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ISawYou@metronews.com Send us your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen to I SAW YOU, Metro, 380 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email.

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I was sitting outside at the Yard House in Santana Row. It was mostly groups of local bros and loner sad dads like myself that day. You were the head bro at your table. A very young blonde girl walked by wearing a skirt. Maybe the skirt was short, but it was really hot over the weekend—not that the sun is any reason to justify catcalling. You and your buddies started by making some weird sucking noises, not even using actual words. As the poor girl passed, she tried to pull her skirt down and you jerks actually started booing her. I mumbled something that even I couldn’t hear. The most disgusting thing was after it was over you looked over at me and caught me staring at you. And grinned at me, as if I was in on the joke.

And I was too much of a coward to do anything but nod at you, pay my check and leave. I then spent the rest of the evening on Twitter re-tweeting feminists and hating myself for not speaking up in real life.

RE: “DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE HYPHENS,” COVER, JUNE 24

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This was a nice read.

So many sarcastic killjoys here. San Jose citizens: why are you so narrow, mean, sarcastic? For the record, I neither agree or disagree with this event, but, these negative comments make my stomach turn. UGH. San Jose needs to get a heart, you tin man city.

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RE: “INSIDE JOKES,” THE FLY, JUNE 24

Every year, the members of the San Jose City Council put the spotlight on themselves and produce a little show called, “Monday Night Live.”

How embarrassing. The council members think of themselves as a group of celebrities deserving of notice, rather than the public servants that they really are (or at least, should be). If they would only take their jobs as seriously as they take themselves, the City of San Jose might be a better place to live!

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Pol Party Just three months after conceding the 17th Congressional District race to seven-term incumbent MIKE HONDA (D- San Jose), RO KHANNA accepted his first campaign check for the 2016 re-match. Honda himself started requesting money less than couple months after the election. It’s expected given the perpetual campaign cycle for two-year terms. So, this past weekend Honda hopped from one fundraiser to another. Luckily for him, this included a poolside celebration of “the fourth anniversary of his 70th birthday.”

Even if he had to give an obligatory stump speech and attendant call for cash, Honda balanced it out with small talk and a glass of Prosecco. Congresswoman ZOE LOFGREN (D-San Jose) joined her colleague for the intimate klatch at defense attorney CHRIS SCHUMB’s stunning Willow Glen estate. A rogue pool cleaner interrupted both Lofgren and Honda mid-speech with a splash, providing some comic relief and speculation whether Khanna sabotaged the underwater robot. Goodwill They CEO MIKE FOX JR. and his Did parents, philanthropists What?

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Teen to Life ONE TO GROW ON Studies suggest criminal sentencing laws should account for important cognitive developments of men and women in their twenties.

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ICHAEL MENDOZA made the worst decision of his life when was just 15 years old. He had recently joined a new family—a gang—to replace the troubled relationship with his father.

Eager for approval, he went out for a ride with some of his new family members. The drive ended with a passenger in the front aiming a gun out the window and killing a rival gang member.

“At that moment, I was totally ignorant,” Mendoza says. “I didn’t consider the impact that this decision

would have, not just on this man, but on his family, on my family and on the community. All I cared about was me— all I could think about was me.”

A month after his 15th birthday, Mendoza was arrested and found suitable to be tried as an adult. The gravity of the situation hadn’t sunk in yet. “I said, ‘OK, I’ll probably go home in about a week or so, and I’ll never get involved with things like this again,’” he says. Instead he received a 15-year-to-life sentence. Only then did Mendoza finally wake up to reality. “It’s the most hopeless thing you can feel,” he says. “It just felt like you’re dying inside. You matter to no one and you just become a number that nobody cares about.”

More than 6,500 of California’s 130,000 inmates committed crimes under the age of 18, like Mendoza. Many experience similar emotions when sentenced to decades or life in prison,

says to Dave Robinson, a chaplain at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Santa Clara County. “Their whole sense of hope is shattered,” he says. “How do you process that you’re going to do 10, 15, 20 years? It’s incomprehensible. It just develops more anger, more rage, more sense of hopelessness and more tendencies to act out.”

The only way out of this cycle is for youth to maintain “a sense of personal hope,” Robinson adds. It took nearly a nearly a decade behind bars for Mendoza to find his. He started going to church and working towards his associate’s degree and several vocational programs.

And then, in 2013, life changed.

The California legislature passed SB 260, a youth offender bill that set up a new parole process for those who were minors at the time of their crimes.

These youth offenders could now visit the board of parole hearings ahead of schedule—after 15, 20 or 25 years, depending on their original sentence— and have their age at the time of the crime considered “with great weight.”

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of California, San Diego, explains that the part of the brain that controls â&#x20AC;&#x153;longrange planning, controlling impulses, and in choosing the larger, later reward instead of the smaller, sooner rewardâ&#x20AC;? is under â&#x20AC;&#x153;construction into the mid-20s.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;People used to think that it was 5 or 6 years old in terms of when things were static in your morality and identity,â&#x20AC;? says Giedd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now we see thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not true, that the biology is very optimistic in a way.

We can still change so much, certainly between 16 and 20, and I would even argue between 20 and 25.â&#x20AC;?

SB 261 opponents say society should deďŹ ne who is a minor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It creates some uncertainty and takes away that kind of bright line between juvenile and adult,â&#x20AC;? says Sean Hoffman, legislation attorney with the California District Attorneys Association. Hoffman also takes issue with the claim of zero recidivism among SB 260 parolees. Although hundreds of inmates have been released under the law in the past year without returning to criminal activity, he says â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too soon to assess the impact.â&#x20AC;?

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overcrowded prisons violate the Eighth Amendmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishmentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and ordered the inmate population to be reduced by 40,000.

California has until February 2016. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gov. Brown has been using SB 260 as something showing how he can reduce the prison population in a thoughtful, carefully-considered way,â&#x20AC;? says Burrell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for the prison system because they need to get rid of some inmatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;because we need to run a constitutional systemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for the young people because it gives them the possibility of living their lives.â&#x20AC;?

It costs the state $62,000 a year to incarcerate someone. Most people ďŹ rst enter prison before the age of 25. SB 261 wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just help juvenile offenders or prison reductions, says Mendoza, it would also beneďŹ t the community. He and others like him are in prime position to deter youth from the same choices he once made as a teenager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have so many affluent areas here, and many of these people want to help out, but their idea of helping out is with funding or donations,â&#x20AC;? Mendoza says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ďŹ nd any other way to deal with troubled children except interacting with them physically, because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re scared. But people such as myself have no reservationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we are more than willing to go to the streets and talk to these kids, get our hands dirty.â&#x20AC;?

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Mendoza went before the parole board, eager to show that he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;no longer that 15-year-old boy.â&#x20AC;? After 17 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;more than half of his lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mendoza got his release.

Today, the 34-year-old lives in Oakland, works full-time for a marketing ďŹ rm and is studying to get his bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in business marketing at San Francisco State. Mendozaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t unusualâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so far, there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been a single incident of recidivism among several hundred SB 260 parolees. Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legislature is now deliberating SB 261, which would expand the young offender parole hearings by making 23 the eligible age. â&#x20AC;&#x153;SB 260 and 261 give young people hope, give them an incentive to change,â&#x20AC;? says state Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Oakland), who authored both bills. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And really, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only an opportunity. The board of parole hearings is very tough, and they only grant parole in less than 15 percent of casesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opportunity that means a lot to the individual human beings.â&#x20AC;?

The idea behind both bills is to right the wrongs of mass incarceration policies created in preceding decades. A fear of â&#x20AC;&#x153;superpredatorsâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a wave of young criminals taking over U.S. citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;led to tougher laws nationwide. In California, this took form in Proposition 21, which passed in 2000 and made it easier to try juveniles as adults. In recent years, however, legislation has attempted to move in the other direction, such as eliminating life without the possibility of parole for those under the age of 18. But many youth still receive â&#x20AC;&#x153;de facto lifeâ&#x20AC;? sentences up to 110 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For us to make a decision when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re 16 or 17 years old that will maybe keep them in prison for their whole livesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what we should do,â&#x20AC;? says Sue Burrell, an attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, which co-sponsored SB 260. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we should do is give them opportunities to demonstrate that they are now mature, that they have taken advantage of opportunities to rehabilitate themselves.â&#x20AC;?

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TAKE A (RAIN)BOW Civil rights took a big step forward with the Supreme

Court’s 5-4 ruling to legalize gay marriage.

Silicon Valley Politicos Revel in SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling BY LINDSEY J. SMITH This morning, following the historic Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage, District 4 Supervisor Ken Yeager proudly raised the rainbow flag above the County Government Center.

Yeager, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ rights, was “filled with joy and gratitude over the court’s ruling,” he shared in a statement from his office.

He officiated the first legal same-sex marriage in the county in 2008, and then again in 2013 after Proposition 8 was overruled.

In 2007, he also pushed for, and achieved, equally priced ceremonies in the county’s wedding chapel, after discovering price discrimination against commitment ceremonies.

Unlike Justice Scalia—whose laughable dissent likened the majority opinion to “the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie”—there are no sour grapes around City Hall. Numerous San Jose politicos have joined Supervisor Yeager in commending and celebrating the 5-4 decision.

“The Supreme Court has finally delivered on a long overdue obligation of our Constitution to the millions of our brothers and sisters who seek legal sanction for their personal life commitments,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said in a statement.

“There are few human rights so core to our being, or so worth protecting.”

Liccardo is a member of Mayors for Freedom to Marry.

Assemblyman Evan Low—sworn in six years ago as the nation’s youngest Asian American openly gay mayor before election to the state legislature— said the 5-4 ruling finally puts the country on the right side of history.

“The U.S. Supreme Court ruling is a victory and celebration for all who stand for equal justice and equal opportunity,” Low said. “The California Supreme Court has already allowed same-sex marriage in our state, and this morning’s ruling just reaffirms the hope and promise that all people could marry. This is a great day in the country and today, we stand on the right side of history. Love is love.”

“It’s a banner day for equality in America,” Anna Eshoo, Congresswoman for California’s 18th District, added in an announcement.

“Today our nation has taken a giant step forward to make good on the words of our pledge of allegiance, ‘with liberty and justice for all.’”

San Jose City Councilman Ash Kalra also praised the decision via Twitter, noting the progress from 48 years ago, when inter-racial marriage bans were outlawed.

San Jose Streets to ‘Come Alive’ The streets will come alive this fall, when San Jose joins a growing list of 100-plus cities that temporarily shut off some roads to cars and opens them up to foot traffic and cyclists.

Viva CalleSJ, in the words of Mayor Sam Liccardo, will “convert San Jose’s streets into a vibrant paved park.”

For a five-hour stretch on Oct. 11, the city will close a six-mile STREET SWEEP VivaCalleSJ expects to gets route from St. James Park along boots on the ground from downtown Market and First streets and to Happy Hollow Park & Zoo. eastward to Keyes Street and Story Road. The final destination: Emma Prusch Farm Park. integral part of our mission,” said Viva CalleSJ is not a race, so don’t Shiloh Ballard, executive director of be that guy.

Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition.

People can walk, bike, skate and play The bike coalition and San Jose’s at any point, for any distance. There Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood will be three activity stations along the Services Department are organizing the route: at St. James Park, Parque de los pedestrian-friendly day, thanks in part to Pobladores and Emma Prusch Park. funding from the Knight Foundation.

The hubs will host vendors, activities, “Events like these attract and entertainment, hydration stations, retain people to the region, create bathrooms and bike parking. economic opportunity and support a “These events promote and culture of robust civic engagement,” encourage people to replace daily said Daniel Harris, the Knight car trips with bicycling, walking and Foundation’s San Jose program public transportation, which is an director. —Lindsey J. Smith

Carrasco Stays Committed to East Side Council Seat First-term San Jose Councilwoman Magdalena Carrasco put to rest rumors of a bid for higher office, announcing last week that she won’t run for state Assembly in 2016. The decision, which Carrasco has been contemplating almost as long as she’s been on the council (six months), provides some semblance of stability for the beleaguered East Side. While the seat is currently held by Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose), who churns through staff like a fantasy football roster—and spurns constituent outreach in the process, Carrasco has a chance to make a greater impact by staying in closer proximity to her community, while also fulfilling

promises she made to voters when running against her oft-investigated predecessor, Xavier Carrasco Campos. (Any coincidence those two happen to be related? No.) “Now is not the right time for me to lead in Sacramento when there is so much left to do in our local community,” Carrasco said. Mayor Sam Liccardo endorsed that decision, then threw his support behind former vice mayor and candidate Madison Nguyen. The field, for now, is set with Nguyen, San Jose Councilman Ash Kalra, county education trustee Darcie Green and activist Cong Do.

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Alchemy for You SMART TABLET This work depicts the ‘Emerald Tablet of Thoth,’ which alchemists believed held the secrets to ancient wisdom.

Ancient craft to create gold inspires soul-searching at Rosicrucian

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ITH A FIERY redorange backdrop, the ancient art of alchemy now comes alive at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. One entire room showcases this ancient art of transformation through various displays, text panels and even a replica of a medieval alchemist’s workshop. A wealth of info explodes all at one time, so it can be overwhelming—as with life itself—but the dirt is in the details, so to speak.

Some background: In ancient days of yore, alchemists toiled away in their laboratories, claiming to search for methods of converting base metals into gold. Endless amounts of symbols, diagrams and texts emerged from those processes. Although their terminology contributed to the development of modern-day chemistry, people still argue over the degree to which the alchemists’ methods were allegories for spiritual, mental or psychological processes. That is, when they spoke of “converting lead into gold,” were they serious, or was it a metaphor for transpersonal growth? When they talked about “distilling away the contaminants,” or “washing away the impurities,” were they referring to actual chemical processes, or was this

really about fine tuning one's own personal path (i.e. boiling away the bad elements in order to sculpt a more stable psyche)?

As early as 1500, the Rosicrucians were among the first to reiterate alchemical terminology toward a more spiritual and evolutionary direction. At least that’s what Dennis Hauck told me a few years ago. He was the one who helped design the alchemy exhibit, now open to the public after years of deliberation.

Right now, the fiery-red-orange backdrop of the exhibit pulls one into the experience. Right away, visitors read an introductory explanation of alchemy and its origins in the Emerald Tablet, authored by Hermes Trismegistus, who is often interconnected with Thoth, the Egyptian god of science. From there, the fusion of western science and spiritual processes evolved all the way up to the modern conception of

alchemy. Something about the ancient green hue of that tablet interacts with the red-orange-ness of the rest of the exhibit. I can’t say how, but I just felt it.

And in the rest of the exhibit, one finds seven elaborate displays depicting the seven phases of alchemy: Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation and Coagulation. Each display features a main text panel, an image representing the phase in question, plus physical objects related to the phase along with additional explanatory texts offering more insight into the process.

In one case, we learn that Calcination, the first step in alchemical transformation, is a process of decomposition in which a substance is reduced to ashes or powder by heating, drying or crushing it. On a personal level, this step seeks to get beyond ego and personality to reveal one’s true identity or soul.

In another example, Conjunction is a step in which two different compounds are merged to create an entirely new substance by melding, bonding, compounding, amalgamation or precipitation. On a personal level, Conjunction might be viewed as a marriage of opposites, eventually leading to a more whole and integrated being.

As one experiences the displays, reading everything in order, it is impossible not to imagine ways in which alchemy might apply to one’s own journey—personally, creatively or both.

The whole process, on a micro level, could easily manifest itself as the realization of any sort of balanced inner space where opposites do not conflict with each other. If you happen to harbor a punk rock aspect of yourself that seemingly can’t coexist with the easy-listening aspects of yourself, or if your urban self can’t coexist with your suburban nature, then alchemy can help. With the aid of the seven phases, you can fine-tune your inner space in order to resolve conflicting elements, on your way toward becoming a more whole and integrated person.

Don’t think your Black Flag records are incompatible with your Jim Nabors records. You don’t have to get rid of anything. They can coexist, thanks to a few thousand years’ worth of transpersonal work now illuminated by the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.

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Let Freedom Ring (My Cellphone) SOMEBODY’S WATCHING YOU ‘Camera Room, New Mexico,’ a 2007 by David Taylor, shows a room full of monitors trained on the U.S.-Mexico border.

It is one of many works to be displayed during the ‘Covert Operations’ exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0’s artistic and political statement recalls the independent burn of Founding Fathers BY GARY SINGH

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HE ARTIST COLLECTIVE Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 can’t seem to do anything without causing problems.

Nearly 20 years ago, EDT member Brett Stalbaum was finishing his master’s in the CADRE Lab for New Media at San Jose State University.

We were in the same classes together and have been friends since. At that time, EDT was version 1.0 and Stalbaum set up shop in room 233 of the Art Department.

It was in that room that he coded in part the FloodNet Java applet, “a conceptual artwork of the net,” which, designed in solidarity with the Zapatistas, helped briefly bring down the Mexican government’s

website.Subcomandante Marcos, the performance-artist-spokesman for the Zapatistas, was calling for new independent media to join the revolution. The World Wide Web was only a few years old, so terms like ‘cyberattack’ and ‘electronic civil disobedience’ were not household concepts yet. In SJSU’s Art Room 233, surrounded by SGI machines intended for computer animation classes, Stalbaum designed FloodNet, a fantastically low-tech art project built to replicate civil disobedience by enabling thousands of people to intentionally flood a website, a DoS attack that acted as a virtual sit-in.FloodNet caused international controversy, as the web, being so new, had not yet been used for mass political protest. Of course, as this was all going down, predictably, no

one else in San Jose seemed to have any idea it was even happening.

Everyone was too busy watering their lawns and watching Seinfeld.

Nowadays, EDT is “version 2.0” and the artists involved—Micha Cardenas, Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand and Stalbaum—have company in practicing the most American of ideals: civil disobedience. And just in time for the nation’s birthday, a new exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art brings together a generation of artists who, through their work, address such travesties of justice— and express independence.

Art Attacks The first phase of Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns

came above ground June 30, including works by EDT 2.0, Harun Farocki, and collaborators AnneMarie Schleiner and Luis Hernandez Galvan. The second phase goes public in August.

Claire Carter curated the show’s debut at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona, just last year, and when sitting down with the participants she realized they weren’t just a bunch of bohemians irritated by the bumbling government and its failed policies. They were actually functioning like journalists.

“One of the reasons I found them so compelling is that they were digging for information that was demonstrable in this world of doublespeak and hidden agendas and security decisions that are hidden from the United States public,”

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“The biggest challenge was getting the software into people's’ hands, since organized crime basically controls the border crossing,” Stalbaum said. “One of the first things the coyotes (human smugglers) often did was take peoples’ mobile phones away, if they had them, because they wanted to be completely in control of the immigrants they were guiding into the country.”

That was 2009 and the racket has changed quite a bit since then.

Many migrants leaving Mexico now have mobile phones.

The process of helping immigrants cross over into the country now actually involves text messaging, smartphones and many familiar technologies.

Unfortunately, it was only a matter of time before the right wing echo chamber began to misinterpret EDT’s art project— one designed to help people find water—as something intended for foul play. Editorials appeared in the Orange County Register and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Conservative carnival barkers like Glenn Beck began to hyperventilate over the project, attacking EDT as if they were aiding and abetting terrorists.

No one in the echo chamber seemed to have art school experience, so they didn’t understand that EDT were implementing what French groups like the Lettrists and the Situationist International referred to 60 years ago as detournement— that is, the intentional rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking or other methods of turning a capitalist system against itself in order to produce new

hysterical constructs. And, forget that the phones were never actually given to any migrants. That didn’t matter to the critics.

Stalbaum reiterated that the phones were conceptualized for short-term navigation purposes so that migrants could find water, experience poetry and survive in desert conditions. None of the hysterics seemed to understand that this was an art project designed to highlight failed policies on both sides of the border.

“There are GPS devices—you can go into the Best Buy in Tijuana if you want one—that are actually designed for long-distance, over-land navigation,” Stalbaum said.

“Whereas our platform is designed to help you find a water station. So if you live in a factsbased reality, your concern should be with Best Buy, not the Transborder Immigrant Tool.”

The trouble didn’t end there.

Aside from the FBI investigating the project, on the local front, University of California bureaucrats were likewise confused, so UCSD went after Ricardo Dominguez’ tenure over the whole thing. After all, the project was conceived with the help of university research funds. But after the subsequent media firestorm, as well as the negative publicity UCSD began to receive by trying to censor Dominguez, the university eventually decided not to strip him of his tenure.

DIY Surveillance Covert Operations artists question the ways in which the government monitors people's behavior around the clock. Hasan Elahi’s work is the direct result of his experience with the FBI after they erroneously placed

him on their terrorist watch list in June of 2002.

During the vast expansion of federal power immediately following the attacks, Elahi was stopped at the airport and interrogated about his activities on or around September 11.

Despite handing over his electronic appointment books, itineraries and phone calls, Elahi spent six months under investigation and sat through dozens of interviews and polygraph charades. This experience drove him to thoroughly document his entire life and activities via his website, basically preempting government surveillance by doing it for them.

In the exhibit, multiplechannel video-projections and/or installations will include live feeds from his website, documenting his whereabouts in obsessive detail, just so the regulatory bureaucrats can sit there and monitor his everyday activities. Now based at the University of Maryland, Elahi used to teach in the Art Department at SJSU. In still other cases, the works of artists like David Taylor and Jenny Perlin address specific examples of US government spying on American citizens. Harun Farocki and Trayn Simon likewise pry into the dysfunctional US intelligence bureaucracies and their botched handling of specific black sites.

All in all, when Covert Operations debuted at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, nothing in the show really shook the political landscape of Arizona that much at all. No one interpreted the show as a bunch of left-wing crackpot artists.

Carter says everyone seemed surprised that no media firestorm erupted in what’s generally referred to as the most conservative city in that state.

“What I’ve had to point out to people constantly, is that there’s a kind of libertarian bent to the artworks,” Carter said. “People were really shocked that it didn’t cause controversy in Scottsdale because, ‘Oh, Arizona’s so conservative.’ A lot of reporters from New York were just completely baffled as to why this wasn’t hugely controversial. I just had to explain to people that this is really about transparency and government accountability. And that those are all pretty libertarian positions in a lot of ways.”

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using democratic means to get at information that we should all be addressing publicly. And I just found that extraordinarily compelling. On the surface, they’re all dealing with different issues in our post-9/11 world.”

Ricardo Dominguez, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, was nearly stripped of his tenure and fired for his participation in the EDT 2.0 conceptual art project. Luis Hernandez Galvan, a Mexican citizen, was booted out of the US for developing an interactive video game. Other artists in the show Covert Operations have had their mail opened or been targeted by the FBI. As a homecoming of sorts, some of the artists involved can trace their academic trajectories right back to Silicon Valley.

EDT 2.0’s project, Transborder Immigrant Tool (2010), repurposes archaic cellphones as physical aids for those crossing the border into the United States. Each phone has been uploaded with EDT’s proprietary software, enabling the user to locate water caches, highways or the border patrol in case of emergencies. The user cannot call out from the phone, thus announcing his or her location, but instead the phone equips the user with tools to survive as he or she continues the journey. The phone software even projects desert survival poetry about the landscape written and recorded by the artists, thereby welcoming migrants into Arizona or California.

In a decidedly indigenous sense, the migrants can then view the desert as a sublime poetic object, with poetry becoming as much a part of the journey as water or location data.

EDT began conceptualizing the project in 2008, back when Apple was first pretending the iPhone was revolutionizing GPS technology. EDT found a bunch of old cellphones that already had GPS, but were otherwise “unsmart.” Those devices became the core physical component of EDT’s new conceptual art project.

Stalbaum says Transborder Immigrant Tool was influenced by nongovernmental humanitarian organizations like Border Angels, which helped maintain water caches in case immigrants ran into trouble in the high desert. The conceptual goal was to similarly aid the migrants,

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T’S BEEN 239 years since the Founding Fathers formally severed political ties with Britain with the Declaration of Independence.

A lot has changed since then. After fighting a war with the redcoats, we’ve patched things up with our neighbors across the pond.

We no longer wear powdered wigs, general hygiene is much better, and our country has grown from a loosely organized collective of 13 colonies into the world’s reigning superpower.

Plenty hasn’t changed, however.

We still love beer, coal-fired meats and blowing stuff up, for example. As such, each year we mark the occasion of our independence from tyranny by starting up the grill, popping open a cold one and watching explosions in the sky. Here is a list of the best local places to get your Fourth on. — Nick Veronin

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180 Woz Way, San Jose. The Rotary Club of San Jose celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2014 by donating $50,000 and raising another $150,000 to ensure the return of the Fourth of July ďŹ reworks show to downtown San Jose (the display had been halted in 2008, due to city budget shortfalls). The Rotary has done it againâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not only to celebrate the Fourth, but also the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 101st year and a new century of service. The glaring red rockets will be blasting off from Discovery Meadow in Guadalupe Park.

1305 MiddleďŹ eld Rd., Palo Alto, Ca. Twenty chefs will compete at the Summer Festival and Chili Cook-off for the chili championship. Live music and entertainment, along with face painting and other activities for children, is planned.

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Cupertino 4th of July Intersection Of Stevens Creek Blvd. And Mary Ave., Cupertino . Cupertino hosts a variety of Fourth of July activities, starting at Memorial Park with a pancake breakfast, ďŹ&#x201A;ag raising, parade and concert. At night, Blackberry Farm hosts free swimming, a BBQ, and live music.

Freedom Fest 2015 Monterey Rd. And West 4Th St., Morgan Hill. Freedom Fest 2015 kicks off with a 5k run with awards given to top ďŹ nishers and those who participate in costume. For those that would rather push some pedals, the Bike Classic features multiple routes that begin in the morning. Morgan Hill has been celebrating the 4th with a parade since 1876 and this year is no exception with ďŹ&#x201A;oats, live music, performances and a huge ďŹ reworks display.

4th of July Parade and Festival Downtown Redwood City. Redwood City hosts its 76th annual 4th of July Parade. The parade is scheduled with a pancake breakfast, run and car show. The block party will have entertainment for all ages including arts and crafts, food and a carnival. The Port of Redwood City will hold the ďŹ reworks show.

Independence Day in Gilroy 3050 Hecker Pass Hwy, Gilroy. The City of Gilroy celebrates the 4th of July with the Independence Day BBQ at Gilroy Gardens.

Promised provisions include BBQ favorite like chicken, hot dogs, potato salad, and western style chili beans.

Roaring Camp 5355 Graham Hill Rd., Felton. The festivities at Roaring Camp include hula-hoop contests, games, live entertainment and a barbecue.

Both railways will be operating this day with a surprise at each departure.

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Alameda 4th of July Parade Downtown Alameda. The annual Alameda 4th of July Parade clocks in at one of the longest in the country, with a 3 mile route traveled by over 170 ďŹ&#x201A;oats and 2500 people. It promises all the parade highlights of equestrians, dance troops, antique cars and live music.

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Wall space was adorned with various elegant wine and champagne bottles of different sizes in between vases of fresh flowers. The restaurant seemed to be gearing up as staff put out new flowers for the day.

Our meal came out in order from small plates and salad to entrees and then ending with dessert. The glass of Sophora Sparkling Rose ($10/glass) was tart and crisp with a hint of sweetness.

It paired well with the refreshing shaved fennel salad ($10). A generous helping of shaved fennel and arugula dressed in balsamic vinaigrette that lacked tartness was served with pickled red onions and grated parmesan cheese, which should have been stronger to add flavor to the dish. The subtle hint of grated orange zest was a welcome touch.

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Belmont Village Senior Living, San Jose Wed, Various Times, Free Award-winning local photographer Thomas Sanders has accomplished plenty in his relatively short career. He’s published a number of photography collections—including a coffee table book examining World War II veterans.

With Independence Day around the corner, Sanders will be exhibiting some of his portraits of American service members at two South Bay locations: on July 1 at the Belmont Village Senior Center in San Jose and on July 2 at the Belmont Village Senior Center in Sunnyvale. The exhibits feature photos of local WWII veterans, which Sanders began capturing in 2010.(NV)

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The Apple Watch, Google Glass and fitness-tracking bracelets are the most familiar examples of “wearable” computers. While these devices only recently came to market, it turns out that humans have been strapping computers their bodies for 50 years. “On You: A Story of Wearable Computing” examines the rich and storied history of people augmenting themselves with machines. The Georgia Institute of Technology, working in partnership with the Computer History Museum, has amassed a collection of consumer, professional and homemade wearables—including unique prototypes. The show will also explore the technical puzzles and social stigmas that have stood in the way of effective wearable technology. (LN)

Local ska-reggae-punks MONKEY specialize in heart-pumping rhythms and high-energy, spontaneous dance parties. The San Jose quartet blend peppy, organdriven melodies with anthemic, sing-along choruses that feel familiar and fun. Over the course of their two-decade-long career, they’ve released four full-length albums, been featured in a bevy of compilations, video games and film soundtracks, and were recognized with the prestigious California Music Award. Don’t be surprised if you catch yourself bobbing your head or skanking in place while listening to their infectious tunes. (JL)

Like art, words are just another form of symbolism—shapes on paper or a screen, which, when mashed together, serve as representations of an idea. From Pablo Picasso to Allen Ruppersberg, modern and contemporary artists have been integrating words into their works for years in order to expand upon their medium of expression.

This upcoming exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center will focus on the intersection of words and visual art.

Edward Ruscha’s oeuvre Hollywood, Bruce Nauman’s first word-image print Raw-War and No, a largescale lithograph with lead collage

by Jasper Johns are some of the show’s highlights. “Word as Image” runs through Oct. 26. The Cantor Arts Center is closed Tuesdays. (LN)

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Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale Thu, 7:15pm, $14 He got his start at open mic nights, entertaining fellow UC Davis students. Now, comedian Dan Gabriel is a national headliner with two full-length comedy albums and appearances on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and CBS’s Star Search. Known for his casual but irreverent humor, Gabriel is the award-winning writer of BBC America’s Thugs on Film, as well as the winner of the L.A. Take Out Comedy Competition. Until recently, Gabriel hosted the AZN network show, Asia Street Comedy.

His podcast The Best Medicine, is currently available on iTunes. (TM)

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BOZ SCAGGS KEVIN HART July 16 at SAP Center

RUSH July 23 at SAP Center

JIM GAFFIGAN July 23 at Mountain Winery

MORRISSEY July 25 at SJSU Event Center

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ROB THOMAS Mountain Winery, Saratoga Thu, 5:30pm, $50- $120 In addition to fronting the multiplatinum post-grunge outfit, Matchbox Twenty, and lending his scratchy vocals to the 1999 Santana hit, “Smooth,” Rob Thomas has forged a successful solo career.

With his dynamic singing voice and a knack for penning catchy songs, Thomas has remained a relevant force in pop music and culture for two decades—earning official recognition from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and appearing on TV in the FX series, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and on NBC’s singing competition show, The Voice. The Plain White T’s, best known for their late-oughts alterna-acoustic single, “Hey There Delilah,” open the show. (JE)

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You may recognize the work of Jeremiah Harada, a.k.a. mr.harada, from this newspaper. The San Josebased visual artist is a freelance contributor to Metro, but that’s not the only place his art can be found.

He’s created a custom series of decks for Enjoi skateboards and has contributed to collaborative shows at galleries around San Jose.

His latest endeavor is a showcase entitled “Please Don’t Laugh,” which explores awkwardness and emotion. His deceptively simplistic and cartoonish style taps into the foundations of the everyday human experience. After the show, the collection will be on display in Chromatic Coffee for the rest of the month. (JE)

Caravan Lounge, San Jose Fri, 9pm, Free There was a time when punk bands wore their shorts a little longer, their socks a little higher, and slung their guitars a little lower. Those who spent their summer afternoons watching Offspring and Green Day videos on MTV will remember this look, and its accompanying sound: crunchy guitars, quick and boppy drumming, and bratty vocals smoothed out by rich harmonies.

If you pine for this era of punk, The Caravan is the place to be this Friday. NVS is a politically charged, San Jose-based quintet, with songs that recall the very best of mid-’90s alterna-pop-punk. Chain wallets optional. (NV)

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ISLAND REGGAE FESTIVAL Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose Sat, 10am–11pm, $60 Chill, island vibes and colorful fireworks come to the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds this Fourth of July. The fourth annual Island Reggae Festival will feature live performances from artists including Morgan Heritage, showcasing their fresh, new album Strictly Roots; the soulful Hawaiian group The Green; and Jamaican reggae veterans Third World. In addition to the music, free carnival rides come with admission and patrons can expect car, bike and tattoo showcases, as well as an island dance competition. (JL)

ORQUESTRA BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB August 15 at Mountain Winery

CHRIS HARDWICK August 15 at California Theatre

SHANIA TWAIN August 17 at SAP Center

MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD August 18 at Mountain Winery

DIERKS BENTLEY August 21 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

HEART August 26 at Mountain Winery

NEKO CASE September 4 at Mountain Winery

CHAYANNE September 6 at SAP Center

MADONNA October 19 at SAP Center For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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Culture For Kids EN GARDE The new School for Performing Arts at Palo Alto’s Oshman Family JCC will teach theater and music to children and teens.

A new performing arts school is opening in Palo Alto

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T A TIME when arts and drama departments are disappearing from public schools all over the country, a new private school is opening in Palo Alto specifically tailored to the performing arts.

The Oshman Family Jewish Community Center’s School for the Performing Arts aims to provide a diverse and innovative approach to teaching music and art for Silicon Valley residents, both children and teens, according to Ronit WidmannLevy, the school’s director of arts and culture. Starting in Fall 2015, the school will offer a wide variety of classes, ranging from music-

oriented courses, such as song-writing, piano and choir, to stage-oriented instruction, such as improvisation and stage make-up classes.

The Oshman Family JCC’s new program boasts numerous classrooms, a recital hall, a professional soundbooth and other facilities specially designed for children and adults. At the end of each semester, the school also plans to hold final performances to showcase what students have learned. The ultimate goal, Widmann-Levy says, “is for the department to collaborate on an end-of-semester performance where everybody has their hand in the craft.”

While special attention will be paid to the works of such artists as Leonard Bernstein and Gustav Mahler—in order to emphasize

the enduring influence of Jewish musicians and composers—the curriculum will be inclusive and a measured balance between Jewish and non-jewish music, according to Widmann-Levy.

Even before the official opening, “kids from the entire community have come and contributed to the final product,” says WidmannLevy. This year, during the school's test phase, students performed a rendition of the play Variations on the Death of Trotsky by David Ives.

The Oshman JCC has a long history of education and community work in Palo Alto. Beginning as small meetings taking place in the 1960s on El Camino Real, The Oshman Family JCC has since grown into a multigenerational community center and school on the grounds of the old Sun Microsystems campus in Palo Alto.

The School for the Performing Arts is the organization’s newest educational contribution to the midPeninsula community. Although the idea behind the school has grown more complex in scope, according to Widmann-Levy, it began with the

goal of teaching kids about music, with an emphasis on the relationship between the arts and Jewish culture.

Now with a brand-new space and experienced staff, Widmann-Levy is confident in the school's ability to “facilitate an environment in which kids can artistically thrive.”

The school put on a number of high-caliber performances prior to its official opening. However, now the School for the Performing Arts is more focused on getting people excited about the arts than selling tickets. “Were interested in the process of learning about the arts and being a participant,” Widmann-Levy says.

The OFJCC School for the Performing Arts is headed by Edna Koren, Yale graduate, award-winning soloist and chamber musician. Her performance credits include the San Francisco Symphony, The Pittsburgh Symphony and The Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Along with her duties as head of the school, Koren has been the principal pianist with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony since 2003. The rest of the teaching staff are also noted musicians and music teachers in their own right.

For example, Widmann-Levy is a professionally trained opera soprano who has appeared on PBS and performed alongside Michael Tilson Thomas for almost a decade.

As STEM (science, technology engineering and math) programs are emphasized more in the nation's schools, little room has been left for art, music and drama departments.

Although not an intentional response to the rise in STEM-dominated school curricula, Widmann-Levy says she hopes the JCC’s new program can “fill that gaping hole as well as provide a space where kids can be involved in the arts.”

Currently, the program only offers afternoon classes, but Widmann Levy says there are plans to eventually introduce morning sessions. She hopes the school will ultimately become a community hub for music and arts education. “We’d like young people to come and experience what personal growth can be achieved by being involved in the arts,” WidmannLevy says.

Classes begin in September and tuition discounts will be offered to those who register before July 16. For more information, call 650-223-8605, or visit paloaltojcc.org.

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MACLA closes its 2014-15 season with BREAKING POINT, glass art works by award-winning Bay Area artists Jaime Guerrero and Viviana Paredes. Glass, a medium valued for its visual and tactile qualities, is used inventively by these contemporary artists to provide clarity on contemporary social issues. Guerrero and Paredes use glass as a vehicle to explore and critique issues as diverse as the effects of over-hunting to the extinction of dialects and cultural customs. Though MACLA has previously exhibited these artists as well as other artists who work with glass, this is its first exhibition dedicated solely to the medium.

Focused in scope, it illustrates the emergence of glass as a key medium in terms of visual activism, and its journey from purely decorative.

510 S 1st St, San Jose | 408.998.2783| maclaarte.org Above: Viviana Paredes installs The House That Tequila Built. Her works will be featured in MACLA’s Breaking Point exhibit through August 8, 2015.

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles 520 S 1st St, San Jose 408.971.0323 sjquiltmuseum.org

In July, museum visitors can participate in a fun quilt-making workshop with artist Denise Oyama Miler. In this two-day workshop, participants will learn about layering, machine quilting, surface design and some paint application. Visitors can come back to the museum on July 19 to learn how to transform old shoes into beautiful creations.

Margot Silk Forrest and Destiny Carter from Sassy Feet will share their secrets of using leather paints and other techniques you can apply on your shoes at home.

Workshop dates: July 11 to July 12 from 11am to 5pm

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Amy M. Ho: Red Rooms | Cardinale Project Room | Ending 9/12 The artist creates a hyper-artificial environment that envelops the viewer and transforms the sense of space via projected light and shadows.

Cassandra Straubing: A Fragile Narrative | Focus Gallery | Ending 9/12 Through sculpture, Cassandra Straubing addresses issues of domestic and industrial labor.

Naomie Kremer: Age of Entanglement | Main Gallery | Ending 9/19 Age of Entanglement will feature large-scale, intensely colored abstract paintings with video projections.

San Jose Stage Company 490 S 1st St, San Jose 408.283.7142 thestage.org

Caffe Frascati 315 S 1st St, San Jose 408.287.0400 caffefrascati.com

Caffe Frascati will feature a wide range of musicians and entertainment throughout July. In addition to the lineup below, every Monday is Comedia-Night, an open mic for comedians, and every Tuesday is open mic for musicians.

7/3: First Street Opera - arias and duets 7/18: E.O.T band - alternative funk and R&B 7/4: The Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience 7/30: The Dope NoOnes acoustic rock and folk 7/11: Seth Elsom - alternative funk 7/31: A special Ladies Night of music and art 7/17: Bossa Blue - bossanova and samba All shows start at 8pm.

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The kooky and spooky Addams Family Musical is the main summer hit at San Jose Stage Company through July 26. Wednesday Addams (Courtney Hatcher) will fall in love with a sweet smart young man from Ohio, causing every father’s nightmare for Gomez. Mystery and mayhem ensue when Gomez and the diabolical Morticia invite the “normal” boyfriend and his parents over for dinner.

The show runs on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm.

Ticket prices range from $20 to $65.

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At the turn of the 19th Century, a quarter of a million orphans were sent from New York to new home.

This production blends art with history to tell this little-told story. $15-$38. Sep 18-Oct 11. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Promised Land” Works by Jacob Lawrence. Thru August 3. “Pop Art from the SFMOMA Anderson Collection” featuring works by Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, and others. Thru Oct 26. Stanford.

WEST SIDE STORY Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet gets a greasy combover and a leather jacket. The legendary struggle between the Jets and the Sharks set in New York is a timeless classic. Jul 16-Aug 23. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company. San Jose.

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG Loony inventor Caractacus Potts seeks to save a grand-prix winning car from the scrap heap, only to find that it is imbued with magical flying powers. Soon whimsical hijinx ensue when he seeks to save his magic car from the sinister intentions of Baron Bomburst. July 27- Aug 2. $18$28 Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company. Los Altos.

ARCADIA The third chapter in Braverman's “stage noir” trilogy featuring the gin-soaked private eye, Frankie Payne, finds us rooting for something that has long eluded Frankie as she solves mysteries of crime: the mystery of love. But, in harm's way once again, will she solve the mystery in time?

Jun 19-Jul 12. $10-$35. The Pear Avenue Theatre. Mountain View.

OCTOBER 8-9, 2015

SANTA CLARA PLAYERS IRENE At one point, this was the longest running Musical in Broadway history. It traces the story of a poor Upper West Side girl who access the elite circle of Long Island when hired to redecorate a house by a well-to-do dame. $33.

Thru Jul 25. West Valley Light Opera. Saratoga Civic Theatre.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY The legendarily creepy family is caught by surprise when Wednesday falls in love with a sweet, smart, and thoroughly unterrifying boy from a nice family in this fun musical take on “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” Thru July 26. $55-$65.

The San Jose Stage.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM

METROACTIVE.COM ART ARK GALLERY “Surface Matters,” Tracing the various effects of different textures of glass, in conjunction with the 44th annual Glass Art Society convention. Thru July 18. San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan.

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

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS

“Dora and Diego: Let’s Explore” A series of adventures and activities based on the worldfamous children’s show. San Jose.

“Reconnecting with Cuba” Photographs of the contemporary state of the country by American artists.

Thru July 26 Mountain View.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE

EMPIRE SEVEN STUDIOS

“Silicon Valley Bikes! Passion, Innovation, & Politics since 1880” Tracing the history and showing the artifacts from San Jose’s 150 year history on two wheels. Thru Jul 26. “Slugs, Dingbats, and Tramp Printing”The printing press is one of the most important inventions in human history, see the machine that printed the first newspaper in California. Thru Dec 12. San Jose

Arlene Asuncion, Candie Bolton, Caitlin Hackett, Crystal Morey, Bunnie Reiss Thru July.

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LOS GATOS COMPANY “Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery”, featuring the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Maasai tribe of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania.

“Woodcarvings of Val Gardena, Italy,” featuring handcrafted woodcarving figures.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Postdate Photography and Inherited History in India,” Modern artists draw inspiration from the colonial past of India.

Thru August 2nd. “Figure Studies” by major Mexican muralist Jose Orozco. Thru Aug 23. “Beta Space” A massive study of the dung beetle’s place in the Galaxy. “Maker Space” thru Jan 17. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “A Common Thread: Stitching ” guest curated by Susan O’Malley. Thru July 5. “Kawandi Adventure” Quilts by Margaret Fabrizio. Thru July 5. “Bedouin Textiles from the Collection of Robert and Joy Totah Hilden.

Thru July 5. San Jose.

GALLERIES 2TWENTY5 Alternative Art next to rather fresh duds. Japantown, San Jose.

GALLERY HOUSE Photographs by Vidya Narasimhan, Steve Shpall, Bill Shupp. Thru Jul 25. Palo Alto.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE First Fridays feature new artwork, demonstrations, and conversations with artists.

San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY “Color Me Free” animal focused new work from Sandi Billingsley. Jay Cee, Nekyua, Theresa Merchant, and Al Preciado have collaborated to produce live paintings based on mythology. San Jose.

MACLA “Breaking Point” glass works by award-winners Jaime Guerrero and Vivianna Paredas. Thru Aug 8. San Jose.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER “Home Grown.” mid-career exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Walter Robinson.

Thru Aug 30. Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Red Rooms.” hyper-artificial environments playing with light and shadow by Amy M. Ho Thru Sep 12. “A Fragile Narrative” sculptures address domestic and industrial labor by Cassandra Straubing Thru Sep 12. “Age of Entanglement” vivid abstract paintings by Naomie Kremer. Thru Sep 19. “Passage” used coffee filters repurposed into natural forms by Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee Thru Oct 31. San Jose.

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Moving On Up THE AWARD-WINNING Pear Avenue Theatre will soon have a new name and a new home. The 13-year-old company is relocating from its current location on Pear Avenue—just off of N. Shoreline Boulevard near Moffett Field, in Mountain View—to 1110 La Avenida.

The new, larger space was designed by San Jose architect, John Duquette, and is barely a half mile from the theater’s longtime home. The company will be changing its name to Pear Theatre, in homage to its Pear Avenue origins.

The new space will more than double the capacity of the current theater, which seats only 40. The new location will allow for audiences of 80 to 99 people, depending on the production's configuration needs, according to a press release.

“The Pear has blossomed over the past 13 years, with our shows consistently playing to sold-out audiences and gathering critical acclaim,” the Pear’s founder and artistic director, Diane Tasca, says in the release. “We are pleased to have garnered support from such a vibrant artistic community and sophisticated, discerning audiences. We look forward to a larger, and yet still intimate space that will allow us to share our work with an even larger audience, and to introduce new programs to serve our community.”

Tasca announced the location of the new performance space and the titles included in the company's upcoming season at an event for Pear supporters held at her Palo Alto home last week.

The company will kick off its 2015-16 season at its new home with Tasca’s new play Walls of Jericho. The Pear’s artistic director is adapting the new production for the stage from the short story Night Bus, by Samuel Hopkins Adams. (The short story also inspired the classic film, It Happened One Night.)

The production is set to open Sept. 18. Other notable works in next season's crop of shows include a local playwright's new translation of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya, Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County, and Pear Slices 2016, the company's annual short-works festival.

Details of the 2015-16 season and more information on the move can be found at thepear.org.—Karla Kane

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Mad Daddy RICH AND POOR Mark Ruffalo plays Cameron, the bipolar father of Amelia (Imogene Wolodarsky) and Faith (Ashley Aufderheide) in a tale about a dysfunctional family that could.

‘Infinitely Polar Bear’ is fun, but has more Sundance quirk than actual substance

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HREE DIFFERENT styles of acting bash it out in the hardto-believe Infinitely Polar Bear—and if you think the title sounds like the most labored Sundance fair, you’re not wrong. Mark Ruffalo chews into the role of Cameron Stuart, a manicdepressive from a conceited Boston Brahmin family (his grandfather sat for a portrait

by John Singer Sargent). He’s idling his way through the late 1970s as Mr. Mom.

The daughters, for whom he’s acting as a loco-parent, are Amelia (Imogene Wolodarsky—a plump adorable lass of the Abigail Breslin line; and her younger sister Faith (Ashley Aufderheide).

The two actresses have an edge of desperation—they shout in perfect unison, like they’re trying to hold their own against Ruffalo’s shifting, twitchy performance.

The third style belongs to Zoe Saldana’s Maggie, who is always perfectly made up, like the mom in a 1950s sitcom. She’s unflappable and always knows best. Maggie sets Infinitely Polar Bear’s plot in motion when she decides to leave her children with a still-fragile Cameron while she takes an 18-month MBA crash course at Columbia University in New York.

Saldana performs Maggie as an honorable, aspiring woman, and there’s no shading or selfishness to the part. When she gets there, she’ll be the least venal trader in the history of Wall Street. She considers it cute when her husband (whom she has cut off from sexual relations) gets fresh with her—he takes the rebuffs in comic spirit, without resentment.

We’re assured that Infinitely Polar Bear—the title is a pun on Cameron’s bipolarity—is based on the true story of director and writer Maya Forbes.

An Exeter and Harvard grad, she’s from the old-money Forbes family of Boston. There was money in her family, but because of a trust fund that her beleaguered father couldn’t cash in on, Maya had a childhood of Section 8 housing in Cambridge.

It’d be a rare pair of children who didn’t resent their mother leaving them. But we have those children here. They get swearing mad at their father—countering his own raving

and tantrums. The fights end, we get back to square one, and the scenes start over again: 8mm flashbacks set the stage for the late ’70s; director of photography Bobby Bukowski insists that the cherry blossoms were pinker back then. The most evocative parts of the film come in the form of the rust-bucket, trouble-prone junk cars, which Cameron keeps buying.

At times, you feel this movie could be something if it had a point of view.

What if this plagued father had been seen from a more acute angle: from the narcissistic, frightened, and, most of all, merciless eyes of a growing girl? This is more like family life remembered after years of therapy. Forbes’ take is anecdotal, and pre-sweetened— Infinitely Polar Bear is shaped for the network TV audiences’ perspective.

People enter the scene and do something cute. There are even wacky neighbors in the movie: people in the apartment building who are nervous around Cameron when he’s getting stirred up, bursting with friendliness because he’s off his lithium.

The soundtrack of old time music loans this movie some integrity—as when Amelia is walking through a derelict neighborhood in the rain to get to her dad’s halfway house, as Mississippi John Hurt’s “Stack O’ Lee Blues” plays in the background. And in the early scenes, when Ruffalo’s Cameron is dwelling in a halfway house, he evokes the sadness and weariness of the illness. That sorrow is seen later when Cameron is smoking cigarettes, lying on the sofa, crushed beer cans nearby, waiting, waiting and waiting to get well.

But the other side of the film is wacky: Cameron in green shorts and shirt, as if he were Peter Pan, sprinting after Maggie’s car, or slapping on a funny hat in the last shot. Ruffalo under full steam is something to see.

Watching him talk around a cigarette you’re reminded of the grit and the humanity that made people love Peter Falk. I’d rather see Ruffalo in a bad movie than not at all, but the way this is conceived—as a story of a crazy man as a big kid—it’s the kind of role that bored Robin Williams to death.

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A MASTERPIECE!” – Mara Reinstein,

“ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST FILMS. Funny, hip, touching and UTTERLY IRRESISTIBLE.” – Lou Lumenick,

“A PERFECTLY WONDERFUL MOVIE. It picks us up, spins us around and leaves us giddy with pleasure.

HOORAY FOR UN-HOLLYWOOD.” – Joe Morgenstern,

BACK, AGAIN Arnold Schwarzenegger has returned, but he can’t save ‘Terminator Genisys’ from itself.

“DESERVES TO BE THE SUMMER’S SLEEPER HIT.”

Time Flop DISGRUNTLED FANS of the franchise are already calling Terminator Genisys the worst, but it is loaded with Schwarzenegger, unlike the awful 2009 Terminator Salvation. (Someday, some blogger will rewrite the career of Salvation director, Joseph McGinty "McG" Nichol, as “an oeuvre that takes Tashlin-esque delight in destruction…essential to understanding the pleasures and perils of America in the Bush age… “ etc., etc.)

Director Alan Taylor (Six Feet Under) plays jump-rope with time-lines—it takes place in three different eras. The film is yet another rescue mission for Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke)—she whose womb must be safeguarded for the foaling of future messiah John Connor (Jason Clarke). Connor’s right-hand man Kyle (the dull Jai Courtney) is the future commando sent back to 1984.

But the malevolent AI system, Skynet, has already rewritten history so that liquidmetal T-1000 robots are on the prowl in Los Angeles. A gigantic neon eggbeater of a time machine allows more temporal jumping, but a version of Connor himself may be the ultimate obstacle in preventing Sarah and Kyle from ending Skynet before it begins.

Schwarzenegger has now suffered that fate predicted for humanity so many years ago— he’s been turned into obedient pixels by a supercomputer. Greyer and waxier from

– Peter Travers,

plastic surgery, he is much as he was: massive, with chrome bones protruding through the wounds. He’s enough of an actor that he can get the desired results from small gestures, such as overcoming a Parkinsonian tremor in his hand as he loads an ammo clip. If I were a cruel young person, I’d denounce this as sentimental, but Schwarzenegger invests Terminator Genisys his decay with dignity.

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FEELS REAL. GO SEE IT.” – Richard Roeper,

PG-13; 125 Min. “Old, not obsolete,” he Valleywide intones with a slight edge of doubt; the square head and the grimace (meant to be friendly) recall the impact of Karloff’s Creature. Noble old killbot!

They have a star—I just wish they had more of a movie. The new Skynet turns out to evolve from the latest cloud-based technology, complete with a rollout that commands billboards all over San Francisco.

The city that’s been beaten up a bit in the movies too much lately. A barely animated helicopter chase and yet another fight on the Golden Gate Bridge seem to be going through the motions. Terminator Genisys goes out of its way to avoid poignancy and humor—it says something about a movie when Arnold Schwarzenegger is the funniest person in it.

—Richard von Busack

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Future Soul Sister GETTING UP Anya Kvitka, who plays The Ritz this Friday with her band, the Get Down, has just inked a deal with a Los Angeles-based label

Cupertino-bred singer Anya Kvitka signs record deal with Plug Research

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NYA KVITKA has been quiet for a while.

Professionally that is.

In person, she doesn't stay quiet long. She’s got a lot to say—about the arts in San Jose, about ABBA and about her recent decision to sign with the tastemaking independent label that dug Flying Lotus out of obscurity.

“I’ve purposely been dormant,” she says, nestled on a sagging couch at

Philz Coffee in downtown San Jose.

“As an artist, you have to really be able to glue yourself to something before committing to releasing that content. I was just very steadily looking for something to be worthy of the fans’ attention. I think this is the first time in that time I’ve reached something that’s tangible—and I’m really excited to see where it goes.”

The “it” she’s talking about is her recent signing to Plug Research, an established and respected indie label based in Los Angeles. “They have an amazing track record,” she says.

Plug released Flying Lotus’ debut LP, 1983, and currently boast a roster of boundary pushing artists, like

the future-jazz/electronic producer, Milosh, and neo-soul crooner, Bilal. “A lot of these people I’ve looked up to my whole life that I feel are, like, kind of musical pioneers. I just feel like, ‘Holy crap, I’m a part of that now.’”

Anya isn’t the only one excited about what’s ahead. Allen Avanessian, owner and CEO of Plug Research is just as stoked.

Avanessian first became intrigued with Anya after hearing her feature vocal on the track “Penny Nickel Dime,” by alternative hip-hop producer and Plug Research artist Amp Live. Avanessian asked Kvitka to meet with him and play him some of her music.

“It kind of blew me away,” he says.

“It was ahead of its time.”

What he heard was a singer with an incredible range—technically and stylistically. Not only could she belt out powerful melodies, but she could

assume the soulful timbre of Amy Winehouse, or go an entirely different direction, which Avanessian describes as “future-soul-electronic-pop.”

Plug Research is not the first label to find Anya’s style and sound appealing. She’s flirted with labels in the past, including the majors.

From the moment she began performing, Anya’s powerful vocals cut through the din of the myriad guitar, bass and drums bands in the South Bay. Fans flocked to her, and within months, industry interest began to trickle in. “It was insane,” she recalls. “Within two months I had Atlantic Records calling me. It was weird. Because realistically that doesn’t happen to people.”

Born in Moscow, Kvitka came from a home that valued not only the structure of classical training, but the drama and bombast of pop.

“My mom and my dad kind of brought ABBA, Queen and Modern Talk (into the home),” she says. “Pink Floyd—a lot of that was a great foundation, too, because I’m not sure how many people at that crucial age, where you’re developing your tastes, are exposed to that type of music.”

Kvitka emigrated to the U.S. in 1992, where she continued to develop as a musician. She majored art history and minored in piano performance at UC Santa Cruz—graduating in 2009.

While there, she garnered serious recognition as a standout member of the a capella group, Acquire A Capella, and even starred in a viral video—an a capella version of “I’m on a Boat,” by The Lonely Island—which six years ago became a YouTube phenomenon and has clocked almost 3 million views at last count.

It wasn’t even a question of what to do with herself when she came back to San Jose. She started making music, both as a solo artist and with a backing band, the Get Down— blending her omnivorous musical tastes by incorporating elements of her classical music education with her love of pop and R&B. Eventually, Kvitka become Anya— just Anya—a sultry, silken-voiced soul singer with a little bit of sass and grit.

She has “the look” Avanessian says.

“She’s forward thinking about how she wants to do things. It’s unique, but it also has a familiarity to it. That was extremely appealing to me.”

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She has never felt that Plug Research would try to box her in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Allen (Avanessian) was open to my creative direction,â&#x20AC;? Kvitka says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;in fact, he was encouraging to it. It just made sense. It was kind of a no-brainer.â&#x20AC;?

She will celebrate her signing to Plug Research this Friday when she headlines The Ritz in downtown San Jose. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on Plug Research, I really feel like this is the beginning.

So, like, this show for me is really just the announcement that I feel like now is the start.â&#x20AC;?

Kvitka will be joined by longtime collaborator and lead guitarist Matt Gonzales, who has been keeping a busy touring schedule with the nuevo norteĂąo sextet SuenaTron. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to rock the Ritz,â&#x20AC;? Gonzales says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are going to be a lot of surprises.â&#x20AC;?

Drummer Mitchell Wilcox, also of Cathedrals, and producer Marcus Daniels round out the lineup.

Going forward, Avanessian says the plan will be to release a four- or ďŹ vesong EP, which he hopes to release by the end of the year. After the EP and a few singles, Avanessian says Anya should be ready to put out a fulllength record.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all quite exciting, Kvitka saysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; though it can also be nerve-wracking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honestly you know, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not easy to decide to do this,â&#x20AC;? she says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course I think every day, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know, maybe I should commit to a full-time job.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;Ś I think the hardest thing is when you realize that this really is about convincing yourself.â&#x20AC;? If all else fails, Kvitka could go and work at a startupâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;heavy emphasis on could. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My parents are very heavily in the tech world, and I live in the middle of it. I mean, tech is so successful and so tangible. (But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) not who I am.â&#x20AC;?

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Trying to embrace solitude sounds so adult and profound and good: “Yes, I’ll just be staying home making popcorn and watching TV with my existential crisis.” But as great as it is that you’re trying to retool your man-picking practices, this home alone thing might not be the best idea for an extrovert—a person who thrives on human contact, along with novelty and excitement.

That’s how the psych literature defines an extrovert, but simply put, you’re a party animal—the sort who hurries to join in all the fun, as opposed to an introvert like my boyfriend, who, upon arriving at a party, will ask: “Do we really have to go inside?”

There’s a lot of inconclusive research on introversion and extroversion that’s breathlessly reported as conclusive. What seems clear is that extroversion isn’t just a preference; it’s a biologically driven personality trait—a consistent pattern of behavior that appears to come out of your brain’s being far more “sensationseeking” than an introvert’s. Studies by psychologist Richard Depue and others suggest that extroverts get a “reward system” buzz from socializing and then have memories from it pop up like little infomercial pitchmen, urging, “Call now!

Go after that buzz again!”

And while introverts’ brains are easily

overloaded by stimuli—stuff going on around them—extroverts’ brains are far less sensitive to it, so they tend to need more of it. More people, more hubbub, more new and exciting experiences—to the point where a hot date with the accusatory stare of the cat can tempt an extrovertess to do something arrestworthy just to shake things up and maybe get grabbed by a man.

In other words, think of your brain as a pet tiger that needs to be fed—with people and excitement. An important note: Neuroscientist Wolfram Schultz’s found that unpredictable rewards seem to be the most satisfying for the brain— maybe even three or four times as buzzy as those we see coming. Consider that your attraction may not be to bad guys so much as to the unpredictability and excitement they provide.

You can get your excitement—and the social mosh pit you long for—by spending weekend nights with like-minded friends.

Trade off with them on planning the evening’s activity, and surprise one another with what it will be: Repo man ride-along?

Cattle rustling? Danger tag (trying to outrun muggers)? Feeding your need for adventure should help you hold out for a man who’s exciting in a new way: in how he does what he says he will and even shows up on time—and not just by telephone from Mexico to tell you how to wire him bail money.

I’m an attractive woman with “bitchy resting face.” Friends tell me to smile more so men will find me more approachable. I do notice that men like the happy, ditsy girls. It’s only in fashion magazines that the “ideal” girls are scowling.—Frownie Of course the girls in fashion magazines are scowling. They’re in wildly uncomfortable shoes, and they haven’t had a hamburger since childhood.

The thing is, happy resting face can come with problems of its own. Social psychologist Antonia Abbey found that men can misread a woman’s mere friendliness “as a sexual come-on.” This seems especially true of smiling—to the point where 12 female Safeway workers filed grievances over the supermarket chain’s “smile-and-make-eye-contact” rule, which led a number of male customers to believe these women wanted to bag more

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So, conversely, yes, you may be missing opportunities with guys who mistake your “I want to have sex with you” scowl for an “I’d like you to go drown yourself” scowl. But really, all you need to do is be conscious of the power of a smile and, when you like a guy, look right at him and turn it on—kind of like flashing your brights. You’re basically putting a sign on the door—“Open for business! Come on in!”—correcting the message sent by your default glare: “Closed for renovations. And there’s a vagrant living in the hallway who may stab you.”

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Mr. or Ms. Buttocks probably understands that he or she’s not going to win, but Republican George Pataki may well not. And as a result he’ll probably spend serious time and money trying in vain to convince the rest of us.

Some of the borderline candidates are just megalomaniacs with a seeming ability to metabolize derision (we’re looking at you, Donald). But the rest of the ever-expanding field is likely thinking: maybe I can actually win this thing, and if not the boost in cred is probably worth it.

Those who believe they stand a chance of winning at least the nomination aren’t totally nuts: the primaries are perhaps the only part of the presidential election cycle where the campaign really matters.

The post-convention phase of the process, according to many political scientists, is determined by some combination of the state of the economy and the perceived performance of the incumbent party. (It’s thought this basic principle may be true of elections worldwide.) So on this theory, all the oratory, charisma, and excruciating interviews with Katie Couric didn’t really matter—Obama was going to beat McCain in 2008 anyway, because Bush was unpopular and the economy was exploding like a cat in a microwave.

The primaries, though, remain relatively open and competitive, for two major reasons. First, starting with the 1976 election, the government has matched the funds of any candidates who manage to raise at least $5,000 in 20 separate states, with a maximum amount per individual donor of $250. This funding lasts only as long as the candidate can maintain at least 10 percent of the vote in the two most recent primaries, but often candidates go all-in on the early contests anyway because of the second reason: studies have shown that a crucial factor in voters’ decision-making processes

(as significant as intrinsic candidate preference) is whether a candidate is seen as electable. Which means those who show well in the early going, even if they trailed in polls and/or fundraising (though see below) before the primaries started, tend to become even more appealing to voters going forward, and also attract more money. This was certainly true in 2008: Clinton’s polling lead of 20 percentage points shrank immediately after Obama’s surprising performance on Super Tuesday.

But there’s a limit to how dark-horsey one can safely be, even during pre-primary season. The legislation that introduced matching funds also tried to limit total campaign spending, but the Supreme Court struck that part down, and since then the cost of campaigning has skyrocketed: 2012’s presidential race cost $2.6 billion. So, winning the nomination is still quite rare if you aren’t making it rain: since 1976 there have only been two cases where the candidate with the most money on the eve of the primaries didn’t win the party nomination, and both times the candidate who did—Obama and Jimmy Carter—was still in the top five funds-wise. In other words, you have to start at a certain base level of popularity to hold your own financially.

If you do manage to make it out of the convention, you’re at least in position to hope the economy and incumbent’s approval rating conspire to put you in the White House. But just going through the candidacy process can clearly be an excellent career move. Howard Dean flunked out of the 2004 primaries and got elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Newt Gingrich parlayed his 2012 run into a high-profile (if short-lived) gig with CNN. Joe Biden, of course, became vice president—hey, whatever floats your boat.

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Refile of previous file #597099 with changes. /s/Scott Cochero This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/25/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jonathan D. Mohn Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/22/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)

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Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on June 2010. /s/Anitha Addagadde This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/23/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)

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Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/4/2010. /s/Sharlyn Schweitzerhof This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/18/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)

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This business is conducted by a general partnership.

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This business is conducted by married couple.

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Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Apr 03-15. /s/Gustavo Bedolla President #3774182 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/11/2015. (pub Metro 6/24, 7/01, 7/08, 7/15/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606033 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TMC Solutions, 1255 Mayhew Dr., San Jose, CA, 95121, Toan Mai. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 6/15/2015. /s/Toan Mai This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/15/2015. (pub Metro 6/27, 7/01, 7/08, 7/15/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #605483 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Unicycle Vintage, 47 Silcreek Drive, San Jose, CA, 95116, Lorin Baeta.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Lorin Baeta This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/29/2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #605027 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Linh Thao, 2943 Agua Vista, San Jose, CA, 95132, Long Ha. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/19/2015. /s/Long Ha This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/19/2015. (pub Metro 6/17, 6/24, 7/01, 7/08/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #605526 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MNR Designz, 123 E. San Carlos, #503, San Jose, CA, 95112, Ronald B. Manica Jr., 14590 Big Basin Way., #6, Saratoga, CA, 95070.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ronald B. Manica This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/01/2015. (pub Metro 6/17, 6/24, 7/01, 7/08/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #604826 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SimpleTea, 1535 Landess Avenue, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Judy Thong, 2841 Sand Point Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/01/2015. /s/Judy Thong This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/12/2015. (pub Metro 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/01/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #605818 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Rose Garden Aplary, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95053, John C. Gilrbert, 1549 Rosecrest Terrace, San Jose, CA, 95126.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/15/2009.

Refile of previous file #527880 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/John C. Gilbert This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/09/2015. (pub Metro 6/17, 6/24, 7/01, 7/08/2015)]

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #605294 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Maghesa Family Daycare, 507 Feldspar Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111, Maria Guadalupe Hernandez.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Maria Guadalupe Hernandez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/27/2015. (pub Metro 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/01/2015)

“SEVERELY DILAPIDATED BUILDING at 785 The Alameda, San Jose, CA. Building is partially burned and structurally unsound. Relocation or salvage will be considered. The costs and liability of relocation will be borne entirely by that entitiy/individual. Any commitments for relocation or salvage must be received by end of business day July 31, 2015.”

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus singer Sam Smith won four Grammys this year, largely on the strength of his hit single "Stay with Me." The song has a lush gospel choir backing up his lead vocals, or so it seems.

But in fact, every voice in that choir is his own. He recorded twenty separate harmony tracks that were woven together to create the big sound. What would be the equivalent in your world, Taurus? How could you produce a wealth of support for yourself? What might you do to surround yourself with a web of help and nourishment? How can you amplify and intensify your efforts so they have more clout? Now would be an excellent time to explore possibilities like these.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Born under the sign of Gemini, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who upset traditionalists. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he wasn't interested in creating idealistic art based on historical and religious themes.

He focused on earthy subjects about which he had direct experience, like the day-to-day lives of peasants and laborers. So even though he became a highly praised celebrity by his mid-thirties, the arbiters of the art world tried to exclude him. For example, they denied him a place in Exposition Universelle, a major international exhibition in Paris. In response, Courbet built a temporary gallery next door to the main hall, where he displayed his own work. As you strive to get your voice heard, Gemini, I urge you to be equally cheeky and innovative. Buy yourself a megaphone or erect your own clubhouse or launch a new enterprise.

Do whatever it takes to show who you really are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): "I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing," said composer John Cage in describing his creative process. That's excellent counsel for you to meditate on, Cancerian. The less expertise and certainty you have about the rough magic you're experimenting with, the more likely it is that this magic will lead you to useful breakthroughs. To bolster Cage's advice and help you get the most from your period of self-reinvention, I offer you this quote from Picasso: "I imitate everyone except myself."

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your words of wisdom come from Leo artist Andy Warhol: "Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years, when they could just say, 'so what.' That’s one of my favorite things to say. 'So what.'" Can I interest you in that approach, Leo? It has similarities to the Buddhist strategy of cultivating non-attachment—of dropping your fixations about matters that can't be controlled or changed. But I suspect you would draw special benefits from the breezy, devil-may-care spirit of Warhol's version. So start there.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her late twenties, J. K. Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. That's when she began work on her Harry Potter books.

Craig Newmark had turned 42 by the time he founded Craigslist. One of the world's most oft-visited websites is HuffingtonPost.com, which Arianna Huffington established when she was 54. As for Harland Sanders, creator of KFC: He didn't begin building the global empire of fried-chicken restaurants until the age of 65. I hope the preceding serves as a pep talk, Virgo, reminding you that it's never too late to instigate the project of a lifetime. The time between now and your birthday in 2016 will be an especially favorable phase to do so. Start ruminating on what it might be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It's the power-building phase of your astrological cycle. To take maximum advantage, convey the following message to your subconscious mind: "I know you will provide me with an abundance of insight, inspiration, and energy for whatever intention I choose to focus on. And during

the next four weeks, my intention will be to cultivate, expand, and refine my personal power. I will especially focus on what author Stephen R. Covey called 'the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.'"

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I'm a big fan of science and logic and objective thinking. Most of us need more of that good stuff. The world would be a saner, safer place if we all got regular lessons on how to be more reasonable and rational. But in the immediate future, Scorpio, I'll steer you in a different direction. I believe you will benefit from injecting your imagination with primal raw crazy wild mojo. For example, you might read utopian science fiction and fairy tales about talking animals and poetry that scrambles your intellectual constructs. You could remember your dreams and ruminate about them as if they were revelations from the Great Beyond. You may also find it healthy to fantasize profusely about forbidden and impossible and hilarious adventures.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are lots of inquiries and invitations coming your way—perhaps too many. I don't think you should pursue all of them.

In fact, I suspect that only one would ultimately make you a better human being and a braver explorer and a wiser lover. And that one, at first glance, may have not as much initial appeal as some of the others. So your first task is to dig deep to identify the propositions that are attractive on the surface but not very substantial. Then you're more likely to recognize the offer that will have lasting value even if it doesn't make a spectacular first impression.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "I find a lot of people physically attractive, but finding people mentally and spiritually attractive is different and much harder for me." So says 40ozshawty on her Tumblr page. If you share that frustration, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you're due to encounter a higher-than-usual percentage of mentally and spiritually attractive people in the next six weeks.

But I wonder how you'll deal with this abundance.

Will you run away from it, feeling overwhelmed by the prospect that your life could get more interesting and complicated? Or will you embrace it, daringly welcoming the interesting complications?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I think you will generate good fortune for yourself by choosing between two equally invigorating but challenging tasks: losing your illusion or using your illusion. Both are quite worthy of your attention and intelligence. To succeed at either would fuel your emotional growth for months to come. You probably can't do them both, however. So which will it be: Will you purge the illusion, or put it to work for you?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you sometimes imagine yourself to be an underachieving underdog?

If so, I suggest you start weaning yourself from that fantasy. Do you on occasion allow people to take advantage of you? It's time to outgrow that role. Do you ever flirt with being a self-pitying martyr? Say byebye to that temptation. Cosmic forces are conspiring to relieve you of tendencies to act in any or all of those ways. I'm not saying you will instantly transform into a swashbuckling hero who knocks people over with your radiant self-assurance. But you will, at the very least, be ready to learn much, much more about how to wield your vulnerability as a superpower.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): To determine whether you are aligned with the cosmic flow, please answer the following questions. 1. Would you say that your current situation is more akin to treading water in a mosquitoridden swamp, or conducting a ritual of purification in a clear mountain stream? 2. Have you been wrestling with boring ghosts and arguing with traditions that have lost most of their meaning? Or have you been transforming your past and developing a riper relationship with your roots? 3. Are you stuck in a gooey muck? Or are you building a flexible new foundation?

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