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All The Trappings KEEPING IT FRESH ‘I definitely think I like to try different things with every record,’ says Blitzen Trapper frontman Eric Early.

From freak folk, to classic prog, to rock & roll, Blitzen Trapper have done it all

BY NICK VERONIN

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RIC EARLY, frontman and primary songwriter of the Portland-based Blitzen Trapper, doesn’t shy away from a challenge.

In fact, he often goes looking for one.

In 2010, he followed up the freak-folky Furr—his band’s pastoral, dreamy and critically acclaimed 2008 Sub Pop debut—with a sweeping, prog-rock throwback.

Destroyer of the Void, which took cues from Cream’s Disraeli Gears,

was filled with psychedelic washes of synthesizer, effected guitars and intricate, flowering vocal harmonies.

Blitzen Trapper were rewarded for their risk-taking, as critics once again praised the group.

“I definitely think I like to try different things with every record,” Early says, speaking from his home before hitting the road with Blitzen Trapper, who are slated to play at Don Quixote’s in Felton this Saturday.

Though he likes to keep things fresh, the songwriter’s experiments do not follow a linear path. Instead, they have zig-zagged over the years—ranging from meandering trips down Laurel Canyon-tinged, acoustic guitar-and-harmonica

arrangements, through expansive, starry-eyed, flower-power revival, and finally back down to the dry and dusty earth. Since Destroyer, Blitzen Trapper have hewn to the cardinal tenets of good old-fashioned country and rock & roll.

Their latest effort, All Across This Land, is no exception, as it finds Early following in the footsteps of his heroes, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen—who he identifies as exemplars of “the platonic foundation of rock”—while also looking to contemporary arena rock acts for inspiration.

“I was listening to a lot of My Morning Jacket and Kings of Leon,” Early says. “Groups that have a much more live-sounding approach.

But I was listening to a lot of Coldplay, too.”

Early wrote the bulk of All Across This Land on an acoustic guitar over the span of a few months. Blitzen Trapper was taking a break from touring, and the cold and wet Pacific

Northwest winter was just giving way to spring.

He and the band had just come off the road from a tour with Brandi Carlile—a singer songwriter, who had fleshed out her solo material with the help of a hired backing band, like so many rock legends of years and decades past.

“I wanted to tap into that,” Early says. “What would happen if I did my narrative songwriting approach and laid it on top of this big, live-rock sound?”

It worked out pretty seamlessly, he notes, which is a good thing. As one who is easily bored, Early isn’t a fan of standing still on stage—something that is inevitable when performing technically demanding riffs and tapping effects pedals on and off.

Early also took his less-is-more approach into the studio during the All Across This Land sessions.

“With this record I took a real simple approach,” he says, explaining that the band shied away from studio trickery and post-production fussing. The idea was to just let everyone do their jobs and then go home. “We just got the best sounds we could and then shipped it to a really good mixer.”

Early is pleased with the resulting album, which he says is “really fun to play live” and has a great flow—a lot like the straight-shooting piano, guitar, bass and drums records of his idols from the ’70s.

“To me that era has the most honesty to it and simplicity to it,” he says, speaking of singer-songwriters, like Springsteen, Petty, Jackson Browne and others. “There aren’t a lot of bells and whistles.”

Reflecting on the current state of alternative and indie rock, Early likes what he sees—especially among the bands that are finding inspiration in straightforward rock & roll.

“I see that happening a lot now, as bands turn to rock music from folk music and roots music,” he says. While Early may be predisposed to seeking out challenging paths, he sees nothing wrong with bare-bones rock. “I think the important thing is to write a good song and then you can treat it however you want.”

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Every Sun, 8pm: Acoustic Jam. Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Band. Every Thurs: DJ Mist. Fremont.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE 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

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

Santa Clara.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Thu, Nov 12, 8pm: Isaiah Pickett. Fri, Nov 13, 8pm: Koncept Party Band. Sat, Nov 14, 8pm: Johnny Neri Band.

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

Los Gatos.

THE RITZ Thu, Nov 12, 9pm: Atomic Dance Party w/ DJ Basura and Friends. Fri, Nov 13, 8pm: New Wave Prom. Sat, Nov 14, 8pm: The Queen Is Dead (Morrissey & the Smiths Tribute).

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

CARDIFF LOUNGE

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, Nov 12, 7pm: Mary Ellen Duell Duo. Fri, Nov 13, 7pm: Diminished Blue w/ Charles Burgan. Sat, Nov 14, 7pm: The Fog City Swampers. Sun, Nov 15, 1pm: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.

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.

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

THE CATS Wed, Nov 11, 7pm: Acoustic Madness. Thu, Nov 12, 7:30pm: 7th Wave. Fri, Nov 13, 8pm: Heather and the Mad Hatters. Sat, Nov 14, 8pm: Whiskey Pass. Every Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX Thu, Nov 12, 8pm:Terrapin Flyer w/ Melvin Seals and Mark Karan. Fri, Nov 13, 8pm: Roy Rodgers. Sat, Nov 14, 8pm: Tribute Bands to AC/ DC, ZZ Top and Cheap Trick.

Redwood City.

Every Thu: No Cover night.

Every Sat: Saturday Nite Live Music Show. Cupertino.

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Sun, Nov 15, 7pm: The Nancy Gilliland Trio. Redwood City.

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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.

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday.

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Fri, Nov 13, 6pm: Jazzi Jan. Sat, Nov 14, 8:30pm: Le Perez

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CASCAL Every Fri & Sat: Live Music.

Mountain View.

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Redwood City.

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

Every 1st and 3rd Wed: Jazz Jam. San Jose.

Blues and Jazz every night.

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Fri, Nov 13, 8:30pm: Tango Trio. Sat, Nov 14, 8pm: Rabia Yamazawa. San Jose.

Jazz/Blues/ World

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

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BLUE NOTE LOUNGE

Fri: Live music. Santa Clara.

Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

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

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Every Thu: Akiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Original Blues Jam. Fri, Nov 13, 8pm: Corduroy Jim. Sat, Nov 14, 8pm: Seeking Attention and Friends. Every Sun: Little Louâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Jam Band.

San Jose.

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

MURPHYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LAW Every Tues: Pro Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.

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Nov 18 Emancipator Ensemble (Ages 18+) Nov 18 Ginger & Juice Atrium (Ages 21+) Nov 19 Swinginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Utters Atrium (Ages 16+) Nov 20 Pepper/ Ballyhoo! (Ages 16+) Nov 20 The Odd Numbers Atrium (Ages 21+) Nov 21 The Story So Far (Ages 16+) Nov 21 Saved By The 90s Atrium (Ages 21+) Nov 22 Ozomatli (Ages 21+) Nov 22 Immortal Technique Atrium (Ages 16+) Nov 25 The Expendables/ Thrive (Ages 21+) Nov 27 Arty/ Loud Luxury (Ages 18+) Nov 27 Chippass/ Ooty Oo Atrium (Ages 16+) Nov 28 The Expendables (Ages 16+) Nov 28 Banda Corazon Solteco Atrium (Ages 21+) Nov 29 RJ Atrium (Ages 16+) Dec 2 Brothers Gow Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 3 Black Sabbitch Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 4 E-40/ Jay Lozoya (Ages 16+) Dec 4 The Blasters Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 5 Reverend Horton Heat (Ages 21+) Dec 5 Phutureprimitive Atrium (Ages 18+) Dec 6 Three Mile Pilot Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 9 Metalachi Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 11 Snoop Dogg (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 22 Minnesota b2b G Jones (Ages 18+) Jan 30 Y & T (Ages 21+) Jan 31 Dr. Dog (Ages 16+) Feb 9 Mardi Gras Party: Lettuce (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+) Mar 30 The Floozies (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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Sat, Nov 14, 6pm: Adrianne Marie & her Groovecutters. Sun, Nov 15, 2pm: Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic. San Jose.

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Every Wed, 9pm: Comedy Caravan.

Fri, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

THE CATS

Sat, 9pm: Karaoke evenings.

Santa Clara.

Every Tue: Funny Farm hosted

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CITY ESPRESSO Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

IMPROV Wed, Nov 11, 8pm: Three Still Standing. Thu, Nov 12, 7pm: Cruzzin w/ Laffter. Fri-Sun, Nov 13-15, various: Corey Holcomb. San Jose.

SAM'S BBQ Wed, Nov 11, 6pm: Dark Hollow. Tue, Nov 17, 6pm: Cabin Fever. San Jose.

SMOKING PIG BBQ Fri, Nov 13, 9pm: Aki Kumar Band with Carl Sonny Leyland.

Sat, Nov 14, 9pm: Cold Blood.

Fremont.

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

Mountain View.

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

UNWINED Every 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm: Don Balistreri. Every Sat, 7-9:30pm: Live jazz. Every 1st and 3rd Sat, 9pm: Randy Whiting and â&#x20AC;&#x153;@Jazz.â&#x20AC;? San Jose.

Open Mic/ Comedy

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

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

San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

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

Mon, 7pm: Cavin and Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mic. Mountain View.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Thu-Sun, Nov 12-15, 8pm: Joe Machi. Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Sunnyvale.

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

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

Cupertino.

CHARLEY'S LG

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ALEXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 49ER INN

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

BRANHAM LOUNGE

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

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

BOGARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI

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

Mon: Comedy. No cover.

Sunnyvale.

BAMBOO LOUNGE

Thu, 7pm: Musical open mic.

San Jose.

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

Tue, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

ANGELICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BISTRO Every Tue: Open Mic Tuesdays.

Redwood City.

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

7 STARS BAR & GRILL

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

AZĂ&#x161;CAR LATIN BAR Wed: 8pm-midnight: Karaoke plus DJ party (English and Spanish). San Jose.

THE BACK BAR Tue thru Sat: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Tue: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

Thu, 9pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

COURTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE Mon, Thu & Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Campbell.

DASILVAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BRONCOS Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

DIVE BAR Wed, 10pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

EFFIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat & Tue, 9pm-2am, & last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

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

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

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Every Thu, 7:30pm-9:30pm: Karaoke Club. San Jose.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Fri & Sat: Dance Club events.

San Jose.

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

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

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

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

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You would think this hapless group of people forced to sleep in their vehicles (or worse) had committed murder, given the way you spoke about them. From the vows to drive them from the area by police, to the general expressions of hatred … it was unbearable. Newsflash: this problem stems from a whole new breed of homelessness, including senior citizens on fixed incomes, students and workers and minimum-wage earners. For one reason or another, they can no longer afford to have a roof over their heads. Ironically, all this comes as a trickle-down effect of the rise in value of YOUR precious homes.

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Campos’ Campus Nearly three months have passed since we last gawked at the revolving door that is NORA CAMPOS’ office. Not to worry—unless you’re a state Assembly constituent—things are just as dysfunctional as ever. Interim chief of staff ERASMO VIVEROS and district director ANISSA BASOCO-VILLARREAL both jumped ship in the last two weeks, leaving Campos with vacancies at her two most important positions. The running staff total since Campos was elected five years ago is now an astounding 55. Back in February 2014, when she was awarded the championship belt as “Sacramento’s Worst Boss,” the body count was already an alarming 41. Not a single one of those employees still works for the legislator. Campos has responded by ignoring critics and requests for comment, but a tipster at the Capitol says her staffers “look numb” as they walk the halls. To help tune out the noise, Campos has been blocking people from her Twitter account, which she inexplicably operates with They legislative resources. A Did recent records request by What? a concerned citizen found that Campos had blocked SEND TIPS TO O seven Twitter users, FLY@ including Metro’s political METRONEWS. WS. WS S..

COM blog, San Jose Inside, as well as her former communications director, STEVE HARMON, who dished dirt after being emancipated (i.e. fired). Campos also inexplicably blocked a fair trade coffee shop in San Francisco, because Nora. But it appears the Campos Clan, which includes baby brother XAVIER and husband NEIL STRUTHERS, is starting to see its own access denied. The X-man went to consulting after losing his seat on the San Jose City Council last year, and Struthers has been mostly invisible since resigning his post as head of the local Building & Construction Trades Council. In June, San Jose Mayor SAM LICCARDO sent an email to his staff telling them he’d had enough of Struthers’ calls about a retrofitting project. “Neil has called me repeatedly, frustrated that there's been no action from the city,” Liccardo wrote.

“I'd rather somebody else take his calls going forward. Thanks.”

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Cult of Cat OVER IT Henri le Chat Noir, whose existential crisis has endeared him to millions, is one of many felines who rose to fame in the age of the Internet cat.

SJ’s Internet Cat Video Festival in lockstep with online zeitgeist

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ORE THAN a century before YouTube, the man who gave us the lightbulb and the phonograph shot one of the first cat videos. The grainy 1894 clip produced by Thomas Edison’s movie studio depicts a pair of feline pugilists. With forepaws capped in boxing gloves and harnesses hoisting them onto their hind legs, Edison’s cats scrap lazily in a miniature ring. That black-andwhite footage languished in the Library of Congress before its inevitable digital rebirth as a 22-second loop on YouTube.

While the Internet popularized the cat video with its attendant memes, saleable kitsch and viral stars, the genre dates back to the inception of cinema.

For reasons probed by social science and debated by cultural critics, we have long obsessed over cats. Yet in the past decade, with the advent of cheap cameras and online video sharing, our fascination has reached fever-pitch frenzy. Now, the phenomenon that spawned a global online community of shameless cat lovers has stepped back to reality. The Internet Cat Video Festival, which began as a social experiment by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis three years ago—to see if something so patently of the Internet could manifest in real life— has spread to more than 130 cities. On Sunday, it touches down in San Jose’s Camera 12 Cinemas. “Everyone loves cat videos,” says Councilman Pierluigi

Oliverio, whose district office will sponsor the event. “They’re just more fun to watch together.”

An hour-long reel will feature cats from around the world, including ennui-addled Henri le Chat Noir and gravity-defying Hover Cat. Costumes are encouraged, with the promise of prizes.

As a city-sponsored event, the kitty klatch will showcase local animal resources.

“I’m curious to see how this turns out,” says Oliverio, who rescued two tabbies from a local shelter. “There’s so much popularity around this right now, especially as the population changes.

Increasingly, people don't have kids, so their animal companions become more important to them.”

That cats have become lowmaintenance replacement children might explain part of our strange devotion. The latter-day cult of cat holds such universal appeal that it’s prompted serious academic inquiries.

“It is kind of odd when you think about it,” admits Will Braden, a Seattle filmmaker who curated the festival’s cat clip reel by enduring the eye-stinging task of watching 25,000

Watching dogs or fainting goats might yield similar therapeutic beneďŹ ts, cats possess unique traits that make them the go-to online diversion.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at once independent and powerless, curious and aloof, mysterious and adorable. Another theory holds that cats as depicted online appeal to the proclivities of late-capitalist culture.

Cuteness, per Stanford University English professor Sianne Ngai, is inextricably linked to consumption.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an aesthetic of powerlessness, deformity and bumbling pratfalls that makes us want to buy stuff. In her book, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, Ngai describes how society has shifted its reverence for the beautiful and just to the comparatively lowbrow aesthetic of squee!

Our perception of cats has adapted to this shift in collective taste. For centuries, cats in art and literature evoked danger, autonomy and inscrutability. Today, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve morphed into what Los Angeles-based curator Sasha Archibald calls the â&#x20AC;&#x153;cute icon extraordinaire,â&#x20AC;? a reďŹ&#x201A;ection of our consumer sensibilities. Cute isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all warm and fuzzy, she adds. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also something dark about the aesthetic, which compels us to both smother and croon, to fetishize powerlessness.

Lilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bub, an Internet A-lister, looks permanently kittenish because of physical ailments that restrict his mobility, bug out his eyes and jut out his tongue. Grumpy Cat, who has her own line of clothing and three published books, suffers from dwarďŹ sm.

In some sense, cat videos have become a visual â&#x20AC;&#x153;junk food.â&#x20AC;? Joyce Carol Oatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of the most proliďŹ c authors of our timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lamented that cat craze has turned our brains to mush. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by kitten videos,â&#x20AC;? she quipped on Twitter.

A few years into this #CatVidFest phenomenon, however, Braden believes the media will grow more sophisticated and meaningful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing a lot more production value,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;which may affect traditional cinema.â&#x20AC;?

Critics will debate the nature of the art and ponder what our affinity for all things feline tells us about the human condition. But for many of us, cat videos are just a fun, dumb distraction. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not such a bad thing.

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submissions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why cats and not some other animal?â&#x20AC;?

A prevailing theory suggests that cats rule the Internet for lack of a public space in the real world. Dogs can mingle at dog parks, while cats generally stay close to home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Internet became a de facto cat park,â&#x20AC;? says Braden, creator of the critically acclaimed Henri le Chat Noir videos, whose titular housecat muses on lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meaninglessness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You watch these videos and think, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I thought my cat was the only one that did that.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; How else would you know? It becomes an inside joke.â&#x20AC;?

When the Walker Art Center hosted the ďŹ rst cat video festival in 2012 on a lark, organizers expected several hundred attendees at most. More than 10,000 people showed up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The festival took something sort of solitary, like watching a video, and made it social and interactive,â&#x20AC;? says Braden, whose Henri 2: Paw de Deux, which Roger Ebert deemed â&#x20AC;&#x153;the best Internet cat video ever made,â&#x20AC;? won that yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golden Kitty Award. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reporters [at ďŹ rst wondered] why anyone would pay to see something they could watch for free on YouTube. Now, of course, that question seems ludicrous.â&#x20AC;?

Three years out, hipster cynicism has worn away as the general public accepts elaborate expressions of cat worship as a given.

In 2014, YouTube counted 2 million cat video uploads and a staggering 26 billion views. With such a broad reach, deceptively ďŹ&#x201A;ippant phenomena like Caturday, LOL cats and an entire industry of feline celebrity merit deeper analysis, says Indiana University Media School researcher Jessica Gall Myrick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is hard to deny that cats have clawed their way into the zeitgeist of the Internet,â&#x20AC;? Myrick wrote in her 2015 study. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While the topic of online cat-related media consumption may seem, on the surface, a light hearted one for serious academic inquiry, the global popularity of such media ... should encourage Internet, media and psychology researchers to take note.â&#x20AC;?

In a survey of 7,000 people, Myrick found that despite the guilt of wasting time on another viewing of Ninja Cat, people watch cat clips as a form of digital pet therapy. Most indulge during work or study time, which might make employers cringe, but there is an upside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The emotional payoff may actually help people take on tough tasks afterward,â&#x20AC;?

Myrick assures.

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WATER BOARDING Internal emails show that water district staff has been covering for CEO Beau Goldie’s lies.

CEO, Staff Misled Water District Board Santa Clara Valley Water District CEO Beau Goldie and top-level staff have repeatedly misled the board of directors and public regarding contracts with consultant RMC Water and Environment, according to internal emails.

Last week, San Jose Inside reviewed hundreds of documents district staff compiled for an Oct. 27 board meeting. At that meeting, Goldie and top district executives told the board that procedures were followed regarding RMC contracts, no laws were broken and all invoices to the consultant checked out. This despite its own staff ’s flagging of $500,000 in improper payments to RMC and possible conflicts of interest. One of the CEO’s top deputies is married to an RMC owner.

In a follow-up video interview with San Jose Inside on Oct. 29, Goldie said he was not sure who amended

contracts with RMC on three separate occasions, but he reiterated his contention that transparent processes were followed. Internal emails show that, contrary to Goldie’s statement, just the opposite occurred.

All three amendments to RMC’s original deal for Lower Silver Creek violated board rules, the district’s own attorneys determined.

A Sept. 10, 2014 email sent by Leslie Orta, the district’s senior counsel, tells chief operating officer Norma Camacho and CEO Goldie’s top assistant, Meenakshi Ganjoo, that Goldie’s amending of RMC contracts without board approval was done “in violation of board policy.” In an email sent a day later, Orta reiterated this point to COO Camacho.

Since last week’s review of these documents, the district has gone into lockdown. On Monday, staff said its release of Orta’s emails was

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“unintentional” and should be exempted by attorney-client privilege.

However, during its review, San Jose Inside photographed the documents that show the CEO and executives presented an inaccurate account of events to the board.

When informed of the senior counsel’s emails, board chair Gary Kremen said he intends to launch a full-scale investigation. “I am deeply concerned by these allegations,” Kremen said. “I plan to lead the board to investigate all singlesource contracts entered into the last 10 years.”

Board member Dick Santos said he does not recall his colleagues ever being informed of Orta’s emails, or the CEO’s inappropriate actions in amending RMC contracts without board approval. “There is no doubt in my mind that the CEO has exceeded his authority,” Santos said.

Cyberattack Targets San Jose Police, City Websites A drawn-out cyberattack kept the San Jose Police Department’s website mostly offline for several days before clearing up Tuesday morning.

The attack affected other city websites, too, intermittently kicking them offline since Nov. 5, according to city spokesman Dave Vossbrink.

He called the breach a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which interrupts an online service by bombarding it with traffic. Up to onethird of website outages result from DDoS attacks, according Verisign.

Using networks of infected computers called “botnets,” hackers can launch an attack anywhere in the world by sending massive amounts of random data to use up the bandwidth of the target, according to Digital Attack Map. “[A]nyone can pay a nominal fee to silence websites they disagree with or disrupt an organization’s online operations,” according to the website, which tracks cyberattack trends around the world. “A week-long DDoS attack, capable of taking a small organization offline, can cost as little as $150.”

Though the interruptions to San Jose’s websites are inconvenient to the public and staff—the police department allows people to report crimes online—no systems appear to have been breached and no data were lost, according to the city. Vossbrink said he’s unsure how this episode compares to past cyberattacks.

“In general, companies and government agencies at all levels across the county have been seeing this sort of thing more often in recent years,” he told San Jose Inside. “Unfortunately, it’s a sign of the times as trolls of all persuasions attempt to vandalize essential systems that the modern world now depends on.”

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Silicon Valley spotlight shines on 10 humanitarians at Tech Awards

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VERY YEAR, hundreds of globally-minded humanitarians apply for the Tech Awards, one of the most inspiring events unfolding in Silicon Valley.

The annual gala hoedown spectacular, this Thursday, will leave attendees inspired beyond words. Why? It’s dignifying and, dare I say, hopeful, to be in the same room with so many people using technology for the greater good, people that understand the global picture, people at least trying to

do their part to fight poverty, improve the environment and empower the underprivileged.

The 2015 edition honors 10 international laureates with unrestricted $50,000 prizes for their work in five different categories: the Intel Environment Award, the Microsoft Education Award, the Katherine M. Swanson Young Innovator Award, the Sobrato Organization Economic Development Award and the Sutter Health Award. The Tech Laureates and the upper tech echelon who attend the event and help fund the whole thing don’t seem like obnoxious branding consultants, content marketing gurus or “change evangelists.” Instead, they come across as people doing something useful

with their expertise. And not everyone shows up in a tux, either.

“Clearly these people are brilliant, and they could be making a gazillion dollars, but they chose a different path,” says Tech Awards director Leslie Zane.

For example, slum fires are a frequent and devastating occurrence in urban shantytowns around the world, causing thousands of deaths, disrupting hundreds of thousands of lives, and millions of dollars in economic losses each year. As a result, a South African social enterprise called Lumkani designed a cheap networked fire detector using radio frequency technology. Right now, Lumkani has over 1,000 devices across communities in South Africa.

In another case, the BeeLine Reader does something incredibly simple. The company realized that displaying text using color gradients instead of plain black text helps people afflicted with reading disabilities or even people who

spend too much time reading online.

Based in Redwood City, BeeLine is now used on campuses worldwide.

Other laureates include those who developed a global addressing system for impoverished areas without postal address systems or a machine allowing locals in impoverished areas to produce high-quality reading glasses using only $1 of raw materials.

Also, the first-ever Chinese Tech Awards Laureate developed a free smart-phone app for law enforcement officers trying to stop poachers illegally smuggling wildlife into China.

When it came to judging the Tech Awards, one of the differences in criteria this time around was that the technology itself received more points than the actual numbers of people affected by it. Meaning, a Fortune 500 company couldn’t apply and claim that because their new invention reached 400 million people it was therefore more important. As a result, Zane says the application process elicited a more under-the-radar selection of humanitarian heroes.

“We had people addressing problems that we weren’t aware of, just because of where and how we live,” Zane said.

“Problems that made us think, ‘Oh my gosh, I didn’t know that was a problem.’

Things like shack fires. It was one of those things that just never occurred to me, and to most people here—that this was an issue that needed to be addressed. It’s humbling in so many different ways.”

And it’s not like 10 obscure technologists come out of the woodwork in search of the award money. The process of whittling everything down to five categories of finalists and then, ultimately, the 10 laureates, entails a rigorous amount of work. Over 1,000 people were invited, maybe half of whom applied, and all of whom were people using technology to benefit others and not themselves.

And that’s why the Tech Awards is a breath of fresh air in a valley scene often characterized by grandstanding and hype, or the use of technology solely for technology’s sake. Instead, the Tech Awards reveals the sheer scope of humanitarian work going on in the world. It’s staggering.

“Every year we get hundreds and hundreds of applications from people addressing these global issues,” Zane said. “It gives you the other side of the headlines.”

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ND ONCE AGAIN, the Englishman saves the world. Spectre has the second biggest opening of any of the 24 canonical EON production James Bond films.

To inflame the Bond fever, some 15 earlier 007 films are now streaming on Hulu Plus, including the magnificent 1969 cult Bond On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, an early attempt to bring Bond back to earth and to make him as much a lover as he is a fighter.

It’s a mystery how the same British agent can be both clown-suit wearing kid entertainer (in Octopussy, 1983) and the stone killer that the amazing Daniel Craig plays in this critic- and fansavaged hit of today. The phenomenon of the 1960s box office, spurring hundreds of imitators around the globe, has been considered passe by serious cultural commentators since the close of the ’60s, and yet something in the James Bond movie’s DNA kept it alive despite it all.

Spectre is a matter of controversy— “Worst Bond in 30 years,” cries one critic, Scott Mendelson of Forbes. This, even though Spectre delivers what the fans had wanted for decades: the resurrection of the British secret agent’s greatest enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

The Professor Moriarity of the Bond saga is played by Christoph Walz.

Even people who dislike the rest of Spectre admire the lavish opening sequence in Mexico City during a Dia de Los Muertos parade, shot seamlessly in a way that’s been compared to the endless tracking in the movie Birdman, and finishing with a fist fight in a helicopter over a crowded Zocalo. Bond’s been to Mexico before, in the pre-titles of Goldfinger (1964) and in License to

Kill (1989). The parade of skeletons deservedly welcomes this killer, who has come in so many faces over the course of the last 50 years. He keeps coming back from the dead, surviving “this everchanging world in which we’re living” to quote that awful Paul McCartney song from Live and Let Die.

HISTORY Bond began in 1953. He was the hero of more than a dozen novels written by the black sheep of an important British banking family, an upper-crust sado-masochistic, harddrinking former reporter named Ian Fleming. In these unputdownable thrillers, James Bond was a British naval commander serving the British Ministry of Defense (MI6) during the frostiest years of the Cold War, when our enemies were well-defined and nuclear proliferation was rampant.

The enemies of the British are far more ambiguous these days. Eastern European and Chinese organized crime syndicates deploy hackers to steal cash from the personal bank accounts of average citizens, and the Islamic State terror organization is diffuse and hydra-headed.

The question of these changing times and Bond’s obsolescence is always on the minds of the people who write and direct these epics. The phrase “The Bond of the books” is often thrown around; it’s shorthand for staying true to the character’s roots—and steering clear of the campier, more embarrassing side of the spectrum, the comic superhero made to appeal to American kids, as played in the late 1970s and ’80s by an increasingly grandfatherish Roger Moore.

The films have always been a family affair, produced by descendants of producer Albert R. Broccoli. In the early 1960s, Broccoli was paired with the

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similarly enterprising Harry Saltzman and tasked with the production of the first Bond movie, Dr. No. The two agreed on the casting of Sean Connery as the leading man. An urban Scotsman from Edinburgh, Connery was muscular, sardonic and more or less in open rebellion both on-screen and off.

There may not have been a more masculine actor in the 1960s films. But like Elvis, who Connery resembled in appeal, the actor tended to zone out if the script didn’t interest

him. Was he sometimes ducky, with his slicked-back hair, romping around in the unfortunate swimwear they sometimes costumed him in?

Perhaps. But rewatching these early Bond films, so much of what Connery did works: the smoothness, the dark humor, the sudden flash of interest.

He had as much deadpan confidence in the face of the bizarre—like when he’d meet girls named Pussy or Kissy—as he did when tangling with haywire nuclear bombs.

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Broccoli and Saltzman were not wrong in their observation that Connery moved so much better than the average man. Truly, an essential part of being a star is seen in the way an actor walks, per critic Manny Farber’s rhapsodizing on Humphrey Bogart crossing Las Palmas Avenue in The Big Sleep. That’s why you can feel a rustle of energy in a theater when that iconic gun-barrel logo starts scoping across the screen; Bond enters—stage right, just like always—

striding confidently forward before swinging to his left and shooting the viewer right between the eyes.

THE MASK OF BOND Longtime quartermaster, Major Boothroyd (known as Q) played by the late Desmond Llewelyn in 17 of the Bond films, once said that his idea of 007 was the 1980s Bond, Timothy Dalton. In scenes early in Dalton’s debut, The Living Daylights, the actor looks

right: knife-like and impatient with the diplomats he has to work with.

Pierce Brosnan’s Bond struck a balance between Moore and Dalton.

He was poised, foxy and humorous.

He made the Bond of today possible back in the 1990s, by absorbing the feminist fury over Bond’s ’60s caddishness. Once, in what Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw called “the most sexist scene in cinema history,” Connery’s Bond slapped the rump of an actress named Margaret Noland,

letting her know it was “time for man talk.” It was Brosnan’s Bond who got the payback, including a bitch-slapping from Sunnyvale’s own Teri Hatcher, playing a lady 007 discarded in Brosnan’s best Bond outing—1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies.

Brosnan was also the first to get a tongue-lashing from Dame Judi Dench’s M, who spared him little of what she thought about men who run around fornicating, killing and

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DARK SMOKEY ROOMS In ‘Spectre,’ the titular evil organization is run by a cabal of wealthy industrialists, who use their influence to achieve their evil goals. blowing things up. She referred to him as a “sexist, misogynist dinosaur.”

Craig’s Bond was also dressed-down for his conduct during his efforts.

Dench’s M in Casino Royale tells him: “Bond, this may be too much for a blunt instrument to understand … but arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand in hand.”

But by the end of their time together, Dench’s M had mellowed and become more maternal. Perhaps Skyfall was the biggest of the Bonds at the box office because 007’s typically problematic relationship with women became rather simple—the film was, in essence, all about a man protecting his mother from Javier Bardem’s transfixing and completely insane, Oedipal predator, Raoul Silva.

The humanism of Bond is evinced in movies as varied as Moore’s most serious effort at the part, For Your Eyes Only (1981), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) starring the underrated one-anddone Bond George Lazenby, and the melancholic Casino Royale (2006)— in which Craig’s 007 unequivocally fails to save the woman he loves.

VULTURE CAPITAL The latest Bond picture resurrects SPECTRE, short for the Special Executive for Terrorism Revenge and Extortion, as well as the organization’s Polish-born mastermind, Ernst Stavro Blofeld— the cat-stroking, bald-headed and scar-faced villain, so famously lampooned by Mike Meyers’ Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers trilogy.

The innovation and the futurism

of the Bond films lies in the creation of SPECTRE during the course of the Cold War. Blofeld’s debut in the film version of From Russia, With Love, gives us a pulp fiction denial of the bilaterality of the Free and Communist world. In this fantasy, something worse than the commie threat looms, fed by strife and confusion: a mysterious international ring of villains with the ability to disrupt missile launches and steal atomic weapons.

This drastically peacenik critique of the sense that the world was either for or against the U.S. was tolerated because the Bond films were considered such trifles. Even later, in preposterous Bonds, like Octopussy (1983) and Die Another Day (2002), the villains are renegade military men seeking glory in a nuclear winter—they’re irresponsible lone nuts in uniform, opposed by patriotic, peace-loving communists. Throughout the series, from The Spy Who Loved Me on, actor Walter Gotell played General Gogol, the sympathetic head of the KGB who sometimes aided Bond in his war against international crime.

Most of the nefarious men and women Bond faces are all remarkably constant: they are usually wealthy, industrious and hell-bent on using their established power and establishment ties to realize their evil ambitions.

The Bond films are often categorically dismissed by critics as white male, fascist fantasies. In fact, they are most often stories of a government man trying to prevent the next war, while going up against

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And yet Craig may be on his way out.

It’s a good thing that Craig has sworn off the Internet, so he didn’t see the kerfuffle over whether or not Idris Elba should be replacing him, even before Spectre was released. Elba, Oscar bound after his acting as an African warlord in Beasts of No Nation, would be a first-rate Bond villain.

He’s a man of great size, organ-like voice, and serpent-like subtlety. This opposes the qualities in our longtime hero James Bond—a resourceful, iconic but sometimes limited character, a man who often likes to go unseen.

Time Out London’s Dave Calhoun recently asked Craig about his plans for the next Bond movie. Craig reacted like a man discussing the prospect of Monday morning’s work during a Friday night at the pub: “I’d rather slash my wrists” than revisit the role, he said.

On the Internet and, as always, three days later on TV, everyone quoted the mock-suicidal threat, sans context. Craig cares about the role—a sentiment he makes clear later on in the less frequently quoted part of the interview.

Giving hypothetical advice to the next actor to take up the mask of James Bond, Craig said, “You’ve got to step up … people do not make movies like this anymore. This is really rare now … you’ve got to push yourself as far as you can. It’s worth it. It’s James Bond.”

While James Bond may be a relic of the last century, a shameless shill for Dutch lager and Omega watches, he’s a modern mythical figure. The negative space of Bond’s character—a character he reveals through action, just as they say to do in scriptwriting school—is what makes him haunting, food for rich reveries.

“The dead are alive” says the title card before Spectre’s brilliant Day of the Dead sequence. And while this refers to the resurrection of Blofeld, it’s also true of our hero’s ability to cheat the grave. The flesh fails.

People die. And yet one Englishman keeps escaping, avoiding the bullets, crawling through the heating ducts, leaving better armed, better manned opponents swearing in rage.

They shoot him and peel the rubber

mask off the corpse—as in the pre titles of From Russia With Love, in a gambit ripped off by five movies and seven TV seasons of Mission: Impossible. The corpse is an imposter. Bond escapes again. Of course the actors playing him change.

This combo of Buster Keaton and Cary Grant is the movies as much as a figment of all movies: a Western gunman, a military commando, a lover by night, the fantasy intruder in a vault of gold run by an ogre. You can have The Wizard of Oz; I’ll take Goldfinger, swapping the tornadoes and emerald streets for women of gold and flying hats that kill.

Bond mirrors what Robert Warshow said was the essence of the Western movie hero: “He has his own kind of relevance. He is there to remind us of the possibility of style in an age that has put on itself the burden of pretending that style has no meaning.”

And Spectre is rich with style. Maybe the best moment besides the Zocalo scene is the one that gives Craig’s Bond and Léa Seydoux’s lovely Madeleine Swann some negative space, when they wait at a train station in the desert, soon to be the guests of the natty, cheerful and criminally insane Blofeld. The madman has his musings about the best way to torture, in uncredited dialogue by Kingsley Amis.

(Amis wrote a very good Bond novel once, Colonel Sun.) Waltz is a sterling Blofeld, the living embodiment of the eye that never sleeps, the ear that hears all.

Even just leaving the movie, I am stopped in my tracks by the image of Craig on the Spectre promotional poster—so magnificently insolent and slouching next to the splendid Seydoux—and I think of Shakespeare: What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?

The studios make blockbusters, but they don’t make larger than life movies. Craig was right: “People don’t make movies like this anymore.” When was the last time you saw a movie star hold his space like that, without irony or apology?

The posters, lining the ever-emptier hallways of multiplexes, do what a movie ought to do. That is, to summon its fans from whatever morass life has caught them in, to provide wickedness and peril.

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HE MASSIVE line outside Sushirrito in Palo Alto is the first indicator of its popularity. Located near trendy neighbors on University Avenue like Blue Bottle, Umami Burger, and CREAM, the opening of a Sushirrito in the South Bay gives foodies easier access to experience the hype of a place that was once available only in San Francisco.

A fusion of Asian ingredients in Mexican food form is what people seem to want in their bellies at the moment. Sushirrito serves large sushi rolls which can be eaten like a burrito. The line moves quickly thanks to the assembly line style of manufacturing the rolls. It very much resembles a Japanese Chipotle.

The first employee takes the order and begins the base of the roll.

As is the style of many fast casual restaurants, most menu items begin with the same base ingredients and differentiate later in the line. In this case, the base is nori, sushi rice, and sauces on top of plastic sushi rolling mats. Each subsequent employee down the line adds ingredients that

customize the roll into the flavor ordered.

Most of the rolls share the same sushi rice, ginger guacamole and wasabi mayonnaise sauces. The sushi rice used on all rolls was soft and sticky but with separated grains.

Ginger guac and wasabi mayo sauces sounded intimidating but they were mild and mostly overpowered by other ingredients, except in the Satori roll. I hardly tasted ginger in the guacamole.

Lava Nachos ($8) are available in limited supply and they are good, so make sure to order it first. At this quantity, $8 is slightly steep, but the brown rice chips topped with tuna picante and melted pepper jack goes together well in a spicy appetizer.

Geisha’s Kiss ($12) with yellowfin tuna is the best roll here. It uses a sesame white soya sauce which could hardly be seen or tasted given the variety of other ingredients.

The tuna is claimed to be hand line caught and is flavorful on its own.

Crunchy lotus chips add muchneeded variation in texture that the other rolls lack. I suggest getting this roll for Sushirrito first-timers.

Another roll worth ordering is the Sumo Crunch ($10.50) with shrimp tempura and sriracha aioli.

For those who like a spicy crunch, this roll is it. Red tempura flakes coat the rice on the outside, giving it the appearance of being wrapped in a red sheet. The red flakes give the roll a nice crunch, hence the name.

However, don’t be fooled by the Surimi crab, it is just imitation crab, which is made of ground fish. At the end of the day, the sumo crunch is still at tasty roll.

The Satori ($13) contained raw Hiramasa (Yellowtail) slices, which were of decent size though not too flavorful on their own. This roll had the most potential for preserving the authenticity of sushi rolls, except for the large proportion of wasabi mayonnaise coating the ingredients. Unfortunately, much of what stood out about this roll was the mouthfeel of slippery fish in mayonnaise and the flavor of wasabi.

I am not sold on the idea of putting oven-baked Salmon into a roll as is done in the Salmon Samba ($11). It is unsuccessfully balanced by tempura asparagus, cucumber and lots of lettuce, resulting in a bland dish.

Although it’s a bit of a pricey lunch, given that a Sushirrito contains the same ingredients as a sushi roll it is probably a better deal than buying a few rolls at a Japanese restaurant. The discouraging line out front ends up moving very quickly through the small store as the assembly line works efficiently. Food is served in eco-friendly take-out containers, which works well with the limited seating.

Time will tell if the sushi burrito is a fad or the beginning of a new food classic. For now, at least anyone interested in the hype can enjoy a roll or two without trekking to the city.

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CHOICES BY:

GILL LANDRY

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MAC MILLER

TRIBES

Don Quixote’s, Santa Cruz Wed, 7:30pm, $15

Empire Seven Studios, San Jose Fri, 7pm, Free

The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Fri, 9pm, $35

The Pear Theatre, Mountain View Fri, 8pm, $10-$35

The Old Crow Medicine Show got their big break when folk legend Doc Watson heard them busking outside of a drugstore. They pioneered a brand of alt-bluegrass that groups like Mumford and Sons rode to old-timey success, and re-worked Bob Dylan’s twangy “Wagon Wheel” before Darius Rucker candy-coated it and made into a top-40 hit. Gill Landry, who once played guitar in the Nashville collective, has gone on to release three solo albums.

One of his biggest singles, “Just Like You,” highlights his slow-and-sweet molasses vocals and guitar chops, as he croons about finding a new lover just like his last. (JF)

Archetypes are original works that plant the seed for proliferation.

Running through Dec. 1, this exhibit displays groundbreakers Daisy Ortiz, Jaque Fragua, Spencer Keeton Cunningham and Erlin Geffrard.

Fragua marries the modern and traditional styles of Native American art, juxtaposing classic pyramidal shapes with the one hunnid emoji.

Spencer Keeton Cunningham bopped around North America for 18 months, painting massive, psychedelic murals that possess the simplicity and power of Keith Haring. And Erlin Geffrard makes a muse out of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district—repurposing litter and portraying daily scenes in a novel fashion, like portraying a crew of potsmoking, 40-swilling corner boys with Egyptian stiffness on papyrus. (JF)

Mac Miller released his first mixtape at the age of 15. He displayed innate multi-syllabic rhyming talent and an ear for brain-burrowing productions. Although his first moniker was cheesy—literally; dude called himself EZ Mac—he blew up. Mac was sidelined for a time after returning from his 2012 Macadelic tour hooked on lean.

He’s since cleaned up. And with the help of Rick Rubin, he’s reinvented himself. He now fits neatly into the same raceless, oddball niche that Action Bronson and the Odd Future crew call home. On his third album, “GO:OD AM” Mac uses his outsidethe-box thinking, laconic flow and lyrical prowess to make astute and enlightening observations. (JF)

The words, “orangies,” “meat hands” and “woofer” all mean something in my family, but are gibberish to anyone else. These are the kinds of idiosyncrasies that drive this 2012 Drama Deskwinning play. Tribes meditates on the poignant communicative differences between two families with deaf members. In the play, Billy lip-reads to fit in with his hearingcapable family, but when he meets Sylvia—a woman born into a deaf family who is starting to lose her own hearing—he learns to speak in signs. This sparks tension with his nuclear kin, but introduces him to the complexity, culture and values in the extended family of the deaf community. (JF)

CLYBOURNE PARK Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto Fri, 8pm, $29-$43 Less than 60 years ago, many black families had their windows smashed for daring to move into white neighborhoods. Then, a less violent, but equally toxic backlash took hold—white flight. Today, a new generation of yuppies is returning to the very same urban neighborhoods their ancestors fled, displacing longtime residents of color and, once again, disrupting the social fabric. The 2012 Tony winner, Clybourne Park, unravels the intricacies of race and real estate, following the struggle of a black family moving into a house in a white neighborhood in 1959, and the experience of a white family moving into that same house 50 years later.

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MISFITS Nov 21 at RockBar Theater

THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND Nov 21 at The Ritz

GIVE THANKS: EDM FEST Nov 25 & 27 at City National Civic

THE PHENOMENAUTS Nov 28 at The Ritz

NASHVILLE PUSSY Dec 1 at RockBar Theater

TRIPLE HO SHOW Dec 2 at SAP Center

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA T Dec 3 at SAP Center

JASON BONHAM’S LED ZEPPELIN JAS Dec 4 at City National Civic

LEGEND OF ZELDA SYMPHONY Dec 5 at City National Civic

THE WEEKND Dec 6 at SAP Center

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 18 at The Ritz

THE WHISKEY AVENGERS Dec 19 at The Ritz

DANCEGIVING

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Studio 8, San Jose Fri, 10pm, Free before 11pm

Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View Fri, 6pm, Free

Daylight savings time heralds the tightening of winter’s cold, dark fingers over the northern hemisphere. As cuffing season begins, Studio 8 is giving thanks for the frolicking that is allowed during the more temperate months. A succession of technocrafters will fill the Corinthiancolumned club with pulsing beats.

The night’s headliner, Scratchface DJ, specializes in using sounds that could have come from the slimy mouth of the Predator to craft bass-laden build-ups, which crescendo in tension-demolishing drops. (JF)

Bryan Keith Thomas anchors the opening of Artworlds, a recurring exhibit that will highlight, in turn, the cultures that blend together in the Bay Area. Thomas splices thematic African-American images from the old South—including cotton, roses and church fans— into vibrant, abstract works that clarify the complexity of the present through the lens of the past. Thomas will deliver a talk on his pieces; then, Talisman, an a cappella group comprising Stanford students, will perform vocal arrangements of world music.

Following the entertainment, there will be cuisine and wine inspired by the intersecting influences of Africa. (JF)

*sat *sun THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO California Theatre, San Jose Sat, 8pm, $75-$150 Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1786, this comic opera ranks among the most commonly performed worldwide. The sequel to the Barber of Seville, this masterpiece paints a picture of a ridiculous day. A skirt-chasing count seeks to steal the soon-tobe-bride, Susanna, of his servant Figaro, despite being obligated to a countess. In retaliation, the trio conspire to expose the count’s misdeeds. This causes the count to force Figaro to instead marry a woman who turns out to be his mother. Eventually, somehow, Figaro and Susanna rekindle the flame between the nobility and the four of them pair up happily ever after. (JF)

MACHINE HEAD Dec 19 at RockBar Theater

CHEAP TRICK Dec 20 at City National Civic

QUEENSRYCHE

JIM CAMPBELL

Jan 7 at RockBar Theater

Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose Sun, 1pm, Free

Jan 19 at RockBar Theater

iPhone screens have such high resolution you can’t see the individual pixels. Flatscreens render images at reduced speeds to prevent action from flowing in dreamy soap opera fashion. Google snaps shots of your backyard from space. We live in an era of extremely high definition, but Jim Campbell bucks against that. He employs LED technology and custom electronics to produce images that are both “recognizable and indistinguishable,” and will swirl around viewers accessing his three dimensional installation piece in the Focus Gallery. In a singular collaboration, he projects his flurried light patterns onto the marble sculptures of Jane Rosen, exploring the relationship between light, space and time. (JF)

EUROPE SUPER BOWL OPENING NIGHT Feb 1 at SAP Center

STRANGELOVE Feb 4 at RockBar Theater

SUPER BOWL 50 Feb 7 at RockBar Theater

BLACK SABBATH Feb 9 at SAP Center

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

YANNI Mar 19 at City National Civic

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*stage 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 woman accompanies her grandma to New York City, circumstances bring 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.

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THU, NOV 19, 7–10 PM

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

Go undercover for music by The Dirty Downtown Jazz Syndicate ("James Bond meets Jessica Rabbit "), spy games, martinis "shaken not stirred," art-making, and more. Costumes welcome. $5 tickets (no-host bar).

Evita Perón lived her life in service of the less fortunate in Argentina, earning the title “Spiritual Leader of the Nation” before her 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.

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how to sign, sparking conflict with his non-signing family.

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

KISS ME KATE

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METROACTIVE.COM SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Earth Stories” 25th Anniversary Exhibitions. Thru Feb 28. San Jose.

A musical production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, a complicated romance meets a mobster caper in this winner of three Tony Awards.

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

Redwood City.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

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GALLERIES

DAYDREAM NATION San Pedro Square Market hosts its monthly last Saturday, alternative concert. Free. San Pedro Square Market. San Jose.

MUSIC AT THE MARKET A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized by San Jose Jazz.

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

*art MUSEUMS

“Menagerie” Selections from the permanent collection.

Thru Jan 3. “A Subtle Edge” by Christopher Winfield. Thru Jan 3. “Life. Water” by Yao Pi-Hsu. Thru Jan 3. Santa Clara.

ANNO DOMINI “Orbital—Cut up and Rewired” A reimagining of a single 30-foot self-portrait.

Thru Dec 12. San Jose.

ART ARK GALLERY “The More the Merrier,” Thru Dec 4. San Jose.

ART BOUTIKI Monthly Midtown Beat Show.

San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan.

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

NUMU LOS GATOS

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS

“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.

“Heirloom” Paintings and Mixed Media Works by Bryan Keith Thomas. Thru Nov 22.

Mountain View.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Piranesi’s Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered.”Thru Jan 4. “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.

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

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

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.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “San Shui” Paintings by Russell Altice Case. San Jose.

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

Thru Dec 13. Saratoga.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER “Frontyard Backstreet” A study of places. Thru Dec 13.

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

*events NITRO CIRCUS Travis Pastrana and 40 of his best friends will be flying on motorcycles, BMX bikes and skateboards down two-story tall ramps and spitting in the face of gravity. Wed, Nov 11, 7pm. $39-$99. SAP Center.

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LOVE & LOSS A new exhibit at Stanford’s Cantor Art Center examines the way we remember those we’ve lost.

You Are Not Forgotten WHEN CAROLINE CULP met with her fellow Ph.D. candidates to discuss the topic of their curatorial class assignment, they had to confine their inspiration to the archives at the Cantor Arts Center and the Stanford University Special Collections.

“Missing Persons” is the name of their thought-provoking new exhibit at the Cantor, and visitors can feel its impact almost immediately upon examining several silhouettes from the 19th century on display. These black shadows were once connected to individuals. In this context, however, surrounded by dozens of other thematically similar photographs and paintings, the silhouettes quickly turn into symbols of someone’s absence.

Missing Persons

Nov 11-Mar 21, Free Cantor Arts Center, Stanford

The exhibit is divided into three related sections: “Wanted,” “Remains,” and “Unseen.” The “Wanted” portion of the exhibit examines “the flight of runaways and fugitives” as exemplified in Glenn Ligon’s lithographs from the series “Runaways.” Based on the typographical design of fugitive slave notices, which were regularly posted before the abolition of slavery, Ligon inserts his own contemporary narrative into these painfully racist broadsides: he becomes a missing person, advertising descriptions of himself.

“Remains” pores over the memorials that we create for the missing and the dead. “Three Burials,” a print by the photographer Richard Barnes, is a document of three skeletons unearthed from under San Francisco’s California Palace of the Legion of Honor after the Loma Prieta earthquake. Barnes’s photograph insists that even the nameless dead have a story worth recording.

While there are many examples from the archive in the “Unseen” category that challenge the notion of traditional portraiture, “‘Untitled’ (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), 1991” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres is particularly resonant. An enormous heap of individually wrapped multicolored candies is piled in a corner of the gallery.

There is a label on the wall with these simple instructions: “Please Take One.” Gonzalez-Torres created this memorial for his lover, Ross Laycock, who died of AIDS. One of the specifications of the installation is that the candy must be perpetually replenished to the ideal weight of 175 pounds. Of course, this was Ross’s ideal weight. By taking a piece of candy, the public shares in a secular communion with the passing of Laycock. Gonzalez-Torres also died of AIDS. With “Untitled,” Felix and Ross are both unseen, but their presence is palpable and suffused with loss. We’re all surrounded by ghosts and missing persons: in the end it’s how we honor them that matters the most. —Jeffrey Edalatpour

Film Studies TALKIES F. W. Murnau’s 1927 film, ‘Sunrise,’ the first film made with a synchronized score, will be shown as part of ‘Fox Studios Through 1935’ at the Stanford Theatre.

Stanford Theatre takes viewers way back with ‘Fox Studios Through 1935’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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N THE EARLY days of movies, some pioneers made a lateral career move from garment work into cinema.

It’s as if the ribbons of celluloid were a peculiar form of yardage, to be measured and sold by the foot.Wilhelm Fuchs, later known as William Fox, was a Hungarian immigrant who worked as a liner of coats, before he invested in primitive movie theaters of the early 1900s. By the mid-1920s, Fox owned a movie studio as well as the world’s largest movie

theater, the Roxy, part of a chain that once included the Fox California in San Jose.

Fox’s productions are being screened until late December at the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto—a fest that charts the theater impresario’s rise and fall.

(In case you’re wondering—yes, Fox’s theater chain is linked to 20th Century Fox. The Hollywood studio took the name in a 1935 merger, long after its namesake had been kicked out.) Fox Studios was an early patron of sound film—the Fox Movietone sound system was developed with the expertise of Palo Alto-based engineer Roy de Forest.

Movietone was a method of printing soundtracks on film—the method used, with some improvement, until the advent of digital cinema. The Stanford

Theater hosts a demonstration of the Movietone system on Nov. 29, with the first movie made with a synchronized score, F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927).

Murnau is best known for Nosferatu. Sunrise has its own nocturnes, but this “story of everywhere and nowhere" is one of the most sublime love stories in the cinema. A farmer (the Ryan Goslingish George O'Brien) strays from his wife (Janet Gaynor); he’s seduced into a plan to drown her by the citybred lover (Margaret Livingston) he visits by night. Gaynor and O’Brien’s romance is rekindled by a visit to a stylized city of huge public squares, Esperanto neon signs, and a fantastic amusement park. A masterpiece of German Expressionism even if it was made in America, it’s loaded with humor; not every story this tragic has a close-up of a drunken piglet, or a moment of a barber pulling Bill Murray-worthy smirks as he shaves this yokel visiting the city.

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A movie as innovative as Sunrise was probably doomed to fail at the box office, even though it starred Gaynor, one of Fox’s most reliable draws. This festival has a number of Gaynor’s movies, from the obscure to the better known. On Dec. 6, the theater will screen The Johnstown Flood, a little-seen 1915 silent film about the Pennsylvania disaster; it is billed with Gaynor’s hit under director Frank Borzage, Seventh Heaven. There, the petite Gaynor plays a woman separated from her lover by the Great War. If Gaynor played a good-hearted peasant wife with a Mennonite coiffure in Sunrise, she was also beloved as a hard-pressed girl of the city. Her film Street Angel (1925, Dec. 13) opens in Naples with the observation “Everywhere … in every town … in every street … we pass, unknowing, human souls made great by love and adversity.” Such was Borzage’s sensitivity to the underclass and the secret of his popularity as the Depression commenced.

“Fox Studios Through 1935” includes other fare besides romances: murder mysteries, drawing room comedies, Westerns and Americana. Will Rogers was the John Stewart of his day—a political commentator too liked by both sides to ever really get stuck in the partisan mire. Rogers stars in the original version of State Fair (1933).

His role in John Ford’s 1935 Steamboat Round the Bend (Nov. 13-14) is one of Rogers’ best, and one of Ford’s best.

It’s billed with Rogers as Mark Twain’s time travelling hero, “The Boss,” in Connecticut Yankee (1931).

Speaking of time travel, on Nov. 25 and 26, Just Imagine (1930) will take viewers to 1980—where futurians have their mates assigned to them by the government … and then it’s off to Mars. And then to Hell. Dante’s Inferno (1935) plays Nov 18 and 19, with unbelievable pre-Code recreations of Gustave Dore’s illustrations.

Every Sunday brings silent films with performances by the legendary Dennis James on the Wurlitzer. Seeing these rarities with a live audience, for a fraction of what a first run movie costs, is an experience that’s only going to become harder to find as the years go by.

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Broken Records COLIN HANKSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fast, thoroughly pleasing documentary All Things Must Pass opens with two dates. In 1999, Tower Records was a billion dollar business. By 2005, it was bankrupt.

Like Amazon, and like the other Internet companies that replaced these record and bookstores that once stood everywhere from Tokyo to New York, Tower Records prided itself on its eclecticism. But Towerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founder, the aged but still lively Russ Solomon, seemed to really mean it when it came to informality. One salesman recalls that his only training was being told by his manager: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything in the store is $3.88. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to lunch.â&#x20AC;?

Solomon was famous for his penchant for taking the ties off the necks of visiting executives, as a way of welcoming them to California.

Solomonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own account here of landing his San Francisco space at Bay and Columbus involves a trip out that way to ďŹ nd some greasy food to cure a bad Sunday morning hangover. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a Tom Sawyer view of managementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;let someone else paint the fence,â&#x20AC;? Solomon boasts. (The hand-painted foam core billboards at Tower made the advent of a new LP seem even more exciting).

Solomon began as the son of a drug store operator in midtown Sacramento next to the landmark Tower Theater.

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Sunset Boulevard branch Camera 3 of Tower became a hangout for musicians as much as fans. Elton John, record producer David Geffen and Bruce Springsteen, all interviewed here, recall how much they loved going to the store to see their records being snapped up: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The audience you always dreamt of is walking through the door right now,â&#x20AC;?

Springsteen said of the experience.

Hanks did his research: evidence of Towerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rise includes a shot of a newspaper proďŹ le of Solomon that Michelle Goldberg wrote for Metro. The story of Towerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure is wrapped up in the rise of digital media. They should have seen the crash coming, but how can you blame them? Who could have ever imagined a life without Tower Records? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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Maize y Mas and More | Now – Jan. 3, 2016 The works in Maize range from paintings, sculpture and installation, to music videos and a remote-controlled cornbot. The artists of Maize explore the unique heritage of maize and corn in the Americas and illustrate the crop’s journey from pre-Columbian times to today. Once a sacred staple associated with a mother/virgin figure, corn is today a genetically engineered product that many consider monstrous.

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The 39 Steps | Nov. 25 – Dec. 20 | Directed by Ken Kelleher “Absurdly enjoyable, gleefully theatrical ... a perfect soufflé.” – NY Times “The 39 Steps is fabulous fun!” – LA Theatre Examiner Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel and a dash of Monty Python and you have a hilarious, high-speed spoof of the silver-screen classic.This wonderfully inventive and gripping comedy thriller features four fearless actors, playing ppllaayyyin iinng 139 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced fun and aan nd th thrilling hri rillin lllin ing ng aac action. cttiio cti

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Jim Campbell: new work and collaborations with Jane Rosen Nov. 15, 2015 - Feb. 14, 2016 | Free opening reception Nov. 15, 1 – 4pm Using LED technology and custom electronics, Jim Campbell explores the connections of light, space and time. In a world that is primarily defined by crystal-clear resolution, Campbell uses cutting-edge technology to produce images that are at once recognizable and indistinguishable. Inn a unique collaboration with sculptor Jane Rosen, Campbell will further urr th theerr explore the three-dimensionality of his work by combining co co hiss light liligghht installations with her marble sculptures.

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NO MORE Underappreciated for years at his former label, Strange Music, Kutt Calhoun steps out on his own.

Cutting The Cord KUTT CALHOUN isn’t just going solo. He’s an army of one, and he’s going to war. The no-coast rapper and co-founder of Missouri independent hip-hop label Strange Music, has a new album, a new label and a bone to pick—with his former colleagues and overzealous police.

Speaking on his cell phone as he zips around Dallas, the Kansas City emcee explains his genuine disappointment at not being better known, a fact he blames on Strange Music dropping the ball on promoting and managing his image.

Calhoun, neé Melvin Lewis Calhoun Jr., has a point. He’s been in the game since 1998; he helped build Strange Music—along with lightning-fast Killer City spitter, Tech N9ne— from the ground up; and on his latest effort, the Kuttin Loose EP, he demonstrates a devastating flow, razor sharp wit and some downright nasty Dirty South production.

For years, Calhoun made his disappointment known. The title of his 2011 album, Red-Headed Stepchild, is a not-so-subtle jab at his then-label, he says. Earlier this year, Calhoun made the jump.

“If I stay here, I’m going to stand in place, or I’m going to sink,” he remembers thinking. “I needed to move forward. I ain’t getting that younger.” Calhoun left Strange Music amicably and has since

started his own label, Black Gold Entertainment.

His latest single, “On My Own,” details his unique struggles with his former colleagues, while the track’s accompanying Kutt Kalhoun music video helps make the Nov 13, 7pm, $15 song something BackBar SoFa others can relate to.

Featuring a woman in a bad relationship and a man belittled at work, the video shows both characters finding the strength to leave their abusive situations behind and find a better life for themselves.

Calhoun has also directed his music at another target—police brutality and its disproportionate number of young black male victims. On “Handz Up (Shut Shit Down)” he explains, in no uncertain terms, that if violence against the black community continues, there will be a violent response. “They wanna wonder why my people get violent/ but it ain’t they child under state sheets,” he raps.

For his part, Calhoun isn’t worried about any backlash, as he is certain that he is on the right side of history.

“That’s coming straight from the heart,” he says. “This is something that is important to me. More people need to hear.”

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Everyone knows the story: U.S. spy plane photos reveal Russian nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba; Kennedy orders a blockade of the island and demands the missilesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; removal; six tense days later, Khrushchev complies.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better understood now is how little Khrushchev had thought through the ways it might all play out. He needed more negotiating leverage than the USSRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iffy intercontinental missiles could buy him, and he hoped he could rattle the Americans by placing medium-range missiles at their doorstep.

The Americans were rattled all right. Despite the insistence of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that the new deployment didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change the balance of power, the Joint Chiefs of Staff initially supported some sort of invasion of Cuba in response. It was only after a full week of deliberation that Kennedy was able to sell the blockade idea instead.

Why didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it go worse? Most obviously, neither side was crazy enough to want to precipitate the end of the world. It was pretty obviously acknowledged by both that detonating a nuclear bomb would be a bummer for all involved.

This was clear to the Soviets in 1962, when the U.S. warhead stockpile was nine times the size of theirs. (Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d catch up over the next 15 years, and by 1978 were out in front.) It was openly known by both governments that even if Russia were to launch all its missiles in Cuba, it couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take out the U.S. capability to obliterate the USSR in response. So while theoretically we might have suffered a massive loss of life, the chances of the Soviets purposely ordering the all-out attack needed to accomplish it were low.

Beyond that, historically speaking there simply havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been many preemptive warsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;i.e., ones where, amid ongoing high international tension, one country strikes ďŹ rst for fear of becoming a target itself. By this standard, arguably the only cases since

1861 that qualify would be World War I, the Korean War, and the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.

Nonetheless, it was a scary time, with many opportunities for the shit to hit the fan. During the last days of the standoff, 60-plus B-52 bombers were in the air carrying nuclear payloads at any given time; one technical or communications glitch could have meant catastrophe. A Russian submarine lost communication with the surface, assumed war had broken out, and almost launched its own nuclear torpedo. According to an Air Force vet whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only recently come forward, at one point launch orders were sent by mistake to U.S. missile bases at Okinawa. The crews didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comply only because a commanding officer noticed enough irregularities in protocol to investigate further.

If either side had gone nuclear, accidentally or not, then it would have been a different picture. The emergency document called the Single Integrated Operational Plan provided the U.S. military command with a prioritized list of thousands of targets in the Soviet bloc and China. The ďŹ rst tier of targets included missile launch sites, airďŹ elds for bombers, and submarine tenders. Cuba had all of these, making it an obvious place for an early attack.

Again, if the Soviets had struck ďŹ rst itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely the U.S. would have been able to retaliate, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little consolation. U.S. anti-ballistic missiles developed under the Nike program had proved largely useless in testing. Despite optimistic governmentproduced PSAs instructing citizens on how to wash radioactive particles off their potatoes, our countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population would have been immediately reduced by 20 percent if a third of Soviet nukes had hit their targets. If all of them had hit home, half the population would have been wiped out, not including after-the-fact deaths from fallout, cancer, starvation, etc.

Of course, our retaliatory capability meant things probably would have been still grimmer on the Soviet end.

That said, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlikely either side would have launched its full arsenal. A few tactical bombs might have gone off; there might have been a ground war in Berlin; possibly thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be several million fewer people around now. But rationality won the day.

It was in neither state's interest to escalate.

This, unfortunately, may not hold true for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conďŹ&#x201A;ictsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another topic for another column.

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Gushing over a woman right out of the gate—“Wow … you have skin!”—tends to give a man all the rough-hewn sex appeal of a Care Bear.

The problem here comes out of what evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt explain as men’s and women’s conflicting sexual strategies.

For an ancestral woman, there was the possibility of high back-end costs from any sex act (children to dig grubs for and drag around). So, women evolved to be the commitment-seekers of our species, and men, the commitment-free sex seekers.

Men still had a good chance of passing on their genes, even if they chose to “fun and run.” (Of course, this worked better in the days before state-ordered child support.)

Though it’s the tail end of 2015, evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby explain that “our modern skulls house a stone age mind” with “stone age priorities.” So, women expect to work to get a man to commit just as men expect to work to get a woman into bed. And just as women get devalued by men for being sexually “easy,” men get devalued by women if they seem emotionally “easy”—like by immediately throwing around compliments like glitter

at a gay pride parade. This sort of thing doesn’t say you find the woman beautiful or whatever; it says you find it a miracle that she went out with you at all.

Try something new—keeping a lid on the word-drool. In other words, shut up and listen. Ask a woman about herself— where she’s been, what she thinks, what matters to her—and engage with what she’s saying. That’s the sincere way to compliment a woman—showing that you’re interested in her as a human being instead of slobbering all over her like a dog that's been left home all day.

The safe time to compliment a woman on her hotitude is after you’ve slept together. Women are often insecure about their bodies, and post-sex compliments will be appreciated (instead of depreciating you). All in all, keep in mind that the dating realm is like many other endeavors. Too much enthusiasm too soon typically makes you seem desperate for something … anything … anybody. Picture yourself wandering into a bank and having a bunch of execs dash over: “We’d like to make YOU the president of Wells Fargo!” And you’re like, “Umm, I was just coming in to get quarters for the laundromat.”

My girlfriend of a year has a really hard time looking into my eyes when we have sex. Eye contact is a big turn-on for me because it’s so intense and intimate. She says she feels scared and vulnerable: “I don’t want you to see how much I care.” I also think she feels insecure about how she looks during sex. How can I reassure her?—Not Going Anywhere Okay, so your girlfriend’s idea of something sexy to wear in bed is a Richard Nixon mask with the eyeholes taped over. (On a positive note, this isn’t because keeping her eyes closed makes it easier to pretend you’re Channing Tatum.)

Your girlfriend’s likely to let go a little if you grab on to her a little tighter. This advice comes out of “the dependency paradox,” a finding by social psychologist Brooke C. Feeney that the more you show a romantic partner they can rely on you, the less they feel the need to cling. This would seem to apply to emotional risks, too, like not just having

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Eventually, she should feel more secure about your loving her and finding her beautiful, even in bed.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #610540 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: B&C Relax Spa, 1692 Tully Rd., #3, San Jose, CA, 95122, Tien Tran, 88 Montecito Vista #417, San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Tien TranThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/27/2015.(pub Metro 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/02/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #610893 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jorges Deliveries, 705 Gier Ct., San Jose, CA, 95111, Jorge L. Saucedo. This business is conducted by an

individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/09/15. /s/Jorge L. SaucedoThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/09/2015.(pub Metro 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/02/2015)

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 LasalaCFO and Co-Founder#3558873This 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 #609768 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ocean Spa, 965 S. Bascom Ave., San Jose, CA, 95128, James Pan, 37 Ervine St., San Francisco, CA, 94134. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/James PanThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/02/2015.(pub Metro 10/28, 11/04, 11/11, 11/18/2015)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #610227 The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Asian Express, 1699 W. San Carlos St., San Jose, CA, 95138, Karen Dien, 555 Umbarger Rd., Ste 69, San Jose, CA, 95111. Filed in Santa Clara County on 5/22/14 under file #592303This business was conducted by an individual/s/Karen DienThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/16/2015.(pub Metro 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/02/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #610224 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

Sonido Estereo One - DJ, 132 E. Reed St., #8, San Jose, CA, 95112, Diego A. Suarez. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Diego A. SuarezThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/16/2015.(pub Metro 10/21, 10/28, 11/04, 11/11/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609773 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Maya Beauty Studios, 5520 Almaden Expy., San Jose, CA, 95111, May Serhal, Maya Mansour, 4939 Arnica Ct., 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/Maya MansourThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/02/2015.(pub Metro 10/21, 10/28, 11/04, 11/11/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #609935 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: San Jose Vape, 112 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose, CA, 95112, Jekelian and Tannous Enterprise, Belmont, CA, 94002. This business is conducted by a corporation.Above entity was formed in the state of CaliforniaRegistrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Hani TannousSecretary#C37869898This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/07/2015.(pub Metro 11/04, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #610658 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Premier Nissan Of San Jose, 1120 Capitol Expressway Auto Mall, San Jose, CA, 95136, Premier Nissan Of San Jose, LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company.Above entity was formed in the state of CaliforniaRegistrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/13/2009. Refile of previous file #527767 after 40 days of expiration date./s/Troy J. DuhonManager#200919010040This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/02/2015.(pub Metro 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/02/2015)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Urbandictionary.com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.”

It's related to the Danish term baltre, which means “to romp, tumble, roll, cavort.” I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You've arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back toward where you came from. You shouldn't stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you'll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here? Here's your motto: Trust, but verify.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are, and who you will become.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A flyer on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a nine-yearold male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby's owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at gofundme. com to raise the cash. Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby's well-being. But I thought, “Shouldn't I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?” Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “Think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How well do you treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to selfcare. If you're alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies. Here are two ideas to get you started: 1. Imagine at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself.

2. Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don't need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Normally I charge $270-an-hour for the kind of advice I'm about to offer, but I'm giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations, and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some athletes think it's unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory.

But scientific studies contradict this theory. There's evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has "as much sex as possible" before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her “the world's most dominant athlete.” As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey's strategy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn't be broken in. They'd be so stiff that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here's how Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” The preface I'd write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That's because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punchline in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition.

Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don't scrimp on logical analysis, of course.

Don't stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms. Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves. Start here: http:// bit.ly/liberateslaves.

Homework: Take a guess about what your closest ally most needs to learn in order to be happier. FreeWillAstrology.com

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