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So Very Special Political spectators were a bit mystified last week as word leaked that JEFF SMITH, the top exec for the County of Santa Clara, tabbed STEVE PREMINGER to be his “special assistant,” a.k.a. “right-hand dude,” a.k.a. “wait, what?” Preminger has been a longtime strategist for the South Bay Labor Council’s nonprofit arm, Working Partnerships USA, and he also chairs the local Democratic Party, which is more or less the free-hanging appendage of organized labor. So why would Smith make such a politically loaded appointment? At first blush it might seem county supervisor CINDY CHAVEZ, former head of the SBLC and WPUSA, put the screws to Smith—who reports only to the Board of Supervisors— and that she’s slowly introducing her prior team into bureaucratic folds. Former SBLC spokesflack STACEY HENDLER ROSS, who once put hands on a Metro reporter in attempt to physically throw him out of a labor election party, just got hired by VTA, whose They board Chavez sits on Did as vice chair. But that’s What? probably giving Chavez too much credit, as Smith SEND TIPS TO O FLY@ may have a different WS. WS S. METRONEWS. goal: phasing out the COM superfluous Office of Public Affairs. Led by communications director GWEN MITCHELL, who received an absurd $223,000 in total compensation last year, the public affairs gang has a staff of six that does little more than take messages for Mitchell and send out press releases marked URGENT, only to note that the county is celebrating the 23rd annual World Refugee Day, or that food can go bad if left out in the summer heat. Seriously, those are two missives from just the last couple months.

Preminger’s decision to join the county is not void of irony, as word is he left an organization that fights for better worker pay and benefits because WPUSA and the SBLC don’t offer good pay and benefits.

Preminger defended his past work and said any concerns about his political affiliations affecting his new job are specious. “Watch out how I carry myself,” he said.

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HUCK PETERS rolls through the break-ofdawn bustle of his iconic East San Jose bakery.

White-aproned clerks sort fresh donuts in the display case.

Flour-caked bakers sidestep each other from counter to oven. They all ignore Peters, the 73-year-old boss with the gravely voice and murky blue eyes.

Though frail and stroke-slackened, Peters’ temper is legend. For now, he cools his usual guff and parks alongside the register of Peters’ Bakery, whispering distance from the woman he’s tried twice—and failed—to fire. But he’d rather not talk about Marcela Ramirez.

“That’s nobody’s business,” Peters says, his voice taut.

To his left, Ramirez, in a pink polo and sensible updo, swaps how-do-youdos with her earlybird regulars. Peters pretends she’s not there. She returns the favor, dancing around his imagined force field.

Ramirez can’t quit. As a mother of two, she can’t afford to leave. And Peters certainly can’t fire her. His past attempts have mired the shop—his family’s legacy—in federal litigation amid charges of racism. Now, as part of the public record, it’s anybody’s business.

Peters’ father founded the bakery in 1936 and built it into an East Side institution.

Its burnt almond cake is considered a local specialty requested for birthdays, graduations, wakes and quinceañeras.

In August of 2011, Peters decided he’d had enough of Ramirez. At various times, he asked her to drop

the accent and to lighten up about the term “wetback.” “I never trusted your kind of people,” he said to Ramirez, according to depositions.

Peters vowed to report her mom to federal immigration officials if she posted anything negative on social media, records say. He also allegedly threatened to destroy her in court if she sued him, adding that he didn’t think she could afford to anyway because she probably sent all her money back to Mexico.

At her union’s behest, Ramirez filed a discrimination complaint the week she lost her job through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which enforces federal discrimination laws. Peters shot back, accusing her of defamation for daring to report him and calling him Portuguese.

Peters struggled to defend his actions.

“My family owned several acres of fruit orchards and every year we had ‘wetbacks’ work for us, you know, illegals, and there was no discrimination,” the EEOC claims he told their investigator, Martin Olsen.

however, has proven more challenging than ranging a herd of cattle.

On the last day of June, he summoned Ramirez to his back-office lair to let her know she’d be out of a job by the end of the week. Ramirez asked why. “I don’t have to give you a fucking reason,� he replied, according to court records. “I don’t like you. You’re done.�

Ramirez walked away visibly shaken.

Her supervisor, Sabrena Righetti, marched with her back to the office to demand an explanation for the ďŹ ring. “My sanity, before I fucking lose it and kill someone,â€? they recall Peters saying— twice—which brought both women to tears. Ramirez called her union, which dispatched Alexander. “I’m ďŹ ring her for my mental health reasons,â€? he told the union rep, who took notes. “For my sanity. I’m gonna lose my fucking sanity. I’m gonna kill someone.â€?

Peters insisted that Ramirez has cost him a fortune, that she’s driving him mad, that she’s why he’s on meds.

Plus, he said, she lied about him being Portuguese when he’s really an American of Portuguese descent.

But without progressive discipline, Peters couldn’t just ďŹ re Ramirez. A federal judge reinstated her job last month, at least for the duration of the suit. The bakery’s attorney, Victoria Booke, disputes the allegations of “racial animus.â€? “A third of his workforce is Hispanic,â€? she said. “We do totally agree that two parties do not care for each other. The best outcome, I think, is for them to part ways. Because it can’t be good for her working for someone she doesn’t like either.â€?

U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman said it’s not that simple, that "few people have the luxury to simply leave a job when there is conict with the boss." For a working-class clerk with no formal education, leaving would cause undue hardship on her and her family.

Besides, Freeman added, at this point the case has been taken up by a federal agency as a public interest lawsuit. “It’s bigger than Marcela now,â€? said Alexander, her union rep. “She’s not the one who ďŹ led this, the EEOC did.â€?

Like its customers, Peters’ Bakery employees have a strong sense of loyalty to the business. Some of the clerks have worked there longer than Chuck Peters. “The people who work there, at the counter and in the kitchen, they’re the face of the bakery,� Alexander said. “Not crazy Chuck.�

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A judge unsurprisingly tossed Peters’ claim, which gave Ramirez grounds to ďŹ le a second EEOC charge for retaliation.

In summer 2012, a year after her ďŹ ring, Ramirez’ union—the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5—won her job back through arbitration. But four and a half months passed before Peters paid her lost wages, pension contributions and beneďŹ ts. He also distributed copies of Ramirez’ complaints to the other employees, which the EEOC called an effort to intimidate her co-workers. Weeks later, Peters tried to write her up for counting change in the employee tip jar—a routine task that all the clerks take turns doing.

The EEOC sued Peters’ Bakery on her behalf in fall 2013. The lawsuit seeks punitive damages as well as compensation for Ramirez’s medical costs from the stress of losing her job.

Though her husband works, Ramirez depends on her salary to pay for two mortgages and Catholic school tuition for her two young children. “Marcela has been a very brave person,� said Tony Alexander, a UFCW Local 5 union rep. “She’s been a trooper through all this. The other people in the bakery have been strong, too. They see Peters every other day. They put up with him. Then he rolls out and they get to go back to their business.�

Peters’ father, Tony Peters, was born in 1907 to a poor Portuguese family in San Jose. Throughout grade school, Tony Peters struggled to learn English.

According to Chuck Peters, his father’s alfalfa allergy kept him from following the other men in his family into the dairy business. So he took up work at an uncle’s San Francisco bakery instead, where he learned the trade well enough to start his own operation. The bakery opened ďŹ rst on Delmas Avenue and San Carlos Street. A decade later, it moved to Alum Rock Avenue, where it stands today, tucked into an aging row of shops.

Employees unionized early on, while Tony Peters’ children carried on the family business by managing the cashonly bakeshop. The younger Peters had other plans. After earning a bachelor’s in animal husbandry from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, he became a cattle driver. “I wanted to be outdoors,� he says. “I wanted to work with the animals.�

A stroke waylaid his plans to retire as a cattleman. About eight years ago, his brother, David Peters, offered to divvy up ownership of the bakery, giving Chuck Peters something to do and his brother a chance to semi-retire. Managing people,

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FISTS OF FURY National outrage over biased policing has led to a positive local response.

SJ Police Chief Orders Bias Training BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Amid national outrage over police violence and its disproportionate toll on black lives, San Jose has committed to ramping up anti-bias training for its own officers.

Current events, as well as substantial prodding from local activists and the former independent police auditor, prompted the San Jose Police Department to re-examine the way it trains sworn staff in cultural diversity and discrimination.

The department will begin meeting with community leaders to talk about how to enhance diversity curriculum for academy recruits, Chief Larry Esquivel said Tuesday.

It will also send all sworn staff for training at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

In addition, the department’s chief officers—lieutenants and above—will attend a two-and-a-halfday training on fair and impartial policing in April. The course, taught

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criminologist Dr. Lorie Fridell, addresses the science of prejudice.

In a memo announcing his plan, Esquivel said he chose Fridell after reading an article she penned for the June issue of Police Chief magazine.

Her piece, co-authored by retired Palo Alto Lt. Sandra Brown, explains the distinction between explicit and implicit bias. The former associates various groups with negative stereotypes out of hostility. The latter also relies on stereotypes, but on a subconscious level as mental shortcuts.

“Even the best officers—because they are human—can perform biased policing,” Fridell and Brown wrote. “And even the best agencies— because they hire humans to do the work—must be proactive to produce fair and impartial policing.”

In her train-the-trainer course, Fridell aims to teach SJPD’s command staff how to recognize the biases they don’t realize they have. She will also talk about how biased policing can be unsafe and

unjust. According to her website, the program will cost the city $16,500.

Dozens of law enforcement agencies have turned to Fridell in recent years as high-profile police violence— particularly against unarmed men of color—has shaken the public trust.

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Monsanto Sued Over Toxic Water San Jose just picked a fight with a multibillion-dollar giant. In a federal lawsuit filed last month, the city claims Monsanto and two corporate spinoffs are liable for fouling the region’s water with one of the deadliest chemicals known to man.

Polychlorinated biphenyls—or PCBs for short—course through the Bay Area’s waterways and into the bay even decades after Monsanto took them off the market. From the 1930s until Congress banned the chemical in 1979, Monsanto sold PCBs under the name Aroclor.

Internal memos cited in San Jose’s lawsuit show that the company knew full well the dangers of PCBs but sold the stuff anyway.

Now, public agencies have to foot the bill to curb the chemical’s concentration in stormwater discharge before it reaches the bay.

San Jose has called for a jury trial and punitive damages. San Diego and Spokane have filed similar suits.

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California has one of the most progressive policies on voting rights of ex-convicts. Once people serve their time, they regain their eligibility to vote. But 60,000 felons had been denied that privilege until last week. California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced this month that the state would drop litigation over policies that blocked low-level offenders from casting a ballot. The shift affects a growing number of people. Prison reforms launched in 2011 to ease overcrowding created a new class of nonviolent offenders released into community supervision programs. Then-Secretary of State Debra Bowen extended the ban on felon enfranchisement to this new group, which she called “functionally equivalent” to parolees. Civil rights groups challenged that notion in court—and won. Bowen appealed. But Padilla settled the case and reversed her directive. Slowing the revolving door in jails and prisons, he said, means engaging, not shunning, ex-offenders.

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Street Meets Elite WORLD WIDE WHAA? The Internet grooved on stage during the first night of San Jose Summer Jazzfest.

Jazz Summerfest, First Fridays events make for harmonious melting pot

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NSIDE CAFE STRITCH, “The Inflated Tear” came to an end at the stroke of midnight, simultaneously providing a poignant cap to the first night of San Jose Jazz Summerfest and signaling that the event has become more urban.

Outside, earlier that night, First Fridays ratcheted up the scene with a street market of local artists, all combining their efforts with that of the jazz festival to create a diverse

array of peaceful street-meets-elite awesomeness. Normally the opening night of jazz fest prioritizes the main stage, so one wouldn’t get to witness an extra few thousand people flooding South First Street, but that’s what happened.

Two stages bookended the street market. At one end, The Internet threw down a humble psychedelic soul-spirational set. At the other end were featured heroines The Wild Reeds performing a harmonious and polished set of folksy rocking glee. To crib a term from Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who wrote “The Inflated Tear,” it was a bright moment of serious polarity.

Everything blended together.

Afterward, those inclined to rage into the night moved into adjacent nightclubs like the Continental.

All the while, Cafe Stritch unfurled its third annual Rahsaanthon, with Steve Turre spilling lurid anecdotes about the cosmic, near-mystical nature of Rahsaan’s music. The entire first set still flows through my brain’s reward circuitry: tunes like “Theme for the Eulipions,” “Bright Moments,” “Serenade to a Cuckoo,” “Dorthaan’s Walk” and others.

The jazz fest’s brightest quality is that the spectacle isn’t limited to just one precise nexus of events. It’s more like a giant octopus with tentacles spreading out into the urban sea.

The more sedentary types stay in the park for hours on end, while the more nomadic creatures tend to migrate about the landscape.

Just to cite one specific plan

of attack: South First Street all day Saturday could have provided enough magic for many people. The Villalobos Brothers kicked off the day with Mexican folk stories on three violins, trap drums, bass and guitar and combined them with rock grooves, falsettos, pantomime and damning theatrical critiques of police brutality. Not too many minutes later, I slithered into the California Theater to catch the John Pizzarelli Quartet doing a Sinatra version of “Witchcraft” followed by Tom Waits’ “Drunk on the Moon.”

In another case, Bombay Jazz took over the California Theater with Indian ragas, east/west collisions and trans-hemispherical jams by four heavy hitters: guitarist Larry Coryell, saxophonist George Brooks, Indian bamboo flute master Ronu Majumdar and tabla virtuoso Aditya Kalyanpur. Directly across the street at Stritch, I found SJSU’s Aaron Lington heading up 90 minutes of Burt Bacharach tunes. All of which helped solidify South First as a serious microcosm of the festival.

Over on Post Street, another, more gritty back-alley microcosm emerged via the Blues Stage and the Big Easy Stage. The Blues Stage, in particular, was located right where a blues stage should be: an alley surrounded by cracked cement, rusted drain pipes, nightclub litter, historical buildings, jewelry, crafts, halter tops, chicken gumbo and Ted Gehrke. Ted is a living legend in these parts. Any blues stage, at any festival, anywhere in downtown San Jose shall forever be inseparable from Ted Gehrke.

There should be a law.

One didn’t have to look very hard for more spontaneous microcosms, whether it was street buskers or artists painting murals in the park. For example, Bloco del Sol, some friends who perform Brazilian percussion, rehearsed inside the parking garage across San Pedro from Pizz’a Chicago.

The thunderous, layered collage of drumming was so loud it could be heard all the way in Plaza de Cesar Chavez. The ensemble then led a parade that snaked all the way through the park to the other side.

As the fest drew to a close, the tears inflated even more, as James Carter’s group presented a few sets of outre numbers at Cafe Stritch. I was sad to know it was all coming to an end.

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As with much intuitive, unexamined human activity, rethinking occurs when computers and capitalism embed themselves in the mix. Multibillion dollar valuations have greeted social media and sharing economy enterprises, particularly ones that enable people to host guests in their spare bedrooms, make money with cars or wish

one another a happy birthday without licking a stamp or picking up the telephone.

After more than two decades in the industry, San Jose adman Bryan Kramer found himself at the nexus of random acts of kindness and ka-ching. He entered the advertising world in boutique advertising firm Carter Waxman’s heyday, then spent

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Kramer popularized the hashtag #H2H in 2014 to summarize some of the lessons he’d learned with a small book titled “There is No B2B or B2C: It's Human to Human: #H2H.” The themes gained some traction and Kramer, as brand managers often do, coined a new wordmark,

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umans have been sharing resources and knowledge since they first banded together in prehistoric times, even before there was language. We shared to survive then, but we continue to share knowledge even though survival is no longer at stake. Or is it? Philosophers have long pondered the nature of mankind and why we interact the way we do. We share for many reasons—some self-serving and some not—but I firmly believe that our need to share is based on the human instinct not only to survive, but to thrive.

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The collective brain that Kramer tapped for his book research is a microcosm for what he sees going on it the world—the emergence of

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emergence of technologies that connect global tribes together, humans need to rethink the way we share ideas as a global community.

Things are moving at a faster pace today for humankind than ever before, and we’re more connected now than we’ve ever been. We’re no longer as polarized by geography, by race, by gender—but we still need each other to survive. Time has spread us across the globe, and the need to connect is written into our DNA, even though we’re competing for the same limited space on this planet.

For three years I deconstructed these platforms and tried to understand why some ideas took off like wildďŹ re and others died on the vine. I started to recognize patterns in sentiment and the importance of timing in making an idea explode into reality.

Today, sharing communities are making it easier for individuals to get goods and services from each other (not just from brands), and this has produced new disruptive business models. Whether it’s sharing or buying pre-owned or custom products (eBay, Craigslist, Pleygo, Etsy), providing services (Elance, ODesk, Angie’s List), or transportation (Car2Go, Uber, or Zipcar), people are moving toward a more collaborative mode of doing business with each other, and that’s forcing industries to change the way they approach relationships with consumers.

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collaborative economy is Airbnb, the shared space broker that’s shaking up the hospitality industry. They’ve combined the power of sourcing the crowd with a social e-commerce engine. It connects people who need lodging to people who want to offer their home, condo, or apartment when they’re not using it. For travelers, Airbnb offers rates that are generally cheaper than hotels and a great customer experience. For property owners, the platform provides the opportunity to make money renting out what they own (during short, speciďŹ c dates) and a readymade audience who want this service.

The new sharing model puts power into the hands of homeowners and traveling consumers and is changing the way many people book overnight stays.

For instance, the renowned ďŹ lm, music, and digital festival South by Southwest (SXSW) that happens each March in Austin, Texas, has grown exponentially due to Airbnb.

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Humans need to rethink the way we share ideas as a global community.

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He points out that the wave began with a single individual, San Jose’s Crazy George. “Like the ALS Challenge, where everybody dumps ice over their head. It all points back to one person who started it.� He points out that more than $100 million was raised from

more than 3 million donors from almost every country in the world in a matter of months through the ALS Challenge.

Kramer thinks brands still matter but are only one component of organized inuence. “If I had called [the book] The Art and Science of Sharing,

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stuck in a two-star hotel in the boonies if it weren’t for an awesome studio condo we found within walking distance to downtown. I feel good about it too. We’ve gotten to know the owner, and the money we pay for the week is helping her put a dent in grad school expenses.

Fast Company writer Sarah Kessler describes an options trader in San Francisco who makes trades until the early afternoon, then spends the rest of the day managing six apartments he rents to Airbnb guests, netting about $2,000 proďŹ t per apartment per month after expenses. Airbnb charges a modest fee for their service but even so is making quite a proďŹ t as well.

At this writing, Airbnb’s valuation has grown to $10 billion, making it more valuable than long-established hotel chains around the world such as Wyndham, Hyatt, and InterContinental—all without owning a single piece of property.

We’re on the cusp of something big: a shift in human evolution. The Digital Age is a big part of this new shift. The technology explosion of the last few years is teaching us to interact in a new way.

Social media, while it has had a big impact by itself, is just a piece of a bigger picture that is growing and expanding by the minute. For example, 3-D printers, the stuff of science ďŹ ction just a decade or two ago, are now allowing us to

manufacture parts and materials— from biomaterials and implants for the medical industry to aerospace technologies and manufacturing— that transform the way we live. We can even print clothing and food.

Imagine the impact this will have when 3-D printing technology becomes commonplace (and it’s getting there). We’ll be able to order things like jackets, gourmet meals, or cars and have them printed and delivered immediately—or even print them ourselves in the comfort of our own home.

Another example is the sensors that connect things and people, such as wearable technology like Apple Watch and Fitbit. Even the Tesla self-driving car that can navigate and steer its way to any destination demonstrates the rapid evolution of technologies that connect our digital and physical world. At this point, we are limited only by our imaginations regarding what could be next.

As technology continues to evolve, especially in the digital space, we ďŹ nd ourselves shape-shifting from the digital world into the physical and vice versa, moving conversation, collaboration and sharing from one context to another.

Let’s take the physical realm of shape-shifting and look at the latest MIT project, a display that enables you to reach through a screen and affect an object on the

One essential thing will never change: the human need to communicate with each other as individuals.

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I don’t think people would have paid attention to it as much.� “I really wanted it to be a movement, so even if you never pick the book up or never read it, I wanted everyone to understand that they have the power to share,�

Kramer says.

A coined word, a digital book or a social media feed, however, are no substitute for human contact, and Kramer spends much of his time meeting people in different cities. “A personal brand is way more trusted than a business brand,�

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Kramer says, adding an empowering message: “I want people to know how much more power they have than a brand.�

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other side. Imagine being on Skype with your friends and the camera picks up the movement of your hands. The movement allows you to physically move the object in front of the computer on the other end.

While the immediate applications are small, the potential impact is endless.

Shape-shifting also applies to the contextual moments we rely on to gather information. You would be surprised to think of Apple’s Siri as a limited database, but it is; this is why it doesn’t always pull the information you need based on what you ask of the technology. However, in Apple’s latest patent application, Siri will be able to reach beyond its available data and take the cumulative thoughts from human interactions across digital and social, and crowdsource the information just for you.

Shared and connected experiences will give rise to many more innovations like these that will help us cross-contextualize lines in communication and sharing. We’re at the very beginning and cannot even imagine how our lives will change over the next ďŹ ve to ten years. However, one essential thing will never change: the human need to communicate with each other as individuals.

Recently I heard ďŹ rsthand Faith Popcorn’s predictions for what

our lives will look like in 2050.

As excited as I was to hear her perspective (her ďŹ rst book, The Popcorn Report, greatly inuenced my own career), I was not excited by what I learned.

According to Faith, the future looks, well . . . grim. It’s dystopian, with a fourth robot class displacing human workers and humans essentially living in isolated pods, only communicating via technology. In her vision, everything we need, including food, is served to us in our own personal environment. There’s no reason to leave our homes, no physical reason to connect, no need unďŹ llable.

This was hard for me to wrap my head around. Don’t we have a choice? Will we choose, as human beings, to blindly evolve into a society that prioritizes things and efficiency over emotion? I hope not. Technology may be driving new ways to connect and converse, but we should keep in mind the human conversation.

Soon technology will allow us to deliver personalized and individualized experiences between humans and brand marketers, delivering real-time opportunities to speak human to human—as it should be.

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Snagging a Saturday dinner reservation was simple and after entering the hotel’s gated parking

lot, the restaurant was easy to find.

A hostess desk demarks the lounge from the hotel lobby.

We were seated promptly at one among many large tables and comfortable lounge benches in an uncrowded dining room. Dinner started with light, airy, house-made popovers, spread with sweet black currant butter. It was so delightful, we requested seconds. For drinks, we ordered a bright and fruity St. Archer White Ale ($6.50) from San Diego and the gin pear tea ($12), made with infused gin, St. Germaine liqueur, lemon juice and lavender simple syrup.

The menu offers a variety of soups, salads, small plates and starters, of which we ordered the braised beef cheeks and bone marrow ($14) with

celery salad and rosemary olive bread. The bone marrow on its own was plain, but the combination with tender shredded beef cheeks and soft bread was an exquisite match.

The celery salad was a simple mix of celery leaves in a vinaigrette.

Nearly all the entrée items sounded appealing and our server helped recommend a few selections.

I chose the lamb shank and loin ($28) served with carrot, pearl onion, radish, green onion and chickpea cake. The lamb shank arrived with a pâte à choux-like pastry, separated from two pieces of medium rare lamb loin by a fresh and sweet line of mini vegetables. The lamb loin was moist but could have used a touch more seasoning. The lamb shank on its puff pastry was delicate and tender, like the beef cheeks from the appetizer course.

The combination of pork and duck in a burger ($17) with a bun made of mac and cheese and a fried egg

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Verge fits well into its category as a New American hotel restaurant and lounge. The dishes were artfully presented, the service flowed seamlessly, and with a gray color scheme and gold accents, the décor was subtle and calming, befitting the Los Gatos area. All protein elements of the meal were executed well. I could have done without the chickpea cakes and the jalapeno fries could stand to be amped up, but the prices were decent for a hotel restaurant, which can often be expensive.

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Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale Wed, 5:30pm, $35 So, you’re super funny around your close friends, but you suffer from crippling stage fright. Or perhaps you have no problem with public speaking, but you’re clueless about cracking wise. Whatever the case, Rooster T. Feathers wants to help aspiring stand-up comics of all stripes. That’s why the local comedy club is offering a new class to help would-be funny people develop jokes, figure out where to get stage time, hone their style and mic techniques, and learn other not-so-common sense lessons on the artform. The course is taught by veteran comedian and Rooster’s owner, Heather Barbieri, and features pointers from other comedians. (LN)

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE Courthouse Square, Redwood City Thu, 8:30pm, Free The third installment in the beloved Indiana Jones franchise will be screened for free in Redwood City’s downtown Courthouse Square on Thursday. After thwarting a Nazi plot to steal the sacred Ark and evading heart-eating cannibals, Indiana is now on the hunt for his father, who has gone missing while on his own quest for the Holy Grail. Danger— and more Nazis—lurk around every turn, as the Joneses are faced with the challenge of staying alive, finding the sacred vessel and keeping it out of the hands of an evil empire. (LN)

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THE PAPER RAINCOAT Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto Thu, 10:30pm, $19 TheatreWorks’ 14th annual New Works Festival will feature live readings, seminars and workshops on forthcoming plays and musicals by some of the theater world’s most promising playwrights and composers. Additionally, this year’s week-long gathering will feature a performance by the critically acclaimed indie band, The Paper Raincoat, who will play hits from their self-titled concept album and musical, which tells the story of a “woman’s poignant, memory-driven journey into what might have been.” The duo of Alex Wong and Amber Rubarth will also perform songs from their new musical, currently in development.

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PETE DAVIDSON San Jose Improv Thu, 8pm, $22 At the tender age of 21, Pete Davidson has already accomplished more than plenty of established stand-up acts twice his age. His work has been featured on Comedy Central, he’s appeared on multiple TV comedy shows, including MTV’s Guy Code and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and since 2014 he’s been a main cast member on Saturday Night Live, where he is the only comedian with a ’90s birthday. Accordingly, he has a lot of material dealing with coming of age—including a bit about how unabashed he was about dropping out of college to return home. He defends his decision by noting that he and his roommates ate Hot Pockets. “Every day.” (NV)

TWILIGHT CONCERTS St. James Park, San Jose Thu, 6:30, Free Thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, this summer in St. James Park has looked different than in summers past. Regular yoga classes and children’s activities, interactive drumming demonstrations, food trucks and the Twilight Concerts series—held every Thursday at 6:30pm, through Sept. 24. This week, The Dirty Downtown Jazz Syndicate, a seven-piece group with a “cinematic twist” will perform numbers inspired by spy movies and detective shows. Their repertoire includes a swinging version of the theme from Perry Mason and a Latin jazz-infused take on the Adele and Paul Epworth theme from the most recent James Bond film, Skyfall. (NV)

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ZZIGGY MARLEY & STEEL PULSE CHRIS ISAAK August 14 at Mountain Winery

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ORQUESTA BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB August 15 at Mountain Winery

SHANIA TWAIN August 17 at SAP Center

MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD MI August 18 at Mountain Winery

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INCUBUS & DEFTONES August 26 at Shoreline Amphitheatre Augu

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BATTLE OF THE ZAE 4 MACLA/Beso Club, San Jose Fri, 8pm, $5 Daniel Martinez, better known as local rapper and promoter Dirtbag Dan, has been repping San Jose—or, as he calls it, “the Zae”—for the better part of two decades. Though he is known for his studio work, he is perhaps best recognized for his abilities as a battle rapper—which took him overseas and to the Red Bull EmSee battle rap finals in 2012.

Dan hosts his fourth Battle of the Zae this weekend. The headline battles— Caustic vs. Marvwon and QP vs. Darth Tone—will be Friday at MACLA, and an eight-emcee “Royal Rumble” will be held Saturday at Beso Club. (NV)

THE SHITKICKERS The Ritz, San Jose Fri, 8pm, $12-$15 For well over a decade, San Jose country punks, The Shitkickers, have been spinning yarns about drinking all day and drinking all night—and then waking up to do it all over again. Since their debut, self-titled full-length record, released in 2000, the Kickers have been a staple of the downtown scene and its peculiar blended love affair with psychobilly and skateboarding. Also a part of that scene is Talky Tina—featuring members of the Odd Numbers and the Spitmuffins—who play a fun-loving brand of ’90s-era alternative. Both acts take to The Ritz, along with Zombie Falcon, this Friday. (NV)

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California Theatre, San Jose Sat, 7pm, $37.50 As the host of AMC’s half-hour Walking Dead recap show, Talking Dead, @midnight, and the creator of Nerdist Industries, Chris Hardwick has made a career out of being . . . well, a nerd. Whether it’s comic books, Star Wars, video games or chiptune music, Hardwick and his team have an unironic take on it.

Hardwick is bringing his stand-up comedy show, Funcomfortable, to town this weekend. The tour is said to be in preparation for an upcoming comedy special, scheduled to be released next year. (NV)

September 16 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

PROJECT MAYHEM The Ritz, San Jose Sat, 8pm, $10-$15 After almost 20 years of running San Jose’s best underground wrestling league—the Underground Wrestling Alliance, or UGWA—out of his backyard, Anthony Trevino has hit the big time. Or, more accurately, he has body slammed his way from atop a ladder to the somewhat forgiving floor of a wrestling ring. This Saturday marks the second UGWA event ever to be held inside, at The Ritz. If last month’s premier event was any indication, “Project Mayhem,” as the event has been dubbed, will be great, sweaty, melodramatic fun. The title fight will pit Black Anthony against Hollywood. Local punks Rex Goliath will play in between matches. (NV)

DICK DALE October 17 at The Ritz

SCORPIONS & QUEENSRYCHE October 1 at SAP Center

MADONNA October 19 at SAP Center

JUDAS PRIEST & MASTODON October 21 at City National Civic

MUDHONEY October 25 at RockBar Theater

MISFITS November 21 at RockBar Theater

THE LIMOUSINES December 18 at The Ritz For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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Lush with a Brush WEST AND RECKLESS Known for his fascination with the American West, Astley D.M. Cooper also had a reputation for throwing wild parties in turn-of-the-century San Jose.

Astley D.M. Cooper drank heavily and paid his bar tabs with nudes

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T THE DAWN of the 20th century, when San Jose’s population was around 30,000, Astley David Middleton Cooper (1856–1924) was the town’s most renowned painter. A bon vivant and unapologetic drunk, Cooper worked in a fauxEgyptian building at the corner of 21st and San Antonio, paid off his own bar debts with nude paintings, and threw the most raucous parties San Jose had ever seen. To this day, he has a cult following of collectors throughout the South Bay.

But Cooper was more than a lush with a lascivious brush. Case in point: there is only one half-nude in a new show of Cooper’s works at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford. “Astley D. M. Cooper and Mrs. Stanford’s Jewels,” features 15 works, including Wild West scenes, landscapes, oddball portraits, a few seascapes, a giant buffalo head and his famous still life of Jane Lathrop Stanford’s jewelry collection. Some of the pieces on display were even a surprise to the show’s curator, Annie Ronan, who just finished her Ph.D. in Stanford’s Department of Art & Art History.

“I didn’t realize he painted landscapes,” Ronan says, on a recent afternoon as she walks through Cantor’s Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery. “He’s mostly known as a Western painter. It turns out he was

working in all these different genres.

And the cool thing is that he’s also directly referencing cinema in a lot of ways.”

Some of the works could almost qualify as pre-cinematic. Santa Cruz Woods in Morning Light 1887, for example, is just downright eerie, but indicates a fine-tuned sense of the phantasmagorical. It almost looks like several H.P. Lovecraft book covers 100 years later. Devil and the Lady from 1898, seems straight from F. W. Murnau.

Both of these come from the accumulation of Ed Peterson, proving that members of the Cooper Cult often constitute stories themselves.

Peterson is about to retire from the Santa Clara County Crime Lab, where he displayed Cooper paintings above his desk because he didn’t have room for them anywhere else. Other collectors who donated works include Greg and Petra Martin, who supplied Trophies of the West, a painting of a gigantic buffalo head surrounded

by smaller replicas of other Cooper paintings. He apparently knew how to recycle his own work for profit.

History San Jose also loaned a few pieces.

“It was kind of an Indiana Jones moment, discovering all these paintings just hiding around San Jose,” Ronan says.

The namesake painting in the show, Mrs. Stanford’s Jewel Collection (1898), required no digging, as Stanford already owns it. As the story goes, Jane Stanford commissioned Cooper to paint a still life of her jewelry, but the teetotaller did not approve of Cooper’s lifestyle. She insisted he show up nicely dressed and sober. As a result, he bailed from the scene and finished the painting at home before displaying it in a local saloon. Stanford later dispatched an assistant to fetch the painting.

Most of all, though, Cooper was famous for the San Jose scene he helped create around the turn of the century. At that time, saloons often displayed paintings by local artists to stimulate conversation. One joint at 53 N. First St. owned so many Cooper nudes that it was named the Louvre Saloon after the Louvre in Paris.

“He wasn’t just going to a dive bar and throwing a painting on the wall,” Ronan says. “They called themselves ‘art cafes’ and they were places to contemplate works of art. Exhibition spaces, really. And Cooper was the king of that local art world.”

But even with such a reputation, Cooper’s work traveled the country, appeared in international expositions and sold for prices rarely paid for contemporary American art.

In the 1890s, for example, he sold works for more than $60,000. He was the most accomplished San Jose artist of his time.

“We hear the story, ‘Oh, this guy was drunk all the time, he put paintings in bars,’ but here was a serious artist who really defined what kind of art was being done in this area,” Ronan says. “And speaking in a very clear voice. You get a lot of his personality in his works.”

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metroactive ARTS HOMEWARD BOUND 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 in 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.

award given to Broadway plays only eight 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.

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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.

GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “We Are Savages” Sign-painting art by Ken Davis. San Jose.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS “Metaphors and Memories” Collage and Sculpture by Marianne Lettieri and Lisa Ramirez. Aug 14-Sep 27.

Mountain View.

“500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum” Thru Aug 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.

GALLERY HOUSE

Jean is writing a thank-you letter in a quiet cafe when a cell phone won’t stop ringing.

She looks to the next table and finds that it belongs to a dead man with a whole bunch of loose ends. Sep 3-27. $18-$28 Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company. Los Altos.

SWEET CHARITY

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In this Bob Fosse comedy dancefest, Sweet Charity is the name of a girl who wants everyone to love her so badly that she forgets who she is.

Sep 19-Oct 11. Tickets Online.

Sunnyvale Community Players.

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“Slugs, Dingbats, and Tramp Printing” The printing press is one of the most important inventions in human history.

See the machine that printed the first newspaper in California. Thru Dec 12. San Jose.

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

THE WALLS OF JERICHO

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Art by J. Danniel. San Jose.

DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE

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-smart fashion of the 1930s. As they do, the barriers between them crumble.

Sep 18-Oct 4. $10-$35. The Pear Avenue Theatre. Mountain View.

“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.

THE LION KING

“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.

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. San Jose.

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

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

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.

“Out of the Blue” Wendy Fitzgerald, Charlottle Coqui.

Thru Aug 22. Palo Alto.

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

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MEZCAL MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Metaphoric States” Five bronze works by Stephen de Staebler. Thru Oct 1. Saratoga.

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

Thru Aug 30. Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Red Rooms” Hyper-artificial environments playing with light and shadow by Amy M. Ho. Thru Sep 12. “A Fragile Narrative” Sculptures address domestic and industrial labor

by Cassandra Straubing Thru Sep 12. “Age of Entanglement” Vivid abstract paintings by Naomie Kremer. Thru Sep 19.

“Passage” Used coffee filters repurposed into natural forms

by Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee. Thru Oct 31. San Jose.

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GET OUTSIDE In the new Empire Seven exhibit, ‘Quest For Pure Land,’ graffiti artists Chip7 and Bigfoot contemplate the wider world.

Beyond The Frame EMPIRE SEVEN’S newest show, “Quest For Pure Land,” continues the gallery's current trend of environmentally conscious openings, this time with help from veteran graffiti writer and artist Chip7, and skate and street art legend, Bigfoot.

The individual styles of these artists—both of whom prefer to remain anonymous, as they continue to paint illegally—mesh well, perhaps because they both came up together in the New Jersey graffiti scene. They shared mutual friends and would hang out with one another on occasion, according to Bigfoot.

Chip7’s graffiti roots are more than evident in his neonpalette and organic cyborg aesthetic. His pieces—mostly re-imaginings of pop culture figures—are a mixture of fine, colorful detailing and purposefully sloppy supplementation. Using paint, pen, screen printing and pieces of adhered paper, Chip7’s collage-like work has both the endless complexity of futurism and the warmth of Southeast Asian native art.

Quest for Pure Land Thru Aug 25, Free Empire Seven Studios, San Jose

Bigfoot has more than 30 pieces on display in the show. He explores everything from expressionist portraits to scenes of geopolitical unrest, environmental destruction and homages to old cartoons, such as Yogi Bear. All of his work features the same Sasquatch-like character—an icon in the world of street art and skateboard design.

The majority of Bigfoot's pieces are woodcuts, many of which are in irregular shapes, including one multi-layered painted sculpture. This use of wood is in part a reaction to the demands of framing. “I hate framers,” Bigfoot laughs.

One of the most compelling pieces in the show is a scene in which Bigfoot faces off against Mickey Mouse. It brilliantly juxtaposes the iconic Disney character’s black-and-white with Bigfoot’s signature green.

While most of Bigfoot’s work in “Quest for Pure Land” is politically themed, it’s also remarkably playful—even when the subject is deforestation and capitalism.

After more than a decade of changes, Bigfoot seems more engaged and confident with his trademark character than ever before. And it certainly is popular. These days, Bigfoot appears on skateboards, T-shirts—even as a toy.

Overall, "Quest for Pure Land" is a colorful, certainly ironic look at the destruction of nature. While heavy political themes can wear on the aesthetic enjoyment of art, both Bigfoot and Chip7 keep it fun and bring a vibrancy, boldness and sly humor to a serious issue.— Tad Malone

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THAT’S A STRETCH Miles Teller plays Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic, in ‘Fantastic Four,’ a reboot that should never have been made.

Could ‘Fantastic Four’ have been worse? It’s hard to imagine

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HAT FANTASTIC FOUR (2015) fails, reeks and sucks on ice should not be a matter for equivocation. Nor should there be equivocation about how this tentpole was made.

It was made to exercise a studio’s option before it expired, rather than because there was a crying need to rephrase (for an un-fantastic, fourth time) the legend of Earth’s strange champions.

To those at their first rodeo: this is the interminable origin story of this quintessential comic book

quartet. There’s the stretchable Mr. Fantastic, Reed Richards (Miles Teller of Whiplash), and his put-upon squeeze, Sue “The Invisible Girl” Storm (Kate Mara); muscle is supplied by the heavyhearted NYC prole Ben “The Thing” Grimm (Jamie Bell), a monster of living rock; and the hotheaded Johnny Storm, the Human Torch (Michael B. Jordan), makes it a foursome.

The colorful crew is bled of hue in this film’s spare-the-air day colors.

Even tropical Central America, seen in one of the film’s rare exterior shots, is the shade of used motor oil.

Under the direction of Josh Trank (of the homebrewed superhero movie Chronicle), this somber “dark” tone takes polychrome kid fodder and turns it into a gloomy YA novel. Once again, mean, conspiring adults— military hobgoblins, dream-crushing

teachers, lock-step money men in black suits—thwart the perfectly formed genius of ever-so-slightly moody young people.

It praises youthful inspiration, but Fantastic Four is made with a passive, squishy spirit, as if no one wanted to venture an opinion of how it should be done. Example: the blocked Sue Storm, played by Mara, as a Claire Danes sulker, needs some music so she can concentrate while using her computer. “What kind of music?”

“Any music.” No one wanted to commit to a tone. The ‘any’ music is Philip Glass and Marco Beltrami, and it does a requisite job of any-ness.

If it reminded us one more time of the importance of family, Fantastic Four would transform into Lilo and Stitch. The climactic battle on Earth Zero (which looks like Pinnacles National Park with forest fire skies) is, ultimately, a rock fight. The battlers literally throw rocks at each other— cataclysmically, telepathically—but rocks. Transformed by the powers of the other dimension, Kebbel’s Doom

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is not the majestic Dr. Victor Von Doom, a terrible worm in an iron cocoon, but an emo mope, a plastic figure with glowing eyeballs.

Isn’t there anything nice I can say about this? Reg E. Cathey is impressive in the role of Franklin Storm, the Dr. Xavier-like adoptive father of Sue and the natural father of Johnny Storm.

Cathey has a credible look of horror at the first sight of his son in flames.

The overtly racist fanboys whimpering about the rewrite of Johnny Storm as an African American could be mocked by a Salon-worthy essay of point-missing from the left: “White America, haven’t you burned enough young black men alive for your amusement yet?” It’s likely that the horror of lynching informs Cathey’s moving reaction to the sight of his transformed son.

Similarly touching is Teller’s look of pity to his childhood best friend Ben, now an animated heap of rubble, sans blue shorts and sans penis.

Quite likable: Reed’s wan thumbsup (“Is this thing going to work?”) in a selfie, in front of a model of his own version of Buckaroo Banzai’s interdimensional overthruster. The filmmakers stress that Ben Grimm is Jewish, which is correct; a favorite Chanukah meme here is The Thing in yarmulke and tallit, as drawn by Mr. Jack Kirby. Even before he’s turned to boulders, Jamie Bell shows Grimm’s grit as an undersized junkyard kid.

I’m fond of actresses who are not smilers. Mara’s put-upon approach in the part of Sue seems fresh, before it turns into a movie-length cello solo.

Backstory has it that Sue was a war baby of Kosovar, which gives her a credible connection with Victor von Doom (it’s probably a short tank ride from Kosovo to Latveria).

Two touchy Eastern Europeans and one angry Jewish kid—if they wanted the film to stress that “with great power comes great misery,” why didn’t they give Bela Tarr the job? Even The Thing’s battle cry, “It’s clobbering time!” is pronounced in the tones of a husband announcing that he’s heading off to work on a Tuesday morning.

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THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E

BAD BROMANCE David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) spent time with David Foster Wallace (Jason Siegel) while working on a profile of the late writer. They didn’t always get along.

Road Wary JAMES PONSOLDT’S deeply affecting The End of the Tour is the story of a few days in the late winter of 1996. Back then, author David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) profiled writer David Foster Wallace (Jason Siegel, in the performance of his life). It was during the Midwestern publicity tour for Wallace’s tombstone novel, Infinite Jest. At the time, Lipsky’s magazine, Rolling Stone, didn’t do author profiles, and his editor couldn’t see an angle. (Later, an angle suggested itself: Wallace’s overcoming substance abuse, a natural in the mag trade.)

Wallace is seen as a deeply wary subject, who at the same time opens his home to Lipsky. Second only to his reluctance to be seen as a literary asshole is Wallace’s fear of being viewed as that familiar figure of recovery, the artist who triumphs over past tragedy. He considers his problems to be far more broad—what crushed him is “the American belief that if I just have X and Y, I’ll be a success”.

Siegel’s Wallace is 34 and physically lumbering. He’s dressed in a dingy ochre quilted jacket and wearing a bandana around his head—the costume of used beer bottle harvesters everywhere. He’s trying to stay modest and grungy even as this New York journalist examines him for

cracks, like an engineer studying a boiler.

They’re escorted by a driver (Joan Cusack, demonstrating a level of Minnesota niceness so thin you wouldn’t want to skate on it).

They take in an afternoon at the Mall of America (“this is not un-fun”). The visual contrast between Siegel and Eisenberg is so strong that the conflict between them continues The End of the Tour even without dialogue.

(And this rift can be R; 106 Mins. absolutely tragic when Camera 7 they’re lost in a snowy airport parking lot, not speaking after a big squabble.)

Every doubt I’ve ever had about journalism is here. Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) ponders whether it’s possible for a writer-forhire to be a symbiotic parasite instead of a leech. When it’s over, you wonder in turn if it would have been better to take Wallace at his stance: to keep the conversation on that nice, flat, vaguely optimistic plateau we love in America, to pretend that Wallace was just another McDonald’s-fed, RC cola-watered, everyday guy. Lipsky chisels through to find anxieties, and in the Casablanca sense, this is the end of a beautiful friendship. It leaves only a happy face on a Post-It to mark its passing.—Richard von Busack

It has weathered its significant time in development hell with style. 1963: Napoleon Solo (a Brylcreemed, threepiece suited Henry Cavill) is a reluctant CIA agent, forcibly teamed with a hulking (but tender hearted) KGB assassin named Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) to hunt an atom bomb in the hands of a group of unrepentant Nazis. Older viewers know the (supersonic laser) drill. But except for some lame lowbrow moments (a fight in a German public toilet), Guy Ritchie treats the material with respect for its antique swank—the reconstructions of East Berlin and La Dolce Vita-era Rome are lovely and painstaking. And the leading ladies salute the glamour of half a century ago. Petite Alicia Vikander (Eva in Ex Machina) looks like Jeanne Moreau around the mouth and Anna Karina around the eyes. By contrast, the diabolical fascist conspirator (Elizabeth Debicki) is like an elongated version Deneuve in Belle du Jour. Ritchie’s customary fast-forward and fast-rewind gives way to a Tarantino respect for the power of a speech, a tableau, and a vintage piece of music. While honoring the conventions, Ritchie also delivers some meta-satire of the golden age of spy movies—like when he cuts away from one of the stupid boat chases that always unnecessarily stretch out Bond films to watch Solo having a little stolen lunch inside a stolen truck. (Valleywide) (RvB)

GO AWAY, MR. TUMOR Love that title. Based on a popular Chinese graphic novel, translated as Go To Hell, Mr. Tumor, in which pseudonymous cartoonist Xiong Dun describes her bout with nonHodgkin’s lymphoma. A sampling with illegible subtitles confirmed it was extremely cute, eye-popping and cereal commercial-ish, as if Amelie were directed by Stephen Chow.

(Camera 12.)

Revivals THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960) It begins at the expensive wedding of a big industrialist’s crippled daughter (the pretty and frail Kyoko Kagawa) and her poor but honest groom Koichi (Toshiro Mifune). The mobbing reporters get a better show than they expected. The police perpwalk a company accountant before the wedding cake is served, and as a tinny wedding march sounds over the loudspeaker, a spectacular second cake arrives, an anonymous gift. The cake is in form of an exact replica of the office building where an employee took a fall for the legally embattled company (a seven- story fall, to be precise) as the

government kickbacks it took were being investigated by the police. A black rose marks the spot of the fatal window.

Later, as the investigation widens, more employees are expected to take one for the team via suicide, but Koichi intercedes, a secret avenger within the company. Mifune’s Koichi seethes under his spectacles, like Clark Kent watching criminals he’s not yet ready to bring down. It’s an unbelievably juicy film noir in black and white and Tohoscope. If the end peters out (describing a grand finale that occurs off-stage, likely because of budget cuts) there are still savage pleasures in this melodrama depicting Japan Inc. as a hive of a gangsters in cutaway coats and striped trousers.

(Plays Aug 12-14 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

PREDATOR (1987) In John McTiernan’s lead-up to Die Hard, Arnold Schwarzenegger is at his fascinatingly terse peak as an action star—playing a soldier of fortune named “Dutch” (just like Ronald Reagan).

Hunting communists in Central America, he and his men find themselves being stalked by an unstoppable and occasionally invisible alien (a real nightmare creature designed by Stan Winston). Co-starring Schwarzenegger’s fellow actor-turned-governor, Jesse Ventura. (Aug 13 at 9:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

RASHOMON/THRONE OF BLOOD (1950/1957) In 11th-century war-torn Japan, the body of a samurai is found in a deep forest. His dishonored wife turns up shortly afterward. The crime apparently has three perpetrators and three victims, comprising three people total. During the inquest, the mystery is only deepened, even though the dead man himself testifies, his voice brought back from hell by a female medium.

What’s on trial is actually Man himself: accused of the self-serving egoism that is, in director Akira Kurosawa's view, a kind of original sin. Accompanying this puzzle are visuals of almost barbaric sensuousness, staged in the kind of forest primeval not seen since the films of Murnau. Toshiro Mifune is the bandit, seen in both ridiculous vigor and shameful cowardice, depending on who tells the tale. BILLED WITH Throne of Blood. With the most Western of tales—straight out of the canon from Shakespeare—Kurosawa made one of this most eastern movies. Toshiro Mifune takes on the mannerisms of a Kabuki actor to play Washizu, a military officer who climbs his way up with expedient murder—a simple man turned subtle because of the prophecy of a forest ghost, and the advice of his wife Asaji (Isuzu Yamada). There’s never been such an immobile Lady Macbeth— when turning her husband’s mind to killing his superior, Yamada sits like the rock of Gibraltar, certain of her moral righteousness. (Plays Aug 15-18 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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MUSICAL COLLAGE ‘I look at music like paint,’ says Michael Franti, leader of the world pop band, Spearhead.

Michael Franti of Spearhead stays in touch with the planet—literally

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HENEVER POSSIBLE, Michael Franti is barefoot— even when he’s with the Dalai Lama. During their recent laugh-filled chat, Franti held hands with His Holiness as the cheeky, gentle spiritual leader poked fun at Franti’s dreadlocks and tribal tattoos before speaking on the importance of sympathetic action.

“You have to take your compassion and bring it out into the world, and do acts of compassion,” Franti says, recalling the lesson. “Try to relieve suffering wherever you can, and

whenever you can. That’s when we become whole as human beings.”

Franti’s genreless, world pop is a cross between the feel-good vibes of Jack Johnson and the irresistible beats of the Black Eyed Peas. He radiates with sincere desire to see a better world, using catharsis as his tool.

“I think in order to get to happiness, you have to shed whatever is holding you back from that,” Franti says. “You have to give voice to your sadness, your fears, your uncertainties. And then when you let go of those things, you have this space to become happy again.”

Franti is the Irish-German-FrenchAfrican-and-Native-American adopted son of a Finnish family from the Bay Area, the place he credits for broadening his world view.

“San Francisco is kind of like the land of misfit toys,” he says. “Different cultures, political perspectives,

sexualities, races and religions all live in this tiny little peninsula that can’t grow out. You have to live side-by-side with people.”

After college at USF, Franti formed two groups: punk jazz poets The Beatnigs, and industrial spoken-word rappers The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. Eventually, he landed at the front of Spearhead, a collective that treats the world’s musical idioms like raw materials for a sonic collage.

“I look at music like paint,” Franti says. “You have all these different colors and you can throw in bits of torn-up magazines, combine it with sticks and wood and things that you found, and computerize all of this. I just love great storytelling to a beat.”

Franti’s main guide in musicmaking is his family. He was 20 when his first child was born. It was “scariest and greatest thing to ever happen to me,” he says. He overcame his initial anxieties, and embraces the responsibility of being a father.

“When I’m gone, five or six months out of the year, touring, I want them to

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be able to say I wasn’t just out writing songs dissing other artists, [about] shooting people, or how much money I’ve collected,” he says. “I want them to think that dad was writing about things that meant something to him, and meant something to the world.

They’ve been that compass for me.”

One of his biggest songs, “Say Hey (I Love You),” which was featured on the 2010 World Cup playlist, is an exuberant world anthem stuffed with jaunty piano bursts, glowing verses about street life, and a joyous hook in praise of his fiancee, an emergency room nurse. Its contagious optimism transcends language.

“That’s really why I like John Lennon and Bob Marley so much,” he says.

“They were able to write a song about how much they loved their woman, their children, and put it right next to a song about how deeply concerned they are about the world. When you’re able to move freely through those, it makes the songs really more universal.”

At a recent show, Franti recalls a parking lot dance party with about 50 fans where they grooved to everything from Johnny Cash to Calvin Harris to Public Enemy.

“When people are really celebrating and letting go, the genre doesn’t matter so much as the feeling in the music,” he says. “I hear it when I hear celtic music, I hear it when I hear hip-hop, when I hear reggae, when I hear Afro-pop, in folk music, in jazz, I hear it everywhere. All the roots music from around the world.”

During one international tour 15 years ago, Franti took off his shoes to kick a soccer ball with some barefoot children. His feet were so tender afterwards he could barely walk. When he returned to San Francisco, he decided to go on a “shoe fast.” His initial plan was that it would only last a few days. He’s yet to break it, save for popping on flipflops in restaurants and airports.

“In part, it’s solidarity with people who can’t afford shoes,” he says. “Part [because] I just like to be barefoot.

It feels great. The last thing is: I just have really big feet, so it’s hard to find cool shoes. I just go with the coolest style of all.”

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Thu, Aug 13, 8pm: Blind Pilots. Fri, Aug 14, 8pm: Touch of Class. Sat, Aug 15, 8pm: Koncept Party Band. Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE Every Mon, Wed & Thu: Pro Jam. Sunnyvale.

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday.

Thu, Aug 13, 8:30pm: Barnhill Briseno Quartet. Fri, Aug 14, 9pm: Breathing Pattern, MomoTaro, No Maps. Sat, Aug 15, 7pm: Marcus Shelby performing Louis Armstrong. Every Sun: The Eulipions Jazz Jam. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Fri, Aug 14, 8pm: Silicon Valley Fashion Association Charity Night of Fashion and Stand-Up Comedy. Sat, Aug 15, 8pm: LifeSize Models. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Fri, Aug 14, 8pm: El Kombo Clasiko. Sat, Aug 15, 8pm: Reggae Night ft. Pacific Vibration, Redwood Rockers, DJs Youth Fiyah Sound.

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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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SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, Aug 13, 7pm: Local Traffic Band. Fri, Aug 14, 7pm: The Jump Kings. Sat, Aug 15, 7pm: Otilia Donaire and the Back Alley Boys. San Jose.

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CANDYASSES Orgy broke out by breaking with the mainstream on their 1998 record, ‘Candyass.’

Nß Improved IN THE SUMMER of 1998, in the midst of the nß metal explosion, Orgy broke from the pack. Shirking the then-in-vogue look of oversized jeans, overlong shorts and overwide laces, the quartet of eyeliner-wearing dudes from L.A. took their musical and sartorial cues from the new wave and new romanticism movements of the ’80s.

It was a promising but ultimately futile movement. “People move on to other things,� says singer Jay Gordon, Orgy’s founder and last remaining original member. “You just have to roll with it.�

After a decade-long dry spell that ended with the 2013 single, “Grime Of The Century,� the band’s new EP, Talk Sick, sports a house-music pulse while retaining Orgy’s cyber-metal core.

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“That’s what this band has been about from the beginning,�

Gordon says. “It’s got its (electronic music) part and its heavy part.� But strip away the electro veneer and de-tuned guitars, and you’ve got sophisticated pop tunes. The hook-laden “Wide Awake And Dead� and “G Face�—a reference to the club and date-rape drug, GHB—captures the vacant mien of his fellow Angelenos. Gordon, a native San Franciscan and one-time San Jose resident who’s done his share of partying, says tox screens can miss GHB because it’s out of the system relatively fast. “It’s like the Snapchat of drugs. It scares me.�

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CECIL@METRONEWS.COM I’ve heard the U.S. has the highest percentage of its population incarcerated of any country in the world. Is there a single crime or category of crime in which we excel that puts us in the top spot? Or are we just better at committing crime across the board? My guess is the war on drugs accounts for much of our prison population. Can you provide a breakdown showing how we've achieved our less-than-enviable position?—David Burns The drug war contributed, but it’s not the major factor behind our crazy high imprisonment rate. What does explain it then? I’ll just say the more you delve into this, the more complicated it gets.

Let’s review the incarceration rate, first discussed in this space in 2004. The U.S. currently has more than 321 million people. According to the World Prison Population List, the United States has a total prison population, including pretrial detainees, of 2.24 million. This works out to 716 prisoners per 100,000 people, the highest rate in the world.

Let that soak in. Consider: • The U.S. has 4.4 percent of the world’s population but 22 percent of the world’s prisoners. For sheer numbers, our only close competitors are Russia (680,000 prisoners) and China (1.64 million sentenced prisoners plus 650,000 in pretrial/administrative detention).

• In terms of imprisonment rate, our closest competitors are mostly tiny island countries. (Number two: St. Kitts and Nevis, 714.) Among major nations, the closest to us is Russia, 475. The world average is around 150; for western European countries, it’s around 100. Up till 1970, that’s what it was for us, too.

• The U.S. incarceration rate bears no close relation to the crime rate. The percentage of Americans in prison rose sharply between 1970 and 1999 and has fluctuated since then but remains close to the historical peak. In contrast, U.S. rates for violent and property crime started heading up in the early 1960s, peaked in 1991, and since then have fallen by roughly half. In other words, for the past quarter century, the U.S. crime and imprisonment rates have headed in opposite directions.

Some will say: Well, of course—the crime rate has gone down because all the troublemakers are in jail! That’s not proven, but even if it were, think what it would say about us: we throw the book at people less because of the crimes they did commit than because of the ones they might commit.

But to repeat: things are complicated.

You think most prisoners are there because of drug offenses? That’s true at the federal

level. However, at the state level—and the states account for 87 percent of U.S. prisoners—drug crimes account for only 16 percent of those doing time. The majority of state prisoners—54 percent as of 2012—were convicted of violent crimes, 19 percent of property crimes, and the remainder everything else (e.g., drunken driving).

For state and federal prisoners combined, 20 percent were convicted of drug offenses. Assuming that 20 percent of the 744,500 U.S. pretrial detainees (as of 2012) are likewise in on drug charges, then if everyone behind bars for drug offenses were freed, the U.S. incarceration rate would be 573, which would still put us third-highest in the world. In short, you can’t blame the imprisonment epidemic specifically on the war on drugs.

Now let’s stride boldly into a minefield.

Is the U.S. imprisonment rate high because we’re locking up so many black people? At first blush, no—leave black prisoners out of the picture and the U.S. incarceration rate is still 458, putting us in a tie for tenth worldwide with the Caribbean island of St. Martin. If we don’t count any nonwhites, the incarceration rate would be 239, still well above the world average.

Some will say: White convicts were caught up in draconian sentencing laws mainly aimed at minorities, and specifically at black men.

Let’s break that down. Do stiffer drug penalties single out black people? The numbers say no. Of state prisoners, 14 percent of whites are in for drugs, 15 percent of Hispanics, and 16 percent of blacks—no big diff.

Violent crime? That’s another story.

Of state prisoners, 49 percent of whites were convicted of violent offenses vs.

58 percent of blacks and 60 percent of Hispanics. Inquiring further, we find whites constitute 80 percent of the U.S. population and 32 percent of imprisoned violent criminals. For Hispanics, it’s 17 percent and 23 percent; for black people, 13 percent and 41 percent.

Conclusion: The appallingly high number of U.S. prisoners can’t be attributed to any one class of offenses.

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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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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): To ensure the full accuracy of this horoscope, I have been compelled to resurrect an old-fashioned English word that isn't used much any more: "gambol." It means to cavort and frolic in a playful manner, or to romp and skip around with mad glee, as if you are unable to stop yourself from dancing. The astrological omens seem unambiguous in their message: In order to cultivate the state of mind that will enable you to meet all your dates with destiny in the coming weeks, you need to gambol at least once every day.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you remember your first kiss? How about the first time you had sex?

Although those events may not have been perfectly smooth and graceful, they were radical breakthroughs that changed your life and altered your consciousness.

Since then, there may have been a few other intimate rites of passage that have affected you with similar intensity. No doubt you will experience others in the future. In fact, I suspect that the next installments are due to arrive in the coming months. Get ready for further initiations in these mysteries.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Two-thirds of us don't know what our strengths and talents are. That's the conclusion of a study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology. One reason for the problem is what the report's co-author Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener calls "strengths blindness," in which we neglect our real powers because we regard them as ordinary or take them for granted. Here's the good news, Gemini: If you suffer from even a partial ignorance about the nature of your potentials, the coming months will be a favorable time to remedy that glitch. Life will conspire to help you see the truth. (Read more: bit.ly/truestrengths.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1504, Michelangelo finished his sculpture of the Biblical hero David. But he hadn't been the first person to toil on the 17-foothigh block of marble. Forty years earlier, the artist Agostino di Duccio was commissioned to carve David out of the stone. His work was minimal, however. He did little more than create the rough shape of the legs and torso. In 1476, Antonio Rossellino resumed where Agostino had stopped, but he didn't last long, either. By the time Michelangelo launched his effort, the massive slab had languished for 25 years. I see parallels between this story and your own, Cancerian.

I suspect that you will be invited to take on a project that has been on hold or delayed. This may require you to complete labors that were begun by others—or maybe instigated by you when you were in a very different frame of mind.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many people harbor the unconscious bias that beauty resides primarily in things that are polished, sleek, and perfect. Celebrities work hard and spend a lot of money to cultivate their immaculate attractiveness, and are often treated as if they have the most pleasing appearance that human beings can have. Art that is displayed in museums has equally flawless packaging. But the current astrological omens suggest that it's important for you to appreciate a different kind of beauty: the crooked, wobbly, eccentric stuff. For the foreseeable future, that's where you'll find the most inspiration.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "No tree can grow to Heaven unless its roots reach down to Hell," wrote psychologist Carl Jung in his book Aion. My interpretation: We earn the right to experience profound love and brilliant light by becoming familiar with shadows and suffering. Indeed, it may not be possible to ripen into our most radiant beauty without having tangled with life's ugliness. According to my understanding of your long-term cycle, Virgo, you have dutifully completed an extended phase of downward growth. In the next extended phase, however, upward growth will predominate. You did reasonably well on the hellish stuff; now comes the more heavenly rewards.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Great Balancing Act of 2015 doesn't demand that you be a wishy-washy, eager-to-please, self-canceling harmony whore.

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shaped less by the expectations of others and more by what you really want. Do you know what you really want, Libra? Find out! P.S.: Your task is not to work on the surface level, trying to manipulate the appearance of things. Focus your efforts in the depths of yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Muslims, Jews, and Christians are collaborating to erect a joint house of worship in Berlin. The building, scheduled to be finished in 2018, will have separate areas for each religion as well as a common space for members of all three to gather. Even if you don't belong to any faith, you may be inspired by this pioneering effort to foster mutual tolerance. I offer it up to you as a vivid symbol of unity. May it help inspire you to take full advantage of your current opportunities to heal schisms, build consensus, and cultivate harmony.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In some phases of your life, you have been a wanderer. You've had a fuzzy sense of where you belong. It has been a challenge to know which target you should aim your arrows at. During those times, you may have been forceful but not as productive as you'd like to be; you may have been energetic but a bit too inefficient to accomplish wonders and marvels. From what I can tell, one of those wandering seasons is now coming to a close. In the months ahead, you will have a growing clarity about where your future power spot is located—and may even find the elusive sanctuary called "home." Here's a good way to prepare for this transition: Spend a few hours telling yourself the story of your origins. Remember all the major events of your life as if you were watching a movie.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have been slowing to a crawl as you approach an exciting transition. But I'm here to advise you to resume normal speed. There's no need for excessive caution.

You have paid your dues; you have made your meticulous arrangements; you have performed your quiet heroisms. Now it's time to relax into the rewards you have earned. Lighten your mood, Capricorn.

Welcome the onrushing peace and start planning how you will capitalize on your new freedom.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Most people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it’s leaning against the wrong wall." Aquarian actor Paul Sorensen said that. It's no coincidence that I'm bringing this theory to your attention right now. The coming months will be a good time to determine whether the ladder you have been climbing is leaning against the right wall or wrong wall. My advice is to question yourself at length. Be as objective as possible. Swear to tell yourself the whole truth. If, after your investigations, you decide it is indeed the wrong wall, climb down from the ladder and haul it over to the right wall. And if you're satisfied that you are where you should be, celebrate!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When he served as Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi denigrated the cuisine of Finland. "Finns don't even know what prosciutto is," he sneered. At best, he said, their food is to be "endured." He mocked the "marinated reindeer" they eat. But Finland fought back against the insults. In an international pizza contest held in New York, their chefs won first Prize for their "Pizza Berlusconi," a specialty pizza that featured marinated reindeer. The Italian entry finished second. I foresee you enjoying a comparable reversal in the coming months, Pisces. And it all begins now.

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