to evoke a flood of emotion, giving the listener a sense of witnessing something sacred, intimate and somewhat tortured.—Briana Hernandez

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

THE HUDDLE Wed--TThu and Sun, 9pm: Wil Wed-Thu Wild ld Fremont.

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JOHNNY V’S Sun: KKaraoke araoke ffor or the Industr Industry. ry. cover.. San Jose.

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

Neeber Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

Josee.

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

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THE CA CATS ATS 1st & 3rd 3rd Thu: DJ Diner Dineroo 2nd & 4th Thu: DJ TTomas. oomas.

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Fri, 9pm9pm-1:30am: 1:30am: DJDJ-JR. JR. Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: 9:30pm1:30am: DJ John Rola.

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

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Sonny & the Sunsets Scott Hamilton Quintet Fellow horn blower Harry Allen joins the tenor sax luminary and his band. Feb 18 at SF JAZZ Center.

Gregory Alan Isakov Vagabond troubadour sounds like a mix of Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen. Feb 19 at the Fillmore.

The Trims Indie dance band out of San Jose is equal parts punk swagger and stylish tunes. Feb 20 at Great American Music Hall.

Machine Head Oakland’s metal masters have been thrashing since 1991 and show no signs of slowing down. Feb 21 at the Regency Ballroom.

Sonny & the Sunsets Popular beach pop band plays a show for their new album, “Talent Night at the Ashram.”

Feb 21 at the Chapel.

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I've been waiting for autonomous autonomou us cars to become a reality. reality y. But I’m wondering how ticketss, traffic violations, are no more speeding tickets, much revenue will be lost when there t violationss, that parking violations, violationss, or probably quite quite a few other kinds off fines fi tha at I haven't even considered. How How o much money will wiill state and local governments lose losse when traffic past? —Jeff Grippe, White Plains, tickets become a thing of the past?

Plainss, New Ne ew w York York o why What I’m wondering is wh hy yyou’re o ou u’r ’re about this.. Driv Driverless eeven ven thinking ab out this veerlesss ccars ars a may world—for ma ay well rreshape eshap e e the urban world— —ffo or thing, one thing g, autonomous ccar-sharing ar ar-ssharingg ccould o ould wipee out ttaxis, limos,, and Ub Ubers wip axis, limos ers in a single parking sswat—and wat at— —and yyou’re o ou’re ffocusing ocusing on parki ing tickets.

Could possibly have picked tick keets. C ould yyou o ou p ossibly ha ave pic ck ked e a more boring aspect development mor re b oring asp ect of this de eveelopm ment analyze? since asked, to analy yzze? But sinc ce yyou o ou ask ked, e yyes: ess: this particularly irritating par rtticularly irrit tating a fform orm of rrevenue o even nue bee mostly elimina eliminated eextraction xxtraction would b ated in became autonomous. the eevent veent ccars ars a b eccame a autonomous s.

Ass it stands, A sttands a , issuing tickets tick keets is something someething governments do a lot of. go overnments e off. New New York York o City C ty gave Cit gaave out more morre than h a million illi in 2012. Roughly Ro oughly hl 23 percent perrcent e were werre for fo or tinted windows or seat belt b elt violations (conjuring (cco onjuring a rather unsavory un nsaavo orry image of what New New Yorkers York o keers are arre doing doin ng in infraactions their cars), caars), but the rest reest were werre for fo or infractions that wouldn’t wouldn n’t ’ exist exxist if cars caars were werre automated: autom mated: speeding, sp eedingg, phone use while driving, drivingg, etc. ettc.

Financially, F iinanciallyy, this is an incredible incrreedible boon boon n for fo or states st taates and municipalities—the NYPD’s NYP PD’s strike rrecent eeccent e hissy-fit hisssy--fit strik ke against Mayor Maayor o de d Blasio ccost ost o the city citty $10 million a week in parkingpaarkingticket tick keet money. moneey. It’s It’s hard harrd to find an ironclad irro on nclad nationwide nation nw wide total tottaal for for o ticket-fine tick keett--fine revenue, reven enue, raked but (for (ffo or example) exxample) Virginia Vir irginia g rak keed in roughly ro oughly $97 million on speeding speeding tickets tick keets in 2010; 20 010; scale sc cale a that up to a population population of 320 million m and you you o get a national figure figurre of about abou ut $3.7 billion. If autonomous cars caars make mak ke that thaat sum just go away, away, budget committees commit o tttees are arre likely lik keely to notice. noticce.

Google, apparent front runner Go ogle, the appar reent fr ro ont runn ner race in the rac ce to driverless drivveerless ccars, ars, claims their t increased incr reased e efficiency will ultimately cut waste byy 9 90 percent.

Forbes ccommuting o ommuting w aaste b 0p errcent. F o es orb savings works the annual sa avings v out as 1.9 billion gallons of gas and 4.8 billion ccommuting o omm muting hours,, ffor total billion. hours or a tot o tal a value of $101 billio on. I’m suree I ccompletely details wheree not sur o ompletely buy the det tail a ls wher Google last five Go ogle is cconcerned—two o oncerned—ttwo w of the la ast fiv ve Google spent times I trusted Go ogle Maps I sp entt a lot I’d intended—but longer in Indiana than I’ d intended d—but government would undoubtedly the go vernment e uld lose wou money heree to too. current some mone ey her o. The curr ent ffederal eederal gallon, ttax ax a on gasoline is 18.4 ccents eents a gallon n, and state the aaverage verage st tate a ttax ax a is 23.5 ccents ents a gallon, g saved so 1.9 billion gallons sa aved e means a $350 million annual loss in ffederal eederal ttax ax a rrevenue evenue e $447 states. and a loss of $4 47 million ffor or the st o tates a . total On the other hand, the tot tal a yyearly eearrly economic U.S. ec onomic ccost o ost of all U ..S. motor vvehicle eeh hicle accidents dwarfs both figures—in ac cccidents dw war arfs f b oth these figur es— —in was $277 Driverless 2010 it w aas $2 77 billion. Driv verless e ccars ars a

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probably have occasional would pr robably o ha ave the t o ccasional a accident the dangerous ac cident as well, but th he most danger rous o bee elimin eliminated—crucially, factors ccould ould b nated—cruciallyy, driving.

Off the rroughly 33,000 drunk driving g. O oughly 33,0 00 fatalities U.S., about traffic fat talities a each yyear eear in the U .S., ab out 10,000 from alcohol 10,0 00 rresult esult fr ro om alc o impairment. ohol puree dollars-anddollars-and-cents level, that’s On a pur cents le evel, e that t’s a total like tot tal a loss of somethingg lik ke $19 billion in future the government won’t futur re earnings that th he go overnment won n’’t get to ccollect o ollect ttaxes axes a on.

Additionally, government savings A dditionally d y, the go oveernment sa avvings transportation bee huge huge.. on public transp orrtatio on would b Chicago Authority The Chic caago Transit A uthorit u ty ssystem yystem $700 million gets about about $70 0 millio on in annual public subsidies; bee eliminated b idi much h off this his ccould o ould ld b li i d if bus ser service, vice, which ru runs uns up major lab labor or erated were byy privately op operated ccosts, osts, wer re rreplaced eplaced b driverless minivans.

Other fleets of driv erless mini ivans. O ther balancee sheet: pluses on the balanc s the disabled and elderly would ha have greater ave ve gr reater e ttaxable axable a potential because transportation earnings p otential b eccause a transp orrtation bee easier easier, Medicaid would b r, and ffewer ewer Medic caid a and Medicare would bee sp spent Medic car a e dollars woul db ent on those involved accidents. in nvo olvveed in ccar ar a ac ccciden nts. journey from Google engineer’ss The journe ey fr ro om a Go ogle engineer’ dream one,, of wet et dr ream e to rreality ealit e ty is a long one we’ve ways ccourse, ourse, and we ’ve still got g aw ayys to go before any becomes b effor o e an ny of these cconsiderations o on nsiderations b ecco omes rrelevant. eleevvant. Some don don’t n’’t th think hink we we’ll ’ll eever veer get there: Tesla, ther re: e Elon Musk, ffounder o oun nder of T eesla, is working on a driv driverless too, veerlesss ccar ar a to o, but he doesn’t human bee do esn n’’t think the hum man element ccan an a b totally eliminated—his tot tally a eliminated—hi is vversion ersion e would bee mor more autopilot Google’s b re of an autopilo ot ffeature. eeature. Go ogle’s 700,000 autonomous ccar ar a has ccovered overred e 70 0,000 miles without incidentt in and ar around ound the Bay Area, programmers have Ba ay Ar ea but the pr ea, rogrammers g ha ave ffed eed dataa sp specific local it tons of dat ecific to t lo cal rroads—it oads—it wouldn’t dropped wouldn n’’t work if yyou o ou dr d opped it in the Tokyo.

Google pre-empted middle of T o ok kyo. Go ogle g has pr re-empted obvious byy sa saying one ob bvvious objection nb ayying it should bee liable ffor any tickets incur,, but b o or an ny tick keetss its ccars ars a incur plenty unresolved plent ty of unr esolvveed questions q rremain: emain: e How will the ccar choose no-win ar a cho osse in a no -win situation—say, situation— —ssaay, when itt has to hit either a jaywalker there ja ayw ywaalk ker e or another ccar? ar ar? Is ther re a cheat drive faster? ccode ode to get the ccar ar a to driv d ve faster r? Or ccan an software speeding byy yyou ou trick the softw waarre into sp eeding b telling it yyour wife's labor? o our wif fee's in lab or? driverless But if yyou’re ou o ’rre asking whether w driv verless e are, balance, actually worth ccars aars ar re, on balanc e, act tually wor rth t pursuing, answer is: It’ll surely pursuing g, the ans sw wer is s: duh. It ’ll sur rely e ttake ak ake a while ffor or o it all to pla play ay out, but if this thing being be, winds up b eing half thee big deal it ccould ould b e, the change in traffic traffic-ticket c--ticck keet rrevenue evenue is going ok lik ke a rrounding ounding o g err orr. to lo look like error.

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Thee follo following wing pers person(s) on(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Capital Electric & Sign, 990 Helen Ave., Ave., #1, Sunnyv ale, CA, CA, 94086, 940 086, Won Woon Ik Cho. Cho. This business Sunnyvale, is conducted by by a individual. i R egistrant began Registrant tr ransacting a busine ess under the fictitious business transacting business name or names list ted her ein on 4/22/2007.

4/22/20077. listed herein Refile previous #510933 R efile of pr evious file fi #5 10933 after 40 days of expiration /s/Won expir ation date. /s /W Woon Ik Cho wass filed with the County Clerk of This statement wa Claraa Countyy on 2/1 2/12/2015.

Santa Clar 2/2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSI U NESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #601268 The follo following wing pers person(s) son(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: U-Valley U-V Vaalley Cleaning Ser Services, vices, 110101 0101 K Kenilworth enilworth W Way, aay, San Jose, CA, CA, 95127, 95127, LLuz uz Mar Martir, tirr, 8631 8631 Beverly Beverly Ln., Dublin, CCA, A, 94568, 94568 8, Alejandro Alejandro Uvalle.

Uvalle. This business is conducted bbyy a joint vventure. enture. R Registrant egistrant began transacting tr ansacting busine business ess under the fictitious business name or names lis listed sted her herein ein on 2/1 2/10/15.

0/15. //s/Luz s/Luz M artir This statement was filed with the Martir Santa Claraa County on 2/1 2/10/2015.

County Clerk of Sa nta Clar 0/2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSI U NESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEM MENT #600406 The follo following wing pers person(s) on(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Cafe One, 1 Alm Almaden maden Blv Blvd., d., S STE TE 1120, 20, San Jose, CCA, A, 95113, 95113, Jose Luis Luiis Orduna, Orduna, 3850 3850 Dottieyn Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95111, 95111, Maria Olvera.

Olvera. This business is conducted by by a ma married arried couple.

Registrant R egistrraant began ttransacting ransacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her herein ein on 110/14/2009.

0/14/2009. /s/Jose /s/Jose Luis Luis Or Orduna duna This statement wa wass filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa Countyy on 1/20/201 1/20/2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSI U NESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEM MENT #600330 The follo following wing pers person(s) on(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: WarrenWorks, W aarrenW Woorks, 3316 3316 Marcel Marcel Ct., San Jose, CA, CA, 95135, 95135, Christina Warren.

Waarren. This T business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant Registrant a has not yet yet begun transacting trransacting a business under thee fictitious business name or herein.

Warren names listed her ein. /s/Christina W arr a en wass filed with the County Clerk of This statement wa Claraa Countyy on 1/1 1/15/2015.

Santa Clar 5/2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSI U NESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #601133 #6011133 The follo following wing perso person(s) on(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: SD Plastering, 5538 38 McCollam Dr Dr., r.., San Jose, CCA, A, 95122, 9 5122, S Steve teve Dinis.. This business is conducted by by a individual. R Registrant egistrant a began tr transacting ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein her ein on 2/6/2015.

2/6/2015. /s/S /s/Steve teve Dinis This statement wa wass filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa Countyy on 2/06/201 2/06/2015.

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FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSI U NESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEM MENT #599565 The follo following wing pers person(s) on(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: RLH Makeup A Artistry, rtistry, 5564 5564 Dunsburry Ct., San Jose, CA, CA, 95123, 95123, R Rosemarie osemarie Harvell.

Harvell. This business is conducted conduccted by by a individual. Registrant Registrrant a has not yet yet begun tr transacting ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her herein. ein. /s/ Rosemarie R osemarie Harvell Harvell This statement was filed with the

Coounty Clerk of Santa Clar County Claraa County on 112/23/2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #601 #601094 094 Thhe following The following person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: W o Woorks Imagery, oodW Imagery, 147 147 South Morrison Ave., Ave.,, San WoodWorks Jos se, CA, CA, 95126, 95126, M yles Balsamo Jose, Myles Balsamo.. This business is co onducted by by a individual. Registrant Registrrant a has not yet yet conducted be egun transacting trransacting a business under the fictitiouss begun bu usiness name or names listed her ein. /s/M ylees business herein. /s/Myles Ba alsamo. This statement was filed with the Cou unty Balsamo.

County Cle erk of Santa Clara Clara County on 2/06/201 5.

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FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #599975 Thhe following The following person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: as s: Jigz Marketing Agency Agency,, 29 2940 40 Macintyre Macintyre Dr., Drr.,. #105, #1 105, San Jose, CA, CA, 95136, 95136, Josue Ivan Ivan Gonzalezz Zapata.

Za apata. This business is conducted by by a individual. individual.

Registrant R e ant began tr egistr transacting ansacting business under th the he fictitious fic ctitious business name or names listed her herein einn on 1/6/2015.

1/ /6/2015. /s/Josue Iv Ivan an Gonzalez Zapata This Th his statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara 1/06/2015.

Sa anta Clar ra County on 1/06/201 5. (pub Metroo 2/6, 2/11, 2/1 2/18, 2/25/2015) (p ub Metr 8, 2/2 5/2015)

FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #601 #601079 079 Thhe following The following person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: 1.

Alto Alt to View View Properties, Properties, 2. Silver Silver Arrow Arrow Properties, Properties, 162 162 San Sa an Lazaro Lazaro Ave., Ave., Sunnyv Sunnyvale, ale, CCA, A, 94086, 94086, Nicholas Nichollas TTravis, ravis, a 15245 15245 Hume Dr., Drr.,. Saratoga, Saratoga, CA, CA, 95070.

95070. This T business bu usiness is conducted by by a individual. Registrant Registrant has ha as not yet yet begun tr transacting ansacting business under the t fictitious fic ctitious business name or names listed her herein. einn. /s/ Nicholas Ni cholas TTravis. ravis. This statement was filed with th the he County Co ounty Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 2/05/20 2/05/2015.

015. (pub Metroo 2/11, 2/1 2/18, (p ub Metr 8, 2/25, 2/25, 3/04/2015) 3/04/2015)

FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME #6005511 NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #60055 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: as s: The Gun Attic, 860 South 1st S Street treet Suite B,, San Sa an Jose, CA, CA, 95110, 95110, Nathanh Salfen, 4772 4772 Canela Cannela Way, W aay, San Jose, CA, CA, 95136, 95136, Darrell Darrell Seegmiller, Seegmillerr, 4808 4808 Rue R u Nice Ct., San Jose, CA, ue CA, 95136.

95136. This business business is conducted general co onducted by by a gener al partnership. partnership.

Registrant R e ant has not yet egistr yet begun transacting transacting business business under listed un nder the fictitious business name or names lis sted herein. he erein. /s/Nathanh Salfen This Th his statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara 1/22/2015.

Sa anta Clar ra County on 1/2 2/2015.

2/18, ((pub (p ubb Metro M t o 2/11, Metr 2/11 2/1 8 2/25, 8, 2/25, 3/04/2015) 3/0 /2015)) 3/04/201

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #600860 Thhe following The following person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Metis, Me etis, 97 97 S. 2nd Street, Street, #196, #196, San Jose, CA, CA, 95113, 95113, Metis Me etis R Real eal Estate, Inc. This Th his business is conducted by by a corpor corporation. ation.

Above Ab bove entity was formed in the state of Californ California nia Registrant R e ant began tr egistr transacting ansacting business under th the he fic ctitious business name or names listed her einn on fictitious herein 1/ /16/2015. /s/Enrico J. Soriano President President 1/16/2015. #3 3719879 This statement was filed with the Co ounty #3719879 County Cle erk of Santa Clar 5. (pubb Clerk Claraa County on 1/30/201 1/30/2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #599898 NAME Thhe following The following person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: as s: V Valley aalley Mountain Sea, 846 Cherrystone Dr Dr.,., LLos os Gatos, G a CA, atos, CA, 95032, 95032, Susan Holtslander Holtslander.r. This busi business iness is conducted by by a individual. R Registrant egistrrant a has nott

yet begun tr yet transacting ansacting businesss under the fictitious business name or names listedd her herein. ein. /s/Susan Holtslander.

H Holtslander l l d . This Thi statement wa was as filed fil d with i h the h County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa Co County unty on 1/05/201 1/05/2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #600608 NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #600 0608 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e)) doing business as: 1. Boss Bur Burgers, gers, 2. Boss Bur Burger, ger, 2 2787 787 Baton R Rouge ouge Dr., Dr r.., San Jose, CA, CA, 95133, 95133, Alexandro Alexandrro Ortega.

Ortega. This business is conducted by by a individual. individual. Registrant Registrraant has not yet yet begun tr transacting ransacting a business under the fictitious business name or nam names mes listed her herein. ein. /s/ Alexandro Alexandr ro Or Ortega tega Owner Thi statement This tt t was filed fil d with ith the tth County C t Clerk Cl k off Santa Clar Claraa County on 1/2 1/23/2015.

3/20 015. (pub Metr Metro ro 2/04, 2/11, 2/1 2/18, 8, 2/2 2 2/25/2015) 5/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #600 #600006 0006 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e)) doing business as: Shining S Stars tars of Bay Ar Area, ea, 5525 25 LLos os o Coches Street, S treet, Milpitas, CA, CA, 95035, 95035, K Karamuit aramuit Saini, 4105 4105 Morganfield Mor ganfield Ct., Pleasanton, CCA, A 94566.

A, 94566. This business is conducted by by a ind individual. ividual. R Registrant egistrraant has not yet yet begun tr ransacting a business under the transacting fictitious business name or nam mes listed her ein. /s/ names herein.

Karamuit K aaramuitit Saini.

S i i This Thi statement tt t was fil filedd with ith the th Claraa Co County 1/07/2015.

County Clerk of Santa Clar unty on 1/07/201 5.

Metro 2/18, 2/25/2015) (pub Metr ro 2/04, 2/11, 2/1 8, 2/2 2 5/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #600 #600703 0703 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e)) doing business as: FFrecklewood, recklewood, 3 Adelong W Way, aay, San Jose, CCA, A, 95139-1202, 9 5139-1202, Ar Arthur thur Zamarr Zamarron, on, Kirstin Zamarron.

Zamarron.

This business is conducted by by a married couple.

Registrant R egistrrant a has not yet yet begun transacting trraansacting business under the fictitious business na name ame or names listed herein. her ein. /s/Ar /s/Arthur thur Zamarr Zamarron ron Thi This is statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa S Clar Claraa County on 1/2 1/27/2015.

7/2015. (pub Metr Metro ro 2/0 2/04, 4, 2/11, 2/1 2/18, 8, 2/25/2015) 2/2 5/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #600408 NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #600 0408 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e)) doing business as: Liv aalley, 119400 9400 S tevens Cr eek Blv d., Livee Play Silicon V Valley, Stevens Creek Blvd., #200, Cupertino, Cupertino, CA, CA, 95014, 95014, Ch hris Alston, 346 Chris Esther Ave., Ave., Campbell, CA, CA, 95008.

950 008. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant Reggistrant has not yet yet begun tr ansacting business un nder the fictitious transacting under business name or names listedd her ein. /s/Chris herein.

Alston This statement was file Alston. filedd with the County Clerk of Santa Clar ra County on 1/20/201 5.

Clara 1/20/2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #599 9870 #599870 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e)) doing business as: TTechnology echnology e Electr Electronic roonic Ser Services, viices, 111 1118 8W Walsh aalsh Ave., A ve., Santa Clar Clara, a, CCA, A, 95050, 95050, David D S. Tran, Tran, 738 738 Hellyer Helly er A Ave., ve., San Jose, CA, CA, 95111.

95111. This business is conducted by by a individual. R Registrant e ant began egistr transacting tr ransacting a business under thee fictitious business herein 6/22/1998. name or names listed her ein onn 6/2 2/1998.

Refile previous #427570 R efile of pr evious file #4 27570 with changes. changes /s/ David Sine TTran ran This statement was filed with the t County Clerk of Claraa County on 1/05/20 1/05/2015.

Santa Clar 015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #600 0305 #600305 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e)) doing business as:

Global Enroll, Enroll, 1281 1281 Blewett Blewett Av., Av., San Jose, CA, CA, 95125, 95125, George Geor ge Beers. This business is conducted by by a i di id l Registrant individual.

Reggistr i rant a has h not yet yet begun b tr transacting ansacting i business unde under er the fictitious business name or /s/George names listed her hherein. ein. /s/Geor ge Beers This statementt was filed with the County Clerk of Claraa Co County 1/15/2015.

Santa Clar ounty on 1/1 5/2015.

Metroo 1/2 1/28, 2/18/2015) (pub Metr 28, 2/04, 2/11, 2/1 8/2015)

FICTITIOUSS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #600594 The follo following wing person(s) p is (ar (are) e) doing business as: ZZonkey, onkey, 621 621 N.. 6th St., St., San Jose, CA, CA, 95112, 95112, John Ngo, 3498 3498 Tuers Tuueers Rd., San Jose, CA, CA, 95121.

95121. This business is conducted connducted by by a individual. Registrant Registrant h nott yet has yett beg bbegun gun tr ttransacting ansacting ti business b i under d the th fictitious business businness name or names listed her herein. ein. /s/ John Ngo Ngo.. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 1/2 1/23/2015.

3/2015. (pub Metroo 1/2 Metr 1/28, 8, 2/ 2/04, /04, 2/11, 2/1 2/18/2015) 8/2015)

FICTITIOUSS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #599836 The follo following wing person(s) p is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Enjin Fitnes Fitness, ss, 21 2170 70 Klassen W Way, aayy, San Jose, CCA, A, 95131, 9 5131, Jin Ho Lee. Lee. e This business is i conducted by by a individual.

Registrant transacting R egistrant hass not yet yet begun tr ansacting business fictitious under the fictit tious business name or names listed herein. her ein. /s/Jin Ho H LLee eee This statementt was filed with the County Clerk of Claraa Co County 1/02/2015.

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FICTITIOUSS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #600516 NAME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #6005516 The follo following wing person(s) p is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Dvorzak Grand, 1. Dv orzak PPublishing, ubblishing, 2. Brother Brother Gr and, 21 E. Santa Claraa St., Clar St., t San Jose, JJose CA, CA, A 95113, 95113, Andrew Andrew Currier, Currierr, 3755 3755 Redwood Cir., 94306.

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Refile previous #455454 R efile of pr evioous file #4 55454 with changes. /s/ Andrew Currierr Andr ew Currie This statementt was filed with the County Clerk of Claraa Co County 1/21/2015.

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FREE W WILL ILLL ASTROLOGY A STROLOGY ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): La Lately ately your lif lifee rreminds eminds

starring arring Sandr Sandraa Bullock me of the action film Speedd, sta story, and KKeanu eanu Reeves. In that story y, a criminal has rigged itss speed dr drops a passenger bus to explode if it ops below hour.. In your story story,, you seem to be acting 50 miles per hour as if you, too, will self-destruct if you stop moving at a frantic heree to tell youu that nothing bad will fr antic pace. I'm her Ass happen if you slow down. Just the t opposite, in ffact. act. A excessive you clear your schedule of its ex xcessive things-to-do, leisurely exploree the won wonders as you leisur ely explor nders of doing nothing particular,r, I bet you will exper experience in particular rience a soothing flood pleasure. of healing pleasur e.

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oouetté dazzling moves a ballet dancer can do is the ffouetté French ench ffor or “whipped turning.” en tournant. The term is Fr As 360-degree As she executes a 360-degr ee turn, t the dancer spins around around on the tip of one foot. foot. Meanwhile, M her other foot outwardd and then bends foot thrusts outwar b in, bringing her toes to touch the knee of her su supporting upporting leg. CCan an you imagine a dancer doing this 32 consecutive times?

That's what the best do. It takess extensive pr practice actice and requires requires a high degr degree ee of conce concentration entration and discipline.

Paradoxically, expresses breathtaking freedom Paradoxicallyy, it expr esses br eatthtaking fr eedom and exuberance. exuberance. YYou ou o may not be a prima p ballerina, TTaurus, aaurus, but in your own field ther theree mus mustt be an equivalent to oouetté en tournant. Now is an excellent time ffor or the ffouetté you to take a vow and make pla plans ans to master that skill.

What will yyou need to do?

GEMINI (May 2121-June June 20): If you'r you'ree a martial artist

and you want to inject extr extraa ene energy ergy into an aggr aggressive essive move, you might utter a per percussive cusssive shout that sounds like "eee-yah!" or "hyaah!" or ““aiyah!” aiyah!” The Japanese s boost is most term ffor or this sound is kiai. The sonic effective diaphragm eff ective if it originates deep in your diaphr agm rrather ather than fr om your thr oat. Even if yo ou're not a martial from throat. you're weekss you artist, Gemini, I suggest that in the t coming week boisterous have fun trying out this boister o style of yelling. It ous extraa power and confidence may help you summon the extr you'll need to successfully wr wrestle esstle with all the interesting inter esting challenges ahead off you.

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LLEO EO (July 23 23-Aug. -Aug. 22): It seem seemss you've slipped into a time warp. Is that bad? I don't tthink hink so. YYour oour adventur es adventures ther arped part of your theree may twist and tweak a wa warped psyche in such a way that it get gets ts healed. A Att the very least, I bet your visit to the timee warp will rreverse everse the eff effects ects of an old ffolly olly and cor correct recct a pr problem oblem caused by your past sins. (By the way y, whe en I use the wor sin,” I way, when wordd ““sin,” ollowing your dr mean “being lax about ffollowing dreams.”) eams.”) Ther There's e's only one potential pr oblem thatt could come out of all problem this: Some people in your lif ould misinterpr et what's lifee co could misinterpret happening. TToo pr event that, com mmunicate crisply every prevent communicate step of the way way..

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versions of the wor wordd game Scr Scrabble, abble, the letter z is worth ten points. points In Italian, Italian it it'ss eight e points But in points. the P Polish Scrabble, scoree just one olish variant of Scr abble, yyou ou scor point by using z. That letter is rrarely a ely used in the other ar three three languages, but is commonn in P Polish. olish. Keep Keep this general general principle in mind as youu assess the value of the things you have to off offer. er. YYou ou ou will be able to make more more headway and have greater greateer impact in situations where where your particular beauty an and nd power and skills ar aree in short supply supply..

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23-Oct. 22): “Lea “Learn rn all you can fr from om the mistakes of others. You You o won't have havve time to make them

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all yourself.” yourself.” So said s Alfred Alfred Sheinwold in his book about the card card game known knnown as bridge. I think this is excellent advice for for the game gaame of life, life, as well. And it should be extra extra pertinent for for youu in the coming weeks, weeks, because people in your vicinity will be making gaffes gaffes and wrong wrong turns that are are useful for for youu to study. study. In the future, future, you'll be wise to avoid perpetrating perpetratinng similar messes yourself. yourself.

SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oc (Oct. ct. 23-Nov. 23-Nov. 21): “L “Love ove her but leave

her wild,” advised adviseed a graffiti graffiti artist who published his thoughts on a wall w next to the mirror mirror in a public restroom restroom I visited. visiteed. Another guer guerrilla rilla philosopher had added a comment commeent below: “That's a nice sentiment, but how can anyone retain wildness in a society that anyyone retain puts so many demands deemands on us in exchange for for money to live?” Since I happened to have a ffelt-tip elt-tip pen with me, I scr scrawled awled a rresponse esponse to the question posed in the second commen comment: naturee every day day.. Move your nt: “Be in natur body a lot. Remember dreams.

Remeember and work with your dreams.

Be playful. Havee good sex. Infuse any little thing you do with a creative creativve twist. Hang out with animals. Eat with your fingers. egularly.” And that's also my fingerrs. Sing rregularly.” message for for you, youu, Scorpio, during this phase when it's so crucial for for you you to nurture nurture your wildness.

SSAGITTARIUS AGITT TARIU A US (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): “Don't worry, worryy,

et heavy y, we'll all float on.” So sings even if things ge get heavy, ock on the band's Modest Mouse'ss vocalist Isaac Br Brock recommend you try that approach approach song “Float On.”” I recommend yourself, Sagittarius.

Sagittaarius. arius Things will no doubt get heavy in yourself, s. But if you float on, the heaviness will the coming days days. s heaviness. It'll be a purifying be a good, rich, soulful ppurges ges any glib or shallow influences heaviness that pur vicinity. It'll be a healing heaviness that ar aree in your vicinity. juust the kind of gr aceful gr avitas you that gives you just graceful gravitas will need.

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): “What I look ffor or in

a friend is some someone eone who's diff different erent fr from om me,” says science fiction novelist n Samuel Delany Delany.. “The mor moree different person from different the pe rson is, the more more I'll learn fr om him.

The more more he'll come c up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations.” s Capricorn?

What about you, Capricorn?

What are are the qualities qu ualities in a friend that help you thrive?

Now is a perfect perfectt time to take an inventory. inventory. I sense that although although g there there are a e potential ar p new allies wanderingg in your vicinity vicinity, y, the they ey will actually become part of your lif lifee only if you adjus st and update your attitudes about the adjust influences you value v most.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): AAtt the turn of the 19th century century, y, Russian Russian laborers laborers constructed thousands of miles of railroad railroad o tracks tracks from from the western part of the country eastward eastwarrd to Siberia. The hardest hardest part of the job was blastingg tunnels thr through ough the mountains that were in the way. wayy. I reckon reckon you're you're at a comparable comparable point were in your work, Aquarius.

Aqquarius. It's time to smash gaping holes through through obstacles. obstacles. Don't scrimp or apologize. Clear the way ffor or the future. futuure.

PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 19-March ch 20): The British rrock ock band the Animals rreleased eleeased their gritty owly song “The gritty,, gr growly H House off the th Ris Ri Rising sing i Sun SSun”” in i 1964.

1964 It rreached eached h d the th top t of the pop musi musicc charts in the U.S., CCanada, anada, U.K., and Austr alia, and was w a hit with critics. Rolling SStone Australia, tone timaately ranked ranked it as the 122nd gr eatest magazine ul ultimately greatest song of all time.. And yet it took the Animals just 15 minutes to rrecord. ecord. They did it in one take. That's the r's luck and spontaneous flow I fforesee oresee kind of beginner beginner's you having in th the he coming week weeks, s, Pisces. What's the best way for for you u to channel all that soulful mojo?

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