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Courting Caserta Perhaps no Santa Clara property—not even Levi’s Stadium—has a more contentious history than the six-acre plot of dirt across from Westfield Valley Fair Mall. A decade after the city bought the land from the state, with a goal of building affordable housing, the City Council was poised Tuesday night to pick from three developers for the site. But there have been rumblings that support from some council members—namely DOMINIC CASERTA—was bought and paid for during last year’s election. Core Companies proposed building multiincome housing with a 1.5-acre urban agriculture space, but needs $4 million from the city to translate that vision to reality. That didn’t stop Caserta from going They all-in for Core, which Did also has the backing What? of local labor. Core CEO SEND TIPS TO O DAVID NEALE is known FLY@ for throwing around METRONEWS. W campaign cash, and he COM contributed $500 to Caserta’s 2014 piggy bank.

That may not sound like much for a projectt worth $100 million, but according to one city haller, Caserta “fights really hard for his campaign supporters. He’s not very subtle about it.” Caserta’s support could also have something to do with the fact that he reliedd on labor’s support last year and he’ll need it again when he runs for county supervisor.r USA Properties Fund submitted renderings of a development with a single-acre park in n one corner of the site, but asked the city forr $11 million in financing. Only ROEM pitched a plan that would cost the city nothing. In fact, ROEM—led by CEO ROBERT EMAMI and ALEX SANCHEZ, former executive of the county Housing Authority—would pay the city $7 million and quicken the completion date because financing is already lined up. To be fair, Core’s proposal, which includes a community farm, claims strong community support.

But the city’s own assessment shows that ROEM has the resources to start construction by a critical deadline—Jan. 5, 2017—or else the land goes back to the state.

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CLOSING TIME Under a new law, the city can enact a curfew to curb late-night crowds at the hillside stairways.

Curfew Crackdown on Communications Hill

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH THE LATE-NIGHT drinking, drugging and open-air gym sessions at Communications Hill may soon come to an end. Or at least ease up a little Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed off on a law that empowers San Jose to enact a curfew on the hillside staircase.

Senate Bill 236, authored by Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose), allows the city to monitor the stairs as they would a public park. Until now, the walkway has been designated under the state vehicle code as a sidewalk, which are legally open to traffic 24-7.

Social media and word of mouth turned the south San Jose stairways into a destination for people all around the Bay Area. Problem was, the stairs were never designed as a public park.

Visitors overwhelmed the neighborhood, taking up parking, trampling landscaping and littering.

The most shameless reportedly had sex in the open, to residents’ dismay.

Exasperated neighbors called on local leaders to help deal with the crowd, but there was only so much the city could do. So they appealed to state lawmakers, who advanced this special bill allowing the city to change the public service easement.

“The goal of the bill was to protect the families who live on the hill,” Beall explained. “Those households needed help and the city’s hands were handcuffed by a statute that prevented them from taking effective action.”

This new law takes effect Jan. 1.

“SB 236 allows the city of San Jose more freedom to control the stairwell to stop crime,” Beall explained. Beall introduced the bill in February after hearing an appeal from city leaders about the issues that had plagued the stairs for the past five years.

“I’m grateful to Sen. Beall for his leadership on SB 236,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said in a statement, “which

will allow the city local control to successfully operate the staircase to the benefit of both the community and those who use the facility.”

Jeremy Jones, president of the neighborhood’s Tuscany Homeowner’s Association, said the new law comes as a huge relief to residents.

“Over the last five years we have watched the grand staircase go from a peaceful amenity for residents to a Bay Area tourist attraction, which is not what [it] was ever designed to be nor has the infrastructure to support,” he told San Jose Inside.

“Because of this, residents deal with all types of issues such as litter, graffiti, parking, drugs, and noise disturbances. We look forward to the implementation of this curfew and hope it will bring the relief residents are asking for.”

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THE VALLEY Transportation Authority (VTA) will fire a contractor after permitting issues and a busted gas line put a major project behind schedule and over budget.

Work on the more than seven-mile Santa Clara-Alum Rock Bus Rapid Transit route should have cost $114 million and been finished by now. But construction halted when a third-party contractor hit a live gas line in July.

The pipeline breach, compounded by a series of delays and safety issues, prompted the VTA to negotiate an out with its general contractor, Livermore-based Goodfellow Top Grade. Now, the completion date has been pushed back to early 2017.

Businesses along Alum Rock Avenue have told San Jose Inside that the construction zone has driven away customers and caused an uptick in traffic accidents.

Last week, the VTA announced that it would restructure its delivery of the rapid bus line. That means finding a new company to take over the job.

“Given the issues over unmarked and unknown utilities, we determined that re-allocating our resources was the best way to balance the safety of our community with delivery of the project,” said Carolyn Gonot said, the VTA’s Director of Engineering and Transportation Infrastructure Development.

The Santa Clara-Alum Rock rapid bus line was meant to quicken travel between San Jose’s Eastridge Mall and Diridon Station in the heart of the city. The project includes stateof-the-art, train-like buses with highbacked seats, larger street-side shelters with digital schedule displays and bus-only lanes. New high-tech buses are supposed to glide through traffic signals using wireless technology that holds green lights. Similar projects are underway along El Camino Real and Stevens Creek Boulevard.

As part of restructuring the Santa Clara-Alum Rock project, the VTA and Goodfellow Top Grade will enter into an agreement that will keep work going on key portions of the route while reserving the rest of the work for another company under a new bid.

Public transit advocates criticized the way the VTA handled the debacle, especially considering that it took place in a historically underserved neighborhood. Chris Lepe, a planner for transportation nonprofit TransForm and an East Side native, said the VTA should apologize for the delays and explain how they happened or risk losing public support for a future transportation tax.

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THREE’S A TREND The county jail system has come under scrutiny as a third person

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County Jail Body Count Hits 3 Since August

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH A MONTH AFTER an inmate’s fatal beating at Santa Clara County’s Main Jail, another inmate has been found dead.

Authorities reportedly found a 33-year-old man passed out in his cell late Monday morning.

The man, whose name has not yet been released, was arrested twice this month on suspicion of assault, battery and public drunkenness.

This marks the jail’s third in-custody death since August, increasing concerns about the corrections facility.

On Aug. 27, 31-year-old Michael Tyree was found bloodied and beaten on the floor of his cell. Days later, three correctional officers— Jereh Lubrin, Matthew Farris and

Rafael Rodriquez—were charged with murdering the mentally ill inmate who was locked up on a petty theft charge. Lubrin and Rodriguez were both released on bail last week, and it appears Farris will also soon be released pending a judge’s decision.

Four days after Tyree's death, a 50-year-old woman identified as Noriko Seales was found dead at Elmwood, the county's second jail in Milpitas. According to the medical examiner-coroner, she died of natural causes—specificall a stroke and hypertensive cardiovascular disease.

Seales was a Menlo Park resident who had been locked up on drugrelated charges.

The man found dead in his cell Monday was on suicide watch in

a part of the jail with aroundthe-clock nursing staff who checked in on him every half-hour, according to the Mercury News. A jail guard reportedly found him unresponsive around 10:30am, but there were reportedly no signs he took his own life. The guard tried to resuscitate him until paramedics arrived and took over.

Minutes after 11am, the inmate was pronounced dead.

His death remains under investigation. Tyree's death brought the county's Department of Corrections—a branch of the Sheriff's Office—under increased scrutiny.

Earlier this month, the Board of Supervisors convened a "blue ribbon" commission to conduct a top-down audit of local jails.

SAN JOSE police shot and wounded a man who allegedly tried to break into a cop car and pilfer a racked shotgun last week.

Officers used a Taser, pepper spray, a projectile round and a bullet to subdue Ronald William Woods, according to the San Jose Police Department. The 50-year-old man is in stable condition after being treated at a local hospital.

The incident marked San Jose’s ninth officer-involved shooting (OIS), five of which have been fatal. This year marks the most OIS incidents since 2011, when there were seven.

Police were dispatched to check on Woods, who was allegedly threatening to kill himself, just after 6:30pm last Thursday at Monterey Oaks mobile home park WOODS in south San Jose.

After tracking him down just north of Southlake Drive, police said he walked up to the front passenger side door of the patrol car and announced that he wanted Officer Daniel Morales’ gun.

As Morales got out of the car, Woods allegedly reached into the cruiser through an open window and began ransacking a bag on the front passenger seat. The policeman ordered him to stop, but Woods failed to comply, the officer said.

Morales then used his stun gun, which reportedly had little effect on Woods. Woods walked toward Morales, who used his pepper spray while backtracking. Still, Woods ignored the cop’s commands, authorities said.

Unfazed, Woods allegedly walked to the driver’s side door and tried to un-rack a shotgun inside the car.

—Jennifer Wadsworth

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Here to Stay POSTCARD CLUB Moses Mena, manager of the East Santa Clara Street Farmers Market, has pushed for the preservation of public spaces.

Artist input sculpts San Jose’s grand plan to grow urban villages

BY GARY SINGH

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EAR THE NAGLEE Park Garage, a portable kiosk sits on the southern side of San Carlos Street. At the kiosk, anyone can walk up and rifle through stacks of bright, artsy postcards, all printed with quotes from various community members of proposed urban village projects.

For several months now, the kiosk has traveled around the neighborhood, mostly along the East

Santa Clara Street corridor, as part of a new art project titled, “Our Lives in This Place.”

It’s designed to help community members voice their concerns and tell the city planners what needs to be done to make the neighborhood more interesting. The plan is much larger, of course.

Over at City Hall, the Envision San Jose 2040 General Scheme includes a zillion different “urban villages” throughout the sprawling city landscape. One such village emphasizes East Santa Clara Street from Seventh to 17th Street. For the planning of this particular village, which should eventually add a few hundred more units over the next several years, the city recently did

something it has never done before: A trio of artists—Robin Lasser, Trena Noval and Genevieve Hastings— were commissioned to create a new social sculpture and a social engagement project as part of the urban planning process.

As artists, the three created a series of postcards featuring reproduced portraits of specific people in the neighborhood (yes, analog art!), replete with quotes relaying their ideas for the future. Each postcard features a resident in his or her element, illustrated by artists Dax Tran-Caffee or James Gouldthorpe.

Then, on the flipside, we see statements from the resident.

For example, Moses Mena, who manages the East Santa Clara Street Farmers Market, wrote that public spaces need to be saved: Half-park and half-work spaces are necessary for people, small businesses and small community-based organizations.

This is what fosters real community

involvement, he wrote. On another postcard, Alan Johnson of Needle in the Groove record shop remembers the word “urban” as described in rap and R&B a quarter-century ago. He wonders if another word should be used instead. In still more cases, historian Anthony Raynsford talks about the neighborhood’s architectural heritage; Barbara Goldstein talks about the elderly population; Ivy Thu-Nga Vuong focuses on rooftop gardens and healthy food choices. Overall, it’s a pretty good benchmark of the neighborhood’s diversity.

When all was said and done, the postcards were then placed into a traveling kiosk, which, in turn, inspired more residents to voice their concerns and hopes for the future. Thus, the project became an iterative process. The artists functioned as a “connectionmachine,” interfacing with local residents, business folk and other community members to find out what people actually wanted from this newly defined East Santa Clara Street corridor. The result was much more interesting had everyone been forced to attend endless bureaucratic urban planning meetings.

One of the artists, Genevieve Hastings, went to San Jose State University and lives within reach of the neighborhood. As a result of this project, she became more connected and made new friends.

“We interviewed and spoke with so many incredible people along the way,” Hastings says. “I feel like I have a stronger sense of community now. I also took away a far greater understanding of the urban planning process. When we started, I don’t think we had any idea of the steps it takes to create these plans for urban villages. It’s been a steep learning curve at times, but very rewarding.”

Yet again we see artists making neighborhoods more interesting.

Twenty years ago, even 10 years ago, this wouldn’t have happened.

I can’t imagine how utterly genteel and nauseating this process would have been, had the artists not participated. And with a public kiosk, filled up with postcards, traveling around the ’hood, giving residents a chance to chime in and learn more about their own neighbors, everyone wins.

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Jane McGonigal won’t be satisfied until a video game wins the Nobel Peace Prize

BY WENDY MAYER-LOCHTEFELD

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N THE SUMMER of 2009, Jane McGonigal was strong and healthy.

She’d been a runner for years, trained for marathons and was working on her first book, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.

It was just another ordinary day, and she was in a hurry—rushing around her apartment, when she dropped some papers on the floor.

She bent down to grab them, and using her runner’s quads, pushed up swiftly, slamming her head into an overhanging cabinet door.

“It was out of a movie,” she says. “My husband was joking around, asking me who the president was. The only thing I could remember was that it wasn’t George Bush. That’s when I knew this was bad.” McGonigal was concussed.

In most cases, concussions heal within a week, but a month later McGonigal was still suffering from nausea, vertigo and crippling headaches.

“Most days, I felt too sick to get out of bed,” she says. “I couldn’t read, write or watch TV because I couldn’t keep anything straight. I couldn’t remember names or details. It was terrifying.”

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As time went on, and with no end in sight, she became deeply depressed. She began to think about suicide. She heard voices in her head telling her she would never get better and that she should stop burdening her family. She became very concerned for her life.

By some estimates, more than 400,000 people suffer from what’s known as “post-concussion syndrome” in the U.S. every year. With symptoms that may last weeks or even months after the concussion, the syndrome

‘I had a flash of clarity that I should use my gameful mindset to solve this problem, but I didn’t know what that meant, so I made it up as I went along.’ can include headaches, fatigue, anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation.

McGonigal had them all.

There’s no specific treatment for post-concussion syndrome, and her doctor told her that the best thing she could do was to avoid things that triggered her symptoms. However, as anyone who has battled depression will attest, avoiding triggers is easier said than done.

Fortunately, McGonigal had a secret weapon. Her research for Reality Is Broken was uncovering ways that games could make people happy, and she decided it was a good time to test out those theories on herself. She was also re-watching the entire “Buffy the Vampire” series because she knew the episodes so well.

“I’d be like Buffy,” she says, “who didn’t choose her fate, but had it thrust upon her. I’d treat my symptoms like demons and vampires, and be a badass.”

A lifetime spent waging heroic battles against armies of pixelated foes got her thinking about her illness in the same way she would think about conquering a particularly challenging video game. She came up with a novel system for combatting her dark thoughts and pain— thinking of her triggers as bad guys, sort of like King Bowser in the “Super Mario Bros.” series. “I had a flash of clarity that I should use my gameful mindset to solve this problem, but I didn’t know what that meant, so I made it up as I went along.”

She began with the basic building blocks of the online games she loved. A secret identity was key: Jane the Concussion Slayer became her avatar. “It helped me start thinking about myself as a new persona, someone who would have the strength and courage of a slayer.”

Next, she recruited allies. “It’s always better to play with friends and family, so I called my twin sister, Kelly, and said, ‘I’m making a game to heal my brain and I want you to play with me.’” Kelly became her watcher, like Rupert Giles in the Buffyverse.

“She gave me a task to do every day, like looking out the window to find something interesting. It gave me a sense of purpose, and got the dopamine cycling back through my brain, which helped lift the depression.” Her husband came onboard, too, along with other friends—each of them adding their own bad guys to the mix.

Everyone was ready to do battle, but what would give them an edge?

What gives an angry bird heft, or boosts an avatar to the next level?

Power-ups. In the land of video games, power-ups such as Mario’s magic mushrooms, Sonic’s golden rings and Link’s healing potions, are the bonus items that add strength, skills, tools, and even life, for players.

The Adventures Of Jane As McGonigal explored the realworld power-ups that might help her heal, she discovered everyday things that made her feel better.

Cuddling her dog, going for a walk, having a glass of water—even on her worst days, these simple actions

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There’s A Game For That McGonigal had just been admitted to graduate school at UC-Berkeley in fall 2001, intending to study how physicists collaborate. In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, she and a group of fellow gamers began to discuss ways they could use the strengths they had developed through gaming—collaboration skills, collective intelligence, crowd-sourced problem solving—to help the relief and recovery effort.

“It was a light bulb moment for me,” she says, “and I wondered whether other gamers were using their gaming skills in real life.” At the end of that first year, she changed her academic focus, eventually earning a Ph.D. investigating how gamers collaborate. She’s been taking on big-picture issues through that lens ever since.

As many hardcore gamers have long suspected, it turns out there are real world benefits to spending evenings glued to an Xbox or PC. Whether it’s hacking away at the digital terra firma of “Minecraft” and/or blasting alien invaders in “Halo,” playing games can aid in the development of resilience. Accepting challenges, taking on secret identities, recruiting allies, seeking power-ups, trying again after failures and going for epic wins all have value when it comes to navigating the challenges in our lives, according to McGonigal.

“At ‘SuperBetter,’ we’re kind of hacking the brain,” she says, “creating opportunities to make predictions or take actions that will result in successful outcomes, so you’re getting hooked on striving for things you care about, even when it’s difficult.”

McGonigal notes how video games have shown therapeutic success with certain brain disorders. “Some games tap into the part of the brain associated with visual processing as well as anxiety,

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made a difference. And as she added activities to the list, she noticed what scientists have already proven, that obstacles, or in the language of gaming, bad guys, can help us develop the psychological flexibility to grow stronger.

After a few months, she put up a blog post about the game, renaming it “SuperBetter,” because that’s what she wanted her recovery to look like. “Soon I started hearing from people all over the world, who were adopting secret identities, recruiting allies, and fighting bad guys.” So remarkable were the success stories that McGonigal says she wouldn’t have believed them if the game hadn’t worked so well for her.

What surprised McGonigal most about “SuperBetter” was that the more extreme and traumatizing the challenge someone was facing, the more effectively it worked.

“People with huge problems have had tremendous success,” she says. “A young dad diagnosed with late stage ALS played to create a legacy for his kids. Folks with terminal cancer play as a way to navigate the journey.

Survivors of rape and incest make real progress, too. In fact, people with those kinds of challenges often have better results than people using it for smaller goals like running a 5K or losing 10 pounds.”

McGonigal attributes this unexpected outcome, at least in part, to a phenomenon called posttraumatic growth, which is when, in the wake of extreme trauma or tragedy, people bounce back stronger than before, discovering a new sense of mission, connection and appreciation for life. “That’s what the game turned out to be doing,” she says. “I didn’t know when I invented it, that this was going to help the people who need it most.”

“SuperBetter,” the online game that has been played by half a million people worldwide—and McGonigal’s new book by the same name—are borne from what “Jane the Concussion Slayer” began. And as far as she’s concerned, she’s just getting started.

In an effort to share the success of “SuperBetter” and spread the word of how gaming can be used to do more than simply entertain, McGonigal will be speaking at the third annual

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EPIC WIN Using the framework of an entertaining and engaging video game, McGonigal developed ‘SuperBetter’— a game users play to overcome depression, anxiety and other psychological issues, or simply to motivate themselves. addict addiction addi ctiion and d PTSD. P SD PT DS Scientists ciienti tistts h have ave found that by monopolizing the visual processing center, you can block the response to picture what you crave, imagine terrible things happening or focus on flashbacks of trauma. There’s a lot more work to be done, but that’s why video games work so well for these conditions.”

Playing With Purpose Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, was Jane McGonigal’s first book, and it turned her into an instant star at tech gatherings like South by Southwest and TED. “Gamification” is the loaded term that was tossed around when discussing the ideas that emerged from Reality is Broken. Critics pointed to the disquieting ease with which corporations could influence user behavior. They also noted that while people crave the sense of achievement they derive from “World of Warcraft” more than from their jobs at Starbucks, games are not reality, and shouldn’t provide a false sense of satisfaction that masks real world problems. Drug dealers, media

mogulls and moguls and religious reli ligiious lleaders e ders ea rs have hav avee been pushing that agenda for years with less than stellar results.

But here’s the thing: McGonigal agrees. “If we’re in denial about how the games we play impact our bodies, brains, and relationships, it’s no good. The number one predictor of people who become addicted to video games is when they play them to escape daily life, or avoid feelings like boredom, loneliness and anger.”

She says that the people who experience the benefits of games are those who play them with purpose.

“These people identify real impacts that games are having on their daily lives, like spending quality time with their family, improving how fast they can process information, or allowing them to re-energize after a hard day of work. The balance is in understanding the benefits and playing to achieve them.”

One thing is certain, the balance has tipped. The gaming industry is projected to reach $70 billion this year and 75 percent of American households play video games— whether on a computer, console or mobile device. Perhaps this is the best argument for looking more deeply into the benefits they can provide: The public has already bought in.

Alongg with Al w th wi h creating creati ting games that h promote creativity and teamwork for partners like the American Heart Association, The International Olympic Committee, the World Bank Institute and the New York Public Library, McGonigal is mother to twin daughters. When she imagines a future where gamers tackle real world problems (she says she won’t be satisfied until a game designer wins the Nobel Prize), she wants her own children to be part of it.

“Parents should talk to their kids about the strengths, skills and abilities the games they play are building, like resilience and cooperation. Tell them why you think those might be useful, maybe at school, on the athletic field, or when an argument happens at home. Get kids used to thinking that the skills, abilities and strengths they show in video games are not limited to the game. They have those strengths in life.”

As for the science, while McGonigal has demonstrated how games do everything from enhancing problemsolving skills to reducing depression, she is committed to the long haul.

“I want to continue to do research to further explore our findings.

We’ve done two randomized control

ttrials, one for depression and one for traumatic brain injury. ‘SuperBetter’ was shown to have significant benefits in both cases. I want to expand the scientific literature so that people feel comfortable and supported in making the decision to play a game to help them get better.”

“SuperBetter” is the evolution of an idea that McGonigal first proposed in Reality is Broken: that people have the smarts, skills, and resilience to solve the world’s problems, and that games can provide the structure and motivation to help us heal our own lives. When talking about the effect that creating and playing “SuperBetter” has had on her, she says, “The main thing that worked was that I stopped feeling helpless. It made me feel optimistic and like I had agency.”

If a generation raised on gaming can recapture optimism and agency in a setting as unlikely as cyberspace, and return to a real world starving for those assets, she is onto something big.

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25 N. San Pedro St., San Jose. O’Flaherty’s will pour more than 20 German and German-inspired beers throughout the month of October, but the real draw is the Germany vs. America face off Oct. 6, when customers can try lagers, hefeweizens and Oktoberfest beers made from German and American breweries and determine a winner.

Little surprise, Germany won last year.

OCTOBER 10 GORDON BIERSCH BREWERY

Dear, Dear Beer LITER HOSED Taps across the Bay Area will flow to infinity for OktoberFest.

OktoberFest has something for everyone, including the kids and your favorite beer snob

BY ANDY LEE

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HE ANNUAL ritual in which we sing and dance and hug on tables with strangers returns with Oktoberfest.

Oh, there will also be lots and lots of beer and brats.

Oktoberfest has a little something for everyone this year, which is why we compiled this list of the South Bay’s best events.

Prost!

THROUGH OCTOBER 30 TESKE’S GERMANIA 255 N. 1st St., San Jose. Teske’s Germania in downtown San Jose

knows German cuisine, song and dance. And beer. And schnapps!

Throughout Oktoberfest, the Internationals and the Gruber Family Band will perform on select Friday and Saturday evenings, starting at 6:30pm.

THROUGH OCTOBER 23 FAULTLINE BREWING CO. 1235 Oakmead Pkwy., Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale’s Faultline Brewing Company offers a special Oktoberfest menu with items like beer-braised sausages and Schnitzel, as well inhouse brewed German-style beers on tap and live music.

OCTOBER 3-4 MOUNTAIN VIEW 895 Villa St., Mountain View. Arguably home to the biggest and best of Silicon Valley Oktoberfest celebrations,

Mountain View’s two-day party will be hosted by Steins Beer Garden & Restaurant with partners Tied House and the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce. The third annual celebration takes place from 11am to 7pm both days in the large parking lot directly behind Steins. It features food from Teske’s Germania and Moveable Feast food trucks, a 7,000-square-foot beer tent, a variety of German beers, live music and a large kids zone.

OCTOBER 5-6 HENRY’S WORLD FAMOUS HI-LIFE 310 W. St. John St., San Jose. Henry’s World Famous Hi-Life plans to get down for two days with a parking lot party. Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei Dunkel, Helles and Frans beers and Lagunitas Doppel Sticky will be on tap, along with with Henry’s everyday selection of 16 draft beers.

Henry’s will also be serving grilled brats, sauerkraut, peppers and onions, signature warm potato salad, garlic bread and fried chicken.

357 E. Taylor St., San Jose. Gordon Biersch Brewery will host its inaugural Oktoberfest from noon to 9pm outside the brewery. The celebration includes traditional German food, roasted pig and chicken, the debut of WildCide Hard Cider, brewery tours, Gordon Biersch beers, garlic fries and more. Mayor Sam Liccardo will open the event with a ceremonial tapping of the first keg with brewmaster Dan Gordon. Look for this one to quickly become a local favorite.

OCTOBER 10 SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET 87 N. San Pedro, San Jose. Oktoberfest returns to San Pedro Square Market for its third year from noon to 7:30pm.

Look for a dozen German beers on tap, special German-inspired dishes and plenty of entertainment, including the Showcase Band, a brat’ toss, stein hoisting, water pong and more.

OCTOBER 17-18 CAMPBELL Downtown Campbell. Campbell’s annual Oktoberfest takes place over two days in downtown and promises a little something for everyone—German food, beer and wine, live music, and more than 100 arts and crafts booths.

OCTOBER 18 OKTOBRAFEST AT SAN JOSE WOMAN’S CLUB 75 S. 11Th Street. OktoBRAfest takes place 3-5pm and will be emceed by KBAY Morning Show host Lissa Kreisler. Hosted by Be A Dear and Donate a Brassiere Section in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, expect fun contests and raffle prizes, music and dancing, a buffet of German classics and beers from Gordon Biersch.

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TEALICIOUS The bubble tea craze has reached its peak, and San Jose has no shortage of options.

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OBA, pearl, tapioca, bubble tea—whatever we call these chewy, ball-shaped desserts found at the bottom of tea drinks, they’ve become ubiquitous in San Jose’s dining scene. The proliferation of coffee/tea shops and bakeries selling dessert drinks in the South Bay leaves no shortage of options and styles to choose from. Here are a few of our favorites in San Jose.

TEA LYFE DRINKS 989 Story Rd. Suite 8018 Metro featured Tea Lyfe last week and rightly so. The drinks are made with natural and organic ingredients, such as Strauss Milk and Taza Chocolate.

Along with classic tea flavors, there are fruit fusions (Tropical Sangria) and House Specialties (Horchata 101). Toppings include honey boba, organic chia seeds, grass jelly and aloe.

PEKOE 3276 S. White Rd. Pekoe, pronounced pee-koh, is named after a tea grading system which puts an emphasis on quality. The atmosphere is jazzy with cool lighting, white plush seating and there is a big-screen TV for gaming tournaments. Some unique flavors include, "Baked Apple Pie" and the "Angela," a jasmine tea infused with winter melon and aloe vera.

BAMBU DESSERTS & DRINKS 1688 Hostetter Rd. Bambu is a veritable champion of the ché Vietnamese sweet desserts, drawing crowds to its multiple South Bay locations. It also sells a wide range of milk teas and desserts with boba, and ice cream macaroon desserts as an added bonus. Cash only VANITEA SNOW LOUNGE 1195 Branham Ln. Vanitea stands out with a tea retail store that sells blends and an in-house art gallery that hosts creative workshops and events. Their house-brewed teas can be paired with fresh local milk, a house-made crema and syrup, or an almond milk option.

CHATIME SAN JOSE 311 N. Capitol Ave., Suite C Get ready for purple everything—including fuzzy seats, pillows, booth walls, lights and straws—at this boba-friendly establishment. At ChaTime there is no such thing as having too many options.

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SOYFUL DESSERTS 999 Story Rd., Suite 9048-B Winner of the Best Milk Tea category at the first annual Boba Festival in San Jose, this dessert venue is known for creamy milk teas and specializes in adding Hong Kong style milk foam, sweet Japanese pudding and soft tofu into their drinks. Soyful also sells a range of flavored soymilk (taro, honeydew, banana and original flavors). Outdoor seating provides a great opportunity linger. —Jesse Wei

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Mountain Winery, Saratoga Wed, 5:30pm, $50-$100 Guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder has collaborated with The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young and many others. He’s also worked on films such as Buena Vista Social Club and Crossroads. On his current tour, he's teamed up with country singer Sharon White and bluegrass maestro Ricky Skaggs, who has been performing since he was just a wee lad. The trio (joined by a rhythm section and some guests) will bring their blues, gospel and bluegrass act to the Santa Cruz Mountains Wednesday. NorCal Americana group The Easy Leaves opens. (KK)

Jeffrey Edalatpour Karla Kane

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MAT O’BRIEN

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Seeing Things Gallery, San Jose Thu, Free

The Ritz, San Jose Fri, 9pm, $13 adv/$15 doors

There are two interrelated idiomatic expressions that apply to Mat O’Brien’s furiously made artistic creations. “The devil is in the detail” means there’s something hidden or mysterious in the details of a particular thing. And “God is in the detail” implies that the particular thing you’re creating should be done thoroughly, with great attention and care and purpose. Both ideas are totally present in O’Brien’s collages of words and images: the drawings are sculptural, or, they’re not just one thing. Look closely and you’ll find glimpses of heaven and hell in every beautifully crooked line. The show runs through Oct. 31. (JE)

If you were ever in the audience when Johnny Cash performed, you can’t forget the dark electricity he summoned the moment he took command of the stage. If you miss hearing the eldritch fires of his basso profondo, Cash’d Out, a Johnny Cash tribute band, comes to town on Friday night. Vocalist Douglas Benson doesn’t exactly conjure Cash’s affect or inflections. His cooler timbre is more of a tonal match to Bill Callahan’s. But the band that backs him captures the early raucous rockabilly energy of those essential Sun Records songs.

Chances are, you’ve got the real thing at home and can always turn those on after the concert’s over. (JE)

FAIRY TALES/ VARIANT LIFE KALEID gallery, San Jose Fri, 12pm, Free Milpitas-based comic artist Donny Foley will present his new show, "Donbon's Fairy Tales," along with his book of the same name, as part of October’s South First Friday art walk in downtown San Jose. The book is a kid-friendly collection of classic fairy tales reinterpreted using Foley's own characters ("The Bert Who Cried Bees," for example, as well as one original tale). The exhibit will feature a series of word paintings inspired by the scenes in the book. Fellow South Bay artist Kori Thompson also has a new exhibit opening: "Variant Life," a collection of bold new paintings.

The two shows will run through Oct. 30. (KK)

LAS CAFETERAS MACLA, San Jose Fri, 8 pm, $15-$20 Las Cafeteras, made up of seven Los Angeles-based musicians playing intriguing instruments— including a donkey jawbone, a West African marimbol and a wooden platform for Zapateado dancing, will shake, rattle and strum for three shows at San Jose's Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA).

The group blends Spanish, English and Spanglish lyrics with traditional Latin, Caribbean and hip-hop music and a social justice message. Their live show promises spirited performances, infectious beats and plenty of Angeleno attitude. Check out their vibrant video for "La Bamba Rebelde" for a taste. The band plays Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. (KK)

* concerts Oct 1 at Mountain Winery

SCORPIONS & QUEENSRYCHE Oct 1 at SAP Center

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MADONNA Oct 19 at SAP Center

JUDAS PRIEST & MASTODON Oct 21 at City National Civic

SIR MIX-A-LOT Oct 22 at The Ritz

SAFE IN SOUND Oct 23 at City National Civic

MUDHONEY Oct 25 at RockBar Theater

BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT

LAS CAFETERAS

Oct 24-25 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

DANZIG Oct 29 at City National Civic

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Rockbar Theater, Saratoga Sat, 7 pm, $25-$30 Party down for a good cause. Two local skate-punk bands—Clay Wheels and Drunk Injuns—along with the reggae groups Native Elements and Dub Nation, will perform at the first live music event benefiting Living PMA (Positive Mental Attitude), a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting children and adults with brain tumors. The event will also feature casino games, a DJ, an auction, a raffle, food, and a full bar. All proceeds go toward cancer research. (KK)

PIRATES OF PENZANCE

SYMPOSIUM: LIVING IN PUBLIC

Montgomery Theater, San Jose Sat, 8 pm, $11-$37

The Tech & SJMA, San Jose Sat, 9am, $30-$35

"I am the very model of a modern major general ...." That's stuck in your head now, isn't it? If somehow you aren't familiar with that oft-parodied classic ear worm and lyrical tongue-twister, get thee to a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comedy, The Pirates of Penzance, in which much trickery, buffoonery, and operatic singing takes place. The major general is "plucky and adventury" and the titular pirates are surprisingly gentlemanly. The show plays Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. (KK)

The Tech Museum of Innovation and the San Jose Museum of Art are co-presenting an allday symposium focusing on the relationship between personal freedom and public safety. The Tech will host the morning session featuring artist Hasan Elahi and Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. The afternoon session at SJMA will hold a discussion on privacy with panelists Michelle Dennedy, former chief privacy officer at McAfee security technologies and artist Ricardo Dominguez. The ticket price includes lunch and admission to both museums. (JE)

*sun RICHARD DAWKINS

Kepler's Books, Menlo Park Sun, 9:30am A rockstar in the world of popular science, the brilliant, outspoken and often controversial Oxford biologist, famous atheist and author, Dr. Richard Dawkins, returns to Kepler's Books. He's come to promote Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science, the second part of his series of autobiographies, focusing on the merging of his illustrious scientific career with his interest in human culture and literature. Befitting a Sunday morning event, mimosas will be served. Tickets are sold out, but the crafty may still find a way in. (KK)

MISFITS Nov 21 at RockBar Theater

THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND Nov 21 at The Ritz

THE PHENOMENAUTS Nov 21 at The Ritz

NASHVILLE PUSSY Dec 1 at RockBar Theater

THE WEEKND Dec 6 at SAP Center

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 18 at The Ritz

MACHINE HEAD Dec 19 at RockBar Theater

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Return of the APE MONKEY BUSINESS The work of artist Andrew Yang will be on display at this year’s Alternative Press Expo.

After 15 years in San Francisco, the APE comics expo is back in San Jose

BY AARON CARNES

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ERE’S A BIT of local trivia. The Alternative Press Expo—the first convention in the nation to ever focus exclusively on alternative comics—was first held right here in San Jose in 1994.

Many are unaware of the event’s local origins, since APE has been hosted in San Francisco since 2000.

It was there that the expo gained most of its notoriety. This year, however, APE is coming home, back into the hand of its creator.

The man behind APE is Dan Vado.

The founder and owner of Slave Labor Graphics, Vado has been publishing underground comics since 1986. He came up with the idea for APE partly out of frustration at his lack of options as an indie publisher of comics. As he explains, in the early ’90s there was no

social network to connect directly with fans, and working with the traditional distributors was an uphill battle for the little guy. So, Vado decided to do something about it.

“Anything that wasn’t Marvel or DC was getting bitch-slapped pretty hard by the distribution system,” he says, recalling the difficulties he faced in promoting his publications. “I thought … we should have a show that’s devoted to stuff that’s not part of the big mechanism.”

The first year, Vado spent the better part of 12 months publicizing the event while simultaneously trying to convince artists and publishers to participate. It was slow-going at first. Convincing big names in the independent world to participate was definitely difficult, Vado says.

“They didn’t see the value, or even understand it.”

In its third year, Vado canceled APE, because he’d accidentally booked it on Mother’s Day, which he figured would be a devastating failure. Out of the blue, he received a call from someone at Comic-Con, a fan of the event. They

offered to run it for Vado, and by 2000 they had moved APE to San Francisco.

Vado has always stayed involved, and even as the expo has grown with Comic-Con’s help, it’s never strayed from its original intention.

Over the years, Comic-Con would check in with Vado to see if he wanted to have APE back. He always said no.

This year he said yes.

“We noticed he was staging some pretty awesome community events in San Jose, and over the course of years, we would discuss APE and his other events,” says David Glazer, director of Marketing and Public Relations for Comic Con. “I think at one point we just wondered if he longed for doing the show again. It really was as simple as that.”

A lot has changed for Vado since he last ran APE in San Jose. For one, he’s become quite comfortable putting on events. Last time he ran APE, he was running Slave Labor Graphics out of the back of his comic book store, A World of Fantasy, over on Bascom Avenue. He moved his operations to Market Street in 2002, calling it just SLG Publishing. He started letting bands play in the building in 2008. In 2009 he started participating in the First Fridays art walk. He changed the name of his store to the Art Boutiki.

In 2013, he moved the shop to Race

Street. He now runs anywhere from 10 to 12 of shows a month, everything from rock & roll, to jazz, to live comedy and open mic nights.

As he prepares to retake the reins of APE, he does so understanding that the comic industry has changed a great deal the mid-’90s. Not only is distribution and promotion a totally different game, but the very notion of alternative has changed—as larger publishers have begun producing “alternative content” and self-published artists now create traditional superhero stories.

“The word ‘alternative’ is a weird thing,” Vado says. “I don’t think we can limit it to certain publishers or artists or try to make definitions of what ‘alternative’ actually means. It’s about individual vision. It’s about sincerity.

I think APE is defined by individual creative passion. Instead of Alternative Press Expo, you can maybe call it ‘Artistic Passion Experience.’”

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CEO, Fullpower Technologies, Inc. A pioneer in software and wearables who founded four successful technology companies, including software powerhouse Borland in the 1980s, Philippe Kahn is now recognized as the inventor of the cameraphone. Philippeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photo from the birth of his daughter, taken and instantly shared on 1\UL PZ [OL Ă&#x201E;YZ[ RUV^U W\ISPJS` [YHUZTP[[LK HUK shared camera-phone picture. His company Fullpower created the MotionX 24/7 wearable technology platform that powers solutions by Nike, Jawbone and others. He is also the inventor of 100 technology patents covering wearables & IoT, eyewear, smartphones, mobile, imaging, wireless, synchronization and TLKPJHS [LJOUVSVNPLZ /L PZ Ă&#x2026;\LU[ PU SHUN\HNLZ HUK ILZPKLZ working passionately at Fullpower, spends time with his family, plays classical music and improvisational jazz, sails, surfs and skis in the backcountry.

JEREMIAH OWYANG Founder, Crowd Companies

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BRIAN FANZO

Founder, iSocialFanz LLC Brian is a leading voice of the millennial generation in digital media. He has 10+ years experience managing, deploying and training enterprises and small businesses on cyber security, community management, collaboration, digital marketing, video conferencing and social business. As a technology and social media strategist, Brianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presented at numerous technology conferences, as well as quarterly presentations for the Federal Government Joint *OPLMZ VM :[HÉ&#x2C6; HUK VU ZP[L PU 0YHX HUK (MNOHUPZ[HU MVY [OL <UP[LK States Army. His passion for change and people is evident as he delivers keynotes on topics ranging from employee advocacy and social selling to personal branding. He was recently awarded the Top 25 Social Business Leaders of 2014 by IBM & The Economist Intelligence Unit.

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TODD WEAVER Founder, Purism

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SCOTT SCHREIMANN CEO, Samepage

Scott Schreimann leads the downtown San Jose-based Kerio Technologies, which helps small and mid-sized businesses connect, communicate and collaborate securely, and is operating CEO of its Samepage division.

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FLAMMY MARCIANO

This San Jose rapper brings the ruckus.

Stomping on propulsive beats, his tweaked bars shine with gleeful punchlines followed by loony ad-libs. Flammy shines when he gets metaphorical, like when he compares his smoothness to lotion. (JF)

GRACE LOVE & THE TRUE LOVES

Grace Love and the True Loves is an original 9-piece soul sensation from Seattle, Wash.

On vocals, Grace Love is Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shining jewel of grit, beauty and powerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;think Etta James and Betty Wright meet Mahalia 1HJRZVU )HJRLK I` [OL ;Y\L 3V]LZ OLY ]VJHSZ Ă&#x2026;VH[ LÉ&#x2C6;VY[SLZZS` over kickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; back beats, smart horns, syncopated rhythms and sweet B-3 color. (NV)

GRMLN

@VVKVV 7HYR HUK JVTWHU` OH]L ILLU Ă&#x2026;VH[PUN around the Bay Area for a couple years now, playing Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bright, guitar-drenched indie pop.

Park and his brother are currently in the process of recording their third LP, a follow-up to last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soon Away on Carpark Records. (SL)

JEAN BAUDIN

Known for his unique, dark, melodic compositions and versatile technique, Jean Baudin is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most highly recognizable bass playersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; known for his phenomenal tapping, slapping and Ă&#x201E;UNLYZ[`SL IHZZ WSH`PUN HZ ^LSS HZ OPZ JYLH[P]L \ZL VM LÉ&#x2C6;LJ[ WLKHSZ 5=

JULIUS PAPP

Julius Pappâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dance music roots lie in the disco of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s and the new wave of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s. Now based in San Francisco, he was born and raised in Montreal, and got tuned into dance music through his home townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ă&#x2026;V\YPZOPUN JS\I ZJLUL HUK KP]LYZL YHKPV broadcasts. He started collecting vinyl records in the mid â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s and has been spinning since 1985. (NV)

LORD SUPERIOR

One of the three greatest calypsonians out of Trinidad and Tobago still performing, Lord Superior is considered by many to be an international treasure. His breezy, lilting island grooves are beloved in Trinidad and throughout the Caribbean, New York City, Canada and London. (NV)

LUCID OPTICS

Lucid Optics is a San Jose-based rapper, singer and producer. With roots in live music, he lays out his psychedelic worldview in a Z[PS[LK Ă&#x2026;V^ V]LY ZHTWSL SLZZ ILH[Z /L ^YV[L lyrics instead of doing homework in high ZJOVVS HUK ^LU[ VU OPZ Ă&#x201E;YZ[ [V\Y PU H [^V KVVY sedan. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your quintessential DIY rap story. (JF)

MITCHELL LUJAN

Born and raised in San Jose, singerZVUN^YP[LY 4P[JOLSS 3\QHU KYH^Z PUĂ&#x2026;\LUJL from old souls and modern R&B artists, but his musical dynamism lands him in the alternative spectrum. Mitchell has performed at numerous local venues, including Slimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in San Francisco and the SLG Art Boutiki in San Jose. His upcoming EP Subject to Change, is slated for late 2015. (NV)

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PAT HULL

Connecticut-born Patt Hull is currently based out of Chico. His lyrically and vocally charged songwriting is â&#x20AC;&#x153;gently reinventing the genre, rather than obeying its exhausted axioms,â&#x20AC;? according to Deli Magazine /PZ SH[LZ[ LÉ&#x2C6;VY[ In the Yellow Room, was recorded live and engineered by Peter Rodocker at Yellow Room Recording, in Portland. (NV)

SHERIFF RAMB

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Compared to his previous work, Ramb says his new work focuses â&#x20AC;&#x153;more on layers, textures of sound and leaving certain aspects of the music completely up to chance.â&#x20AC;? (NV)

STEELY NASH

Texas-born Steely Nash puts her powerful voice to use on electro-tinged soul jams, where â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s girl group harmonies abound.

She is currently working on her Paper Doll EP and can be found playing shows in SoFA and around the Bay. (SL)

SUENATRON

Brothers Raul and Hernan â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mexiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hernandez began making music together in order to tell of their experiences as children growing up in San Jose. They have created a fresh, dancible take VU J\TIPH HUK 5VY[L|V PUĂ&#x2026;\LUJLK WVW 5=

SURVIVAL GUIDE

Survival Guide is Emily Whitehurstâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indieelectro pop project. She got her start playing in the well-known Petaluma punk band, Tsunami Bomb. Those early punk days can still be heard in her strong vocals. However, these days now sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more about fuzzy synths and grinding guitars. Her latest LP, Way to Go was released in May. (SL)

SWEET HAYAH

Emerging from the multicultural and diverse heart of the Silicon Valley, Sweet HayaH is truly a product of its environment. The band originally emerged 2011 and has quickly become as a regular on in the Bay Area scene. (NV)

The roots of this Los Angeles-based trio burrow in post-millennial punk, but their growth incorporates supersonic â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s rock [OH[ Ă&#x201E;YZ[ PUZWPYLK [OLT ;OL IHUK PU[LNYH[LZ nuance and dynamic momentum while V^UPUN [OLPY ]VSJHUPJ YPÉ&#x2C6;Z THZZP]L TLSVKPLZ and provocative lyrical stances. (JF)

WESTACY

An eight member collective out of San Jose, Westacy consists of Ziggy, RJxV, Thatfool AL, Yates, M.Lawley, C-Note, Mac Bastard and Keylow B. Characterizing the memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ]HYPV\Z V\[W\[ PZ KPÉ&#x2030;J\S[ I\[ [OL JYL^ TVZ[S` [YHÉ&#x2030;JZ PU JOPSSLK V\[ IV[[VT OLH]` ILH[Z though the rhymes come thick and fast. Two members, Yates and Ziggy, recently dropped new LPs. (SL)

WOOSHAY

Starting in 2013 with no experience in music at all, this DJ duo started composing EDM and have been making the rounds on the Bay Area club circuit with their bouncy, undulating bass, skittering hi hats, and disembodied wailing vocals. Their skipping synthy sounds opened for Nelly when he came to town. (JF)

X RATED FUNK SQUAD

This quartet unleashes rambling, interstellar jams that meld face-melting solos, shimmying drum Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bass grooves, and the ambient electric oddness emanating from their â&#x20AC;&#x153;space IV_ š :VHYPUN MYVT VUL PTTLYZP]L YPÉ&#x2C6; [V [OL next, their compositions tower and sway, bulging with force that rattles your jawbone. May the funk be with you. (JF)

YOUNG GULLY

Young Gully is wide awake. A eyewitness to gang/police violence, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not content to rap aimlessly, plumbing deep into his past and innermost emotions to unearth undeniable truths that are as potent as they are seamlessly strung together. Laced with NY\É&#x2C6; JYLKPIPSP[` OPZ Ă&#x2026;V^Z YVSSPJR HUK I\JR IL[^LLU L_WHUZP]L breath-catching hooks. (JF)

ZIGGY

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NATURAL CURVES

San Francisco DJ and producer Erik Wilson, a.k.a. Natural Curves, builds his skeletal tracks and sets out of odd bits of voices, synths and ILH[Z¡JVUZ[Y\J[PUN VÉ&#x2C6;ILH[ JVU[YHW[PVUZ [OH[ still groove. Genres blur in these dreamy and enfolding soundscapes. (SL)

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Stephanie Chase, guest violinist Cynthia Baehr, Liana Bérubé Philip Brezina, violinists LIFE NEAR MARS A Rick Guidice illustration of a prospective space colony.

Visions of Space

Rick Guidice: The NASA Paintings

Thru Feb 14, Free ON THE COVER of a 1975 NASA report entitled Space Settlements: A Design Study, the reflection of a space New Museum station appears in the face panel of an astronaut’s Los Gatos spacesuit, as he or she floats in through the void. Look numulosgatos. closely at the astronaut’s left shoulder and you can make org out the word “Guidice” in sky blue lettering. NASA owns Reflections, the name of the painting, which Rick Guidice created, along with a series of about 60 more for the NASA study. Over the course of 15 years, Guidice worked with a group of professors and engineers from institutions like Princeton, Stanford and the Ames Research Center to illustrate a plausible vision of what human settlements in space might look like.

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Ten of the original paintings are currently on display at the New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU), and they’re spectacular. Collectively, they offer inventive, vibrant and ultimately hopeful depictions of our species—alive and well, far beyond terra firma’s warm embrace and gravitational pull.

Guidice’s involvement on the project began a few years after he opened his Los Gatos office in 1968. At the time, he worked as a freelance illustrator while also rendering architectural designs. One illustration in the early 1970s, a Formula One race car, caught the attention of some NASA engineers. In the era before digital comps, Guidice brought his portfolio to the Ames campus in Mountain View and they gave him the job. NUMU, pursuing its mission to tell stories by local but globally relevant artists, heard about his work through the Los Gatos grapevine.

Tom Yacoe, another local artist, prompted the museum to unearth this body of Guidice’s early work.

And that’s just what NUMU did. With the help of Guidice’s records, they found a dozen works available from NASA’s archive that were cleared for release (two more are hanging in conference rooms at Ames and could not be lent out). Where, then, in NASA’s archives are the 50 or so remaining paintings of the series housed?

The 10 works on display suggest an expanding universe—one in which mankind populates outer space beautifully. Imagine all 60 of the paintings reunited in one exhibit hall. The mind reels upward. —Jeffrey Edalatpour

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Life On Mars LEFT BEHIND Matt Damon plays stranded astronaut Mark Watney in ‘The Martian.’

‘The Martian’ is a sweeping, heartfelt, funny and well-cast film

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PIC AND YET surprisingly playful, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Mountain View author Andy Weir’s best seller, The Martian, contrasts the vastness of space with the intimacy of a DIY podcast. It begins with a Martian tempest imperiling the Ares III mission.

Astronaut Mark Watney is speared by flying debris. He’s presumed dead by his fellow crew members on the Hermes as they hastily evacuate the red planet.

This Robinson Crusoe on Mars is left to use spare parts and duct tape to ingeniously kluge together a farm—“Luckily, I’m a botanist,” Watney (Matt Damon) explains. The astronaut literally digs up an energy source and wires a communication system to get in touch with home.

The role of Watney brings out all of Damon’s most appealing features—his solitude, his selfdoubt, his eternal boyishness, his hard-bitten humor.

Back at NASA, Watney’s marooning and survival is a public relations mess. The cantankerous chief (Jeff Daniels) seeks spincontrol—good luck at that, since his head of PR is a nervous Kristin Wiig.

She doesn’t get to say much, but the face says it all. Truly, the PR person’s lot is just like appendicitis.

Meanwhile a group of rebels within NASA, led by the bearded mission controller Venkat Kapoor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) concoct a drastic plan to extract the astronaut. The conspirators include an indomitable technician (Sean Bean) and an overcaffeinated student (Donald Glover, a bit too pixieish).

It’s clear why Weir’s book was a success—it contrasts technology and trigonometry with old-fashion science fiction movie daring. The means of getting the Hermes back to Mars fast involves something the Enterprise did once. A spot of China ex Machina is forgivable to the long memoried, who recall how the Russians stepped up to the plate in Marooned (1969).

You don’t expect a space adventure like this to be funny—Scott is usually a brooder, and when he goes antic, as in A Good Year, he can be leaden.

Scripter Drew Goddard (Cabin in the Woods) keeps the tone light and free of the philosophical blather that bloated Prometheus.

There is a noble old movie scene of crisis—the one where the boss, and presumably the audience, are asked to pray, “because we need all the help we can get.” But there is also a scene where a crucifix is requisitioned as an ingredient to cook up some water on Mars. Watney figures Jesus won’t mind. The film is deservedly profane.

Conditions on Mars require a lot of swearing—so much depends on little things, like a flapping plastic tarp holding out against the infernal Martian wind.

What they used to call the “Bomber-Movie cast” (i.e. a mixed batch of types) flies the Hermes.

As the captain, Jessica Chastain has literally weightless grace. (The crew has been aboard their ship for so many months that they swim through the gravity-free corridors like athletes.) Scott keeps cutting to interesting actors aboard the ship— Michael Pena and Kate Mara for example. And he insists on a human scale, as in the pat Damon gives the Mars rover’s muzzle as he leaves it behind, or the spontaneous squeeze Wiig gives her boss’s shoulder during a tough moment.

Some of the scenes of the Martian rover during Watney’s long journey to the rescue site look a bit false in 3D, compared to the Utah-based Martian vistas in the much-maligned John Carter. The end game gets predictable, inferior to the similar but better business in Gravity. But the music of David Bowie (in his spaceman period) supplants a load of ironically-used disco (“Hot Stuff ” plays as Watney hauls a load of plutonium) and the retro-electronic score of Harry Gregson-Williams is suitably spacy.

The Martian is a spirited, sweettempered movie about survival and rescue. It bypasses the importance of sacrifice in favor of humanist values, as in a conversation over whether Watney should be left behind to take one for the team: “This is bigger than one person.”

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metroactive FILM DIFFICULT PEOPLE Shocking redhead, Julie Klausner (as Julie Kessler), and her gay best friend, Billy Eichner (as Billy Epstein), are lazy, sarcastic would-be Manhattan comedy writers—semiimprov comedians languishing in the antechamber of fame, mortified as their friends and acquaintances get gigs and TV deals. They’re oppressed by minor irritations: a world that thinks Chelsea Handler and Kathy Griffin are hilarious, and the perpetually younger casting on SNL. In whatever format—podcasting, Twitter, YouTube—the two alienate potential employers and burn bridges. A talented group of costars compliments these two gifted snark-artists: SCTV immortal Andrea Martin is Julie’s glamorous mom, a psychiatrist who charges surge pricing during the suicide-wracked winter holidays. “Your family’s motto ought to be ‘Quid Pro Quo’,” Billy quips. Yet Billy’s brother’s own family is baffling him with their atavistic search for Judaic rituals, despite a secular childhood. James Urbaniak, deathless as the voice of Dr. Rusty Venture on the Venture Bros, has sensationally forlorn reaction shots as Julie’s doormat of a boyfriend.

(This smartly-dressed sad-sack has the perfect sad-sack job: he works for PBS.) It’s all ultimately sitcom in form—the two hum the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song at the end of one disaster-prone day. But, as the company of haters usually is, it’s reliably tart and refreshing. (Hulu Plus) (RvB)

serious consideration of arranged marriage, however well it might work occasionally, is like hearing advice to put on a straightjacket because it’s cold outside. L.A. lightcomedy actor, Ravi Patel, and his documentary-making sister, Geeta, collaborate on this account of how Ravi finally knuckled under to family pressure and sought an arranged marriage with a fellow Patel from Gujarat, despite the secret affair he had hidden from his parents with a red-headed American girl. Meet the Patels is light and friendly, with clips of Dirty Dancing and Jerry Maguire, and a music track of everything from Indian brass band music to Sammy Davis Jr. And you can see Ravi’s point: marrying another Patel would make him “unconditionally a part of the biggest family in the world.” Rav and

is hobbled by an artificial ticking-clock (will they raise the money by 5pm?).

And there’s a sequence that co-star Sam Elliott should have protested, in which he turns from “wronged” man in Elle’s life into a blackmailer—all part of how this mostly pro-choice movie goes on tiptoe to give anti-choicers their due. Elle, one of the generation of women who fought for choice, says, “If you don’t cry over an abortion, what can you cry over?” It may be worth weeping over a bad script. That’s an abortion in itself. (RvB)

MEET THE PATELS This semi-animated (in the Cal Arts house style), home movie-ish documentary is a crowd pleaser.

It’s certainly sweet enough, but it may make people outside the key Desi demographic uneasy—a

Geeta’s parents are presented as salt-of-the-earth immigrants—their dad started out with $8 in his pocket and now owns a $4 million house. But there are other measures of success.

What use is it living in America if you can’t feel good about telling your parents to get their noses out of your personal life? (RvB)

PAWN SACRIFICE Like the Johnny Depp-starring Black Mass, Pawn Sacrifice is a monomaniacal character study, which is supposed to leave one in awe of the lead actor's focus.

Similar to Depp’s portrayal of

Whitey Bulger’s ghoulish solitude, Tobey Maguire plays Bobby Fischer, a 1970s chess champion, buckling under the weight of his burgeoning celebrity and teetering on the verge of madness. Both Pawn and Mass expect that a blunt competitiveness will make us identify with a climber; movies can make us identify with anyone, as long as they’re playing offense. But Fischer is a genuinely offensive guy. Maguire, in endless closeup, seethes as his Russian nemesis, Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber), flashes a wafer-thin, sardonic smile and walks away with the movie. (RvB)

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But the script by director Paul Weitz (American Pie) is unforgivably corrupt—a sketch that grew too large and too full of admiration for the blowhard, nut-busting gran. Julia Garner, who looks strangely like Little Orphan Annie, plays the pregnant granddaughter, Sage, as a sounding board for her grandmother’s tirades.

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WE’RE TOLD THAT fairy tales help us reconcile children to truths they cannot bear: the good mommy who loves us and the bad mommy who scolds us have to be two different people.

Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s glacial, oblique Hansel and Hansel story Goodnight, Mommy (Ich Seh, Ich Seh) concerns a pair of nine-year-old Austrian twins (Lukas and Elias Schwarz). The boys are so identical that when they fight, their noses bleed in the exact same spot.

They’re first enjoying, then enduring, a rural summer in a brutally modern lake house. Their mother (Susanne Wuest) is a TV game show host, newly separated from her husband; she’s convalescing from some sort of surgery. Clues, from images on the corkboard in her room, suggest she just endured a major facelift. The visible patches of her face are oiled with ointment; bandages pull her face into a jack o’lantern shape. When she strips, this alarmingly thin woman’s flesh is a bruisecolored ochre. And she’s in a real mood.

She lays down the law to these two unruly kids, in what becomes a war of wills between the mother and her sons.

Before delivering the unlikely twist ending, there isn’t a surface Fiala and Franz haven’t considered—the nearby town is empty except for some crazed

Tom Waits-like villiage idiot—feverishly pumping his accordion and yodeling at anyone who’ll listen; at the church, where the children flee for sanctuary, there’s a weird sexton who gobbles like Dennis Weaver in Goodnight, Touch of Evil. A muddy, Mommy dried up lake undulates like stale porridge when R; 100 Mins. the kids romp across Camera 3 it. Even the wallpaper, crawling with some Ikea version of a pattern of ants, is out to get us.

But the class war-fomenting angle keeps this movie hidebound. It starts out with too-bright Technicolor footage of the actual Von Trapp family (as honored in The Sound of Music), warbling through a Brahms lullaby—it’s so on the nose, it’s as if they commenced an American horror movie with the National Anthem and Old Glory. The Michael Hanekemeets-the- Katzenjammer Kids fussiness of the director’s vision is like being menaced by a nattily attired, two-foot tall dominatrix. And then the tools of torture come out. It is, as they say, where the inevitable becomes evitable; the high art style can’t conceal the delivery system of low and uninteresting horror.

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Paranoid Premier CONNECTING THE DOTS Renowned jazz composer, Darcy James Argue, worked with Slate writer Isaac Butler to create ‘Real Enemies,’ a multimedia meditation on the history of conspiratorial thinking in America.

Darcy James Argue will debut his conspiracy theory-themed ‘Real Enemies’ at Stanford

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ALSE FLAGS, chemtrails, second gunmen and perpetual surveillance conspiracy theories are as American as apple pie and have been an integral part of the fabric of this country since before our Founding Fathers even began drafting the Declaration of Independence.

At least that’s what Darcy James Argue and Isaac Butler want you to believe.

Widely recognized as one the best living jazz composers, Argue has partnered with Slate writer Isaac Butler to create Real Enemies—a 12-movement multimedia exploration of the history of conspiracy and

paranoia in the American mind.

Composed by Argue, and written and directed by Butler, the piece is slated to make its world premiere at Bing Concert Hall on the Stanford University campus this Friday. The show will feature a combination of light projections, music from Argue’s 18-piece band, Secret Society, and audio clips of presidential speeches and other sampled recordings. The concert is meant to tell the story of a variety of well-known American conspiracy theories in 12 vignettes— from the first Red Scare, through the assassination of JFK, and on to the present day revelations of CIA contractor Edward Snowden.

When conceiving their piece, Argue and Butler looked to the book Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11, by Kathryn Olmsted.

Argue, who began reading the book at the recommendation of his

girlfriend, says he was at once struck by the “circular nature of conspiracy theories,” and not long after began planning his interpretation of Olmsted’s work.

“I think it’s pretty clear that conspiracy theories occupy a similar place in our culture as myths,” Argue says. “The appeal of conspiracy theories is that they give organization to our world and they give structure and some sort of explanation for why things happen the way they happen that is more comforting to people than just random chance or the idea that some lone wacko did it.”

Butler helped Argue craft his musical composition by creating a detailed outline, or “spine,” inspired by his own reading of Olmsted’s book.

As he read through the book, he identified major themes and salient details and organized them into 12 “thematically coherent chapters.”

In addition to the explicatory appeal of conspiracy theories, Butler says his research for this Real Enemies also showed him how valuable they can be for politicians.

“The Declaration of Independence contains a conspiracy theory about the king’s intentions with the colonies,” he says, referring to beliefs

about the nefarious designs of King George, which were widely held by colonists in the runup to the Revolutionary War. More recently, Butler notes, the assertions by President George W. Bush’s administration that Saddam Hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium from Africa and working with al-Qaeda were, in fact, conspiracy theories. Both were used to justify the invasion of Iraq.

“Neither were true.”

Argue used a method of composing known as the 12-tone serialism—a style of composing invented Arnold Schoenberg after the mind-boggling, mechanized carnage of World War I prompted him to rethink the process of composition. The musical system, according to Argue, came to define modern music and was perfect for capturing “the sound of mid-century paranoia and angst.”

And so, as Real Enemies moves through each of its 12 vignettes, so will Argue guide his Secret Society through a series of 12 movements, with each movement dwelling on each of the 12 tones in the traditional Western musical scale.

The process ensures that the resulting music will be filled with “dissonant and unsettling sounds, unmoored from traditional modality,” Argue explains— ideal for a history of conspiracy theories.

Adding to the overall 12-toned aesthetic, Butler says he conceived of his outline while thinking about a clock counting down to noon—or perhaps midnight—just like the symbolic Doomsday Clock, which represents humanity’s proximity to global catastrophe.

The use of 12-tone serialism is also ironic, according to Argue— especially considering the circuitous constitution of conspiracy.

In the wake of serialism’s rise in popularity, he notes, a conspiracy theory developed among working musicians that the new system was the brainchild of “a shadowy cabal of academic composers that were controlling the definition of respectable new classical composition.”

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The guy seems to be having a “flirtationship” with you—which is to say, this stuff he’s doing is foreplay to foreplay that’s unlikely to happen. There seems to be some evolutionary psychology bubbling up here—specifically, a facet of “error management theory.” This is the mouthful of a way that researchers Martie Haselton and David Buss explain how, when we might make an error in judgment, we evolved to make the least costly error. And though women engage in flirtationships, men seem to have evolved to err on the side of not missing a possible mating opportunity.

And yes, that’s true even when they aren’t technically free to “mate”—like when a guy has taken (and seems to adhere to) those pesky vows to grow old with some lady, and not just in between sex romps with some other lady.

That’s where flirting comes in.

Interpersonal communications researcher David Henningsen points out that the essence of flirting is ambiguity, leading the target to “suspect that sexual interest is being expressed” but not allowing them to really be sure. As for a flirt’s goal, predictably, for many in Henningsen’s and others’ research, it’s about “getting some.”

But some flirting, called “instrumental” flirting, is about getting something else— like getting a discount, getting some free help, or getting out of a ticket by flashing a lady cop one’s man boobs.

As for what may be going on here, Henningsen notes that some flirting is just about having fun or is a way for a person to feel good about themselves. (“She’s all over me like ants on a croissanwich!”) There’s also what Henningsen calls the “exploring” motivation: safely testing what a relationship with somebody new might be like (in case the wife runs off with the census taker).

Chances are, this guy is into you but is clinging to fidelity like a shipwrecked rat on driftwood. Maybe try to enjoy this for what it is: free lunch, free work, and referrals for car repair. And try to be grateful for all that he shares with you, like the poetry and short stories that his wife probably (wisely) refuses to read. As for a companion to take you to that dark place with satin sheets, you’ll have to find somebody unmarried and available. If this guy is looking to make his wife cry, it seems he’ll stick to lowgrade relationship misdemeanors, like forgetting her birthday or, when they’re in bed, calling her by an old girlfriend’s name. Or by the dog’s.

I just discovered that my boyfriend of a year not only is married but has two young kids. I broke it off immediately and texted his wife. I made clear that I had no idea he was married. But now his wife keeps contacting me, wanting to meet for lunch. I’m not sure what she wants from me.—Go Away, Lady When somebody just can’t let go after a relationship, you don’t expect it to be your married boyfriend’s wife. You can’t seem to get it through her head: “I’m out of his life, and I’d really like to be out of yours.”

She’s probably just looking for answers—sadly, to questions like “How pretty are you?” “How big are your boobs?” and “How the heck did you get him to go to the dermatologist?” But the only answer you really need to give her is a definitive no: No calls. No texts.

No more contact. Meanwhile, review any signs you may have overlooked that this guy wasn’t the single, available man he made himself out to be, and go into future relationships wanting to find out rather than wanting to believe. This should keep you from having scorned wives hitting you up for lunch dates and from the charming offers that might ensue: “Whaddya say—if I treat you to tiramisu, would you help me dump his body in the ravine?”

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I’m very attracted to my co-worker—a self-described “happily married man.” We are “friends,” but he always has a warm hug, an interesting YouTube video, or a poem or short story he’s written to share with me. He has taken me to lunch and has done work for me gratis. If I have car trouble, he connects me to a mechanic and sees I get great work for a great price. Twice he’s told me, “I love you.” The second time, I responded, “I love you, too, and if you weren't married, I'd take you on!” He then responded, “Previous commitment!” I’m confused as to what’s going on in his head. There has been no sex, and he hasn’t asked for any.—Huh?

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If walking or bicycling on a street that doesn't have sidewalks, I've always been taught to do so in the direction of the street traffic, which seems to be dogma. I would think going against traffic would theoretically be safer—allowing a view of oncoming cars and possibly crucial eye contact with drivers. Certainly easier to spot an impaired driver that's weaving on the road facing forward rather than backward. Your thoughts?—George Kuritza, Park Ridge, Ill. George, did you ever see those bumper stickers that say “My karma ran over your dogma”? Suffice it to say your dogma’s in a vulnerable position here. In places where no sidewalks exist, walkers and runners are advised to travel in the opposite direction of motor-vehicle traffic—that’s to say, on the left side of the road, if we’re assuming an American layout. The logic behind this is pretty much as you present it: they’ll be in a better position to spot, say, a drunk or distracted driver careering at them on the highway ahead.

The same doesn’t hold true for biking.

That’s as it should be: according to the League of American Bicyclists, bikers traveling against traffic are three times more likely to be involved in an accident.

It’s a dangerous practice for a number of reasons. Say you meet another cyclist traveling in the opposite (i.e., correct) direction—somebody’s gotta swerve out into the road to make way. (Courtesy suggests it be you, seeing as you’re the one on the wrong side of the road.) Drivers don’t expect to see cyclists traveling toward them, and often aren’t on the lookout— like when they’re turning left into an intersection. And then there’s simple physics: a head-on car-bike collision will be a magnitude more violent than a bump from behind.

Oh, and it’s illegal. Laws in most states currently call for bicyclists to travel as far to the right as practicable—AFRAP, in the parlance—with obvious exceptions for turning left or passing. Federal bodies like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also have plenty to say about biking and walking, none of it different from what I’ve laid out here. In recent years, though, they’ve started saying it a lot louder, as fatality stats have gotten markedly worse. Injury and death to cyclists and pedestrians has been on the rise since 2009. Between 2011 and 2012 alone, reports the Department of Transportation, pedestrian deaths were up 6 percent and cyclist deaths were up 7 percent. In September 2014, transportation secretary Anthony Foxx announced an 18-month campaign to address the problem, which will include both “design improvements” and public education.

From the pedestrian perspective, it’s

fairly plain where the action is: namely, not out where there are no sidewalks. In 2012, nearly three-quarters of pedestrian fatalities occurred in an urban setting.

Almost 70 percent occurred away from intersections, 89 percent during normal weather conditions, and 70 percent after 6pm; 48 percent involved alcohol.

Why all the alarming statistics lately?

Setting aside issues of drivers’ conduct, what’s changed pedestrian behavior in this century?

Phones, for one. A 2013 study out of Ohio State University tracked emergencyroom cases between 2004 and 2010 reporting injury related to cellphone use while walking and found the annual number had doubled, to 1,500, in that period. Mind you, these didn’t all involve automobiles; no doubt some were pedestrian-lamppost collisions. In one reported case, a “14-year-old boy walking down a road while talking on a cellphone fell 6 to 8 feet off a bridge into a rockstrewn ditch, suffering chest and shoulder injuries.”

The situation is different with bikes. A study out this month found a 28 percent increase in adult bike injuries between 1998 and 2013—from 96 to 123 per 100,000 people. The rise was especially prevalent in riders over 45, who are apparently taking to the bike lanes in droves.

The clearest lesson is that roads, which were largely drawn up with car traffic in mind, are simply more crowded now. A May 2014 report from Smart Growth America places the blame for rising pedestrian deaths squarely on lagging urban-planning paradigms, noting that most fatalities occur in the Sunbelt—places that “grew in the postwar period, mostly through rapid spread of low-density neighborhoods that rely on wider streets with higher speeds to connect homes, shops and schools”—and particularly along arterial streets, i.e., urban thoroughfares designed to move lots of cars along as quickly as possible. So your best bet wherever you are is to watch your back and your front, and wait for transportation planners to catch up.

LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Home Care Agency, 1885 Junesong Way, San Jose, CA, 95133, Susan Pilapil Almario. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/1/2015. /s/Susan Pilapil AlmarioThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/28/2015. (pub Metro 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07/2015)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #608614 The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): #1 Nails and Spa, 101-B W. Hamilton Ave., Campbell, CA, 95008, Hong Tran, 1139 Oakview Rd., San Jose, CA, 95121. Filed in Santa Clara County on 2/11/2015 under file #601305This business was conducted by an individual/s/Hong TranThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/31/2015.(pub Metro 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608977 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1203 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Luyen Bui, 1243 Panoche Ave., 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. /s/Luyen BuiThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/08/2015.(pub Metro 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608978 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Quynh Beauty Salon, 1692 Tully Rd., #2, San Jose, CA, 95122, Hoa Vuu, 824 Sylvandale, San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Hoa VuuThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/08/2015. (pub Metro 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609124 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Little Star Bilingual Education Center, 1853 Andrews Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Hong Zhang. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ann ZhangThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/14/2015.(pub Metro 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608762 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 CaliforniaRegistrant begann transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on July 23, 2015. /s/Aaron Raymond DeNardoDirector#3801770This 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609189 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A & L Auto Connection, 288 E. Virginia St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Ayazuddin Fahri, 3201 Loma Verde Dr., 69, San Jose, CA, 95117. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Ayazuddin FahriThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/15/2015.(pub Metro 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14/2015)

To all heirs beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of THOMAS M. FLANAGAN.A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MARY E. FLANAGAN & MICHAEL J. FLANAGAN, in the Superior Court of California, County of: Santa ClaraA Petition for Probate requests that: MARY E. FLANAGAN & MICHAEL J. FLANAGAN , be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take-many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority.A hearing on the petition will be held on 11/25/2015, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 10 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113.IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in section 9100 of the California Probate Code. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in section 1250 of the California Probate Code. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.petitioner: MARY E. FLANAGAN & MICHAEL J. FLANAGAN, 1545 Altamont Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125408758-4200(Pub CC 9/30, 10/07, 10/14/2015)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608275 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Morgan Hill Hospitality Training, 14763 Excaliber Dr., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Diane Mahmoudi, Hamid Mahmoudi. This business is conducted by a married couple.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Diane MahmoudiThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/20/2015.(pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 10/07/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609272 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aloft Cupertino, 10165 North De Anza Boulevard, Cupertino, CA, 94014, Infinite Loop Cupertino Hotel, LLC, 20660 Stevens Creek Blvd., #331, Cupertino CA, 95014. This business is conducted by a limited liability company.Above entity was formed in the state of CaliforniaRegistrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jessica PainterManager#201418410082This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/17/2015.(pub Metro 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21/2015)

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by a limited liability company.Above entity was formed in the state of CaliforniaRegistrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jessica PainterManager#201400710022This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/16/2015.(pub Metro 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608684 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Meu Body Care, 2675 Maplewood Lane, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Glenn Yamasaki, Jennyfer Yamasaki. This business is conducted by a general partnership.

Registrant began begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/1/15. /s/Glenn K. YamasakiThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/01/2015.(pub Metro 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609273 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Four Points by Sheraton Cupertino, 4241 Moorpark Ave., San Jose, CA, 95129, Infinite Loop Cupertino Hotel, LLC, 20660 Stevens Creek Blvd., #331, Cupertino CA, 95014. This business is conducted by a limited liability company.Above entity was formed in the state of CaliforniaRegistrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jessica PainterManager#201417710333This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/17/2015.(pub Metro 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609274 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Nest Palo Alto, 3901 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Infinite Loop Cupertino Hotel, LLC, 20660 Stevens Creek Blvd., #331, Cupertino CA, 95014. This business is conducted by a limited liability company.Above entity was formed in the state of CaliforniaRegistrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jessica PainterManager#201414710412This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/17/2015. (pub Metro 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21/2015)

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 TranThis 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 #608806 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kimo’s Kart, 1721 Rogers Ave., Suite S, San Jose, CA, 95112, R. Kimo Isa, 635 Millich Dr., Campbell, CA, 95005. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/R. Kimo IsaThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/03/2015.(pub Metro 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608943 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Snaughty, 3034 Florence Ave., San Jose, CA, 95127, Everardo Moran Casas. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Everardo Moran CasasThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/08/2015.(pub Metro 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07/2015)

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business is conducted by an Individual.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/John LeThis 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 #609189 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A & L Auto Connection, 288 E. Virginia St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Ayazuddin Fahri, 3201 Loma Verde Dr., 69, San Jose, CA, 95117. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Ayazuddin FahriThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/15/2015.(pub Metro 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608565 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Q Autospa Auto Detail, 235 Phelan Ave., San Jose, CA, 95113, John Q Le, 1063 Kitchener Cir., San Jose, CA, 95121. This business is conducted by an Individual.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/John LeThis 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)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608083 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 PhungThis 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609313 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: zyBooks, 479 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Zyante Inc., 24652 Hutchinson Rd., Los Gatos, CA, 95033. This business is conducted by a corporation.Above entity was formed in the state of DelwareRegistrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/1/2014. /s/Smita BakshiCEO#C3496382This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/18/2015.(pub Metro 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608433 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Relax B & C Spa, 1692 Tully Rd., #3, San Jose, CA, 95122, Hoang Tran, 1381 Lassen Ave, Milpitas, CA, 95035. 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/Hoang TranThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/25/2015.(pub Metro 9/09, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #608286 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: South Valley Hospitality Training, 14763 Excaliber Dr., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Diane Mahmoudi, Hamid Mahmoudi. This business is conducted by a married couple.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Diane MahmoudiThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/20/2015.(pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 10/07/2015)

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54 LEGAL & PUBLIC NOTICES CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso): 1-14-CV-269052 AMENDED SUMMONS CROSS-COMPLAINT (CITACION JUDICIALCONTRADEMANDA) NOTICE TO CROSS-DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL CONTRA-DEMANDADO): GREENLEAF MUTUAL BENEFITS ASSOCIATION, YANGSON SMITH, CHONG HONG, KI JUNG KIM, KYUI NAM LEE, YOUNG HEE WOO a.k.a. HI YOON WOO, KYOUNG MI JANG a.k.a. KYUNG MI JANG a.k.a.

ROBIN JANG, JIN KOO, YOUNG MI CHOE, SUN SHEY, YOUNG BO KIM, SUE HONG, SOPHIA KIM, VERONICA GONZALEZ, YOO SANG, JAE SUN YIM, JOSEPH CHO, SONG KOOK, JONG YOUNG HONG, HELEN RHEE, JASON CHU a.k.a. BAUHUEY CHU, JENNIFER KIM, YOSHIKO LILE, SUKI SMITH, SUE HAR, YOUNG BO KIM, MOON JA PARK, SOO KIM, CHONG YOUNG HONG, CHAE SUN YIM, IN SOON RA, HOWARD KANG, GLADYS KANG, JAE WON, JIN HEE KOO, JUNG SOON KIM, JAMES KIM a.k.a. MIN WOO KIM d.b.a. KIM’S BODY, EUN HYUN KIM, WON SANG, JANE KIM, DO YOUNG NA, HYE SOOK PAE, SANG BI YI a.k.a.

LISA YI d.b.a. SHISEIDO, YOU HAN YOON, JUNG MI LEE, HELEN CHONG, YOUNG HEE CHOE, YOUNG GIL YUN, GRACE JANG, KI JONG KIM, BUNG GUP SONG, SUZY LEE, LISA Y. BENNETTE, SOOKIE SMITH, JEE MEE SIM, WOHN HAR, IN SOOK CHAI, TAE YANG KIM, KYUNG SOOK LEE a.k.a. KAY LEE, IN SOOK KIM, FRANK GARCIA, JOANN SANCHEZ, PIL OHM, YOUNG HEE KIM, CHONG SUN YOO, CHONG CHA KANG, YOUNG JIN KIM, HEIDI PARK, PO SON YU, JESSICA KIM a.k.a. KYUNG AE KIM, JAEWON KOO, JINHEE KOO, MOON CHA PARK, AL STUM, ANA HERNANDEZ, B.B. CHANG, SUMI HEINZER, PHAM HUE, ROES 1 through 100, ANGELA YOON sued as ROE 1, CONNIE STURM sued as ROE 2, JENN CHU sued as ROE 3, GA JA KIM, aka GA JA JANG sued as ROE 4, IN SIK KIM sued as ROE 5, KI JONG KIM sued as ROE 6, HWA SOOK KIM sued as ROE 7, JEOM SUN LEE sued as ROE 8, JAE HOON SIM sued as ROE 9, HEUN LEE sued as ROE 10, SONNY BROCK, aka SONY BROCK, aka SONNY BROOK, aka SONY BROOK sued as ROE 11, MIRA HARTFORD, SUKI HARTFORD, aka SUKY HARTFORD sued as ROE 12, YOUN OK HWANG, aka AGNES HWANG sued as ROE 13, EUN HEE KIL sued as ROE 14, IN SUK KIM, aka IN SOOK KIM sued as ROE 15, JIN DONG KIM sued as ROE 16, SAM HEE PAK, aka SAM HEE PARK sued as ROE 17, EUM HEE PARK sued as ROE 18, SUN SHEY sued as ROE 19, and VICTOR TORRES sued as ROE 20 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY CROSS-COMPLAINANT: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL CONTRADEMANDANTE): EUGENE FLEMATE dba LAW OFFICES OF EUGENE FLEMATE NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the Cross-Complainant.

A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may

want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decider en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presenter una respuesta por esqrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al contrademandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es possible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas information en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucourt.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condaro o en la corte que le queda mas cerca. Si no pueda pagar la cuota de presentation, pida al secretario de la corte que le un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra guitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales . Es recommendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es possible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de services legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), o oniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales.

AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclaimar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SEPERIOR COURT, CIVIL DIVISION, 191 N. FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE 95113 The name, address and telephone number of cross-complainant’s attorney, or cross-complaint without an attorney is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del contrademandante, o del contrademandante que no tiene abogado, es) Aaron Flemate; 552 N. Second Street, San Jose, CA, 95112 (408)298-7700 Date: September 17, 2015 DAVID H. YAMASAKI, Clerk (Secretario) By: D.WENDEL, Deputy (Adjunto) (Pub 9/23, 9/30, 10/07, 10/14/2015

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The next seven weeks will NOT be a favorable time to fool around with psychic vampires and charismatic jerks. I recommend you avoid the following mistakes, as well: failing to protect the wounded areas of your psyche; demanding perfection from those you care about; and trying to fulfill questionable desires that have led you astray in the past. Now I'll name some positive actions you'd be wise to consider: hunting for skillful healers who can relieve your angst and aches; favoring the companionship of people who are empathetic and emotionally intelligent; and getting educated about how to build the kind of intimacy you can thrive on.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may have seen websites that offer practical tips on how to improve your mastery of life's little details. They tell you how to de-clutter your home, or how to keep baked goods from going stale, or why you should shop for shoes at night to get the best fit. I recently came across a humorous site that provides the opposite: bad life tips.

For instance, it suggests that you make job interviews less stressful by only applying for jobs you don't want.

Put your laptop in cold water to prevent overheating.

To save time, brush your teeth while you eat. In the two sets of examples I've just given, it's easy to tell the difference between which tips are trustworthy and which aren't. But in the coming days, you might find it more challenging to distinguish between the good advice and bad advice you'll receive. Be very discerning.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On a windy afternoon last spring I was walking through a quiet neighborhood in Berkeley. In one yard there was a garden plot filled with the young green stems of as-yet unidentifiable plants.

Anchored in their midst was a small handwritten sign.

Its message seemed to be directed not at passers-by like me but at the sprouts themselves. "Grow faster, you little bastards!" the sign said—as if the blooming things might be bullied into ripening. I hope you're smart enough not to make similar demands on yourself and those you care about, Gemini. It's not even necessary. I suspect that everything in your life will just naturally grow with vigor in the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): "I am rooted, but I flow," wrote Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves. That paradoxical image reminds me of you right now. You are as grounded as a tree and as fluid as a river. Your foundation is deep and strong, even as you are resilient in your ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

This is your birthright as a Cancerian! Enjoy and use the blessings it confers. (P.S. If for some strange reason you're not experiencing an exquisite version of what I've described, there must be some obstacle you are mistakenly tolerating. Get rid of it.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Should I offer my congratulations? You have corralled a gorgeous mess of problems that are more interesting and provocative than everyone else's. It's unclear how long this odd good fortune will last, however. So I suggest you act decisively to take maximum advantage of the opportunities that your dilemmas have cracked open.

If anyone can turn the heartache of misplaced energy into practical wisdom, you can. If anyone can harness chaos to drum up new assets, it's you. Is it possible to be both cunning and conscientious, both strategic and ethical? For you right now, I think it is.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Let's say you have walked along the same path or driven down the same road a thousand times. Then, one day, as you repeat your familiar route, a certain object or scene snags your attention for the first time. Maybe it's a small fountain or a statue of the Buddhist goddess Guanyin or a wall with graffiti that says "Crap happens, but so does magic." It has always been there. You've been subconsciously aware of it. But at this moment, for unknown reasons, it finally arrives in your conscious mind. I believe this is an apt metaphor for your life in the next week. More than once, you will suddenly tune in to facts, situations, or influences that had previously been invisible to you. That's a good thing! But it might initially bring a jolt.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The 20th century's most influential artist may have been Pablo Picasso. He created thousands of paintings, and was still churning

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them out when he was 91 years old. A journalist asked him which one was his favorite. "The next one," he said. I suggest you adopt a similar attitude in the coming weeks, Libra. What you did in the past is irrelevant. You should neither depend on nor be weighed down by anything that has come before. For now, all that matters are the accomplishments and adventures that lie ahead of you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A windbreak is a line of stout trees or thick bushes that provides shelter from the wind. I think you need a metaphorical version: someone or something to shield you from a relentless force that has been putting pressure on you; a buffer zone or protected haven where you can take refuge from a stressful barrage that has been hampering your ability to act with clarity and grace. Do you know what you will have to do to get it? Here's your battle cry: "I need sanctuary! I deserve sanctuary!"

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your fellow Sagittarian Walt Disney accomplished a lot. He was a pioneer in the art of animation and made movies that won numerous Academy Awards. He built theme parks, created an entertainment empire and amassed fantastic wealth. Why was he so successful? In part because he had high standards, worked hard and harbored an obsessive devotion to his quirky vision.

If you aspire to cultivate any of those qualities, now is a favorable time to raise your mastery to the next level. Disney had one other trait you might consider working on: He liked to play the game of life by his own rules. For example, his favorite breakfast was doughnuts dipped in Scotch whisky. What would be your equivalent?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): October is Fix the Fundamentals Month. It will be a favorable time to substitute good habits for bad habits. You will attract lucky breaks and practical blessings as you work to transform overwrought compulsions into rigorous passions. You will thrive as you seek to discover the holy yearning that's hidden at the root of devitalizing addictions. To get started, instigate freewheeling experiments that will propel you out of your sticky rut and in the direction of a percolating groove.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Have you made your travel plans yet? Have you plotted your escape? I hope you will hightail it to a festive playground where some of your inhibitions will shrink, or else journey to a holy spot where your spiritual yearnings will ripen. What would be even better is if you made a pilgrimage to a place that satisfied both of those agendas—filled up your senses with novel enticements and fed your hunger for transcendent insights. Off you go, Aquarius!

Why aren't you already on your way? If you can't manage a real getaway in the near future, please at least stage a jailbreak for your imagination.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions consists entirely of 316 questions. It's one of those rare texts that makes no assertions and draws no conclusions. In this spirit, and in honor of the sphinx-like phase you're now passing through, I offer you six pertinent riddles: 1. What is the most important thing you have never done? 2. How could you play a joke on your fears? 3. Identify the people in your life who have made you real to yourself. 4. Name a good old thing you would have to give up in order to get a great new thing. 5. What’s the one feeling you want to feel more than any other in the next three years? 6.

What inspires you to love?

Homework: Send testimonies about how you've redeemed the dark side to: Sex Laugh, uaregod@comcast.net.

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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