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‘Get Over It’ JAMES ROWEN just can’t seem to quit MAGDALENA CARRASCO. The political operative who was sued off the Internet for defamation has once again taken aim at the San Jose councilwoman’s fundraising before taking office this year. Previously, Rowen sent out dozens of emails to media and city staff excoriating Carrasco for taking an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City, courtesy of the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce and Yellow Checker Cab. The trip, taken in September 2014, forced Carrasco to declare a conflict of interest that bars her from voting on taxis this year. Rowen’s now calling out Carrasco for exploiting a fundraising loophole for her East Side school board campaign from 2012. Campaign disclosure forms filed this week show that Carrasco spent the end of 2014 collecting contributions as large as $5,000 a pop from companies of local developers MICHAEL VAN EVERY and CHRIS NEALE, as well as $2,500 from Yellow Cab, to help close They out $25,000 in debt. Did Had this been done for What? her council campaign, she would have been SEND TIPS TO O limited to raising $500 FLY@ WS. WS S. METRONEWS. per donor. Carrasco says COM everything was done by the book and she’s had enough of Rowen and his backers, who she suspects include her vanquished campaign foe, XAVIER CAMPOS, along with big-sis Assemblywoman NORA CAMPOS and brother-in-law NEIL STRUTHERS. “They’re just angry people,” Carrasco says. “It’s like, get over it. You’re not a freaking dynasty.” She added that the Campos Clan’s continued attacks against her—while not even mentioning Xavier’s rigged election victory in 2010—are “illogical,” but “maybe it’s a way they think they can stay relevant.” Rowen says he’s never worked for the Camposes or Struthers but does contract work for their consultant, ED MCGOVERN, on Santa Clara issues. While the money Carrasco raised from developers for her school board campaign could be seen as a potential conflict, she actually voted against Van Every’s land conversion proposal in May.
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“It will be a matter of probably years before a protocol is in place and approved by the courts.â€? The California Legislature limits the pool of lawyers available to inmates in capital cases. “The district court found that the state, and not the defendants, were responsibleâ€? for the appellate delays, he says. “California has a conundrum because it doesn’t have a mechanism to move the cases through the appellate process, and once that is completed, it has no method of execution. Fixing one without ďŹ xing the other is not a solution.â€? For now, capital punishment in California resembles an M. C. Escher drawing—a MĂśbius strip going endlessly nowhere. Dunham recalls a print, “the one with the guy on the stairs, where you can be walking on the top and the bottom of the stairs at the same time.â€? The method and the process, he says, “are two separate things, proceeding on two separate tracks that are oblivious to one another.â€? Meanwhile, there are hundreds of condemned at San Quentin, and more on the way. “You’d think,â€? says Barbour, “they would stop sending people there.â€?
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for defendants. State Attorney General Kamala Harris appealed the decision; it’s now in the hands of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. “California is moving on two separate tracks,� says Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a Washington, D.C.– based clearinghouse for all things execution. “One is the abolition, and the second is reactivating it. Obviously, those are internally contradictory tracks.� Dunham says the state will submit its new draft protocol for comment, but that’s just the beginning. “It will be a matter of probably years before a protocol is in place and approved by the courts.� State prison officials said they will issue a draft protocol within 120 days of the Supreme Court’s decision. “In order to comply with California’s capital punishment laws, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR] has been developing lethalinjection-protocol regulations,� says agency spokesman Jeffrey Callison via email. The state is pursuing a oneshot lethal-injection protocol, says CDCR deputy press secretary Terry Thornton. The one-shot method has generally entailed a lethal dose of sodium thiopental, but pharmaceutical companies no longer provide that drug to correctional facilities. Officials here and in other states have worked to shield the source of the drug from public view. The CDCR acknowledges that there’s been a problem with access to execution drugs, as it notes that there are currently 751 people on California’s death row as of July 7. Depending on what happens with the case now before the Court of Appeals, this “two-track� standstill might be moot, says Dunham of the DPIC. The 2014 District Court ruling threw out the capital conviction of Ernest Dewayne Jones. It found that the death penalty is unconstitutional “because of California’s failure to provide timely counsel to death row inmates,� says Dunham.
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DOGGONEIT Jon Gundry (not foreground) left taxpayers on the hook for two quarter-million dollar salaries.
Schools Chief Shells Out $560K to Fire 2 Employees BY JOSH KOEHN Until this spring, few people knew county Superintendent of Schools Jon Gundry spent his first year on the job throwing tens of thousands of dollars at payroll consultants and outside law firms. He defended those deals as not “that unusual.” The head of the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE), which oversees the valley’s 31 school districts, structured at least one of the contracts—in addition to bringing back several retirees—to facilitate double dipping. Gundry called this procedure “standard” in the industry. He required no written documentation on deliverables from some of these consultants and defended the secrecy of their work by calling the matter “sensitive.” The Board of Education, which only has control over one SCCOE employee (Gundry), took him at his word and moved on. So have a number of employees, as a series of high-level staff resignations occurred over the last few months. All of this has apparently held up Gundry’s annual performance evaluation, which has been on the last seven meeting agendas going back to May 20. Word is the board isn’t
exactly thrilled with his commitment to transparency—not that anyone has actually come out and said this beyond vague comments about “doing better.” But none of Gundry’s secret contracts and subsequent under-sight reaches the level of the latest bad deal. Gundry fired two of the SCCOE’s top executives last month, without cause, and county taxpayers are now on the hook for paying their salaries into next summer. Total cost: $560,216. What spurred Gundry to fire his chief business officer, Micaela Ochoa, and general counsel, Maribel Medina? The SCCOE isn’t saying. The payouts break down to $271,242.76 for Ochoa, and $288,973.24 for Medina. Gundry had the ability to fire both employees based on the way their contracts were structured, but that’s not the focus here. The issue is the superintendent is throwing taxpayer dollars at problems he, in part, created. He now has his people in place, and he’ll have no excuses going forward. And if he signs more secret deals, spends another half-million dollars on buyouts and more employees head for the door, the Board of Education will also have no excuse.
Silicon Valley’s largest adult and “This is definitely a last resort for us,” vocational education district lost its he said. teacher prep program out of sheer MetroED provides occupational incompetence. In a rare move, state training at 35 high schools in Santa regulators Clara County recommended and runs satellite suspending the programs in credentialing Alameda, Santa program at the Cruz and Monterey Metropolitan counties. Education District, On July after a probe 8, MetroEd uncovered systemic Superintendent mismanagement Alyssa Lynch and lack of sent out a letter DROPOUTS MetroEd’s mismanagement to teachers-inaccountability. left dozens of teachers in the lurch. A six-member training, advising accreditation team from the them to file for a refund and transfer California Commission on Teacher to another credential program. The Credentialing (CTC) said MetroED nearest comparable credentialing failed to coordinate the program, services are in San Joaquin, Fresno leaving trainees ill-equipped for the and Sonoma counties. MetroEd was classroom. The CTC has revoked only one of 15 career and tech-focused one other program in its 45-year teacher prep programs in California, history, according to Joshua Speaks, a training about 60 to 90 graduates a legislative analyst for the commission. year.—Jennifer Wadsworth
Lawsuit Alleges Racial Profiling by SJPD A federal lawsuit filed last week levels new racial profiling allegations against the San Jose Police Department. African American couple Emmanuel Stephens and Jasmine Whitley claim that police followed them home and pulled a gun on the father in front of his wife and kids. The lawsuit says police targeted the family because of their race. SJPD has declined to comment on the case, at least for the time being. On Oct. 30, 2014, Stephens said he picked up his daughters Davian, 14, and Emani, 7, from school and took them to a mini-mart to get snacks. Officer Alexander Keller saw them at the store and followed the family to their Almaden Valley home. After Stephens pulled up outside the home, Emani left the car to get the mail, while Davian went in through the house to open the garage door. Then, according to the lawsuit, Officer Keller leapt from his patrol car with his gun drawn,
shouting at Stephens to put his hands up or risk getting tased. Police cited Whitley for possession even though a medical marijuana prescription was found in her car. Whitley said police told her they detained her husband because they got a call about a suspicious black man with a purple backpack. Stephens filed a complaint with the Independent Police Auditor, but took the case to court after months passed without an update. A report earlier this year found that never in the history of SJPD has the agency upheld a citizen’s complaint of racial bias. —Jennifer Wadsworth
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Serendipity in SoFA: Jazz Fest, South First Fridays make an ‘awesome’ pair BY GARY SINGH
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AN JOSE JAZZ Summer Fest is in a continuous state of “becoming urban,” in the postNietzschean sense. With each passing August, we see more examples of how the entire gala hoedown spectacular integrates with the daytime and nighttime goings-on of the local neighborhood. This year, the South First Fridays art walk and street market just happen to coincide with the jazz festival, so the SoFA District
experience will function as a microcosm of the whole fest. In addition to several streetinfluenced urban art vendors, the market includes its own stage featuring, among others, Doug Ellington’s N.U.G. (New Urban Groove). Ellington, of course, is the grandnephew of that more famous Ellington we all know so well. But it won’t be big band stylings. This Friday, expect some serious improv grit and groove in pure urban fashion. And by fashion, I don’t mean fashionable. I mean awesome. Since urban youth these days use words like “ridiculous” and “sick” when they mean awesome, this Friday will see the debut of another sick and ridiculous project,
the SJZ Boom Box Stage. A 28-foot box truck has been converted into a mobile stage unit by the folks at Method 42 productions, who painted the entire thing to look like a 1970s boom box. They even cut a door into the side of the truck, which now lowers to become a stage with lighting and a built-in sound system. The truck even has San Jose Jazz mudflaps. On Friday, the acts in the SJZ Boom Box Stage include SONEX from Xalapa, Veracruz, who play son jarocho roots music fused with a melange of Afro-Latin stylings, including flamenco, salsa, jazz, funk, hip-hop, rock and reggae. The complete SJZ Boom Box project is a work of collaborative awesomeness, but the most ridiculous aspect, by far, is that San Francisco Jazz actually donated the truck. Apparently they didn’t need it anymore. It reminds me of a line from the celebrated Tom Lehrer
tune, Pollution: “The breakfast garbage you throw into the bay, they eat at lunch in San Jose.” Meaning, this is a primo example of recycled urban art, with local heroes creating a masterpiece from tossed-away garbage from the more famous city up north. Bravo! And that’s just two of the stages on South First Street. At the other end, we shall discover the new location of the Jazz Beyond Stage. Will Sessions and The Internet will both perform. That’s just on Friday, though. Over the weekend, the Umpqua Bank Stage erupts inside the San Jose Stage Company, a dedicated theater space right smack in the middle of everything. There’s never been a Jazz Fest stage in that venue before, so it signifies the importance of SoFA even more. With all that music, this Friday’s urban jambalaya will exhibit fractal self-similarity with the larger festival as a whole, especially with Cafe Stritch unleashing its third annual Rahsaanathon (see page 23). In other words, the more one zooms in on South First, the more that previously unseen details will emerge. Oh, and did I say the entire rocking art walk that already takes place on the First Friday of every month will be unfolding, in, around and between all of the abovementioned music? So when Anno Domini unveils Ken Davis and his sign-painting career, it belongs amid the jazz. In addition to galleries, restaurants and empty spaces, even TechShop will present Kent Blakey’s high-design Eurasian aquarium show, “Microcosms.” The title is perfect. I couldn’t have programmed it better myself. This is the type of serendipity that happens when First Fridays coincides with Jazz Fest. It doesn’t happen that way every year, so it’s kinda special, you know? All in all, Friday will be another example of how awesome things can really get when different institutions pool their resources and produce something greater than the sum its parts. Order emerges from chaos. Or maybe it’s vice-versa. This Friday it’ll be a little bit of both, I predict. It will be a Hot August Night for sure—but without Neil Diamond to enlighten us. When Neil finally plays the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, then it’ll be even more ridiculous. And super sick.
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July 11 – September 6, 2015 Recycled, Up-Cycled, Re-Purposed Clothing Design: A Slow Fashion Movement | FiberSpace Space Fast fashion, while its economic value is powerful, pollutes the environment nment with toxic wastes as well as mountains of discarded clothing, and fosters unsafe and unethical manufacturing practices. This exhibit illustrates tes an alternative to fast fashion. It showcases a collaborative collection of clothing othing and accessories produced locally by six California artists, using slow fashion ashion methodologies. Come and celebrate the work of designers and artists Darcy Fowkes, Michelle Paganini, Margot Silk Forrest, Destiny Carter, ter, Jill Pillot, Angela Elsey, and Marirose Jelicich, and enjoy their unique creations. ations. 520 S 1st St, San Jose | 408.971.0323 | sjquiltmuseum.org um.org Above: D’Arcy Couture, by Darcy Fowkes.
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Caffe Frascati will feature a wide range of musicians and entertainment throughout ghout August. In addition to the lineup below, every Monday is Comedia-Night, an open mic for comedians, and every Tuesday is Open Mic for musicians. 8/7: Opera Night! - arias and duets 8/19: Shelley Miller & Mya Byrnee - accoustic 8/8: Jorge Sanchez and the Wandering Poets 8/21: Bossa Blue - bossanova & samba 8/14: Silicon Valley Fashion Association: Charity 8/27: The Dope NoOnes acoustic tic rock and folk Night of fashion and stand-up comedy 8/28: David Knight and Friends 8/15: Life Sized Models - acoustic indie rock 8/30: Those Folk - eclectic folk rock All shows start at 8pm.
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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.
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OR THE UNINITIATED young music consumer, jazz is too often perceived as the smooth, lessthan-edgy “quiet storm” radio sound or academic, intentionally difficult cacophony. But jazz is about more than pastel washes of electric sax and impossibly convoluted compositions that require a music theory degree to untangle.
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It’s possible to trace a direct line from jazz through blues, R&B, rock & roll and on into hip-hop. One can hear jazz influences quite explicitly in Wu Tang Clan’s boom-bap samples and in the face-melting guitar work of math metal acts like The Dillinger Escape Plan. Even the EDM of today can be linked to the work of London and Chicago DJs spinning what they referred to as “acid jazz.” Jazz was pioneered by men and women who have long since passed—a generation as old, or older, than the grandparents of today’s youngest Millennials. But that doesn’t mean jazz can’t be presented in a way that’s relevant today. San Jose Jazz gets this. More important, the organization is proving it understands how to curate a festival that appeals to fans of all kinds of jazz— from Latin and Gypsy to swing and funk—and to those who might not realize they had an ear for the genre. San Jose Jazz once again will partner with boutique promoter Universal Grammar to produce a handful of “Jazz Beyond” concerts and DJ sets featuring artists operating at the bleeding edge of jazz. This weekend’s Jazz Beyond shows kick off Friday, with a performance by buzzed-about Los Angeles outfit, The Internet. The former Odd Future-affiliates blend classic R&B, downtempo trip-hop, jazz conservatory chops and plenty of glitchy electronics into a syrupy, psychedelic future-soul cocktail. On Saturday, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, the former DJ and producer of the legendary NYC rap crew, A Tribe Called Quest, will be spinning at The Continental. And on Sunday, saxophonist and Flying Lotus protege, Kamasi Washington is set to unleash a maelstrom of maximalist jazz virtuosity. Also, all this week Cafe Stritch hosts its third annual Rahsaanathon. Though not officially affiliated with San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, the event, which pays tribute to far-out jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, is a destination for many jazz aficionados in town for the broader festival. Read about these and other local jazz performances in this issue, and find the official San Jose Jazz Summer Fest guide in the paper’s center section. —Nick Veronin
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OLD SOULS The Internet display a level of maturity and artistic vision beyond their years.
The New Normal L.A.-based future-soul outfit, The Internet, represent the bleeding edge of R&B BY NICK VERONIN
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T ALL BEGAN in late 2010, when a cluster of throbbing, druggy, downtempo jams appeared on YouTube, uploaded anonymously under the moniker “The Weeknd.” The music blogosphere quickly pounced, speculating about just who was behind the trio of tracks, which sounded familiar, yet somehow alien. Around the same time, a cohort of artists and groups with similar voices emerged—including Frank Ocean, Miguel, and the L.A.-based psychedelic soul outfit, The Internet, who will headline the Jazz Beyond Stage this Friday, during the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. All of these artists were making R&B music—on that score, the critics had come to a consensus. But there was something different
about this R&B. Beyond their predilection for syrup-slow beats and reverberant, warped samples, all of these performers seemed completely comfortable with expressing their discomfort. Unlike their “pop” peers— Usher, R. Kelly, Chris Brown and Ty Dolla Sign, all of whom project confidence and hyper-masculinity— this new collection of crooners was doing just the opposite. Instead of declaring dominance, they were broadcasting a distress call. Despite generating significant critical acclaim by early 2011, The Weeknd frontman, Abel Tesfaye, dodged the spotlight, refusing to grant interviews until mid-2013. Frank Ocean sampled Radiohead, sang about falling for a girl at Coachella and came out as bisexual in advance of his major label debut. And Miguel was heralded as an egalitarian lover in a sea of misogynists—interested not just in satisfying his own carnal desires but in fulfilling those of his partner. Music writers scrambled to classify
these neo-soul navel-gazers, and before long, a number of tags emerged: alt-R&B, R-Neg-B and PBR&B—a reference to the prefered beer of hipsters everywhere. Predictably, many artists grouped under the alt-R&B umbrella don’t like the moniker. Syd the Kyd and Matt Martians—the production duo at the helm of The Internet—certainly aren’t feeling it. “I think it’s kind of off-putting,” Matthew Martin, aka Matt Martians, says, reflecting on all of the various modifiers that have been tacked on to what he sees as the genre in which The Internet belongs. “I think it’s just R&B.” Then again, Martin and Bennett aren’t arguing that they are out to invert the tropes of braggadocio and materialism that have wormed their way into the R&B genre. After all, the title of their latest album, released June 29, is Ego Death. “It’s about vulnerability and being honest with yourself and what’s
happening—who you really are and what you really have,” Bennett says, explaining what the record’s title means to her. “We wanted to make the most honest album that we could.” Ego Death is certainly an honest, and earnest, record. Listening to the album’s 12 tracks, it’s clear that Bennett—The Internet’s lead vocalist and lyricist—is struggling to tell the truth with every song. In her quest for veracity, she deploys an unreliable narrator on “Under Control,” a song about struggling to keep things together. “I woke up impatient and anxious,” Bennett sings on Ego Death’s third track. The words tumble out of her mouth before the song’s one-bar intro even finishes, and the listener must question whether she really is in command of her emotions. Bennett also finds a kind of truth on “Just Sayin/I Tried”—albeit a truth rooted in the understanding that some things are just unknowable. The nearly 7-minute diptych begins with the singer relishing in telling a former lover that she has “fucked up,” before switching gears to a serenaded shrug. “I tried,” she sings. “I tried.” The album’s production, just as much as Bennett’s lyricism and delivery, are crucial in making Ego Death a standout. Bennett, Martin, their recently expanded band, and a few other collaborators, have crafted a trippy, progressive and spaced-out sonic tapestry—borrowing equally from psychedelia, soul, jazz, hiphop and trip-hop. The addition of a permanent guitarist, bassist, drummer, keyboardist and backup singer mean the album was written to be played live. That, and a “harder element” in the form of infectious, punchy drum beats, have Bennett excited to get on stage. And Martin feels the same “This is the most happy we’ve been with an album so far, for sure,” Martin says. “This one is our most complete, I feel. We’ve really, really found our sound.”
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YOUNG JAZZ GIANT One of jazz’s ascendant virtuosos, saxophonist Kamasi Washington wowed critics with his sprawling, three-disc debut LP, ‘The Epic.’
Not Like Our Fathers Kamasi Washington’s ‘The Epic’ is the grandest statement yet from L.A.’s creative jazz community. BY BRANDON E. ROOS
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N A SENSE, Los Angelesbased jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington had it all. At just 19, he began touring with Snoop Dogg, which led to gigs backing up greats like the “Queen of Funk” Chaka Khan and jazz fusion bassist Stanley Clarke. More recently, his resume landed him a credit on Kendrick Lamar’s latest LP, To Pimp a Butterfly. As a virtuoso, he could have easily carved out a career of steady work
as a session player and hired gun on the road. But Washington and his friends, a loose collection of musicians known as the West Coast Get Down, knew they didn’t want to settle for in-demand support gigs, as their fathers had. They wanted the world to hear what they had to say. And so Washington came out swinging. His debut full-length is a sprawling, no-holds-barred, threedisc opus, fittingly titled The Epic. With it, Washington has announced himself as one of the most talented and visionary figures on the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz scene. This weekend, local audiences
will have two opportunities to see Washington. He is scheduled to open San Jose Jazz Summer Fest’s Kaiser Permanente Main Stage at noon on Sunday with his band, The Next Step. Sunday night, he’ll close the California Theatre Stage with the West Coast Get Down collective. To understand The Epic, it’s important to grasp Kamasi Washington’s musical past. As a teen in South Central Los Angeles, he formed the Young Jazz Giants with pianist Cameron Graves, drummer Ronald Bruner and Ronald’s brother, Stephen—better known as the Kendrick Lamar collaborator and producer, Thundercat—on bass. “We were really focused,” Washington says, reflecting on that period. “We knew what we wanted to do in life. We were playing all day long, all night, going to jam sessions, sneaking into concerts, driving all over the city.” Washington and his crew formed a “creative core” and found support in the greater L.A. area. The trick was pushing their ideas beyond the region. The decades-long struggle among L.A.’s jazz community to step out from under the shadow of the New York scene may help explain the powerful tension that exists on Washington’s nearly threehour outing, with its domineering, maximalist approach. The album features hard-driving solos and a double rhythm section, composed of two drummers, two bassists and two keyboard players. String orchestra and choir arrangements float in and out of the mix, adding musical density to the already massive sound. Ten seconds into the opening track, “Change of the Guard,” Kamasi and company live up to the album’s lofty title, unleashing a wall of sound that pushes the record to its limit. Eight minutes in, Washington’s tenor sax screams while pianos stab out sharp chords; the supporting strings slather on a layer of unruly tension that doesn’t let up over the track’s 12-minutes. “Re Run Home,” the 14-minute opus that opens Epic’s third disc, simmers with urgency from start to finish, firmly grounded by the
dual drum work of Ronald Bruner Jr. and Tony Austin. Ryan Porter and Igmar Thomas trade trombone and trumpet licks until their solos weave into one another, creating a musical synergy at once competitive and supportive. This open interplay is a hallmark of the album, and a testament not only to Washington but the world-class talent surrounding him on this project. The Epic wasn’t created in a vacuum. It’s the latest work in a continuation of the sound Washington and his friends have collectively been creating for years—all with the steadfast support of Brainfeeder boss Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus. The L.A.-based producer and leading voice in L.A.’s wide-open, forward-thinking, jazz-inflected music scene gave Washington the space and support to create whatever he wanted. For this, Washington is grateful. “So often, the music has to struggle with the business,” Washington says. “It’s really cool when the business is just down and cool to let you do what you want to do.” As Washington tells it, his father’s development was halted by the “pitfall of not believing in yourself enough to push your own music.” Washington doesn’t suffer from the same self-doubt about his musical ability. The way he sees it, the only real challenge is the clock. Washington is racing to get all his creativity out while he still can. “In the end, time will run out,” Washington says. “There’s a time limit to how long you’ll have this gift at the highest level that you have it.” And so he will continue to play—as if his life depends on it.
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both locals and those in town for the festival ock to in droves. Legendary trombone maestro and former Kirk sideman, Steve Turre, will once again lead the show. James Carter will once again unleash a sonic zoo from his own saxophones. And Poet Betty Neals, who co-wrote and provided the voice for Rahsaan’s Theme for the Eulipions 40 years ago, shall once again reprise that role. However, this year’s Rahsaanathon promises to top its ďŹ rst two seasons with the resurrection of the venue’s namesake—Kirk’s stritch. Not long after Kirk died in 1977, Steve Borkenhagen opened up a restaurant and music venue called Eulipia, named after Kirk’s song. Thirty-six years later, after it had been shuttered for a time, the Borkenhagens renamed the place Cafe Stritch, after Kirk’s straight alto sax. Rahsaan became the establishment’s patron saint. After Kirk’s widow, Dorthaan, got word of the story behind Cafe Stritch, she bequeathed her late husband’s signature horn to the restaurant. It came exactly as Kirk left it—ecked with bits of masking tape and wrapped rubber bands, all remnants from crude repair jobs performed by Rahsaan himself. The relic hangs—along with Kirk’s top hat—from the brick wall above the venue’s stage during shows. This year, however, Kirk’s stritch will not be playing the role of passive icon. In honor of Rahsaan’s 80th birthday this Friday, the Borkenhagens took the sax to Colin Price at West Valley Music, who repaired and refurbished the old stritch as if restoring a classic car. Price replaced the pads, made sure the keywork was functional, overhauled the busted parts and even tracked down a repairman in the Netherlands who made a new neck out of copper. This weekend, both McNeal and Carter will play the restored stritch, while bandleader Turre, who was on stage for Rahsaan’s last show, will oversee the performance in which the sax comes back to life. “It’s probably the most exciting part of this year’s event,â€? says Maxwell Borkenhagen, Steve and Kris’s son, and artistic director of Cafe Stritch. “It’s our namesake. When we ďŹ rst named the
club, we never would have imagined we’d acquire the stritch. And even after acquiring it, it seemed like an impossibility that it would be played.â€? Rahsaan fanatics from across the country will descend upon Cafe Stritch this week for the gigs. One of those fanatics is May Cobb, whose third birthday fell on the same day that Rahsaan passed away. Cobb has been working on a book about Rahsaan for many years. She even attended the ďŹ rst Rahsaanathon and is now ying in from Texas just for the events this week. “When I walked inside Cafe Stritch for the ďŹ rst time, I almost had to turn around and walk out because the mural of Rahsaan made me choke up,â€? she says. “I couldn’t believe that existed. It was very emotional to go to this space dedicated to him.â€? Rahsaan’s widow Dorthaan says his popularity has escalated everywhere since Cafe Stritch started doing the Rahsaanathon. “The royalties have gone up,â€? she says. “Younger people have discovered him and his older fans have a renewed interest.â€? If Cafe Stritch has played a role in exposing more people to Kirk’s music, Borkenhagen is pleased. “I’m super proud to have even a small part in helping bring his music back to—especially to a younger audience,â€? he says. Borkenhagen continues, saying that he hopes more people can feel what he has felt—and what Dorthaan, Turre and others have sensed during the past two Rahsaanathons— that Kirk’s spirit was in the room, intermingling with the music. “Each year, so far, the Rahsaanaton has had this energy,â€? Borkenhagen says. “This year it seems even more ampliďŹ ed— especially since we have the stritch in playable condition again.â€? “He would be honored that these great musicians are paying tribute to him,â€? Dorthaan says. Whatever the afterlife is, I’m sure he knows that he lives on.â€? THRU
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Braulio Barrera y Somos el Son Christian Pepin y Su Orquesta Bembé
Conjunto Karabali
Marina & The Kats Swing Lessons Clint Baker’s New Orleans Jazz Band
SJZ High School All Stars
Natalie Cressman
Rickey Woodard & Ernie Andrews SJZ U19s (5:15)
Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of SF
Mr. Clifford Music Lincoln High School
Davina & the Vagabonds
Wally Schnalle’s IF3 Captain Supernova
Julius Papp DJ Chuntech Cutso Shea Butter Angela Love
Doug Beavers’ Titanes del Trombón Salsa Dance Party @ Miami Beach Club
Los Gatos Saratoga Big Band
Captain Supernova VINYL LOVE DJ sets with:
Ron Scott
Legally Blue
Bob Schulz Frisco Jazz Band
Ron Gariffo Big Band JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
Monterey County High School Honor Band Glen David Andrews Monterey High School Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Millenium Sounds Orchestra Davina & the Vagabonds NASA Ames Big Band
Zigaboo Modeliste
The Hitmen Funk Party
Swing Lessons
Someday Sweethearts Tebo’s Howlin’ Wolf Review
Octobop
Round Midnight Ali Shaheed Muhammad
´ MOTEMA SHOWCASE
SJZ Summer Camp Combo (11:45) Oran Etkin: Reimagining Benny Goodman Charenee Wade’s Gil Brian Wolfe Quartet Scott-Heron Project (1:15) (1:15)
Astrologik
Shai Maestro Trio: Untold Stories
Brian Wolfe Quartet (3:15)
Current Personae Brian Wolfe Quartet
Shai Maestro Trio: Untold Stories (3:45) Charenee Wade’s Gil Scott-Heron Project
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Kamasi Washington & the Next Step Storm Large
Gail Dobson & the Dobson Family Band
Bria Skonberg
Oran Etkin: Reimagining Benny Goodman (6:15)
The Anton Schwartz Quintet Mason Razavi’s Quartet Plus
Jamie Dubberly & Orquesta Dharma
SJZ Summer Fest All Star Big Band
SJZ Camp Octet Dixie Dominus
Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Band Gary Nuñez & Plena Libre
Full Spectrum Big Band
Sax Appeal with Jackson, Heath, Bartz & Harrison Brian Culbertson
Kamasi Washington & the West Coast Get Down
We’ve taken the mobile music platform to a whole new level; the SJZ Boom Box Stage is a retrofitted truck in the shape of those ‘70s music players we all still love. Keep an eye out for this roaming venue! As part of South FIRST FRIDAYS it camps out on S. First, near the Miami Beach Club, for two VERY hot Latin music shows on Friday night. Then, you’ll find it in the back of Plaza de Cesar Chavez on Saturday and Sunday.
Adrianna Marie & her Groovecutters Swing Lessons Quinn DeVeaux
Times 4 Rumbaché
Fito Reinoso y su Ritmo y Armonia Louie Romero y Mazacote
Footnotes Big Band
Valley Christian Camp Combo A SJZ High School All Stars
Liv Slingerland Swing Lessons
Alum Rock Alumni Jazz Combo
Zydeco Flames The Lyratones
Marcus Wolfe
Amy Sarver & the Bluesers
Selwyn Birchwood Top Shelf Big Band
Big Band Jazz South Bay
Wee Willie Walker
5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm 7:00 pm 7:30 pm 8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm 10:00 pm 10:30 pm 11:00 pm 11:30 pm 11:00 am 11:30 pm 12:00 pm 12:30 pm 1:00 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm 2:30 pm 3:00 pm 3:30 pm 4:00 pm 4:30 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm 6:00 7:00 pm 7:30 pm 8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm 10:00 pm 10:30 pm 11:00 pm 11:30 pm 12:00 am 11:00 am 11:30 am 12:00 pm 12:30 pm 1:00 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm 2:30 pm 3:00 pm 3:30 pm 4:00 pm 4:30 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm 7:00 pm 7:30 pm 8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm
SALSA & LATIN JAZZ Attention salsa dancers and salseros! There will be no outdoor Salsa Stage on Friday night. Instead, the Latin music will start at the SJZ Boom Box Stage, on S. First near San Salvador. Both these shows are FREE as part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS celebration: 7:00 Jesus Diaz presents Rumba Cubana An authentic Cuban rumba created just for us. 8:00 Sonex A set of Son Jarocho with a modern twist, direct from Mexico City. The action continues Friday 9pm at the Miami Beach Club (417 S. First), where we present New York-based Doug Beavers’ Titanes del Trombón in their west coast CD release party. Latin legends are in this hard-driving dance band! On Saturday and Sunday, make sure to visit the Salsa Stage on W. San Fernando, which will be set up as in years past.
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The Jazz Beyond Stage (between E. San Salvador and E. William) will be a centerpiece of South FIRST FRIDAYS, with two very hot bands:
Haven’t had enough? Keep the party going, 9pm to midnight at four nearby hotels!
Here are some very special events to make your Summer Fest even more memorable:
Hyatt Place: Gallery Lounge (282 S. Almaden Blvd.)
Friday, August 7 7:00 Katie Thiroux at San Pedro Market Square FREE 9:00 Doug Beavers’ Titanes del Trombón Salsa Dance Party at Miami Beach Club – GA
7:00 Will Sessions — A super high-energy, jazz-funk group from Detroit. Do not miss! 9:00 The Internet — Their new release Ego Death is already in the running for R&B Album of the Year.
Fri, Aug 7: Masha Campagne Group (Brazilian jazz) Sat, Aug 8: Times 4 (groove-based jazz) Hilton Hotel: Affinity Bar (300 S. Almaden Blvd.)
Saturday, August 8 3:15 Samba Parade with Bloco Del Sol through Salsa, Main & Blues Stage areas – GA 4:00 Film screening of Keep On Keepin’ On at the Camera Cinemas 12 – tickets $5.50 4:30 Jazz Mass at Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph FREE
On Saturday at 10:30pm, the Jazz Beyond Stage moves to The Continental Lounge (349 S. First) and features Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest. Known worldwide, Ali will perform an intimate DJ set to be talked about for years. Finally, on the California Theatre Stage on Sunday at 7pm is Kamasi Washington & the West Coast Get Down, standing squarely at the intersection of jazz and hip hop. There will also be a variety of DJ sets on the Jazz Beyond Stage featuring Quantum, Chatos1013 and The CME. Jazz Beyond programming is curated and co-presented by Universal Grammar.
Sat, Aug 8: Oscar Pangilinan and the Bad Five (modern jazz)
TICKETS, PASSES & FAQs
GETTING TO THE FEST
CONNECT WITH SAN JOSE JAZZ
Daily tickets and economical 3-day passes are available at summerfest.sanjosejazz.org or at any ticket booth. All ticket booths accept cash and major credit cards.
We encourage you to take public transportation, but there are many convenient parking lots if you choose to drive.
SJZ is more than just Summer Fest — we have events and educational activities going year round, so stay in touch!
Public Transportation Let VTA be your ride to the Fest! VTA Light Rail serves the festival and many bus routes run through downtown San Jose. Capitol Corridor, ACE Rail and Caltrain serve San Jose’s Diridon station. VTA Light Rail and Bus #64 connect the station to the festival grounds on weekends.
s Membership: SJZ members receive free admission and other great benefits. Learn more at our SJZ Info Booth or online.
Fairmont Hotel: Lobby Lounge (170 S. Market St.) Fri, Aug 7: Son Chévere (Latin jazz) Sat, Aug 8: Alfie Dreifuss All Stars (R&B, Funk) Hotel De Anza: Hedley Club (233 W. Santa Clara St.) Fri, Aug 7: Dave Haskell Group (contemporary jazz) Sat, Aug 8: SoulBurst (jazz, blues, R&B)
General Admission (GA): $20 Friday; $25 per day, Saturday & Sunday All Stages: $35 per day, Saturday & Sunday Includes California Theatre Stage and Umpqua Bank Stage. See website for additional benefits Priority Access: $75 per day, Saturday & Sunday Includes early entry to four select indoor venues See website for additional benefits
s vta.org & (408) 321.2300 s caltrain.com & (800) 660.4287 s capitolcorridor.org & (877) 974.3322
VIP: $150 per day, Saturday & Sunday See website for additional benefits
Parking More than 10 major parking lots are within walking distance of the festival area. For a map and more info visit sjdowntownparking.com. Summer Fest offers free valet bike parking, courtesy of the Silicon Valley Bike Coalition. Look for the Bike Valet at the corner of Paseo de San Antonio and S. First St.
Children: $5 per day (ages 5-12) Please view ticket booth hours, gate hours, accessibility options and other frequently asked questions at summerfest.sanjosejazz.org/faq
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STRIKE A POSEHN After working as a stand-up comic for 29 years, Brian Posehn, now a father, is contemplating semi-retirement. He plays RockBar Theater on Saturday.
Comedian Brian Posehn on fatherhood, quitting pot and heavy metal BY JOHN FLYNN
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N HIS EARLY SETS, Brian Posehn blasted comics who gushed about their children, telling audiences to punch his baby if he ever talked about his kid onstage. Now a father, Posehn strives not only to protect his son from diehard fans, but also to maintain his comedic voice while talking about his family—a subject he never imagined covering. “It was a weird thing to get my head around that I’m that guy now,” he says. “There’s a current joke, that when you have a child that’s nude a lot, there’s going to be some things that happen, that you’ll want to un-happen. So, that
makes it into the act, but never ‘Oh, my little angel from heaven’ type stuff.” Posehn plans to give stand-up a couple more years before entering semi-retirement. A 29-year comedy veteran, he got his start as soon as he could enter the bars and clubs hosting open mics. “The week I turned 21, I went onstage and destroyed. I really crushed,” he says. “The second time, I could not figure out what was funny about myself and I ate it so hard. I did a brand new five minutes, and nothing worked.” He got better from there and he’s been at it ever since. At 49, Posehn has steadily built a career centered around vocal work and character acting, starring in The Sarah Silverman Program, Mr. Show and New Girl, often acting as a loveable oaf, with his distinct, clumsy baritone and full 6-foot-7-inch frame. “I look like a giant Yeti,” he says.
In his third, most recent comedy special, The Fartist, Posehn complains about having a “leaky penis” and farts that “fall” out of his ass and smell like “the last fart.” Posehn’s petite blonde wife of 11 years, Melanie Truhett, has gotten used to his objectively crass humor. “She doesn’t mind me talking about how gross I am, the leaky penis stuff,” he says. In fact, the two have an understanding that there isn’t much Posehn won’t try to turn into a joke. “When things happen, like when our bassethound violated her while she was on the toilet. It was like ‘well that’s going in the act.’” Now that he’s a dad, Posehn says he has cut out his semi-famous pot habit—a move, which he says he made for a very stonerish reason. “I was motivated a little bit after my son was born because I couldn’t smoke in my nerd cave anymore,” he says. “I had to smoke outside the house. Y’know I’m in the backyard, like a loser, hunching over the garbage can. It lost some charm.” Posehn’s “nerd cave” contains a
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Donkey Kong arcade game and oodles of Star Wars memorabilia. He has a complicated relationship with the space odyssey franchise, worshipping the first trilogy and calling the disappointment from the subpar second trilogy his “Vietnam.” But this polar swinging of emotion is his particular brand of nerdiness. “Nerdiness comes out of not liking things passively,” he says. “That’s been my entire life before there was a name for it. I would not just like something, I would love something, or totally hate it.” And though he’s still recovering from the breach of trust between him and George Lucas, he is planning on taking his son to the Christmas premiere of the new J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Wars: The Force Awakens. “I like to pretend I have a heart made of poo because Lucas ruined my childhood,” he says. “But seeing footage of Harrison Ford, I’m not made of stone. How was I not going to love seeing Han Solo on screen again? He’s the first badass where I went, ‘Aw that guy’s awesome!’ That’s what’s bringing me back to this movie.” Posehn’s nerdiness includes a long love affair with comic books. He is a co-writer of the revamped Deadpool series, about a fourth wall-breaking anti-hero of the Marvel Universe with regenerative superpowers and a steady supply of quips. “It’s been a really fun side thing,” he says. “Just meeting these people and doing this thing I’ve always loved. Just like when I’ve done music videos—to step away from stand-up has just been a blast.” Posehn’s most famous music video, “Metal By Numbers,” is a parody lampooning the pretty boys who falsely rep his favorite genre. It features major musicians like guitarist Scott Ian of Anthrax and has been viewed on YouTube over 2 million times. “(Metal is) so much a part of who I am,” he says. “But I like making other people laugh too, not just metalheads. So it’s more an attitude. I’m a guy who’s read comic books and loved horror movies and heavy metal since he was a little kid, as opposed to a guy who reads more high-falutin books.”
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Cantor Arts Center, Stanford Wed, 11am, Free A.D.M. Cooper (1856–1924) painted over 1,000 works of art. To this day, he is possibly San Jose’s most famous painter. Known for romanticized renderings of the old west— grandiose portraits of buffaloes or frontier life—Cooper went down in history as the guy who traded nudes to pay off bar tabs up and down the Peninsula. Astley D. M. Cooper and Mrs. Stanford’s Jewels, opening at the Cantor Center, features Cooper’s famous portrait of Jane Stanford’s jewelry. When she insisted he dress nicely and paint sober, he bailed from her mansion and finished the painting at home. (GS)
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IMAGINESJ FOOD + DRINK W/ DEM ONE SoFA Market Wed, 7pm, Free What is San Jose's best restaurant? And what is the future of the city’s food and drink scene? These are the questions local restaurateurs aim to answer at this week’s ImagineSJ Food + Drink Showcase. It's no secret that SJ's become a foodie haven in the last decade or so, and this month's ImagineSJ event seeks to showcase San Jose's gastronomic best. Representatives from a list of favorite establishments and newcomers alike will discuss the local restaurant scene. Come try delicious new fare and find out where San Jose's food scene came from, where it is, and where it's going. (JA)
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SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD Sanborn County Park, Saratoga Thu, 7pm, $11 A play about a movie about a play, Shakespeare in Hollywood reimagines the production Max Reinhardt’s film adaptation of the classic Shakespeare comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In playwright Ken Ludwig’s historical fantasy, Oberon and Puck, the fairies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, magically appear in 1935 Burbank, intent on playing themselves in Reinhardt’s film. Naturally, things go awry. The pair become embroiled in a love triangle and engage in other raucous hijinks. The play won the 2004 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play. The show runs through Aug. 21. (LN)
TOADIES
JEREMY HOTZ
Rockbar, San Jose Thu, 7pm, $25
Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale Thu, 8pm, $14
There’s something unsettling, yet undeniably appealing about Toadies. The post-grunge band shot to platinum status in 1994 with their ambiguously creepy lyrics, driving riffs and the scratchy wailing of frontman Vaden Todd Lewis. Their biggest hit, “Possum Kingdom,” recounts a surreal night of passion culminating in the revelation of a dark secret “behind the boathouse.” The good times stalled after Toadies’ label rejected their second album, sending the band into a bit of a spiral. They lost their bassist and broke up briefly. But now they’re back—with songs like “Rattler’s Revival,” which cuts their seductively sinister vibe with poppy 1-2 clapping and a bouncy horn section. (JF)
Some comedians play it straight. Jeremy Hotz is not one of them. He tells each of his jokes in a high-pitched voice on the verge of cracking up, playing confusion that only heightens the astuteness of his observations. He’s been on the Tonight Show five times and his singular delivery swings into mini-rants when he gets going on his favorite subjects, such as America. The Canadian import maintains a calm national pride while looking incredulously at our country. On his special, “What a Miserable Tour This Is,” he explains Canadians don’t have a space program because “we know what’s up there, stars.” (JF)
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August 9 at The Ritz
FIFTH HARMONY August 9 at Mountain Winery
ZIGGY MARLEY & STEEL PULSE August 13 at Mountain Winery
CHRIS ISAAK August 14 at Mountain Winery
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 Aug
KELLY CLARKSON August 23 at Shoreline Amphitheatre Augu
HEART August 26 at Mountain Winery
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THE BLACK GRIT
Fri, 7:30pm, $10 The Art Boutiki
Sat, 4pm, Free Streetlight Records
Kelp is the gunky, briny-smelling stuff that wraps itself around your ankles on beach days. Hippies recommend you eat it. The Kelps, on the other hand, are an open wound of a band, hailing from Sacramento and producing highly melodic, affecting rock. Look out for heavy, psychedelic-tinged guitars, lilting under earnest lyrics, occasionally interrupted by a rockabilly shuffle. The bill is rounded out by two more San Jose bands: Get Married—a doo wopinfused punk band led by former Kill the Bats frontman, Jaake Margo; and post-punk revivalists, The Shrews. (JA)
The Black Grit have a few sides to them, and one is pretty much what the name implies: Rock & roll for the black T-shirt crowd, Alice Cooper covers and all. On the other, they've got a soft spot for blues, funk, jazz and all the other types of music you can make with a guitar, bass and drums. You never really know what they've got up their sleeve. Typically these guys stick to night time venues— dank bars and smoky clubs. But this Saturday, they’ll be waking up early (for rock musicians) to play a daytime show at Streetlight Records. (JA)
YESHUA & THE HIGHTONES Back Bar, San Jose Sat, 5pm, $10 The hypnotic island beats, strolling guitar licks and peaceful mantras of reggae were made for the hot, slow days of summer. The second-annual Rastapalooza will feature nine acts, bursting with “irie vibes,” and San Jose’s own Yeshua & The HighTones headline the show. Yeshua, the be-dreaded frontman, commands a vocal range that drops into soothing coos and jumps into impassioned howls. Folding in Latin grooves, the band plays a distinct brand of reggae that pays tribute to the genre’s swaying roots, yet is propelled by revolutionary energy and their ability to launch into dueling, face-melting saxophone and guitar solos. (JF)
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Santa Clara Convention Center Sun, 10am, $11.95-$15 Calling all Lego enthusiasts: Sunday is your day, because the sixth-annual Bricks by the Bay exhibition is back. The most popular feature of the yearly Bricks by the Bay convention, the exhibition will feature hundreds of Lego models from hundreds of the nation’s most creative blockheads— all spread throughout 33,000 square feet of ballroom space at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This year’s theme is monsters, so fans of the colorful Danish building blocks can expect to see dragons, space aliens and more—built entirely out of Legos. Check out these creations and meet the artists behind them. (LN)
INCUBUS AND DEFTONES August 26 at Shoreline Amphitheatre Augu
NEKO CASE SSeptember 4 at Mountain Winery
CHAYANNE September 6 at SAP Center
ARIANA GRANDE September 8 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
FOO FIGHTERS September 16 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
DICK DALE October 17 at The Ritz
MADONNA October 19 at SAP Center
THE LIMOUSINES December 18 at The Ritz For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com
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At the turn of the 19th Century, a quarter of a million orphans were sent from New York to new homes. 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.
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.
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Loony inventor Caractacus Potts seeks to save a grandprix 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.
THE WALLS OF JERICHO A flip-flop of the classic Cinderella tale (she’s rich and he’s poor) starts on a bus when two strangers banter back in forth in the whip-sharp fashion of the 1930s, and as they do, the barriers between them crumble. Sep 18-Oct 4. $10-$35. The Pear Avenue Theatre. Mountain View.
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Sprung from the Tony-winning minds of Elton John and Tim Rice, this Best Musical Winner features some of the most jaw-dropping staging and recognizable songs in Broadway history.. Sep 9-24. $43-$178. Center for the Performing Arts.
FIORELLO! Former New York mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia takes on crooks and corruption while seeking to secure the rights of the common citizen. This musical won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an award only given to Broadway plays 8 times in history. $33. Sep 19-Oct 10. South Bay Musical Theatre. Saratoga Civic Theatre.
RFK In our era of political cynicism and division, this refreshing play brings back the persistent idealism of Robert Kennedy, tracing his struggles and triumphs in his quest to make a government for all people. Sep 30-Oct 26. $55-$65. The San Jose Stage.
*art MUSEUMS CANTOR ARTS CENTER “500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum” Thru August 24. “Pop Art from the SFMOMA Anderson Collection” featuring works by Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, and others. Thru Oct 26. “Modern Times” works by O’Keefe, Stieglitz, Toomer. Thru Sep 21. Stanford.
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. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Found/Made” Quilts made from repurposed cloth. Thru Nov 1. “Recycled, Up-Cycled, Re-Purposed Clothing Design” Fashion created by 6 local artists in response to overcommercialization and rapid production. Thru Sep 6. San Jose.
TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Vistas and Dreams” by Vern Trindade. Thru Sep 13. “Abstractions-Bridges and Echoes” by Barry Masteller. Thru Sep 13. “Through the Lens of Four” Thru Sep 13 Santa Clara.
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GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “We Are Savages” Sign-painting art by Ken Davis. San Jose.
CUKUI Julian Nunez. Aug 14. San Jose.
DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “San Shui,” paintings by Russell Altice Case. San Jose.
EMPIRE SEVEN STUDIOS Jason Arnold, Beau Roulette. Thru Aug. San Jose
GALLERY HOUSE “Out of the Blue” Wendy Fitzgerald, Charlottle Coqui. Thru Aug 22. Palo Alto.
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.
MAIN GALLERY “Life Lines” a celebration of the textures of life. “Color Me Woman” a study of femininity. Thru Aug 2. Redwood City.
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.
SEEING THINGS GALLERY “Late July” photos by Matt Price, Kyle Camarillo, Mark Nisbet. Starts Jul 24. San Jose
*events SOUTH FIRST FRIDAY An exhibition of the area’s culture in the burgeoning downtown district, filled with live shows, art gallery openings, and tasty food. Fri, Aug 7, 7pm. Free. San Jose.
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GOING NATIVE Much of artist Nikkea Takagi’s work draws inspiration from traditional Navajo art.
TUESDAY 8/4 & WEDNESDAY 8/5 | 8 pm Claire Daly & John Kruth with Sonelius Smith
Caffeinated Art BEAN TUPOU, a barista at Cupertino’s trendy third-wave java joint, Chromatic Coffee, leads a double life as a tastemaker in San Jose’s DIY art scene. A founding member of the punk collective Think and Die Thinking and guitarist-vocalist in the indie rock band Try the Pie, Tupou is also one of the people responsible for booking Chromatic’s music and art showcases. Alongside Chromatic roasters Hiver van Geenhoven, Donald Miguel and manager Otessa Crandell, the artistactivist organizes a monthly series of art receptions, held the first Thursday of every month at the coffee bar. The artists, most of them Bay Area denizens, are given an autonomy they may not receive at other venues. They control the setup of the installation, keep 100 percent of the money made through art sales and design a limited edition bag of coffee sold by Chromatic at the opening. As a devotee to the DIY scene and its ethos, Tupou wouldn’t have it any other way.
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“Art is art, and I see many similarities between the attitudes that musicians and visual artists share about debuting their work,” Tupou says. “There’s the same kind of vulnerability. What was once intimate and personal is public. And we try to support artists as much as possible during that time.” Another aspect of DIY and punk that bleeds into these shows is their accessibility. The Chromatic shows are all-ages and free of charge. After the opening reception, the art remains prominently displayed in Chromatic until month’s end. It is then given to buyers or returned to the artist. A challenge to that accessibility is Chromatic’s Santa Clara location, making it popular among Apple employees. “I realize the location is not ideal for punk kids in East Side San Jose,” Tupou says, “and we’re aware of our [prominently techie] customer base. But we try to make music and art showcases as accessible as possible, and always work hard on maintaining a safe space.” This month’s art show features the work of Nikkea Takagi, one of the owners of Black Arrow Printing. Takagi’s work is made up largely of intricate line-paintings of people and animals reminiscent of Navajo art. The highly geometric "building blocks" of Takagi's work shapes beings in harmony with nature. Patterns like a night sky are part of a larger organism, which in turn is part of the tapestry of the world around it. It’s her first solo show, and Tupou and the rest of Chromatic Coffee are excited to debut it.— Jay Edgar
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The Contender REBEL WITH A CAUSE In Stevan Riley’s new film, ‘Listen to Me Marlon,’ audio clips recorded by Marlon Brando reveal the actor’s determination to be more than just an ‘actor.’
‘Listen to Me Marlon,’ paints a portrait of the artist, Marlon Brando, in his own words BY RICHARD VON BUSACK
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N ACTOR’S a guy, who if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.”
This is just one example of many quotes culled from a basket of cassette tapes, the acting legend Marlon Brando made as personal therapy. These nighttime musings of the greatest and most influential American actor of the 20th century come to us courtesy of director Stevan Riley’s new film, Listen to Me Marlon. Accompanying visuals combine news footage, interviews and impressionist camera views of the Southern California compound
where Brando hid from the world. Also supplementing the narration, leftover from some digital experiment made years ago, is an early 3D animated sampling of Brando’s head as he speaks. Brando had a battering father and a sensitive mother who was, he claims, the town drunk. Crime, murder and suicide took its toll among his children. Brando’s contempt for the demands of his profession added to his strain— he hated being thought of as a “mechanical doll.” “You know who you were going to get when you went to the movies,” he muses. “Actors who were the same in every role.” Brando was determined to make the element of
surprise an essential component in his performances. He considers other ways his art functioned: acting as boxing, acting as a search for justice. The deadly paternal rumble of Don Corleone in The Godfather, or the slurred, psychedelic muttering of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, were Brando’s strange gists to the world. Brando brought an utterly masculine attack to such films as Last Tango in Paris, or the feline, mincing diction in his English parts from Fletcher Christian to Superman’s father. In odd parts, he’d sweeten up this feminine side, just to shock the machos. As he tells it to himself, Brando’s success seems a blur, compared to places that seemed real to him, such as the American West and Tahiti. What he loved to think about were the days when he could ride his motorcycle all over New York in the dead of night. These night rides were relief from the ordeal from playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire—“I absolutely hate that kind of
person,” he says of Kowalski. Indeed, Brando was a vessel for elements so corrosive that it’s no surprise that there was some cracking. Conflict isn’t just the essence of movies, it’s also the essence of movie making. There isn’t a big movie Brando didn’t warp to his own personality. He made Don Corleone an icon of paternal anguish, and there’s an echo of the Don’s concern in the way Brando worries about his children here. Brando’s Kowalski bends the 1951 film of Streetcar in his favor; in this film, he’s a class clown disrupting Blanche’s school teacherish lessons about truth and beauty. Flouting aesthetics was part of Brando’s assault on his craft, perhaps one explanation for his obesity. At one point, Brando impersonates a piece of pie, calling to him from the inside of the fridge: “C’mon, Marlon, be a pal. It’s cold in here….” “Free yourself from the cult of Marlon Brando,” New Yorker critic Richard Brody recently thundered. Brody maintains that the theatrical glaze on Brando’s remarkable natural presence is what fascinates your ordinary critics, leading them to ignore the raw power underneath. Brody uses the Shakespearean expression, “to gild the lily” in order to criticize the Shakespearean qualities in Brando’s work. In Listen to Me Marlon, Brando recites Macbeth as his massive skull is woven out of pixels. And his manipulative, effete Mark Anthony in the 1956 Julius Caesar is indelible acting. If anything, the cult of Brando needs more devotees, and there needs to be a restoration of the film he directed in Monterey, One Eyed Jacks. Still, Brody is right in this rebuttal to a Terrence Rafferty essay wrongly bemoaning the quality of today’s actors. We still have Brando’s influence to thank for how fine screen acting is today. To be an actor, you don’t have to be well-born or well-read; it’s a gift for observation and intuition and fearlessness that matters. What Brando had, young actors are still trying to grasp—both the aloofness and the need.
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Missouri Death Trip CHIP ON HER SHOULDER, ratty baseball cap clamped on her head, so that her eyes are in shadow: in Dark Places Charlize Theron deglazes herself of glam as she hasn’t since she played serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2003’s Monster. Theron is Libby Day, a Midwestern survivor of an assault on her family that occurred years before. She lives a parasitic life on the last waning sympathy checks. The “as told to” book she wrote about the ordeal has been lining thrift stores for several decades. At this point, she is hired as the monthly speaker by a group of weird enthusiasts calling themselves “The Kill Club.” They’re led by a nice young man named Lyle (Theron reunites here with Nicholas Hoult of Fury Road). The state is about to shred the records of the Day massacre after 30 years. It’s time to reopen the conviction is running out. Libby doesn’t believe it, but the gang of true crime fans believes that the brother Libby sent up the river through her childhood testimony is perhaps not the real culprit. It’s based on Gillian Flynn’s novel, and as in Flynn’s Gone Girl, there is the problem of an untrustworthy, flashback-ridden format: it’s a plot that requires some
juggling, some voice-over, and some last-minute reveals to hide the fact that the story doesn’t make a lick of sense. Flynn excels at taking a poisonous look at the parts of the country most people rhapsodize about—but by mashing up In Cold Blood Dark Places with the West Memphis Satanic panic, there’s too R; 113 Mins. much plot for the cast to Camera 12 chew. It’s not the cast’s fault, except for Sean Bridgers, who is dreadful as Libby’s no-good dad. Denise Williamson, in a small but key role, should develop her presence in horror films. Chloe Grace Moretz is a succulent, manipulative teenage temptress. Christina Hendricks, practically unrecognizable from her Mad Men days, tries her best in the flashbacks as Libby’s single mom struggling with a mountain of debt. Paul Greengrass vet Barry Ackroyd’s glum, naturalistic photography doesn’t heighten the drama the way the images did in Gone Girl—we’re not seeing something that measures up to Flynn’s vision of a nation rotting from the middle outward. —Richard von Busack
WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? (2015) A singer, a fury, a woman of great extremes and greater relevance, right up to her death in 2003. Liz Garbus’ fascinating documentary is a study of how bipolarity informs art and life. Nina Simone, rising in popularity during the Civil Rights era, was thoroughly radicalized by the end of the 1960s and left the United States to get away from the racism that tore at her heart. Born Eunice Waymon, Simone was trained in classical piano. The daughter of a female preacher, she was performing at an early age. Kept out of the conservatory because of her race, she adopted her stage name so that her mother wouldn’t learn she was performing at Jersey shore night clubs. A hitmaker with her cover of Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy,” she was so enraged by the police assaults on the Selma marchers that she composed “Mississippi Goddam”—a 45rpm record that not only faced boycott, but was sometimes returned to the record company snapped in half by southern radio DJs. Simone married an NYPD vice squad cop who became her manager, with predictably turbulent results for their homelife even before the union opened up to admit affairs. The documentary demonstrates why Simone was a one-of-a-kind performer—no one surpassed her in raking an audience with her eyes, or in
Revivals IKIRU (1952) Akira Kurosawa’s astonishing drama of a dying bureaucrat's chance to live (To Live is the title in Japanese). Old Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) spent 30 years presiding over a room of buck-passers and paper-pushers. Then came a diagnosis of stomach cancer. Having nothing to live for and nothing but ingratitude from the son he never really knew, Watanabe lumbers out in search of purpose. The Tokyo night-town scenes really breathe; the old man's corpse-faced mooning after a flighty young girl expresses the essence of film noir. The last third relinquishes the film's urgency, but it's a lovely strange hybrid that smashes the mold of terminal-illness movies: a Buddhist message in an MGM-style frame. (Plays Aug 5-7 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
YOJIMBO/STRAY DOG (1961/1949) Sanjuro, the penniless, bug-bitten, masterless samurai (the one and only Toshiro Mifune) wanders into a country town beggared by a gang war—only the coffin-makers prosper in this hamlet—and he hires his sword to both sides. The samurai film to see if you’re only going to see one. Black and white and in gorgeous Tohoscope, Kurosawa’s masterpiece Eastern/Western is made with John Ford’s attention to framing and with Howard Hawks’ sense of comedic expediency. Images here stick with you for decades—the dog in the dusty street with a new treat in his mouth, or the heavy-browed moron gangster counting up a small sum on his fingers. Mifune’s middle-aged virility—ruminative yet capable of lashing into action—is something to see. This frontiersman doesn’t even need a horse; he walks like he’s seated on a charger. Masaru Sato’s modern soundtrack—harpsichords and saxophones—comments on this modern take on a historical drama, and there’s a night at a brothel where the girls play their samisens like they’re electric guitars. Remade seemingly a hundred times, most effectively as A Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood in his star-making role as the Man With No Name. BILLED WITH Stray Dog. An elder cop (Takashi Shimura) and a young rookie (Mifune) team up to solve the matter of a stolen pistol. (Plays Aug 8-11 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
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WRONG, GIRL In ‘Dark Places,’ Charlize Theron plays a woman confronting her troubled past and coming to troubling conclusions.
(2015) The despair-inducing Irrational Man has some promise to it—things could have been done to make it merely tepid instead of abject, but is Woody Allen capable of doing those things anymore? This crabbed rewrite of Crime and Punishment, with its gimmicky One Step Beyond ending, is the backhanded celebration of a sour man. Abe (a sleepy, ruminative Joaquin Phoenix) is a supposed luminary in the world of philosophy, come to teach at a small Rhode Island college. Phoenix settles deep within himself, his stomach apparently given an artificial pot by a pregnancy pouch. He’s said to be brilliant, not that he says anything that proves it (he tells his students about “Jean Paul Sartre’s wonderful comment that ‘Hell is other people’”). He’s seen much of the world and demonstrates his melancholia by swigging from a flask in public, and playing Russian roulette at parties. There are many sad examples of Allen’s disconnection—in the dated chatter of the students or the blindness of the faculty to Abe’s problems. A funhouse-mirror sequence isn’t bad. Cinematographer Darius Khondji’s Rhode Island landscapes are fresh. But this film, killed by hasty writing, smells like a contractual obligation. (Camera 7, CineArts) (RvB)
rousing their souls. The performances here include everything from a nervewracked appearance on the Playboy After Dark show to a post-breakdown comeback of surpassing anger. (Netflix on Demand.) (RvB)
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‘Drive Thru Metal’ ROCK & ROLL CLOWN Ronald Osborne, frontman for McDonald’s-themed Black Sabbath cover band, Mac Sabbath.
Mac Sabbath perform faithful covers of Black Sabbath songs— with a fast-food twist BY NICK VERONIN
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F WE ARE to believe Mike Odd, there aren’t many who know the true identity of Ronald Osborne, frontman for the L.A.-based, McDonald’sthemed Black Sabbath cover band, Mac Sabbath. Odd, the leader of weirdo-rock outfit Rosemary’s Billygoat, moonlights as Mac Sabbath’s manager and sole spokesperson—a role he says he was unwittingly lured into when an anonymous tipster convinced him to go grab lunch at a Chatsworth “franchise of a certain multinational fast food conglomerate, which shall remain nameless.”
For legal reasons, Odd explains, he never uses “the M-word.” It was there, whilst “devouring a cheeseburger,” that he was approached by a “crazed looking clown.” That clown was Osborne—who leads Mac Sabbath dressed like a demonic Ronald McDonald, replete with a fiery red wig, red-and-yellow jumpsuit, and shiny, oversized shoes. Instead of wearing a permanent red-and-white smile on his face, Osborne’s mug is made up to resemble a crimson, chalky skull. His backing band is no less committed. Mac Sabbath’s guitarist, Slayer McCheese, wears a giant, foam cheeseburger on his head, with two eyes, a nose, and a pair of massive tusks jutting from the bottom bun. Grimalice, the group’s bassist, resembles a deranged Grimace, with tweaked-
out eyes, a skullet hairdo and a floppy tongue. The Slamburglar keeps time, in his flat-brimmed fedora, black-andwhite striped shirt, and Zorro-esque mask and cape. The band’s songs feature arrangements that directly correspond to Black Sabbath hits, only with satirical lyrics, which take aim at the fast food industry. In “Frying Pan,” a play on Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man,” Osborne sings, “Cows we’re going to grind/Hope your stomach is well lined/Do I have the gall/ Chopping onions makes me ball.” During their first meeting, Osborne invited Odd to see Mac Sabbath perform—reportedly in the basement of a Southern California fast food restaurant. From there, much like many a fast food customer, Odd says he was hooked. He agreed to represent the band. That was sometime in 2013, Odd says. Since then, his life has gotten exponentially weirder. According to Odd, Osborne only meets with him in full costume, and has steadfastly maintained that he arrived in the present day through a wormhole, which transported him
from the year 1970. “He meets me in weird locations, with weird secret messages delivered,” Odd says. “I’ve been drawn into something. It’s really hard to explain, frankly.” Indeed, over the course of our conversation Odd frequently breaks into laughter. He seems both genuinely amused and confused by the band he represents. If it’s all an act (he flatly denies rumors that he and Osborne are one and the same) his incredulous tone and fits of nervous chortling have me fooled. Some have also speculated that Osborne’s is actually Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys. However, despite Mac Sabbath’s growing profile—they’ve been featured in plenty of music blogs, on Fox News, and even had one of their music videos shared on Black Sabbath’s official Facebook page—no one has yet been able to conclusively disprove Osborne’s wormhole origin story. Perhaps it’s better that way. Consider professional wrestling—or bizarro hip-hop artist RiFF RAFF, the Joaquin Phoenix’s mockumentary, I’m Still Here, or Andy Kaufman, who to this day has people believing he faked his death. When a performance artist is that committed to his or her act, does it really matter what the truth is? Osborne is nothing if not committed to his character. He calls Mac Sabbath’s music “drive thru metal,” and claims there are many other artists who are attempting to rip him off: “Burger King Diamond is his nemesis,” Odd says, before rattling off a slew of other names, including “Chick Filet-C/DC,” “Dokken Donuts,” “Twisted Sizzler” and “Iron Mai-Denny’s”—none of which seem to be real. “I don’t think that much that goes on in his mind is real,” Odd says, laughing again. He’ll get really angry when you start talking about cell phones or the Internet. He’ll get upset and you might get a chocolate shake in your face.” Odd says Osborne’s antics can make it difficult for him to do his job. “I mean, trying to figure out exactly what’s going on and what I’m supposed to be saying to you guys (the press)—it’s all vague and very strange.” Nonetheless, it works, Odd says. And furthermore, “It’s fun.” AUG
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Fri, Aug 7, 8pm: Jimmy Dewrance Band. Sat, Aug 8, 8pm: Tin Man. Every Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.
Fri, Aug 7, 7:30pm: Get Married, The Shrews, The Kelps. San Jose.
THE BACK BAR SOFA Every Wed, 9pm: The Cypher, feat. Hip-hop, Jungle, Soul, Reggae, Dubstep, Trap, BreakBeat, House and more. San Jose
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BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Every Wed: DJ 512. Every Thu: DJ Nico & Neeber. Every Fri: DJ Benofficial & Clay. Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.
CARDIFF LOUNGE Every Tues, 10pm: Resident DJ Gabriel Black presents Beat Culture. Every Wed, 10pm: Rubber Soul w/ Wen Davis, Nappy, Cutso, and Golden Child (Hip-Hop). Every Thu, 10pm: Roger Morehouse Presents Foxy Thursdays. Campbell
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Sat, Aug 8, 4pm: The Black Grit. San Jose.
Fri, Aug 7, 6pm: Zoostation (U2 Tribute). Redwood City.
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Fri: Live music. Santa Clara.
Wed, Aug 5, 5:30pm: Busta Groove. Sat, Aug 8, 5:30pm: The Joint Chiefs. Sunnyvale.
MOJO LOUNGE Fri, Aug 7, 9:30pm: Stan Erhart. Sat, Aug 8, 9:30pm: The Uptown Six. Every Sun, 8pm: Acoustic Jam. Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Band. Every Thurs: DJ Mist. Fremont.
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ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays. Thu, Aug 6, 7:30pm: Lisa Woo w/ Rick Ferguson and the Holiday Wonder Band. Fri, Aug 7, 8:30pm: Wavelength (Van Morrison Band). Sat, Aug 8, 8:30pm: Pat Wilder Band & Serious Business. Sun, Aug 9, 7:30pm: Katie Kilcullen. Redwood City.
BLUE NOTE LOUNGE Every Tue, 7:30pm: Yoshi Senzaki Band. Every Sun: Jazz or Blues. Milpitas.
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First Fri, 8pm: Opera Night. Sat, Aug 8, 8pm: Jorge Sanchez and the Wandering Poets, with Musical Guests Clay Moon, Les Amy, Time Will Decide, Lorenz Dumuk and Angels Michelle. San Jose.
SAN JOSE STATE EVENT CENTER Sun, Aug 9, 7pm: Fifth Harmony. San Jose.
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O’FLAHERTY’S Thu, 9pm: Live Music. Sun, 5pm: Reggae music. Tue, 6:30pm: Live Irish Rock. San Jose.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/ Sid Morris & Kyle Jester. Thu, Aug 6, 6pm: Gary Tackett Blues Band. Fri, Aug 7, 6pm: Pat Wilder Band. Sat, Aug 8, 6pm: GG Amos Band. Sun, Aug 9, 10am: PHB Blues Band w/ Sid Morris. San Jose.
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including men, women, dead women whose flesh has or hasn’t been eaten away by animals, female monkeys, wooden dolls . . . you get the picture. Transsexualism is also surprisingly well-defined in Buddhist scripture, and is described in great detail in several stories. The historian Peter Jackson has argued that pre-existing Thai notions of gender interacted with Buddhist thought in a way that uniquely conflated gayness with transness. For many years, gay men were simply understood as having women’s desires, and often referred to as kathoey, too. But while same-sex inclinations were long thought in Thai Buddhism to be sinful, they were also thought to be congenital—meaning they couldn’t be changed during a person’s lifetime, and therefore had to be accepted. Of course, this doesn’t exactly constitute a Caitlyn-Jenner-on-the-coverof-Vanity Fair level of public acceptance. But compared to Christianity’s effects in the West, Buddhism has helped create a society that's probably more accepting of divergence from traditional orientation and gender norms. The sex industry part of the story is much simpler. When American troops fought in the Vietnam War, roughly 700,000 of them passed at some point through Thailand, the U.S. military’s official rest-and-relaxation area. Their spending in restaurants, bars and brothels exceeded 40 percent of Thailand’s export earnings. All of it was paid for by the U.S. government and produced a proliferation of sex-based businesses. To complete the equation, transgender populations all over the world are much more heavily involved in prostitution than the population at large, because thus far no society is so accepting of transness that a publicly transgender person can easily find another type of employment. Here in the US, the National Trans Discrimination Survey reported in 2011 that 26 percent of transgender people had lost their jobs due to gender identity/expression and 11 percent had done sex work for income. With Thailand’s high-profile sex trade, these trends stand out all the more. As for that ping-pong-ball trick, let’s just say the physics behind it is pretty simple. The rest I’ll leave to your imagination and/or your Google search history.
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seethe in silence, wonderful idea—except for how, as resentment builds, “head in the sand” starts to feel like “head in the blender.” Yes, you need to admit that your husband is cheating on you. Once you have your meet-and-greet with reality, let him know you’re onto him and then sit down together to see what you have and whether it’s fixable (and not just by making your elderly mom take the bus to your house so you can stand guard by the phone). To figure things out, spend 12 hours straight in a hotel room together. Yes, really. No books, TV, phone calls, naps, or walks outside. You can sit silently—or talk about anything regarding one or both of you. The late therapist Nathaniel Branden, who came up with this idea, called it an “experiment in intimacy.” Branden explained that when all avenues of escape are closed off, a couple can experience real breakthroughs in communication. As opposed to what you’ve been experiencing—real breakthroughs in communications devices: “Yeah, we have a very happy relationsh—…hold on, Katrina…sorry; that was just the tracking thingie telling me my husband’s going south on Oak.”
I’m dating this guy. We aren’t committed, but I’d like us to be. Recently, he’s been mentioning chicks who want to sleep with him whom he shut down. I appreciate his honesty, but I guess I’m wondering why he’s telling me this stuff at all.—Earful There’s being open and honest, and then there’s bragging about your sexual options, which is the mark of a mantoddler: “Mommy, Mommy, look at the sex fort I’m making!” The guy’s spirit animal appears to be the trash can with the swinging lip. He either wants you to like him more or he is warning you that you like him too much. Time will tell. Meanwhile, just sitting there blinking as he rattles on about his harem-in-waiting doesn’t make you seem cool and easygoing; it makes you seem cool with disrespect. In other words, you actually need
to say no to knowing. This doesn’t take some long, icky speech. Just a slightly singsongy “Overshare!” And if he doesn’t quite get it, maybe add, “Fascinating…but unless I’ll be needing a penicillin nightcap, TMI.” Assuming he listens and stops and is generally attentive to your feelings, you probably shouldn’t fixate on this. Even the sweetest guy may say things he doesn’t quite think through—to the point where a girl’s sometimes got to ask for tech support: “Hi…sorry, but I couldn’t find this in your FAQs. How do I log out of your penis’s news ticker?”
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EMPLOYMENT Bartender 6 AM-10 AM and evenings, Part Time shift available. Alex’s 49er Lounge, 2214 Business Circle, (San Carlos & Bascom), San Jose. 408/279-9737
Member of Technical Staff in Newark, CA sought by Tegile Systems. MS in IT, Comp Eng, or rltd + 3 yrs exp Or BS in IT, Comp Eng, or rltd + 5 yrs of exp. Resp for prvdng guidnce & engnrng sltns to fulfill biz reqs. Know of UNIX, Linux, Wind OS & stor protocls. Know in comp eng algo & data strc. Exp in implmt & maint of intgrtd syss across hdwr & sftw pltfrm. Perm US wk auth reqd. Aply @ www. jobpostingtoday.com Ref # 21771
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Company: Chip Test Solutions LLC Location: 2875 Northwestern Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95051 Educational Requirement: Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Related Field. Experience: 12 months experience as Information Technology or Information Systems Manager or related occupation Duties: Test Engineer at Santa Clara, CA develops Test Program on Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) to test Integrated Circuit Devices. Designs Hardware and Interface Boards for the ATE. Assists production testing, trouble shoots and debugs setups when production set up has issues. Assists Chip Test Solution’s customer engineers as needed. Supports Customer Service in providing and transferring customer data files from ATE to customer servers. Maintains/ Administers ATE systems networks, disks, users. Special Requirements: Experience in linear circuits design, Digital circuit design, Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) design, Electronics and Semiconductor Devices, Sequential and Combinational logic circuits design, Integrated Signals and Systems, Microprocessor Architecture and Design, Machine Language, Data Structures. Advanced C/C++ Programming, Computer Networks, Unix Operating system, Microsoft Office, Visual basic programming language, Database Systems and Electronic design. Send resume to: Chip Test Solutions LLC. Attn: Saeed Shakeri 2875 Northwestern Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95051 Refer to job # CT0615-01 when apply
Piano, Guitar & Voice Teachers Home music lessons taught in South Bay. Fun team, flexible schedule, excellent clients. Pays up to $1200/week send resume: natem@musiciansmobile.com
Computer BoardVantage, Inc. seeks Software Engineer to Implement new features for OnPremise solution. Worksite: 4300 Bohannon Dr., #110, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Email resume to bvhr@ boardvantage.com
55+ YEARS OLD & SEEKING WORK? Free job assistance & training. Must meet low-income guidelines. Call SOURCEWISE. Speak with a Community Resource Professional in Senior Employment Services. (408) 350-3200, Option 5 ENGINEERING
GainSpan Corp has an opening in San Jose, CA. for a:
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ENGINEERING Fortinet, Inc. has a Principal Software Development QA Engineer position (Job Code: PSYW-CA) available in Sunnyvale, CA. Work within the R&D team to ensure the productivity, reliability and accuracy of Fortinet’s cutting edge Wireless LAN product lines. Submit resume by mail to: Fortinet, Inc., ATTN: Jacqueline Guo, 899 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Must reference job title and job code PSYW-CA.
Nokia USA Inc. has the following open positions in Sunnyvale, CA: *Principal Engineer [NUS-SV15-PRINC]: design, develop and test in C++ in software applications, mobile application, & cross-platform component; user interface (UI);& other duties/skills. ** Senior Material Engineer, Mechanics [NUS-SV15SMATE] –research & implement new materials to products using mechanics design in consumer electronics products; work with mechanics CAD & other duties/skills. Mail resume to Nokia USA Recruiter, c/o Monica McDonald, 3001 Lava Ridge Ct., Ste 160, Roseville, CA 95661 & note Job ID#.
Technical Consultants sought by GSPANN Technologies, Inc. in Milpitas, CA. Master’s deg in Comp Sci/Engg or rltd w 1 yr exp. Provide customers w/service, support, problem solving, & escalation. Understand/assess web dvlpmt, production reqmts, goals, & problems/issues to propose/provide solutions. Provide knowl transfer, mentoring, & training. Dsgn/implmt workflows as well as solutions using Content Mgmt System. Build/deliver presentations/solution demos. Also resp for build, delivery, & mgmt of proof of concept & pilot projects. Mail resumes to GSPANN, 362 Fairview Way, Milpitas, CA 95035, Attn: HR.
Financial Advisor: Entholpy EMC Inc. dba Mastermind College Funding Group in Santa Clara, CA. Provide financial advice and investment strategies. Master’s req. Fax resume 4089047374 or email to michaelchencfp@gmail.com
ENGINEERING Fortinet, Inc. has a Senior Software Engineer position (Job Code: SSSV-CA) available in Sunnyvale, CA. Design and Develop configurable and customizable GUI for the Cloud based Security Applications. Submit resume by mail to: Fortinet, Inc., ATTN: Jacqueline Guo, 899 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Must reference job title and job code SSSV-CA.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company is accepting resumes for the position of Presales Technical Consultant, Software in Sunnyvale, CA (Ref. #HPECSUNWARG1). DeďŹ ne, develop and support the sales process for technology and solutions with account teams. Engage in account transactions based on speciďŹ c deals/programs leveraging specialized knowledge base across multiple accounts. Up to 25% travel required. Mail resume to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, 5400 Legacy Drive, MS H1-2F-25, Plano, TX 75024. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.
Krypt, Inc. has multiple openings for each of the following positions: SAP ABAP Consultant (Job# 102, Work on SAP implementation using SAP ABAP), SAP GTS Analyst (Job# 103, Work on SAP GTS implementation), SAP MM and WM Consultant (Job# 104, Work on SAP MM and SAP WM implementation), SAP Programmer (Job# 107, Write SAP programs. Implement SAP features), Senior SAP Analyst (Job# 108, Work on SAP implementation). Work will be performed at Santa Clara, CA and various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. Require travel/ relocation to client sites at various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. Send resume with Job# to HR, Krypt, Inc., 3945 Freedom Circle, Ste 550, Santa Clara, CA 95054 or email to jobs@kryptinc.com. Visit www.kryptinc.com for job details. yahoo.com Serious Only as those chosen to help will be working directly with the Bolin family and their representatives.
Rejuvenis Skin Care is looking for a Licensed Esthetician to provide services to patients in a MediSpa level. Requirements: State of California Esthetics License, 1-2 years of experience.(medical spa experience a plus), Make product recommendations, Customer service oriented -answering phones, scheduling appointment, handling the register of clients, punctual, positive, ethical, team player, part-time position, some Saturdays, hourly wage + commission incentives + gratuities. Email resume to: susierejuvenskincare@yahoo.com Office 408-924-0339
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SOFTWARE Fortinet, Inc. has a Manager Software Development position (Job Code: MSHZ-CA) available in Sunnyvale, CA. Conduct and perform software research and development for FortiAP, secured enterprise wireless products and features. Submit resume by mail to: Fortinet, Inc., ATTN: Jacqueline Guo, 899 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Must reference job title and job code MSHZ-CA.
ENGINEERING QA Engineer (Sunnyvale, CA): Achieve in-depth understanding of Spirent’s product domain, pertinent technologies and development processes. Please mail resumes to Spirent Communications, Inc., Ms. Ila Tomita, 27349 Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91301. Ref job #KK935029
Project Engineers (Civil Engineer) Detailed job description at www. rmengineers.com. Job Site: San Jose, CA. Education: None. Experience: 2 years. Work under the review, direction and supervision of a California licensed Civil Engineer. Send resume to: Rajappan & Meyer Consulting Engineers, Inc., 1038 Leigh Ave., Suite 100, San Jose, CA 95126
LeverX Inc Job Site: 4984 El Camino Real, Los Altos CA 94022. Create Biz solutions for clients. Mail resume to 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 180, Mountain View, CA 94040 Attn: Larisa Kutsak.
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Must have high energy, enthusiasm, team leadership and with sales experience. Apply in person! 1667 S. Bascom Ave., Campbell, 95008
Perform market analysis, ďŹ nancial modeling, capital investment strategy and manage client engagements. Mail resumes to: Keystone Strategy, 2000 Sierra Point Parkway, Suite 701, Brisbane, CA 94005. (Reference Job# M002).
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Engineers MetricStream, Inc. seeks Sales Engineers. Work w/ sales team to enhance sales opportunities for the Co.’s prods; Prep & deliver tech/architectural presentations relating to integration of 3rd party tools with Co.’s Pltfrm; Respond to customer request for proposals; Participate in conďŹ guration efforts, provide training & prep support material for clients; & assist in dsgng custom-made prods & prfm POC demos. This position requires limited domestic travel to client sites (25%). Job Site: Palo Alto, CA. Resumes to HR, MetricStream,Inc. 2600 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303. Job Details: www.metricstream.com
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You Remember Tommy Bolin! Deep Purple / James Gang / Billy Cobham’s Spectrum / Teaser & Private Eyes One of Rock & Roll’s Greatest Guitarists! Looking for Tommy Bolin fans to be part of a team dedicated to getting Tommy an exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Are you an aging rocker with resources you could share to help the Bolin family get Tommy the recognition he deserves? If so, reply to tommybolinrandrhof@ yahoo.com Serious Only as those chosen to help will be working directly with the Bolin family and their representatives.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE On August 19, 2015, at 11:00 am, at 2280 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA 95128, under Civil Code § 1993.07, the landlord will sell the following personal property left behind by the former tenant, SAN JOSE APPLIANCE PARTS, INC., dba APED, APPLIANCE PARTS & EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORS: miscellaneous parts, supplies and equipment for home appliances; used computers, printers, phones, fax machine, refrigerator, file cabinets, office furniture & equipment,; racks, bins, shelving, & inventory storage units. The sale will be by competitive bidding, “as is where is,” without warranty, in lots or in bulk. The property may be inspected at 10:00 am on the day of sale or by appointment. A cashier’s check or cash is required for payment. Attorney for Landlord: David Duperrault Silicon Valley Law Group 50 W. San Fernando St., Suite 750 San Jose, CA 95113 408-573-5700
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT#607627 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Superior Window Cleaning, 375 Willow Street, Suite A, San Jose, CA, 95110, East-West Building Services, Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California. Registrant begann transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/31/15. /s/Patrick Marienthal President #1483585 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/31/2015. (pub Metro 8/05, 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #604507 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Call My Ride Morgan Hill, LLC, 16915 Del Monte Ave., #156, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, . This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Elizabeth J. Rummens President 201425310299 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/29/2015. (pub Metro 8/05, 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607457 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Reconsultant, 5242 Vera Lane, San Jose, CA, 95111, James Le. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/30/07. Refile of previous file #487731 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/James Le This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/28/2015. (pub Metro 8/05, 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2015)
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cinebar, 69 East San Fernando Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, No Dice, LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Stacy Sutherland CEO #201519010386. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/29/2015. (pub Metro 8/05, 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2015)
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TrailerPlus, 6380 Automall Parkway, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Interstate Group, LLC, 3800 Airport Road, Nampa, ID, 83687. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/1/09. Refile of previous file #597908 with changes. /s/Michael Snow CEO and Manager #201431810210 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/08/2015. (pub Metro 7/22, 7/29, 8/05, 8/12/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607505 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Today’s Kitchen and Bath, 1515 Georgetta Drive, San Jose, CA, 95125, K&E Kitchen & Bath, Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of Caifornia Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Eddie Juarez President/CEO #C3780578 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/29/2015. (pub Metro 8/05, 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607478 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Attorney Mediated Divorces, 1602 The Alameda, Ste. 101, San Jose, CA, 95126, Valerie S. Tarvin. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2011. /s/Valerie S. Tarvin. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/28/2015. (pub Metro 8/05, 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607047 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eye Rock Entertainment, 1090 Sunnyvale-Saratoga Rd., #10, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Luis D. Cala. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/16/15. /s/Luis David Cala. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/16/2015. (pub Metro 7/22, 7/29, 8/05, 8/12/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606044 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tripple Crown Transportation Services, 1655 Hollowcreek Place, San Jose, CA, 95121, Parmindar Singh. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Parmindar Singh This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/15/2015. (pub Metro 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/05/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606154 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bayarea Balancing & Clreanrooms, Inc., 551 Stockton Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is conducted by a corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/12/2012. Refile of previous file #406785 with changes. /s/Mark Avila President #2411018 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/18/2015. (pub Metro 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/05/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606498 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Rainbow Spa, 4650 Pearl Ave., San Jose, CA, 95136, Zhongqiu Li, 145 Marylinn Dr., Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 6/29/2015. /s/Zhongqiu Li This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/29/2015. (pub Metro 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/05/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #605760 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Antiques and Interiors, 809 University Ave., #A, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Joella J. Conover, 1228 Avis Dr., San Jose,
CA, 95126. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Joella Conover This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/05/2015. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606777 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: La Fondue, 14550 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, CA, 95117, La Fondue Group LLC, 14550 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, CA, 95070. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/15 /s/Joshua Weeks Managing Member #201514810072 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/01/2015. (pub Metro 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/05/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607416 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Elegant Lace Bridals, 1061 Blossom Hill Rd., San jose, CA, 95123, Laura Finkelstein, 7671 Helmsdale Dr., San Jose, CA, 95135, Miki Kinkel, 9370 Durango Lane, Gilroy, CA, 95020. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/1/1985. Refile of previous file #530188 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Laura Finkelstein This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/27/2015. (pub Metro 8/05, 8/12, 8/19, 8/26/2015)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #606557 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Allure Deli, 1915 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, QVP Solutions LLC, 2827 Marina Ave., Livermore, CA, 94550. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Qui Van Phan Chief Executive Officer #201328310124 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/30/2015. (pub Metro 7/29, 8/05, 8/12, 8/19/2015)
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An imaginative Welshman named Liam Bennett has developed a "dausage," which is a blend of a doughnut and sausage. One of his most requested treats is pork meat stuffed with strawberry jelly. Even if this novel blend doesn't appeal to your taste buds, it serves as a good prompt for my advice: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to expand your notion of what types of nourishment are fun and healthy for you. I mean that in the metaphorical as well as the literal sense. Experiment with new recipes, both with the food you provide your body and the sustenance you feed your soul.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the woods, living matter isn't segregated from the decaying stuff. Rotting tree trunks are host to teeming colonies of moss. Withered stems of ferns mingle with cheerful saplings. Audacious mushrooms sprout up among scraps of fallen leaves. The birds and beetles and lizards and butterflies don't act as if this mix is weird. They seem to be at peace with it. I suspect they thrive on it, even exult in it. That's the spirit I suggest you adopt as you enjoy the paradoxical mélange of your life in the coming weeks, Gemini. Celebrate the mysterious magic that emerges as you simultaneously fade and flourish, decline and increase, wind down and rise up.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are some tips on being the best Cancerian you can be: 1. Cultivate your sensitivity as a strength. Regard your emotional vulnerability as a superpower. 2. Nurture yourself at least as much as you nurture others. 3. Learn to know the difference between your golden hunches and the glimmering delusions that your demons stir up. 4. Be kind, but don't be exorbitantly nice. 5. Remember that others' unhappiness is rarely your fault or responsibility. 6. Keep reinventing the way you love yourself. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?" This question was posed by Leo author Ray Bradbury in his book Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity. Even if you're not a writer yourself, you will benefit from responding to his exhortation. It's one of the best things you could possibly do to activate your dormant creativity and intensify your lust for life. This is one of those times when working with your extremes is not only safe and healthy, but also fun and inspirational. So do it, Leo! Get excited and expressive about the best and worst things in your life. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It's time to leave behind the golden oldies. You'd be wise to tiptoe away from tradition, and give the ghosts of the past one last kiss goodbye, and wean yourself from nostalgia for the good old days. Frankly, my dear, you've got numerous appointments with the future, and it would be a shame to miss them because you're mucking around with memories. In the coming weeks—for that matter, in the coming months—you're most likely to thrive if you become an agent of change. And the most important thing to change is your relationship to the person you used to be.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In Indonesia, the term gotong-royong is defined as the "joint bearing of burdens." In practice it means that you and I and our allies get together voluntarily to help each other achieve a shared goal. It may also be an agreement to provide mutual aid: I help you do what you need to have done, and you help me with my task. Gotongroyong also implies that we enjoy working together. The emotional tone that we cultivate is one of affection and care. By sharing a burden, we lighten the load that each of us has to bear. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because it's the gotong-royong season for you and
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Charles de Lint is a novelist whose stories are influenced by folklore, myths and science fiction. In his book Yarrow, a wizardly character named Toby is skilled at conjuring. He can make small objects appear and disappear, for example. But Toby yearns for more. “I want to be magic," he says. "I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don’t want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic." If you have ever wished for a comparable upgrade, Aries, now is an unusually favorable time to work on it.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In one of his poems, Jack Gilbert mentions "the incurably sane," who are "uncrippled by beauty" and "unbutchered by love." When I read those lines, I felt a surge of protest. Is there a single person on the earth who fits that description? No! I was miffed by such starry-eyed idealism. Later, though, as I studied the astrological omens for you Scorpios, my attitude softened. I realized that the coming weeks may be a time when many of you will at least temporarily be incurably sane, uncrippled by beauty, and unbutchered by love. If you're one of these lucky ones, please use your blessed grace to spread an abundance of blessed grace everywhere you go.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you're not skirting the edges of the forbidden zone, you're playing it too safe. If you're not serving as a benevolent mischief-maker for someone you care about, you're shirking your duty. Your allegiance should be with X-factors and wildcards. You will thrive to the degree that you cultivate alliances with mavericks and instigators. Are you shrewd enough to mess with timetested formulas? Are you restless enough to rebel against habits that stifle your curiosity? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How to be a Capricorn, according to my Capricorn reader Sadie Kennedy: When you are younger, take yourself too seriously. Look and act older than you actually are as you serve what's most practical. Sacrifice fun and frivolity, working doggedly to achieve the goals you yearn for, until you reach some level of accomplishment. Then realize, as if struck by a thunderbolt, that fun and frivolity have practical value. Begin to age backwards like Benjamin Button as you balance work with play and discipline with leisure. Enjoy the fruits of your intense efforts as everyone tells you how relaxed and supple and resilient you are becoming. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Cracking open the shell of a soft-boiled egg is a tricky task. You must be firm enough to break the shell, but sufficiently gentle to avoid making a mess. If you live in Germany, you have access to a metal instrument that provides just the right measure of soft force. It's called an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher, translated as "soft-boiled egg shell cracker." Your assignment in the coming weeks is to cultivate a talent that is metaphorically similar to an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. I believe you will need that blend of sensitivity and power on numerous occasions. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Americans often regard Cuba as impoverished and backwards. There is an element of truth in their prejudice, primarily because the U.S. has imposed a stifling embargo on the Caribbean nation for over 50 years. That's why, for example, many Cubans drive cars that were manufactured in the 1950s. But I wonder how my fellow citizens would respond if they knew that in some ways Cuba's healthcare system is better than America's. The World Health Organization recently congratulated Cuba for being the first country on earth to eradicate the transmission of syphilis and HIV from mothers to babies. Can you identify a metaphorically similar situation in your personal life, Pisces? Are there people you regard as inferior or undeveloped who could teach you an important lesson or motivate you to grow? Now is a perfect time to benefit from their influence.
Homework: Would it be possible to turn one of your liabilities into an asset? How? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com. Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700
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It’s hard go wrong with beer, BBQ and golf. This fun-loving foursome enjoyed their time at STRIKE BREWERY’S FIRST-ANNUAL BEER CAN OPEN, held during this year’s Silicon Valley Beer Week.
The Renaissance was key moment in the history of Western Civilization. The SAN JOSE RENAISSANCE FAIRE is an excuse to dress up in wild costumes, eat turkey legs and watch real, live jousting.
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San Jose indie darlings, THE TRIMS, drew a large crowd to their first show at The Ritz, including this pair.
AUGUST 5-11, 2015 | metrosiliconvalley.com | sanjose.com | metroactive.com
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