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www.fremonthearingaidcenter.com Many partial-hearing losses can be aided or compensated by the simple fitting of a hearing aid. If you're having trouble hearing, schedule a visit with the team at Fremont Hearing Aid Center, at 142 West Calaveras Blvd, in Milpitas or in Fremont at 2557 Mowry Avenue, Suite 31. Here you can be expertly fitted with a hearing aid with the newest digital technology that will work to correct your hearing impairment.

Fremont Hearing Aid Center, open Monday thru Friday, 9:00 AM till 5:00 PM, features quality instruments, personal listening devices, and complimentary testing (for instrument selection) and you will find that their prices are very competitive.

At Fremont Hearing Aid Center you will find something else that many people just talk about...service and service is with a smile. The team goes out of their way to insure that you have been fitted with a hearing aid that will provide help and that will continue to serve you for many years with a 45 day evaluation period.

The editors of this 2015 Consumer Business Review of leading businesses and top professionals recommend that you consult Fremont Hearing Aid Center for your hearing impairment.

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(408) 241-2520 Cell (408) 315-4778 www.santaclararealty.com Santa Clara Realty's offices are located at 1212 El Camino Real, Suite 101, in Santa Clara.

At Santa Clara Realty, you will receive the best professional service in real estate. Whether you are buying or selling, and whether you're interested in acreage, investment property or a new home for your family, call Tony. He has been recognized as the "Real Estate Broker" of The Year for 10 consecutive years!

All work is under the supervision of professionals who can insure that your property transaction is done exactly according to your specifications, with guidance from their professional staff.

Many Real Estate Agencies barrage you with advertising telling you how they are the "best around". Obviously everyone cannot be the "best".

So, what is it that sets Santa Clara Realty apart from the others? They simply have a reputation of taking care of every detail on your behalf, and the kind of knowledgeable staff who can provide the timeliest service.

Santa Clara Realty and Antonio "Tony" Avelar have gained a reputation, which is well known, and they have become a vital asset to the Real Estate community.

The editors of this 2015 Consumer Business Review suggest Santa Clara Realty as the place for all Real Estate transactions. We recommend Santa Clara Realty to our readers!

Law Offices Of Steven H. Nakano Practice Emphasizing Criminal Defense Phone (408) 998-1985 E-Mail: shn1nakano@gmail.com PLEASE WATCH OUR VIDEO AT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBsjr-rF4-s

Call: 408-984-0989 www.allanssalon.com In today's society, the 21st Century, where time is of the essence, looking for a nearly perfect salon to enhance the uniqueness of each individual in Santa Clara County is difficult. To find a salon that is highly recommended in the 2015 Consumer Business Review, and where organic brand name products are used, is few and far between. Allan Salon ALWAYS has the most educated professional stylists that come from highly esteemed schools such as Mod Hair in Paris, Vidal Sassoon Academy, Mahogany in London, Toni & Guy in London, Bumble & Bumble Academy and Aveda Academy…which is rare among salons!

In addition, participating in hair shows, competition, fundraisers and attending advanced classes around the world are a few of the things we love to engage ourselves with to keep our techniques fresh and unique. A hair stylist has been honored the ICON award in May and Allan Salon is published in the Salon Option magazine in Australia and the California Stylists magazine with exceptional reviews.

Allan Salon, at 4483 Stevens Creek Boulevard, in Santa Clara, California, invites you to experience the highest standard possible. Call TODAY for an appointment and experience the highly skilled professionals at Allan Salon!

Would you represent yourself if you became the defendant in a criminal matter? No, of course not! You'd retain an attorney. But, it's difficult to know whom to call, unless you know someone personally. We'd like to help!

Criminal defense is not something you should consider lightly. You could spend years of your life in prison if you should lose your case.

Steve Nakano cares about every client. He wants to do more than just represent you. He wants to help you rid yourself of the underlying problem - substance abuse, psychiatric problems, etc. He works with many area drug program experts and personal counselors in an all-out effort to help the "whole person".

Mr. Nakano is engaged in the practice of criminal defense. His emphasis is in the areas of drug offenses, white-collar crimes, domestic violence, and all felonies & misdemeanors. He knows the laws and knows how to properly prepare your case. His goal is to represent you effectively!

Call 408-998-1985 today for a private and confidential consultation.

Mr. Nakano's office is located at 161 Jackson Street, Suite #200, in San Jose, and he is prepared to offer you aggressive representation.

The editors of this 2015 Consumer Business Review feel you owe it to yourself to have Steve Nakano on your side. For the 14th time, we recommend him to our readers.

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THIS MODERN WORLD

By TOM TOMORROW

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

Café Creeps Your group sits in front of Peet’s Coffee on Lincoln Avenue every morning just to ogle at female patrons unlucky enough to have to walk past. You stop talking to stare up and down at women as young as your granddaughters. One time, you referred to a young attractive Asian as "the sweet egg roll that just walked in,” then proceeded to speculate out loud whether she was wearing underwear or not.

It's clear she could hear you from the look on her face.

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LOL this feels like an article written to sell people on Elon Musk and his bad ideas ’cause they won’t sell themselves.

I think he’s smart for fighting to build cars here in the Bay Area

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Project Runaway They told Fly they were going to dress down the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE). They said they were going to put Board President DARCIE GREEN, who’s also a candidate for State Assembly, on notice.

They said Superintendent JON GUNDRY, who’s spent the last year handing out secret contracts and firing top executives without cause, would be held to account.

And then they went and held the equivalent of a protest dress rehearsal. Nearly 20 people wearing all black with accented teal lapels showed their solidarity in the face of bureaucracy last week by telling the board to recruit and retain Latinas for top SCCOE executive positions, but no mention was made of MARIBEL MEDINA and MICAELA OCHOA—until recently the SCCOE’s county counsel and chief business officer, respectively—losing their jobs in July at a cost to taxpayers of $500,000. No mention was made of Gundry doling out contracts to companies They that may or may not Did exist for the purpose What? of siphoning taxpayer dollars. Instead, ROSALIE SEND TIPS TO O LEDESMA, government FLY@ affairs director for San METRONEWS. WSS. COM Jose Evergreen College, led a three-pronged plea for more Latinas while commending the board for its own diversity. ELISA ORONA, a coordinator for Asian Americans for Community Involvement, and SONIA RAMOS, executive director of Cal-SOAP, spent their time speaking to the board by listing off “high positions” held by Latinas, without bothering to actually name the individuals. In a hilarious moment of irony, Orona actually highlighted Ochoa’s new job in San Mateo-Foster City’s office of education. Gundry couldn’t help but smirk at the uncoordinated effort to call his power into question, and Green made a point of coming over to gather cards from the group, almost assuredly destined for her campaign database. If the goal was to effect any real change, at least the group got a good number of photos in the lobby to commemorate its meet-and-greet.

Nerd Alert GREENIES Zach Miller, second from left, launched the Silicon Valley chapter of Nerds for Nature to marry community efforts to conserve with the help of technology.

Conservation meets tech as local Nerds for Nature takes root

BY LINDSEY J. SMITH

D

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The salty, grainy smell of baked marsh grasses wafts through the door of a conference room at the Peninsula Conservation Center, as Zach Miller, lean and alert, stands by the door, waiting for the clock to strike 7. As stragglers settle in, Miller introduces himself.

Born and raised in Mountain View, he’s an ex-lawyer working for Acterra, a nonprofit that connects volunteers to environmental opportunities.

Earlier this year, he founded the Silicon Valley chapter of Nerds for Nature, an organization that similarly unites

people with a passion for technology and conservation.

Miller calls for pitches—no matter how harebrained—and is met with silence. “C’mon, guys,” he coaxes, armed with a stack of Nerds for Nature stickers. With the first tentatively raised hand he bounds across the room. “Yes! You get a sticker, man!” His eagerness spreads and soon the pitches are flying.

The 20 attendees fall into two categories: either they have an agenda or they’re genuinely curious about the intersection of technology and conservation. A frustrated environmental lawyer proposes an app for converting different water measurements. A DeAnza College student wants to make environmental education compulsory in public schools. A disaffected intern hopes to use image recognition to identify whether items are recyclable, compostable or should go to the landfill.

After 45 minutes, the attendees begin tackling the ideas in smaller groups. As the night wears on it’s clear no one knows the next steps. Getting from pitch to project is difficult for any organization, and with Nerds for Nature, the internal systems to facilitate that aren’t in place yet.

“Hacking culture is all about executing ideas, getting something done, doing something outside of the systems that normally produce change,” Miller says. “So how do we apply some of that hacker ethos and energy to addressing environmental problems?”

This desire to unite technology and environmentalism is a bit of a departure from tradition.

“Technology is seen as not natural, and it’s not. It’s the product of human ingenuity and creativity. Nature is seen as the opposite of that,” Miller says. “But I think that kind of dichotomy might be … the reason why we’re facing such an ecological crisis.”

Historically, the green movement has held a “black and white” stance on technology, he says. Either we preserve the natural world above all

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8 Friedrichs, an engineer interested in artificial intelligence, Jeremy Merckling, who works with Miller at Acterra, and Marisa Still, an artist and educator, are hard at work on an app provisionally called “Pocket Naturalist,” which would give laypeople the expertise of a naturalist. Knowing which wildflowers are rare, and understanding the region’s water table or learning the history of a trail could enrich the average hike.

Capitalizing on the popularity of citizen science, the Nerds for Nature organization collaborates with the California Academy of Sciences to host “bioblitzes.” At these events community members use the app iNaturalist to catalogue flora and fauna in a defined area. Volunteers logged more than 7,000 observations in 2014, and more than half of these findings were tagged “research grade.” The observations could help conservationists and scientists track fragile species, watch the spread of invasive plants and understand the impact of the worsening drought.

The Mount Diablo fire in Morgan Hill two years ago gave the organization another opportunity for innovation and collaboration. The nature nerds helped design “Change Brackets,” L-shaped brackets placed throughout the park to help track recovery. Hikers rest their smartphones in the brackets, ensuring that the image is captured from the same place every time, and then upload photos with locationspecific hashtags (e.g. #morganfire02).

The photos are then compiled into a time-lapse sequence that allows scientists to study regrowth.

“It’s one thing if you can just kind of create an app,” Miller says. “How do we make problems that are inherently abstract, like climate change, how do we make those problems amenable to tinkering?”

Nerds for Nature isn’t alone in considering this. In June, Google announced Sidewalk Labs, a tech venture to make urban living greener and more appealing.

On Sept. 24, the Nerds for Nature chapters will host a summit to crowdsource ideas for the future of the organization. Miller isn’t sure what will come of it, but he hopes to find a way of uniting technology and conservation that allows light from the canopy to reach the forest floor, creating first a niche, then entirely new behaviors.

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else, or we invest in progress, damn the costs. But the gray area is expanding as technology races forward. Some conservationists now consider nuclear power an environmentally friendly energy source. Densely populated cities are resource-efficient and, therefore, greener than suburban or rural areas.

A new environmentalism is emerging that envisions a symbiosis between technology and nature. Nerds for Nature wants to be on its frontline.

Victoria Bogdan Tejada started the group in 2012. Writing grants for an environmental nonprofit and volunteering with civic hackathons, she saw cities inspiring volunteers to manage and use tremendous amounts of data.

Tejada realized there was no analogue in the green movement, and decided to create one. The group launched in February 2013 with a Meetup event.

Its 60 spaces were all reserved within 24 hours, with a 50-person waiting list.

Tejada was stunned.

“Right away it seemed as if the Bay Area was primed for this kind of gathering,” she remembers. Nerds for Nature began building community partnerships and holding regular project nights in San Francisco and Oakland.

They now reach an estimated 1,500 people through mailing lists and social media, while project nights reliably draw 20 to 30 attendees.

Miller heard of Nerds for Nature and felt Silicon Valley was a perfect fit to capitalize on the region’s entrepreneurial spirit and varied ecology. The Center for Biological Diversity noted the Bay Area as one of the six most important biodiversity spots, home to more than 90 threatened or endangered species of plants and animals.

In 2014, Miller met Tejada at an environmental law conference in Yosemite. They began collaborating, and Miller launched Silicon Valley’s chapter in January. While it has been embraced enthusiastically, the chapter is still finding its way.

“I think what’s been most surprising to me has been meeting people with world-class technical skills who yearn to do something that they feel is meaningful with those skills,” Miller says.

That confluence of yearning and skill has thus far produced one major project from the Silicon Valley chapter, led by the co-organizers. Gabbie Burns, a software product manager, Jasper

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ACCUSED Matthew Farris, Jereh Lubrin and Rafael Rodriquez (from right) stand accused of beating to death a mentally ill inmate.

Correctional Officers Charged with Murder, Assault BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Three Santa Clara County correctional officers arrested last week on suspicion of beating an inmate to death have been formally charged with murder.

The District Attorney’s Office filed homicide and assault charges Tuesday against Jereh Lubrin, 28; Matthew Farris, 27; and Rafael Rodriquez, also 27.

The Main Jail guards were arraigned the same day in connection to the death of 31-year-old Michael Tyree. Prosecutors also accuse the trio of assaulting a second inmate.

The arrests came days after Tyree’s death. The mentally ill inmate—locked up on a five-day sentence for petty theft and drug possession—was found just after midnight on Aug. 27, battered, bloodied and smeared with vomit and feces on the floor of his one-man cell.

Lubrin, Farris and Rodriguez were the only ones to enter the cell the day before, according to Sheriff Laurie Smith. The Sheriff’s Office oversees the Department of Corrections, which staffs the two county jails.

With charges officially filed, new details have emerged about events leading up to Tyree’s death. Investigators say the confrontation between Tyree and the officers started over a “pill call,”

when correctional staff administer medication to inmates.

Tyree was housed on the sixth floor, an area reserved for inmates in protective custody. On the evening of Aug. 26, Tyree pocketed his pills instead of taking them as directed, according to Sgt. Marc Carrasco, who was assigned by the Sheriff’s Office to investigate the case. A nurse told Lubrin, who ordered Tyree back to the “pill call” window.

“Inmate Tyree called Nurse Marilyn a liar and a rapist,” Carrasco wrote in his statement of facts. “Once back at the window, Inmate Tyree took the pills from his pocket and ate them.”

Close to 11pm that night, Rodriquez allegedly joined the other two officers to confront another inmate, Juan Villa, about a scuffle earlier that day.

Officers allegedly hit Villa in the head and twisted his arms, “leaving visible marks on them.” When they got to Tyree’s cell, Lubrin and Farris entered while Rodriquez waited outside the open door.

“Do I have to get up?” Tyree asked.

Farris answered affirmatively, rousing him from his bed. “Inmate Tyree’s distinctive voice could be heard screaming, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Stop,’”

Carrasco wrote. “Screaming could be heard throughout the pod for several minutes and was accompanied by the sounds of thumping, wall banging and what sounded like blows to a person’s body.”

The encounter left Tyree with wounds on his eye, chin and cheek, bruises above his left ear and injuries on his upper arms, legs, back and hips. The most serious injury was on his lower left back, which ruptured his liver and spleen. According to the

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medical examiner, internal bleeding left him dead within minutes to an hour. Officers did not call for medical help, Carrasco said. An hour later, Lubrin returned to Tyree’s cell and radioed a “man down” alert. Tyree was pronounced dead at 12:25am on Aug. 27.

Following Sheriff Smith’s announcement that she was recommending murder charges against the three deputies, community members staged a protest urging officials to look into other cases of abuse.

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George Shirakawa Jr. shuffled out of office in disgrace two-and-a-half years ago. But the former Santa Clara County supervisor’s misuse of taxpayer funds created a financial odyssey so twisted that it continues to bedevil staff to this day. Last month, a county subcommittee received followup audits for all of Shirakawa’s purchases with taxpayer funds. In all, Shirakawa misspent almost $40,000 with his county charge card. The county has since revised the way it polices such transactions to prevent future spending sprees. But there’s still some question about what happened to two electric bicycles Shirakawa bought. The bikes cost about $4,000 and came under the guise of looking for “alternative energy opportunities.” Bikes that run on human energy were apparently not considered alternative enough. It seems the sheriff’s office tested the bikes for a month, then gave them back to the vendor. But nobody realized they were bought rather than donated. Now the vendor’s gone, along with the chance of recouping the money. Will we ever know the full story? Probably not.

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Real® Talk IMAGINAIRES Brainstorming panels hosted by ImagineSJ hope to kickstart more ideas for arts and entertainment.

San Jose artists know the scene and what’s missing, so what do we do now?

BY GARY SINGH

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ast week, the anti-manabout-town attended another installment of ImagineSJ, a giddy nouveau-marketing exercise designed to install local arts practitioners on panel sessions in order to foster discussion about the cultural issues of the neighborhood.

The first installment two months ago focused on the “San Jose music scene,” as if everything was somehow reducible to one and only one “scene.” Nothing even remotely new or substantive was offered, as it was the same conversation

thousands of us have already had in every bar, restaurant and party over the last 20 years.

That is, panelists articulated San Jose’s massive sense of underachievement, why there aren’t enough of the right venues, why aren’t bands and audiences more supportive and/or willing to work for each other, what is the magic silver bullet San Jose needs to transform itself overnight into a world-bashing urban epicenter we can all brag about, and so on and so forth.

To make a long story short: 20 years ago a bunch of rock & roll types stood around and had these conversations.

Nowadays it’s a bunch of hip-hop people standing around and having these conversations. The party is the same, but the faces have changed. It

felt like a situation comedy of absurdist theater, entirely designed to benefit the marketing company and no one else.

After an August installment on food and drink, which I missed, the third installment of ImagineSJ transpired last week at Cafe Stritch and focused on the visual arts scene.

This time around, the environment seemed much more “grown-up,” which makes me hope the series is evolving.

Gallery owners like Cherri Lakey and Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez took turns speaking with working artists like Sam Rodriguez, Roberto Romo and Pilar Aguero-Esparza. Again, nothing was said that many of us haven’t already talked about for half our lives in this town, but this time some interesting discussion did percolate.

Appreciation and interest for the visual arts are at an all-time high around these parts—finally, after decades of uniform sprawl and suburban apathy. Every artist still struggles to live here, though, thanks to real estate greed and political indifference. On that front, Lakey was

the only one who spoke with any sense of urgency. Stopping short of saying we should ride the property owners out of town on a rail, she offered scenarios unfolding in Los Angeles as a comparison. Certain parts of L.A., Lakey said, had problems with deadbeat landlords leaving their properties empty for years. Property owners didn’t give a rat’s ass about their communities and were fully aware that they—the self-serving property owners—were precisely the ones making entire neighborhoods shittier places to live.

So, the city brought the hammer down, threatening to take the properties away via eminent domain if the selfish landlords didn’t finally do something with their blighted holdings. As a result, professional working artists and galleries, temporary or not, were allowed to rent various buildings, which then kickstarted the revitalization processes and—voila!—people started moving into the areas, new units were built and new microcosms of awesomeness emerged.After Lakey finished her rant, she asked, and I’m paraphrasing, “Why can’t the Roscoe P. Coltranes in San Jose City Hall figure out something similar?”

While I agree one thousand percent, I also consider the degree to which the real estate bullshitters sway power around this town. I can’t see anything really changing for the better in that regard. Real estate bullshitters don’t usually care about some stupid music or arts scene. In their minds, “culture” doesn’t need to be part of any San Jose property owner’s vocabulary.

As the panel session came to a conclusion, one person near the back stood up and interrupted the proceedings. She berated everyone and asked why a bunch of artists, yet again, were sitting here and talking amongst themselves and to no one else. Admitting she was aware of the thriving arts community here, but also aware of San Jose’s reputation as a cultural wasteland among everyone else in the world outside San Jose, she asked, and I’m paraphrasing, “Why aren’t the artists networking with some heavyweights, some high rollers and/or powerbrokers in Silicon Valley?”

Would that be another forum in which to generate ideas? No one seemed inspired enough to answer.

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THE CASE AGAINST MIKE HONDA Congressman Mike Honda says he had no idea his office and campaign worked side by side to keep the career politician in office

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EP. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) is under fire after his legislative staff became a runaway train, transforming itself into a campaign squadron to fend off a 2014 election challenge

by Ro Khanna.

A committee investigating matters that were first raised in a Metro Silicon Valley report nearly a year ago concluded that there’s reason to believe that “Representative Honda and members of his congressional staff used official resources, including staff time, to benefit his campaign” and “improperly linked official activities to campaign or political support.”

Bay Area News Group’s Josh Richman called it “arguably the most significant allegations any Bay Area House member has faced in decades.”

The congressional office had established Dropbox and Google Docs accounts. Control of the accounts—set up at public expense—was transferred to the re-election organization and became a back channel for the transfer of information from the team responsible for carrying out the public’s business to the one tasked with winning an election.

According to testimony in an Office of Congressional Ethics investigation, congressional staff also prepared issue-by-issue comparisons between Honda and Khanna that were used as talking points at fundraising events.

Staffers collected business cards from constituents who contacted the office for help, then handed them off as donation prospect leads. They sought to parse ethics guidelines so that the solicitation of donations from constituents seeking help would not appear “transactional.”

Honda’s staff attempted to leverage a visa assist for a San Jose Sharks player into contributions from former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery and other

owners of the hockey team. “How are we doing outreach to them for$? Can we at least collect emails and send newsletters or something if we can’t do straight asks electronically now,” inquired Honda’s chief of staff, Jennifer Van der Heide.

Staff members appear to have been aware they were crossing the line into gray areas and sought to keep their communications out of view. On one particularly sensitive topic, Van der Heide instructed that information be sent to her 12-yearold daughter’s email address.

Congressional staff members played dual roles and volunteered their nights and weekends to help their boss get re-elected. One staff member said that, while voluntary, he feared that if he said no to Van der Heide’s request for unpaid work beyond his paid hours, “I would need to find a new job after that. So I could say no, but that meant that the job maybe wasn’t necessarily for me.”

Weekday time was fair game as well. Officially convened business meetings could be transformed into campaign strategy talks simply by raising a coffee cup and invoking the coded phrase “coffee break” (wink, wink) to circumvent congressional ethics rules about not campaigning on the public’s dime. Current and former staff members have admitted that campaign strategy was discussed at official retreats.

For a week in April 2015, a team of investigators deposed witnesses, including the congressman himself, about the commingling of official and campaign duties, producing hundreds of pages of legal transcripts.

Two prospective witnesses refused to appear, and the committee recommended they be subpoenaed to appear as the investigation continues. Another two of the 11 witnesses whose testimony was included in the report refused to sign an acknowledgement of receipt of a

copy of the Federal False Statements Act, violators of which can face jail terms. The two refuseniks were Honda’s closest long-term political associates: Chief of Staff Van der Heide and former District Director Meri Maben.

Coached by attorneys, who occasionally interjected, the witnesses’ answers are frequently variations of “I don’t know,” “I’m not sure” and “I can’t recall.”

The investigators analyzed emails and other electronic data and wrapped up the report on May 29. The committee’s conclusion, by a 6-0 vote announced last week: Investigate further.

The now-public report looks at four events where politics and official business may have been mixed: a State Department Roundtable at which Indo-American campaign donors were targeted; an Alameda Labor Council breakfast function; a League of Conservation Voter’s Victory Fund “Countdown to Election Day” reception; and a fundraising event at Dr. Pritpal Singh’s Milpitas home.

In a particularly egregious violation, Honda’s digital strategy director witnessed phone banking sheets being printed out at the congressional office.

In November 2014, voters in the district returned Honda to Congress by a slim 4-point margin.

Honda’s victory speech was anything but gracious. “Together, we sent a message that this election could not be bought by Super PACs and right-wing millionaires and billionaires,” he said.

What Honda appears to have left out is that,

if his own team’s testimony is to be believed, taxpayer-funded employees engaging in prohibited activities were instrumental in enabling his return to Congress. Another stolen Silicon Valley election.

—Dan Pulcrano

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WHAT THE REPORT REVEALED • Congressional staff-prepared side-by-side issue comparisons between Honda and Khanna for the campaign’s use • A Google Drive back channel for moving information between the campaign and House staffs • A Dropbox account that was set up as an official account, then repassworded and turned over to the campaign • Staff meetings that were used to review campaign activities • Office retreats at which the campaign was discussed • An expectation that staff would read books and volunteer for the campaign • A chief of staff who served double duty as campaign manager • A district office manager who was clearly political • Tracking of “donation history” of Indo- and ChineseAmerican attendees at events via Google Docs

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The congressman may have no choice but to burn through campaign dollars for attorneys to make an embarrassing defense: The congressman shouldn’t be blamed for any violations because there was a lack of institutional control.

The arguments his lawyers make in response to a 41-page Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) report is that even if something bad did happen, Honda had no clue. His chief of staff, Jennifer Van der Heide, and longtime district director, Meri Maben, had a much harder time making that argument in interviews.

But that’s why Honda’s campaign is also paying their attorney fees.

We’ve combed through the all of the documents and here are the 10 biggest takeaways, as well as responses made by attorneys for Honda, Van der Heide and Maben in a letter to the House Committee on Ethics’ chief counsel, Tom Rust:

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Honda’s “1,000 Cranes” project—1,000 donors each give $1,000 to raise a cool $1 million— was discussed at an official staff retreat in September 2012. Not only was the idea Congressman Honda’s own—the program was discussed in clear quid-pro-quo terms.

According to notes from the event provided to the OCE, the cranes project was not only mentioned as an idea of MH (i.e. Mike Honda), but that, in the eyes of some donors, it “also will likely be transactional—i.e. help me with this visa for my grandma.”

Mike Honda Attorneys (MH): The documents cited by the report, which are informal notes of the retreats, indicate that campaignrelated conversations comprised only a small part of any retreat.

Part of the discussion at one retreat addressed accomplishing goals “ethically and practically.”

Representative Honda’s office has now discontinued the presentation of any campaign information at office retreats.

Indeed, in an abundance of caution, the office imposed strict requirements to ensure that no campaign discussion or involvement occurred at an all-staff retreat with the Congressman held in March of

this year. Of course, the office will continue this strict policy at future retreats.

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In her duties as Honda’s district director, Maben, now with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, helped one of the San Jose Sharks’ owners resolve an issue with acquiring a visa. The person requesting help on the owner’s behalf turned out to be none other than former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery.

After helping McEnery, Maben

Not only was the idea Congressman Honda’s own— the program was discussed in clear quidpro-quo terms. tried to parlay that official work into campaign contributions. In an email to Honda’s fundraising consultant, Maben wrote: “I know we’ve tried with them before to no avail but once again we’ve responded to Tom’s request. Please ask Tom to come to birthday event and bring Sharks people. Woman below appears to be one of the owners.”

MH: [Honda] was not aware of any efforts relating to the solicitation of political contributions addressed in the report.

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Some of Honda’s staffers recognized when House rules were being broken. In a private chat between two staff members, one employee notes that staffer Mark Nakamoto is making campaign calls in the district office. One staffer wrote that the activity is “so illegal.”

The other answered, “LOL, yeah.”

MH: The report cites testimony from the terminated Former

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MH: [Honda] never requested that congressional staff identify political supporters or collect information from them.

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Multiple members of Honda’s House staff told OCE investigators that there was an expectation to work on the campaign, which again violates House rules. Workers are supposed to volunteer for such duties. One unidentified female staffer, noted as Congressional Aide #2, said that chief of staff Van der Heide was “usually the driver of these conversations and was pretty proactive in trying to get us engaged in that way.”

The staffer said that had she declined, “I think that would have probably meant ... that I needed to find a new job after that.”

MH: A single paragraph about the “expectation” of staffing assistance for campaign events

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Staffers were instructed to read a book by Ro Khanna, who lost a close race to Honda in 2014 and is challenging him again in 2016.

Van Der Heide wrote an email with the subject line, “Required Reading, Entrepreneurial Nation by Ro Khanna.” She later told investigators that she was being “facetious” and no one was required to read the book, despite repeating those exact words in the body of the email and noting that she was halfway through it herself.

A staffer disagreed with the chief of staff ’s suggestion it was a joke. “I considered it part of my duties as someone that was working for Congressman Honda,” she said.

MH: The report cites an email regarding a 2012 email from the Chief of Staff calling a book by a potential challenger to Representative Honda “required reading.” The Chief of Staff, however, stated that she was being “facetious” in her description. She also stated, “It was not a requirement. No, I didn’t have any authority to require them to do anything with regard to the campaign.” Indeed, when asked about this email, the staff member with the restraining order stated that “[t]here was no follow up” on the email and the book was never discussed again.

The terminated staff member echoed this sentiment: “I didn’t read the book. I don’t think a lot of people read the book.” He also stated that other books had been “required” and he “actually never read any of those books either.”

Others said the same. The report also fails to acknowledge that the email from the Chief of Staff notes that “Regardless of any electoral purpose, there is discussion of issues key to CA 17 including many issued that [Representative Honda] has already been involved with either legislatively or through appropriations—It is a good read for a [member of Congress] representing Silicon

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The 2012 district retreat, which is considered part of official House work, included conversations about doing greater outreach to the Chinese community, specifically to assist the campaign.

Heystek, Honda’s former campaign coordinator, admitted to the OCE: “The district office doing Chinese language outreach was mentioned in the context of a campaign and votes.”

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The email that really started all of this was a message from Van der Heide to Heystek, which linked invites to an official State Department event to asking for campaign contributions. Van der Heide wrote: “Great list. How are we doing outreach to them for $?”

An OCE investigator asked her, “What did you mean when you wrote that letter or wrote that line?”

Van der Heide answered, “I don’t know.”

Right.

MH: The report’s conclusion that Representative Honda’s office may have linked a roundtable discussion with a State Department employee to political

support is unfounded. Both the Chief of Staff and the Former Campaign Coordinator stated that their efforts to create a list of past political donors were intended to identify influential members of the Indo-American community. Indeed, the report contains no testimony or documents that indicate that invitations were premised on donations to Representative Honda or other elected officials. To the contrary, Former Congressional Aide #2 stated that she was asked which “key stakeholders in the community” and “leaders in the South Asian community” should be invited. As such, any use of information relating to past contributions was utilized only as a proxy for community influence.

No evidence or testimony reflects that invitations were issued on the basis of past contributions.

The Former Campaign Coordinator stated that when the list of potential invitees was prepared,

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distinct separation between his congressional office and campaign for the purposes of issuing invitations and organizing events.

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Honda told investigators that retreats are “all official” business. When shown notes from Heystek’s presentation in 2012, as well as notes from an October 2013 retreat presentation from campaign manager Doug Greven, Honda admits improper coordination “did occur, I guess.” The OCE report has notes from Greven’s presentation that say policy will lead to district work, which is then followed by raising money for the campaign.

Honda says what we’re all thinking: “It doesn’t look good.”

there was no intention to seek contributions from them. He also stated, “My understanding was that it was a public event and so you can invite everyone.

No one was going to be turned down.” While, as the Chief of Staff acknowledged, this approach may have created appearance concerns, it does not constitute an actionable violation of ethics rules.

The report also ignores two important points. First, the materials in the report are consistent with Representative Honda’s testimony that he was unaware of any efforts relating to roundtable invitations. In addition, there is no evidence that staff made any effort after the roundtable to solicit contributions from attendees; nor is there evidence that the campaign received any contributions as a result of the event.

In light of the concerns raised by the report, Representative Honda’s office has already implemented processes to ensure that a more

MH: The report also focuses on discrete discussions during the ... retreats that were either permissible or inconsequential.

Further, no subsequent inappropriate conduct by either office or campaign staff occurred as a result of these tangential conversations. The report also ignores explicit discussions at the retreats that, for example, stressed the need to act “ethically and practically.” In sum, the OCE has cherry-picked testimony and facts to support its conclusion.

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The OCE recommended that the House Committee on Ethics, which is carrying out the rest of the investigation, issue a subpoena for Greven. As Honda’s campaign manager for 2014, Greven declined a request to meet with investigators, but he’ll be under oath if compelled to testify. What he has to say could be the nail in the coffin.

MH: No mention of this is made

by Honda’s attorneys.

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Honda chief of staff Jennifer Van der Heide, at the advice of her attorney, declined to sign the Federal False Statements Act, which makes knowingly lying to federal investigators a prosecutable offense.

While that is her right, it’s a dodgy move. The same decision was made

by Honda’s former digital strategies director, Robert Lucas.

MH: No mention of this is made

by Honda’s attorneys.

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he best artists steal. A few years ago, John McCluggage helped some friends in New Hampshire direct a condensed Shakespeare play that was performed in a restaurant. He liked the idea so much he brought it back with him to San Jose.

“I immediately thought of Steve Borkenhagen’s restaurant (Cafe Stritch) as a perfect venue for it,” McCluggage says. “So, it was an idea that I gleefully and willingly stole from dear friends.”

ShakesBEERience is a loose collection of professional actors who boil down the Bard’s masterpieces into 80- or 90-minute, easily digestible performances.

They rehearse only the night before and day of, and put on four shows a year.

“You have to keep the album cover,” McCluggage says. “If someone’s going to see Romeo and Juliet, you got to have the balcony scene. If I’m doing Hamlet, I’m not going to cut ‘to be or not to be.’ But you do need to synthesize it a bit, and just get to the dramatic action of the piece.”

The official season kicks off Oct. 26 with The Tempest, but on Sept. 22 a fundraiser for the season will feature a more diverse show. There will be Shakespeare Bingo, Mad Libs, and karaoke before the improv troupe from ComedySportz turns audience suggestions into “the funniest play Shakespeare never wrote.”

“Shakespeare is a master storyteller,” McCluggage says. “There are things we all know and appreciate about Shakespeare, and they sort of riff on that.

They’re able to extrapolate on audience input into a form that you definitely get as Shakespeare, but that’s also quite ad-lib.”

The hallowed playwright’s works can get drained of their bawdy energy when read from a book in a classroom. But even The Groundlings could enjoy ShakesBEERience.

“There are no lights, or sets, or costumes,” he says. “We’re literally performing it right in front of you, sitting with you, drinking and eating with you. I think in the way that he presented it back then—deconstructed, maybe demystified a little bit.”

A three-course meal (with vegetarian options) as well as access to a cash bar and a worshipful, yet irreverent take on the Bard’s timeless material goes for $85.

“If you love Shakespeare, you will love this different way of experiencing it,” McCluggage says. “If you have never been to Shakespeare, this is a perfect way get your feet wet. And if you hate Shakespeare, this is going to change your opinion.”—John Flynn SHAKESBEERIENCE: YOUR WAY Cafe Stritch, San Jose. Tue, Sep 22, 6:30pm, cafestritch.com $85.

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Of course, many of the animals arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t left out of the fun. In the past, animal professionals have carried around lemurs to shakeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and lickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hands. Spike the alligator has also made appearances, sometimes sauntering around on a leash or retiring on a table. There have also been skunks, bald eagles, a porcupine and even a venomous slow loris named Mr. Lee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Animal care and handling is a priority, and making sure guests have an engaging, up-close personal experience is great for the species,â&#x20AC;? Lerner says.

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ZZ TOP

THE LION KING

*wed *thu *fri THE LION KING

Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose Wed, 7:30pm, $40-$120 Can you feel the love tonight? It may be emanating from the Center for the Performing Arts, where the Disney cartoon-turned spectacular Broadway musical, The Lion King, has returned to reign once more.

You’re probably familiar with the Hamlet-esque, Serengeti-set tale of the cub Simba, his meerkat and warthog pals, Timon and Pumba, and the Elton John/Tim Rice soundtrack, but the live stage version—by Tony Award-winning Julie Taymor—boasts astonishing visuals, soaring performances and incredible displays of puppetry. The show runs through Oct. 4. Hakuna matata! (KK)

JOHN WITHERSPOON Improv, San Jose Thu, 8pm, $25

For four decades, John Witherspoon has been a singular character actor and stand-up. Witherspoon made his name playing the pater familias— starring as the diner-running Pops on The Wayans Bros. show, the father of Ice Cube in the Friday franchise, and the dad of one of Will Smith’s love interests on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. He’s toured with Def Jam comics and just released a complete line of humorous greeting cards appropriately christened Spoon Cards. (JF)

ZZ TOP

Mountain Winery, Saratoga Fri, 7:30pm, $60 Rock bands tend to be about as stable as plutonium. But ZZ Top— who released their first album during the Nixon administration— have managed to remain intact for more than four decades. They’ve earned 11 gold and seven platinum records along the way, landed a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and are en route to moving 25 million units. Their biggest hit, “Sharp Dressed Man,” has tonguein-cheek lyrics, an earthy strutting vibe and recently found new life as the theme song for the hit reality show about a band of bearded brothers, Duck Dynasty. (JF)]

DOGCATCHER AND FREDDY FLOWPEZ Red Rock Coffee, Mountain View Fri, 8pm, Free Mountain View’s own indie, folk and soul hybrid act, Dogcatcher, have played The Fillmore’s poster room, sold out the Bottom of the Hill and are working on their third album. On Friday, the band is back at its home base, Red Rock Coffee, sharing the bill with East Palo Alto’s Freddy “Flowpez” Lopez—a bilingual rapper and poet who writes socially conscious music and also serves as the artistin-residence at Live in Peace, an organization dedicated to empowering youth in communities of color. (KK)

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MUSICAL ART QUINTET CSMA, Mountain View Sat, 7:30pm, Free The name Musical Art Quintet seems like a good fit for the Community School of Music and Art. However, it doesn’t entirely do justice to the unique blend of music performed by the group. The five-piece plays a mix of classical chamber music (on bass, cello, viola and violin) with Latin, Afrobeat, and jazz influences—fitting for a group formed in San Francisco’s vibrant Mission District. The band describes its sound as “Nuevo Chamber,” and, like seemingly every act these days, they recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the recording of their second album. (KK)

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POUNDERS

SSeptember 16 at Mountain Winery

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA SSeptember 17 at Mountain Winery

STRATA September 25 at The Ritz

SAN QUINN September 25 at BackBar SoFa

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

DICK DALE October 17 at The Ritz

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

TOSCA IN MY LIFE

California Theatre, San Jose Sat, 8pm, $50

Montgomery Theatre, San Jose Sat, 2:30pm & 8pm, $40-$60

Tosca is a morbid tale of an ascendant Italian singer, whose life of privilege is threatened by her allegiance to both her rebel lover and the deceptive chief of police.

The opera was written by the lofty Giacomo Puccini and is one of the most performed operas in the world. Set in June 1800, we follow the journey of the titular character as she negotiates a Rome that will soon be taken over by the French empire of Napoleon. The original debut was a national event and the performance is packed with many ripe opportunities for the robust singers to belt out aweinspiring arias. (JF)

Alas, audiences will never again get to see the lads from Liverpool perform live, but a musical biography may serve as the next best thing. Beatles tribute band Abbey Road portrays the Fab Four in many of their incarnations, from mop top to the “Let it Be” era, in a tale told from the perspective of their beloved manager Brian Epstein. There are too many great songs to contain in one show, but Abbey Road manages to cram 33 of them into In My Life – A Musical Theatre Tribute to The Beatles, so chances are you’ll hear at least a few of your faves. (KK)

SOFA STREET FAIR SoFA District, San Jose Sun, 2pm, Free The SoFA Street Fair is about as close as San Jose gets to hosting a music festival. First established in 1992, the festival went on a decade-long hiatus before returning last year. It is back once again to take over downtown San Jose’s SoFA arts district. The fair will showcase the finest local offerings in food, drink and culture.

With three outdoor stages, 12 indoor stages, and nearly 100 live performances throughout the day, there will be ample opportunity to get a sonic sampling of the best local acts, like alt-rockers Pounders, sepulchral rapper Kung Fu Vampire, and bearded spitter Dirtbag Dan. (JF)

*mon LEE BRICE

Mountain Winery, Saratoga Mon, 5:30pm, $40 Jaegermeister—that greenbottled licorice spirit responsible for so many hedonistic decisions—is sponsoring Lee Brice’s current tour. The country singer will be hitting all 50 states in 52 weeks. Brice got his start penning twangy songs for big names, like Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw and Garth Brooks. He would go on to get his big break in a huge way with “Love Like Crazy.”

The self-help ballad broke a 62year old record for the longest run on Billboard’s country chart and tells the fanciful story of a man who struck it rich by doing things his way. ‘Merica! (JF)

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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Spotty Connection CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ is set in a time after mobile tech had become omnipresent, but before the advent of the smartphone.

‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ rings true at times, but doesn’t live up to promising premise

BY KARLA KANE

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F YOU FOUND the ringing cell phone of a stranger, would you answer it?

It's obvious that Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone was written during the time when mobile telephones were omnipresent but before the era of the smartphone. The script’s frequent mentions of the background noise of ringing phones and the irritatingly loud conversations of strangers are no longer so relevant now that most folks seem to use their phones to type, swipe and silently scroll.

I wasn't quite sure what to make of Dead Man's Cell Phone, and, judging by the remarks I overheard afterward and the appreciative but somewhat subdued applause, neither was the rest of the audience at the Bus Barn Theater, where the 2007 play is being presented by the Los Altos Stage Company.

The show explores the question of how people can remain both more and less connected to one another in an increasingly complex modern world, including introducing the notion that cellphone conversations are audible in the hereafter. (Must be a powerful network and plan. The old Verizon “can you hear me now?” ads come to mind.)

The plot is certainly very intriguing.

In a quiet cafe, a man's cellphone rings repeatedly. A woman, Jean, (Kristin Walter) sitting nearby tries to ignore it, then becomes annoyed. She first

attempts to question the man to whom it belongs (sitting still, his back to the audience), before realizing that she's talking to a corpse.

Shocked, but still faced with his incessantly ringing mobile, she decides to answer the calls of the recently deceased stranger and, oddly, hangs on to the phone even after the authorities have removed the body. She answers calls from his family, friends, and business associates and soon becomes semi-obsessed with the late Gordon Gottlieb. She inserts herself into his life under the false pretense of having been his friend and co-worker, and beneficiary of his phone and contacts.

She continues to dig herself deeper by offering more and more lies, always out of good intentions—such as telling his drama-queen mother (Judith Miller) that Gordon had tried to return her call on the day of his death; or telling his estranged widow Hermia (Marjorie Hazeltine) that her husband had left her affectionate letters; and telling his femme-fatale mistress (Adrienne Walters) that he'd said he loved her.

She feels sparks fly with Dwight (David Scott), Gordon's neglected kid brother, but finds that her fixation on Gordon and his phone calls is a stumbling block to their budding romance. She also eventually learns that Gordon, whom she'd begun to idealize, did not lead a saintly existence and was involved with some pretty dark pursuits. During the second act, we get to hear from Gordon himself (the splendid Scott Solomon) in an excellent posthumous monologue.

Ruhl's surreal story takes her characters from the U.S. to South Africa—and from Earth to the afterlife and back again—in what is often a quirky and outlandish comedy with supernatural elements and film noir style.

There's much to admire in this offbeat show, including wellturned lines by Ruhl, such as when Mrs. Gottlieb tells petite Jean she's comforting, like a “very small casserole”; the humorous on-set projections of select stage directions; and the winning performances of everyone in the small but generally strong cast. And it’s a promising idea for a story, with genuinely surprising moments all along the way (I’ll refrain from spoiling too many). I honestly couldn't predict where it was going, and the sense of the unexpected was refreshing. I also liked the jazzy soundtrack, into which the titular phone’s chirpy ring fit nicely.

However, the tone of the play felt uneven at times—from over-the-top silly and absurd, to attempting to impart a bigger message. The characters are colorful but largely cartoonish. Jean is presented as sweet and so warmhearted as to be nearly angelic, but she's so childlike and willing to weave a web of Gordon-related lies that she verges on being creepy (which, granted, makes her more interesting).

On the whole, it just doesn’t live up to the promising premise.

Although I left the theater not sure that I “got” it, I'm glad the Los Altos Stage Company was adventurous enough to choose the appealingly oddball Dead Man's Cell Phone to start their 20th anniversary season.

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Set in June 1800, this is the journey of a superstar singer in a Rome that is soon to be taken over by the French empire of Napoleon. The original debut was a national event and the performance is packed with many ripe opportunities for the robust singers to belt out awe-inspiring arias. Sep 12-27. $50-$125 Opera San Jose. California Theatre.

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

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV COMEDY Laugh until your stomach hurts at this improv battle of wits, all audience-sourced and suitable for the entire family. Ongoing. $12-$15. Camera 4, San Jose.

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

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

“Abstractions-Bridges and Echoes” by Barry Masteller.

Thru Sep 13. “Through the Lens of Four” Thru Sep 13 Santa Clara.

GALLERIES BRUNI GALLERY Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan.

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

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Mountain View.

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Colin Frangicetto and Drew Roulette. Thru Sep. 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.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Slugs, Dingbats, and Tramp Printing” The printing press is one of the most important inventions in human history. See the machine that printed the first newspaper in California.

Thru Dec 12. San Jose.

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

GALLERY HOUSE “Dichotomy” Abstracted Science Lyrical LandscapesNance Wheeler, Patricia Nojima. Thru Sep 19. Palo Alto.

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

San Jose.

SWEET CHARITY

LOS GATOS COMPANY

KALEID GALLERY

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.

“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 figures. Los Gatos.

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

THE WALLS OF JERICHO

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

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.

“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.

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.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Found/Made” Quilts made from repurposed cloth. Thru Nov 1. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Vistas and Dreams” by Vern Trindade. Thru Sep 13.

“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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In a post-9/11 world, surveillance is engaged in by nearly everyone, from governmental agencies and private industry to a public armed with cellphone cameras and wearable tech. Join SJMA and PechaKucha San Jose for an evening of fast-paced presentations on the topic of surveillance from speakers including: Tessa D'Arcangelew

American Civil Liberties Union

Chris Garcia

Computer History Museum

Michelle Maranowski The Tech Museum of Innovation David Schuster

San Jose State University

Ralph Simpson

History San Jose

Chris Treggiari

co-creator of Eyes on Oakland

Ali Winston

Center for Investigative Reporting

Ric Bretschneider

Moderator

$5 Tickets (includes museum admission 5 – 9 PM)

WHITE-HAIRED WHIPS A slew of old-school cars, from Model T’s to classic Chevys will be on display at the Antique Autos show in San Jose’s History Park.

Wayback Machines THEY DON’T MAKE ’em like they used to. That’s for sure. However, this Sunday, at the 15th annual Antique Autos show in San Jose’s History Park, you’ll at least be able to see how it used to be done.

Part of Hands-on History Days, the immersive car show will display stock models of cars built before 1945 and unearth vehicles not seen in generations, such as the 1922 Elcar—a luxurious artifact with wide running boards, a reclining boxy body and a chrome tipped snout dotted by two wide-eyed lights and built by a company that went out of business during the Great Depression.

“I had not heard of an Elcar,” admits Allan Greenberg, a volunteer with History San Jose’s restoration shop, who started the Antique Autos show 15 years ago with the help of his Model T Club. “I had to look it up on the Internet. We do get a lot of Model T’s and Model A’s, because there were so many of them built. We get Lincolns and Packards, and so many different brands.”

Antique Autos Sep 13, 11am, Free-$5 History Park, San Jose historysanjose.org

The event has swelled in size since the first year. In addition to the Model T’s and Model A’s, the car show attracts cars of all types and stripes. “We probably invite close to 100 antique clubs, plus many antique car owners,” Greenberg says. “It’s gotten to the point where we’re getting between 180-200 antique cars.”

The featured brand of this show will be Cadillac—the subject of a six-car demonstration showcasing the progression of the luxury American auto maker between 1905 and 1940. Other attractions include a dixieland band, performances from Charlie Chaplin and FDR impersonators, and a chat with Luke Rizzuto, who drove around the world in a 1928 Plymouth Roadster tracing tracks from several historic, long-distance car races.

“This is not your typical car show, where you go and park your car in some church parking lot, and after a few hours you go home,” says Greenberg.

Modern emphasis on safety and aerodynamics has saved countless lives and oceans of gasoline, but stifled creativity in design. Back in the day, automakers had the freedom to pursue more whimsical forms.

“The styles are completely different on the old cars, unlike today where it’s hard to tell a Toyota from a Honda,” Greenberg says. “There wasn’t any commonality.

There weren’t any restrictions back in the old days. Whatever got you from point A to point B without breaking down too often was desirable.”—John Flynn

Upstairs, Downstairs THE HELP The rift between the master and servant classes is explored in the Brazilian film, ‘The Second Mother.’

‘The Second Mother’ deals with income inequality in the ascendant city of Sao Paulo

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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EEMINGLY DESTINED for a gutless Hollywood remake, The Second Mother is a film about the class struggle in South America.

For U.S. audiences, the film may prove quite prescient—forecasting the future ramifications of this country’s yawning gap between the master and servant classes.

As filmgoers, we’ve gotten to the point where we’re just about ready to consider the plight of domestic servants (see The Help).

When you consider how many films are made by people who have personal assistants, it’s particularly interesting to watch the acute tenderness and anger of a movie like The Second Mother, or a similar and also very good Chilean film, The Maid (2009).

The Portuguese title, Que Horas Ela Volta?, translates to “When Will She Be Back?”—which could be considered a lady of the manor’s stern inquiry or a child’s cry. The site is Sao Paulo, where water shortages

(which are worse than California’s) bring significance of the subplot about the draining of a family’s swimming pool in that steaming city. Carlos (Lourenco Mutarelli) is the father of a well-off family—a bald, bearded old idler in an Elvis Costello T-shirt. He painted pictures once upon a time, but now they’re wrapped in plastic in his studio.

His hard-to-stomach wife Barbara (Karine Telas) is a snobby social dynamo, accustomed to getting her butt kissed by television reporters.

Central to the house, but rarely noticed, is Val (Regina Case), from the poor northeast of Brazil. “There are more people from the Northeast in Sao Paulo than there are in the Northeast,” a new arrival to the megalopolis observes. Val has been cooking meals for and nannying the adolescent Fabinho (Michel Jolesas) since his boyhood. Val and Fabinho have a tender relationship, with a

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lot of physical contact—they secretly share a bed sometimes. But he’s growing a bit too old to cuddle and is starting to fret about being a virgin.

Into this menage comes an intruder: Val’s lithe daughter, Jessica (Camila Mardila). She is strongwilled, more than a little angry and tight in the jaw. Val asks her boss to allow Jessica to stay over for a week or two on the floor of her room, while Jessica takes her tests at the architectural institute where she intends to study.

Jessica has been raised by relatives down home and barely knows Val. The arrival causes ripples in all directions: Val is anxious to reinforce social rules that her daughter “ought to be born knowing”—such as, don’t take a swim in the master’s swimming pool. Fabinho holds shy but ardent hopes for this girl who is his own age. His father, Carlos, sees something deeper in Jessica—he sees what Uncle Vanya saw in Yelena: someone to rescue him from his unhappiness and futility.

The revelation of Jessica’s secret is handled without skill—a hidden photograph that falls out and tells all. Since this is the key to Jessica’s character—the reason for her anger, and the reason why she needs to seriously consider the attention that old Carlos offers—one wishes the revelation had been engineered with more subtlety.

Shot in middle distance, this film isn’t just democratic in theme, it’s democratic in style. Director Anna Muylaert is dry, tough, smart and funny. She keeps the action in middle distance so we’re never quite sure who the film is about—and that’s what makes this the opposite of the maternal melodrama we’ve learned to dread. Jessica’s right about her mom—she is a cringer, living like a serf. And Val is right about Jessica— she’s a pain in the neck guest. It’s a mark of Muylaert’s control of the smaller details that she won’t let the family’s golden retriever steal a single scene, no matter how much the smiling dog tries.

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THE WOLFPACK (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. Over the course of four-and-a-half 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 in 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

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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 commented-upon 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)

Revivals 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 oughtto-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). (Hulu Plus) (RvB)

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After taking a few years off to let intraband tensions cool down, Citabria have returned with a blazing-hot mashup of psych-soul and alt-rock. They recently brought down the house at The Ritz, where they performed most of their excellent new album, Exit Reality. Key track, “The Animal,” absolutely rips with its stuttering, Moog bass line, soaring vocal harmonies and jet-plane guitars.

David Brookings, San Jose

SoFA Kings FAR FROM DEPRESSED Jonny Manak and the Depressives aren’t actually that sad. They’ll be playing their rollicking brand of skate punk at this year’s SoFA Street Fair.

SoFA Street Fair 2015: five must-see acts at this year’s festival

BY NICK VERONIN

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HE SOFA STREET Fair is returning for its second straight year since awakening from its decade-long hibernation last September. The Fair’s original reign, which lasted from 1992 until 2001, bookended one of the most exciting eras in the history of downtown San Jose— at least for fans of alternative art, music and culture.

It was a time when the South First Street Area arts district—SoFA—was thriving. The street was home to a glut of music venues, including Marsugi's, the Cactus Club, F/X and Ajax.

Nirvana, Helmet, Sublime, Green Day and No Doubt all played shows in the SoFA district.

But then the dotcom bubble burst, the Twin Towers fell and the SoFA district went into a decline—along with the rest of the country and downtown San Jose. Fil Maresca, organizer of the SoFA Street Fair, turned his attention to different ventures, but he never gave up on the district; he’s always kept an office in downtown San Jose.

Last year, seeing the effects of Silicon Valley’s second big tech boom—the new restaurants, bars and young professionals filling up the newly built apartment towers—Maresca felt that the time was right to “reupholster” his beloved SoFA Street Fair.

His instincts were spot on. With veteran ska-punks Fishbone headlining, and more than 50 local and national

acts supporting, the festival was a success—drawing large crowds and garnering favorable press from a number of local outlets.

This Sunday, the festival returns with more than 70 bands performing on three outdoor stages and scattered at 13 venues around town. That’s a lot of music—literally more than any one person could hope to listen to on a given day.

Don’t let #FOMO send you into a tailspin. We’re here to help. Here is our list of five can’t-miss acts at the SoFA Street Fair. Follow this to the letter, enjoy your beer and the total absence of needing to make any kind of decision.

Belle Noire, San Jose

This local quintet is recommended if you like Dredg and Saosin. With echoing guitars, punchy bass lines and heavy breakdowns, Belle Noire expertly navigates a Bermuda triangle of saccharine sweet melody, lush and ambient atmospherics, and powerful riffs.

He’s been playing music for 25 years, recorded three full-length records at the world-famous Sun Studios in Memphis, and he has more than 130,000 views on YouTube. How have you not heard of this dude? Hey! Don’t stress. That’s what this guide is all about, remember?

Brookings—and his band, the cleverly titled “Average Lookings”—play feel good, catchy rock songs. His 2010 album, The Maze, is a collection of 11 compact and jangly pop gems about everyday life

Jonny Manak and the Depressives, San Jose

You might say that the Manaks are a musical family. Jonny’s brother, Chris, is also known as Peanut Butter Wolf, the founder of Stones Throw Records.

But where PBW is an expert on the ones and twos, Jonny is a punk rock pro—penning lightning-bolt blasts about drinking beer, eating pizza and skateboarding. You’ve likely heard his work on MTV, even if you don’t realize it, as he writes many of the gritty punk-rock tunes used in various Dickhouse productions. Yep, those are the Jackass guys.

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Hailing from our state’s capital, Cemetery Sun are aptly named, as they find the sweet spot between dark lyricism and sunny vibes—kinda like a bad trip on a beautiful beach. Their current single, “(Hard Drugs) Fake Love,” is reminiscent of The Neighbourhood’s “Sweater Weather” in the verse before breaking into a Receiving End of Sirensesque wall-of-sound chorus.

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Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop ART BOUTIKI Fri, Sep 11, 7:30pm: Freq. Fest.

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

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ

Every Tue: Jack Ripoff. Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam Band.

Thu, Sep 10, 8pm: Isaiah.

Fri, Sep 11, 8pm: Koncept Party Band. Sat, Sep 12, 8pm: Cocktail Monkeys. Los Gatos.

Wed, Sep 9, 7pm: Scott Goldberg. Every Thu: Aki’s Original Blues Jam. Fri, Sep 11, 8pm: Country Cougars.

Sat, Sep 12, 8pm: The Jokers.

San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

Fri, Sep 11, 8pm: Dogcatcher and Freddy Flowerz. Sat, Sep 12, 8pm: Hardly Strictly Trad.

Mountain View.

Fri, Sep 11, 7pm: Dave Koz & Rick Braun. Saratoga.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, Sep 10, 7pm: Alley Boys. Fri, Sep 11, 7pm: Shark Sandwich. Sat, Sep 12, 7pm: Given to Fly. Sun, Sep 13, 1pm: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.

THE X BAR BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Every Wed and Sun, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Hank. Every Mon: In House Darts/Foosball.

Every Tue: Pubstumpers Trivia.

Every Thu: No Cover night.

Every Sat: Saturday Nite Live Music Show. Cupertino.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE Fri: Live music. Santa Clara.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Every Wed: DJ 512. Every Thu: DJ Nico & Neeber. Every Fri: DJ Benofficial & Clay. Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

CARDIFF LOUNGE Every Tues, 10pm: Resident DJ Gabriel Black presents Beat Culture. Every Wed, 10pm: Rubber Soul w/ Wen Davis, Nappy, Cutso, and Golden Child (Hip-Hop). Every Thu, 10pm: Roger Morehouse Presents Foxy Thursdays. Campbell.

CHARLEY'S LG Every Wed, 10pm: Wi3rd Wednesdays. Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/live country music. Los Gatos.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Every Thu, 10pm: Karaoke.

Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ. Santa Clara.

THE CATS Wed, Sep 9, 7pm: Acoustic Madness. Thu, Sep 10, 8pm: Brother Yates Band. Fri, Sep 11, 8pm: Rusty. Sat, Sep 12, 8pm: Serious Condition. Every Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

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Jazz/Blues/ World

MOROCCO’S Every Wed, Fri, and Sat, 5pm: Belly dancing. Every Tue, 4pm: Live Jazz Music w/ Johnny Williams. Every Thu: Live Acoustic Guitar Music.

Mountain View.

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/ Sid Morris & Kyle Jester.

Thu, Sep 10, 6pm: Jules Leyhe Blues Band. Fri, Sep 11, 6pm: Nick Fishman Blues Band.

Sat, Sep 12, 6pm: Tony Lindsay Band. Sun, Sep 13, 12pm: Gail Dobson. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays. Wed, Sep 9, 7:30pm: The Rob Tracy Band. Thu, Sep 10, 7:30pm: Will Russ Jr. Fri, Sep 11, 8:30pm: Bud E. Love Show. Sat, Sep 12, 6:30pm: Lara Karst. Sun, Sep 13, 7:30pm: Mike Galisatus Big Band. Redwood City.

BLUE ROCK SHOOT Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase. Every Sat: Live Featured Show. Every Sun: Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga.

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday.

Thu, Sep 10, 8:30pm: Joe Warner Trio. Fri, Sep 11, 8:30pm: Leon Joyce Jr. Trio. Sat, Sep 12, 8:30pm: Malachai Winston Quartet. Every Sun: The Eulipions Jazz Jam. San Jose.

SAM'S BBQ Wed, Sep 9, 6pm: Dark Hollow.

Tue, Sep 15, 6pm: Cabin Fever.

San Jose.

SMOKING PIG BBQ Fri, Sep 11, 9pm: Derek Irving & His Combo. Sat, Sep 12, 9pm: South City Blues Band.

Fremont.

ST. STEPHENS GREEN Every Tue, 7:30pm: Irish music. Fourth Sat, 10pm: South American Hits.

Mountain View.

TRAIL DUST BBQ Fri, 6-9pm: Live blues, roots and Americana. Morgan Hill.

CAFFE FRASCATI

UNWINED

Fri, Sep 11, 8pm: Catalactus.

Sat, Sep 12, 8pm: Time Will Decide. San Jose.

Every 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm: Don Balistreri. Every Sat, 7-9:30pm: Live jazz.

Every 1st and 3rd Sat, 9pm: Randy Whiting and “@Jazz.”

San Jose.

MOUNTAIN WINERY

CLUB FOX

Fri, Sep 11, 7:30pm: ZZ Top. Sun, Sep 13, 7:30pm: Lee Brice. Mon, Sep 14, 7:30pm: Little Big Town. Tue, Sep 15, 7:30pm: Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Saratoga.

Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Thu, Sep 10, 7pm: Carolyn Sill Combo. Fri, Sep 11, 7pm: Skynnynn Lynnyrd Band (Lynyrd Skynyrd). Sat, Sep 12, 8pm: The Sun Kings (Beatles Tribute). Redwood City.

THE WOODSHED Nothing Til September 26.

Los Gatos.

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LIVE JAZZ THIS WEEK Downbeat 8:30pm Nightly

THUR 10 Joe Warner Trio FRI 11 Leon Joyce Jr. Trio SAT 12 Malachi Whitson Quartet WED 16 Aaron Goldberg Trio $15 EVERY SUNDAY The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session 7 PM

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Thursday, Sept. 10 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 16+

LITTLE HURRICANE Friday, September 11 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 16+

PUNK ROCK KARAOKE Members of Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Adolescents, Dickies PLAY & YOU SING!

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PLAYING ALONG Crystal Monster performed at Freq.Fest.v.4.0 in Los Angeles earlier this year.

B lackalicious

Game Boy Heroes

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE Sunday, Sept. 13 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+

FOR SIX YEARS, Kevin Martinez slaved over his Nintendo Entertainment System and Gameboy. Chopping up the buzzes, bleeps and bloops, and painstakingly pasting them together with crunchy explosions, cooing laser beam blasts and sawtooth synths until he had something entirely new.

But by 2006, Martinez was feeling that the scene he lovedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;chiptune,â&#x20AC;? as it is commonly calledâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was drying up. So, in the same way he had compiled his collages of 8-bit sound, he pieced together a collection of like-minded musicians and bands for his very own, two-day chiptune festival. He called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frequency.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ďŹ rst Frequency was a joke,â&#x20AC;? says Martinez, who performs under the moniker Wizwars. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ďŹ rst night had 15 paying customers. The second had 20. I did it in a little art spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a week later it got shut down because one of the people living there was selling drugs.â&#x20AC;?

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Freq.Fest.Norcal Sep 11-12, 6pm, $10 SLG Art Boutiki, San Jose

While the ďŹ rst Frequencyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or Freq.Fest, as it has come to be knownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell many tickets, one of the attendees, Jesse Avila, saw great potential in Martinezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concept.

Avila and Martinez hit it off immediately, and decided to work together on the second Frequency, which they held in January 2013. The second time around Freq.Fest drew 120 people each night. The pair also formed 8BitLA, a collective of artists and musicians focused on producing chiptune music, pixelart and other creative 8-bit endeavors. They regularly organize chip shows and other events under the umbrella of the broader 8-bit scene.

This Friday and Saturday Avila and Martinez bring Freq.Fest to Northern California. Co-sponsored by their sister organization, 8BitSF, the event will be held at Art Boutiki.

The chip scene in general has evolved a lot over the past decade. Most of the chip musicians started out playing electronic music which relied heavily on Gameboys as the primary instrument, Martinezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band, The Kevin Gnartinez Band, included. Now many groups within the chiptune scene have expanded their sounds signiďŹ cantlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a fact made apparent by Freq.Festâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lineup: The Kevin Gnartinez band mixes chip with pop-punk; Curious Quail plays indiefolk with subtle 8-bit ďŹ&#x201A;ourishes; and San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crashfaster are essentially industrial rock with just a hint of the chip sound. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You ďŹ nd a bunch of bands that are not stylistically or musically similar at all, but we all have something in common,â&#x20AC;? Martinez says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something for everyone, and Frequency celebrates the diversity of what chiptune can be.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Aaron Carnes

SOUL MAJESTIC Monday, September 14

SuicideGirls Blackheart Burlesque Tuesday, Sept. 15 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 18+

BODY LANGUAGE

Sep 17 Stone Sloth Atrium (Ages 21+) Sep 19 Klingande (Ages 18+) Sep 23 O.A.R./ Gabrielle Ross (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Best Coast/ Lovely Bad Things (Ages 16+) Sep 25 John Hiatt & The Combo (Ages 21+) Sep 26 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Sep 27 Parmalee/ Leaving Austin (Ages 16+) Sep 28 Richie Spice/ I-Wayne (Ages 16+) Sep 29 Melanie Martinez (Ages 16+) Oct 1 Cash Cash/ Tritonal (Ages 16+) Oct 2 The Underachievers (Ages 16+) Oct 3 Beth Hart (Ages 16+) Oct 4 Riff Raff (Ages 16+) Oct 8 Figure (Ages 18+) Oct 9 Xavier Rudd & The United Nations (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Santa Cruz Music Fest (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Israel Vibration/ Roots Radics (Ages 16+) Oct 15 Borgore/ Getter (Ages 18+) Oct 16 El Tri (Ages 21+) Oct 17 Gang Of Four (Ages 21+) Oct 21 Allen Stone/ JMSN (Ages 16+) Oct 22 Common Kings (Ages 16+) Oct 24 Failure/ Local H (Ages 16+) Oct 27 Soja/ J Boog (Ages 16+) Oct 30 The Brothers Comatose (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Halloween Freakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ball (Ages 21+) Nov 3 of Montreal (Ages 16+) Nov 5 The Dandy Warhols (Ages 16+) Nov 8 Houndmouth (Ages 16+) Nov 12 Atmosphere (Ages 16+) Nov 13 Mac Miller (Ages 16+) Nov 14 Ride (Ages 21+) Nov 15 Cherub (Ages 16+) Nov 16 The MisďŹ ts (Ages 16+) Nov 18 Emancipator Ensemble (Ages 18+) Nov 20 Pepper/ Ballyhoo! (Ages 16+) Nov 21 The Story So Far (Ages 16+) Nov 25 The Expendables (Ages 21+) Nov 28 The Expendables (Ages 16+) Dec 4 E-40/ Jay Lozoya (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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Open Mic/ Comedy

Karaoke ALEXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 49ER INN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Every Tue: Open Mic Tuesdays.

Sat, Sep 12, 6:30pm: Stand-up Competition. Redwood City.

Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer/songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

ANGELICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BISTRO

BAMBOO LOUNGE

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THE HUDDLE THE BEARS Fri, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

BENNIGANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRILL Sat, 9pm: Karaoke evenings.

Santa Clara.

Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.

ISLAND CAFE & BAR Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

KHARTOUM

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

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

KING OF CLUBS BLINKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T SAY Fri, 9pm: Karaoke Friday Nights. Santa Clara.

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Spoken like a true Minnesotan, Katrina.

Labor Day weekend is upon us, and you know what that means. Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here.

Moisturizers and lotions serve three basic purposes: they act as a barrier against irritants, they supplement natural skin moisture, and they help repair irritated or damaged skin. The key components in moisturizers can be variously categorized as humectants, which draw the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moisture to the skin surface; occlusives, which help prevent water from escaping the skin; emollients, which ďŹ ll gaps in the skin; proteins and acids to assist the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural moisturizing processes; and nonsteroidal anti-inďŹ&#x201A;ammatory agents, which can help repair dry skin in people suffering from eczema.

Once a moisturizer has been applied and the water in it evaporates, the emulsiďŹ ed lipids left behindâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fats, essentiallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;can penetrate the outer layer of skin and apparently improve its hydration level, as indicated by an increase in the skinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s electrical capacitance. Repeated application to healthy skin can increase hydration levels within two days; the effect lasts for a week after stopping.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good. But every silver lining must have its dark cloud. One study examined the use of a lipid-rich moisturizer three times a day on the healthy forearm skin of 20 volunteers. After four weeks the applications of moisturizer were stopped, and a patch of sodium lauryl sulfate, a common detergent, was applied to both of each subjectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forearmsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one treated, the other untreatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to measure the level of irritation on each. SigniďŹ cant differences were seen in water loss through the skin, indicating the moisturized skin was more susceptible to the irritant. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad.

Another study examined how moisturizer might affect healthy skin in test subjects with contact allergies. Twentytwo volunteers, 12 of whom were known to be allergic to nickel, applied a lipid-rich moisturizer to their upper arm three times a day for a week. The moisturizer was then stopped and patches containing nickel chloride solution were applied to both treated and untreated skin. The ones with the nickel allergy demonstrated signiďŹ cantly increased sensitivity shortly after application. More bad.

To be clear, none of this necessarily demonstrates that lotions cause your skin to stop moisturizing itself naturally.

In the study using using moisturizer followed up with detergent, for example, the researchers theorized that the extra moisture made the skin more permeable and thus more vulnerable to irritants.

The fact remains that for healthy skin, the lotion made things worse, not better.

These studies focused on lipid-rich moisturizers. We found another study comparing high-lipid content and moderate-to-low-lipid content moisturizer when used on healthy skin. Again, healthy volunteers used the moisturizers three times a day, and then tested their skin reactions to a detergent patch. The skin treated with the high-lipid moisturizer reacted more intensely to the detergent than untreated skin; for lower-lipid moisturizer, there was no measurable difference between the treated and the untreated skin. Conclusion number one: high-lipid moisturizers make skin more vulnerable to irritation. Conclusion number two: neither type of moisturizer increased protection against skin irritants.

Still another study tested nine different moisturizers and found ďŹ ve increased moisture loss in healthy skinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thus actually drying the skin out moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;while none of them decreased moisture loss. On the other hand, when these moisturizers were tested on damaged skin, three of them reduced moisture loss and none increased it.

While a lot of this sounds ominous, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t toss your moisturizers yet. The beneďŹ ts of moisturizer on damaged skin have been demonstrated by numerous studies, and research has found healthy skin can beneďŹ t from some moisturizers.

Still, it appears we can say two things: 1. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only limited beneďŹ t to applying moisturizer to healthy skin.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There have been times in the past when your potential helpers disappeared just when you wanted more help than usual. In the coming weeks, I believe you will get redress for those sad interludes of yesteryear. A wealth of assistance and guidance will be available. Even people who have previously been less than reliable may offer a tweak or intervention that gives you a boost. Here's a tip for how to ensure that you take full advantage of the possibilities: Ask clearly and gracefully for exactly what you need.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Why grab the brainscrambling moonshine when you may eventually be offered a heart-galvanizing tonic? Why gorge on hors d'oeuvres when a four-course feast will be available sooner than you imagine? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, my fellow Crab, the future will bring unexpected opportunities that are better and brighter than the current choices. This is one of those rare times when procrastination may be in your interest.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As I hike up San Pedro Ridge, I'm mystified by the madrone trees. The leaves on the short, thin saplings are as big and bold as the leaves on the older, thicker, taller trees. I see this curiosity as an apt metaphor for your current situation, Leo. In one sense, you are in the early stages of a new cycle of growth. In another sense, you are strong and ripe and full-fledged. For you, this is a winning combination: a robust balance of innocence and wisdom, of fresh aspiration and seasoned readiness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I hope it's not too late or too early to give you a slew of birthday presents. You deserve to be inundated with treats, dispensations, and appreciations. Here's your first perk: You are hereby granted a license to break a taboo that is no longer useful or necessary. Second blessing: You are authorized to instigate a wildly constructive departure from tradition. Third boost: I predict that in the next six weeks, you will simultaneously claim new freedom and summon more discipline. Fourth delight: During the next three months, you will discover and uncork a new thrill. Fifth goody: Between now and your birthday in 2016, you will develop a more relaxed relationship with perfectionism.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A "wheady mile" is an obsolete English term I want to revive for use in this horoscope. It refers to what may happen at the end of a long journey, when that last stretch you've got to traverse seems to take forever. You're so close to home; you're imagining the comfort and rest that will soon be yours. But as you cross the "wheady mile," you must navigate your way through one further plot twist or two. There's a delay or complication that demands more effort just when you want to be finished with the story. Be strong, Libra. Keep the faith. The wheady mile will not, in fact, take forever. (Thanks to Mark Forsyth and his book *Horologicon.*)

and unprecedented combinations is your specialty right now. You're willing and able to gamble with blends and juxtapositions that no one else would think of, let alone propose. Bonus: Extra courage is available for you to call on as you proceed. In light of this gift, I suggest you brainstorm about all the unifications that might be possible for you to pull off. What conflicts would you love to defuse? What inequality or lopsidedness do you want to fix? Is there a misunderstanding you can heal or a disjunction you can harmonize?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In this horoscope, we will use the Socratic method to stimulate your excitement about projects that fate will favor in the next nine months. Here's how it works: I ask the questions, and you brainstorm the answers. 1. Is there any part of your life where you are an amateur but would like to be a professional? 2. Are you hesitant to leave a comfort zone even though remaining there tends to inhibit your imagination? 3. Is your ability to fulfill your ambitions limited by any lack of training or deficiency in your education? 4. Is there any way that you are holding on to blissful ignorance at the expense of future possibilities? 5. What new license, credential, diploma, or certification would be most useful to you?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The story of my life features more than a few fiascos. For example, I got fired from my first job after two days. One of my girlfriends dumped me without any explanation and never spoke to me again. My record label fired me and my band after we made just one album. Years later, these indignities still carry a sting. But I confess that I am also grateful for them. They keep me humble. They serve as antidotes if I'm ever tempted to deride other people for their failures. They have helped me develop an abundance of compassion. I mention this personal tale in the hope that you, too, might find redemption and healing in your own memories of frustration. The time is right to capitalize on old losses.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It's never fun to be in a sticky predicament that seems to have no smart resolution. But the coming days could turn out to be an unexpectedly good time to be in such a predicament.

Why? Because I expect that your exasperation will precipitate an emotional cleansing, releasing ingenious intuitions that had been buried under repressed anger and sadness. You may then find a key that enables you to reclaim at least some of your lost power. The predicament that once felt sour and intractable will mutate, providing you with an opportunity to deepen your connection with a valuable resource.

Homework: What are five conditions you'd need in your world in order to feel you were living in utopia? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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Nothing says “I’m over you” like a Saturday night text blitz of hate and real estate.

When life sends you hate, it’s tempting to make haterade: “Luv the pool. Will b over 2nite to swim with adolfo, my 24-yr-old underwear model boyfriend.”

But the snarky low blow will just keep the ugly flying. Consider that anger comes out of hurt—from feeling that we’ve been treated unfairly—so try a counterintuitive approach: calling up a little compassion. Compassion gets confused with empathy, the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes. But compassion is empathy plus an action plan—dialing in to the hurt that the person is feeling and then wanting to do something to make things better (rather than just taking the spectator approach: “Woo, is he ever having a crummy life!”).

Compassion is the gateway to accountability—taking responsibility for the harm you caused. You do that by admitting what you did and apologizing for it and then trying to make good in the best way you can. Sure, you tried to apologize to him before, but on the phone. The phone is easy. It’s the medium of prank calls and “30 minutes or less or your pizza is free!”

Referencing the work of apology researcher Aaron Lazare, M.D., I explain in my book “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck” that a meaningful apology is a “costly apology”—one that requires the person doing the apologizing to invest time and effort, take a hit to their ego by admitting wrongdoing, and maybe even spend money. (On that last one, that’s if you, say, broke someone’s vase, as opposed to their ability to trust women, which is a little harder to put a dollar amount on.)

A “costly apology” starts with a full jerktopsy—your dissection of three things: 1. Why what you did was wrong; 2. What it must mean to the person you wronged; and 3. How things could have

(and should have) been different. Laying out these details—first for yourself and then for the person you harmed—helps them see that you understand what you did and that you aren’t all “yeah, whatever, bro” about its effects on them.

By making a meaningful effort to clean up the damage you did to their dignity— their feeling that they’re worthy of care and respect—you may allow them to stop clinging to what you did and maybe even forgive you (putting an end to the fun game of “I’ll claw your back; you claw mine”).

Send your apology to your ex in a letter—one that is detailed and thoughtful, reflects self-knowledge and healthy humility, and expresses remorse. He may or may not accept your apology, believe you’ve changed, or change his attitude toward you. But apologizing is the right thing to do and, ultimately, something you need to do for you. Getting in the habit of being accountable makes you a better romantic partner, a better friend, and a better person (and probably a person who sleeps better, as you tend to do when your conscience isn’t yoo-hooing you with 3am wake-up calls).

Sometimes you can’t entirely do right by the person you hurt (like when anything beyond a letter of apology would be unwanted and/or require body armor). Unfortunately, there’s no “undo” command in life, and a working time machine is probably at least 50 years behind my tragically nonexistent flying car. So when you find yourself still owing, it’s good to do something for somebody— maybe some sort of volunteer or philanthropic work—with the explicit purpose of making up for the harm you did. And then, when the confused homeless guy wonders why you’re giving him not just the bag of groceries but the car you loaded it into, you can mumble, “Um, let’s just say marriage wasn’t my strong suit.”

©2014, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 550 S. First St., San Jose, CA 95113, or email adviceamy@aol.com.

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/John Le This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/28/2015. (pub Metro 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/2015)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dino Motors, 478 E. Santa Clara St, #225, San Jose, CA, 95112, Dino Rovcanin, 149 N. Cypress Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95050. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Refile of previous file #606868 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing. /s/Dino Rovcanin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/18/2015 (pub Metro 8/26, 9/02, 9/09, 9/16/2015)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Adaptive Insight LLC 2.

Cerulean Monkey Studio, 3. Cerulean Monkey Design, 14 W. Central Ave., Los Gatos, CA, 95030.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company.

Above entity was formed in the state of California.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Tatjana Stojanovic Managing Director #201329710239 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/10/2015. (pub Metro 8/26, 9/02, 9/09, 9/16/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608579 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vivid Hair Studio, 14070 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Carrie Tran, 1925 Pear Drive, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Carrie Tran This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/28/2015. (pub Metro 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608587

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Magnolia Spa, 1692 Berryessa Road, San Jose, CA, 95133, Cuong Phung, 2558 S. King Rd., Suite 255, San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on . /s/Cuong Phung This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/14/2015. (pub Metro 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/2015)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eclipse Systemes Inc., 943 Hanson Court, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Ideal Solutions, Inc., 6667 Cielito Way, San Jose, CA, 95119.

This business is conducted by a corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Robert J. Dette Jr. President #C3582030 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/28/2015. (pub Metro 9/02, 9/09, 9/16, 9/23/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608762

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608522

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Laughing Giraffe Therapy, 100 O«onnor Drive, #14, San Jose, CA, 95128, Laughing Giraffe Therapy Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant begann transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on July 23, 2015. /s/Aaron Raymond DeNardo Director #3801770 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/02/2015. (pub Metro 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/2015)

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. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/27/15.

Refile of previous file #607837 with changes /s/Yaser Alnajjar This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/27/2015. (pub Metro 9/02, 9/09, 9/16, 9/23/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608246 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Today’s Metrowide Insurance Services, 1630 Oakland Rd., Ste A102, San Jose, CA, 95131, Thuan D. Pham, Tam M. Pham, 1350 Oakland Rd, Spc 151, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is conducted by a general partnership.

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

Refile of previous file #543294 with changes. /s/Thuan D. Pham This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/19/2015. (pub Metro 8/26, 9/02, 9/05, 9/16/2015)

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.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Refile of previous file #605967 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Dina Zuccaro This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/23/2015. (pub Metro 8/19, 8/26, 9/02, 9/09/2015)

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. This business is conducted by an individual. 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.

This business is conducted by a individual.

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607877 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eye Level Learning Center, 236 N. Abel St., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Apollo Consulting LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state of California.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/1/2015. /s/Kane Wong Managing Member #201517310150 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/10/2015. (pub Metro 8/19, 8/26, 9/02, 9/09/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #607897 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Royal Limousine, 17017 Murphy Ave., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Ahmed Abdelfattah.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/10/2015. /s/Ahmed Abdelfattah 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)

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