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THIS MODERN WORLD

By TOM TOMORROW

I SAW YOU

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Whoa. Good thing he doesn’t work the registers.

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RE: “CAKE WARS,” NEWS, AUG. 12

Peter’s owner doesn’t like Mexicans? The majority of the workers are Mexican. And I bet Mexicans are his best customers too. How sad, where’s the loyalty?

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RE: “SO VERY SPECIAL,” THE FLY, AUG. 12

RE: “CAKE WARS,” NEWS, AUG. 12

I think we need genetic testing on anyone in county government these days!

Unbelievable, some of the comments in the article are even more disturbing.

I’ve worked for people that had anger management issues but this guy takes the cake … “pun” intended … what an ass!!!

His brother needs to do the community a

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Jennifer Wadsworth

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Another Dustbiter Another top-level staffer has left the office of Assemblywoman NORA CAMPOS (D-San Jose), which perhaps comes as a gesture of goodwill to political Mad Libs writers. As for constituents in East San Jose? Not so much. CORY BLACK fills the blank this time around, leaving the post of district director after just 15 weeks on the job. But in yet another sign that that Campos just doesn’t get it, Black was only hired to work on a half-time basis while commuting from San Luis Obispo.

Word is Black also continued running his political consulting and lobbyist business on the side, which is just begging for potential conflicts of interests. The only person who appears to remain in the district is a poor secretary who has been instructed to not even say if there is anyone else working in the office. In any other district, residents would be outraged at how Campos runs her shop, but at this point her They constituents are so Did used to being let down What? (see News on p8) that their only hope is that SEND TIPS TO O a competent legislator FLY@ gets elected next year.

WSS. METRONEWS. COM The frontrunners to date include San Jose Councilman ASH KALRA, former city Vice Mayor MADISON NGUYEN and county Board of Education president DARCIE GREEN. The last of those three just got engaged, when Green’s boyfriend and personal trainer RICK ALEXANDER proposed on a Jazz Summerfest stage in between acts.

Winning a state Assembly seat has been Green’s lifelong goal, so Fly was surprised when rumblings started popping up that she may be having cold feet about continuing her campaign. One group that would be especially displeased by this is the Latino Caucus, which just gave her its endorsement. But according to a source close to Green, her dream marriage and dream job aren’t mutually exclusive, and the ceremony is expected to be pushed up so she can focus on the campaign.

Road Rage NO END IN SIGHT Raab Bui has seen a dramatic drop-off in customer walk-ins since construction started—then stalled—on an Alum Rock bus line.

Little Portugal residents fume over dangerous road conditions

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SEVEN-MILE stretch of orange barricades, A-frame signs and dug-up asphalt cuts through Little Portugal. For a year-and-a-half, construction has turned San Jose’s Five Wounds corridor into a fender-bender inducing maze that chokes off traffic to a slew of small businesses.

“It’s killing us,” says Raab Bui, who runs Giants Barber Shop, which his grandfather opened nearly 50 years ago. “It’s killing our business. Traffic is mayhem. Customers can’t find us.”

Regulars manage to navigate the “cone zone” labyrinth for a cut

from Mr. Raab, as they call the thirdgeneration barber. But walk-ins have dropped off by about 60 percent, he says. The inconvenience would have been short-lived. And the payoff—| a state-of-the-art rapid bus line connecting San Jose’s East Side to downtown—would make up for the headache. But on July 13, everything stopped.

Workers abandoned their posts.

Tractors shuttled away. Caution tape went up to cordon off upended swaths of thoroughfare. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) halted the $114 million project after contractors hit a live gas line. Five weeks later, it’s unclear when work will resume, how long it will take to finish and how much it will drive up costs after a series of blunders by an incompetent contractor. “Now what?”

Mr. Raab wonders, eliciting affirmative

nods from customers waiting their turn in the lobby. “It’s a ghost town.”

After a decade of planning, the VTA broke ground on the Santa Clara-Alum Rock Bus Rapid Transit line in March of last year. The high-speed buses promised to quicken travel through some of the most transit-dependent communities of Silicon Valley at a fraction of the cost of rail. Funded by state and local bonds, the 7.2-mile route would be the first of three rapid bus lines in Santa Clara County to converge in the heart of San Jose. Limited-stop service would link the Eastridge Transit Center, by way of Capitol Expressway and Alum Rock Avenue, to the SAP Center. Eleven stations—bigger and more elaborate than typical bus stops—would flash digital schedules and boast designs by local artists. Sleek hybrid buses would arrive every 10 minutes, prolonging green lights at intersections and skirting traffic in dedicated bus lanes.

“It will basically transform the streetscape,” says Tamara Alvarado, director of the Mexican Heritage Plaza, which lies along the unfinished route.

Portuguese bakery, Mr. Raab shakes his head, bemoaning another ďŹ&#x201A;ap over transportation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you go a long time without good leadership, this is what you get,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re left out of everyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progress.â&#x20AC;?

In the last few years, the East Side has had its county supervisor, George Shirakawa Jr., go to jail for stealing campaign funds and misusing taxpayer dollars. Its councilman and state assemblymember, siblings Xavier and Nora Campos, respectively, were implicated in a rigged election scheme by the District Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. Constituents have been left to wonder whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sticking up for them while their elected officials are busy defending themselves.

Last year, the VTA nixed plans to build a BART station in the Five Wounds area, the largely Latino district encompassing Little Portugal.

Public backlash prompted the VTA to put the station back on the blueprint for 2019. But the slight raised concerns about the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ nancial stewardship. Now, that worry is coupled with uncertainty over the rapid bus lineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how much it will cost and how long it will take to ďŹ nish. All while the VTA lobbies for a new tax in 2016. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see these problems in downtown,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Raab says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nope. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always in the East Side.â&#x20AC;?

Over the weekend, Councilwoman Magdalena Carrasco met with a dozen businesses owners affected by the construction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were pissed off,â&#x20AC;? says Victor Gomez, her chief of staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have every right to be pissed off.â&#x20AC;?

While the VTA has yet to announce a completion date, Gomez says thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance it will drag well into next year. As a result, Carrasco will enlist county Supervisor Cindy Chavez and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo to help make the streets safer for the time being. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen with this contractor has been pretty disquieting,â&#x20AC;? Gomez says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be a sense of urgency.â&#x20AC;?

Bay Area leaders have called bus rapid transit the future of transportation, a relatively cheap â&#x20AC;&#x153;subway on tires.â&#x20AC;? The VTA wanted the Alum Rock line up and running before similar projects in San Francisco and the East Bay, which have languished over public opposition to the prospect of exclusive bus lanes. But a dozen years after conceiving the idea for this high-tech bus, Silicon Valley has yet to get one on the road.

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In November 2013, VTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board of Directors awarded a $54 million contract to Goodfellow Top Grade.

The Livermore-based company pitched the lowest bidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;$7.2 million below the VTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own project estimateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and won out of a ďŹ eld of eight contractors. A competing company asked the agency to reconsider the deal. Graniterock Construction noted the â&#x20AC;&#x153;highly irregular manner in which VTA staff has come to recommend project award, having rejected all bids, returned bid bonds and re-advertised the contract.â&#x20AC;?

VTA dismissed the appeal, deciding that Goodfellowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low-ball bid would save money and keep things on track to ďŹ nish by fall 2015. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the beginning of the project, hope was eternal,â&#x20AC;? says Scott Knies, head of the San Jose Downtown Association. But problems cropped up early. The contractor missed deadlines, uprooted too many trees and fell behind on ordering materials. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were certainly signs that this wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t on schedule,â&#x20AC;? Knies says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The work by the arena was not that big of a project, but they still had issues getting all the details right. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as bad as what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going through at Alum Rock, but it is a concern.â&#x20AC;?

From his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CPA office at Alum Rock and North Third Street, George S. Mattos has seen an inordinate surge in car collisions. A security camera in the lobby caught several on video. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are no safe turns out there,â&#x20AC;? he says.

VTA spokeswoman Brandi Childress says the agency will hold Goodfellow Top Grade accountable for traffic control during the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standdown. By press time Tuesday, VTA was still negotiating how to move forward. Calls to the contractor were not returned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m scared,â&#x20AC;? says Manuela Torres, who owns the Padaria Popular Bakery on Alum Rock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back-to-school is busy for us. Halloween is busy. I hope this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt us, you know.â&#x20AC;?

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San Jose Hopes to Block Release of Incoming Police Chief’s Emails

LIFELINE A rescued mare died giving birth to Belle, pictured above.

Horse Abuser Owes $113K to Rescues BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH A Santa Clara County judge ordered a convicted horse abuser to cough up $113,000 in restitution to rescue groups that cared for the animals seized from his ranch last year.

Humberto Rivas Uribe, 52, appeared in a South County courtroom Aug. 7 in shackles and a navy blue jail jumpsuit. With eyes cast down, he listened to a court translator relay the ruling in Spanish. The Morgan Hill rancher had been sentenced earlier this year to three months in jail and five years probation. For the next decade, he cannot own or care for an animal.

In January, Uribe pleaded guilty to felony animal cruelty after authorities took 38 sickly horses from his two South County properties. Many of the mares were pregnant. Virtually all were malnourished, with worms, gashes, infections, exposed ribs and other ailments.

The rescue was unprecedented in

scope for Santa Clara County’s Animal Care and Control. It also highlighted a dilemma faced by many jurisdictions— that the cost of enforcing animal cruelty laws often prevents agencies from taking action.

Trina Hineser, who lives across the street from Uribe and called attention to the abuse last year, applauded Deputy District Attorney Alexandra Ellis for bringing a swift resolution to the case. If only animal control officials were as responsive, Hineser remarked.

For the past year, horse advocates led by Katrina Loera have called on the county to adopt policies that would prevent future abuse. While animal control has changed the way it deals with horse abuse, the public has been unable to weigh in.

Loera began asking in November 2014 for the Animal Advisory Commission to place a discussion about the Morgan Hill horse case on the

agenda. That request wasn’t granted until July, when she couldn’t make it, then postponed to September. But a few weeks ago, Loera was thrown from a horse and knocked into a coma. While she has regained consciousness, her family will send her to a rehab facility specializing in traumatic brain injuries.

The community has rallied around Loera, an art teacher at LeyVa Middle School in San Jose. A crowdfunding campaign to offset medical costs had raised $23,000 by Tuesday.

But it’s unclear who will present her message to the animal advisory board next month. She wanted to ask the county why it took so long to do something about Uribe’s malnourished herds and how it could improve its response going forward.

“She tried to hard to get her message out,” Hineser said. “I don’t understand why they made this such a difficult process.”

The same day San Jose Police Chief Larry Esquivel announced he will retire at the beginning of next year, the city tabbed Eddie Garcia as next in line. It wasn't much of a surprise, as San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has been grooming the assistant chief for the job, despite several instances of unprofessional behavior over the last year.

In January, San Jose Inside Eddie Garcia published a report that showed the department’s chief and top command staff—especially Garcia—routinely used their city email accounts to laugh behind their civilian bosses’ backs, vent frustration and scoff at gift policies they violated. The chief and his top deputies also partook in a little gallows humor at the expense of an injured crime victim who doubled as a drug-peddling idiot.

Now the city is attempting to block the release of hundreds of additional emails Garcia sent and received using his city email account.

A week after Esquivel said he would retire, San Jose Inside requested Garcia emails that were left out of our initial request. A day later, July 30, the department denied the request, arguing that emails Garcia sent using his city email account, even when on city time, do not relate in any way “to the conduct of the public’s business.”

San Jose Inside has appealed this interpretation of the law, and the matter will go before the city’s Rules and Open Government Committee on Wednesday. The decision that body makes this week could be a bellwether of how committed the Liccardo administration is to continuing predecessor Mayor Chuck Reed’s initiatives on sunshine and transparency.—Josh Koehn

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LONG the journey to Veggielution, a glorious audio collage envelops me.

By the time I arrive at the far back corner of Emma Prusch Farm Park, I’ve heard roosters, geese, whistling park employees, children scampering, a few tractors and ubiquitous freeway noise from the monolithic 680/101 interchange.

As a community farm, Veggielution occupies six acres of land and generates 47,000 pounds of produce every year, but since it’s buried way at the rear of Prusch Park, past a few historic houses, gates and walkways, the general park populace doesn’t seem to know it’s there. The entire property seems miles from the congested, motor-oil-soaked nausea of King Road outside.

“Everybody’s been to the park, but hardly anyone gets all the way back here,” says Veggielution interim executive director Cayce Hill, as we meet in a makeshift kitchen. “We’re trying to change that.”

Veggielution features many

different components, so many that it’s hard to keep track of them all. Hill takes me into the farm stand, where 70 customers roll in every Saturday to pick up boxes of produce intended to last for a week. Over the course of a year, another 500 youths arrive to work in the garden, which is filled with goji berries, yarrow, aster, sorrel, narcissus, chard, garbanzo beans, marjoram and zinnias. Everything is labeled in both English and Spanish.

In case you wanted to know, crocus translates to azafran.

Way off in the background, I see orchards, plots of vegetable plants attached to trellises and even two greenhouses, all flanked by freeways.

In the pavilion area, the ladies from Somos Mayfair are teaching kids folklorico dancing while music blasts from a boom box. The tune “El Cerro de la Silla” remains in my head for the length of my visit.

As staff and volunteers saunter

back and forth in every direction, a visiting group, Filipino Advocates for Justice, arrives for a tour. Hill begins by apologizing for the traffic noise.

“The freeway forms the contour of the farm,” she tells the group. “That’s why it’s in our logo. You’re always reminded that we’re in a big city.”

As I infiltrate the tour, we move throughout the expanse of the farm in about 30 minutes. We visit the orchards, the potting station and the greenhouses. I learn about myriad activities occurring on a regular basis: barn dancing, yoga on the farm, environmental justice lectures, cooking classes.

But all during the journey, we’re warned about Veggielution’s enemy number one: feral peacocks. No one knows why or how they arrived in this part of San Jose, but they tend to hide out in the cornstalks, eating crops and creating havoc on a regular basis. Even the greenhouses are blocked off with bird netting to stop them. Peacocks are one of my favorite birds.

“They’re pests,” Hill says. “They can mow down a little row of seedlings in a second. And the sound they make is like children screaming.”

As a nonprofit, Veggielution struggles to raise cash just like any other 501c3 outfit, which is why their Annual Bounty of Heart’s Delight fundraising dinner is this Saturday, 4:30-10pm. A grand-scale affair it shall be. The $140 ticket includes a five-course dinner on the farm with chef Matthias Froeschl of Naschmarkt in Campbell, plus hay rides, a raffle, auction and open-air dancing.

“We’re hoping to get all the Veggielution regulars, as well as some people that haven’t been here in a while,” Hill says.

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popularized a new style of oral history with 'Please Kill Me,' and are now working on a similar book about the L.A. rock scene in the 1960s.

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N MUCH the same way that punk was a musical revolution, the definitive book about punk was a literary one. With its modernization of the oral history tradition—telling its 424-page story entirely in a string of quotes that form a solid, winding narrative— it’s practically impossible to overstate the degree to which Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk revolutionized both the book industry and the way we think about storytelling when it was published in 1996.

Despite its gritty, grimy subject matter (or, more accurately, because of it), Please Kill Me was sublimely elegant in the way it matched form to content. Finally, here was a book about punk that reflected the actual spirit of the movement by representing its subjects’ words as directly as possible, with a minimum of filters or interference from the authors. It took nonfiction back to its primal urges.

Perhaps the book’s mix of iconoclasm and literary ambition makes sense considering it was co-authored by two writers with very different backgrounds, but a surprising like-mindedness. One, Legs McNeil, is the man some credit with giving punk music its name in the

first place, when he christened Punk magazine in 1975. He started it with cartoonist John Holmstrom and publisher Ged Dunn, providing the fledgling New York scene led by the Ramones, Patti Smith and Richard Hell (and eventually also British bands like the Sex Pistols) with a unifying concept. His co-author, Gillian McCain, was the program coordinator of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church—famed for its connections to Smith, Jim Carroll, William Burroughs and other punk poets beginning in the 1970s—from 1991 to 1995, roughly the same time that they worked on Please Kill Me. After hundreds of interviews with everyone from icons like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop to lesser-known

scene stealers like former “company freak” record exec Danny Fields and filmmaker Bob Gruen, the result was the best-selling book ever about punk music, which has been published in 15 languages.

Now, as Grove Atlantic prepares a 20th anniversary edition of Please Kill Me, the book has spawned literally hundreds of imitators, everything from similarly focused music books like We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music and Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal to general pop culture megahits like Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday

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PUNKING THE INDUSTRY 'Please Kill Me' was the bestselling book ever about punk music, and opened the floodgates for hundreds of oral histories done in the same style.

Night Live by Tom Shales and Andrew James Miller and their follow-up Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. The oral history craze has reached such a fever pitch—and, perhaps, level of absurdity—that the July issue of Vanity Fair featured the “definitive oral history” of the movie Clueless.

So why isn’t Legs McNeil proud of blazing a trail for this new wave of 21st century oral histories?

“They sucked,” says McNeil by phone from L.A., where he and McCain are working on a new oral history book about the ’60s rock scene there. “I wish someone would do a good oral history. At least as good as Please Kill Me, you know?”

McCain, on the same phone call,

is more diplomatic. “When I look at just the punk books that have come out as oral histories, not even oral history music books, I think there’s a hundred, literally. It’s just unbelievable,” she says. “So Legs may not be proud that we were the trailblazers, but I am.”

McNeil’s stance may sound like punk posturing, but actually the pair adhered to some strict rules while doing Please Kill Me that later imitators have often ignored, usually to their detriment.

“We refuse to cheat,” says McCain,

“where we’d have a piece of prose in between two people talking. ‘And then so and so went to blah blah blah.’ To me, that’s cheating.”

McNeil says the demanding structure of oral histories is what makes them so easy to screw up. With no exposition to support them, the quotes have to weave a tight narrative.

“They’re really difficult,” he says.

“Oral histories are like rock and roll itself—very, very fascistic and anal. Seriously. Once you break the formula, no matter what you’ve done up till that point, the whole thing falls apart. It’s not like you can make a mistake. You know, like in memoirs there are shitty chapters where the guy goes off on his cat or his mother or something, and you go with that because it’s going to get good again. But in an oral history you can’t have that, because it’ll collapse.”

Please Kill Me established a blueprint for understanding the punk movement that has been followed by almost every book since, with the Velvet Underground as the first real protopunk band, and Lou Reed as the godfather of punk.

While the Velvets were already widely accepted as punk progenitors by the ’90s (with no small amount of credit going to the 1990 cover album Between Heaven and Hell: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground, which kicked off the tribute record craze) the actual story of how punk evolved from band to band through New York and Detroit had never really been told.

But the book’s framing device—beginning with the Velvet Underground starting out in Andy Warhol’s Factory scene, and ending with their reunion in 1992—was something that developed over time.

Finding such a framework was key, since the origins of punk could be said to stretch all the way back to the beginning of rock itself. Just look at how the Sex Pistols worshipped Eddie Cochran, or the Cramps covered the Johnny Burnette Trio and the Count Five.

“It wasn’t easy, because we started interviewing people from [’60s garage band] ? and the Mysterians,” says McCain. “So we weren’t sure we weren’t going to go that

avenue, but it ended up we didn’t.

There’s so many garage bands.

And the people around the Velvet Underground were in the narrative later, so they were part of this intertwining—with Iggy, and Lou on the cover of Punk magazine. But with the garage bands, there was no interconnectedness.”

“What we did in Please Kill Me was we showed the linkage from the Velvet Underground to the Stooges,” says McNeil. “Nico moves in with Iggy, John Cale produces Iggy’s first album. We kind of mapped it all out, and every punk book has taken that formula. And no one has ever said ‘hey, thanks for connecting the dots!’”

“I think a lot of people give us credit,” counters McCain. “Often in the acknowledgements, they’ll say ‘We want to thank Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain for turning us on to this format.”

“Well,” grumbles McNeil, “maybe they should have bought us dinner.”

The dynamic between McCain and McNeil is a fascinating one. One of McCain’s earliest memories of meeting McNeil speaks volumes about their collaboration.

“We had a mutual friend, and she said ‘I’m going over to Legs’ to watch a movie.’ And we became friends. He lived on St. Mark’s and First, and I was working at the Poetry Project at Second Avenue and 10th, so he’d drop by the office,” she recalls. “He’d come to readings and really drive me nuts, because during a poetry reading he’d be standing at the back, and whenever he’d move the least little bit, his leather jacket would creak. It just drove me insane. That’s how we met.”

“It was a doomed relationship,” says McNeil dryly. “She does a great imitation of me coming to the Poetry Project: I’d go, ‘let’s go out for a cigarette,’ and then I’d split. I was always embarrassing her.”

Disagreements over who and what would make it into the book could be contentious, but McCain says McNeil was able to make tough but necessary editing decisions that she couldn’t bear.

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For all of their differences, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprised at how much they think alike, which comes out especially when they interview subjects together. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always look at each at other knowingly,â&#x20AC;? says McNeil. Also, we never use notes, which is really weird.

The person stops talking, and we both come in at the same time with the same question. That happens about 85 percent of the time.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true,â&#x20AC;? says McCain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that makes people comfortable, that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring in notes. We just have conversations with them. Sometimes I have a few notes on a Post-it that I put in my pocket, and when I go to the bathroom I look at it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always lose my scrap of paper,â&#x20AC;?

McNeil says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve written

it down, I know what it is.â&#x20AC;?

McCain credits McNeil with eliciting many of the stories that made Please Kill Me both shock and amuse. The book is full of them: Nico giving Iggy Pop his ďŹ rst STD. Billy Murcia of the New York Dolls choking to death in a ďŹ&#x201A;at in London while partygoers around him ďŹ&#x201A;ee.

Dee Dee Ramone writing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chinese Rocksâ&#x20AC;? out of spite toward Richard Hell, but then giving Hell a cowriting credit for it because he wrote two lines. Malcolm McLaren on the differences between New York punk and the Sex Pistols. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned so much from Legs,â&#x20AC;? says McCain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He gets on the phone with Malcolm McLaren and goes â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;First off, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to talk about the Sex Pistols.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And Malcolm McLaren is so fucking relieved! He asks him questions about the New York Dolls, which he was probably rarely asked about before Please Kill Me. And then gradually the Sex Pistols come up, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more engaged. Because he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think he had to talk about it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You disarm people,â&#x20AC;? admits McNeil. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be immediately intimate with them.

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YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE OPENED THAT DOOR After a Ramones-related book project fell through, Gillian McCain prodded Legs McNeil to turn it into a more ambitious book about the history of punk rock. to ask them who they’re sleeping with, what drugs they were taking, what they were thinking, what their emotional state was at the time.”

And yet, McNeil says he has yet to interview someone who was reluctant to talk.

“I think for a lot of people, it’s almost like therapy. They’re really into telling their story. It’s kind of fascinating,” he says.

McNeil’s experimentation with the unfiltered style of Please Kill Me can be traced, to some extent, back to his time with Punk magazine.

“Kind of with the Q&A interviews, which were hysterically funny,” he says. “[ John] Holmstrom would do things like in the first Lou Reed interview, Lou was talking about his favorite cartoonists, and John drew him in the different styles, like Wally Wood. It was very cool. We did things like when I interviewed Richard Hell at Max’s and I passed out—and Richard kept talking. Stuff like that. That was fun, you know?”

Both McNeil and McCain were inspired by Edie: American Girl, the 1982 oral history of Edie Sedgwick

by Jean Stein and George Plimpton.

Though a bestseller and critically

acclaimed for the groundbreaking exposition-free style that anticipated Please Kill Me, it failed to have the same cultural impact. McNeil, however, saw its potential.

“He started doing a book with Dee Dee [Ramone],” says McCain.

“Dee Dee asked him to write his autobiography with him. Legs had the idea, because he loved Edie, to do it as an oral history. So he was getting Danny [Fields]’s interviews transcribed, and all these people, and I said to him, ‘This story is so much bigger than Dee Dee. He’s a seminal character, but it’s just such a huge story.’ Then Dee Dee got kind of hard to get along with, and when they parted ways, Legs was like, ‘Do you want to do this with me?’ So that’s how it started.”

Considering that Please Kill Me would go on to have a huge impact on the book industry, it’s ironic that said industry showed no interest in the project at first. Despite 1991 being “The Year Punk Broke,” as one documentary title put it, with the success of Nirvana’s Nevermind, and pop-punk bands like Green Day and the Offspring storming the radio in 1994, a book about punk was still a tough sell back then. And it certainly didn’t help that it was an oral history, a literary genre people at the time

associated with Studs Terkel books about old-timey things like the Great Depression and World War II. “We knew we wouldn’t be able to sell it on just a proposal and a chapter, because people wouldn’t get it. Not only the subject matter, but also the oral history format. So we had written the whole book before we tried to sell it,” says McCain.

The exhausting interview schedule had some out-there moments, like the interview with former Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton, which McNeil counts among his favorites.

“We did like 10 hours in one sitting. Drinking milk and vodka or some weird thing,” says McNeil. “I was just listening to him, and he’s talking to his cats through the whole thing. ‘Leave her alone, Patches!’”

The great white whale for the two of them was Iggy Pop. “We purposefully wanted to leave him for last, because we wanted to be able to ask really informed questions,” says McCain.

Pop ended up being her favorite interview that she and McNeil did together.

“I think we ask questions in a certain way that maybe makes people think about things in a different way, or reminds them of certain things. That was our goal, to get stories other people hadn’t.

But when you ask a question [to Iggy Pop] like ‘OK, you’re at the Yost Field House. You’ve stolen some IDs.’ This is how Legs framed it. ‘You’re 14 years old. And you see Jim Morrison come on stage. How do you feel?’

I don’t think many people have framed questions like that. That’s why we wanted to do him at the very end, so we totally knew what we were talking about.”

One might think that when Please Kill Me came out, a lot of the interviewees would have been thrilled to finally get their due for the role they played in punk. Not so, says McNeil.

“What happened was we were supposed to have two months off, and they sent out galley copies,” he says. “And they sent one to John Waters to get a blurb. John Waters doesn’t give blurbs. But John Waters knew everyone in the book. So he was calling everybody, going ‘I gotta read you your part!’ So everyone was calling me going ‘John Waters got the book, how come I don’t have it?’

No one ever came to me and said ‘wow we’re really grateful to you and Gillian for doing this book.’ It was just complaints.”

McNeil went on to co-write another oral history book, 2005’s The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry.

But for that one, he worked with Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia.

In fact, he and McCain didn’t work together again until they co-edited Dear Nobody: The Real Life Diary of Mary Rose, a collection of one teen’s journal entries that came out last year. They then began work on ’69, the Please Kill Me-like oral history of L.A. rock they hope to have finished in two years.

McNeil attributes the long gap between their collaborations to the ragged ending of their work on Please Kill Me. “We were just exhausted,” he says.

“And Gillian hated me. Understandably.

I think she had a nervous breakdown after. I think working with me sent her over the edge.”

But she did come around.

“Well, yeah,” says McNeil, “but after 20 years.” She forgot the hard parts, he says.

And now, on the new book?

McNeil laughs. “I reminded her.”

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ARM SUMMER nights beg for outdoor dining, and Orchard City Kitchen answers the call with a large patio perfect for dinner under colorful umbrellas and twinkling lights.

The New American restaurant from chef Jeffrey Stout (formerly of Alexander’s Steakhouse) opened in November at the Pruneyard in Campbell. It offers a variety of globally influenced small plates, designed for sharing, either on the patio or in the airy and stylish dining room, overlooked by a busy open kitchen.

I’m often wary of restaurants that reach in too many directions for inspiration—it’s a challenge to master one cuisine, let alone a dozen. But Orchard City Kitchen pulls it off, with confident riffs on regional dishes like KFC (Korean fried chicken, $12), the Triple B, biscuits with honey butter and thick sliced bacon ($6), and Chiang Mai sausage, grilled on spears of sugar cane ($13).

The KFC consists of tender, boneless nuggets, fried crispy and tossed in a sauce that perfectly balances sweet and hot. Our order disappeared within minutes, and it’s not a surprise to learn that while the menu changes from week to week, KFC is a permanent fixture.

Ramen “pasta” ($12), with hen of the woods mushrooms and a soft poached egg, is definitely not for purists, but this broth-free version, with springy noodles and a sauce of egg yolk and pecorino, was rich and satisfying. Crab toast ($17) was piled high with fluffy clouds of Dungeness crab, but I preferred the lobster dumplings ($15), served in a generous portion, with tender chunks of lobster in each bite and a simple dressing of chili oil and garlic.

This is bar food at its best, and luckily there’s an extensive house cocktail program to accompany your meal. The Hurricane Kick ($11) blends tequila with the sweet and flowery notes of mixed-berry grenadine and Crème Yvette, underpinned by an herbal splash of the Italian liqueur Averna.

Another Italian liqueur, the bittersweet Cynar, shows up in the Earthworm Jim ($12), along with mezcal, pomegranate and an umami hit from heirloom tomato jam. Orchard City Kitchen also offers a surprisingly deep wine list, divided between the old world and new.

Like many small plates restaurants, the service suffers a bit from pacing problems. A more leisurely pace would better suit Orchard City’s casual vibe.

Despite the restaurant’s name, which harks back to Campbell’s past as an orchard town, the dessert list was surprisingly free of fruit-based options. No matter—the crème brûlée with rock sugar ($6) was well executed and the chocolate marquise with sea salt, extra virgin olive oil and ginger cream ($6) breathed new life into a classic.—Rita Cameron ORCHARD CITY KITCHEN 1875 South Bascom Ave. #190, Campbell. 408.340.5285. orchardcitykitchen.com

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Dont' let the goofy name and garish website fool you: Billy Watson and the International Silver String Submarine Band engage in some seriously legit white-boy blues.

Specializing in classic covers and extended jams, Billy Watson tends to team up with a rotating cast of local musicians as a vehicle for his smoky vocals and his trembling harmonica leads. Though his quirky, upbeat demeanor and light-hearted banter may set him apart from the hardliving bluesmen to whom he pays tribute, once the band starts playing, Watson’s music takes center stage. It goes great with a beer, a pile of wings and the tail end of summer. (JA)

Jerry Rocha paints himself as a "brutally honest," tell-it-like-it-is, angry comic, but watch a few of his clips online and you’ll see that his hackles never really raise much higher than stuff like life in the South and subpar public transportation. That doesn't mean he'll be playing church socials any time soon. He's a Last Comic Standing alum, a Gabriel Iglesias collaborator, and was recently seen on the Conan stage. Rocha will be performing at Roosters four nights in a row, so locals have many chances to catch his over-the-top Southern accent and cultural interpretations of ancillary Star Wars characters. (JA)

“The Greatest Show on Earth” features stomach-curdling tightrope acts, doofy clowns and wild displays from lions, tigers and elephants. This year’s show, “Circus Xtreme,” marks one of the last chances to see Ringling’s elephants in action; responding to shifts in public opinion, the circus has pledged to retire its pachyderms to a conservation center by 2018. The human stars of this show include the Torres Family, a bent bunch of motorcyclists that whip around at 65 mph within a steel sphere. The show promises to combine these modern advancements with the classic entertainment that has captivated American audiences for nearly a century. (JF)

Punk rock is forever. Like, literally, forever. There's a certain strain of the genre that will never, ever, go out of style. Even as the sun is on the verge of swallowing the planet, it’s easy to imagine three kids in a garage—or subterranean fallout shelter— thrashing at their instruments and screaming into a microphone. Pete & Repete aren’t exactly kids, and they're a little more polished than their teenage colleagues, but they are definitely archetypal punk: fastblasted major chords, frantic drums and some pretty dexterous guitar solos. Where else would they be playing but the Caravan, San Jose's perpetual home of cheap booze and good times? (JA)

STRANGELOVE The Ritz, San Jose Fri, 8pm, $15 New wave nostalgia acts always did well at The Blank Club, and they continue to do brisk business at The Ritz. Tribute bands can be hit or miss. Fortunately, Strangelove, is squarely in the hit camp. Less of a tribute band and more of a tribute experience, they not only have Depeche Mode's arsenal of iconic dance-floor jams to work with, they've got the droning, echo-y aura and the brooding stage presence down pat. It's so authentic it almost feels brand new, in that it sounds like every other electropop band on Soundcheck these days. They'll be joined by—who else?— Temptation, a New Order tribute.

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Mashing up ’60s Motown and modern NorCal sounds, these local R&B rockers are led by the swelling, sultry voice of Rachel Mae and supported by a capable crew of grizzly music vets.

Dishing out grounded grooving bass, soaring electric guitar, and swirling organ riffs, the Havens thrive in live settings—swinging from driving, up-tempo rock jams, then down-shifting into slower, methodical ballads. Over the years they’ve built a steady following by demonstrating both pop sensibility and technical prowess, crafting songs that soothe the soul. (JF)

The Ritz #2, San Jose Sat, 8pm, $10 The Ritz is hosting an evening dedicated to women who kick ass. The quirky post-punk band, Wallace, features the stylings of bass savant, Giselle Tran. Snakeskin is a moody and noisy trio led by the multi-talented Snakes Po, whose melancholy wails infuse each song with force. Mother’s Worry is co-led by composer Amanda Mikaelsson, who has captivated the local heavy punk scene with her prowess on the electric bass and mighty organ.

Finally, Sweet Hayah is a San Jose reggae collective currently in the process of recording a new album, which is propelled by the soulful and relentless vocals of Nehal Abuelata. (JF)

WIPEOUT BAY AREA RUN Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose Sat, All Day, $67 The Japanese once had a gameshow called Takeshi’s Castle. It featured physically under-equipped contestants attempting to navigate an obstacle course that would have proven difficult for even the fittest parkour pro. We Americans certainly love catastrophic biffs. And now we have our own version of of Takeshi’s Castle. It’s called Wipeout. The uberpopular reimagining has taken its course on the road and now offers you the chance to get bludgeoned by large bouncy red orbs.

Contestants will be given a T-shirt, wristband and temporary tattoos as they attempt to conquer obstacles like the Big Balls, the Smash Wall, and the Tumble Tubes. (JF)

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SUMMER DRUMS St. James Park, San Jose Sun, 10am, Free St. James Park does not enjoy the most sterling of reputations.

It’s known locally as a hangout for the down and out, and often (incorrectly) cited as the site of California’s last lynching. Still, the verdant plaza is a lovely space to spend a morning. Statues commemorate speeches given

by William McKinley and Robert Kennedy, and the spacious patch of public greenery is the site of a monthly Sunday meetup— “Summer Drums.” At this event, anyone and everyone is invited to participate in interactive percussion performances, a primitive art form that transcends all cultures and continents. (JF)

SCORPIONS & QUEENSRYCHE October 1 at SAP Center

DICK DALE October 17 at The Ritz

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

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‘Cowardy’ Crooning Celebrating A Coward As part of its ‘Noël Coward Festival,’ Stanford Repertory Theater is staging a revue of the British playwright’s best known numbers.

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Stanford Repertory Theater is celebrating his work this season with its Noël Coward Festival: Art, Style & Decadence.

Earlier this summer, the company presented his 1924 comedy-of-manners, Hay Fever, as well as a film series, community symposium and theater course. In addition to his work as a

playwright, Coward was also a successful and prolific songwriter, and Stanford Repertory Theater is now celebrating this side of him with Cowardy Custard, a cabaret-style musical review, currently playing at the university's intimate Nitery Theater. The show gives audiences the chance to enjoy some of Coward's most delectable tunes, live and up close.

For this production, the small theater has been fetchingly decorated as a jazz-age nightclub, complete with candlelit tables, hanging lamps and complimentary beverages (fancy bottled water rather than champagne cocktails).

A marvelous musical trio featuring musical director Makulumy AlexanderHills on piano, Wyatt Smitherman on violin and Christopher Davis on upright bass, provides the orchestration, and is set in the middle of the room, adding

to the speakeasy atmosphere. The musicians are crucial to the show, and they do a great job, with Smitherman's violin an especially pleasing element.

Decked out in glamorously retro gowns and suits, the cast consists of Andre Amarotico (a standout in the aforementioned Hay Fever production), Dante Belletti, Samantha Rose Williams and Ellen Woods. The cast members are strong vocalists, though Williams' style sometimes comes across as a bit too classical and formal in her solo numbers. In order to construct a semblance of a plot, the foursome break the fourth wall and address the audience often, enact arguments over Coward's merits, sprinkle in facts about his work between songs, and develop a sort of love quadrangle. There's no stage to speak of—rather the cast members meander through the audience and sing from various points in the room. And be warned: shy folks may want to sit in the back.

The information on Coward is welcome, though the skit-like bits aren't

necessary and sometimes pretty cheesy.

It's really all about those songs. Coward's canon is full of gems of varied sorts: swoon-worthy love songs (“A Room with a View”), hilariously barbed sociopolitical satire (“Don’t Let's Be Beastly to the Germans”), stirring anthems (“London Pride”), and marvelously silly fluff (“Nina”). He had a way with intricate and ingenious rhymes, with delicious lines woven throughout the lyrics. Listeners are advised to pay close intention, as they also go by quickly.

“The Stately Homes of England,” ridiculing the British gentry, has some of the best quips. For example: “The stately homes of England we proudly represent/We only keep them up for Americans to rent.”

“Mad Dogs and Englishman” is probably Coward's most famous number, a jaunty show tune poking fun at the habits of British colonialists in exotic locales. The SRT cast takes pains to point out that the song isn't considered politically correct today, and tweaks some of the more questionable lines.

In terms of “serious” songs, Coward's masterpiece is “London Pride,” the beautiful, tear-jerking ode to his hometown. Coward, the cast explains, wrote the song in 1941, after watching plucky Londoners going about their lives in the face of the devastation of the Blitz. With a tune based on a traditional folk melody and lyrics commemorating a common flower that blooms in bombsites, Coward created an enduring and spirit-raising rallying cry for his people. The SRT cast delivers a heartfelt version, complete with Union Jacks, and I doubt there was a dry eye in the house.

I'd have saved it for the grand finale, however, as it’s a hard act to follow.

One flaw in the production is that the set list is front-loaded with several of the greatest hits, ending with a series of down-tempo songs that, while lovely, make the show lose momentum. And Coward wrote so many great songs that so brief a show (70 minutes) means some favorites will be left out.

On the whole, though, SRT's Cowardy Custard is, to quote the man himself, “a marvelous party”—a charming tribute to one of the greats.

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HOMEWARD BOUND At the turn of the 19th century, a quarter of a million orphans were sent from New York to new home. This production blends art with history to tell this little-told story. $15-$38.

Sep 18-Oct 11. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

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 30. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company.

San Jose.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV COMEDY Laugh until your stomach hurts at this improv battle of wits, all audience-sourced and suitable for the entire family.

Ongoing. $12-$15. Camera 4, San Jose.

DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE Jean is writing a thank you letter in a quiet cafe when a cell phone won’t stop ringing.

She looks over 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 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.

Sunnyvale Theatre.

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.

THE LION KING 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.

others. Thru Oct 26. “Modern Times” works by O’Keefe, Stieglitz, Toomer. Thru Sep 21.

Stanford.

FIORELLO!

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM

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 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.

*concerts DAYDREAM NATION San Pedro Square Market hosts its monthly last Saturday, alternative concert.

Free. San Pedro Square Market.

San Jose.

MUSIC AT THE MARKET A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized by San Jose Jazz.

Every Fri, 7-9pm. San Pedro Square Market, San Jose.

TOSPS TUESDAYS A weekly showcase of Bay Area’s budding music scene across all genres. Most Tuesdays, 7pm. Thru Dec. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

OFF THE GRID A rotating cast of food trucks and music acts characterize this weekly event. Sat. Free Computer History Museum.

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

San Jose.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM Various art and photography created by students at De Anza College. Cupertino.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “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.

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 “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 six local artists in response to overcommercialization and rapid production. Thru Sep 6. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

WEST SIDE STORY: City Lights Theater Company presents the classic Broadway musical through Aug. 30.

ANNO DOMINI “We Are Savages” Signpainting art by Ken Davis.

San Jose.

ART ARK GALLERY “Elemental,” Artists interpretations of Water, Earth, Air & Fire. Thru Sept 9. San Jose.Art Boutiki Monthly Midtown Beat Show.

San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan.

Mon-Sat, 1-6pm. 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.

CUKUI JP Neang. Sep 11. San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “San Shui,” paintings by Russell Altice Case. San Jose.

EMPIRE SEVEN STUDIOS Colin Frangicetto and Drew Roulette. Thru Sep. San Jose.

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

“Summer Sculpture Event” metal, stone, and wood workings by local artists. Thru Sep 13. Woodside.

FIRST TO MARKET RESTAURANT

GALLERY HOUSE “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.

San Jose.

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

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. San Jose.

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

"Art Lifer" by Alfredo Reyes and Debbie Doherty with music from DJ Mystik Mike.

“Assemble!” a MESHcollective show. Works by various artists.

San Jose.

PACIFIC ART LEAGUE “Figures and Faces”. Thru Aug 27. Palo Alto.

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

Thru Aug 30. Palo Alto.

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WORKS SAN JOSE Pieces from Benefit Art Auction. San Jose.

Watercolors by Made’ Sukerti Berg. San Jose.

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Works by John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, John Hageman and Robert McColley. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Red Rooms” Hyper-artificial environments playing with

The circus is crazy. They got people doing flips in motorcycles and standing on wires. Elephants kickin’ balls around and standing on their hind legs. It’s a great time.

Just go. Aug 20-30, various times, $30-$100. SAP Center.

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Lost and Lusting TANGLED TRIANGLE In ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl,’ Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard) is sleeping with Minnie (Bel Powley), the daughter of his girlfriend, Charlotte (Kristin Wiig).

‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ tells the tale of a particularly complicated relationship

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SKED HOW ANYONE could ever make a movie of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov said, “Let them hire a dwarfess.” For the evocative if sweetened adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s semiautobiographical book, Diary of a Teenage Girl, director Marielle Heller cast the British actress Bel Powley.

Powley, 23, plays Gloeckner’s 15-year-old heroine, Minnie Goetz. She’s of small stature, all fluffy hair and big

yearning eyes. She’s rounded and fragile, but childishly rambunctious as she stands on a hassock or bounces on a bed to admire the details of her room.

Minnie’s first lover is her mother’s boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard). He’s a perfect representative of this time (1975 or so) and place (San Francisco), when the fanciest men were not expected to do all that much, either in the realm of work or in love. The first-person point of view belongs to Minnie, even though all the power in her first sexual relationship is held by Monroe.

It’s scandalous material, but Heller takes the sensationalism out of this not untypical memoir of the way the adult/teenager barrier was breached

in the 1970s. Maybe the outrage is thin, because there’s a long cinematic history of such stories, from Bonjour Tristesse to Beau Pere to Wish You Were Here. Gloeckner—a memoirist and cartoonist of great merit—has been busy in interviews, having to explain that the scandal isn’t in the statutory rape of an avid-forexperience 15-year-old girl by her mother’s boyfriend (20 years older, yet very immature for his age). The artist and writer has been stressing that the real shame of Minnie’s experience was in the way the liaison broke up the trust between daughter and mother.

Minnie’s laissez-faire, very ’70s mom, Charlotte (as in Charlotte Haze, Lolita’s mother?), is played by Kristin Wiig—proving once again why she’s one of the most important actresses working today. When the cat is finally out of the bag, Wiig interprets this betrayal in terms of a mother’s traditional outraged

decency, demanding that the scoundrel marry her daughter.

Skarsgaard is excellent—playing a man quite unaware of what’s going on in Minnie’s head, and only truly concerned with not getting caught.

His Monroe is a weakling of a guy who lets things happen to him. He tries to wrap himself in strength by becoming another sucker for the “human potential movement” est trainings. This doesn’t make his resolve any firmer when Minnie suggests that the opportunistic sexual fling they have between them is a real romance: “I think we should talk about our relationship,” she tells him.

In drawings and photographs, Gloeckner has a penetrating gaze (one of her comics had the unapologetic title “On Being Too Intense”). Powley is brave and unselfconscious—it’s a winning performance—but even if she imagines herself as a cartoon firebird in one of the film’s animated sequences, Powley is kind of a downy bird. In drawings and photos, Gloeckner looks more like a raptor.

Gloeckner’s survived the entire debacle with the help of a mentor— as we see here, she had some correspondence and a lot of imaginary conversation with cartoonist Aline Kominsky. It’s good to see Kominsky getting her due as one of the very first autobiographical cartoonists, to say nothing of being one of the first women to write about her sexual experiences in cartoon form.

This film version of Diary is episodic—it doesn’t have much shape.

But this movie gets Gloeckner’s invaluable point of view to the mass audience. The ’70s décor of funky Victoriana is caught completely, from the jungle of ferns making a lagoon out of a clawfoot bathtub, to the scarfs dangled over the living room lamp, so that the light doesn’t hurt dissipated eyes. Anyone who dawdled through that dangerous time, and that dangerous age, will see a reflection of their own experiences.

They’ll remember things they swore they’d never forget, and somehow did.

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WEST COAST REPRESENTED F. Gary Gray’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’ follows the rise of N.W.A.

‘Straight’ Gangsta THE NEW BIOPIC Straight Outta Compton, which chronicles the rise of gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A. (an abbreviation of Niggaz Wit Attitudes), may deserve an acronym of its own: MWP, for “movie with platitudes.”

The engrossing, but seemingly endless, Straight Outta Compton by F. Gary Gray condenses more than a decade in the careers of Dr. Dre and Co. They start up in a South Central nightclub in the waning days of disco—vinyl on the record players, white acetate busboy-like jackets of those who work there.

Repelled, Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) executes what must have been the very first mic drop on stage. Later, after a vicious rousting by the Torrance cops, N.W.A. composes “Fuck Tha Police.” It becomes a national hit and a matter for investigation by the FBI.

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Aiding their career is a hustling promoter, Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti), dewy eyed with sentiment, treating Eric “Eazy-E” Wright (Jason Mitchell) like a son (or like a catamite, if you believe Ice Cube’s Jew-baiting battle-rap “No Vaseline”). Meanwhile, the hulking Suge Knight (R. Marcus Taylor) waits for the spoils, rubbing his palms and licking his lips.

Straight Outta Compton has admirable forward thrust, especially during the opening scenes of the paramilitary LAPD in the days before the South Central riots. This movie has a readymade relevance to the police violence nationwide today. But it also makes the usual rounds of the showbiz bio—strife with other members, trouble with the law, terminal illness and record company Straight Outta people Compton who say things R; 147 Mins. like, “The Valleywide contracts are being finalized as we speak.”

This leaves little time for romance, and this may be the only non-Australian movie I’ve seen that considers women essentially a separate species, divided into hos and hard-slapping moms. I hate the game, but I don’t hate the players: Jackson, the actual son of Ice Cube, is the real standout and shows what his father was like before he became the guy from Are We There Yet? If Mitchell’s humor and ease keep the movie buoyant, all of Compton’s best scenes seem enlightened by Jackson’s acting.—Richard von Busack

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‘ILLUSORY’ POTPOURRI On their new album, ‘All Is Illusory,’ Santa Rosa trio, The Velvet Teen, bring together sonic scraps in a chamber-pop pastiche.

The Velvet Teen return with new full-length album, ‘All Is Illusory’

BY NICK VERONIN

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UDAH NAGLER doesn’t like to repeat himself.

In an effort to keep things fresh, the founder and frontman of the Santa Rosa-based baroqueindie-pop trio, The Velvet Teen, says he once wrote a song on a left-handed guitar—which he played upside-down and righthanded—Dick Dale-style.

“I personally get bored hearing a band do the same album over and

over again or the same song over and over again,” Nagler explains, speaking from his band’s tour bus, which is making its way from Santa Fe to Phoenix, and eventually to San Jose, where The Velvet Teen is set to play Café Stritch this Thursday. “One of my personal goals is to not repeat what I’m doing—or as a band what we’re doing—as much as possible. If I can find ways to confuse myself or get back to a beginner’s mind, that helps me with my own part of it.”

While fans of The Velvet Teen may not be able to pick out Nagler’s flipped guitar fingering, most should be able to hear the major shifts the band has gone through on each of its full-length albums. From the

straight-ahead arrangements of 2002’s Out of the Fierce Parade, on to the slow, no-guitars-allowed, pianoand-strings plodding on 2004’s Elysium, and then to the glitchy, punked-up progressions on 2006’s Cum Laude!, Nagler and Co. have worked diligently to create a diverse discography.

So it’s no wonder Nagler says he is “very excited” to be on the road behind his band’s brand new LP, All Is Illusory, released at the end of June.

“It’s awesome,” he says of bringing the new music to fans. It’s The Velvet Teen’s first full-length album in nearly a decade. It’s also the first LP since the death of the group’s founding drummer, Logan Whitehurst, who died of brain cancer in December 2006, just six months after the release of Cum Laude!

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prior catalogue. Rather, it is a collage—an amalgamation of all the disparate sounds Nagler and his band mates have played with over the years.

The album’s title track, along with the sprawling, nearly 11 minutes of “Taken Over,” are reminiscent of Elysium; while Illusory’s opener, “Sonreo,” recalls the frenetic twitch of “Gyzm Kid” from Cum Laude!; and the straightforward punkyness of “Eclipses” sounds like something that might have come from Fierce Parade.

Nagler says he was happy to have the building blocks already in place this time around. It meant that he didn’t have to master a new instrument—as he did with the piano on Elysium and as he did with electronics on Cum Laude!

“It was cool to have the perspective and not have everything being so completely new, but still trying to do something new with that,” Nagler says, explaining that on All Is Illusory, he was able to take all the disparate sounds and sonic explorations of albums past and throw them into a blender— powered by the athleticism of the band’s drummer, Casey Deitz.

“Playing with Casey has opened up an entirely one of a kind type of world,” Nagler says. “In my mind there is nobody that plays like him.”

If Nagler was responsible for originally shaping the sonic building blocks and Deitz minced them, then the production duo of Steve Choi and Roger Camero deserve a great deal of the credit for helping glue it all back together into the cohesive whole of All Is Illusory. Choi played in Rx Bandits, Camero played in No Motiv—and both, together with Deitz, played in a band called Peace’d Out. “Steve just has really great ears when it comes to the details of things,” Nagler says, recalling the Illusory recording sessions. “I remember when we were tracking drums, he was listening to the tuning of the toms and making sure things were staying consistent throughout.”

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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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Thu, Aug 20, 9pm: The Velvet Teens, Isles, Starover Blue. Fri, Aug 21, 9pm: Rachel Mae & the Havens, Ghost & the City, Shayna Rain & the Part Time Models. Sat, Aug 22, 7pm: Peter Zak Quartet. Every Sun: The Eulipions Jazz Jam. San Jose.

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Thu, Aug 20, 7pm: Mary Ellen Duell Trio. Fri, Aug 21, 7pm: Son Chevere. Sat, Aug 22, 7pm: AlďŹ e & XS. Sun, Aug 23, 1pm: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE Fri, Aug 21, 6pm: Dierks Bentley, Kip Moore, Maddie and Tae, & Canaan Smith. Sat, Aug 22, 7pm: Joe Bonamassa.

Sun, Aug 23, 7pm: Kelly Clarkson, Pentatonix, & Eric Hutchinson. Mountain View.

THE X BAR Every Thu: No Cover night.

Every Sat: Saturday Nite Live Music Show. Cupertino.

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CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Fri, Aug 21, 8pm: Somos El Son. Sat, Aug 22, 8pm: Zeppelin Live. Redwood City.

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MOSAIC Fri-Sat, 6-9pm: Jazz for dinner. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/ Sid Morris & Kyle Jester. Thu, Aug 20, 6pm: Sam One Blues Band. Fri, Aug 21, 6pm: Bey Paule Orchestra. Sat, Aug 22, 6pm: Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Sun, Aug 23, 3pm: Super Soul Brothers. San Jose.

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Kendall Sallay and Dirk Milotz founded what would ultimately become Starover Blue in 2007. Both were in the music department at San Jose State University at the time—Sallay was studying opera, Milotz was pursuing a degree in composition.

They bonded over Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel and other bands at the dividing line of “alternative” and “indie.”

Back then they called themselves Cartoon Bar Fight, and they played a bouncy brand of indie-folk—not unlike many of their contemporaries. “I don’t know how it happens,” Sallay says, reflecting on the style of music that she, Milotz, and the rest of her band hit upon in the late aughts. “That sort of became the sound of that time.”

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But that was then.

Eventually, both Sallay and Milotz would leave the music department. She went into gender studies and he went into engineering and computer science. Both had similar reasons for giving up on music as a major, Sallay says. “It was making the music too mathematical. When you analyze pieces of music in the same way that you would look at a math problem, you inevitably strip the music away.”

It would seem, however, that neither Sallay nor Milotz were able to shake their interest in the technical side of composition. Their forthcoming LP, Spacegeist, finds the band with a new name—taken from a character in a Nabokov novel—and a new sound. Where the group once favored folky instrumentation, acoustic arrangements and 4/4 time signatures, they are now incorporating synthesizers, looking to the Romantic composer Frederic Chopin for guidance on chord progressions and incorporating tricky rhythms..

Now that they have this new spacey sound and a little bit of buzz in the local blogosphere, they are making plans to push their band forward in a city with an appropriately progressive music scene—San Jose.

“We will not be moving to San Francisco,” Sallay says. “I just think it would be really impractical. A lot of musicians are having to move out of the city already.”

Plus, Sallay adds, she’s excited about “being a band coming from an area that’s trying so hard to make something happen.”

“We’re really interested to see how these new clubs opening up in San Jose impact the scene here,” she says. “We want to be a part of that.”—Nick Veronin

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BLUE EVOLUTION Starover Blue, formerly Cartoon Bar Fight,

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There’s playing hard to get, and then there’s being impossible to locate. The first is a canny strategy; the second is casual cruelty in action. In this case, after three months of dating, a breakup phone call (in lieu of face-to-face) would have been semi-appropriate. A text would have been better than nothing. A telegram would at least have had historical flair. Yet, there you were, repeatedly trying to track him down and getting the reception most of us give random collect calls from “guests” in the long-term bed-and-breakfasts known as federal prisons.

As for your toying with the absolutely absurd notion of dating him again, your slacker of a brain is partly to blame. Admittedly, our brains require a lot of energy to operate, so they like to take energy-saving shortcuts whenever they can. They do this with what I call “thinkpacks”—the brain’s version of those Lunchables combo boxes— prepackaged thinking sets that allow us to act automatically (without thinking through every last little detail).

But in psychologically complicated situations, these mental shortcuts can get us in trouble. Take the state that

social psychologist Leon Festinger named “cognitive dissonance”—our simultaneously holding contradictory beliefs, such as “He’s not that into me!” and ”He’d make a great boyfriend!”

Well, the inconsistency makes us very uncomfortable, so the mind wants to smooth it out pronto. So, easy peasy, no problemo—it typically just up and erases whichever belief goes most poorly with our ego. Unfortunately, reality isn’t so simply dispensed with, and before long, “He’s not that into me!” is back and “He’d make a great boyfriend!” is face-down in the storm drain behind the dive bar.

A way to avoid reality erasing is by getting in the habit of “metacognition”— basically, thinking about your thinking.

The guy who came up with the term, developmental psychologist John Flavell, called it “a kind of quality control.” In this case, you unpack your thinking about this guy: “He’d make a great boyfriend!” and your belief that things could be different.

Lay those out on the bed next to the facts—how he behaved—because what you do reflects who you are and what you’re likely to do in the future. In other words, what you can trust about this guy is that you can’t trust him to show even the most minimal concern for your feelings—not with even so much as a poop emoji goodbye.

I’m a 28-year-old guy, newly single after the end of my relationship from college, and all of my dates have been busts. I ask girls out, and they say yes, but I must be doing something wrong on first dates, because I can’t seem to score a second one.

Like, ever. They go out with me once, and goodbye. I’m a gentleman, enthusiastic, complimentary, affectionate. What could be the problem?—Puzzled There’s a chance you’re overdoing it in the Enthusiastic! Complimentary!

Affectionate! department. (It’s good to keep a woman guessing a little, but not, “Am I on a date, or is this guy trying to enroll me in a pyramid scheme?”)

Consider “the principle of least interest,” sociologist Willard Waller’s term for how, in any relationship, the person who shows the least interest has the most power.

Conversely, the person who comes on with all the subtle nonchalance of a “Cash For

Gold!” sign spinner—especially before they even know the other person—has the aura of a needy suck-up.

Try something: Cool it on your next five dates. This doesn’t mean acting catatonic.

It just means waiting to see whether a woman actually is exciting and worth getting to know, as opposed to being excited by her mere presence: “Wow—to be out with a real woman! I usually just have candlelit dinners with a pillow with a wig on it!”

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CECIL@METRONEWS.COM I heard from one of the local ambulance chasers that medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death. Can that many deaths be blamed on doctors and hospitals? My hunch is someone pulled the number in question completely out of their ass.—John Hang on. Before we peer into where this idea got pulled out of, let’s get our terms straight. Medical malpractice isn’t what kills you, it’s what your survivors accuse the doctor of when they’re trying to collect damages. Only about 11,000 such claims are paid out in the U.S. each year, they’re costly to pursue and hard to prove, and nearly 60 percent of total compensation goes to “administrative fees” (read: lawyers), so malpractice lawsuits aren’t a leading get-rich scheme.

No, the thing you’ll see cited among the top causes of death is medical errors, also known in the literature as “preventable adverse events”—when medical personnel do the wrong thing, or fail to do the right thing, or do the right thing but do it wrong. This can take the form of misdiagnosis, or miscommunication between various healthcare providers, or between providers and patient.

And it does happen with some regularity, and patients do die. How many, though? The report that really wound everyone up on this issue was released in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine, titled To Err Is Human. It relied in part on a study of 30,000 records from New York hospitals in 1984, which researchers used to calculate the rate of adverse events per hospitalization (3.7 percent), how many were due to negligence (27.6 percent), and how many led to death (13.6 percent), and then weighted the numbers to estimate figures for the state overall. What the IOM authors did was to extrapolate these results to the total number of U.S. hospital admissions in 1997, 33.6 million, arriving at a high-end figure of 98,000 deaths and thus enabling the claim that medical error was the fifth leading cause of death for that year.

In 2013, a NASA toxicologist turned patients’ rights crusader presented a new report based on more recent hospital data and came up with an even scarier estimate: 400,000-plus deaths due to preventable harm—good for a theoretical third place on the causes-of-death list, right behind cancer.

But even if the raw numbers behind the reports were absolutely correct, assigning all these deaths to medical error doesn’t really make sense. As critics of the 1999 report pointed out, that 13.6 percent of patients who died in the New York study

all had life-threatening conditions in the first place, but the authors never establish a baseline rate for how many would have died anyway. Both the 1999 and 2013 reports get some of their data from tertiary hospitals—i.e., where people wind up when their problems are so complicated they’ve already seen two other doctors.

Both also analyze a significant number of Medicaid patients, who tend to have a notably high rate of comorbidity (multiple ongoing health troubles)—making their risk of death within a month of hospital admittance 40 percent greater than the general population’s. A medical error is still a medical error, but these higher baseline death risks have to be accounted for before drawing major conclusions about causality.

Beyond that, errors may just be part of the game. The theory of “normal accidents,” introduced by Charles Perrow in 1984 and applied to disasters like the meltdown at Three Mile Island and later the Challenger crash, describes serious accidents that occur in complex, high-risk systems as being a result of “multiple failures that are not in a direct operational sequence.” Basically, the idea is that as small errors occur independently in different areas of the system, they’ll ultimately interact with each other in ways that are more or less impossible to prevent or respond to appropriately. It’s unfortunate, and particularly in the case of medical care often tragic, but that’s the reality when the process is complicated and the stakes are high.

Obviously, hospitals still need to minimize mistakes, and evidence suggests a little prevention can go a long way. Two years ago a Milwaukee hospital modified their ID wristbands for not-yet-named newborns to include the mother’s first name as a secondary identifier—rather than “Babygirl Smith” (as it would appear in most of the country’s neonatal ICUs) a kid’s wristband might read “Sarahsgirl Smith.” The apparent result: a 36 percent reduction in wrong-patient orders.

Not all fixes are this simple, of course, and if nothing else both these reports effectively bring to light the dangers inherent in our healthcare system. But that doesn’t mean we’re all doomed every time the steak knife slips and we have to go in for stitches.

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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)

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)

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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)

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 #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)

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607877 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eye Level Learning Center, 236 N. Abel St., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Apollo Consulting LLC. 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 8/1/2015. /s/Kane Wong Managing Member #201517310150 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/10/2015. (pub Metro 8/19, 8/26, 9/02, 9/09/2015)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): You'd probably prefer to stay in the romantic, carefree state of mind. But from what I can tell, you're ripe for a new phase of your long-term cycle. Your freestyle rambles and jaunty adventures should now make way for careful introspection and thoughtful adjustments. Instead of restless star-gazing, I suggest patient earthgazing. Despite how it may initially appear, it's not a comedown. In fact, I see it as an unusual reward that will satisfy you in unexpected ways.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In accordance with the current astrological omens, I recommend the following activities: Sing a love song at least once a day. Seek a message from an ancestor in a reverie or dream. Revisit your three favorite childhood memories. Give a gift or blessing to the wildest part of you. Swim naked in a river, stream, or lake. Change something about your home to make it more sacred and mysterious. Obtain a symbolic object or work of art that stimulates your courage to be true to yourself. Find relaxation and renewal in the deep darkness. Ruminate in unbridled detail about how you will someday fulfill a daring fantasy.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad is one of the foundation works of Western literature. Written in the eighth century BCE, it tells the story of the 10-year Trojan War. The cause of the conflict was the kidnap of Helen of Troy, reputed to be the world's most beautiful woman. And yet nowhere in the Iliad is there a description of Helen's beauty. We hear no details about why she deserves to be at the center of the legendary saga. Don't be like the Iliad in the coming weeks, Gemini. Know everything you can about the goal at the center of your life. Be very clear and specific and precise about what you're fighting for and working toward.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The comedian puppets known as the Muppets have made eight movies. In The Great Muppet Caper, the muppets Kermit and Fozzie play brothers, even though one is a green frog and the other a brown bear. At one point in the story, we see a photo of their father, who has the coloring and eyes of Kermit, but a bear-like face. I bring up their unexpected relationship, Cancerian, because I suspect that a similar anomaly might be coming your way: a bond with a seemingly improbable ally. To prepare, stretch your ideas about what influences you might want to connect with.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): English author Barbara Cartland published her first novel at age 21. By the time she died 77 years later, she had written more than 700 other books. Some sources say she sold 750 million copies, while others put the estimate at two billion. In 1983 alone, she churned out 23 novels. I foresee a Barbara Cartland-type period for you in the coming months, Leo. Between now and your birthday in 2016, I expect you to be as fruitful in your own field as you have ever been. And here's the weird thing: One of the secrets of your productivity will be an enhanced ability to chill out.

"Relaxed intensity" will be your calming battle cry.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): ''On or about December 1910, human character changed,'' wrote English author Virginia Woolf in 1924. What prompted her to draw that conclusion? The rapidly increasing availability of electricity, cars, and indoor plumbing? The rise of the women's suffrage movement? Labor unrest and the death of the King? The growing prominence of art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse, and Picasso? The answer might be all of the above, plus the beginning of a breakdown in the British class system. Inspired by the current astrological omens, I'll borrow her brash spirit and make a new prediction: During the last 19 weeks of 2015, the destiny of the Virgo tribe will undergo a fundamental shift. Ten years from now, I bet you will look back at this time and say, "That was when everything got realigned, redeemed, and renewed."

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble," said psychologist Carl Jung. "They can never be solved, but only outgrown." I subscribe to that model of dealing with dilemmas, and I hope you will consider it, too—especially in light of the fact that from now until July 2016 you will have more power than ever before to outgrow two of your biggest problems. I don't guarantee that you will transcend them completely, but

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I'm confident you can render them at least 60 percent less pressing, less imposing, and less restricting. And 80 percent is quite possible.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Hundreds of years ago, Hawaiians celebrated an annual holiday called Makahiki. It began in early November and lasted four months. No one worked very much for the duration.

There were nonstop feasts and games and religious ceremonies. Community-building was a featured theme, and one taboo was strictly enforced: No war or bloodshed. I encourage you Scorpios to enjoy a similar break from your daily fuss. Now is an especially propitious time to ban conflict, contempt, revenge, and sabotage as you cultivate solidarity in the groups that are important for your future. You may not be able to make your own personal Makahiki last for four months, but could you at least manage three weeks?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Located in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Museum of Failed Products is a warehouse full of consumer goods that companies created but no one wanted to buy. It includes caffeinated beer, yogurt shampoo, fortune cookies for dogs, and breath mints that resemble vials of crack cocaine. The most frequent visitors to the museum are executives seeking to educate themselves about what errors to avoid in their own companies' future product development. I encourage you to be inspired by this place, Sagittarius. Take an inventory of the wrong turns you've made in the past. Use what you learn to create a revised master plan.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Virtually all of us have been guilty of embodying that well-worn adage. And according to my analysis of the astrological omens, quite a few of you Capricorns are currently embroiled in this behavior pattern. But I am happy to report that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to quit your insanity cold turkey. In fact, the actions you take to escape this bad habit could empower you to be done with it forever. Are you ready to make a heroic effort? Here's a good way to begin: Undo your perverse attraction to the stressful provocation that has such a seductive hold on your imagination.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it," confessed the late, great author David Foster Wallace. Does that describe your experience, too? If so, events in the coming months will help you break the pattern. More than at any other time in the last ten years, you will have the power to liberate yourself through surrender. You will understand how to release yourself from overwrought attachment through love and grace rather than through stress and force.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Most people love in order to lose themselves," wrote Hermann Hesse in his novel Demian. But there are a few, he implied, who actually find themselves through love. In the coming months, Pisces, you are more likely to be one of those rare ones. In fact, I don't think it will even be possible for you to use love as a crutch. You won't allow it to sap your power or make you forget who you are. That's good news, right? Here's the caveat: You must be ready and willing to discover much more about the true nature of your deepest desires—some of which may be hidden from you right now.

Homework: Were you told there's a certain accomplishment you'll never be capable of?

Ready to prove that curse wrong? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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