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18th Annual D a de los Muertos 2015 THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE AN NCE E ALTAR EXHIBIT: Oct 12 – Nov 6 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LIBRARY An exhibit of traditional and contemporary altars by local artists including: Rick Moreno Jr., Curator, Raquel Burciaga, ez , ez Carlos Villez, Claudia Lopez, Daniel Martinez, Phyllis Carrasco, Diane Gaspar, Lissa sssa ryyl Jones, Jessica Torres, Cheryl Scales and Jeff Jones, Rosee Mendoza, Sergio Medina, rtt Greg Carrillo of Chicano Art phyy b Ma aryy Frisco Style and photography byy M Mary Andrade of La Oferta Newspaper. 150 E. San Fernando Street, 1st and 5th floor galleries, San Jose.

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THE FLY

Ticket Takers Some extraordinary decisions are being made at Levi’s Stadium, even if they aren’t coming from the struggling San Francisco 49ers coaches and players. In the aftermath of a violent fan beating following the season opener last month, Santa Clara Mayor JAMIE MATTHEWS sent out an email to season ticket holders, who are required to purchase a Stadium Builder’s License (SBL) before they can buy actual season tickets. It’s just one of many cash grabs sports franchises have invented to extract every last dollar from fans after building a new stadium. As mayor and chair of the Santa Clara Stadium Authority, Matthews warned that the city would “remove anyone from SBL Membership whose behavior endangers others,” even if the tickets were given or sold to another party that misbehaves. The message came as a surprise not only to season ticket holders, many of whom hedge their They investments by selling Did off tickets to games What? they don’t want to or can’t attend, but also SEND TIPS TO O to some of Matthews’ FLY@ METRONEWS. WS. WS S.. colleagues on the COM council. He apparently did not consult his peers before the email blast, sent two hours before the second of two public meetings to review security and alcohol sales. The subject also did not get raised during that meeting, and a few people are miffed about being left out of the process. According to acting city spokesperson JENNIFER YAMAGUMA, who consulted with City Attorney RICHARD E. NOSKY, only one season ticket holder has had their SBL revoked for bad behavior, but it’s not clear if the you-are-your-brother’s-keeper policy complies with industry standards. “We’re still looking at that issue on how it would unfold for the end-user,” Yamaguma said.

Matthews did not respond for comment, but considering how bad the Niners have looked to start the season, this may be the next fight for ill-tempered fans.

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The Exemptables DOUBLE DUTY Juan Salcedo works two minimum wage jobs just to afford rent for a garage where he and his sister live.

Regional minimum wage plan rallies support, could exclude most vulnerable workers

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UAN SALCEDO spends more than third of his life at Jack in the Box or Wal-Mart. Thirty hours a week goes to the fast-food franchise, where he makes a minimum wage of $10.30 an hour, and another 30 hours is spent working the night shift at America’s biggest department store chain, where he takes in $11.50 per hour. “It’s not because I like working two jobs,” he says.

With these earnings, Salcedo, 60, can’t afford an apartment, so he rents a garage behind a house in San Jose, where he lives with his disabled sister.

“There’s a lot of weight on my back,” he says, adding that he can’t afford the proper medicine to treat his diabetes.

Like many living on the fringes of Silicon Valley, where housing costs have ballooned by as much as 54 percent in the last five years, Salcedo remains jammed in working-class poverty. He desperately needs a pay bump, he says, which is why he and 40,000 other minimum wage workers are holding out hope for a new regional plan to boost Silicon Valley’s minimum wage to $15 an hour The proposed pay hike would cover cities from Palo Alto to Gilroy and

give Salcedo an extra $35 per day, which isn’t much, but enough that he could find better housing, save for a new car and doctor’s appointments, and afford a healthier diet. “With $15 an hour, I would not feel like I’m drowning,” Salcedo says. “I could probably afford a much better life. I could have my own apartment and not be stuck in a garage.”

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo announced the plan in September, and so far workers, nonprofit leaders and the business community have praised it.

But one point in the plan has generated anxiety that a segment of minimum wage workers will be left behind In his Aug. 13 memo calling on San Jose to study the economic impact of a $15 pay floor, Liccardo also requested an assessment of “a lower ‘training wage’ for youth under the age of 18,” as well as exemptions for employers that hire “hard-to-employ” categories that include people who are homeless, on parole and emancipated foster youth.

Scott Myers-Lipton, a San Jose State University professor and lead

the employer’s shoulders.”

There are, however, those who support a conversation about exemptions. John Hogan, CEO of the nonprofit Teen Force, says that exemptions could work in specific situations. In the context of training, Hogan suggests exemptions could help youth avoid being priced out of the labor market.

“There needs to be a time limit on it,” he says, “and the people in those programs need to be getting additional benefits from the program besides the wage—specific skills training, transportation support, child care, housing.”

Hogan acknowledges that he’s been wrong on the minimum wage in the past. In 2012, he opposed Measure D because it lacked a regional approach.

“I will say that I was wrong, because when San Jose moved, it actually caused all these other cities to move,” he says. “Even though it’s created some administrative hassle, the benefits have outweighed all that.”

While the exemptions are still up for debate, the regional approach itself has been commended as a good economic and political strategy for Mayor Liccardo. While Bay Area cities such as San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland and Emeryville have all increased wages independently in the past year, Liccardo convinced the mayors of Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Palo Alto and Santa Clara to support the proposal.

“Most of our residents don’t pay a lot of attention to where the city limits are, and to ensure that there’s equity for workers and predictability for employers, it makes sense for us to raise the wage regionally rather than continue this pattern of patchwork labor regulations,” Liccardo says.

San Jose State’s Myers-Lipton agrees with the regional approach, but he firmly believes the expansion should be for everyone. “Let’s bring more people into having a better standard of living,” he says. “I’m supportive of the regional approach, but let’s lift up everybody and not have wages for various groups.”

Salcedo, who knows he and many others are just an illness or injury away from finding themselves in an exempted class, agrees that a minimum wage should not only be regional, but all-inclusive.

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organizer for San Jose’s successful 2012 minimum wage effort, said he’s troubled by the discussion of exemptions.

“Why penalize those marginalized groups?” he says. “Why have a subminimum wage?

“This is like a Round Two battle of the minimum wage in San Jose. Let’s not go backwards. The people of San Jose voted 60 percent not to have exemptions [in 2012]. So why are we considering it now, when it didn’t have the negative impact people said it was going to have in the first place?”

Liccardo was one of those people who opposed the 2012 ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $10, in part because it didn’t take a regional approach. “We were afforded the opportunity to say yes or no, take it or leave it,” Liccardo says. “That’s not a very good place for a policymaker to be in.” He defends the study of an exemption provision by suggesting a flat minimum could keep people out of the workforce.

“By increasing the minimum wage by 50 percent,” Liccardo poses, “are you simply precluding them from getting their foot in the door?”

Sparky Harlan, CEO of the Bill Wilson Center, which provides services to families and youth in Santa Clara County, says her group also has “concerns” about the exemptions, particularly those that would affect teen workers.

“A lot of these kids are breadwinners for their families,” Harlan says. “They may be 17 years of age, but their money is used to pay rent for their family’s housing, so to put them at a lower wage doesn’t make sense.”

Chris Richardson, Silicon Valley regional director of Downtown Streets Team, which prepares and places homeless people in jobs, argues that the rationale for exemptions doesn’t fit reality. Job placement increased when San Jose’s minimum wage jumped to $10 per hour, and as for parolees, Richardson points out, there are already financial incentives for employers—a $2,500 tax credit.

Exemptions could even cause problems for small businesses, according to Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association. “It’s primarily small business owners that have to enact a lot of these rules,” he says, “and if it becomes too burdensome or complicated, it really comes back on

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DA Confirms Water District Investigation BY JOSH KOEHN

GAME OVER San Jose lost a legal fight to bring the Oakland A’s to downtown

Supreme Court Snubs San Jose’s Baseball Appeal BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH The U.S. Supreme Court pretty much killed San Jose’s hope of luring the Oakland A’s to the South Bay, rejecting the city’s claim that Major League Baseball leveraged illegal monopoly powers to block the team’s move.

Monday’s decision not to hear the case leaves in place a lower court ruling that dismissed the city’s antitrust claim against MLB. Mayor Sam Liccardo admitted the appeal was always a long shot, as the court only hears a couple dozen of the 2,000-plus petitions it receives each year. At least the ordeal won’t cost taxpayers, he said. The case was taken on contingency, he added, which lets taxpayers off the hook.

The lawsuit challenged baseball’s exemption from federal antitrust laws, which limit monopolies to foster competition. It was San Jose’s last chance to force the league to allow the A’s to build a new ballpark in downtown.

MLB has held the exemption since 1922 and used it as a basis for denying the A’s migration to Silicon Valley, territory claimed by the San Francisco Giants. Moving the Oakland team to Santa Clara County would require a negotiated agreement with the Giants or the

blessing of three-quarters of MLB team owners.

A’s owners have tried for years to move from the crumbling O.co Coliseum. Last summer, they signed a 10-year lease on the facility, reserving the right to opt out in 2018. A few months later, they renewed an option agreement with San Jose to build a stadium downtown.

San Jose sued MLB in 2013 and lost. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected the city’s claim, which spurred San Jose to appeal to the Supreme Court, where it was again shot down.

A’s co-owner Lew Wolff called the the court’s decision “significant” in a statement but expressed no remorse that San Jose was off the table.

With the case put to rest, Liccardo said, San Jose will renew its focus on developing the “ballpark site”—a section of downtown that includes Diridon Station—to create more jobs and build tax revenue.

“We lost this battle,” Liccardo said, “but we can win the larger endeavor of creating a vibrant urban epicenter for Silicon Valley by taking advantage of this opportunity to combine office with retail and entertainment venues in downtown.”

The District Attorney’s office has launched an investigation into conflicts of interest and allegations of fraudulent billing at the Santa Clara Valley Water District.

Last week, John Chase, head of the DA’s public integrity unit, began requesting documents related to district contracts with consultant RMC Water and Environment, which were the subject of a San Jose Inside investigative report. In August, water district CEO Beau Goldie signed a single-source contract with RMC to begin preliminary work on a recycled groundwater project that could cost as much as $800 million.

Board chair Gary Kremen called on the DA to look into the matter after San Jose Inside identified conflicts of interest and uncovered internal emails that showed a civil engineer for the district had identified as much as $512,000 in improper payments to RMC. The employee has been

raising the issue to superiors to no avail for roughly 18 months.

San Jose Inside’s report also focused on a flimsy “firewall” Goldie agreement that failed to prevent a high-ranking district deputy administrator, Melanie Richardson, who is married to one of RMC’s co-owners, from coming into contact with RMC business. In 2009, she had a role in approving two RMC contracts with the district worth a total of $10.7 million. None of these issues were disclosed by Goldie in March or April, when he went to the board for permission to sign $10 million in single-source contracts.

A full discussion of the district’s dealings with RMC will be discussed in open session Oct. 27.

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Street Life ROADRAGERS Viva CalleSJ organizers want to model their extended block party after CicLAvia’s Open Streets event in Los Angeles.

San Jose gets down and eastbound for inaugural Viva CalleSJ

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NLIKE MOST events in which streets are forced to shut down, the inaugural Viva CalleSJ isn’t a race.

Anybody—as long as they don’t bring a car—can take to the concrete this Sunday along any portion of the route and simply trip around in whichever direction they want, all to experience the guts of San Jose.

Six miles of streets will be closed to automobile traffic from

10am-3pm for the free openstreets recreational adventure, which, supported by the Knight Foundation, intends to create a temporary autonomous zone where people can walk, bike, skate, play and explore the city like never before. Dozens of local institutions and businesses will participate. At specific points of the route, one might see cyclists, yoga practitioners, Vietnamese sandwich contests, vendors, dancing, musical performances, marauding packs of skaters, arts organizations and much more. San Jose’s Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services department, as well as the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, are orchestrating the whole shebang.

The route, “Downtown and

Eastbound,” instantly reminiscent of the Smokey and the Bandit theme song, will take participants from St. James Park in downtown San Jose south to the Willow and Vine neighborhood, and then east down Keyes Street until it turns into Story Road. From there, Story will be closed all the way to Emma Prusch Farm Park. Good luck getting to Walmart that day.

And this is not an extremist political stunt run by antiautomobile peeps. Rather, it’s inspired by similar open-streets initiatives in Guadalajara, Bogota and other cities around the world.

The name combines the Spanish “Viva Calles,” which can mean either “the streets live,” or, “long live the streets,” or both. It’s a fantastic idea because everyone knows that driving is the worst possible way to explore San Jose, so if everyone has a few hours to walk, ride or skate around and inspect slices of the urban fabric

in unusual ways, then curiosity will improve.

Disparate communities that don’t normally experience one another will now get to see what each has to offer. Weird and awesome littleknown stripmall businesses will get a turn in the spotlight. Civic pride will materialize from nowhere, or at least increase a little bit. Just to see Story Road closed off to traffic will be worth the experience. I don’t know how many hundreds of thousands of cars pass through the intersection of Story and King every month, but now, gobs of people on bikes and on foot will be a joy to watch.

Angel Rios, of the city’s parks and rec department, says he and his colleagues envision parks, trails and community centers as places to engage, meet other people and simply have fun on their own terms.

Viva CalleSJ is about temporarily putting aside the hustle and bustle of congested San Jose life.

“If I had to put it in a nutshell, it’s really building communities through fun,” Rios says. “That would be the overarching goal here. And in the process, people can choose their pleasure, if you will. There’ll be Zumba, you might see vendors, people with health information, people skating, walking. There’s not a lot of whole lot of rules on what needs to happen.”

In short, open-streets initiatives are precisely what could break down barriers and connect parts of San Jose that aren’t normally intertwined. I have often characterized San Jose as 30 Haywards duct-taped together with no common bond whatsoever. No one in Berryessa cares what goes on in Almaden, for example. No one in Evergreen cares what happens at Union and Camden. You get the picture. If a particular route opens up for just an afternoon, so people can take to the cement and explore, then maybe things will improve.

According to Rios, Viva CalleSJ represents a shift in the direction of the parks and rec department as a whole: “We want to do more than just maintain parks,” he says. “We want to activate our city.”

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C2SV Preview A sneak peek at just a few of the great speakers and musicians at this year’s Creative Convergence Silicon Valley BY NICK VERONIN

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ILICON VALLEY is the global hub of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

It was here that some of the world’s largest and most influential tech companies companies sprang from the garages of counter cultureminded makers.

It should come as no surprise that a region so rife with creative, free thinkers, has also long been a breeding ground for innovative music.

The organizers of of Creative Convergence Silicon Valley, C2SV, say they aim to “celebrate the nexus of cutting-edge technologies and creative arts” by shining a spotlight

on “the future of convergence in today’s fast-moving global economy.”

The two-day event will feature technology entrepreneurs and thought leaders in panel conversations and live demos, followed by networking cocktail parties and live music from some of the area’s best local bands—as well as buzzed-about performers from around the Golden State.

The technology portion of this year’s C2SV will be held at the California Theatre, while musical performances will take place at a variety of venues in San Jose’s SoFA District. This, organizers say, will give “participants the ideal environment to connect, network and make deals happen.”

There’s certainly a lot to take in

this year. Considering the breakneck pace of modern life, ever-accelerating thanks to the technologies developed right in our backyard, it’s understandable that one might not be able to attend every session or every show on the C2SV calendar.

But there are a number of speakers and artists sharing ideas and performances that ought not to be missed.

In his keynote speech on Friday, thought leader Jeremiah Owyang will warn of the dangers of “digital feudalism.” John Markoff, author of Machines of Loving Grace and an early contributor to understanding artificial intelligence, will sit down with cameraphone inventor Philippe Kahn and serial entrepreneur Jerry Kaplan in separate discussions. Two

highly influential actors in the field of virtual reality will explain why the longpromised world of VR really is right around the corner. And attendees will have the chance to hear from a very young entrepreneur and startup cofounder who believes her platform will soon revolutionize the world of social media and digital communications.

As far as bands go, it’s hard to go wrong. However, there are a few artists who really stand out. There’s the San Jose indie-pop quartet, A Yawn Worth Yelling; the recent Plug Research-signee, Anya Kvitka (and her band, The Get Down); the Santa Cruz-based lo-fi rocker GRMLN; the churning punk of local darlings, Dinners; and the spaced-out, beachy vibes of Babes.

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HERETIC Jeremiah Owyang is using his influence to speak truth to power—proclaiming that services such as Uber and Airbnb, are creating digital fiefdoms.

Kings and Serfs JEREMIAH OWYANG recently dropped a bomb in Paris.

Speaking at Ouishare Fest 2015, Owyang—one of the most influential observers of the phenomenon that has launched such companies as Airbnb, Fon, Lending Club, TaskRabbit and Uber—said the people behind most successfully “disruptive” technologies of the past five years are the same types of fat cats that have always driven industry.

“The 1 percent own the collaborative economy,” Owyang said, allowing the stunned silence of his keynote audience to linger just a moment before elaborating on his thesis.

The so-called “collaborative economy” has been sold to the masses as a series of organic, peer-topeer digital interactions, which, in aggregate, create opportunities for would-be entrepreneurs who lack the capital to establish their own brick-and-mortar businesses. But that explanation is bogus, he argues.

According to Owyang, more than $12.5 billion dollars have been injected into some 233 successful, collaborative companies by venture

capitalists in the last 15 years. That money helped each company to achieve success, but it also transferred financial ownership in the startups to a handful of powerful venture firms.

Owyang has a name for this trend: digital feudalism.

“You can see the digital feudalism,” Owyang said in a follow-up interview. “This market, which prides itself on helping individuals and local communities get what they need from each other, has accepted over $12 billion dollars of funding from venture capitalists, some of the wealthiest people in the world.”

“In a few years, these investors need to retrieve their investment returns, as they need to return their money to their investors,” Owyang said.

The kings, lords and vassals of medieval Europe had names for these types of returns: “homage” and “fealty.”

Uber, which now operates in major cities around the world, is severely disrupting— as in decimating—the full-time employment of taxi drivers and

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their management, sidestepping unions and employee and consumer protection policies created by municipalities and states.

Similarly, Airbnb was designed to allow individual homeowners to rent out their homes or apartments to guests, but it since became a lucrative alternative model for large-scale property owners who see greater profit in operating as an Airbnb franchise rather than as a rentcontrolled property manager.

“Digital feudalism is happening,”

said Owyang. “The kings, in this case the VCs, grant resources to the lords, in this case the entrepreneurs, to build a community in return for tribute. It’s easy to identify who the serfs are.” —Dan Holden

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The Future Is Now VIRTUAL REALITY is coming to a face near you. For real this time. And both the Irvine-based Oculus VR and the Palo Alto-based Jaunt VR are poised to be major players in the emerging field.

Jaunt, which produces an orbshaped, omnidirectional VR camera and an accompanying software suite for editing video captured by the device, just secured $65 million in funding from the likes of Disney, Sky and other media giants who understandably have a keen interest in the future of VR. According to the Wall Street Journal, the recent investment is “among the largest funding rounds in virtual reality and brings Jaunt’s funding to about $100 million.”

Although virtual reality has yet to become a widely available consumer product, the bulk of the technology to bring it to the masses is already here— tucked away in our pockets and purses.

People will soon be accessing virtual reality videos and games wirelessly— simply by plugging their phones into specialized headsets, some of which are already available. They currently range in price from about $200 for the Samsung-specific Gear VR headset, down to the neighborhood of $5 for what’s known as “Google Cardboard”—quite literally a cardboard headset that a user assembles and then slides a phone into.

The clips made using Jaunt technology can also be viewed on the Oculus Rift—the headset that played

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JOHN Q. MNEMONIC Thanks to the technology being developed by companies like Jaunt VR and Oculus VR, the average consumer will be able to afford enveloping virtual reality experiences. a key role in reigniting the public’s interest in virtual reality, and which Facebook acquired for $2 billion.

Technology blogger Robert Scoble will moderate a discussion with Jens Christensen, CEO of Jaunt, and Jack McCauley, the co-founder and former chief engineer at Oculus VR, about the fast-approaching future of this longpromised technology. —Nick Veronin

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UNIVERSAL REMOTE Brienne Ghafourifar and her brother Alston are building a platform that promises to bring all the most popular social media channels together in a seamless interface.

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BY VIRTUE of their entrepreneurial upbringing, siblings Brienne and Alston Ghafourifar developed a knack for imagining solutions that didn’t exist but should. As kids, they would fixate on myriad “pain points,” as they called them, and pitch some clever fix.

Their million-dollar idea materialized first on napkin scribbles at a local coffee shop after observing a pain point common to the modern condition. Brienne was 17 and her brother 20 when they created Entefy, a digital communications app that in 2013 catapulted her into Silicon Valley superstardom as the youngest college graduate to raise more than $1 million in venture funding.

“While we were talking face to face, everybody around us was so immersed in their digital technologies,” says Brienne, who has since raised nearly $10 million along with a $50 million valuation. “We realized that people go to so many

places to do the exact same thing— social networks, texts, emails, IM.” What if there was a “universal remote,” a way to streamline these myriad communications through a single channel?

Though the company is still developing its proprietary product and isn’t sharing exactly what Entefy will look like or how it will work, it seems clear that the aim is to pull together existing channels—Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and more—into one seamless platform. And they’ve managed to convince plenty of investors and tech industry veterans that they are on the right track. —Jennifer Wadsworth

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Love Thy Robot FROM THE PERSPECTIVE of John Markoff, much of today’s debate on the future of technology can be traced to one fundamental question: Should machines replace humans or should they work with humans? According to Markoff, this dichotomy originally underlined two opposing methodologies in the field of artificial intelligence.

Today, this question drives all major technological advances in, and philosophical inquiries into, AI. In Markoff ’s new book, Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots, he grapples with the ways in which researchers, engineers and designers deal with this dichotomy.

In proposing a middle path,

Markoff goes all the way back to the beginning, before delving into specific examples of where he says the debate still requires further consideration.

Ultimately, Markoff argues, the answers lie with the designers—that is, the human beings behind the self-driving cars, automated assembly lines, and the robotic legal assistants.

Questions still need to be asked, he says. —Gary Singh

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sitting at Santa Cruz’s Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, waiting for his wife, Sonia Lee, to give birth. He wanted to send the first photo of his newborn girl to all his friends and family—and he wanted to do so without leaving his wife’s side.

“The vision was ‘point, shoot and share instantly,’” SELFIE MADE MAN Santa Cruz-based inventor the 63-year-old Philippe Kahn took and sent the first-ever Kahn says. After a cellphone photo back in 1997. couple of trips to Radio Shack for Fullpower app as a way to monitor soldering wire, he linked his Casio sleep during grueling trips. The app QV-10 point-and-shoot camera to tracks micro-movements in sleeping his Motorola Startac phone, wrote individuals to calculate how fitful sleep some code, and voila! “That vision their sleep has been. —Brad Kava gave birth to citizen journalism, telemedicine in practical ways, and more generally letting Ms. and OCT IN CONVERSATION WITH Mr. Everyone take and share more pictures than ever before.”

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A Yawn Worth Yelling Five years since their formation, San Jose indie-pop outfit, A Yawn Worth Yelling, are enjoying their status as one of the South Bay’s most buzzed-about bands as they prepare to release a new EP. What began as a high school side project back in 2010 has evolved into an all-consuming effort, which is beginning to pay dividends—as media outlets, including Impose Magazine and PopMatters, have praised the band’s brand of complexyet-catchy songwriting.

Naturally, AYWY have also garnered plenty of respect on the local indie circuit—playing with the likes of Picture Atlantic, Finish Ticket and Rin Tin Tiger, and collecting fans along the way.

After years of performing and selfreleasing four EPs, A Yawn Worth Yelling recently broke the attendance record for a show at the Art Boutiki.

Now they are hoping that this wave of local popularity

and attention from the broader blogosphere will propel them even further. Taking advantage of their burgeoning fan base, A Yawn Worth Yelling ran a successful crowdfunding campaign—using the revenue to produce their fifth release, the Play Pretend EP. The first single off the forthcoming EP, “Start Somewhere,” is representative of the band’s heightened energy and focus. A four-minute pop-rock romp, full of slick production, tight harmonies and an infectious melody, the track strikes a balance between eclectic and accessible—and is reflective of their diverse influences, which include many bands that straddle the line between pop and proggy songwriting, such as Dirty Projectors, Manchester Orchestra and The Dear Hunter. —Jay Edgar

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Capital of Arts and Culture 35th Annual Art Exhibition and Auction Sept. 26 – Oct. 24 Now in its 35th year, the 2015 Annual Art Exhibition and Auction provides unique opportunities for art enthusiasts and collectors to view and purchase artwork by rising stars and celebrated artists whose work reflects the scope of the art world’s vibrant and eclectic styles and interests. The 2015 event features work by artists from the Bay Area, around the country and beyond. The selection of work in the exhibition reflects the ICA’s continued commitment to including nationally and internationally recognized artists in its exhibition program. Held in a sophisticated gallery setting with a professional auctioneer, Silent and Live Auction guests actively bid on a wide range of work including paintings, photography, works on paper, sculpture, and mixed media pieces by nearly 200 artists. All proceeds fund the ICA’s innovative exhibitions and educational programming.

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Above: The Long Goodbye (study), 2013 by Kathryn Dunlevie, mixed media on panel.

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Transformation: Art from Within | September 12 – November 1 Transformation is an illuminating exhibit that affirms how art enables incarcerated men and women in Santa Clara County to tap into their humanity, their spirit and their gifts. Workshops conducted by volunteers, under the auspices of CIC Ministries (Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy) at Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas, CA, provde an opportunity for the inmates to create unique and visually stunning, reflective and thought-provoking works that can touch the very soul of the viewer.

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

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

Through November 15.

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RFK by Jack ack Holmes, directed by Randall King | September 30 − October 25 “This play is like an evening with RFK brought back to life, to remind us of the real American Dream that we used to really chase and believe in.” —NYTheatre.com Bobby Kennedy’s nnedy’s words, struggles and ideals come to life in this tour de force of the late politician ian and committed advocate for civil rights, the poor, and racial minorities.

Rediscoverr the true American Dream through Kennedy’s victories and defeats, providing a stirring metaphor for the challenge to believe in our government and our leaders.

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In addition to the lineup below, every Monday is Comedia-Night, an open mic for comedians, and every Tuesda Tuesday is Open Mic for musicians. m: Lord Superior, S Su Continuum Kingdom (experimental duo), 10/8, 7pm: pm: andd Jean J BBaudin (solo 11-string bassist) Ba 10/9, (electro-pop duo), Pat Hull (singer/songwriter), 10/9 8pm: Conta Contain pm: Containher and David KKnight (experimental indie duo) 10/16, 10/16 8pm: Bossa Blue (bossanov (bossanova & samba) 10/17, 6pm: Les Earthling - the Community Showcase featuring local musicians, poets & artists 10/18, 12pm: Noon Arts & Lectures - Randall Kohl, lecturing on and performing selections from Mexican composers 10/24, 8pm: Socorra, Lindsey Jeske and Cortnee Langlie (singers/songwriters)

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the structure of classical training, but the drama and bombast of pop.

“My mom and my dad kind of brought ABBA, Queen and Modern Talk (into the home),” she says.

“Pink Floyd—a lot of that was a great foundation, too, because I’m not sure how many people at that crucial age, where you’re developing your tastes, are exposed to that type of music.”

Kvitka emigrated to the U.S. in 1992, where she continued to develop as a musician. In recent years she has settled upon a psych-tinged, alternative R&B sound, which helped attract the attention of Plug Research, an established and respected indie label based in Los Angeles.

Kvitka recently signed with the label, which released Flying Lotus’ debut LP, 1983, and currently boast a roster of boundary pushing artists, like the future-jazz/electronic producer, Milosh, and neo-soul crooner, Bilal.

“They have an amazing track record,” she says of Plug. “A lot of these people I’ve looked up to my whole life that I feel are, like, kind of musical pioneers. I just feel like, ‘Holy crap, I’m a part of that now.’”

—Jody Amable

GRMLN While many of his college friends were filling their playlists with guitar-free electronic music, Yoodoo Park was listening to the Beach Boys, Elvis and Ben E. King, the man best remembered for penning “Stand By Me.” Park is the Santa Cruz based man behind GRMLN—a propulsive garage rock project akin to Wavves, King Tuff and Jay Reatard.

Park was born in Japan, but moved to Southern California when he was very young. He picked up music from his guitar-playing older brother, who exposed him to a lot of old rock ’n’ roll and punk, which he enjoyed listening to on his summer surfing trips.

It’s easy to hear the influence of summers spent on the beach in GRMLN’s music. The simple, frenetic energy of early rock & roll is also apparent. Park says he admires the simple and dependable song

structures of the 1950s and early 1960s. It was an era when rock music was coming into its own, he says. “It was more real.” —Nick Veronin

Babes It’s no accident that the reverbdrenched, bittersweet, SoCal vibes of Babes are so infectious. It’s by design.

The Los Angeles-based band got their start working for Steve Lindsey—well-known in the music industry as a songwriter, producer and publisher.

“He trained us. He tried to crush us. But we had a good time,” says Babes singer, Sarah Rayne, chuckling along with her brother and band mate, Aaron.

The two of them say they learned quite a lot about effective pop songwriting while working in Lindsey’s studio—even if he did “literally tell you you’re a piece of shit in order to bring out the best in you.”

Babes’ origin story makes a lot of sense. They make gloriously bummed-out music, filled with aching harmonies and lyrics about love, loss, heartbreak and only the faintest glimmer of potential redemption.

“I suck,” Sarah says, explaining her attraction to the melancholic, “and playing music—there’s no better feeling than that. Our band agrees about that feeling. It makes things bearable.”

Aaron adds: “We just really want to make something that makes us feel sad, but that’s also beautiful and fun.”

Mission accomplished. —Nick Veronin

Dinners If such a thing as a San Jose “supergroup” exists, Dinners might be that band, featuring members from Worker Bee and Doctor Nurse. Dinners go into a different direction than either Worker Bee (moody indie rock) or Doctor Nurse (psychedelic folk) with lo-fi noisepop and a heavy dose of Guided By Voices influence.

Always a dependable draw at their regular haunt, Cafe Stritch, Dinners play propulsive indie rock—a perfect soundtrack for throwing back beers and cutting loose. —Aaron Carnes

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Thoughtful design, menu, service place Zola in elite company

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Zola is a small establishment serving French cuisine and it is a study in quaint, charming appeal.

In the dining room, there is only enough space for two rows of tables, none holding more than six guests.

As I stared at the menu, whose lettering and drawing of a turnip held the same French flair as the décor, I had an unusual feeling of indecisiveness. Simply everything sounded appetizing. It’s too bad a stomach can only hold so much.

The Garde Manger section, literally meaning “keeper of the food,” ironically contained small items meant for sharing like pork terrine, smoked salmon and crudite. From this section, we ordered the pork Terrine de Campagne ($9) served on a wooden board with pickled

mushrooms, apricot mustard and slices of cornichon. While the portion of the terrine was too much to divide among only four slices of buttered bread, the terrine was rich and cold, leaving an interesting texture. Pickled mushrooms were a tad too sour on their own but paired well with the fatty terrine.

This is the first time I have seen a section just for vegetables (Legumes) containing thoughtful dishes of seasonal California produce, just as the restaurant advertises. Resisting the urge to order an entire dinner off this list, I committed to the Peaches and Baia Nicchia Tomatoes ($13). A plate arrived of sweet and juicy summer peaches and peeled tomatoes around creamy burrata cheese, topped with tarragon and vanilla citronette. The dish was an idyllic symbol of farmfresh summer produce.

The ricotta gnocchi ($13), which was considered an appetizer (Pour Commencer or “to begin”), sounded more like an entrée. The waiter

told us it was not to be missed. The gnocchi had a thin crispy skin and a soft pillowy texture on the inside, and it sat in a brown butter and mushroom sauce around an Apple Tree Farms slow egg. The combination of the broken egg yolk mixed with the brown butter sauce was a perfect compliment to the gnocchi.

Finally, we moved on to the Plats de Resistance (main course) of Flounder Beurre Blanc ($24). We told the waiter that my friend and I would split every course and the flounder came out already equally divided onto two plates. The sweet and tender filets

We left the restaurant with full stomachs and contented hearts. were plated with fingerling potatoes and carrot cubes, artichoke hearts, Sicilian capers and an excellent butter sauce. We were both satisfied with the portion sizes in our meal and left the restaurant with full stomachs and contented hearts.

Zola delivers excellent food, stellar service and a cozy ambiance. The menu is interesting yet not confusing.

If it does have complexities, the wait staff is more than capable of talking customers through different combinations of dishes to craft a cohesive, satisfying meal. It is barely noticeable that different employees each perform a particular task. From taking the order to offering the bread to bussing the table—the sum of the parts provide a well-coordinated service to the diner.

An experience at Zola is worth the time and money, but get there soon.

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LOCALIZE IT Farmer Ron Welton coordinates with ‘Taste of Santa Clara Valley’ chefs to grow ingredients specifically for the annual dinner.

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GLEAMING tech campuses and the beige sprawl of Silicon Valley is built on some of the world’s richest soil. The Community Alliance for Family Farmers (CAFF) strives to highlight the area’s oft-overlooked local agriculture as globalization, corporatization and mechanization threaten to take over the way our food is produced.

“There’s obviously an environmental impact when you’re buying things from far away,” says Rosemary Quinn, CAFF’s Farm to Market Coordinator. “Supporting local farmers and keeping your money in the community is also really important for [economic] vitality. And there’s the health benefit of consuming local. The food is going to have more nutritional value when it’s coming straight out of a field and not sitting in a truck for weeks.”

CAFF is a nonprofit that educates consumers, connects farmers to buyers and pushes ag-friendly policies in Sacramento. But all this costs money, so they’re hosting the second annual “Taste of the Santa Clara Valley” dinner on Oct. 17 at Martial Cottle Park, a 150 year-old farm converted into a recreation and education center. Jacob’s Farm/Del Cabo still tend the long-tilled land, trying drought-resistant techniques like dry farming, which gives heirloom/Early Girl tomato plants a deep soak to get started and then not a drop more until harvest.

“We’re gonna have produce from Jacob’s farm [at the dinner],” Quinn says. “You’ll be able to look out and see where it grew in the field and now it’s on your plate. And that’s just so important to know, to have that transparency.”

The Epicurean Group will cater the lavish, multi-course dinner using only food grown within 150 miles of the park. Appetizers include pacific ling cod ceviche, butternut squash ravioli bathed in sage pesto and braised short rib on polenta cake topped with orange gremolata. Using poultry from local producer Mary’s Chickens, five of Epicurean’s chefs will prepare different entrées in cook-off fashion. And dessert will be a seasonally decadent chocolate ganache with spiced pumpkin mousse cream.

“Any chef will tell you they’re only as good as the ingredients that they’re using,” Quinn says. “And when those ingredients are coming fresh, it’s going to be really, really tasty. We’re strategically placed in an area still with a lot of farms. And people might not know about them, but that’s the whole point of this dinner: to show people that they’re still alive and thriving.” — By John Flynn TASTE OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY DINNER Martial Cottle Park, San Jose; Sat, Oct. 17, 5pm-9pm, $125; http://tastescv2015.bpt.me

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PICTURE IN PICTURE Known for photographing dogs, William Wegman’s work spans far beyond pictures of pooches, as in this playful piece, ‘Reinstallation,’ currently on display at SJMA.

‘Artists Including Me’ offers insights into William Wegman’s inspiration

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N AN UNTUCKED, partially unbuttoned, red plaid shirt, William Wegman looks as if he’s just left his studio to oversee the final installation of Artists Including Me, now on display in the San Jose Museum of Art’s capacious upstairs salon. Curators circle around the artist like the ardent, independent geometries that float around a Kandinsky canvas, each one unique and vibrant in their own right.

At a round conference table in the center of the room, corded charcoal gray iPods display video art that Wegman created for a 2004 Nokia mobile campaign entitled Connect to Art. Like his Weimaraner photographs, the animated GIFs cycle through a series of dogs at rest and at play. If you’ve only seen the Weimaraner photographs online or in reproductions, standing in front of them alters and ameliorates the sense of artistic achievement. The most recent ones—Weimaraners on midcentury modern chairs—transform both dog and chair into a sculptural other, a strange and lovely beast that’s organic and man-made at once.

While Wegman’s dog photographs are arguably the most beloved and recognizable images in his oeuvre,

they’re a fraction of what’s on display in this exhibit. And what’s on display is a revelation: paintings and photographs inspired by a range of artists from Eadweard Muybridge to Edward Hopper. The largest work, Kandinsky, 2011, is a quadriptych; each of the four panels is 72 inches by 48 inches. Wegman isn’t just mimicking an old master here: he synthesizes his own spirit with the psyche of the painters he clearly admires. The color palette he employs for these works is buoyant yet without false cheer or sentiment. In Hopper Origami, 2014, primary schoolhouse colors like red, yellow and blue are contrasted evenly with washed-out browns and whites.

The origami of the title is located in the viewer’s perspective of a threedimensional, planar field you want to walk into—a museum that opens outside of itself, into a green-hilled countryside at the painting’s edges.

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been constructed in overlapping dimensions of the mind. For example, at the center of Reinstallation, 2013, a woman in Jane Austen garb holds the edge of a portrait. She contemplates where to hang it amongst a gallery of her similarly attired painted contemporaries. The image makes complete visual sense while also being delightfully absurd.

On close inspection of Reinstallation and the other gallery paintings, you can see that Wegman has included actual postcards of paintings and then has invented a new world around them.

“That's kind of a little trick,” Wegman says, explaining his motive for using postcards instead of repainting the old works. “It provides the snap and focus. When I paint, I set the table with these cards. It's a dance between the exact, calculated perspective leading to a distraction.

That's part of the fun, too: to see them and to see how they get lost.”

Another sleight-of-hand is a series of black and white photographs inspired by the stop-motion work of Muybridge. Each photograph is a close-up on a Weimaraner body part: elbow, rump, belly. But Wegman isn’t recording motion like Muybridge.

“I'm not capturing it like he did it—to show what the real motion was, to show what human locomotion was—where mine is to make sort of a play on that,” he says. Without relying on the props of his famous 20-by-24inch Polaroids, the works in this series are moving because of the intensity of the artist’s gaze.

His first dog, Man Ray, died in 1982 but still comes back to visit Wegman in his dreams. “Last week he came back again and I was surprised to see him with all of my other dogs in my dream. I said, ‘Where have you been?

Great to see you.’”

This is a man who loves his dogs, who can see their vulnerability.

Wegman photographs the fragility of their gray flesh as they age out of their bodies. He captures their souls as they dissolve outside of the frame and into a beautiful, perpetual blur.

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At the turn of the 19th century, a quarter of a million orphans were sent from New York to new homes. This production blends art with history in this little-told story. $15-$38. Sep 18-Oct 11. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized by San Jose Jazz.

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

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

CLYBOURNE PARK The winner of 2012’s Tony for Best Play follows two families: a black family moving into a white neighborhood in the ‘50s and then 50 years later a white family moving into the same house as part of the gentrification of the neighborhood. Nov 7- 22. $32.

Lucie Stern Theatre. Palo Alto Players. Palo Alto.

TRIBES A deaf young man who has been lip-reading all his life meets a woman who is losing her hearing and teaches him how to sign, sparking conflict with his non-signing family.

Nov 6-22. $10-$35. Pear Theatre. Mountain View.

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

*art MUSEUMS CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Piranesi’s Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered” thru Jan 4. “Pop Art from the SFMOMA Anderson Collection” featuring works by Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, and others. Thru Oct 26. “Artists at Work” demystifies the creative process. Thru Jan 18. “Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed.” Thru Feb 8.

“Edward Hopper: New York Corner.” Thru Feb 8. Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM “Dora and Diego: Let’s Explore” A series of adventures and activities based on the world famous children’s show. San Jose.

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

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Under their new name, The Silicon Valley Ballet presents the national Ballet of Cuba in honor of the defrosting diplomatic relations between the two countries. Oct 16-18. $25-$110. Center for the Performing Arts. San Jose.

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

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

FIORELLO!

“Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery,” featuring the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Maasai tribe of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania.

“Woodcarvings of Val Gardena, Italy,” featuring handcrafted wood-carved figures. Los Gatos.

Former New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia takes on crooks and corruption while seeking to secure the rights of the common citizen. This musical won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an award given to Broadway plays only eight times in the past. $33.

Sep 19-Oct 10. South Bay Musical Theatre. Saratoga Civic Theatre.

LOS GATOS COMPANY

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Beta Space” A massive study of the dung beetle’s place in

More listings:

METROACTIVE.COM the Galaxy. “Maker Space” thru Jan 17. “Artists including Me: William Wegman,” “Diebenkorn in the Bedroom, DeFeo in the Den: Generous Gifts from the Dixon and Barbara Farley Collection,” “Character Studies: Clay from the Collection” Oct 3- Feb 7. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

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

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Menagerie” selections from permanent collection. Thru Jan 3. “A Subtle Edge” by Christopher Winfield. Thru Jan 3. “Life. Water” by Yao PiHsu Thru Jan 3 Santa Clara.

GALLERIES EMPIRE SEVEN STUDIOS Chris Gonzales. Thru Oct. San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Bontanica Poetica” New Work by Lucas Art Fellows.

Thru Dec 13. Saratoga.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER “Landscape, Seascape, Urbanscape” and “Watercolors

by Amy Ratner.” Thru Oct 29.

Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Passage” Used coffee filters repurposed into natural forms by Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee. Thru Oct 31.

“35th Annual Art Exhibition and Auction” Thru Oct 24.

SEEING THINGS GALLERY “Four November” by Amine Rastgar, Mat O’Brien, Brent Wick, Girafa. Starts October 30. San Jose.

*events AN EVENING WITH MARGARET ATWOOD The award-winning novelist will discuss her newest novel, “The Heart Goes Last,” about a recently unemployed married couple trying to stay afloat in the face of their rapidly decaying city. Mon, Oct 12, 7:30pm. $10-$40. Fox Theatre. Redwood City.

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Goes to the dogs October 15, 5–8 PM Admissions is $5 after 5 PM (free to members) WHO KILLED THE KENNEDYS? David Arrow plays Robert F. Kennedy in San Jose Stage Company’s new production, ‘RFK.’

The Other Brother A PLAQUE IN San Jose’s St. James Park marks the spot where, in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy delivered a rousing speech to an audience of 10,000, shortly after announcing his candidacy for president. By June of that year, shortly after winning the California primary, he was dead from an assassin’s bullet. Since he’s memorialized in San Jose, it’s fitting that the regional premiere of RFK, a one-man play commemorating his life, is being presented by the San Jose Stage Company.

Written by Jack Holmes, who starred in the titular role during the play’s first run, RFK is a one-way conversation between Kennedy (David Arrow) and the audience. It takes place, loosely, over the last four years of Kennedy’s life, from his final RFK months as attorney general after the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, to his own Thru Oct 25, untimely death. But the vignettes offered by Kennedy $30-$65 meander in and out of chronological order, winding San Jose Stage back to his childhood, early career, and back again in a Company stream-of-consciousness style. thestage.org We see him as one of the youngest in the large, prominent Kennedy clan—overshadowed by his elder brothers Joe and Jack and undervalued by his father. We see him in “Ruthless Robert” mode, tenacious as a bulldog and willing to do whatever it takes, even at the risk of his own reputation, to get JFK into the White House. We see him as the attorney general, relentless in his pursuit of organized crime and corruption in labor unions. We see him nervous in his campaign to become a New York senator, less polished and comfortable with public speaking than his idolized brother.

As with any one-man show, so much rests on the shoulders of a single man. Arrow does an impressive job on the whole. With his floppy hair and wide grin, he nails the Kennedy look. The sheer number of words he had to memorize and the time he has to spend talking is evidence of a mind-boggling endurance, and he imbues the role with the charisma and genuine passion of the real RFK. If he stumbles over a few words or his accent gets a little iffy at times, one can hardly gripe about it. He certainly earned the ovation he received.

RFK’s death is one of the great “what-ifs” in modern history. How might the nation’s course have been different had he become president instead of Richard Nixon? We’ll never know what he might have accomplished, but RFK is a worthy tribute to his legacy. —Karla Kane

Do William Wegman’s photographs of Weimaraners make you yearn for a canine companion of your own? Join SJMA and the Humane Society of Silicon Valley for a special “adopt a dog” event.

Current dog owners, bring your best friend by to an outdoor photo booth and meetup. Volunteer pet sitters will be available so that humans may visit the galleries.

See what you think.

Tickets at sjmusart.org/dogs

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Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto Wed, 12pm, $12-$25 When Gourmet Magazine folded without warning six years ago, its editor in chief, Ruth Reichl, found herself jobless for the first time in decades. Intuitively, after some wine-drenched commiseration with her cut-adrift magazine staff, she found solace in her kitchen. Unconsciously at first, the memoirist spent the next year building a collection of recipes.

The result is her latest book, My Kitchen Year, a collection of 136 recipes driven by the personal narrative that has made Reichl one the nation’s most prominent food writers. (JW)

THRILL KILL KULT The Ritz, San Jose Wed, 8pm, $10-$12 My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult (TKK) are a visual and auditory snapshot of early ’90s industrial rock. Known for goth nightclub staples, like “Daizy Chain 4 Satan” and “Sex on Wheelz,” TKK were featured on the soundtrack to the 1994 cult film, The Crow. Thrill Kill Kult’s core members, Groovie Mann and Buzz McCoy, have been penning dark grooves for nearly 30 years. Like their peers, KMFDM and Front 242, TKK helped drive the North American industrial music scene’s growth, and have managed to stick around as a touring unit. Live, you can expect to hear their biggest hits and more. (GS)

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INFUSION: MODERN JAZZ FESTIVAL AT Cafe Pink House, Saratoga Thu, 7pm, $15

Modern jazz guitarist, Hristo Vitchev, has assembled three forward-thinking bands for three days of fusion jazz performances at Cafe Pink House.

Eclectic bassist Aaron Germain and his quartet will kick off the festival Thursday. Friday, it’s tenured Bay Area drummer, Wally Schnalle, who’ll use a computer to enhance his acoustic drum sets. Then, on Saturday, saxophonist and flutist Dann Zinn will bring his distinctly emotional tone to the stage. All three are experts on their instruments and each will play

two sets each night—one at 7pm and another at 9:30pm. (AB)

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Silicon Valley Ballet, San Jose Fri, 4:30pm, Free As part of an effort to broaden its audience, Silicon Valley’s preeminent dance company has launched a multifaceted outreach campaign centered on its upcoming performance of Giselle. The Giselle Project includes a master class, an evening gala, a Cuban feast and a family-friendly matinee. On Friday, Cuban-born company director, José Manuel Carreño, will open evening rehearsals at the downtown San Jose

studios to beer lovers and curious fans for a happy hour meet-andgreet with the dancers. (JW)

DEAD TIME DREAMS HAUNTED HOUSE Tully and Capitol, San Jose Fri, 7pm, $20 Now through Halloween, horror fans wanting to test their mettle can brave the claustrophobic corridors of what’s billed as the “World’s Largest Haunted House.”

This year features two “immersive attractions,” an old tomb called the Devil’s Sacrifice and the irradiated, Hills Have Eyes-inspired Backwoods, which is crawling with deformed hillbillies. Get there early for some pre-show spooks at the Midway of Terror. (JW)

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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

SCENE! #3 COSTUME PARTY Oct 23 at The Ritz

MUDHONEY Oct 25 at RockBar Theater

BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT Oct 24-25 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

DANZIG Oct 29 at City National Civic

GARTH BROOKS Nov 13-14 at SAP Center

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ANDRE NICKATINA Agenda Lounge, San Jose Fri, 10pm, $25 Back in the day, independent rappers like Andre Nickatina had to hawk mixtapes out of their trunks to get their next project funded. But the future is now, and Nickatina just had his newest project financed by over $100,000 in donations from the fans he has cultivated over his 30-year career. The underground pillar made a name with his ratatat rate-of-spitting about smoking blunts, seducing baddies and slanging dope. But he introspects as well. His biggest hit, “Ayo for Yayo” employs a melancholy strummed guitar to illustrate the unglamorous underbelly of his side hustle. (JF)

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THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND new cider. Brewery tours will be held all day. (AB)

GORDON BIERSCH OKTOBERFEST 2015

SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Japantown, San Jose Sat, 12pm, $20-$25

Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto Sat, 7:30pm, $70

San Jose's first hometown craft brewer, Gordon Biersch is hosting its first Oktoberfest celebration.

Hoppy, amber-hued brews will be rolled just 50 yards from the brewery and bottling facility in San Jose’s Japantown to the Munich-style sperry tent set to seat 500. There will be stein-holding contests, traditional Bavarian grub and a five-story Ferris wheel. “Prost” along to the music of Pawn Shop Soul and The Adam Theis MOBtet. Beers on tap will include Gordon Biersch favorites, like Marzen, Pilsner and Festbier, as well as GB’s

In 2013, Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza arrived in East Jerusalem to pursue a long-held dream of recording music on the Palestinian side of the ancient city. So began an eight-day session in the studio of Palestinian band Sabreen, an experience that reaffirmed Broza’s faith in the power of music to transcend political and social realities and became the subject of the film East Jerusalem West Jerusalem.

Broza will make a guest appearance at a screening of the film for the opening night of the 24th annual Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival. (JW)

Nov 21 at The Ritz

KRONOS QUARTET: MAI LAI Bing Concert Hall, Palo Alto Sat, 7:30pm, $15-$70 On March 16, 1968, American soldiers violated, mutilated and slaughtered hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese men, women and children. The military then attempted to cover up the heinous war crime. Not one perpetrator saw the inside of a jail cell. The event is known as the My Lai Massacre and is the basis for an engrossing new composition by faculty composer Jonathan Berger for the Kronos Quartet. The piece features traditional Vietnamese percussion and audio recordings to tell the story of a helicopter pilot who attempted to stop his fellow soldiers and was denigrated for his efforts. (JF)

THE PHENOMENAUTS Nov 21 at The Ritz

NASHVILLE PUSSY Dec 1 at RockBar Theater

TRIPLE HO SHOW Dec 2 at SAP Center

THE WEEKND Dec 6 at SAP Center

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 18 at The Ritz

MACHINE HEAD Dec 19 at RockBar Theater For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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Vertigo SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS In Robert Zemeckis’ film, ‘The Walk,’ Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Philippe Petit, a deathdefying Frenchman, who walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers in 1974.

A deluge of CGI and a dearth of substance detract from ‘The Walk’

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HEN VIEWED IN IMAX and 3D, The Walk is positively lethal. Technical wizard Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) directs material treated in James Marsh’s 2008 documentary Man on Wire—the true account of the French acrobat Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the World Trade Center’s twin towers.

This ultimate high-wire act, performed 110 stories up, was a free, illegal show for the morning crowds.

Here the resurrected WTC looks insubstantial, sometimes like a hologram, sometimes like the lenticular image on a souvenir postcard. But the view Zemeckis creates of the potential plummet will affect many viewers with the palmsweats, and worse. The walk sequence is engineered as exquisite torture.

If it’s not the actual 45 minutes in length that Petit (Joseph GordonLevitt) spent over the abyss, it seems that long. It’s almost over. Relief sets in. That’s when the nerveless Petit raises his balance pole—it weighed 55 pounds, incidentally—makes an about-face and goes for another stroll.

Whether it’s Batman calculating his glide from atop a Shanghai skyscraper or Ethan Hunt’s defective Spider-Man gloves slipping on the smooth glass shell of a Dubai tower,

IMAX is clearly a system that is quite convincing when a terrific plunge is looming. The illusion is as harrowing as ever, and there may not be a director alive with such an instinct for how to use 3D for punch.

Yet The Walk isn’t a movie that seeks our childish sense of wonder. It’s a movie that talks to us like we’re a pack of kids. It’s powdered with sugar.

Petit explains it all for you from the torch at the Statue of Liberty, with the forced, antic enthusiasm of a birthday clown. In 3D Petit is flat as a silhouette against the synthetic New York harbor background. If Marsh’s documentary preserved the riddle and mystique of Petit, Zemeckis’s biopic makes him a harmless mime, aiming to please.

He meets a pretty French girl (the ineffectual Charlotte Le Bon) in a Paris square while keeping in his mind his dream to conquer New York. On the way, he requires some training and paternal advice from a fatherly old maître (Ben Kingsley). Some are snickering about Gordon-Levitt’s

accent Francais, but it’s Kingsley, who is supposed to be Czech, who enunciates like the Little Man from Twin Peaks.

With the heist-like set-up, and the terrifying walk underway, you forgive Zemeckis’ Pepe le Pew-worthy visions of French life. And, being a heist movie procedural, it brings up matters we hadn’t anticipated: the weight and unruliness of the cable as it is rigged in the dark, the persistence of security guards, and even an angry, if artificial, seagull menacing Petit as he lies down (gag, choke) for a little rest in the middle of the air.

What tempers enthusiasm for The Walk, besides the cutesiness and the heavenly spun-sugar clouds, is the repeat focus on Petit’s bleeding foot as if it were holy stigmata. I’m willing to consider Petit a kind of Christian fakir—he’s artist in residence at St. John the Divine’s Cathedral in New York City—and his apparent immunity to fear could be an example to the spiritual everywhere. But Zemeckis avoided the remoteness that’s to be found (for example) in Linda and Richard Thompson’s magnificently sad 1974 song “The Great Valerio.” The song, based on Petit’s own influence, Charles Blondin, describes the mixed emotions of watching a tightrope walker. Petit’s motives should be clear even to a child—“We would all be that great hero,” sings Linda—but in The Walk, there isn’t the reverse angle vision of someone watching: “we falter at the sight, we stumble through the mire.”

Zemeckis, who lived in the bemired New York City of the 1970s, should have understood the grit of New York back then; this script only lightly touches on the spirit of rebellion. The characters here declare themselves outlaws and anarchists, but don’t do anything tough. The cops who arrest Petit in The Walk are annoyed but worshipful. The title of Marsh’s documentary came from the police report—if one ever admired the seenit-all laconicness of the NYPD, it was in hearing the way they summed up the trouble: “Man on wire.” In The Walk, we certainly get the wire—just

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‘Simply Strings’ THE CHAMBER The Trianon Theatre has been the San Jose Chamber Orchestra’s home for 25 years.

The San Jose Chamber Orchestra kicks off 25th season with a strings-only program

BY GARY SINGH

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WENTY-FOUR YEARS ago, Metro columnist Sammy Cohen was a drummer in the Musicians Union and Barbara Day Turner was a harpsichordist and conductor with superb contemporary music chops. They were friends, and after running into each other at the opera one evening, they contemplated forming an official San Jose chamber orchestra to focus on new music, since the town offered nothing of the sort.

Turner wasn’t sure if Sammy was serious, and, as such, thought nothing of it—at least not until she woke up one day and found the whole proposition announced in one of Sammy’s stories, including her contact information. The pesky columnist had gone public with the idea, urging Turner to get cracking.

After receiving numerous calls in response to the column, Turner decided to move forward with the concept, making the ensemble primarily string-based. The San Jose Chamber Music Society agreed to sponsor a debut concert in the spring of 1991 at Le Petit Trianon Theatre.

For that first concert, the group performed a program including Stravinsky’s Birth of Apollo to a soldout crowd, with violinist Pat Strange as the concertmaster.

This weekend, the San Jose Chamber Orchestra begins its 25th anniversary season with Simply Strings, a strings-only program held at the same venue—Le Petit Trianon— it has performed in since 1991.

When the orchestra started, the neighborhood surrounding Le Petit Trianon—on Fifth Street, just a few steps north of where City Hall now sits—was riddled with drunks, addicts and transients. In 1991, the Trianon building still included single rooms for rent. All the rooms that are now offices were then used by transients, with the building partly operating as a boarding house of sorts. What’s more, there was only one bathroom in the whole place, so if a hundred people attended a concert in the theater, they had to share the same facilities with all the single-room tenants.

“There was a little kitchen upstairs, where people who lived there would cook,” Turner remembers.

“Sometimes in the middle of a concert we would be greeted with a wafting scent of bacon. Or something else being cooked that would actually fill the hall.”

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In the early years of the orchestra’s residency at Le Petit Trianon, other wacky events unfolded. One time, during a premiere of Michael Touchi’s Concerto for Harpsichord, an apparently homeless man walked into the hall and sat on the stage.

“I was in the middle of a cadenza,” Turner recalls. “He walked in the side door and went to the middle of the stage and just sat down on the edge of the stage to listen. Full orchestra, full audience. And when it was done, he applauded and he left.”

Turner spent the first few seasons building a financial foundation for the ensemble and didn’t start commissioning pieces until at least five years in. Half of the orchestra’s seasonal subscribers have been there since the beginning. And to this day, Turner still prioritizes contemporary pieces, avant-garde ideas, world music and anything off the beaten path of dead Western European composers.

After all, when one considers Bach’s time—or Mozart’s, Chopin’s or Liszt’s—the tradition was to emphasize music that had just been recently composed, not to rehash what had been already been done.

“I feel very strongly that the movement toward making a ‘museum’ of so-called Western Classical music is just kind of wrong-headed,” Turner says. “If we remember just even the basics of music history, when Mendelssohn discovered works by J.S. Bach that had been shelved after Bach died, he feared for his reputation when performing them. That’s how strong the preference was to perform newly written music.”

This Sunday’s season opener features guest violinist Stephanie Chase. The program includes the world premiere of Joel Friedman’s Movable Home as well as Suite for Lower Strings by Clarice Assad, the eldest daughter of the famous Brazilian guitarist, Sergio Assad.

The official 25th anniversary performance takes place next March.

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Every Sun, 8pm: Acoustic Jam. Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Band. Every Thurs: DJ Mist. Fremont.

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

San Jose.

THE BACK BAR SOFA Every Wed, 9pm: The Cypher, feat. Hip-hop, Jungle, Soul, Reggae, Dubstep, Trap, BreakBeat, House and more.

San Jose

Thu, Oct 8, 7pm: Isaiah Pickett. Fri, Oct 9, 7pm: Joint Chiefs. Sat, Oct 10, 7pm: The Koncept Party Band. Every Tue: Jack Ripoff. Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam Band. Los Gatos.

RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, Oct 9, 8pm: @Jazz. Sat, Oct 10, 8pm: Jeff Conley.

Mountain View.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, Oct 8, 7pm: The Fabulous Cruisetones. Fri, Oct 9, 7pm: The Jump Kings. Sat, Oct 10, 12pm: Alfie & the XS. 7pm: The Bob Burnett Band featuring Tammi. Sun, Oct 11, 1pm: Wil Robert duo. San Jose.

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

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

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

THE CATS Wed, Oct 7, 7:30pm: Johnny Neri. Thu, Oct 8, 7:30pm: Cadillac Jack. Fri, Oct 9, 8pm: Mike Osborn. Sat, Oct 10, 8pm: Lencat. Every Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

FOX THEATRE Sat, Oct 10, 8pm: Ghashee w/ Mashee. Sun, Oct 11, 8pm: Esencia Flamenca.

Redwood City.

MOJO LOUNGE Fri, Oct 9, 9:30pm: Amy Lou

Every Thu: No Cover night.

Every Sat: Saturday Nite Live Music Show. Cupertino.

CAFFE FRASCATI Thu, Oct 8, 7pm: Jean Baudin, Continuum. Fri, Oct 9, 8:30pm: Containher, Ryan Gaughan, David Knight. Sat, Oct 3, 8pm: The Cavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience.

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CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Fri, Oct 9, 7pm: Gamma ft. Davey Pattinson. Sat, Oct 10, 8pm: Lydia Pense, Cold Blood, Rick Stevens. Redwood City.

DANA STREET COFFEE Every 2nd Mon, 7pm: Ukulele Jam. Mountain View.

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

Every Thu: Aki’s Original Blues Jam. Fri, Oct 9, 8pm: Snarky Cats. Sat, Oct 10, 8pm: Bornia Boys. Every Sun: Little Lou’s Jazz Jam Band. San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

O’FLAHERTY’S Thu, 9pm: Live Music. Sun, 5pm: Reggae music. Tue, 6:30pm: Live Irish Rock. San Jose.

Every Wed, 8pm: Salsa. Every Thu, 9pm: Banda Night. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays.

Thu, Oct 8, 7:30pm: Lisa Woo w/ Rick Ferguson. Fri, Oct 9, 6pm: Roberta Donnay & the Prohibition Mob Band. Sat, Oct 10, 7:30pm: Rocio Guitard Quintet. Sun, Oct 4, 7:30pm: Mike Galisatus Big Band.

Redwood City.

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

BLUE ROCK SHOOT Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase. Every Sat: Live

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WIL ROBERTS DUO MONDAY TUESDAY Music & Movement w/the San Jose Brainstormer’s Trivia Night every Monday @ 7pm in The Garage

Libraries. 4th Tuesday of the month @ 10:30am in the Garage

THURSDAY THUR-SUN Treatbot Karaoke Night- every Live Music ThursdayThursday @ 7:30pm in Market Hall in front of Treatbot

Saturday at 7pm & Sunday at 1pm

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Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/ Sid Morris & Kyle Jester. Thu, Oct 8, 6pm: Russell Barber & Billy Davis Blues Band. Fri, Oct 9, 6pm: Ben Rice Blues Band.

Sat, Oct 10, 6pm: Beaufunk.

Sun, Oct 11, 3pm: Wendy DeWitt & Kirk Hardwood Band. San Jose.

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Sat, Oct 10, 7pm: Tracy Grammer. Los Gatos.

Wed, 9pm: Comedy Caravan.

C&W/Folk DANA STREET COFFEE Every 2nd Mon, 7pm: Ukulele Jam. Mountain View.

CHARLEY'S LG Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/ live Country music.

Every Tue, 7pm: Tuesday Bluesday w/ live Blues music.

Los Gatos.

MISSION PIZZA Thu, Oct 8, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Fri, Oct 9, 7pm: Prairie. Sat, Oct 10, 7pm: Canyon Johnson. Fremont.

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Every Thu: Acoustics Music Nights. Every Fri & Sat: Acoustics/Bands Music Nights. Campbell.

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

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by Butch Escobar. Los Gatos.

IMPROV Wed, Oct 7, 8pm: American Me comedy. Thu, Oct 8, 8pm: Full Throttle Comedy. Fri-Sun, Oct 9-11, various: DL Hughley.

San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Thu, Oct 8, 7pm: Outsourced Comedy Tour. Fri-Sun, Oct 9-11, various times: Ben Gleib.

Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Sunnyvale.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm: Karaoke Friday Nights. Santa Clara.

BLUE MAX Fri: Karaoke Fridays.

Sunnyvale.

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

BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

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

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

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Beginning with their ďŹ rst major production credit on Lil’ Kim’s 2003 album, La Bella MaďŹ a, these two brothers—born in Chicago and raised in Nigeria—have lent their chops to a string of well-known hip-hop artists, including Drake, Childish Gambino, Earl Sweatshirt and Vince Staples.

Now based in Los Angeles, the duo, which are slated to perform at the Continental Bar, Lounge and Patio during C2SV, cite Pharrell Williams and his N.E.R.D. cohort, Shae Haley, as mentors. According to Christian Rich, Pharrell’s patience and perseverance in the music industry was an inspiration. “At the time when we were working close together— back between 2009 and 2011—I remember he would say, ‘I’m not going to change up my style; I’m going to let the people come to me, I’m going to do what want to do,’� Taiwo says, recalling a conversation with Williams. “That’s something that we think about on a daily basis— just being focused, consistent and do what do.�

Christian Rich’s latest album, FW14, plays like an intergalactic journey—jumping hyperspace from ethereal acid jazz to aggressive trap to neo-soul, danceoor-ready jams. “We could’ve easily done a hip-hop album, but it could be very limiting,â€? Taiwo says. “And we’ve already done that to

some capacity, so we really just wanted to branch out and try to bring more ears to our music. The idea was to make an album that lent itself more to the electronic space.�

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In this goal, Christian Rich have succeeded. The Vince Staples-featuring “High� lurches with chopped and screwed vocals, thudding subsonic bass and dissonant, robotic, stutter-step horn squelches—at once recalling the industrial ambiance of Actress and the heavy electrohouse of Datsik.

FW14 is sensual, endearing and nuanced—packed with samples and sounds weird enough to intrigue but not so weird that it sends listeners running from the dance oor. Instead, it offers a peek into an infectious amalgamation of hip-hop, R&B and electronica.

The album’s list of recognizable up-and-comers deďŹ nitely helps widen this record’s appeal. In addition to Vince Staples, FW14 also features emcees Goldlink and Bia—two young heavy-hitters bending the limitations of rap and electronica—as well as singers JMSN, Brooklyn’s Denitia and Sene, Jack Davey and Sinead Hartnett.

It’s a roster that Taiwo says the brothers scouted on SoundCloud. “I think the one thing that SoundCloud has done for us is really open our palette to new collaborators,â€? Taiwo says. “It’s just as easy to go on Twitter and talk to someone, but SoundCloud makes it so much easier to be able to hear the music ďŹ rst-hand and really latch onto their style.â€? —By Nina Tabios

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Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm wrote that mature love is “I need you because I love you.” Rather different from “I need you because I don’t want to be living in a packing crate when I’m 50.”

As for the love you could have, it seems that—awww!—even now, East Coast Guy wants to be the reason you walk home alone in an upchuck-decorated dress.

(Sell framed, numbered snippings and it’s art!) Your entertaining a re-up with a guy who treated you so cruelly is bizarre— unless you consider a psychological gotcha called “the Zeigarnik effect.” Social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Brad Bushman explain that when a task or goal gets interrupted, the automatic, unconscious part of our brain keeps pinging the conscious part, nagging us to finish up whatever we’ve left incomplete.

(Unfortunately, our subconscious is only interested in getting the thing finished, not whether the guy in question is a complete douche-iopath.)

A way to shut off the Zeigarnik effect is to complete the incomplete thing— like by ending it for good with East Coast Guy or maybe picking up where you left off. But before you do the latter, consider another factor that’s surely in effect here—the cognitive bias of “selective perception.” This is our tendency to go all forgetsenheimer’s about the stuff that’s emotionally uncomfortable (ego battering, for example). Shoving it in some mental closet allows us to focus on more appealing beliefs, like “I can always count on him—to share my enthusiasm for gallery openings.”

Real love draws lines in how somebody treats you—how even when they’re angry, they act lovingly (assuming you haven’t, say, sauteed their parrot and served it up with a side of peas).

As for whether you need a more artsgoing man, that’s something to figure out before you get all relationshippy

with somebody who’d rather stay home watching YouTube videos of a raccoon riding a Roomba. But also consider that life involves tradeoffs, like maybe going to arts events with a friend instead of demanding that your partner meet your every need like a giant human Costco: “Love me, leave me money, and live to attend haunting performance art, like a woman reading a Chinese takeout menu for nine hours straight and then clipping her toenails and lighting them on fire.”

I’ve always been a sexual free spirit, but I’d like to get serious with this guy I’ve been dating. Is it ever good to tell a guy about other guys you’ve slept with recently or who are still nosing around? I think it might make a guy feel you’re desirable and commit, but my guy friends say it’s really offputting.—Just Wondering For a woman, finding somebody to have sex with is about as hard as finding an Indian guy running a 7-Eleven. Yay, huh? Uh…except for how harshly women get judged for being “sexual free spirits.” This comes out of what anthropologists call “paternity uncertainty”—the fear men evolved to have that they’ll be bringing home the bison to feed a kid who’ll be passing on the genes of Mr. Monobrow in the next lean-to. So men take issue with women who get around, whereas for men, there’s no such thing as “stud shaming.” In other words, never tell who or how many.

And by the way, some guys claim they’ll be okay with knowing—just before they start keeping you up all night with questions like “Was it recent?” “Was there overlap?” and “Was this BEFORE you got Lasik?” The reality is, a boyfriend will want to believe that your body is a temple—and not the sort that’s been an international tourist hot spot with a eunuch outside operating one of those little clickers.

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Six years ago, I was dating this guy on the East Coast. He and I share a deep love of the arts. We started arguing on the sidewalk, and I got so upset that I vomited all over myself. He refused to drive me home or let me back into his apartment to change. Finally, he gave me a pair of pants, but he made me change in the stairwell. Shortly afterward, I moved out west. I told him I still loved him and couldn’t get him out of my system, but his response was downright cruel.

Eventually, I fell in love with my current boyfriend. Well, East Coast Guy now wants me back. I do miss our mutual passion for theater and art. (West Coast Guy isn’t interested in attending artistic events.) However, I’ve had poor job-hunting luck and I’m fearful about my financial future, and West Coast Guy recently made me his heir. I’m tortured. Should I give East Coast Guy another chance?—Torn

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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)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #608614

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 #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 #608165 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Nutrishop SJ, 117 Bernal Rd., #10, San Jose, CA, 95119, Nutri Fit, Inc. 604 Curie Dr., San Jose, CA, 95123. This business is conducted by a corporation.Above entity was formed in the state of CaliforniaRegistrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/18/2015. /s/Pal KhangaldyPresident#C3805674This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/18/2015.(pub Metro 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/07/2015)

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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

CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso): 1-14-CV-269052 AMENDED SUMMONS CROSS-COMPLAINT (CITACION JUDICIAL-CONTRADEMANDA) 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.

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You can locate these nonprofit groups at California LegalServices Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California CourtsOnline Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or bycontacting your local court or county bar association.NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on anysettlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. Thecourt’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la cortepuede 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 ypapeles legales para presenter una respuesta por esqrito en esta corte yhacer que se entregue una copia al contrademandante. Una carta o una llamadatelefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar enformato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Espossible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas information en elCentro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucourt.ca.gov), en labiblioteca 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 lacorte que le un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presentasu respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y lacorte le podra guitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609688 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lovely Salon, 1739 Berryessa Rd., San Jose, CA, 95133, Ha Nguy, 1302 Bacchus Dr., San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 6/17/14. Refile of previous file #593359 with changes/s/Ha NguyThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/30/2015.(pub Metro 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28/2015)

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609205 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aloft Sunnyvale, 170 South Sunnyvale Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, 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#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 #609671 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RTWIZ, 1750 Meridian Ave., #6718, Radney Toomasian, Romel Tomasian, 2118 Canoas Garden Ave., #117, San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is conducted by a general partnership.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Radney Roomasian/ Romel RomasianThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/30/2015.(pub Metro 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28/2015)

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 #609793 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Peanut Butter Supply, 1812 Wintersong Ct., San Jose, CA, 95131, Theresa Nguyen. This business is conducted by a individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/27/2015.

Refile of previous file #605083 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing./s/Theresa NguyenThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/02/2015.(pub Metro 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28/2015)

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)

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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, 95125408-7584200(Pub CC 9/30, 10/07, 10/14/2015)

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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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): If I warned you not to trust anyone, I hope you would reject my simplistic fear-mongering. If I suggested that you trust everyone unconditionally, I hope you would dismiss my delusional naiveté. But it's important to acknowledge that the smart approach is far more difficult than those two extremes. You've got to evaluate each person and even each situation on a case-by-case basis. There may be unpredictable folks who are trustworthy some of the time, but not always. Can you be both affably open-hearted and slyly discerning? It's especially important that you do so in the next 16 days.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I meditated on your astrological aspects, I had an intuition that I should go to a gem fair I'd heard about. It was at an event center near my home. When I arrived, I was dazzled to find a vast spread of minerals, fossils, gemstones, and beads.

Within a few minutes, two stones had commanded my attention, as if they'd reached out to me telepathically: chrysoprase, a green gemstone, and petrified wood, a mineralized fossil streaked with earth tones. The explanatory note next to the chrysoprase said that if you keep this gem close to you, it “helps make conscious what has been unconscious.” Ownership of the petrified wood was described as conferring “the power to remove obstacles.” I knew these were the exact oracles you needed. I bought both stones, took them home, and put them on an altar dedicated to your success in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): George R. R. Martin has written a series of fantasy novels collectively called A Song of Ice and Fire. They have sold 60 million copies and been adapted for the TV series Game of Thrones. Martin says the inspiration for his master work originated with the pet turtles he owned as a kid. The creatures lived in a toy castle in his bedroom, and he pretended they were knights and kings and other royal characters. “I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom,” he has testified. I think the next seven months will be a perfect time for you to make a comparable leap, Gemini. What's your version of Martin's turtles? And what valuable asset can you turn it into?

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The editors of the Urban Dictionary provide a unique definition of the word “outside.” They say it's a vast, uncomfortable place that surrounds your home. It has no ceiling or walls or carpets, and contains annoying insects and random loud noises. There's a big yellow ball in the sky that's always moving around and changing the temperature in inconvenient ways. Even worse, the “outside” is filled with strange people that are constantly doing deranged and confusing things. Does this description match your current sense of what “outside” means, Cancerian? If so, that's OK. For now, enjoy the hell out of being inside.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We all go through phases when we are tempted to believe in the factuality of every hostile, judgmental and random thought that our monkey mind generates. I am not predicting that this is such a time for you. But I do want to ask you to be extra skeptical toward your monkey mind's fabrications. Right now it's especially important that you think as coolly and objectively as possible.

You can't afford to be duped by anyone's crazy talk, including your own. Be extra vigilant in your quest for the raw truth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know about the ancient Greek general Pyrrhus? At the Battle of Asculum in 279 BCE, his army technically defeated Roman forces, but his casualties were so substantial that he ultimately lost the war. You can and you must avoid a comparable scenario. Fighting for your cause is good only if it doesn't wreak turmoil and bewilderment. If you want to avoid an outcome in which both sides lose, you've got to engineer a result in which both sides win. Be a cagey compromiser.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If I could give you a birthday present, it would be a map to your future treasure. Do you know which treasure I'm referring to? Think about it as you fall asleep on the next eight nights. I'm sorry I can't simply provide you with the instructions you'd need to locate it. The cosmic powers tell me you have not yet earned that right. The second-

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best gift I can offer, then, will be clues about how to earn it. Clue #1. Meditate on the differences between what your ego wants and what your soul needs. #2.

Ask yourself, “What is the most unripe part of me?” and then devise a plan to ripen it. #3. Invite your deep mind to give you insights you haven't been brave enough to work with until now. $4. Take one mediumsized bold action every day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Galway Kinnell's poem “Middle of the Way” is about his solo trek through the snow on Oregon's Mount Gauldy. As he wanders in the wilderness, he remembers an important truth about himself: “I love the day, the sun . . . But I know [that] half my life belongs to the wild darkness.”

According to my reading of the astrological omens, Scorpio, now is a good time for you, too, to refresh your awe and reverence for the wild darkness—and to recall that half your life belongs to it. Doing so will bring you another experience Kinnell describes: “an inexplicable sense of joy, as if some happy news had been transmitted to me directly, by-passing the brain.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The last time I walked into a McDonald's and ordered a meal was 1984. Nothing that the restaurant chain serves up is appealing to my taste or morality. I do admire its adaptability, however. In cow-loving India, McDonald's only serves vegetarian fare that includes deep-fried cheese and potato patties. In Israel, kosher McFalafels are available. Mexicans order their McMuffins with refried beans and pico de gallo. At a McDonald's in Singapore, you can order McRice burgers. This is the type of approach I advise for you right now, Sagittarius. Adjust your offerings for your audience.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have been flirting with your “alone at the top” reveries. I won't be surprised if one night you have a dream of riding on a Ferris wheel that malfunctions, leaving you stranded at the highest point. What's going on? Here's what I suspect: In one sense you are zesty and farseeing.

Your competence and confidence are waxing. At the same time, you may be out of touch with what's going on at ground level. Your connection to the depths is not as intimate as your relationship with the heights.

The moral of the story might be to get in closer contact with your roots. Or be more attentive to your support system. Or buy new shoes and underwear.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I haven't planted a garden for years. My workload is too intense to devote enough time to that pleasure. So eight weeks ago I was surprised when a renegade sunflower began blooming in the dirt next to my porch. How did the seed get there? Via the wind? A passing bird that dropped a potential meal? The gorgeous interloper eventually grew to a height of four feet and produced a boisterous yellow flower head. Every day I muttered a prayer of thanks for its guerrilla blessing. I predict a comparable phenomenon for you in the coming days, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The coming days will be a favorable time to dig up what has been buried.

You can, if you choose, discover hidden agendas, expose deceptions, see beneath the masks, and dissolve delusions. But it's my duty to ask you this: Is that really something you want to do? It would be fun and sexy to liberate so much trapped emotion and suppressed energy, but it could also stir up a mind-bending ruckus that propels you on a healing quest. I hope you decide to go for the gusto, but I'll understand if you prefer to play it safe.

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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