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Depeche Modi In the glow of last week’s news that San Jose scored direct flights to and from Germany with Lufthansa—nevermind that just six months ago one of its suicidal pilots purposely flew into the French Alps, killing 149 passengers—a bigger deal has fallen through the cracks. Late last month, San Jose’s airport rolled out the red carpet, literally, to welcome Indian Prime Minister NARENDRA MODI. For months the city courted the PM, who has an unusually active role in determining where his country’s airline, Air India, will fly. In addition to providing a huge police escort and additional security, TEAM LICCARDO commissioned a $1,000 key to the city for Modi. The 3-foot, stainless steel electric guitar posing as a key was a symbolic gesture, yet there was some internal debate on the appropriateness of giving a gift to a man almost certainly mixed up with some modern day pogroms.

In 2002, following a train fire that killed 58 people They in Gujarat, India’s Did westernmost state, What? then-chief minister Modi failed to prevent—if SEND TIPS TO O not incited—riots that FLY@ METRONEWS. WS. WS S.. killed more than 1,000 COM Muslims as retribution, and included the savage public raping of numerous women. Modi’s rise up the political ladder recently forced the U.S. to rescind its 12-year travel ban, and San Jose officials reluctantly began assembling the welcome wagon in hopes of scoring flights between here and Delhi.

The day after he arrived, Modi spoke in front of more than 18,000 people at SAP Center, but not before an awkward prespeech meet-and-greet. Modi shared a few short words with local electeds, including Congresswoman NANCY PELOSI, and Mayor Liccardo also got a little face time.

He thanked Modi for what the mayor had been assured was a done deal, and the PM was amiable, if not a little standoffish.

He then went on stage and told a jubilant crowd that he was happy to announce new direct flights between Delhi and, ahem, San Francisco.

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LONE IN her cell, sleep became an escape.

Each time she awoke, Daniella Tavake would sob, unnerved by her own reflection in the scratched-up metal mirror, sickened by the feel of whiskers, coarse and uncut, obscuring her oncesmooth face.

Locked up at a Central Valley men’s prison, the transgender Redwood City native spent several weeks in the summer of 2013 in solitary confinement.

Though for her own protection— another inmate called her a “faggot,” she says, and then physically attacked her— isolation brought its own kind of torture.

“When I look in the mirror, I want to cry,” Tavake wrote in a letter at the time.

“I am forced to wear a beard.”

In other ways, the two decades she spent cycling in and out of prison on nonviolent, mostly drug-related offenses, reaffirmed her identity in a way the outside world never had. “I was a woman,” she wrote in one of her letters from Salinas Valley State Prison. “So when I went home, I felt out of place.

I felt like I didn’t belong out of prison.

I used to dream of being sent back to prison and in my dreams I was always happy and felt like I belonged. I wasn’t being treated like a woman when I went home and it truly bothered me.”

Preferring confinement, of course, says less about Tavake’s treatment in prison—two decades marked by violence from being a woman among men— than about the struggle of being trans in a society hostile to anyone outside the commonly presumed gender binary. As a teen in the South Bay, Tavake turned to gangs and meth to quell flashbacks of childhood sexual abuse and the

anguish of being in a body at odds with her femininity. Behind bars, at least, the men saw her as a woman. Behind bars, at least, she began taking hormones that curved her frame and softened her skin.

“But I still shouldn’t even be in this place,” she wrote in her distinct looping script to pen pal Kristin Schreier Lyseggen. “I can’t wait to get out so I can put all this behind me.”

Lyseggen, a Norway-born, Bay Areabased journalist, shares Tavake’s story by way of their correspondence in her new book, The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons. The volume, filled with the letters, portraits and biographies of nine inmates, offers a rare, nuanced glimpse of the trauma inflicted upon trans women by a system that considers them men.

“Because of the way we institutionalize these women, they are raped and beaten, they’re denied their humanity,” says Lyseggen, who has been reporting on LGBT issues for the better part of a dozen years. “How can this nation, one that considers itself a progressive, democratic society, shove women into crowded compounds of very violent men?”

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Last month, San Francisco County became one of the first in the nation to house trans inmates by their lived gender rather than birth-assigned sex. Santa Clara County still hews to the prevailing standard of pre- and post-operative.

“Housing is dependent on how far their post-op surgeries have progressed,” according to Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. James Jensen. “Our medical department verifies which gender their genitals associate with.”

They will, however, stay in protective custody among LGBT inmates or others with “victim potential,” Jensen says. Unlike solitary confinement, which limits access to programs, protective custody still allows inmates to participate in classes. There’s a chance that the county may reconsider the protocol to allow trans women to bunk with cisgender women and trans men with their cis-male counterparts.

In her book, Lyseggen raises the question: What do we owe a criminal?

The short answer, she says, is the right to dignity and rehabilitation. But the question should prompt people to look at the way society criminalizes transgender people in the first place. Rejected by their families, a disproportionate number of trans men and women become homeless and turn to crimes of survival—sex work, theft, violence in self-defense—and cycle in and out of incarceration.

“We betrayed these women long before they became adults by not believing what they told us about who they are,” Lyseggen writes. “And then when we lock some of them up, we torture them, watch them being raped, and forget that they exist.”

Tavake was released in San Mateo County 11 months ago. She says she’ll never go back to prison.“I’m living proof that there is hope,”she says. Now 40 years old, she divides her time between a restaurant job in Palo Alto and myriad appointments, classes and counseling sessions mandated by her re-entry program.

With Lyseggen, she wants to highlight the need for psychological help and appropriate placement for inmates in the process of transitioning. But she also stresses the importance of supporting trans inmates upon their release. “We have a responsibility to do better,” says Lyseggen, who will speak on her project Thursday, Oct. 22 at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. “Punishment must not be cruel, it must not be unusual. We have to recognize people for who they are.”

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Virtually every jail and prison in the United States houses trans inmates who have not had reassignment surgery with a population corresponding with the gender they were assigned at birth. Such policies conflict with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which prohibits carceral agencies from housing people separately by gender identity, birth sex or sexual orientation without a court order.

Those policies also endanger people like Tavake, with full breasts and an effeminate gait, in the company of men.

While 4.4 percent of inmates statewide reported experiencing sexual assault, that figure soared to 59 percent for trans inmates, according to a 2011 study by UC Irvine criminologist Valerie Jenness.

Meanwhile, half of trans inmates reported being raped.

The PREA allows jails and prisons to assign housing for LGBT wards on a case-by-case basis. Yet if placed in isolation for safety’s sake, trans inmates have no access to programming that could reduce their sentence. In a decision announced last month, California became the first state to foot the bill for an inmate’s gender-affirming surgery. Shiloh Quine, convicted of first degree murder as Rodney in 1980, will move into a women’s facility once she recovers from her operation. While a federal judge ruled the procedure a medical necessity for Quine, it dodged the question of whether it’s a constitutional right.

Former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner, whose public transition elevated her as a spokeswoman on trans issues, expressed fear on NBC’s Today that, if charged in connection with a fatal crash, she could end up jailed with men. “It is an enormous problem,” she said.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) houses 385 transgender inmates on hormone therapy. Of those, 363 consider themselves women and 22 of them men.

Many more refuse to come out, bound by stigma or fear, which makes it difficult to get an accurate count.

“Those numbers rely on people who feel safe enough to disclose,” says Flor Bermudez, an attorney at the Transgender Law Center. “We don’t know the exact number. But I can tell you that we get eight to 10 letters a day from people, from families and prisoners who need our help.”

Even in the Bay Area, a left-leaning region in a left-leaning state, the dialogue around trans inmates has only just

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RAW DEAL Lupin Lodge, already mired in legal trouble, faces new allegations of wage theft.

Lawsuit: Nudist Resort Exploited Workers BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH A new lawsuit claims that owners of Los Gatos nudist resort Lupin Lodge effectively reduced dozens of live-in workers to indentured servitude.

Dara McClellan, a live-in employee since 2007, says Lupin’s husbandand-wife owners, Glyn and Lori Kay Stout, had her work 30 hours a week in exchange for meals and lodging. But McClellan claims she never got overtime, meal breaks or reimbursement for any expenses. She further alleges that she never earned actual wages and that compensation came out to less than minimum wage.

The class-action lawsuit filed Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court has identified at least 35 others who worked under similar conditions. The Stouts, who also face felony water theft charges in criminal court, have yet to return requests for comment.

San Jose Inside reported on the illegal living and work conditions at Lupin in July, which prompted some of the residents to seek legal help.

“This is one of the worst cases I’ve

ever seen,” says McClellan’s lawyer, Amy Carlson. “It’s horrible. These people are stuck, they have no money, nothing for a deposit to move anywhere else, and they’re afraid to say anything because they don’t want to be homeless. To me, that is human trafficking.”

The lawsuit also names Charlie Perkins, Michael Fjelstad and Bradley Chibos as defendants. All three are practicing attorneys who sit on Lupin’s board of directors and, according to McClellan’s claim, knew about the worker exploitation yet did nothing to prevent it.

Like dozens of others, McClellan, a single mother, moved to Lupin about seven years ago in response to a job ad promising work in exchange for a home in a forested paradise. Lupin owners Lori Kay and Glyn Stout run what’s essentially a 110-acre hotel-style campground, where guests rent out yurts, cabins or tent plots. Resident workers like McClellan, the suit claims, are placed in trailers or cabins and charged monthly membership

fees of up to $450 or more—far above the price advertised online—in addition to market-rate rents.

In 2011 or 2012, according to the suit, the Stouts announced that all workers would be considered independent contractors. But they continued to hire, fire, discipline, supervise, schedule and set compensation.

Because so many tenants have been evicted for speaking up, McClelland and others have been afraid to complain about the gutted trailers, rotted-out cabins, rat nests, faulty plumbing and electrical wiring, lack of insulation or heat. According to residents, the Stouts recently installed security cameras—usually frowned upon in a nudist camp—to keep an eye on workers.

Tomas Margain, an attorney who helped Carlson with the case, compared the situation to conditions faced by migrant farm workers. “I’ve been doing primarily wage theft cases for 18 years,” he says, “and this is particularly egregious.”

BY THE NUMBERS Michael Tyree’s fatal beating, allegedly at the hands of three Santa Clara County correctional officers, cast a harsh light on the treatment of mentally ill inmates.

Advocates have cautioned for years that a lack of psychiatrists at both Elmwood and the Main Jail would lead to violent clashes between guards and inmates. Yet, for years, the county left a population of 3,600 inmates—1,500 of them diagnosed with some form of mental illness—in the hands of as few as two jail psychiatrists. In the weeks after Tyree’s murder, the county approved a two-year $7.4 million contract to fund six full-time doctors.

Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors will raise salaries for the position by 25 percent to attract more candidates.

Jail officials acknowledged that correctional deputies lack the training to deal with the burgeoning number of inmates with psychiatric needs. The issue is expected to become a focal point for a newly convened blue ribbon commission tasked with auditing the county’s jails.

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San Jose Unveils Patent Office Silicon Valley generates roughly 10 percent of the nation’s patents, so it’s about time it got its own U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Business leaders and public officials met Thursday for a ribbon cutting, speeches and tours of the facility, located in a 35,000-square-foot wing of San Jose’s City Hall.

The San Jose office—eight years and $5 million in the works—is one of only three satellite patent sites in the whole country. The new regional office should help the USPTO reduce its backlog of 500,000 patent applications. —Jennifer Wadsworth

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VERYONE knows Dusty Baker by now.

He managed the San Francisco Giants for 10 seasons, taking them to the 2002 World Series. As a player, he won the 1981 World Series with the Dodgers, and before that, he occupied the on-deck circle in 1974 when Hank Aaron blasted homer 715, breaking Babe Ruth’s record.

Baker has always been one of the coolest dudes in baseball, but now, thanks to Wellstone Books, he’s also a music writer.

Releasing in a few weeks, Kiss the Sky: My Weekend in Monterey for the Greatest Rock Concert Ever, is Dusty Baker’s first book, documenting the role music has played in his life, the apex of which was the legendary performance Jimi Hendrix gave at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. The pocketsized edition is the first book in Wellstone’s “Music That Changed My Life” series.

A mini-memoir, the book also appears through the lens of all the different flavors of music that shaped Baker’s life to this day. In one layer of the narrative, Baker elaborates on his childhood and teenage years, including neardecisions to either play basketball at Santa Clara University or attend San Jose State solely because it

was designated by Playboy as a party school. But his love of music, in a variety of genres, from the very beginnings of his youth, is what shaped him. As a kid, he was required by his mom to attend a Baptist church and give piano recitals, but he was forbidden to attend the local Pentecostal church because it was the first in his hometown to feature music with drums and guitar.

However, the gift Dusty’s mom gave him for his 18th birthday, in 1967, eventually led to this book.

After receiving tickets to Monterey Pop and permission to drive his family’s car down from Sacramento with a friend, Baker experienced one of the highlights of his life. Accounts from that groundbreaking festival already exist, particularly Joel Selvin’s book, which Baker even quotes from, but Baker’s take on Hendrix is worth the price of his book. Jimi’s face on stage that day, he says, was the look of someone hitting a home run.

“[When blasting a homer], most of all, the feeling you have is a kind of calm exhilaration and wonder,” writes Baker, “a sense not that you had done something in launching that ball over the fence, but that you were part of something, the swing of your bat striking a ball rushing your way and connecting to make something special happen.

You almost feel that the bat did the work, it feels so light in your hands, the swing feels so easy.”

Hendrix used a guitar, and all through the performance it seemed to be a part of him. The axe appeared to do all the work, with Hendrix seemingly just as amazed as everyone in the audience at what was happening with his guitar.

“What you saw was a childlike joyousness and ease, a sense of complete comfort, since he knew he was tapping into major talent and everyone else there knew it, too,” Baker writes.

The following year, 1968, Baker actually smoked a joint with Hendrix outside the Condor Club in San Francisco. “That was my claim to fame,” he jokes.

Wellstone Books is the publishing arm of the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, a writer’s retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains. They’re the same heroes who earlier this year published Bruce Bochy’s A Book of Walks, in which the current Giants manager reflects on his favorite leisurely treks around San Francisco. It’s already a Zen classic and a testimonial to the benefits of walking. Both books feel like a coffee shop conversation with the authors. At the helm of Wellstone we find the noted baseball author Steve Kettmann, who grew up in San Jose and went to Willow Glen High School.

“The idea is to publish personal writing that’s not afraid to inspire,” Kettmann says. “We don’t want it to be self-help or overtly inspirational.

We want it to be cool stuff that gets people excited to make a positive change in their lives.”

Kiss the Sky: My Weekend in Monterey for the Greatest Rock Concert Ever will be be published Nov. 10 by Wellstone Books. It can be pre-ordered at Amazon.com.

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NEVER ENOUGH Orchard City Kitchen encourages shareable plates, paired libations and frequent visits.

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“It’s not what people are interested in,” Stout says. “They’re just looking for good, tasty food and value. The days of a server in a suit coming up to your table and reciting a four-minute spiel about how great the restaurant is are done.”

Elaborate table setting procedures, mise en place, are particularly anachronistic, he says in exasperation, as if such a scene should be confined to BBC period pieces about turgid aristocrats and the sexually repressed help. The sequential ordering of forks, folding of napkins, crumbing the table, and

again with new, clean napkins—who has the patience?

“By the time you sit down, it’s 40 minutes before you even see food,” Stout says. “This restaurant we wanted to create is the exact opposite. A casual place you come to twice a month instead of twice a year. Let’s not make it a celebratory place. No white tablecloths. No carpet. Let’s do it all hardwood. Let’s keep things simple, straightforward, transparent. And let’s make the food—bam, bam, bam.”

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MICHELIN MAN Jeffrey Stout has won Michelin stars on two separate occasions and now a Bib Gourmand.

The pace of Orchard City Kitchen (OKC) is no coincidence. Silicon Valley diners’ expectations have changed dramatically in the era of now, when the immediacy of a swipe or one-button order can result in genuine indignation over a secondslong inconvenience. But beyond technological innovation, it’s the sharing economy that has disrupted dining out. It not only affects the way we book rooms and hitch rides around town, but now, more than ever, it has carried over to the way we order food and split the check.

The migration to communal dining tables and shareable plates is about “eating less and tasting more,” says Cyrus Schultz, OCK’s general manager and the yin to Stout’s braggadocious yang.

“Everything is moving faster and everything has become simpler,” Stout adds.

Quality, however, shouldn’t suffer, and OCK has raised the bar for meals that cost little more than the average pizza delivery. Last week, Stout and his managing partners—Schultz and bar director Perry Hewitt, who has assembled an impressive collection of spirits, wine and craft beers—learned the Michelin Guide, the preeminent judge of restaurants worldwide, awarded OCK with a coveted Bib Gourmand. The distinction is the equivalent of a Michelin star for restaurants that deliver two world-class courses and wine or dessert for under $40.

Stout, who has won a Michelin star—twice—while previously overseeing operations at Alexander’s Steakhouse in Cupertino and San Francisco, says that while the restaurant experience has only become easier for customers, who

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“We have to wow you for under $40. It’s harder,” he says. “You go to every high-end white tablecloth restaurant and there’s a definite style of cooking. It’s a sweep of a sauce.

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And it’s done well, even when the ingredients in a dish take less than five fingers to count.

OCK makes room for simple and succulent, with its Korean Fried Chicken, drizzled in a rudimentary Asian glaze, or its barbeque brisket mac and cheese, or its Triple B house staple: bacon, biscuit and

butter. And yet, the menu, seasonal and hyperlocal, also finds room to produce dishes like smoked duck pupusa, grilled day boat scallops and Argentinian shrimp with grits.

There is a balance between trying to wow and knowing what works.

Nearly everything is supposed to be shared and enjoyed over a drink, which more often than not tends to be a craft cocktail rather than beer or wine.

“I see restaurants all the time, they pop up with young chefs and they’re swinging for home runs every time,” Stout says. “It’s like, ‘Here’s combinations that haven’t been done before—blue cheese with Monterey spot prawns.’ Hey, that’s kind of weird, and maybe it’s going to come together, but you’re experimenting on the guest. And if your whole menu is like that it’s not accessible for the general public. My

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There’s no shortage of South Bay establishments that stand out for their fractional cuisines. Here are some of the best:

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Paper Plane has become the go-to spot for drinks and bar bites in downtown San Jose, with a craft cocktail menu that categorizes the type of flavors each drink embodies. The capable bartenders prepare cocktails with mesmerizing movements as they light drinks on fire, adorn with citrus zest and spank basil leaves on their wrists. The libations can be enjoyed with equally tasty small plates like chicken and waffles, bone marrow vol-au-vent and fried pork belly.

They also make a mean croque madame.

72 S. 1st St, San Jose.

The Pruneyard Plaza’s latest gem, by Chef Jeffrey Stout, formerly of Alexander’s Steakhouse, offers fresh ingredients as local as the farmers market a few blocks away. The menu shifts according to seasonal offerings but has a few signature dishes: Korean Fried Chicken, Mac and Cheese and the OCK burger are available year round. Brunch is equally enticing with some full entrée sizes as well as small plates. Don’t just focus on the food, though. They also have an impressive bar program. 1875 S. Bascom Ave. #190, Campbell.

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A longtime fixture on The Alameda, Wine Affairs serves vino with jazz music on select nights in their cozy bar. They also have a good selection of tapas: the ever-popular duck fat fries, meatballs and sausage, pizza and flatbread, and, of course, no wine bar is complete without a cheese and charcuterie platter. As an added bonus, Happy Hour runs all day Wednesday through Sunday. Cold artisanal beers and ciders are also available. 1435 The Alameda, San Jose.

Parking may be tough to find, but Tanto’s tasty small plates are always easy to spot. There are some interesting booths for two in the back of the restaurant, where both diners sit on a bench facing a wall, mimicking the experience of tiny Japanese eateries. Serving some of the usual sushi fare like sashimi, tempura and rolls, Tanto also delves into some lesser-known delicacies like ankimono (steamed monkfish liver) and uni (sea urchin) rice bowls. Grilled items such as the beef tongue and chicken liver skewers are also a must try. 1063 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale.

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Hidden in a residential corner of Cupertino is a Japanese fusion tapas restaurant with elaborate dishes like a braised rock cod, which takes at least 20 minutes to prepare.

It’s a place where you can still dine on your knees on tatami mats in a private booth with sliding bamboo doors. The menu is lengthy but almost every small plate is worth it. Items can be as light as thin slices of hamachi carpaccio or as heavy as a okonomiyaki seafood pizza. Reservations are highly suggested. 19980 Homestead Rd., Cupertino.

Cascal A pitcher of sangria chock full of fruit and flavor always helps a meal get off to a good start. So does any Cascal dish containing seafood, especially the ceviche sampler. A paella for a filling entrée combined with any number of tapas from shrimp tostaditos to beef empanadas will be plenty to share amongst friends. Even though the house sangria is fantastic, Cascal does a great job with tropical mixed drinks like margaritas and Pisco sours. The atmosphere becomes much livelier at night and Cascal makes for the beginning of an exciting evening. 400 Castro St., Mountain View

The Table The large communal table at The Table lends itself well to sharing food with friends.

This restaurant can be bustling any meal of the day. Be it happy hour dishes or small plates at dinner, the food here is too good not to share. There’s chicken liver mousse, an all-beef footlong and pork kebobs. What’s not to be missed is the only burger that belongs at the table, so good that its description is the item name.

Always save room for an interesting cocktail here. They’re listed by spirits to help the indecisive drinker make an informed decision. 1110 Willow St., San Jose.

La Catalana La Catalana is the place to go for viewing soccer matches. Barcelona soccer jerseys and players’ photos hang on the wall. If Barcelona is playing, you can bet people will gather here to watch while downing sangria and splitting pans of paella. Other items worth noting are the Spanish cured chorizo, the fried potato cubes and virtually anything with ham. La Catalana is a small space and has had to turn people away when reaching capacity, so make sure to get there early to snag a spot. 3720 N. 1st St. #10, San Jose.

Pintxo Pote Prepare to rub elbows with neighbors at the bar at Pintxo Pote, formerly called Donostia Pintxo. Though the space is small, eyes will feast as much as stomachs, as the décor features a wall made of gem rocks and a bar counter with embedded gold shells. The Spanish Basque tapas experience is made more unique with personal service at the counter—each employee only serves a few patrons in their section. Item names are in Spanish so menu descriptions should be read carefully, so as not to miss dishes like slow cooked beef cheeks, anchovy skewers and grilled octopus. Small plates are taken literally here, with only two or three pieces per plate, but the idea is to consistently drink and nosh throughout. 424 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos.

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*wed *thu A LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL Memorial Church, Palo Alto Wed, 7pm, Free Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been brought up a lot recently—ironically as a counterpoint to the Black Lives Matter movement. Critics use cherrypicked, out-of-context quotes to chastise protesters. The truth is, King’s image has been softened over time. In “A Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King writes in a most uncompromising voice, blasting white moderates and stresses the moral responsibility of citizens to break unjust laws. Stanford resident artist Anna Deavere Smith performs the letter with violinist Robert McDuffie and pianist Anne Epperson. (JF)

MACARIO

Teatro Visión, San José Thu, 8pm, $10-$20 Based on the the classic Mexican novel and acclaimed film of the same name, Macario tells the tale of a poor indigenous woodworker, living in colonial Mexico. Often compared to A Christmas Carol, the titular character, Macario, spends the play discussing the repercussions of his decisions with three supernatural characters—God, the Devil and Death. The story is a well-recognized parable in Mexican culture and has become associated with the celebration of Dia de los Muertos. The play begins its final week at Teatro Visión on Thursday. It will be performed in Spanish with English supertitles. (NV)

SIR MIX-A-LOT The Ritz, San Jose Thu, 7pm, $20-$25 Considering his best-known song is a 23-year-old paean to the virtues of generously proportioned female posteriors, it would be easy to write off Sir Mix-A-Lot, along with so much nostalgic kitsch, ala Vanilla Ice or the Nintendo Power Glove. But this Seattle-bred rapper has proven he has staying power.

With six full-length albums, a recent live collaboration with the Seattle Symphony and a remix for Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer project, Sir Mix-A-Lot's appreciation for a wide range of music and live performance has endured just as long as his appreciation for big buns, hun. (GS)

THE STAND PROJECT Tabard Theatre, San Jose Thu, 8pm, $32 Johnny “JJ” Ellis spent three decades on the streets of Nashville. The Stand Project takes his true story and brings it to the stage—personifying the often abstract and overwhelming issue of homelessness. JJ is portrayed

by Barry Scott, whose strapping stage presence crumples into a character struggling to overcome his insecurities and addictions. Writer Jim Reyland pens a nuanced dialog between JJ and a Good Samaritan named Mark (played by Chip Arnold), in order to tackle the heady issues in a measured way, letting the story speak for itself, without ever getting preachy. The performance will be followed by a talkback with the cast. (JF)

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SAFE IN SOUND FESTIVAL City National Civic, San Jose Fri, 7pm, $65 If you like tight, bright garments, aneurysm-inducing light shows and avalanches of bass, then the Safe in Sound Festival is for you. This nationally touring show features a long lineup of artists who make music tailor-made for Transformers fight scenes. These galactic compositions will be pumped out by a 150,000watt sound system that registers on the richter scale. Artists include the laser synths and face-smacking snares of Datsik, the caffeinated drops and trappy vibes of Bro Safari, and the springing vibraphones and spectral melodies of Zed’s Dead. (JF)

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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

MISFITS Nov 21 at RockBar Theater

THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND Nov 21 at The Ritz

THE PHENOMENAUTS Nov 21 at The Ritz

NASHVILLE PUSSY Dec 1 at RockBar Theater

TRIPLE HO SHOW Dec 2 at SAP Center

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KRAYZIE BONE Agenda Lounge, San Jose Fri, 11pm, $30 Krayzie Bone has been in hip-hop for three decades. With his sleepy eyes and signature braids, the rapper has been through many incarnations.

He broke out with Cleveland-based Bone Thugs N Harmony—the R&Bsteeped hip-hop group who won a Grammy for the melancholy 1997 hit, “At Tha Crossroads,” dedicated to Eazy E., the group’s mentor and late N.W.A. member. Krayzie would snag another Grammy a decade later when he laid down a snarling feature on Chamillionaire’s then-omnipresent hit “Ridin’.”This year, Bone released the four-disc Fixtape, cataloguing the fruits of his prolific time behind the mic. (JF)

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The Toronto-based rap battle league, King of the Dot—KOTD—brings the third installment of Back to BAYsics to Club Beso this weekend. Battle rappers from all over the Bay Area will trade barbs and tempers will be tested as hometown hero Dirtbag Dan faces off with D.N.A., Pass goes head-to-head with Arsonal, and Dizaster matches wits with Gjonaj.

The event will be broadcast live on through KOTD’s pay-per-view streaming service for those who can’t make the show in person. (NV)

Surfer Bethany Hamilton’s life took a traumatic turn on Oct. 31, 2003, when she was bitten by a shark in the waters off the coast of Kauai.

The attack took her left arm, could have easily ended her life and by all accounts should have ended her surfing career. Yet, through a combination of determination and faith, Hamilton recovered from her wounds and returned to surfing.

Since then, she’s taken first place in numerous pro surfing competitions and participated in The Amazing Race reality TV show. (NV)

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 18 at The Ritz

SHAPING SOUND Flint Center, Cupertino Sun, 3pm, $45-$75 A bit over a decade ago, So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars opened the eyes of the national television audience to the nimble talent of this generation's limberest jivers and shakers. After their big break, some of the choicest performers on those programs were drafted for Oxygen’s reality TV show, All the Right Moves, and now they are touring the country—tapping into their singular gifts of power, precision and technique, to bring form to an amalgam of genres, and execute an intricate repertoire of styles. Emmy-winner Travis Wall did the artistic design for this electrifying mash-up. (JF)

MACHINE HEAD Dec 19 at RockBar Theater

SUPER BOWL OPENING NIGHT Feb 1 at SAP Center

STRANGELOVE Feb 4 at RockBar Theater

BLACK SABBATH Feb 9 at SAP Center

DISNEY ON ICE: FROZEN Feb 17-22 at SAP Center

SELENA GOMEZ May 11 at SAP Center

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On The Grid ANGULAR AESTHETIC ‘Untitled 5 (from the Linens)’ is one of many Stephen Beal paintings now on display at NUMU.

Stephen Beal’s ‘Warp and Weft’ features geometric abstractions

BY SHERYL NONNENBERG

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T A TIME when so much of contemporary art is about combining disparate found objects in order to create weird and puzzling assemblage, it is refreshing to find an artist who revels in creating art that celebrates the formal elements and requires—actually invites—close scrutiny.

Berkeley artist Stephen Beal has found his niche working within the grid, using it as a formal structure from which to explore geometric abstraction.

A solo exhibition of his paintings, entitled “Warp and Weft: Selected Grid

Paintings, 2005-2015,” is on view at the New Museum in Los Gatos. The show, which is a collaborative effort between the recently opened museum and the George Lawson Gallery in San Francisco, runs until Jan. 3.

The museum, located in the Los Gatos Civic Center, aims to combine both art and history in its exhibition schedule. Lisa Coscino, NUMU’s executive director, says that the Beal show is the museum’s first “pure art show, in which form follows function.”

“We wanted to do a beautiful, quiet show,” she explains, adding that she was familiar with Beal, both as a working artist and in his role as president of the California College of the Arts.

Beal, who holds degrees in art from Occidental College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, somehow manages to juggle being an arts

administrator and a working artist.

“For me, my studio practice has always informed my teaching and academic administrative duties.”

Working out of a large, lightfilled studio in Berkeley, Beal begins by making his own stretchers and preparing the grounds on his chosen platform (he works on wood, linen or canvas). The time-consuming process of laying out the grid, which the artist claims is like “the ritual of practicing scales in music,” happens next. From there, Beal decides on the structure of the imagery and exactly what materials (paint, brushes) he will use. With the grid as the underlying armature, he is free to explore line, shape and color.

Although it sounds very exacting, Beal claims there is always an element of surprise for him.

“I am always interested in the way the paintings change as the grids fill up and how the space and geometry of the paintings evolve,” he says. And while he cites Agnes Martin and Sol Lewitt as influences, Beal’s work is not based on

conceptual or minimalist concerns so much as it just seems to pay homage to the beauty of patterns.

In Untitled #5 (from the Linens), the canvas is divided into rectangles, then subdivided into triangles. The alternating hues of brown and ivory meet at nexus points, then contrast each other as solid forms. Just when you think you have figured out the sequence, another possibility appears. Like a tangram (a Chinese dissection puzzle), it is both intriguing and mesmerizing.

Untitled #1 (from the Whites) consists of acrylic gouache on vertical grained fir panel. In this series, the grid and the wood grain are obscured by a mottled application of paint that resembles cloth.

Meticulously drawn, zig-zagging lines interweave and intersect to create a playing field of right angles, squares and diamond shapes.

Beal seems to enjoy quiet, muted colors that give all of his work a meditative air. The earliest pieces in the exhibition (again created on fir panel) seem to employ a pointillist approach with daubs of contrasting colors applied in close proximity, set on top of the grid. Perhaps in a nod to op art, the eye separates the colors when viewed at a distance, while up close the effect is a bit of retinal topsy-turvy.

The title of the exhibition seems particularly apt when viewing Beal’s most recent works, larger- scale acrylic paintings on muslin. Soft shades of blue, purple, tan and pink are organized into distinctly argyle patterns. Associations with a cozy pair of warm socks or your Uncle Henry’s favorite vest might immediately spring to mind.

With all the order and precision inherent in Beal’s art, one might assume the artist’s personality parallels his paintings. “Sadly, it doesn’t,” he says.

“I’m not very organized or precise—in fact my method and practice can be quite chaotic.”

Nonetheless, Stephen Beal achieves his goal of getting the viewer to stop and look closely. In an age of instant everything, that is quite a feat.

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metroactive ARTS DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY Tired of being feared, Death becomes incarnate as a handsome prince who wins the heart of a brave young lady, and then must choose whether to fulfill his own desires or let her live. $15-$38. Nov 6-28. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

HANDLE WITH CARE When a young Israeli woman accompanies her grandma to New York City, a fated blend of circumstances brings her into contact with a fella who has the same command over romance as she does over the English language, very limited. Nov 19-Dec 20. $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.

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

MAN OF LA MANCHA This play within a play tells the story of the mad knight Don Quixote by his author, Cervantes, and fellow prisoners awaiting the judgment of the Inquisition.

Nov 19-Dec 19. $18-$28 Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company. Los Altos.

EVITA Evita Perón lived her life in service of the less fortunate in Argentina, earning the title “Spiritual Leader of the Nation” before her early death at the age of 33. This play tells the story of her remarkable life. Nov 7-22. $14-$30. Sunnyvale Community Players. Sunnyvale Theatre.

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

KISS ME KATE A musical production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew meets a mobster caper in this winner of three Tony Awards.

Nov 6-22. $47-$69. Fox Theatre.

Redwood City.

FOREVER PLAID Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie formed a flannel jacket quartet who perished on the way to their first gig in a collision with a school bus. But now the ethereal fellas will get one more shot to hit a heavenly harmony. $20$35. Jan 30-Feb 21. South Bay Musical Theatre. Saratoga Civic Theatre.

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

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“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.

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

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

Computer History Museum.

Mountain View.

*art MUSEUMS NUMU LOS GATOS “The NASA Paintings” by Rick Guidice. Thru Feb 14. “The Art of Social Justice: Woody Guthrie and the Power of Songwriting.”

Thru May 16. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Piranesi’s Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered” thru

ALSO ON THE PROGRAM Danse Macabre/Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 7/Sibelius Pavane/Fauré Pavane pour une infante défunte/Ravel Michael DiGiacinto, Conductor and Music Director

“Imagination Playground” Put together mega-sized foam tinker toys to construct an endless array of possibilities.

San Jose.

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

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In our era of political cynicism and division, this refreshing play brings back the persistent idealism of Robert Kennedy, tracing his struggles and triumphs in his quest to make a government for all people. Sep 30-Oct 26. $55-$65. The San Jose Stage.

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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.

“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.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “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” Thru Feb 7. TueSun, 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.

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Three Steves FAILURE TO LAUNCH A miscast lead and the overwrought dialog of Aaron Sorkin make ‘Steve Jobs’ more Newton than iPhone.

Despite the hype, ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic is mostly a flop

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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T HAD THE most interesting approach to the life and legend of Steve Jobs. Thus the eponymous Aaron Sorkin/ Danny Boyle film turns out to be the most disappointing of the three Jobs films released in the last 14 months. Steve Jobs’ structure is tantalizing. If Nixon had six crises, Jobs (Michael Fassbender) has three, in this dramatic triptych acted out in real-time, and in authentic-tothe-era cinematography. The second act splits open to allow flashbacks of Jobs’ parting ways with John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), Apple’s CEO from 1983-1993.

We see Jobs during the unveiling of the Macintosh in 1984, shortly after the airing of the Ridley Scottdirected Super Bowl commercial.

The Orwellian ad is a bridgeburner for Jobs, who is both misunderstood by the board and mistrusted by Sculley. After Jobs is fired from Apple, he develops the NeXT. Secretly, Jobs and his head of marketing Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet) understand that NeXT is a prototype more than a product. In the last segment, Jobs bequeaths the iMac to our world and enters hightech Valhalla.

Sorkin and Boyle take this rigid superstructure and upholster it with an inner story of Jobs as a family man. Leading among Jobs’ character flaws is the way he treated his daughter Lisa: first disputing her paternity in Time magazine, and

later keeping both mother and child on a court-ordered pittance.

Steve Jobs’ script uses the fatherdaughter conflict as a major point of entry, so Lisa (played by three different actresses, but precocious every time) is hanging around backstage during every product rollout. The film is all about what a mensch Steve Jobs wanted to be, deep down inside. Joanna seems as eager to remind the industry titan of the importance of fatherhood as she is to help move units. Winslet, who is better than the material, is scarcely recognizable in her highly-authentic ’80s costuming of mushroom-shaped coiffure and oversized specs. The back and forth between Jobs and Joanna is modeled on the Cary Grant/ Rosalind Russell rapport in His Girl Friday, and that’s one fine model.

But the way the script boils Joanna down, she’s sort of a Jewish mom— providing stark contrast with Lisa’s mom Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston) who is portrayed as a new-age idler. I don’t know how

much Brennan got for the legal clearances, but one hopes it was a big sum. The script beats up on her.

If Seth Rogen is suitably teddybearish as Steve Wozniak, he gets to bite. “You can’t code … tell me what you do,” the Woz shouts at his former partner.

But it’s the lead that makes this biopic bizarre. Fassbender spares us few of Jobs’ odd habits, such as his use of a toilet for a footbath, but the miscasting is unignorable. In Jobs, Ashton Kutcher turns out to have had more of the Zen of Steve Jobs, both in physical appearance and in stunning passive aggression.

The movie is a near nonstop argument. It’s like going to a baseball game where everyone is a batter. Boyle is in thrall to every word, even anachronistic lines— such as a joke about The Horse Whisperer made 14 years before that movie was released. In The Social Network, David Fincher found oblique angles and sinister interiors for his material—there, Sorkin’s wit was keen and his double-talk rang true. If Moneyball is one of the best baseball movies made, part of it is due to the way director Bennett Miller toured the concrete brutality of the Coliseum—nobody’s idea of a field of dreams. If a director can break out of the boiler rooms Sorkin builds, it’s easier to accept the conventions of his writing.

For instance, the convention that there is no dialogue so petty that it can’t be made urgent by someone shouting, “One minute! Let’s go!”

Sorkin has got to the point that most scriptwriters arrive at: the point where the belief that there’s no business like show business evolves into the belief that all businesses are like show business.

Thus, the lack of negative space in Steve Jobs, and the backstage-movie ambience. In one scene, daughter Lisa describes the Judy Collins version of “Both Sides Now” as “regretful.” That’s the right word to describe the feelings of someone who bought a ticket for this.

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CULTURE CLASH Bill Murray’s characteristic dry wit works well for his role as a

Three days of international short films in every spectrum, combined with seminars, events, awards, wine pairings and a special appearance by LA-based actor/director Jennifer Morrison, who played Winona Kirk in Star Trek (2009).

Morrison’s droll short Warning Labels concerns the wisdom of outfitting people with cautionary tags: “Mistakes sex for love.” A date by two workers (Karen Gillan and Josh Lawson) at the Center for Disease Control begins with compliments—“I really admire the way you handle a Petri dish”—but soon devolves into a big mess which Morrison manages to boomerang into a genuinely sweet ending. Dozens of other shorts include The Train featuring Eli Wallach. (Plays Oct 23-25 in San Jose at the CineArts Santana Row.) (RvB)

washed-up talent agent stranded in Afghanistan in ‘Rock the Kasbah.’

JACK PIERCE, THE MAKER OF MONSTERS

Murray Don’t Like It

The Bay Area’s Strephon Taylor directs this study of a key figure in the history of movie makeup. Born Janus Piccoula, Pierce was a Greek immigrant who worked as everything from a goatherd to a semi-pro baseball player to a stunt man before creating a specialty for himself as a wizard of makeup.

Pierce created the look of some of the most memorable creatures who ever shambled through a film. Boris Karloff’s look for The Mummy (1932) took eight hours to complete, with clay dried under his bandages, so that dust would puff from him as he walked. And

Rock the Kasbah has a line about Afghanistan looking “like Aspen, only during wartime.” This movie looks like a comedy, only strangely dry. Levinson shot in Morocco. The desert backdrop suits Bill Murray, who uses the space and silence as a frame for his slow, quiet reaction to trouble.

Murray’s Richie Lanz is a talent agent full of reminiscences about the megastars he once represented. These days, however, he’s scraping the bottom of the barrel— promoting an inept Alanis Morissette cover singer (Zooey Deschanel). A stranger at a bar convinces Lanz to take the girl to Afghanistan on a USO tour. After they arrive in Kabul, she flees, taking Richie’s money and passport.

The newly-robbed agent is then doubleteamed by a pair of party-hearty arms dealers, whom he meets in the hotel bar.

The wily oafs (Scott Caan and Danny McBride) pay Richie to take a dangerous errand into the hinterland. Kept overnight as a guest by a Pashtun village, Richie accidentally hears the glorious singing of Salima (Leem Lubany), who has been hiding in a cave to practice her own covers of Yusuf Islam. Richie is determined to get Salima on

Afghan Star, the local answer to American Idol. But her family is outraged at the idea.

The ambient violence in Afghanistan is considered no joke, and maybe the recent news that our troops won’t be leaving soon takes some of the fun out of watching this film. Plus a brackish relativism contrasts Salima, enduring her family’s fury for singing Rock The Kasbah in public, with a cute, popular local prostitute R; 100 Mins. in Kabul, Merci (Kate Valleywide Hudson). It’s as if this sunny, gold-hearted hooker were a vision of American freedom for women.

The script is by Mitch Glazer, co-writer of one of Murray’s best films, Scrooged. Glazer understands Murray, and gives him lines that let him ruminate—in the end, Bill Murray ruminating is a movie in itself.

Levinson gives Murray the space and time to stare at Hudson, and to be dazzled by her blondness. Both writer and director respect the singularity of this great comic’s persona. They savor the layers of misunderstanding when Richie, held at gunpoint, retells a famous Jack Benny joke to Pashtuns who don’t understand English—much less the humor of vaudeville.—Richard von Busack

Pierce solved the questions of how Frankenstein’s monster would look, with a flat head (a skull trepanned and covered with a lid), the electrodes in the neck and a “sky-gray” colored skin.

Batman’s foe The Joker is heavily drawn from Pierce’s makeup for Conrad Veidt.

Two-Face, who debuted in the Batman comics a year after Joan Crawford flaunted scar make up in A Woman’s Face, is another one that can be chalked up to Pierce’s influence. Pierce sharpened Bela Lugosi’s Transylvanian strangeness in a variety of films, and created the look for Lon Chaney, Jr’s Wolf Man—a monster who was as much a boar as a wolf. Taylor points out that Pierce did a great deal of glamour make up (for Irene Dunne in Back Street, for example), but the emphasis here is on Pierce’s monster work.

The personal Pierce is elusive here: Taylor quotes from Elsa Lanchester’s autobiography, where the actress who played the Bride of Frankenstein complained of Pierce’s hauteur, his doctor’s lab coat, and formality. Some of the most useful material here is taken from a 1962 interview Pierce did on Los Angeles’ KHJ Million Dollar Movie with Wayne Thomas. Thoroughly researched as this is, it’s a low-budget homage. Sometimes the visuals consist of Realart Studios’ previews for reissues of the Universal monster movies in the 1950s. But it’s hard to imagine a more loving tribute to Pierce and the nightmares he created.

Narrated by animator Ernie Fosselius, who did Hardware Wars, the first and best parody of Star Wars. (Available on Amazon and through jack-pierce.com.)

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Long Live The Queen EXPRESS HERSELF Powering through her long catalog of hits, Madonna tore up the SAP Center on Monday.

Madonna proves that she still sits upon the iron throne of pop royalty

BY JOHN FLYNN

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N THE OSCAR WILDE novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the title character retains eternal youth because a painting absorbs all the negative effects of his aging. Madonna must have one of those locked away in a Calabasas Kabbalah Center. She’s nothing short of a demigod.

And Monday night, every single walk of life came to worship at her phallic altar.

Attendees included: Thots in hitched-up one-pieces, three

generations of selfie-snappers, wholesome nuclear families, Duck Dynasty look-alikes, Russian/ Vietnamese/Spanish-speakers, leather lovers, trim cougars in slinky dresses, Material Girls (and women), and tons of well-groomed men.

EDM-er Michael Diamond opened for Madonna, spinning up an hour-anda-half of chest-filling deep house, laced with disembodied hip-hop samples.

The demure cotton-topped couple next to me endured him politely with a game of Words with Friends.

The trendy opener reflected Madonna’s constant reinvention, tracked by fan-worn tour T-shirts ranging from the curvy, bushy-browed beauty of yore to the polished avatar of sex that she is now. As an artist, she refuses to stagnate, refuses to fade. She only adds

new dimensions to her dodecahedron self, incorporating whatever the kids are doing and makes it her own. And she does it just as well, if not better. Miley Cyrus copies Madonna. But Madonna also copies Miley Cyrus.

The Queen of Pop opened with a monologue about having tits and an ass and an insatiable desire to be noticed. Then she led a tightly choreographed rebellion against an army of templars that seemed like they had been plucked from a dystopian novel where ancient China and Egypt had been smushed together.

Her eyeliner flared at the corner. Her high cheekbones absorbed golden light.

Her arms rippled with muscle. Her dirty blonde hair flowed long in a wild mane. Her smoky blue eyes radiated a persistent sexuality. Her maraschino cherry red lips pouted. Her diminutive height disappeared above DikembeMutombo-middle-finger-sized stilettos.

Her forehead flushed, but didn’t leak one bead of sweat down her angular, marble-smooth face.

She stood astride a pole-swirling stripper like a surfboard and spanked a dancer 15 times for dropping a maraca.

She forcefully groped and got groped back, drew attention to how “penisy” the heart-shaped tip of her thrust stage looked, humped any surface offered to her, and presided over a simulated man-on-man sex scene, a gyrating topless transwoman, and an androgyne clad half in a tuxedo and half in a shimmery flapper dress.

She said the word “fuck,” a lot.

Madonna exists on an unreachable, astral plane— far removed from our mundane reality.

Skipping about the stage, she flung her hair into a messy mane during “Like A Virgin,” and thumb-strummed a ukulele alone, while crooning “La Vie en Rose.” She flung tuxedoed suitors down a raked platform during a futurized rendition of “Material Girl.” During “Burning Up,” she whipped out a Flying V guitar, dropped to her knees and shredded. She moved from channeling Mariachi’s mojo in “Who’s that Girl,” to twerking, cat-walking and sneering to “Bitch, I’m Madonna.” She warbled over military drums for “Heartbreak City,” then draped herself in an American flag for her encore, “Holiday.”

Finally, she ascended into the sky because where else could she go?

Despite the unblinking admiration of the packed SAP Center, Madonna exists on an unreachable, astral plane—far removed from our mundane reality. She is an alienenvisioned ideal of a pop star. Hillary Clinton frequently came to mind.

But I think that’s the point.

Madonna isn’t supposed to be like us.

She doesn’t age, she merely levels up— reincarnates without dying. And this is why legions worship her. Because unlike all other things that wither, she preserves. She’s a constant in a world of relentless flux. She’s a beacon of immortality. Bitch, she’s Madonna.

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AGAVE Every Fri, 9:30pm: DJ Norman.

San Jose.

8pm: Mark Fenny. Every Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

CITY NATIONAL CIVIC Fri, Oct 23, 8pm: Safe in Sound. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Sat, Oct 24, 8pm: Tribute Bands for Journey and Def Leppard. Redwood City.

DANA STREET COFFEE 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

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

Campbell.

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

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

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

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Sat, Oct 24, 8pm: Peninsula Symphony. Sun, Oct 25, 3pm: Shaping Sound. Cupertino.

MOJO LOUNGE Fri, Oct 23, 9:30pm: Dennis Herrera. Sat, Oct 24, 9:30pm: YFX. Every Sun, 8pm: Acoustic Jam. Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Band. Every Thurs: DJ Mist. Fremont.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

Thu, Oct 22, 7pm: Marvin Banks. Fri, Oct 23, 7pm: Joel Nelson Band. Sat, Oct 24, 7pm: TK2. Every Tue: Jack Ripoff. Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam Band. Los Gatos.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, Oct 22, 7pm: The Mary Ellen Duell Trio. Fri, Oct 23, 7pm: Shark Sandwich. Sat, Oct 24, 12pm: The Pearl Alley Band. 7pm: The Bob Burnett Band featuring Tammi. Sun, Oct 25, 1pm: Diminished Blue w/ Charles Burgan. San Jose.

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE Sat/Sun, Oct 24/25, 5pm: Bridge School Benefit.

Mountain View.

THE X BAR Every Thu: No Cover night.

Every Sat: Saturday Nite Live Music Show. Cupertino.

THE CATS Wed, Oct 21, 7:30pm: Given to Fly. Thu, Oct 22, 7:30pm: Isis and the Cold Truth. Fri, Oct 23, 8pm: Tin Man. Sat, Oct 24,

Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

Every Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo. San Jose.

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

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

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

Every Thu, 9:30pm: DJ night w/ DJ BenOfficial & DJ Vex. Every Fri and Sun, 9:30pm: Karaoke w/ DJ NoWrath.

Santa Clara.

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Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays.

Wed, Oct 21, 7pm: Celio Northington with Rick Ferguson. Thu, Oct 22, 7:30pm: Blake Aaron. Fri, Oct 23, 6pm: The Kickback Band.

Sat, Oct 24, 8:30pm: Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos. Sun, Oct 25, 7pm: Wesla Whitfield and the Mike Greensill Trio.

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 Featured Show. Every Sun: Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga.

CAFFE FRASCATI Thu, Oct 22, 12:10pm: Randall Kohl. Sat, Oct 24, 8pm: Socorra, Lindsey Jeske, Cortnee Langlie. San Jose.

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

SAM'S BBQ Wed, Oct 21, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, Oct 27, 6pm: Slide Road. San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

UNWINED WOODHAMS LOUNGE Fri: Live music. Santa Clara.

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

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

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

Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/ live Country music.

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

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THE SADDLE RACK Every Wed, 7:30pm: Country Get Down Wednesday. Every Thu, 7:30: Country Music. Every Fri, 9pm: Country Get Down Friday. Fremont.

THE WOODSHED Every 1st Sun: Doug Young’s Acoustic Guitar Night. $10.

Los Gatos.

SUBHUMANS Oct 28 Rebel Souljahz Atrium (Ages 16+) Oct 29 Warren G (Ages 16+) Oct 29 Mystic Braves Atrium (Ages 16+) Oct 30 The Brothers Comatose (Ages 16+) Oct 30 Ceremony Atrium (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Halloween Freaker’s Ball (Ages 21+) Nov 3 of Montreal/ Diane Coffee (Ages 16+) Nov 5 The Dandy Warhols (Ages 16+) Nov 7 Point Break Live (Ages 21+) Nov 8 Houndmouth (Ages 16+) Nov 9 Ty Dolla $ign (Ages 16+) Nov 10 Curren$y (Ages 16+) Nov 11 Tokimonsta (Ages 16+) Nov 14 Ride (Ages 21+) Nov 15 Cherub/ Hippie Sabotage (Ages 16+) Nov 16 The Misfits/ She Demons (Ages 16+) Nov 17 Gesaffelstein (Ages 18+) Nov 18 Emancipator Ensemble (Ages 18+) Nov 20 Pepper/ Ballyhoo! (Ages 16+) Nov 21 The Story So Far (Ages 16+) Nov 22 Ozomatli (Ages 21+) Nov 25 The Expendables/ Thrive (Ages 21+) Nov 28 The Expendables (Ages 16+) Dec 4 E-40/ Jay Lozoya (Ages 16+) Dec 12 Nahko & Medicine For The People (Ages 16+) Dec 18 & 19 IAMSU! (Ages 16+) Dec 30 Beats Antique (Ages 18+) Dec 31 Beats Antique (Ages 21+) Jan 8 & 9 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) Jan 15 Stick Figure (Ages 16+) Jan 30 Y & T (Ages 21+) Jan 31 Dr. Dog (Ages 16+) Feb 14 Brillz/ Party Favor (Ages 18+) Mar 4 Skizzy Mars/ Gnash (Ages 16+) Mar 9 & 10 Rebelution (Ages 16+) Mar 11 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+)

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Redwood City.

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RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

THE CARAVAN

Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

Mon, 10pm: Mandatory Monday Karaoke. San Jose.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS

THE CARLOS CLUB

Thu, Oct 22, 8pm: Michael Kosta. Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Sunnyvale.

Fri & Sat: Karaoke night. San Carlos.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE

Thu, 9pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Mon: Comedy open mic with Pete Munoz. Santa Clara.

Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

7 STARS BAR & GRILL Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

ART BOUTIKI

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

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

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

Wed: 8pm-midnight: Karaoke plus DJ party (English and Spanish). San Jose.

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

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EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

GILROY BOWL Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

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APPARITION Every 2nd Thu: Gothic, industrial karaoke. Club Lido, San Jose.

THE CATS

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.

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

Wed, 9pm: Comedy Caravan.

DIVE BAR

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Sat, Oct 24, 7:30pm: Square Bear Comedy Show. San Jose.

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

JOHNNY V’S Sun: Karaoke for the Industry.

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Sun: Reggae Vybez. San Jose.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

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Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke.

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Thu, 9pm: DJ party. Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am: Live music & DJs, salsa, house, hip-hop & more.

Mon: Salsa. San Jose.

KYOTO PALACE

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Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

THE NEW JERSEY’S Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

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O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

HPOINCIANA LOUNGE Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No cover. Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

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Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Every Mon, Wed, Sun, 8pm to closing: Karaoke. Every Tue and Thu, 9pm to closing: Karaoke. San Jose.

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Fri, 9pm: Soul Therapy. San Jose.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Thu, 10pm: Dancing to DJ BenOfficial & DJ Vex. Santa Clara.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Every 2nd and 4th Sun: Return of the Boom Zap, underground electronic music. Campbell.

CHARLEY’S LG Wed: EDM Music. Fri-Sat, 10pm: DJ (follows live music).

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Thu-Sat, 10:30pm: Rotating Guest DJs.

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Tue: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S Mon: ReToxx. Tue: Trap Shop.

Wed: Hip-Hop/ Top 40. Thu/ Fri/Sat: 70s, 80s, 90s Funk, House. Sun: Slow Jams, Karaoke Dance Party. San Jose.

Mon, 8:30pm: Vocal DUO. Tue, 9pm: Dueling Grand Pianos. Wed, 9pm: DUO. Thu, Fri & Sat, 9pm: weekly Jazz and Pop Dance bands. Sun, 7pm: Solo Guitarist with Light Vocals. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

Every Wed: Wingy Wednesdays.

Every Thu: Tanked Thursdays w/ VJ DVS Dave. Every Fri: VJ One. 2nd and 4th Saturdays, 10pm: Dluzion. San Jose.

ST. STEPHENS GREEN Thu, 10:30pm: Reggae Thursdays. Fri: DJ Tony. Sun, 11:30am: Bottomless Mimosa.

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SUMMIT LOUNGE Sat: Club Remix in Summit Saturdays. Four Points Sheraton, San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Fri, 9pm-1:30am: DJ JR. Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: DJ John Rola. San Jose.

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

Every Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke; Every Thu: $2 Drink Night; Every Fri/Sat: DJs featuring a variety of Top 40, Hip Hop, EDM; Every Sun: Service Industry Night (1/2 off drinks w/industry card). Willow Glen.

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Getting the chills the moment you set eyes on a person may be a sign that you have love at first sight—or an incipient case of malaria. (In time, you’ll find out whether you have lasting love or lasting liver damage, seizures, and death.)

Love at first sight is made out to be the rare, limited-edition Prada purse of relationships—that extraspecial luvvier kind of love that we romantic commoners don’t get access to. However, what the “first-sighters” actually have is not the enduring love poets write about but the kind animal behaviorists do—when the boy baboon spots the girl baboon’s big red booty. People in this fleeting first phase of love are basically on a biochemical bender, high off their asses from raging hormones and neurotransmitters.

Those who end up staying together will often sniff, “We just knew!”—which sounds better than “We are idiots who got hitched 20 minutes after meeting and got lucky we turned out to be wellmatched.” Their initial belief that they’re perfect for each other is probably driven by a cognitive bias—an error in reasoning—that

psychologists call “the halo effect.”

Like the glow cast by a halo, the glow from “Wow, she’s hot!” spills over, leading to an unsupported positive view of a person’s as-yetunseen qualities. But, early in a relationship, you can only guess how someone will behave—say, at 3 a.m., when you’re awakened by period cramps that feel as if some big Vegas boxing match accidentally got scheduled in your uterus. Will he mumble “feel better” and roll over, or go to the drugstore and roll you home a barrel of hippo-strength Midol?

Maybe real romance is finding out all the ways somebody’s disturbingly human and loving them anyway.

This happens about a year in, after the party manners have fallen off and after you see—for example— whether your partner fights ugly or like someone who loves you but thinks you’ve temporarily fallen into the idiot bin. In other words, keep unpacking who you both are and see whether you keep wanting more—or whether one of you goes out for a smoke and, a month later, sends a postcard from the Netherlands.

I’m in my early 40s and newly divorced. I fooled around with this guy—my first time with somebody besides my husband in 12 years. We had weekend plans, but two days passed with no texts from him. I texted him angrily, repeatedly telling him he’d hurt my feelings, and he cut off contact. Now, months later, he has resurfaced, saying I’ve been in his thoughts. What could he want?—Puzzled Men you’ve dated briefly will sometimes resurface—much like bloated dead bodies in New York’s East River.

As for why this one’s coming around again, chances are, the paint on “she’s crazy” dried and he remembered that you are also pretty and do that crazy thing with your tongue. Okay, so you were short on nonchalance in your first post-divorce dating situation.

The truth is you probably weren’t going off on him merely because he failed to meet your text-pectations. Your behavior most likely stemmed from what psychologists call a “priming effect,”

describing how exposure to one situation colors how you react to another. Being mindful of this can help you tell a guy what you need and give him a chance to come through—instead of immediately texting him with all the casual cool of a kidnapper demanding a bag of unmarked small bills. Should you give this guy another chance, see that you’re only asking questions he’s prepared to answer, like where he went to elementary school and why his previous relationship ended—not “Will I be alone forever?” and “Wanna come over and try to fill the vast void I have inside?”

©2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 550 S. First St., San Jose, CA 95113, or email adviceamy@aol.com.

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Senior Software Engineers Detailed job description at www. payactiv.com. Job Site: San Jose, CA. Experience: 2 years. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

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ENGINEERING Imagination Technologies has the following employment opportunities in Santa Clara, CA: Hardware Design Engineer (HDE47-CA) - Architect, design, and verify innovative multiprocessor technologies. Senior Hardware Engineer (SHE04-CA) - Responsible for the design and verification of high performance microprocessors for embedded applications. Send your resume (must reference job title and job code) to Attn: HR, Imagination Technologies, 3201 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054.

Computer Infogain Corp. seeks Technical Project Manager: Plan, direct & coordinate IT programs from initiation through implementation. May be assigned to work at client sites in Santa Clara County, CA. Resume to worksite: 485 Alberto Way, #100, Los Gatos, CA 95032, Attn: D. Sharma

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Estonia, eh? You guys know something about giving up territory.

On August 6, 1940, the members of the elected assembly of Estonia petitioned the Supreme Soviet for admission to the USSR, in effect ridding themselves of their entire country. (The Soviets generously took them in.) True, Estonia was then occupied by Soviet troops, and a couple months earlier the Soviet government had demanded the creation of an Estonian puppet government that then called for elections, which produced the pliant assembly mentioned above. Doesn’t that sound voluntary to you?

OK, one of your more blatant examples of being under pressure.

My point is, just because a change in sovereignty is nominally voluntary doesn’t mean it is. On the contrary, some form of political, economic, ethnic, or religious pressure lurks behind almost any division of a nation-state.

Most of the major map recolorings not resulting from war over the past few centuries have arisen from the unwinding of dubious land grabs. These aren’t as common as they once were, because neither are land grabs. Then again, as the Ukrainians can tell you, they’re not a thing of the past.

Years ago, acquisitive empires finding themselves with more land than cash weren’t averse to trading the former for the latter. The U.S. was the beneficiary of several such deals, the two largest being the Louisiana Purchase (828,000 square miles for three cents an acre) and the acquisition of Alaska from Russia (586,412 square miles at two cents an acre). Those were about as close to voluntary as these things ever are—the Russians, for example, concluded they couldn’t defend Alaska, so they might as well sell it for whatever they could get.

National territory isn’t sold much anymore, although the idea still comes up. In 2010, two German MPs seriously suggested that Greece consider selling several of its uninhabited islands to pay its national debt. The Maldives, a lowlying island nation threatened by rising sea levels, is considering purchasing land

elsewhere to house its citizens if needed.

Kiribati, in similar straits, has already pulled the trigger, acquiring 5,000 acres in Fiji last year. Sadly for Kiribatian national aspirations, all they’ve bought is real estate, not sovereignty.

Most cases of unloading territory in the past century are a consequence of decolonization, the premier case being India, voluntarily-but-not-really cut loose by the UK in 1947.

Some might consider the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 a willful ceding of territory, but from a legal standpoint the UK’s 99-year lease just ran out. A better example is Portugal’s return of the seaport of Macao, its former colony, to China in 1999.

Things didn’t go as smoothly when Portugal decolonized East Timor, in the Indonesian archipelago, in 1975.

East Timor declared its independence, prompting Indonesia to invade. More than 100,000 died in the resulting conflict, which wasn’t fully settled until 2002, when East Timor became a sovereign state.

Some countries don’t cede territory, they just break up. Starting in 1991, Yugoslavia fissioned into what ultimately became seven nations, the ensuing civil wars and ethnic cleansings helping to destabilize Eastern Europe for more than a decade. Czechoslovakia fractured into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993 with considerably less drama.

The U.S. has willingly given up territory a few times over the last 100 years. The Philippines, won from Spain after the Spanish-American War, were granted independence in 1946.

The American-Mexican Chamizal Convention Act of 1964 ceded 630 acres of American territory in exchange for 193 acres from Mexico to settle a boundary dispute along the Rio Grande. Similar treaties in 1970 and 2009 resulted in the net transfer of a couple additional square miles from the U.S. to Mexico.

Don’t expect to see larger transfers any time soon. The Torrijos-Carter Treaties of 1977 returned the Panama Canal Zone to Panama in 1999. Can you imagine trying to get that through Congress now?

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609953 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fairy Dog Momma, 533 Rutland Ave., San Jose, CA, 95128, Katherine Brewer. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Katherine Brewer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/07/2015. (pub Metro 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/04/2015)

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 Nguyen. This 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 #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 Romasian This 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 #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 Nguy This 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#609568 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SJ Beauty Kit, 3115 Flinthaven Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148,

Gladys Cabagbag, John Tran, 4958 Scarlett Way, San Jose, CA, 95111. 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/Gladys Cabagbag This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/25/2015. (pub Metro 10/07, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28/2015)

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 California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jessica Painter Manager #201400710022 This 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 #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 California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jessica Painter Manager #201417710333 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/17/2015. (pub Metro 9/30, 10/07, 10/14, 10/21/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609274 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Nest Palo Alto, 3901 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Infinite Loop Cupertino Hotel, LLC, 20660 Stevens Creek Blvd., #331, Cupertino CA, 95014. This business is conducted by a limited liability company.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jessica Painter Manager #201414710412 This 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#610046 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: listo!, 1177 South King Road, San Jose, CA, 95122, Avanza Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/01/2015. Refile of previous file #598745 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing. /s/Gustavo Lasala CFO and Co-Founder #3558873 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/13/2015. (pub Metro 10/21, 10/28, 11/04, 11/11/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT#609272 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aloft Cupertino, 10165 North De Anza Boulevard, Cupertino, CA, 94014, Infinite Loop Cupertino Hotel, LLC, 20660 Stevens Creek Blvd., #331, Cupertino CA, 95014.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jessica Painter Manager #201418410082. This 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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It seems like an ironclad rule of geopolitics that countries never give up territory except under some form of pressure. In the last 100 years or so, when have countries actually gone out of their way to rid themselves of territory?

The only example I'm aware of is Malaysia expelling Singapore from its federation. —Chris S., Tallinn, Estonia

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to the online etymological dictionary, the verb “fascinate” entered the English language in the 16th century. It was derived from the Middle French fasciner and the Latin fascinatus, which are translated as “bewitch, enchant, put under a spell.” In the 19th century, “fascinate” expanded in meaning to include “delight, attract, hold the attention of.” I suspect you will soon have experiences that could activate both senses of “fascinate.” My advice is to get the most out of your delightful attractions without slipping into bewitchment. Is that even possible? It will require you to exercise fine discernment, but yes, it is.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of the largest machines in the world is a “bucket wheel excavator” in Kazakhstan. It's a saw that weighs 45,000 tons and has a blade the size of a four-story building. If you want to slice through a mountain, it's perfect for the job. Indeed, that's what it's used for over in Kazakhstan. Right now, Taurus, I picture you as having a metaphorical version of this equipment. That's because I think you have the power to rip open a clearing through a massive obstruction that has been in your way.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock did a daily ritual to remind him of life's impermanence. After drinking his tea each morning, he flung both cup and saucer over his shoulder, allowing them to smash on the floor. I don't recommend that you adopt a comparable custom for long-term use, but it might be healthy and interesting to do so for now. Are you willing to outgrow and escape your old containers?

Would you consider diverging from formulas that have always worked for you? Are there any unnecessary taboos that need to be broken? Experiment with the possible blessings that might come by not clinging to the illusion of “permanence.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Terence was a comic

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playwright in ancient Rome. He spoke of love in ways that sound modern. It can be capricious and weird, he said. It may provoke indignities and rouse difficult emotions. Are you skilled at debate? Love requires you to engage in strenuous discussions. Peace may break out in the midst of war, and vice versa. Terence's conclusion: If you seek counsel regarding the arts of love, you may as well be asking for advice on how to go mad. I won't argue with him. He makes good points.

But I suspect that in the coming weeks you will be excused from most of those crazy-making aspects.

The sweet and smooth sides of love will predominate.

Uplift and inspiration are more likely than angst and bewilderment. Take advantage of the grace period!

Put chaos control measures in place for the next time Terence's version of love returns.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming weeks, you will have a special relationship with the night. When the sun goes down, your intelligence will intensify, as will your knack for knowing what's really important and what's not. In the darkness, you will have an enhanced capacity to make sense of murky matters lurking in the shadows. You will be able to penetrate deeper than usual, and get to the bottom of secrets and mysteries that have kept you off balance. Even your grimy fears may be transformable if you approach them with a passion for redemption.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): New friends and unexpected teachers are in your vicinity, with more candidates on the way. There may even be potential comrades who could eventually become flexible collaborators and catalytic guides. Will you be available for the openings they offer? Will you receive them with fire in your heart and mirth in your eyes? I worry that you may not be ready if you are too preoccupied with old friends and familiar teachers. So please make room for surprises.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More than any other sign, you have an ability to detach yourself from life's flow and analyze its complexities with cool objectivity. This is mostly a good thing. It enhances your power to make rational decisions. On the other hand, it sometimes devolves into a liability. You may become so invested in your role as observer that you refrain from diving into life's flow. You hold yourself apart from it, avoiding both its messiness and vitality. But I don't foresee this being a problem in the coming weeks. In fact, I bet you will be

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you an inventor?

Is it your specialty to create novel gadgets and machines? Probably not. But in the coming weeks you may have metaphorical resemblances to an inventor. I suspect you will have an enhanced ability to dream up original approaches and find alternatives to conventional wisdom. You may surprise yourself with your knack for finding ingenious solutions to longstanding dilemmas. To prime your instincts, I'll provide three thoughts from inventor Thomas Edison. 1. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” 2. “Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.” 3. “Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some unraveling is inevitable. What has been woven together must now be partially unwoven. But please refrain from thinking of this mysterious development as a setback.

Instead, consider it an opportunity to reexamine and redo any work that was a bit hasty or sloppy. Be glad you will get a second chance to fix and refine what wasn't done quite right the first time. In fact, I suggest you preside over the unraveling yourself. Don't wait for random fate to accomplish it. And for best results, formulate an intention to regard everything that transpires as a blessing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish author Oscar Wilde. I appreciate the wit, but don't agree with him. A plain old ordinary waterfall, with foamy surges continually plummeting over a precipice and crashing below, is sufficiently impressive for me.

What about you, Capricorn? In the coming days, will you be impatient and frustrated with plain old ordinary marvels and wonders? Or will you be able to enjoy them just as they are?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Years ago, I moved into a rental house with my new girlfriend, whom I had known for six weeks. As we fell asleep the first night, a song played in my head: “Nature's Way,” by the band Spirit. I barely knew it and had rarely thought of it before. And yet there it was, repeating its first line over and over: “It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong.” Being a magical thinker, I wondered if my unconscious mind was telling me a secret about my love. But I rejected that possibility; it was too painful to contemplate. When we broke up a few months later, however, I wished I had paid attention to that early alert. I mention this, Aquarius, because I suspect your unconscious mind will soon provide you with a wealth of useful information, not just through song lyrics but other subtle signals, as well. Listen up! At least some of it will be good news, not cautionary like mine.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When I advise you to GET NAKED, I don't mean it in a literal sense. Yes, I will applaud if you're willing to experiment with brave acts of self-revelation. I will approve of you taking risks for the sake of the raw truth. But getting arrested for indecent exposure might compromise your ability to carry out those noble acts. So, no, don't actually take off all your clothes and wander through the streets. Instead, surprise everyone with brilliant acts of surrender and vulnerability. Gently and sweetly and poetically tell the Purveyors of Unholy Repression to take their boredom machine and shove it up their humdrum.

Send pictures of your favorite scarecrows or descriptions of your dreams of protection to me at Truthrooster@gmail.com.

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