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Flag Fight Ted Osius, the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, paid a visit to San Jose’s City Hall earlier this summer, and since that time pretty much all hell has broken loose. In a letter sent to PRESIDENT OBAMA last week, San Jose councilmen MANH NGUYEN and TAM NGUYEN (no relation) called out Osius for wearing a communist red flag on his lapel, an affront to many who were forced to flee Vietnam after the fall of Saigon.

Osius also apparently refused to be photographed with the South Vietnam Freedom Flag, which is yellow with horizontal red stripes, due to the diplomatic strain it could cause with communist leaders. And to add a scoach more contentiousness, NGOC MINH DO, a local Vietnamese activist, was told by an event staffer that she needed to remove a lanyard featuring the U.S. and yellow flags, just to make sure there was no photobombing. “The They Ambassador’s blatant Did disregard for the What? values of VietnameseAmericans shows his SEND TIPS TO O lack of both leadership FLY@ and courage,” Manh and WSS. METRONEWS. COM Tam wrote to Obama.

The backlash has since pivoted on who exactly told Do to lose the lanyard. At first many laid blame at the feet of San Jose Councilman\ ASH KALRA, who helped organize the event, but that turned out to be false.

Sources have since confirmed the strident staffer is JENNIE AYAP, who works in the office of Congressman MIKE HONDA. What makes the situation all the more perplexing— or hypocritical—is that Honda and colleague Rep. ZOE LOFGREN fired off a letter to Secretary of State JOHN KERRY after the event excoriating Osius’ actions. This could just be another example of Honda not knowing what his staffers are up to—he did, after all, blame his chief of staff for what’s now become a congressional ethics probe— or it could be part of a larger pattern of willful ignorance.

Meat in the Middle CHEESIN’ Kite Hill wants to be the ‘antithesis’ of what people expect from lab-produced vegan food.

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little more than decade ago, Pat Brown made the switch from vegetarian to vegan.

He had no problem changing his diet and giving up eggs and milk and other products derived from animals. But there was one thing he couldn’t live without: cheese.

Most vegan cheeses are made from oils or ground up nuts, but Brown wanted something authentic. A microbiologist who has taught at Stanford for 25 years, he was well aware of the relatively simple biochemical reactions required to produce cheese. Perhaps, he thought, the same process could be replicated using almond milk. He went back to his lab,

determined to become the first person to make cheese curd from almond milk.

And he succeeded.

But to get his cheese to taste good, like the ones he yearned for after tightening up his diet, he teamed up with celebrity vegan chef Tal Ronnen and Monte Casino, an artisan cheese maker at Le Cordon Bleu in Boston. In 2011, Kite Hill, a company that produces plant-based dairy products, was born.

“We make cheese the way normal cheese is made,” says Matthew Sade, CEO of Kite Hill, which is based in Hayward.

“We make our own [almond] milk, then we take enzymes and cultures that cause the milk to form a curd—and that’s the way cheese is made. We are the antithesis of what people think of with food created in a laboratory.”

The company now creates a variety of plant-based dairy products, including soft ripened cheese, ricotta cheese, cream cheese and mushroom ricotta ravioli.

Kite Hill’s faux cheese is part of an industry shift in Silicon Valley to develop plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy staples. Unlike meat substitutes of the past, such as tofu and tempeh, these products aim to look, feel and—most importantly—taste just like the real thing, so that even carnivores can’t tell the difference.

In addition to Kite Hill, Silicon Valley investors have thrown their money behind Beyond Meat, a Los Angeles company that sells plant-based burgers, chicken strips and meatballs; San Francisco’s Hampton Creek, which makes vegan eggs, mayonnaise and cookie dough; Redwood City’s Impossible Foods, which has created a meatless burger that “bleeds” on the grill; and San Francisco’s Clara Foods, which is developing chicken-less egg whites. And Peter Thiel’s foundation, Breakout Labs, is funding the Brooklyn-based company Modern Meadow, which is working to develop 3D printed meat.

It’s important to mimic the foods people already love as a way to “lower the barriers to adoption,” Kite Hill’s Sade says. “There’s a basic belief that

cheese with plant-based ingredients.

Rather, the company uses genetic engineering to recreate the exact proteins of cowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk cheeseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but from yeast. Clara Foods, based in San Francisco, is using a similar process to create its egg whites.

These plant-based foods may provide some beneďŹ ts to health, the environment and animal welfare, but food experts are skeptical that technology and consumer products alone are the solution to the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s broken food system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In their rush to replace existing proteins, do they also rush to replicate the same level of processed foods that we should also be coming down on?â&#x20AC;? says McCarthy of Slow Food, noting items such as Beyond Meatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beast Burger, which contains more than 30 ingredients, many of which are chemicals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Social change through shopping is okay up to a certain point, but there are limitations.â&#x20AC;?

Marc Julle, co-founder of Real Vegan Cheese, also recognizes that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a risk in only looking to technology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Relying too much on this high technology in order to make your basic food products could be a terrible idea,â&#x20AC;? he says, adding that it centralizes control over what gets eaten and who has access to it.

Ann Thrupp, executive director of the UC Berkeley Food Institute, worries that many meat substitutes are just â&#x20AC;&#x153;a fad for the elite consumers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really trying to make something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accessible, that could be a potential substitute, it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cost $10 a pound,â&#x20AC;? she says. Four ounces of Kite Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soft fresh original cheese, for instance, costs $9.99 at Whole Foods. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of the broken food system is a matter of lack of access to healthy foods for all sectors of society, including lowincome,â&#x20AC;? Thrupp says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So often people jump onto new food fads, whether it be pomegranate or acai, chia seeds, ďŹ&#x201A;ax seeds or all kinds of things that are blown out of proportion that are going to save the world.â&#x20AC;?

But Sade doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect the plantbased foods trend to fade anytime soon, noting that there are â&#x20AC;&#x153;tectonic shiftsâ&#x20AC;? currently taking place in the way people view and consume food. He believes products like Kite Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will eventually replace animal-based dairy entirely. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only question is: At what point will plant-based foods become the primary source of protein in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diets? I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the question is when.â&#x20AC;?

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if you give people something that is familiar to themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;looks like cheese, smells like cheese and hopefully tastes like cheeseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that even if you tell them that this didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come from an animal, it came from plants, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still be able to accept the premise.â&#x20AC;?

Richard McCarthy, executive director of Slow Food USA, has seen the market for meat and dairy substitutes evolve in the 35 years heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been vegetarian. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The quest to stay clear of animal products has opened up a whole new subset of the market,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are now whole other ďŹ&#x201A;avors and tastes that look like something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re familiar with, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just something different.â&#x20AC;?

The average American eats approximately 275 pounds of meat, 600 pounds of dairy and 250 eggs per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but consumption of animal products has been in decline over the past decade. Researchers have cited the growing popularity of plant-based diets as well as rising concerns over the ethical, health and environmental implications of eating meat.

Livestock production is one major contributor to climate change, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, accounting for nearly one-ďŹ fth of greenhouse gas emissionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than cars, airplanes and all other forms of transportation combined. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t contaminate the water, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t contaminate the air, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t occupy a third of the landmass on earth to produce animal products that are harmful to your health,â&#x20AC;? Sade says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty compelling in my book.â&#x20AC;?

Another motivation for many to go vegan has been food safety.

Clara Foods CEO Arturo Elizondo says one of the inspirations behind his companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to develop a chicken-less egg white was the recent avian ďŹ&#x201A;u outbreak, which â&#x20AC;&#x153;exacerbated the pricing problem and raised serious concerns around food safety.â&#x20AC;?

Food activists such as Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, Alice Waters and the group Slow Food have advocated for traditional, low-tech ways to solve some of these problems. And while there are many efforts for people to grow their own garden, eat more plants, buy locally and cook more, many new companies are taking a different approach by instead turning to high technology.

Real Vegan Cheese, which, like Kite Hill, grew out of an Oakland lab, does not replicate the process of making

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An inside look at San Jose politics

Courts Offer Amnesty for Ticketed Drivers

PAY TO STAY Mike Honda has used campaign funds to pay legal bills for his House ethics probe.

Honda Ethics Probe Report Due Thursday BY JOSH KOEHN We already know Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) has spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars to defend himself from a House ethics investigation. No later than Thursday we’ll learn if he’ll need to keep throwing cash at the problem.

Late last year, San Jose Inside published emails from a former employee in Honda’s office that showed the seven-term congressman’s House staff and political campaign coordinated on official events to line up influential South Asian donors.

Other emails showed that Honda had his congressional staff conduct a variety of personal errands on his behalf, and his chief of staff, Jennifer Van Der Heide, routinely signed campaign-related emails with her professional title. All of these actions are prohibited by House rules.

The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) launched a review based on a complaint filed by supporters of

Ro Khanna, who lost a close race to Honda in 2014 and is challenging him again in 2016. The OCE then voted this spring to pass its findings on to the House Committee on Ethics, which stated it would delve further into the matter and deliver a report no later than Thursday.

Sources close to the situation say that at least three people who initially declined to meet with OCE investigators—for fear of retribution from Honda and his supporters—want to meet with the House committee if ordered via a subpoena, but they have yet to be contacted again.

The House Committee on Ethics could announce the creation of a subcommittee to continue the investigation for up to a year, or delay the release of its report if it were to receive a request from an outside law enforcement agency, such as the Department of Justice.

A prolonged investigation would

certainly damage Honda’s re-election efforts, but not just in image. Recent campaign disclosure filings show he hired three firms that specialize in congressional investigations at a cost of more than $65,000 for just the first six months of this year.

Not long after the OCE recommended a looking further into alleged improprieties between Honda’s campaign and House staff, San Jose Inside asked his campaign spokesman, Adam Alberti, to confirm if campaign funds were used to pay the legal bills of people other than Honda. Alberti wrote in an email, “In case you are confused still, full compliance includes the congressman and his staff.”

Of course, with a report expected

by Thursday, all of this could be moot if the House Committee on Ethics decides to drop the investigation, leaving the story to die just days before the Labor Day weekend media dump.

Drivers buried in mounting traffic fines can catch a break under an amnesty program that starts next month.

Gov. Jerry Brown called for the grace period amid growing concerns that traffic courts—which he called “a hellhole of desperation”—trap people in poverty with steep fines for even minor infractions.

Brown’s plan will allow drivers with lesser infractions to pay as little as 20 percent of what they owe and have their driver’s license reinstated.

Administrative fees will drop from $300 to $50.

Santa Clara County Superior Court will send out notices about the program before rolling it out Oct. 1, according to spokesman Joe Macaluso.

Since 2006, more than 4.8 million people have had their driver’s licenses suspended because they can’t afford to pay court-ordered penalties. Legal aid groups have called this a civil rights issue, noting that it affects predominantly poor and minority residents.

State analysts expect the 18-month amnesty to rake in $150 million in fees that might otherwise have gone uncollected. Unpaid traffic penalties have burgeoned to more than $10 billion.—Jennifer Wadsworth

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Make Moves TOUCH AND GO The first annual San Jose Mini Maker Faire will call History Park home Sunday.

Super-interactive Mini Maker Faire calls on pranksters, scientists and oddballs of all sorts

BY GARY SINGH

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he giant swath of land at History Park is not limited to exploring the past. This Sunday, hundreds of creative geniuses will explore the future at the First Annual San Jose Mini Maker Faire. The flagship Maker Faires in the Bay Area and New York have launched an explosion of maker culture in general, with several independently-produced Mini Maker Faires surfacing all over the world. Now San Jose has its own.

For the uninitiated, Maker Faire is one gigantic creative powwow—a county fair, a science fair, a robotics demonstration, a hands-on arts & crafts workshop and a hacker convivium, with all of the above fusing into a tangible manifestation of the global creative spirit. Anyone who harbors a passion for invention or reappropriation shows up and demonstrates what they made, how they made it and what they learned. Bees, yarn and solder sit side by side. You can be a botanist or a bicycle inventor or, in some cases, both at the same time. Tinkerers, educators, hobbyists, pranksters, artists, industrial designers, urban farmers, welders—anyone bent on innovation and experimentation across the spectrum of science, engineering, art,

performance and craft will be found somewhere at a Maker Faire. Full, unthrottled curiosity reigns supreme.

History Park may not seem like an obvious choice for a venue, but upon further contemplation, it makes all the sense in the world. A smattering of kids’ activities already unfold at the property, most of which are participatory in nature.

“All our educational programs are highly interactive,” says Alidea Bray, executive director of History San Jose. “The kids all make stuff in the programs. They make adobe bricks, they make candy, they make dolls, load wagons and play games. It’s not like touring kids around or sitting in a classroom. The programs are all about learning history through making stuff.”

What’s more, several of the groups and events that regularly utilize the park can be understood as facets of maker culture in general, whether it be lowrider shows, bicycle gatherings, the poetry society or the printers’ guild. Vietnamese people sculpt in the garden at the Viet Museum and kids

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test DNA in the science workshops.

For the faire, the trolley barn and the restoration shop—places where somebody’s always wrenching on something—will also be open to the general public. You just may see a restored bus or a WWII-era contraption of some sort.

“I just feel like we’re a hub for makers in the first place,” Bray says.

“We don’t really have that reputation, but it’s like an extension of what we do already. Sort of pushing the envelope a little bit.”

As a result, the first-ever San Jose Mini Maker Faire will include at least 100 vendors and participants, all of which were whittled down from many more applicants to comprise the festivities. The entire park will be filled, so allow adequate time to be overwhelmed.

Just a few highlights: Local institutional heroes like TechShop, CreaTV, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles and the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy will each bring their own specialties and skill sets. TechShop, in particular, will operate numerous tents filled with activities. On a smaller scale, loads of independent and smaller organizations will provide glimpses into their work. Expect a tiltable electric tricycle and a transportable aquaponics greenhouse. Also on display: kinetic pencil sharpeners and robots that can solve a Rubik’s Cube. Visitors will experience portable speakers, wood science and belly dancing, plus lace embroidery, nature journaling and homemade musical instruments. Arduino prototyping will share the limelight with sauerkraut fermentation. It’s unimaginable that someone could attend and not find at least one crackpot experience to take away.

Inspiration will emerge everywhere.

“We chose people that were really in the spirit of making and sharing,” Bray says. “They really wanted to make something, they really to be enthusiastic, and wanted to share it with a broader audience. We have a really good group.”

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GROUND CONTROL Sometimes boastful, but usually serious and a bit shy, Elon Musk shared his thoughts about his life and business ventures at SXSW in 2013.

From Cars to Mars If anyone can reinvent the universe as we know it, Elon Musk can BY ASHLEE VANCE

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N 2000, San Francisco had been overtaken by the boom of all booms and consumed by avarice. It was a wonderful time to be alive with just about the entire populace giving in to a fantasy— a get-rich-quick, Internet madness. The pulses of energy from this shared delusion were palpable, producing a constant buzz that vibrated across the city. Then, the implosion of the get-rich-quick Internet fantasy left San Francisco and Silicon Valley in a deep depression. The endless parties ended. The technology industry had no idea what to do with itself.

The dumb venture capitalists who had been taken during the bubble didn’t want to look any dumber, so they stopped funding new ventures altogether. Entrepreneurs’ big ideas were replaced by the smallest of notions. It was as if Silicon Valley had entered rehab en masse. A populace of millions of clever people came to believe that they were

inventing the future. Then . . . poof !

Playing it safe suddenly became the fashionable thing to do.

Elon Musk should have been part of the malaise. He jumped right into dotcom mania in 1995, when, fresh out of college, he founded a company called Zip2— a primitive Google Maps meets Yelp. That first venture ended up a big, quick

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UST AS the world was growing weary of the endless paeans to Steve Jobs as our times’ defining entrepreneur, along comes a figure who seems to be even more audacious, complex and transformational—while just getting started. His steely resolve makes Jobs look like a cultural romantic. Elon Musk combines a disciplined scientific mind with a dash of John DeLorean recklessness. The vastness of his ambition and formidable track record suggests the past and present— Paypal, Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX—is but prologue, and bigger things are yet to come. For starters: hyperloop mass transit between the two Californias, battery-powered homes, self-driving cars, a mission to Mars.

YOUNG ELON Musk took early to computers.

hit. Compaq bought Zip2 in 1999 for $307 million. Musk made $22 million from the deal and poured almost all of it into his next venture, a startup that would morph into PayPal. As the largest shareholder in PayPal, Musk became fantastically well-to-do when eBay acquired the company for $1.5 billion in 2002.

Instead of hanging around Silicon Valley and falling into the same funk as his peers, however, Musk decamped to Los Angeles. The conventional wisdom of the time said to take a deep breath and wait for the next big thing to arrive. Musk rejected that logic by throwing $100 million into SpaceX, $70 million into Tesla and $10 million into SolarCity. Short of building an actual money-crushing machine, Musk could not have picked a faster way to destroy his fortune. He became a one-man, ultra-risk-taking venture capital shop and doubled down on making super complex physical goods in two of the most expensive places in the world, Los Angeles and Silicon Valley.

With SpaceX, Musk is battling the giants of the U.S. military industrial complex, including Lockheed Martin and Boeing. He’s also battling nations— most notably Russia and China.

The space business requires dealing with a mess of politics, back-scratching and protectionism that undermines

the fundamentals of capitalism. Steve Jobs faced similar forces when he went up against the recording industry to bring the iPod and iTunes to market.

The crotchety Luddites in the music industry were a pleasure to deal with compared to Musk’s foes, who build weapons for a living.

With Tesla Motors, Musk has tried to revamp the way cars are manufactured and sold, while building out a worldwide fuel distribution network at the same time. Instead of hybrids, which in Musk lingo are suboptimal compromises, Tesla strives to make all-electric cars that people lust after and that push the limits of technology. Tesla does not sell these cars through dealers; it sells them on the Web and in Apple-like galleries located in high-end shopping centers.

Tesla also does not anticipate making lots of money from servicing its vehicles, since electric cars do not require the oil changes and other maintenance procedures of traditional cars. The direct sales model embraced by Tesla stands as a major affront to car dealers used to haggling with their customers and making their profits from exorbitant maintenance fees. Tesla’s charging stations now run alongside many of the major highways in the United States, Europe and Asia and can a hundreds of miles of oomph back to

The elusive Musk keeps writers at a distance. Undeterred by his subject’s refusal to cooperate, technology journalist Ashlee Vance, who like Musk is South African-born, began researching what became “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.”

After digging for 18 months, Musk contacted Vance and met him for dinner at The Sea in Mountain View. Musk agreed to grant access without conditioning it on an advance reading, resulting in this groundbreaking biography.

Published three months ago, it quickly became a best seller. Metro is pleased to present this excerpt from one of the year’s better Silicon Valley reads. —Dan Pulcrano

a car in about 20 minutes.

With SolarCity, Musk has funded the largest installer and financer of solar panels for consumers and businesses. During a time in which cleantech businesses have gone bankrupt with alarming regularity, Musk has built two of the most successful cleantech companies in the world. The Musk Co. empire of factories, tens of thousands of workers and industrial might has incumbents on the run and has turned Musk into one of the richest men in the world, with a net worth around $10 billion.

The life that Musk has created to manage all of these endeavors is preposterous. A typical week starts at his mansion in Bel Air. On Monday, he works the entire day at SpaceX. On Tuesday, he begins at SpaceX, then hops onto his jet and flies to Silicon Valley. He spends a couple of days working at Tesla, which has its offices in Palo Alto and a factory

in Fremont. Musk does not own a home in Northern California and ends up staying at the luxe Rosewood hotel or at friends’ houses.

Then it’s back to Los Angeles and SpaceX on Thursday.

Musk has taken industries like aerospace and automotive that America seemed to have given up on and recast them as something new and fantastic. At the heart of this transformation are Musk’s skills as a software maker and his ability to apply them to machines. He’s merged atoms and bits in ways that few people thought possible, and the results have been spectacular. It’s true enough that Musk has yet to have a consumer hit on the order of the iPhone or to touch more than one billion people like Facebook. For the moment, he’s still making rich people’s toys, and his budding empire could be an exploded rocket or massive Tesla recall away from collapse.

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San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art 560 S 1st St, San Jose 408.283.8155 sjica.org

Passage | ICA Front Windows | Ending November 1 Sophia Allison is known for her paper and textile pieces, often inspired by the landscape in her home state of North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Leanne Lee creates highly-detailed paintings that produce multidimensional effects and are poised between painting and sculpture.

For Passage, artists intermixed stained coffee filters and hand-drawn patterns on torn rice paper. The Los Angeles-based artists have arranged the forms into clusters to create an installation reminiscent of a floral environment. In addition to the botanical imagery found in both artists’ individual oeuvre, the piece references landscapes from Allison’s work as well as Korean symbols and motifs common in Lee’s work.

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MACLA opens its 2015-16 season with Found In Translation, with works by award- winning California-based artists Pilar Agüero-Esparza, Aaron De La Cruz, Rogelio Gutierrez and Patrick Martinez. The artists in Found transform everyday objects and materials, from street signs to crayons, to illustrate the complexities of the human experience in a multi- lingual and multi-cultural world.

While firmly grounded in their personal histories as sons and daughters of urban and rural California, their work speaks to the ways in which multi-culturalism is communicated, (re)interpreted, and (mis)understood in contemporary society.

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Found/Made: July 11 to November 1, 2015 Found includes vintage quilts from Roderick Kiracofe’s collection as well as pieces from the collection of Marjorie Childress, Julie Silber, and Allison Smith.

Made includes contemporary quilts often constructed with found materials as well as contemporary art based on quilt themes. Artists include Joe Cunningham, Sabrina Cschwandtner, Dana Hart-Stone, Luke Haynes, Clay Lohmann, Therese May, Sarah Nishiura, Jonathan Parker, Amy Trachtenberg, and Ben Venom.

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Musk wants to, well, save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation. engineer and inventor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those things are important, but they are not enough. We need to look at different models of how to do things that are longer term in nature and where the technology is more integrated.â&#x20AC;?

The integration mentioned

by Jungâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the harmonious melding of software, electronics, advanced materials and computing horsepowerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; appears to be Muskâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift. In that sense, Musk comes off much more like Thomas Edison than Howard Hughes. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an inventor, celebrity businessman and industrialist able to take big ideas and turn them into big products.

Born in South Africa, Musk now looks like Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most innovative industrialist and outlandish thinker and the person most likely to set Silicon Valley on a more ambitious course. Because of Musk, Americans could wake up in 10 years with the most modern highway in the world: a transit system run by thousands

of solar-powered charging stations and traversed by electric cars. By that time, SpaceX may well be sending up rockets every day, taking people and things to dozens of habitats and making preparations for longer treks to Mars. These advances are simultaneously difficult to fathom and seemingly inevitable if Musk can simply buy enough time to make them work. As his ex-wife, Justine, put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;He does what he wants, and he is relentless about it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Elonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, and the rest of us live in it.â&#x20AC;?

What Musk has developed that so many of the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley lack is a meaningful worldview. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the possessed genius on the grandest quest anyone has ever concocted. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less a CEO chasing riches than a general marshaling troops to secure victory.

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Things Explode When Elon was nearly 10 years old, he saw a computer for the ďŹ rst time, at the Sandton City Mall in Johannesburg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was an electronics store that mostly did hi-ďŹ -type stuff, but then, in one corner, they started stocking a few computers,â&#x20AC;? Musk said. He felt awed right away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to have that and then hounded my father to get the computer,â&#x20AC;? Musk said. Soon he owned a Commodore VIC-20, a popular home machine that went on sale in 1980. Elonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s computer arrived with ďŹ ve kilobytes of memory and a workbook on the BASIC programming language. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was supposed to take like six months to get through all the lessons,â&#x20AC;? Elon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just got super OCD on it and stayed up for three days with no sleep and did the entire thing.

It seemed like the most supercompelling thing I had ever seen.â&#x20AC;?

While bookish and into his new computer, Elon quite often led his brother Kimbal and his cousins Russ, Lyndon and Peter Rive on adventures. They dabbled one year

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On the other hand, Muskâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s companies have already accomplished far more than his loudest detractors thought possible, and the promise of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to come has to leave hardened types feeling optimistic during their weaker moments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, Elon is the shining example of how Silicon Valley might be able to reinvent itself and be more relevant than chasing these quick IPOs and focusing on getting incremental products out,â&#x20AC;? said Edward Jung, a famed software

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in selling Easter eggs door-to-door in the neighborhood. The eggs were not well decorated, but the boys still marked them up a few hundred percent for their wealthy neighbors.

Elon also spearheaded their work with homemade explosives and rockets. South Africa did not have the Estes rocket kits popular among hobbyists, so Elon would create his own chemical compounds and put them inside of canisters.

“It is remarkable how many things you can get to explode,” Elon said.

“Saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal are the basic ingredients for gunpowder, and then if you combine a strong acid with a strong alkaline, that will generally release a lot of energy.

Granulated chlorine with brake fluid— that’s quite impressive. I’m lucky I have all my fingers.”

At 17, Musk left South Africa for Canada. Musk had been pining to get to the United States for a long time. Musk’s early inclination toward computers and technology had fostered an intense interest in Silicon Valley.

After spending a few days in Montreal exploring the city, Musk bought a $100 countrywide bus ticket that let him hop on and off as he pleased. He headed to Saskatchewan, the former home of his grandfather. After a 1,900mile bus ride, he ended up in Swift Current, a town of 15,000 people.

Musk called a second cousin out of the blue from the bus station and hitched a ride to his house.

Musk spent the next year working a series of odd jobs around Canada.

He tended vegetables and shoveled out grain bins at a cousin’s farm located in the tiny town of Waldeck.

Musk celebrated his 18th birthday there, sharing a cake with the family he’d just met and a few strangers from the neighborhood.

After that, he learned to cut logs with a chainsaw in Vancouver, British Columbia. The hardest job Musk took came after a visit to the unemployment office. He inquired about the job with the best wage, which turned out to be a gig cleaning the boiler room of a lumber mill for $18 an hour.

“You have to put on this hazmat suit and then shimmy through this little tunnel that you can barely fit

in,” Musk said. “Then, you have a shovel and you take the sand and goop and other residue, which is still steaming hot, and you have to shovel it through the same hole you came through. There is no escape.

Someone else on the other side has to shovel it into a wheelbarrow. If you stay in there for more than 30 minutes, you get too hot and die.”

Elon enrolled at Queen’s

‘Money is low bandwidth.

It’s really just an entry in a database.’

University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1989. A deep relationship during this stint in Canada arose between Musk and Justine Wilson, a fellow student at Queen’s with long, brown hair.

Musk spotted Wilson on campus and went right to work trying to date her. “She looked pretty great,” Musk said. “She was also smart and this intellectual with sort of an edge.

She had a black belt in tae kwon do and was semi-bohemian and, you know, like the hot chick on campus.”

Musk pursued a couple of other girls, but kept returning to Justine.

Any time she acted cool toward him, Musk responded with his usual show of force. “He would call very insistently,” she said. “You always knew it was Elon because the phone would never stop ringing. The man does not take no for an answer. You can’t blow him off. I do think of him as the Terminator. He locks his gaze on to something and says, ‘It shall be mine.’ Bit by bit, he won me over.”

PayPal Mafia In the summer of 1994, Elon and Kimbal took their first steps toward becoming Americans. They set off on a road trip across the country. The trip provided plenty of time for your typical twentysomething hijinks and raging capitalist daydreaming. The

web had recently become accessible to the public thanks to the rise of directory sites like Yahoo! and tools like Netscape’s browser. The brothers were tuned in to the Internet and thought they might like to start a company together doing something on the web. Musk had spent the earlier part of that summer in Silicon Valley, holding down a pair of internships.

By day, he worked at Pinnacle Research Institute. Based in Los Gatos, Pinnacle was a muchballyhooed startup with a team of scientists exploring ways in which ultracapacitors could be used as a revolutionary fuel source in electric and hybrid vehicles. The work also veered—at least conceptually— into more bizarre territory. Musk could talk at length about how ultracapacitors might be used to build laser-based sidearms in the tradition of Star Wars and just about any other futuristic film. The laser guns would release rounds of enormous energy, and then the shooter would replace an ultracapacitor at the base of the gun, much like swapping out a clip of bullets, and start blasting away again.

In the evenings, Musk headed to Rocket Science Games, a startup based in Palo Alto that wanted to create the most advanced video games ever made by moving them off cartridges and onto CDs that could hold more information. The CDs would in theory allow them to bring Hollywood-style storytelling and production quality to the games.

A team of budding all-stars who were a mix of engineers and film people was assembled to pull off the work. Tony Fadell, who would later drive much of the development of both the iPod and iPhone at Apple, worked at Rocket Science, as did the guys who developed the QuickTime multimedia software for Apple.

They also had people who worked on the original Star Wars effects at Industrial Light & Magic and some who did games at LucasArts Entertainment.

Rocket Science gave Musk a flavor for what Silicon Valley had to offer both from a talent and culture perspective. There were people working at the office 24 hours a day, and they didn’t think it at all odd that

Musk would turn up around 5pm every day to start his second job.

The first inklings of a viable Internet business had come to Musk during his internships. A salesperson from the Yellow Pages had come into one of the startup offices. He tried to sell the idea of an online listing to complement the regular listing a company would have in the big, fat Yellow Pages book. The salesman struggled with his pitch and clearly had little grasp of what the Internet actually was or how someone would find a business on it.

The flimsy pitch got Musk thinking.

“Elon said, ‘These guys don’t know what they are talking about. Maybe this is something we can do,’ ” Kimbal said. This was 1995, and the brothers were about to form Global Link Information Network, a startup that would eventually be renamed as Zip2.

Few small businesses in 1995 understood the ramifications of the Internet. They had little idea how to get on it and didn’t really see the value in creating a website for their business or even in having a Yellow Pages–like listing online.

Musk and his brother hoped to convince restaurants, clothing shops, hairdressers and the like that the time had come for them to make their presence known to the websurfing public. Zip2 would create a searchable directory of businesses and tie this into maps. This may seem obvious today, but back then, not even stoners had dreamed up such a service.

The Musk brothers brought Zip2 to life at 430 Sherman Ave. in Palo Alto. For the first three months of Zip2’s life, Musk and his brother lived at the office. They had a small closet where they kept their clothes and would shower at the YMCA. In early 1996, the venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures had caught wind of a couple of South African boys trying to make a Yellow Pages for the Internet, met with the brothers and invested $3 million in the company.

The company’s main focus would be to create a software package that could be sold to newspapers, which would in turn build directories for real estate, auto dealers and classifieds. The newspapers were late in understanding how the Internet

19 ages for Web security to be good enough to win over consumers. Musk, though, remained convinced that the finance industry could do with a major upgrade and that he could have a big influence on banking with a relatively small investment.

“Money is low bandwidth,” he said, during a speech at Stanford University in 2003, to describe his thinking. “You don’t need some sort of big infrastructure improvement to do things with it. It’s really just an entry in a database.”

It had taken Musk less than a decade to go from being a Canadian backpacker to becoming a multimillionaire at the age of 27. With his $22 million, he moved from sharing an apartment with three roommates to buying an 1,800-square-foot condo and renovating it. He also bought a $1 million McLaren F1 sports car and a small prop plane and learned to fly. Musk embraced the newfound celebrity that he’d earned as part of the dotcom millionaire set. He let CNN show up at his apartment at 7am to film the delivery of the car. A black 18-wheeler pulled up in front of Musk’s place and then lowered the sleek, silver vehicle onto the street, while Musk stood slack-jawed with his arms folded. “There are 62 McLarens in the world, and I will own one of them,” he told CNN. The next year, while driving down Sand Hill Road to meet with an investor, Musk turned to a friend in the car and said, “Watch this.” He floored the car, did a lane change, spun out, and hit an embankment, which started the car spinning in midair like a Frisbee. The windows and wheels were blown to smithereens and the body of the car was damaged. Musk again turned to his companion and said, “The funny part is it wasn’t insured.” The two of them then thumbed a ride to the venture capitalist’s office.

To his credit, Musk did not fully buy in to this playboy persona. He actually plowed the majority of the money he made from Zip2 into X.com. Even by Silicon Valley’s high-risk standards, it was shocking to put so much of one’s newfound wealth into something as iffy as an online bank. All told, Musk

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would impact their businesses, and Zip2’s software would give them a quick way of getting online without needing to develop all their own technology from scratch.

Zip2 had remarkable success courting newspapers. The New York Times, Knight Ridder, Hearst Corporation, and other media properties signed up to its service.

It irritated Musk that Zip2 had become a behind-the-scenes player to the newspapers. He believed the company could offer interesting services directly to consumers and encouraged the purchase of the domain name city.com with the hopes of turning it into a consumer destination.

In April 1998, Zip2 announced a blockbuster move to double down on its strategy. It would merge with its main competitor CitySearch in a deal valued at around $300 million. In May 1998, the two companies canceled the merger.

With the deal busted, Zip2 found itself in a predicament. It was losing money. Musk still wanted to go the consumer route, but Derek Proudian, a venture capitalist with Mohr Davidow who had been named CEO, feared that would take too much capital. Then, in February 1999, PC maker Compaq Computer suddenly offered to pay $307 million in cash for Zip2.

“It was like pennies from heaven,” said Ed Ho, a former Zip2 executive.

Zip2’s board accepted the offer, and the company rented out a restaurant in Palo Alto and threw a huge party.

Mohr Davidow had made back 20 times its original investment, and Elon and Kimbal Musk had come away with $22 million and $15 million, respectively. Elon never entertained the idea of sticking around at Compaq.

“As soon as it was clear the company would be sold, Elon was on to his next project,” Proudian said.

In March 1999, Musk incorporated X.com, a finance startup. Musk had considered starting an Internet bank and discussed it openly during his internship at Pinnacle Research in 1995. The youthful Musk lectured the scientists about the inevitable transition coming in finance toward online systems, but they tried to talk him down, saying that it would takes

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invested about $12 million into X.com, leaving him, after taxes, with $4 million or so for personal use.

PayPal survived the bursting of the dotcom bubble, became the first blockbuster IPO after the September 11, 2001, attacks and then sold to eBay for an astronomical sum while the rest of the technology industry was mired in a dramatic downturn.

It was nearly impossible to survive, let alone emerge as a winner, in the midst of such a mess.

PayPal also came to represent one of the greatest assemblages of business and engineering talent in Silicon Valley history. Both Musk and Peter Thiel had a keen eye for young, brilliant engineers. The founders of startups as varied as YouTube, Palantir Technologies and Yelp all worked at PayPal. Another set of people— including Reid Hoffman, Thiel and Roelof Botha— emerged as some of the technology industry’s top investors. PayPal staff pioneered techniques in fighting online fraud that have formed the basis of

software used by the CIA and FBI to track terrorists, and software used by the world’s largest banks to combat crime. This collection of super-bright employees has become known as the PayPal Mafia.

‘To space!’

His fears that mankind had lost much of its will to push the boundaries were reinforced one day when Musk went to the NASA website. He’d expected to find a detailed plan for exploring Mars and instead found bupkis. “At first I thought, jeez, maybe I’m just looking in the wrong place,” Musk once told Wired. “Why was there no plan, no schedule? There was nothing. It seemed crazy.”

Musk believed that the very idea of America was intertwined with humanity’s desire to explore. He found it sad that the American agency tasked with doing audacious things in space and exploring new frontiers as its mission seemed

to have no serious interest in investigating Mars at all. The spirit of Manifest Destiny had been deflated or maybe even come to a depressing end, and hardly anyone seemed to care.

Like so many quests to revitalize America’s soul and bring hope to all of mankind, Musk’s journey began in a hotel conference room. By this time, Musk had built up a decent network of contacts in the space industry, and he brought the best of them together at a series of salons— sometimes at the Renaissance hotel at the Los Angeles airport and sometimes at the Sheraton hotel in Palo Alto.

He also plotted a trip to Russia to find out exactly how much a launch would cost. Musk intended to buy a refurbished intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, from the Russians and use that as his launch vehicle.

For help with this, Musk reached out to Jim Cantrell, an unusual fellow who had done a mix of classified and unclassified work for the U.S. and other governments.

The men were heading to Russia at the height of its freewheeling post-Soviet days when rich guys could apparently buy space missiles on the open market. The most intense meeting occurred in an ornate, neglected, pre-revolutionary building near downtown Moscow.

The vodka shots started— “To space!”

“To America!”— while Musk sat on $20 million, which he hoped would be enough to buy three ICBMs that could be retooled to go to space.

Buzzed from the vodka, Musk asked point-blank how much a missile would cost.

The reply: $8 million each. Musk countered, offering $8 million for two. “They sat there and looked at him,” Cantrell said. “And said something like, ‘Young boy. No.’ They also intimated that he didn’t have the money.” At this point, Musk had decided the Russians were either not serious about doing business or determined to part a dotcom millionaire from as much of his money as possible. He stormed out

to building a commercial space venture. Founded in June 2002, Space Exploration Technologies came to life in humble settings.

Musk acquired an old warehouse in El Segundo, a suburb of Los Angeles humming with the activity of the aerospace industry. The previous tenant of the 75,000-square-foot building had done lots of shipping and had used the south side of the facility as a logistics depot, outďŹ tting it with several receiving bays for delivery trucks.

This allowed Musk to drive his silver McLaren right into the building. Beyond that the surroundings were sparseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; just a dusty ďŹ&#x201A;oor and a 40-foot-high ceiling with its wooden beams and insulation exposed and which curved at the top to give the place a hangar-like feel. Musk had soon transformed the SpaceX office with what has become his signature factory aesthetic: a glossy epoxy coating applied over concrete on the ďŹ&#x201A;oors, and a coat of white paint slathered onto the walls.

SpaceX was to be Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt at a clean slate in the rocket business, a modernized reset. Musk felt that the space industry had not really evolved in about 50 years.

The aerospace companies had little competition and tended to make supremely expensive products that achieved maximum performance.

They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick. Musk, by contrast, would apply some of the startup techniques heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d learned in Silicon Valley to run SpaceX lean and fast and capitalize on the huge advances in computing power and materials that had taken place over the past couple of decades. As a private company, SpaceX would also avoid the waste and cost overruns associated with government contractors. Musk declared that SpaceXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst rocket would be called the Falcon 1, a nod to Star Warsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Millennium Falcon and his role as the architect of an exciting future.

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The Team Musk mood could not have been worse. It was near the end of February 2002, and they went outside to hail a cab and drove straight to the airport surrounded by the snow and dreck of the Moscow winter. Inside the cab, no one talked. Musk had come to Russia ďŹ lled with optimism about putting on a great show for mankind and was now leaving exasperated and disappointed. The Russians were the only ones with rockets that could possibly ďŹ t within Muskâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a long drive,â&#x20AC;? Cantrell said.

The somber mood lingered all the way to the plane, until the drink cart arrived. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You always feel particularly good when the wheels lift off in Moscow,â&#x20AC;? Cantrell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My God. I made it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So, [Michael] Griffin and I got drinks and clinked our glasses.â&#x20AC;? Musk sat in the row in front of them, typing on his computer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking, Fucking nerd. What can he be doing now?â&#x20AC;? At which point Musk wheeled around and ďŹ&#x201A;ashed a spreadsheet heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d created. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, guys,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we can build this rocket ourselves.â&#x20AC;?

The rocket would not carry truck-sized satellites like some of the monster rockets ďŹ&#x201A;own by Boeing, Lockheed, the Russians and other countries. Instead, Muskâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rocket would be aimed at the lower end of the satellite market, and it could end up as ideal for an emerging class of smaller payloads that capitalized on the massive advances that had taken place in computing and electronics technology. The rocket would cater directly to a theory in the space industry that a whole new market might open for both commercial and research payloads if a company could drastically lower the price per launch and perform launches on a regular schedule.

Of course, all of this was theoreticalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and then, suddenly, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. PayPal had gone public in February with its shares shooting up 55 percent, and Musk knew that eBay wanted to buy the company.

While noodling on the rocket idea, Muskâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s net worth had increased from tens of millions to hundreds of millions.

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Tac-Oh!’s neon sign lights up Lincoln Avenue, as does its ambiance, with upbeat music and chatter pouring out from its fire engine red doors. Waiters stride back and forth wearing clever tuxedo T-shirts, and the interior is well lit with modern glass bulb chandeliers. The scene hovers between cozy—it has the authentic aromas of your favorite Mexican hole-in-the-wall joint—and jumping. Open until 11pm every day, there’s a well-stocked bar for those looking for beers or margaritas.

The menu can feel a little daunting at first. The average taco lists off eight to 10 ingredients, some of which I hadn’t heard of, and prices are on the high end: two for $12 or three for $16. Shrimp and ahi are an extra $3.

I started with The El Chapo, crunching my way through the hard corn shell towards the center of chipotle crema-drizzled braised short rib. Though I tried to keep it neat, a few seconds in I was inevitably licking sauce off my fingers and catching the radish and jalapeño cuts tumbling out. In other words, the taco was just how I like it.

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The Kamikaze, pricier due to the ahi, wrapped up the main course with a unique blend of sushi and traditional taco flavor. Its ahi, prepared in a tender, pink sashimi strip, certainly activated one of the more nontraditional tastes I’ve had from a taco. By the end, I was past full, and my taste buds were overwhelmed with the scope of flavors introduced over the past hour.

Nonetheless, I couldn’t leave without trying their popular Churr-Oh! Dippers ($6). The pastry had a generous lather of cinnamon and sugar, with a gelatinous fried dough center. Coupled with the concentrated, viscous chocolate dip, I could practically sense my arteries calling it a night.

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For the 15,000 bacon lovers expected to descend upon Plaza de Cesar Chavez this Saturday and Sunday, the two-day extravaganza is expected to reach new heights, as bacon takes center stage alongside beer, wrestling, sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mores and more to celebrate Labor Day weekend.

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FELIPE ESPARZA San Jose Improv Fri, 7:30pm, $22

Comedian Felipe Esparza has yet to conquer mainstream America with a sitcom of his own, but considering the popularity of his social media presence and his podcast, What’s Up Fool?, it’s easy to imagine that one may be in the works. He won NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2010 and produced his own one-hour special for Showtime in 2012. Esparza grew up in East Los Angeles, and his humor reflects the real struggles of everyday life in response to issues like gentrification: “I know I'm not a tough guy, but I'm pretty sure I can beat up everyone who shops at Trader Joe's.” (JE)

NEKO CASE The Mountain Winery, Saratoga Fri, 7:30pm, $40-$70 In 2002, Neko Case released Blacklisted, her “country noir” collection of breakup songs and dark lullabies. Her voice is a superpower—deepening the despair, humor or ferocity of her already potent lyrics, which cross Sylvia Plath-levels of gloom with Patsy Cline-esque despair. Case has since released three studio albums, and regularly checks in with her longtime bandmates in The New Pornographers. Her latest solo effort, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, showcases her inventive narratives, distinctly American voice and mesmerizing, siren-song delivery. (JE)

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WIZARD WORLD COMIC CON

SJICA, San Jose Fri, 7pm, Free

San Jose Convention Center Begins Fri, 3pm, Various Prices

The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art will present two showings of Niki Ulehla’s marionette performance piece, George Travels to the Afterlife.

Presented with minimal staging to experimental music, the performance follows the story of George Washington, as he crosses the River Styx and confronts the various beasts and creatures that inhabit the underworld. The cast of characters appears in the form of hand-carved wooden marionettes, a craft that Ulehla first learned in the Czech Republic. The work is a loose interpretation of the myth of Orpheus and his attempt to reunite with his wife Eurydice in Hades. (JE)

Fans of comic books, superheroes, the WWE, cosplay, video games and other nerdly pursuits will descend upon the San Jose Convention Center this weekend for the Wizard World Comic Con event. Featuring a wide assortment of geek-culture celebrities, including stars from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Walking Dead and Bruce “This Is My Boomstick!” Campbell, the gathering promises to delight fantasy fanatics and sci-fi fiends alike. In addition to meet and greets with the stars, attendees can also take in seminars like "Symbols in Game of Thrones," and "Lightsaber Team: Where Fandom Meets Fitness." (KK)

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DEAD MANS CELL PHONE

September 8 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

SOFA STREET PARTY SSeptember 13 in the SoFA District

FOO FIGHTERS September 16 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

LAURYN HILL SSeptember 16 at Mountain Winery

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA SSeptember 17 at Mountain Winery

STRATA September 25 at The Ritz

THE BEACH BOYS September 26 at Mountain Winery Se

BEYOND WONDERLAND September 26-27 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS October 1 at Mountain Winery

SCORPIONS & QUEENSRYCHE October 1 at SAP Center

ODDBALL COMEDY FESTIVAL October 10 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

HIRIE The Ritz, San Jose Fri, 8pm, $15-$20 Labor Day traditionally signifies the end of the summer season, but listeners wanting to hold on a bit longer can get a fresh dose of West Coast reggae from HIRIE. Hailing from Hawaii, HIRIE will be performing in San Jose on Friday.

HIRIE is the name of the band and the lead singer—and, of course, it rhymes with “irie.” According to Hirie’s website, she's often backed by a full contingent of horns, accordion, melodica, ukulele, didgeridoo and more. ready to bring the summery sound of the islands to Silicon Valley. (KK)

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Wildwood Park, Saratoga Sat, 3pm, $30 The Saratoga Chamber of Commerce hosts this weekend’s Blues and Brews Festival in the verdant Wildwood Park.

The grub will be typical BBQ fare: grilled brats and beef sliders, alongside vegetarian options. Craft brews will come from Hermitage, Faultline and Santa Clara brewing companies, while wine will be provided by House Family Vineyards. Music comes courtesy of the Shakedance Blues Revue, an all-star assemblage featuring Aki Kumar on harp, John Lawton’s sliding guitar riffs and Andy Santana’s soulful lamentations and shimmering harmonica solos. (JF)

BACON FESTIVAL OF AMERICA Cesar Chavez Plaza, San Jose Sat-Sun, 12pm, $15 About 11,000 years ago, human beings began the process of domesticating wild boar from the dense jungles of Central Asia.

The boar was a sinewy, gamey meal, but the beast grew docile as we pumped it full of oats and let it wallow in the mud. Over the ages, that tight abdomen grew paunchier, until a sage chef cut a thin sliver from that bulbous belly, tossed it on a hot rock, watched it sizzle, took a nibble and changed life for the better. This festival worships that wondrous cut with pro wrestling, live music and a gauntlet of bacon-oriented food trucks. (JF)

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Mountain Winery, Saratoga Mon, 7:30pm, $35 These singular Brit rockers were spawned from the late-’70s punk scene, and over the next two decades added hard rock and new wave flourishes to their sound. Led by the Richard Burton’s melancholy, strained vocals and poetic lyricism, the Furs’ many influential records have been on heavy rotation at discerning college radio stations for decades.

Their biggest hit, “Pretty in Pink,” inspired a John Hughes film of the same name. It brought the group international fame, even as it deviated from Burton’s story about a stunning, complicated gal. (JF)

DICK DALE October 17 at The Ritz

SNOOP DOGG, SCHOOLBOY Q, E-40 October 17 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

MADONNA October 19 at SAP Center

JUDAS PRIEST & MASTODON October 21 at City National Civic

SIR MIX-A-LOT October 22 at The Ritz

MUDHONEY October 25 at RockBar Theater

BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT October 24-25 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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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Very Cerebral SUBLIME BOVINE ‘Cow, word’ is one of several paintings by Drew Roulette, which will be on display at the ‘Hippocampus Wallpaper’ exhibit.

Empire Seven’s ‘Hippocampus Wallpaper’ is witty and warmhearted

BY TAD MALONE

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N THEIR RESPECTIVE day jobs, Colin Frangicetto and Drew Roulette each help create wild, energetic and psychedelic explosions of sound. And they spend much of their downtime doing the same thing with paint. Their new exhibit at Empire Seven Studios, “Hippocampus Wallpaper,” is a riot of color.

The witty show, whose title refers to the idea of memory and emotion acting as the brain’s wallpaper, peeling and eroding with time, features artwork by two friends, artists and fellow musicians:

Colin Frangicetto and Drew Roulette, best known for their work, respectively, in the bands Circa Survive and Dredg.

A native of Los Gatos, Roulette is the bassist for Dredg, one of the biggest alternative acts to come out of the South Bay in the last few decades. Roulette has always mixed his music and visual art.

His paintings often accompany the band on stage and have appeared on the cover of Dredg albums and in the liner notes.

“For a time I did raffles for paintings every night (while on tour),” says Roulette, which was fun for fans and gave him something creative to do on the road. This talent quickly extended to album artwork.

Growing up, Roulette says, he was into mysterious and dark subjects, as well as trying to “say” something with his art. But as he’s gotten older and wittier, the whimsy has crept in. “Humor

definitely plays a big part in the show,” says Roulette. Using his love of humor and frustration with ideas, he typically comes up with his titles first—all of them puns—one-liners or double-entendres.

Roulette then creates the works to have some connection, however tenuous, to the titles. With names like, Do You Minds Eye and Mary Poppin’some Pills, his work speaks for itself.

“I usually use canvas, but I just started on panels," Roulette says about his mostly acrylic-on-wood pieces for the show. “I like the way the wood reacts with the paint.”

Influenced mainly by artist Alex Grey, Roulette’s art may be bright and crass, but the key to his work is not so much the name of his pieces, but the colorful, tightly composed line-work and imagination. “People should be able to walk away and say, ‘that invoked something in me,’ be it a memory or relation,” he says.

Colin Frangicetto’s work comes from a deeper, more personal place. A native of Pennsylvania, Frangicetto is best

known as the guitarist for the progressive alt-rock group Circa Survive. In the early 2000s, Dredg were the first big name to take Circa Survive out on tour. At some of the shows, the Circa Survive bandmates would watch Roulette hold his art auctions. “We saw that and were really inspired,” says Frangicetto.

Another unlikely boost came from the potential shutdown of a friend’s record store in Philadelphia. Members of Circa Survive did what they could to raise money, including putting on an art show featuring work by the band.

“That was my first show, and ever since then it’s kind of become an obsession,” Frangicetto says The style of Frangicetto’s paintings— bold, natural imagery and finely detailed elements mixed with the lush colors of the southwest—seems to betray the meanings behind them. A bright conglomeration of figures and flowers may seem abstract, but each of his pieces has its own detailed and unique story.

“Almost every piece is born out of some type of strong memory,” Frangicetto says. For example, a large expressionist portrait of a man, whose head is split down the middle, is a nod to his past; he fractured his skull as a teenager.

Influenced mostly by Picasso, Basquiat and psychedelic art, and working in acrylics and oil pastels, Frangicetto’s work is as sharp as it is verdant.

What started out five years ago as another way to pass the time on tour creatively, has become a burgeoning career. And while he pursues his art, Circa Survive continues to tour the world. The day after the opening, he flies to Hawaii to begin rehearsals before a world tour.

Roulette’s and Frangicetto’s art works well together because of their shared interests, personally and stylistically. Not only are they two professional musicians in influential bands who inspire each other artistically and musically, they both paint mostly in psychedelic palettes using acrylic.

But instead of fading into each other, each artist's work compliments another in line and color. Where Drew slides in humor, Colin will add some poignancy, making for a sly, irreverent and warmhearted show.

SEPT. 11 THRU OCT. 2 Free

HIPPOCAMPUS WALLPAPER Empire Seven Studios, San Jose

times in the past. $33. Sep 19-Oct 10. South Bay Musical Theatre. Saratoga Civic Theatre.

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.

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE When Dr. Jekyll’s ambitious experiments go wrong and create the multi-faceted, depraved villain Mr. Hyde, the two square off in a deadly duel as only one can exist in dominance. Sep 17-Oct 18. $17$32. City Lights Theater Company.

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 in the whip-smart fashion of the 1930s, and as they do, the barriers between them crumble.

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

THE LION KING Sprung from the minds of Elton John and Tim Rice, this Tony award 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.

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

ART ARK GALLERY “Elemental” Artists interpretations of Water, Earth, Air & Fire. Thru Sept 9. San Jose.

“Piranesi’s Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered” thru Jan 4. “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.

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GALLERY HOUSE

“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.

“Dichotomy” Abstracted Science Lyrical Landscapes

by Nance Wheeler, Patricia Nojima. Thru Sep 19. Palo Alto.

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. Los Gatos.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Beta Space” A massive study of the dung beetle’s place in the Galaxy. “Maker Space” thru Jan 17. “Artists including Me: William Wegman,” “Diebenkorn in the Bedroom, DeFeo in the Den: Generous Gifts from the Dixon and Barbara Farley Collection,” “Character Studies: Clay from the Collection” Oct 3- Feb 7. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Found/Made” Quilts made from repurposed cloth. Thru Nov 1. “Recycled, Up-Cycled, Re-Purposed Clothing Design” Fashion created by 6 local artists in response to overcommercialization and rapid production. Thru Sep 6. San Jose.

FIORELLO! Former New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia takes on crooks and corruption while seeking to secure the rights of the common citizen. This musical won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, an award given to Broadway plays only eight

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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.

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Colin Frangicetto and Drew Roulette. Thru Sep. San Jose.

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

KALEID GALLERY “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.

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

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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RADIO RADIO A mock-up of Doc Herrold’s original radio broadcasting setup is one of the many items on display at ‘The Wireless Age’ exhibit.

Cradle of Innovation THE PERHAM COLLECTION of Early Electronics is one of the hidden treasures of History San Jose’s archives. Normally the collection sits in storage, but as of this weekend, several pieces come to light in a new exhibit, The Wireless Age: Electronics Entrepreneurs Before Silicon Valley (1900-1960). Everything, from ancient vacuum tubes to decades-old Ampex tape decks, comes alive—animated by the stories behind them. We see Hewlett-Packard’s second-ever oscillator as well as some oldschool surveillance equipment that inspired novels and films. The show begins in the year 1900 and snakes through the entire Arbuckle Gallery in the Pacific Hotel at History Park. It’s not just for electronics geeks.

“This was the age of the single inventor, before the corporations took over,” says Cate Mills, the exhibit’s curator.

The machinery itself conveys a beautifully odd effect in The Wireless Age its presentation, somewhere between a Twilight Zone episode and an old ham radio textbook. A mockup Sep 6, 11am, Free of Doc Herrold’s original radio broadcasting setup, History San Jose which unfolded right at First and San Fernando in 1908, historysanjose.org sits behind plexiglass in one corner. We see his original broadcast microphone, replete with water hoses for cooling, plus an acoustic Victrola. Not too far away, the Ampex table includes original tape recorders and even an HP model 200B oscillator, which Disney used to monitor low-frequency sound levels during performances of the original Fantasia movie.

The equipment alone, however, would not make for a spectacular exhibit. It’s the stories behind the equipment that are the most fascinating aspects of the show.

In the case of Ampex, for example, long before the company developed the first home stereo music system in 1955, it developed lightweight magnet motors and generators for the U.S. military’s airborne radar equipment. In 1944. Russian immigrant Alexander M. Poniatoff started the company from a loft in San Carlos.

And then there’s Leo Jones, who pioneered electronic surveillance technology and countermeasure devices at the onset of the Cold War era. Among other gadgets, Jones developed new ways of equipping briefcases and purses with wiretapping equipment. Jones was the technical advisor and the inspiration for the lead character in Francis Ford Coppola’s movie The Conversation. In the Leo Jones section of the exhibit, we even see a 1972 letter from Coppola, asking Jones to make sure all the equipment in the movie is authentic.

All in all, the individuals portrayed in the show were young entrepreneurial types, inventors, engineers and tinkerers who did things their own way.

They didn’t care about business managers, PR or salespeople. The inventions they created led directly to the growth of Silicon Valley.— Gary Singh

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GHOST IN THE ‘MACHINE’ The influence of Steve Jobs can still be felt at the company he co-founded. Some say it will forever haunt Apple.

‘Steve Jobs,’ shows how ruthless the Apple co-founder could be

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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TEVE JOBS IS still casting a shadow, four years after his death on Oct. 5, 2011.

Upcoming is Aaron Sorkin’s biopic, Steve Jobs, featuring Michael Fassbinder as a prototypical, Sorkin-ian, magnificent-bastard type.

Cooler and more urgent is this week’s stirring documentary, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. Alex Gibney (of the Scientology exposé, Going Clear) celebrates the Apple co-founder’s accomplishments, while demagnetizing Jobs’ cult of personality. In voiceover, Gibney

confesses his own love for Apple products and Pixar’s Wall-E. He sets up the dichotomy and then proves it true: the lovable machines versus the “ruthless, deceitful and cruel” man who sired them.

The thought-provoking interviews flow down a stream of music from one of Jobs’ favorites, Bob Dylan.

Chrisann Brennan, the mother of Jobs’ child, describes his callousness here as she did in her memoir. In her book, she wrote, “Steve’s lack of fair play seems shameless to me.” If Jobs dealt harshly with the paternity of his daughter, Lisa, he had the excuse of being an adopted child … in the same sense that a parricidal killer has the excuse of being an orphan.

There were others who loved the man. Bob Belleville, one weeping former Apple exec, quotes the eulogy

he wrote, recalling that “Santa Claus” was of the faces of Steve. Many still believe in that Santa, remembering the advent of the iPod, the iMac, the iPad. Gibney’s work will be blasphemy to the kind of people who put “#iSad” on their Facebook pages on that October day four years ago.

Perhaps little crimes indicate indifference to bigger ones. Jobs was an able-bodied jerk who took handicapped parking spaces. But Gibney checks off a bigger roster, including Apple’s tax sheltering of $137 billion overseas. After Jobs returned to the company he founded as a temporary CEO, he unplugged its charitable work. There were the matters of the suicide-wracked Foxconn factory; the downstreaming of pollution and unsafe working conditions; the gaming of stock options; Jobs’ behind-the-scenes maneuver to fix salaries among several Silicon Valley giants, in an effort to keep the Valley one big company town.

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Retold here is the comic affair of the iPhone 4 prototype—forgotten in a bar by a tipsy Apple employee.

The tale turned scary when Gizmodo reporter Jason Chen, who received the phone, had his apartment door busted

by R.E.A.C.T., a consortium of police aimed by a “steering committee” of two dozen high-tech companies, including Apple. Jobs demonstrated the truth of the axiom that at 50, you get the face you deserve. In his dying days, he resembled The Simpsons plutocrat Mr. Burns. Burns himself might have gone on camera as Jobs did, to suggest that, on the bright side, the Chinese suicide rate is still smaller than what we’ve got in the U.S. In an animated sequence, we learn about Jobs’ intense spiritual side, and his youthful desire to be a zen monk, as Jobs’ mentor Kobun Chino Otugawa describes having a midnight drink with Jobs at the Tea Cup bar in Los Altos.

There was genuine vision in the way Jobs thought of the computer as a tool for personal growth, not a simple calculator for bean-counting. Jobs took the terror out of the personal computer. He was right. There was so much to gain. The fearmongers were right, too: there was a good reason to be worried about lack of privacy and the erosion of personality.

Jobs’ mystique was always a bit sinister—love and fear go hand in hand in the marketing game. One tidbit we see here: a vintage magazine advertisement showing an Apple computer that sold for $666.66—sold, yet, with a logo that is the symbol of temptation and the Fall of Man. The only way to fully appreciate these magic little machines is to understand that they’re the result of ceaseless health-ruining, familyfracturing labor by people whose names we will never know. Belleville describes Jobs’ career as “a life well and fully lived,” yet Jobs’ struggle never ended. His designs became obsolete, like the commodities they are.

Considering them all is like considering Jobs’ life: you don’t know whether to marvel over the achievement or mourn over all the waste.

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(2015) The documentary that suggests that if you lock up your children long enough, they’ll turn into Michel Gondry.

Director Crystal Moselle was on the street in New York one day when she encountered the Angulo family, a group of teenage boys dressed like the Reservoir Dogs in suits and sunglasses.

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years she got to know the boys and their mother, a gentle woman from Michigan named Suzanne who was homeschooling them. Moselle learned of their bizarre history—their Peruvian father, Oscar was an ex-Krishna who gave his seven sons names from Hindu religion and refused to let them leave the house, sometimes for a year at a time. A question the film doesn’t answer is why a religious maniac would allow movies into his home, when the power of cinema to mold and change is apparent even to the most blinkered.

These boys got their views of the world watching Tarantino, the Halloween series and Christopher Nolan. Besotted, these captives recreated these films as best they could with cardboard sets and duct tape costumes, some of a high degree of quality. Moselle doesn’t identify these boys every time, and since they’re born a year or so apart and have similar mannerisms, we do get a sense of them being a pack—of puppies. Any actual violence between the cooped-up teens is kept off screen, as is the commentedupon off-screen marital violence between Oscar and Suzanne. Moselle has great patience, and her camera feasts on the unselfconscious male beauty of these adolescents. The movie has sweetness and charm. But there’s an element of manipulation in the way Moselle frames this family history as a success story with a happy ending down on the farm. (On demand from Vudu and Amazon). (RvB)

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(1965/1954) There were many authentically dumb blondes in the movies, but Judy Holliday wasn't one of them. The yellow hair was supposedly her own, as was the fluffy name—a translation of her birth name, Judith Tuvic (“Tuvic” means “holiday” in Hebrew). She was probably the brainiest of all actresses to put on the curls and negligee of the blonde clown. Holiday began as a cabaret comedian, whose partners were Betty Comden and the late Adolph Green, partners on Singin' in the Rain. In the Comden/Green musical Bells Are Ringing, her last film, she plays an answering-service owner who falls for the terminally debonair Dean Martin. Songs include “Just in Time” and “The Party's Over.” BILLED WITH It Should Happen to You. Ordinary little shop girl Gladys Glover (Holliday) rents a billboard at Columbus Circle to promote herself, and the trick works—

much to the discomfiture of her honest documentary-maker boyfriend (Jack Lemmon). In the meantime, a soap company covets her choice advertising location and sends representative Peter Lawford to finesse the billboard out of her hands. While the mid-’50s NYC locations are time-capsule delights, and while Holliday's wise-foolishness is beguiling, my favorite moment is a speech in which she holds off the lecherous Lawford. To get him talking (and to stop him nibbling her ear), she asks him if he's lonely, living there in that bachelor apartment all by himself. Yes, he admits, lowering his eyes. “You could get a parrot,” she suggests. “You could be talking to it, and it could be talking to you. I mean, you wouldn't be talking to each other, but it would be talk.” (Plays Sept 2-4 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

BITTER MOON (1992) The weird title Lune de Fiel puns on “honeymoon” (lune de miel) Roman Polanski’s sly and mean-forthe-fun-of-it sex comedy, played by a straight-faced cast who fooled many of the viewers of the day. (You still meet people who are certain Polanski was dead serious here.) On a rainy cruise to Istanbul, a wheelchair-bound writer Oscar (Peter Coyote), a pompous Paris-dwelling trust-funded American with delusions of being Henry Miller, tells of the story of his greatest love and greatest hate. These two are actually one and the same woman, his wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner, later Mrs. Polanski) red-dressed, crimsonlipsticked, currently prowling the boat seeking new victims. Oscar’s listener Nigel (a virginal Hugh Grant) is shocked by a litany of sexual excesses he hears, as when Oscar describes receiving a golden shower: “She was my Ganges, my Nile….” But the meek little Brit needs to hear more, ever more, even if it means avoiding his own wife Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas, never more sexually discouraging) during this, their seventh anniversary trip. The flashbacks take the passionate Oscar and Mimi through the entire 360 degrees of the circle between cringing dependency and vengeful rage, with the woman triumphing: Mimi’s ought-to-be-famous line is, “the good news is you’ll never walk again … the bad news is that I’ll be taking care of you.” It’s loaded with crazy sex (it’s hard to forget the sated-baby expression Seigneur’s Mimi makes as she pours milk all over her breasts), but it may be too deranged to have ever found an audience. The source novel from Pascal Bruckner, a well-known French philosopher and neoconservative, seems to honestly believe that there’s no therapy for a bad marriage like having kids. Don’t try that one at home. But fans of classic cinema are used to seeing the argument of a really dark movie negated by a dumb hopeful ending. Eurocheesy soundtrack by Vangelis (Blade Runner).

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PROGRESSIVES PERSEVERE Veteran prog rock act Yes will keep playing after the death of bassist and co-founder, Chris Squire.

Yes won’t take no for an answer after passing of founding member

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HEN YES CO-FOUNDER and bassist extraordinaire, Chris Squire, passed away earlier this year, many fans wondered what would happen to the legendary prog-rock ensemble.

The answer to that question came fairly quickly from his surviving band mates—who had learned Squire was ill in May, a short time before his death on June 27 from Acute Erythroid Leukemia at the age of 67.

“He asked me personally to carry everything on,” Yes drummer Alan White says, recalling his band mate’s request. “He said, ‘You’ve got to keep this thing going.’”

Speaking by phone shortly before a recent performance in Biloxi, Miss., White says Squire will be dearly missed. “Obviously it’s not going to be the same without Chris playing.” he says. “He was a great part of this band, but he wanted us to carry on, regardless of what happened to him.”

An influential and ground-breaking group, Yes have sold nearly 40 million records since forming in 1968, and have produced many memorable songs including “Roundabout,” “Starship Trooper,” “Heart of the Sunrise” and “Owner of a Lonely

Heart.” The band had already booked their summer tour with Toto—which which comes to the Mountain Winery on Sept. 8—when Squire discovered he was sick.

The plan at the time was for Billy Sherwood, a protégé and friend of Squire’s, to fill in for him while he received treatment—a contingency that has remained in place since his passing. Considering Squire’s reputation as one of the most gifted bassists in rock, whose virtuosity on the instrument was one of the trademarks the Yes sound, some might question whether those very big shoes could be adequately and appropriately filled.

White, who joined Yes back in 1972, assures fans that they should be at ease with Sherwood taking Squire’s place on stage.

“We pulled ourselves together and we’ve got Billy Sherwood,” White says.

“He was a good friend, and Chris was

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his mentor, so he grew up playing Chris’s material. He pretty much knows everything.”

Live performances have always been a strong point in the band’s legacy.

They’ve released many live albums over the years, including their latest, Like It Is, in July. White emphasizes that these gigs are also acting as a loving celebration of the group’s history. Each Yes show on the current North American tour begins with a tribute to Squire—all of which, White says, have been moving.

“We think it’s only apt on this tour,” he says, “and it’s a great help to us to see the fans appreciating the fact that we’re still moving on. We’ve had really pretty great reactions at every show.”

Once the tour comes to an end on Sept. 12, Yes will be taking part in “Cruise to the Edge” in November—a five day cruise from Florida to the Bahamas and back, featuring concerts, parties, shore excursions and more. In April the band will head to Europe to perform two of their classic albums—Fragile and Drama—in their entirety, live.

When that string of gigs is over, White says that he and the other members of Yes—which includes fellow long-time member Steve Howe on guitar—will sit down and try to figure out where they want to go from there.

“We’re going to get through this next year and then analyze where we’re at, and see what we can do,” he says.

In addition to Yes, the 66-yearold drummer has performed with a variety of other bands and individual musicians over the years. White has played with Joe Cocker, Ginger Baker and George Harrison. He was also behind the drums for the recording of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” After nearly 50 years in the music world, and with all of his experiences and journeys, White sees this time period as a potential new stage in both his career and that of Yes. “I played with Chris for 43 years, we had a Zen kind of relationship— and now I have to move on with the music.”

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Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop AGENDA LOUNGE Every Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays w/ free dance lessons. Every Thu, 9pm: Banda Night. San Jose. Every Sunday: Hip-hop & reggae. San Jose.

ART BOUTIKI Thu, Sep 3, 7:30pm: Andrew Lion Quartet. Fri, Sep 4, 7:30pm: Zac Zenith, Nik Bartunek, Daniel Hernandez. San Jose.

THE BACK BAR SOFA Every Wed, 9pm: The Cypher, feat.

Hip-hop, Jungle, Soul, Reggae, Dubstep, Trap, BreakBeat, House and more. San Jose.

MOJO LOUNGE Fri, Sep 4, 9:30pm: In Living Color. Sat, Sep 5, 9:30pm: David More. Every Sun, 8pm: Acoustic Jam. Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Band. Every Thurs: DJ Mist. Fremont.

MOUNTAIN WINERY Wed, Sep 2, 7pm: Gypsy Kings, Nicolas Reyes, Tonino Baliardo.

Fri, Sep 4, 7:30pm: Neko Case, Robyn Hitchcock. Fri, Sep 5, 7:30pm: Franki Valli and the Four Seasons Sun, Sep 6, 7:30pm: The Psychedelic Furs. Saratoga.

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.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Every Thu, 10pm: Karaoke. Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ. Santa Clara.

THE CATS Wed, Sep 2, 7pm: Acoustic Madness. Thu, Sep 3, 8pm: Hootenanny. Fri, Sep 4, 8pm: Maneck. Sat, Sep 5, 8pm: AJ Crawdaddy. Every Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

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CITY NATIONAL CIVIC Sat, Sep 5, 3pm: Latvian Folk Dance Concert. San Jose.

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Sat, Sep 5, 7pm: Fog City Swampers. Sun, Sep 6, 1pm: Mikey Day Duo. San Jose.

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ Wed, Sep 2, 7pm: Denis Dove.

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MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Wed, Sep 2, 7pm: The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue.

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

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ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays.

Wed, Sep 2, 7:30pm: Enrico Barretta. Thu, Sep 3, 7:30pm: Bridget Marie. Fri, Sep 4, 8:30pm: George Silva (Elvis Presley Tribute). Sat, Sep 5, 6:30pm: Clif Payne (Stevie Wonder Cover) . Sun, Aug 30, 7:30pm: Pamela Umali w/ Rick Ferguson. Redwood City.

BLUE NOTE LOUNGE Every Tue, 7:30pm: Yoshi Senzaki Band. Every Sun: Jazz or Blues. Milpitas.

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday.

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SAM'S BBQ Wed, Sep 2, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, Sep 8, 6pm: Carolina Special. San Jose.

SMOKING PIG BBQ Fri, Sep 4, 9pm: Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s. Sat, Sep 5, 9pm: John Clifton Blues Band. Fremont.

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LIKE SO MANY creatives living in downtown San Jose, Ismael “Millhows” Villanueva had his epiphany at Cinebar. However, unlike like so many of his less fortunate peers, the local musician was able to hold on to his inspiration—successfully preventing it from slipping away on a river of icecold Olympia and Jamo shots.

Millhows, as he prefers to be called, was DJ-ing at the Cine for a stretch— playing mostly soul, classic rock and garage records—when it hit him.

“I got inspired,” he recalls. As one-half of the garage-rock duo Dirty Pillows, who are currently on an indefinite hiatus, Millhows was no stranger to lo-fi licks. But in that moment, spinning records in the back of the bar, he began to make connections between the music of The Stooges and The Rolling Stones and those many soul, doo-wop and early rock & roll groups who had inspired the likes of Iggy and Jagger.

The Jean Jackets Sep 5, 9pm, Free Caravan Lounge

“It’s not a far walk to get from Otis Redding to Free or the MC5,” Millhows muses. “There’s a very thin line.”

Millhows is clearly having a blast dancing all over that line on his new project, The Jean Jackets, whose debut album, Money, The Hunt & Applause, is currently available for streaming on SoundCloud. His band plays Caravan Lounge on Saturday, along with Cola and Mother’s Worry.

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“It’s basically a garage band album,” Millhows says of Money. Indeed, the record is no frills and lo-fi, and does sound as if it could have been recorded in a garage.

However, upon repeated listens, it’s hard not to imagine the The Jean Jackets laying down the tracks to Money next to a baby blue ’56 Chevy Bel Air. “Valentines Day” features wordless, crooning backup vocals, reminiscent of Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison while “Morning Light” kicks off with a descending, chromatic surf guitar trill—sounding a bit like a sloppy cover of Dick Dale’s “Miserlou.” And plenty of tracks on the album feature the stutter-step pianos, deliberate arpeggios and snapping guitar punctuation immortalized by ’50s hits, such as “Stand By Me,” “Blue Moon” and “Earth Angel.”

Millhows says any similarity between The Jean Jackets’ music and these quintessential songs from early days of rock & roll are due to his admiration for classic pop tunes.

“I feel like my generation, and the generation under me is not embracing the ‘pop song’ as much,” he explains. “A lot of the music I love are great pop songs. More than anything, I wanted to exercise my pop songwriting chops.”—Nick Veronin

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Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Open Mic Tuesdays.

Redwood City.

CAFFE FRASCATI Every Mon, 8pm: Commediaopen mic for comedy. Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

CAMERA 3 Fri, 9pm, Sat, 7pm and 9:15pm: Comedy Sportz. San Jose.

ALEX’S 49ER INN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

THE BACK BAR

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Wed-Sat & Tue, 9pm-2am, & last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke.

Campbell.

FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.

GALAXY

Tue thru Sat: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu, 9pm-2am: August.

Milpitas.

THE BEARS

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CARAVAN

Fri, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Comedy Caravan.

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

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Sat, 9pm: Karaoke evenings.

Santa Clara.

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Fri, 9pm: Karaoke Friday Nights. Santa Clara.

Every Wednesday 7pm Chris & Friends Open Mic. gvacafe. com. Morgan Hill.

IMPROV Wed, Sep 2, 8pm: American Me Comedy. Thu, Sep 3, 8pm: Kevin Shea. Fri-Sun, Sep 4-6: Felipe Esparza. San Jose.

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BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Karaoke w/ Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri & Sun, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Wed, 9pm: Poetic Justice Open Mic. San Jose.

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Sun, 9:30pm: Comedy. San Jose.

PHILZ COFFEE Mon, 7pm: Open mic. Free.

San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Tue, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

Tue: Karaoke with Medik & Sean Blak. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: Karaoke w/ DJ Hank. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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Breakfast Lunch & Dinner Beer & Wine OPEN MIC: Wed

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Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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No cover. San Jose.

KATIE BLOOM’S Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

KHARTOUM Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

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PIONEER SALOON Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall.

Woodside.

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Wed: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Shakalosos Banda Nights.

Sun: Reggae Vybez. San Jose.

Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No cover.

Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

Fri: Loft Fridays w/ DJ Exrated, J-Quest. Sat: The Upstairs Party w/ DJ Howhigh, DJ RQ, DJ Sequence, DJ Christylz. San Jose.

BAMBOO LOUNGE Fri-Sat: DJ or Live Entertainment. San Jose.

Sun, 10am: Psycho Karaoke.

Campbell.

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Cupertino.

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BRANHAM LOUNGE Wed: Almaden Valley Beer Pong with DJ ONEmanARMY. Thu: Vintage (80s, 90s, Pop, Rock, Hip Hop) with DJ David Q. Fri: Quality Control with DJ DLuzion. Sat: Lounge Life with DJ Krucial and DJ NESSrock. San Jose.

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Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

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Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt point out that “human mating is inherently strategic.”

Genetically, they explain, it’s generally in a man’s best interest to pursue a “short-term sexual strategy.” (Scientific journals and tenure committees frown on terms like “hit it and quit it.”) Basically, a man can limit his participation in sex to the fun part and still pass on his genes. Women coevolved to expect men to try for this sort of limited participation (so

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Note that the guy keeps coming to pick you up, and not because he is an Uber driver or is being held at gunpoint by your mother. You could say something to him—maybe “Hey, I was really hoping you’d take me home one of these nights.” This may be the nudge he needs to make a move—or at least tell you what’s up. And sure, it is within the realm of possibility that he has ED, an STD, low sexual desire, or a seriously small penis and is waiting until you’re emotionally attached to break out the news. But it’s also possible that you aren’t the only woman he’s seeing and he’s trying to be adult about it, meaning that he’s learned that many women get emotionally attached after sex. Sleeping with two women is a good way to end up with a girlfriend—and one would-be girlfriend in the bushes with ricin-tipped blow darts or at least searching Yelp for the best-rated local assassins.

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Though it seems a bad idea to pick petty arguments, your friend has a point—that you don’t find out who somebody really is when the most pressing question they’re asked is, “Do you need a few more minutes to look at the menu, monsieur?” What comes out in the early stages of dating is temperament more than character. In social psychology, temperament is basically what “flavor” a person is—introverted or extroverted, loud or quiet, happy or glum. Character is values-driven behavior—meaning whether a person’s likely to do what’s

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CECIL@METRONEWS.COM I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It’s minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit this morning with the windchill. When I was a kid I was led to believe we’d live in domed cities in the future (in addition to being served by robots and driving flying cars). Would domes over cold-weather cities be worthwhile? Are there materials available today that could hold up to the stress?—Michael Stephensen I live in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Right now it’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit. It’ll be plenty brisk here in six months (eh, probably six weeks), and writing about bitter cold while simultaneously experiencing it is more than I can bear.

The short answer is no, we don’t have materials up to the challenge of doming a city the size of Winnipeg. But we’re getting closer—carbon nanotubes have an incredible strength-to-weight ratio, and may someday yield dome-building materials that would let northern city dwellers go naked (well, coatless) in January. Nonetheless, formidable challenges remain. Let’s examine a few.

As you rightly surmise, a dome’s diameter is limited by the stresses on the supporting structure. You can minimize these by making the bottom of the dome thick and the top paper-thin, making the dome inflatable (i.e., held up by air pressure), or hanging the roof on cables from steel towers passing through it.

(Google “Millennium Dome” to see what this looks like.)

Next, you have to consider the elements—wind, rain, and snow. Let’s start with a small-scale example: doming your neighborhood with a hemisphere 1,000 feet in diameter. Domes are resistant to wind loading, but a 30-mile-per-hour wind on a 500-foot-tall hemispherical dome still exerts a total lateral force of 96 tons. Since this thing will enclose people’s homes, businesses, and Starbucks, it has to be able to handle a lot more wind than that—in the opinion of my assistant and engineering consultant Una, at least a 100-mile-per-hour gust, for a lateral force of over 1,000 tons. So a simple inflatable dome would be ripped to shreds.

Rain isn’t a big issue, but since we’re talking about Canada we have to consider snow loading. Some snow will slide off the dome but not all. If a quarter of our 500-foot dome is covered with an inch of accumulation, the roof load is going to be more than 250 tons. And we haven’t even mentioned hail.

Other dome downsides: a nonporous dome will trap the heat and pollution generated by the people living under it, and if it’s transparent you’ve basically got a giant, stinky greenhouse. Either you’re going to have to riddle the base

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Then there’s wildlife—you want some, right? Migratory birds will be unable to migrate, unless you somehow manage to safely catch and release them outside your dome each year. With year-round mild-tohot temperatures, you could find yourself looking at a serious insect problem. And if humidity builds up under the dome, say hello to mold.

So: impossible, right? Not if you manage expectations. Last year the Singapore Sports Hub opened for business featuring the world’s largest free-standing dome, with a roof that can be opened or closed depending on the weather. While not hemispherical, with a diameter of 310 meters—1,017 feet—it can certainly cover your 1,000-foot neighborhood. Using a steel structure and translucent plastic panels, the dome is designed to withstand anything Singapore’s climate can throw at it.

More covered exterior spaces are in the offing. The planned Skidome Denmark, featuring six indoor and two outdoor ski slopes, consists of three huge, hollow arches intersecting over a river; the largest spans a half mile and rises to 360 feet at the center.

Mind you, the low ceilings inside might feel claustrophobic, but hey—sacrifices must be made.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Excess is the common substitute for energy,â&#x20AC;? said poet Marianne Moore.

That's a problem you should watch out for in the coming weeks. According to my astrological projections, you're a bit less lively and dynamic than usual. And you may be tempted to compensate by engaging in extreme behavior or resorting to a contrived show of force. Please don't! A better strategy would be to recharge your power. Lay low and take extra good care of yourself. Get high-quality food, sleep, entertainment, art, love, and relaxation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For a pregnant woman, the fetus often begins to move for the ďŹ rst time during the ďŹ fth month of gestation. The sensation may resemble popcorn popping or a butterďŹ&#x201A;y ďŹ&#x201A;uttering.

It's small but dramatic, the distinct evidence that a live creature is growing inside her. Even if you are not literally expecting a baby, and even if you are male, I suspect you will soon feel the metaphorical equivalent of a fetus's ďŹ rst kicks. You're not ready to give birth yet, of course, but you are well on your way to generating a new creation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since U Been Goneâ&#x20AC;? is a pop song recorded by vocalist Kelly Clarkson. She won a Grammy for it, and made a lot of money from its sales. But two other singers turned down the chance to make it their own before Clarkson got her shot. The people who wrote the tune offered it ďŹ rst to Pink and then to Hilary Duff, but neither accepted. Don't be like those two singers, Gemini. Be like Clarkson. Recognize opportunities when they are presented to you, even if they are disguised or partially cloaked.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going with the ďŹ&#x201A;owâ&#x20AC;? sounds easy and relaxing, but here's another side of the truth: Sometimes it can kick your ass. The rippling current you're ďŹ&#x201A;oating on may swell up into a boisterous wave. The surge of the stream might get so hard and fast that your ride becomes more spirited than you anticipated. And yet I still think that going with the ďŹ&#x201A;ow is your best strategy in the coming weeks.

It will eventually deliver you to where you need to go, even if there are bouncy surprises along the way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Money doesn't make you happy,â&#x20AC;? said movie star and ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.â&#x20AC;? Despite his avowal, I'm guessing that extra money would indeed make you at least somewhat happier. And the good news is that the coming months will be prime time for you to boost your economic fortunes. Your ability to attract good ďŹ nancial luck will be greater than usual, and it will zoom even higher if you focus on getting better educated and organized about how to bring more wealth your way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand.â&#x20AC;? So sang Jimi Hendrix in his raucous psychedelic tune â&#x20AC;&#x153;Voodoo Child (Slight Return).â&#x20AC;? We could view his statement as an example of delusional grandiosity, and dismiss it as meaningless. Or we could say it's a funny and brash boast that Hendrix made as he imagined himself to be a mythic hero capable of unlikely feats. For the purposes of this horoscope, let's go with the latter interpretation. I encourage you to dream up a slew of extravagant brags about the outlandish magic powers you have at your disposal. I bet it will rouse hidden reserves of energy that will enhance your more practical powers.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It's the phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to transform yourself.

If you work hard to rectify and purify your inner life, you will be able to generate a transcendent release.

Moreover, you may tap into previously dormant or inaccessible aspects of your soul's code. Here are some tips on how to fully activate this magic. 1. Without any ambivalence, banish ghosts that are more trouble than they are worth. 2. Identify the one bad habit you most want to dissolve, and replace it with a good habit. 3.

Forgive everyone, including yourself. 4. Play a joke on your fear. 5. Discard or give away material objects that no longer have any meaning or use.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope you're not getting bored with all of the good news I have been

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delivering in recent weeks. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm sugarcoating or whitewashing, but I swear I'm simply reporting the truth about the cosmic omens.

Your karma is extra sweet these days. You do have a few obstacles, but they are weaker than usual. So I'm afraid you will have to tolerate my rosy prophecies for a while longer. Stop reading now if you can't bear to receive a few more buoyant beams. This is your last warning! Your web of allies is getting more resilient and interesting. You're expressing just the right mix of wise selďŹ shness and enlightened helpfulness. As your inďŹ&#x201A;uence increases, you are becoming even more responsible about wielding it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When 16thcentury Spanish invaders arrived in the land of the Mayans, they found a civilization that was in many ways highly advanced. The native people had a superior medical system and calendar. They built impressive cities with sophisticated architecture and paved roads. They were proliďŹ c artists, and had a profound understanding of mathematics and astronomy. And yet they did not make or use wheeled vehicles, which had been common in much of the rest of the world for more than 2,000 years. I see a certain similarity between this odd disjunction and your life.

Although you're mostly competent and authoritative, you are neglecting to employ a certain resource that would enhance your competence and authority even further. Fix this oversight!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you have ever fantasized about taking a pilgrimage to a wild frontier or sacred sanctuary or your ancestral homeland, the next ten months will be an excellent time to do it. And the best time to plan such an adventure will be the coming two weeks. Keep the following questions in mind as you brainstorm: 1. What are your life's greatest mysteries, and what sort of journey might bring an awakening that clariďŹ es them? 2. Where could you go in order to clarify the curious yearnings that you have never fully understood? 3. What power spot on planet Earth might activate the changes you most want to make in your life?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When he died at the age of 77 in 1905, Aquarian author Jules Verne had published 54 books. You've probably heard of his science ďŹ ction novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He was a major inďŹ&#x201A;uence on numerous writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Arthur Rimbaud. But one of his manuscripts never made it into book form. When he ďŹ nished it in 1863, his publisher refused to publish it, so Verne stashed it in a safe. It remained there until his great-grandson discovered it in 1989. Five years later, Verne's "lost novel," Paris in the Twentieth Century, went on sale for the ďŹ rst time. I suspect that in the coming months, you may have a comparable experience, Aquarius. An old dream that was lost or never fulďŹ lled may be available for recovery and resuscitation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation,â&#x20AC;? says stand-up comic Arnold Brown, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but I'm not very good at it.â&#x20AC;? Your task in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to undermine your own skills at self-deprecation. You may think they are too strong and entrenched to undo and unlearn, but I don'tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially now, when the cosmic forces are conspiring to prove to you how beautiful you are. Cooperate with those cosmic forces! Exploit the advantages they are providing. Inundate yourself with approval, praise, and naked ďŹ&#x201A;attery.

Homework: What other name would you give yourself if you could take a vacation from your present name? Why? FreeWillAstrology.com.

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NOTIFICATION OF DISPOSITION OF COLLATERAL August 28, 2015 To: Mobile Roadie, Inc. PO Box 480400 Los Angeles, CA 90048 Attn: Chief Executive Officer From: Montage Capital II, L.P. 900 East Hamilton Avenue, Suite 100 Campbell, CA 95008 (408) 659-2299 We will sell (or lease or license, as applicable) all of the personal property of Mobile Roadie, Inc., including equipment, inventory, accounts and general intangibles to the highest qualified bidder in public, as follows: Day and Date: Monday, September 21, 2015. Time: 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time Place: 900 East Hamilton Avenue, Suite 100, Campbell, California 95008 You are entitled to an accounting of the unpaid indebtedness secured by the property that we intend to sell (or lease or license, as applicable). You may request an accounting by calling Eric Gonzales at (408) 659-2299. MONTAGE CAPITAL II, L.P. By: /s/ Eric Gonzales Name: Eric Gonzales Title: Managing Director

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608522 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Smoke Shop Blvd., 1180 Tully Road #A, San Jose, CA, 95122, Yaser Alnajjar, 723 Dalewood Ct., San Jose, CA, 95120.

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Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/27/15.

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Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/06/2010.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JT Window Cleaning, 1617 Whitton Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Jose Javier Salgado.

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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.

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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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607307 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: VeryWell, 1975 Hamilton Ave., Suite 7, San Jose, CA, 95125, Dina Zuccaro, 535 Coe Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608111 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: All Freight Transportation, 1779 Lancaster Dr., #11, San Jose, CA, 95124, Armando Millan.

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Armando Millan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/17/2015. (pub Metro 8/19, 8/2, 9/02, 9/09//2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607721 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Paris Truckin, 1702 Tustin Dr., San Jose, CA, 95122, Pablo Rocha Miranda.

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Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/4/15. /s/Pablo Rocha Miranda This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/04/2015. (pub Metro 8/19, 8/26, 9/02, 9/09/2015)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607783 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Skyline Venture Consulting, 4672 San Lucas Way, San Jose, CA, 95135, Darlo Perez.

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Darlo Perez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/06/2015. (pub Metro 8/12, 8/19, 8/26, 9/02/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607465 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Microline Enterprises, 320 Clifton Ave., San Jose, CA, 95120, Derick Sowell. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/28/2015. /s/Derick Sowell This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/28/2015. (pub Metro 8/12, 8/19, 8/26, 9/02/2015)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607454 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:Traficante And Company, 2656 Kimball Dr., San Jose, CA, 95121, Jose Pacheco, Cesar Garza, 2920 Roby Av., San Jose, CA, 95148.

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jose Pacheco This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/28/2015. (pub Metro 8/12, 8/19, 8/26, 9/02/2015)

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