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THE FLY

DisAssembly As far as freshman years go, state Assemblyman KANSEN CHU (D-San Jose) admits he “could have done more.” He authored just three bills that Gov. JERRY BROWN signed into law, including new requirements for red reflectors on bicycles, a brief extension of public benefits for grieving parents and a streamlined appeal process for the elderly living in residential care facilities. In order to make more headway next session, Chu might want to reassess how his office can better hang on to staff. Records show he lost nine staffers this year, bringing his staff total to a whopping 20. If that sounds alarming, consider the undisputed champion for the title of Sacramento’s Worst Boss, NORA CAMPOS (D-San Jose), has had 55 staffers in five years. Chu is on pace to nearly double that amount.

Previously a San Jose councilman, Chu has developed a behind-the-scenes reputation as a “yeller,” a style he may have acquired while working for former state legislators REBECCA COHN and ELAINE ALQUIST. It’s not all fire and brimstone, though. Chu has also They earned the nickname Did “803tea,” due to his What? purported preference for requesting tea SEND TIPS TO at 8:03am on the FLY@ METRONEWS. dot. There are some COM questions about who really runs the show in Chu’s office, as his wife, DAISY, has been an active participant throughout his political career. Tipsters say she has a looming presence and has even taken constituent meetings on her husband’s behalf. Chu begs to differ, saying Daisy has only been to Sacramento four times this year and she spends most of her days as “a stay-at-home grandma.” He attributed high turnover in his office to the fact that he is limited in what he can pay due to state restrictions. However, this isn’t the first time Fly has heard of revolving-door staffing issues for Chu. During his last year at San Jose City Hall, much of the 18th floor chatter was about how roughly half of Chu’s staff had disappeared.

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KICKED TO THE CURB Cookie Galvan has been pushing for stronger tenant protections after her landlord kicked her out of her longtime home in a no-cause eviction.

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10-YEAR tenant of a downtown San Jose flat, Cookie Galvan expected her landlord would exterminate rats skittering around her tiny apartment. The rodents had chewed up her antique chairs and leather sofa, nibbled on nectarines on the kitchen counter and left droppings on her justshampooed beige carpet.

“An exterminator could have done the job in a single visit,” Galvan says.

“Instead, I was told to buy traps. I was told it wasn’t a big deal. I was told it was

my fault for not keeping the place clean.”

For 108 days, she lived with the rats, which kept nesting and breeding in some hollowed-out nook in the wall.

She caught 13 of them in traps that left blood splatters on the carpet and dining room table. San Jose code enforcement officers finally stepped in, forcing the landlord of the South Fourth Street complex to fix the problem. Meanwhile, her gas stove stopped working. For 110 days, she couldn’t bake or cook at home.

Despite the rats and broken oven, she paid rent on time. With each check she included a note about the issues plaguing her first-floor apartment. In August 2014, she found a note on her door informing her of an 8 percent rent hike from the $950 she had been paying. This past summer, she got another note—this one said she had 90 days to leave.

“I was well within my rights to complain about the living conditions,” says Galvan, 53 years old and an 18-year San Jose State University employee. “Sadly, he was well within his rights to kick me out for no reason. It’s not fair, but unfortunately it’s legal.”

Around the same time Galvan began apartment hunting in one of the most competitive rental markets in the nation, San Jose Councilman Raul Peralez issued a memo urging the city to bolster tenant protections.

He suggested lowering the annual allowable rent increase from 8 percent and establishing a “just cause” provision to prevent landlords like Galvan’s from kicking out tenants without even saying why. Without a “just cause” ordinance, the city doesn’t keep track of no-cause or no-fault evictions, except for the 1,549 that landlords have selfreported since 2010. If anything, there’s incentive to stay mum since landlords can only bypass rent control if a tenant voluntarily moves out. “That’s a huge loophole,” says Sandy Perry, a renter

initiative. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, people are frustrated, but they come together and take ownership of their neighborhood, they form a community around these problems and they generate change.â&#x20AC;? Those same neighborhood groups, aided by tenant advocates such as Project Sentinel, Tenants Together and public interest law ďŹ rms, have helped drive the effort to fortify local rent control.

Since September, San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Housing Department has been studying how to re-write its rent stabilization ordinance to shift the balance of power between tenants and landlords. They will present their report to a City Council subcommittee on Dec. 7 and bring a proposal up for a vote in the ďŹ rst or second month of 2016. Possible changes include adding 10,000-plus duplex units to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rent control ordinance, which now applies to 44,000 apartment units. The Costa-Hawkins Actâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a 1995 state law crafted by the real estate industryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;limits rent control to housing built before 1979. The city will also look at improving enforcement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Property owners really want a simple and expedient way to terminate a tenancy, particularly if they feel they have a bad tenant,â&#x20AC;? says San Jose housing policy analyst Wayne Chen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the tenantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side, they feel â&#x20AC;Ś that with landlords thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an inherently disparate power relationships.â&#x20AC;?

Though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too little, too late for Galvan, her story has become another case study of the regulatory gaps that leave even collegeeducated, full-time job-holding tenants scrambling to keep a roof over their heads. No-cause evictions have become commonplace, while the worst-case examples of weak tenant protections have literally scarred people for life. In June, faulty electrical wiring from old stoves destroyed Sunny Apartments, an aging complex on Story Road, and burned a single mom and her two young children. In September, the second-story walkway buckled at an apartment near San Jose City College because of a landlordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refusal to ďŹ x rotted-out beams. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This goes beyond rent control,â&#x20AC;? says Susan Price-Jang, who has advocated for low-income and undocumented tenants who have been too afraid to speak up about substandard living conditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need better training for city staff, we need recourse for tenants and accountability for landlords.â&#x20AC;?

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rights activist and head of the Silicon Valley-based Affordable Housing Network. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way to tell if landlords are following the law.â&#x20AC;?

The ensuing months have been marked by contentious debate between landlords and a burgeoning movement to strengthen rent control. Not since the 1970s, when inďŹ&#x201A;ation spiked housing costs in a similarly inequitable economic recovery, has the nation seen such a widespread push for tenant rights. The 2008 ďŹ nancial crisis left many people unable to own a home, which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, triggered a nationwide increase in the number of renters.

As in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s, the cost-of-living surge has led to massive displacement and a decline in socioeconomic diversity, according to the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nonpartisan Legislative Analystâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office (LAO). That decade, per the LAO, Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home prices went from 30 percent above the national average to 80 percent. Today, home prices statewide are two-and-a-half times and rents more than 50 percent over the national average. In San Jose, rents are double the national average.

In September, with Richmond poised to enact the ďŹ rst rent control regulation in California in 30 years, the Sacramento-based landlord lobbyist group California Apartment Association warned its members of a squall ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rent control is a hot topic in several municipalities in the Bay Area, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been brewing for months in Richmond,â&#x20AC;? the industry group cautioned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approved here, the rent control movement gains dangerous momentum.â&#x20AC;?

Soaring rents have long been a sore subject in San Jose, whose chasmal wealth gap and stagnant wages have made it an important battleground in the struggle for tenant rights. Last month, the city of a million saw its average monthly rent tick up to $2,856 overall and $2,410 for a one-bedroom.

The city began studying ways to update its rent laws earlier this year, and a band of displaced renters formed the South Bay Tenants Union. Housing advocates staged protests and demonstrations to put a human face on the affordability crisis. The Responsible Landlord Engagement Initiative, a mediator for landlords and tenants, has seen a surge in new neighborhood associations and tenant collectives formed to address code enforcement and quality-of-life issues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the beauty of this,â&#x20AC;? says Jaime Angulo, coordinator of the

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Jails Accused of Excessive Solitary Confinement

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH A new class-action lawsuit brought by two inmates claims that Santa Clara County’s use of solitary confinement is inhumane and unconstitutional.

Brian Chavez and Brandon Bracamonte, who have been charged but not convicted of any crimes, say they spent years isolated in tiny concrete cells at San Jose’s Main Jail with little human contact, natural light, fresh air or exercise. Their lawsuit, filed last week in federal court by the inmate advocacy group Prison Law Office, alleges that the county routinely isolates hundreds of men and women in cells as small as 6 feet by 7 feet in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

“The county is harming people by locking them in harsh conditions of solitary confinement,” Prison Law Office

attorney Kelly Knapp said. “People isolated in tiny jail cells for 22 to 24 hours every day become depressed and suicidal. Those with pre-existing mental illness suffer from worsening symptoms including hallucinations, delusions and paranoia. To make matters worse, many of these men and women did nothing to deserve being placed in solitary confinement in the first place.”

The nonprofit law firm raised those concerns twice in recent months, but the Sheriff ’s Office gave no indication that it would improve its maximumsecurity wings. Jail officials have been under the microscope since the fatal beating of a mentally ill inmate in August, allegedly at the hands of three correctional officers.

At least 40 inmates have died in custody at either the Main Jail or Elmwood Correctional Facility

since early 2010. During that period, inmates have filed 374 use-of-force complaints, according to records first reported by San Jose Inside. Only four have been sustained, while 72 were “closed at intake,” meaning they weren’t investigated.

Michael Tyree’s Aug. 27 beating death prompted the county’s Department of Corrections to go back and review some of those complaints.

The county also assembled a Blue Ribbon Commission to review custody operations. Meanwhile, a risk-management consultant has been conducting a confidential review of both jails.

In a statement, Sheriff Laurie Smith said she “appreciates the perspective” brought by the Prison Law Office. “We believe that the more eyes on custody operations, the better,” she said.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District still hasn’t addressed why CEO Beau Goldie misled the board of directors about dealings with a conflict-riddled consultant, as previously reported by San Jose Inside, but perhaps it’s just a matter of priorities.

Top of the list, for now, is finding an interim replacement for Dennis Kennedy, the 77-year-old South County board member who resigned earlier this month due Dennis Kennedy to health concerns. Kennedy, the longtime mayor of Morgan Hill until 2006, has a brain tumor.

The Water District will accept applications for the interim appointment until 4pm Wednesday, Dec. 2. No one has applied to date, according to a district spokesperson.

Kennedy represented Gilroy, Morgan Hill, San Martin and surrounding unincorporated areas as the District 1 director. The person selected to succeed him would serve through November 2016, before a special election is called.

Among the names being floated as possible appointees are Erin Gil, president of the Santa Clara County Farm Bureau, and Rich Constantine, a Morgan Hill councilman. One surprise possibility making the rounds is Jeff Cristina, current mayor of Campbell.

To even be considered for the post he would likely need to relocate and give up his current position, which seems unlikely. Jonathan Padilla, a senior advisor for San Jose Councilman Manh Nguyen, considered running but bowed out due to potential conflicts it could cause his boss.

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Time Warp TABLE TOPS Every F/X holiday party featured a dance on the bar by staff, including this 1992 Halloween bash.

Annual F/X reunion party comes full circle this Black Friday

BY GARY SINGH

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WENTY YEARS ago, the celebrated F/X nightclub in downtown San Jose closed its doors after a gloriously blasphemous six-year run. To bring it all back, starting in 2008 original F/X owner Fil Maresca began staging annual F/X reunions every Black Friday at the Blank Club. After a few more reunions at what’s now the Continental, this year’s bash shall erupt in mythical fashion.

For the first time, the get-together takes place in the original F/X building, now reincarnated as The Ritz.

That building can be understood as a microcosm, with the entire community operating as the macrocosm.

With the reunion returning to 400 S. First St., the narrative has now come full circle, similar to the Hero’s Journey monomyth by Joseph Campbell. That is, F/X departed its normal dimension in 1995, leaving its community behind. From there, it traveled into the unknown abyss for the proverbial mysterious adventure, only to resurface in its first few reunions at the Blank Club, owned by a former F/X regular. After all the

necessary stages of transformation and atonement, decisions were made, battles were won, and now the reunion organizers have come back home to First and San Salvador in order to teach us what they discovered along the journey.

From its disappearance in 1995 to the first reunion in 2008, F/X vanished for 13 years—pretty much the same length of time that Jesus bailed for India before returning— and now the historic nightclub’s unique environment will enter a new cycle of life. When Maresca walks back into that building for the reunion, it should be understood in mythological terms as Joseph Campbell's “Crossing of the Return Threshold.”

For the non-adepts, F/X in its day was one of four alternative music-centric clubs in a pocket of downtown. At the time, South First

was a red-light district where washedup tranny hookers went to score bad speed and shoddy pervs slithered into peep shows. Along with the other clubs, F/X helped spearhead the original SoFA music scene and the original SoFA Street Fair by unleashing a visionary mixture of alternative music, dance, film and themed nights for any persuasion.

There was no other club in San Jose quite like it.

The front bar, located in the main foyer area, previously sold candy and smokes when the building was the Pussycat Theater. When Maresca opened F/X, he turned the front area into a bar separate from the main club. From the front bar’s inception, a slew of hard-drinking punk rock types held court, usually because they didn’t care for whatever was going on in the main space. Corey O’Brien led that crew of regulars, and on many nights, it really seemed like the entire 1980s San Jose skater scene comprised the front bar clientele while everyone else danced away in the other room. When the first F/X reunions unfolded at the Blank Club, beginning in 2008, it felt like everything was already coming full circle, because O’Brien and his partners owned the Blank Club. The people Maresca used to serve at his own club were now serving him at the reunions.

But now, the original front bar at the original F/X building is reincarnated as the Ritz Front Bar, also owned by O’Brien, epitomizing the way in which this whole cosmic narrative has circled back to the beginning. Originally, Maresca owned the club and O’Brien was the customer.

Now it’s the other way around— just one example of what many old wise guys in the East refer to as samsara, the repeating cycles of birth, death and reincarnation. For me, this is how I naturally experience the San Jose condition. I gave up trying to see it any other way.

Special secret shenanigans are planned Friday just for the front bar, while everything else unfolds in the rest of the club—just like the old days. In the main club, original F/X DJs will command the decks like sages. The minions will gather into the fold and the journey will continue. From the grave, Joseph Campbell sends his regards.

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OPEFUL CITIZENS banked on a wet few months of winter and got the opposite—a meager 2.34 inches of rainfall in Santa Clara County between January and March of this year. It was the Great El Niño Fizzle, sparked by the promise of increased ocean temperatures and extinguished by the trade winds which, in an El Niño event, need to slacken so all that warm water will slosh back to our side of the Pacific.

Organizers of Santa Cruz’s Titans of Mavericks big-wave surf contest have already been printing T-Shirts that say “EL NIÑO IS COMING,” and residents from the seaside to the South Bay are rightly excited for larger-than-average swells in the coming months. A much-belated El Niño is coming—the first in 18 years—and it may be the strongest since 1950, when oceanographic monitoring began.

“It’s right on schedule,” says Nate Mantua, Ph.D., a climate scientist for NOAA’s Southwest Fishery Science Center. “I checked [last week], and temperatures in Southern California are about 5 degrees Celsius warmer than normal, or almost 10 degrees

Fahrenheit warmer than normal.

Local waters are 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit above average, or in the low- to mid-60s, depending what the wind is doing.”

It’s Nov. 3, and Mantua’s office, which he shares with a 63-pound taxidermic king salmon, is awash with late afternoon sun and the briny smell of the Pacific.

The oceans are warming, the trade winds have already died down, and the usually bone-dry Atacama desert in northern Chile and southern Peru is blooming—a telltale sign that El Niño is upon us. There’s just one thing: if El Niño was, in fact, a boy child gathering strength inside the womb of the Pacific, his

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“We’ve got this incredible warming of the higher latitudes of the Pacific Ocean,” says Mantua, “and ocean temperatures have been record-high for the last two years.

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The anomalous “warm blob” is raising many questions about climate change and our future— including what this year’s El Niño winter will be like. Warmer oceans mean stronger storms and increased odds of above-average winter precipitation. But just how much rain is the boy child planning to bring us? It is enough to replenish our parched land? Will it unfold slow and steady like applause or come in fits and torrential downpours, unleashing landslides, floods and hurricane-force winds like the ones that tormented California’s not-so-distant past?

“We know that no two El Niño events in the past have been the same, even though a lot of attention is being put on what happened in 1997-98 and 1983 [El Niños], because of similarities in the strength of this event to what those two events had, but there is no guarantee that we’ll see a repeat of all of the things that might stand out in people’s memories,” Mantua says. “Odds are there will be some surprises.”

Even with advanced technology— which includes some 70 buoys moored in the depths between Japan and the California Coast— climate prediction is a field riddled with unknowns, probabilities and conservative estimates. The saying goes, climate is what you predict and weather is what you get. But one thing is certain: it’s going to rain this winter. Possibly a lot. And maybe, in a way Northern California hasn’t seen in decades.

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In early January of 1982, a storm sat over the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Bay Area. The rain began to fall during the last quarter of the NFL championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants, pouring through the night and into the next day. At its peak, it dumped 17 inches of rain in a 28-hour period on Lompico. Already saturated by slow and steady rainfalls in the weeks prior, the steep hillside of Love Creek in Ben Lomond liquified, ripping houses from their foundations and claiming 10 lives.

“All you saw were trees sticking

out and cars and pieces of houses, and it was right after Christmas so there were Christmas decorations, and there were 10 people buried under it all,” says Gary Griggs, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC-Santa Cruz, where he’s taught since 1968. He was the first geologist on the scene the morning after the storm. “They never found them,” he says. “Actually, one woman survived, she grabbed onto a tree as it went through her house at one in the morning.” To this day, residents of Love Creek still decorate a Christmas tree to remember those who died in the storm.

In the winter of 1997-98, massive flooding claimed the lives of 17 people in California. East Palo Alto was one of the hardest hit cities in the Bay Area, as the San Francisquito Creek overflowed and damaged a reported 1,700 homes. Many were trapped inside as all that surrounded the exteriors were lakes of mud water after a steady month of rain.

Those were El Niño years, which is a level this winter doesn’t even need to reach for dire consequences.

“You don’t have to have an El Niño year to have a really devastating winter,” Griggs says.

According to a study published in the Journal of Coastal Research, about 76 percent of the storms between 1910 and 1995 that caused significant erosion and structural damage along the California coast occurred during El Niño years.

We still don’t really know why it happens, but when the trade winds—which normally blow toward the equator from the northeast and southeast—die down, it allows the warm water in the Western Pacific to flow back toward the coast of South America and then up the coast.

“The first thing it does is change the climate on opposite sides of the Pacific,” says Griggs.

That means drought in places like the Philippines, New Guinea and parts of Australia, as well as heavy rainfall in the eastern half of the tropical Pacific. Some of these shifts are already happening, according to Mantua.

“For instance, right now, the Atacama desert in southern Peru

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comparison to this year.

and northern Chile is blooming.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had lots of rainfall the last couple of months. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a part of the world that has some of the driest deserts on Earth in the absence of these El NiĂąo periods. It can go years without any appreciable rain at all,â&#x20AC;? says Mantua, who notes that the same is true for the Galapagos Islands.

During El NiĂąo winters, which typically peak in December and continue through January and February, periods of active storm development at the same latitude as Central and Southern California have sent storms barrelling into the West Coast, says Mantua. This happened in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;82-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;83 and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;97-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;98 El NiĂąo years, but we have also had lots of storms like this in some nonEl NiĂąo years, he points out.

One concern is that the ominous warm blob could potentially add fuel to storms as they develop in their breeding ground between Hawaii and the Aleutians. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we have big storms that do

develop and move across that water, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have strong winds, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to evaporate a lot of water off that surface,â&#x20AC;? says Mantua. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to cool that warm blob, but in the process, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to fuel themselves up.

So, I do think that our storms are going to be warmer and stronger than they otherwise would be without that vast area of warm water.â&#x20AC;?

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of a one-in-three chance of having a wet winter, and a less than one-inthree chance for having a dry winter.

And while the odds for a wet winter increase toward Southern California, the Gulf Coast and Florida, there’s just a 5- to 10-percent shift in the odds for a wet winter for the Central and Northern Coast, says Mantua.

“It’s pretty subtle,” says Mantua, “but that is the nature of climate forecasting.”

Would a wet winter end our drought?

“While the precipitation outlook suggests good news for California, one season of above-average rain and

snow is unlikely to erase four years of drought,” says Mike Halpert of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.

“The drought outlook shows that some improvement is likely in Central and Southern California by the end of January, but not drought removal. Additional statewide relief is possible during February and March.”

The average annual rainfall in Santa Clara Valley is about 15 inches, according to data from NOAA. During the El Niño storm through 1983, the valley received about 30 inches of rain—double the yearly average. In the El Niño months of

1998, we received 28 inches of rain.

“There was good snowpack in the Sierras, and if we had a repeat of those kind of winters it would definitely put a dent in the drought,” says Mantua. “It wouldn’t wipe out all of our water supply deficit, it wouldn’t recharge all of the ground water that’s been pumped out in the last four years and the last dozens of years, but at least it would help refill reservoirs and recharge our soils and get a snowpack established again in the mountains.”

El Niño was identified by fishermen in Peru and Ecuador as far back as the 1600s—not so much

for its weather patterns as for its negative impacts on fishing. The warm waters shut down nutrientrich upwelling, halting the plankton bloom and subsequently breaking the entire food chain. But El Niño’s warm water can also mean weak upwelling in local waters, too, which could mean poor reproduction this year for Dungeness crab, which are also being plagued by the warm blob’s algae bloom of toxic domoic acid.

The warm water isn’t great for Pacific salmon either, which thrive in cold, upwelled water high in nutrients and a productive plankton community that includes lipid-rich copepods, and other crustaceans like krill, says Mantua.

“During these warm periods we know that it can be stressful for top predators, including salmon, seabirds, sea lions and seals,” says Mantua. Salmon released from hatcheries, which produce most of the salmon caught off the coast of California, are usually fished after they’ve been in the ocean for two or three years, says Mantua, “So it doesn’t have such a big impact on the season that you’re in, but two or three years down the road.”

Similar to past El Niño years, bluefin tuna, opah or moonfish, and bonito—marine life typical off the coast of Southern California—are all currently swarming local waters.

Since the last El Niño, Santa Clara County has experienced almost two decades of relatively mild winters, and Griggs points out that only a small portion of today’s residents were even here to experience the full wrath of an intense storm season.

“It’s like all earthquakes aren’t the same—all floods aren’t the same, and all El Niños are not the same. I’m not sure if people fully understand that,” says Griggs. “I think in terms of flooding, what people are doing is trying to clean out storm drains and get sandbags ready and make sure your roof gutters are clean, which helps the water get out faster.” Even so, “You can’t stop sea levels from rising and you can’t stop the waves from coming,” says Griggs.

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ANY THINGS will happen in an almost two-hour wait for a dinner at Gen Korean BBQ. The late autumn breeze will waft the teasing scent of marinated grilled meats through the front doors. People will open these doors frequently to check the status of the wait. They will be told not for another another hour, at least. Calculations will be made. Is any food worth a two-hour wait?

Already an established chain in Southern California, Gen Korean BBQ recently opened its first branch in San Jose and the crowd here must be a result of its SoCal reputation.

Gen is undoubtedly a hip place with blue neon lighting accents and elegant cushioned booths—modern and vibrant like any good Vegas night club.

Gen serves all you can eat (AYCE) for lunch ($15.99) and dinner ($24.99 starting at 3PM). Small plates of banchan (side dishes) from kimchi and pickles to a scoop of mashed potatoes line the perimeter of a circular grill in the middle of the table. Tall vents hang above the tables to vacuum the fumes, but the aroma of barbeque will cling to clothes.

After the long wait, staff certainly does its best to speed up the rest of the dining experience. Each table can order four dishes of meat per round.

Once the round is served, the waiter will take another order of four dishes.

Upon seating, our first order for five dishes was taken and the waiter also sent out a plate of popcorn chicken to start. It was not long before one plate of meat, then another, hit the table.

This goes on until the diners decide to stop ordering. It is a controlled pace in buffet dining, which fits the ambiance more than having trays of food in chafing dishes under sneeze guards.

Enticing meats on the menu seem to all be described as a premium or a GEN signature cut.

There are parts of cattle and pigs that the average diner may have never seen before, like rib finger meat, beef hanging tender and pork jowl. They are marinated in a variety of sauces or can be ordered plain. The menu could be better organized by protein type rather

than in no specific order. Certain cuts come in a decent portion per order, while shrimp and steak have just a few per plate. A salad dressed in vinaigrette and three dipping sauces comes with the meal, and rice can be ordered with the waiters.

Everything is worth a try—it is buffet after all—but only two things really stood out, beef rib finger meat and bulgogi. Plates of beef rib finger meat alone could make the meal worth $25.

After the long wait, staff certainly does its best to speed up the rest of the dining experience.

Standing in line for nearly two hours, to eat for slightly more than one hour, makes for a lengthy dining experience, not including transit time. The marinades were good, the selection of cuts was considerable, and once seated, the service was speedy. The prices for both lunch and dinner are standard for Korean buffet prices, if not slightly cheaper.

There are not nearly as many side dishes as there are at other buffets, and the ones offered are basic: a premade version of similar tastes can be found in stores. Any number of family-owned Korean buffets on El Camino can provide a quicker and sometimes better tasting protein fix.

It’s too soon to write off Gen Korean BBQ, though. In a few months and the crowds should become more manageable. It’s not like they’re serving the latest iPhone.

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*wed BLACK WEDNESDAY GUIDE South Bay Wed, Various Times Thanksgiving is a time for being, well, thankful—for our family, sure, but also for our friends. And that includes the friends we don’t get to see very often, because life has scattered everyone every which way. Enter Black Wednesday. You know, the day before Thanksgiving, when the local bar becomes a high school reunion.

Everyone you knew as a hormonally hopped-up teenager is back in town … and they’re drunk. Silicon Valley has a number of notable bars that will help ring in the reminiscing this Wednesday, and SanJose.com has a guide to help you decide where to go to reunite, or avoid reuniting, with people from your past. (MS)

GIVE THANKS City National Civic, San Jose Wed, 8pm, $30-$55 If spending Black Wednesday at your local watering hole isn’t for you, then perhaps you’d rather spend the night on the dancefloor. Since 2005, the Give Thanks electronic music festival has been serving up a massive dose of womp for Thanksgiving.

This year’s party will be two days—bookending Turkey Day, with 3LAU, Borgeous, Dyro and more on Wednesday, and Audien, Bingo Players, Mat Zo and other heavy hitters on Friday. Work up an appetite on the 25th and then burn off that gravy on the 27th.

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THANKS FOR LAUGHING San Jose Improv Wed, 8pm, Free Comedy helps us overcome hardship.

So to rally efforts for hungry families this Thanksgiving, San Jose Improv and the Second Harvest Food bank have paired stand-up and charity.

For the price of a bag of canned food, you can snag free tickets to this Thanksgiving comedy extravaganza, featuring a long list of local talent from the American Me Comedy Show. Performers include Dr. Scott, Alby Bustamante, Chris Mitri, Bryan Hicks, Chris Foster, Dany Hawawini, Nate Spears and Nick Hanna, a comic known for riffing on dishonest newscasters, receiving directions from flamboyant New Yorkers, and the media’s unfair coverage of our lame-duck president. (JF)

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Human nature is at its ugliest when otherwise law-abiding citizens trample, gore and joust each other in pursuit of discount do-dads they don’t even need, when we all know the season is really about getting drunk with your in-laws. If you survive the consumerist frenzy and want show off your loot, you can wear that multi-zippered, bedazzled jacket that was just too cheap to pass up to this party. Get on the dance floor and work off that second helping of gravy-smothered Turducken and third slice of marshmallow-topped sweet potato pie before they both settle into a permanent cellulite dimple on your ass. (JF)

F/X ANNIVERSARY The Ritz, San Jose Fri, 8pm, $10 Before there was The Ritz, The Continental and Cafe Stritch, there was F/X The Club. The nightlife destination for unrepentant Gen-X individualists hosted big shows, featuring headliners like They Might Be Giants and No Doubt. F/X helped breathe life into what was once a rundown stretch of South First Street in San Jose. Then the city got involved and put a damper on the party: the club closed its doors 20 years ago. The Ritz now stands where F/X once was, and this Friday will be hosting a party to remember its proud forebearer— inviting the DJs who made F/X famous to spin the records that your boss used to party to. (JF)

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The way we consume music is downright disrespectful. We rip the entire sonic history of our species from the cloud and pump scraggly files laden with glitches and viruses through our tinny laptop speakers.

Such a development makes me pine for an era before my birth when songs were scratched into wax and sold in artful sleeves. The tangibility and delicacy of a 33-RPM record seems a more fitting medium. Thankfully, Streetlight Records has kept the torch burning and is discounting exclusive, antique wares, like original recordings

by Otis Redding, Run D.M.C. and scores of other artists whose music deserves to be heard accompanied by the warm crackle of well-loved vinyl. (JF)

In humanity’s early agricultural days, the harvest festivals celebrated the yield of the fields and marked one last hurrah before the bitter winter.

Now that our food supply is stable, this modern version showcases the fruits of the labor of experienced artisans, who will be displaying over 24,000 original pieces. The three-day affair offers you a onestop shop of oddities, so you may nab nifty gifties for all the people you would like to continue loving you. As you shop, you can decorate gingerbread houses, stop by the Tech Shop’s booth for discounted tickets and enjoy the antics of strolling performers like Mama Claus & Eddie the Elf. (JF)

If buying loads of plastic from corporations who don’t care about you in stores filled with people you hate sounds awful, then consider staying in this Black Friday. But be sure to head out the following day.

This Saturday, Seeing Things Gallery’s pop-up street shop will help you detox from the global economy. There you can buy cool stuff from local vendors that care about the area, staffed by generally decent folks. The punkish, countercultural gallery specializes in procuring wares produced by the area’s vanguarding artists and passing them on to you at reasonable prices.

You won’t need to wait for hours in the predawn chill—it doesn’t even open until noon. (JF)

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The Richmond-born and Oaklandbased Locksmith has a natural ability on the microphone and a firm grasp on history. A mixedrace artist—of Iranian and African descent—he is truly a representative of the polycultural Bay Area hip-hop scene. He clearly draws on his heritage, as well as his degree in African American studies from UC-Berkeley—both when freestyling and when writing his raps. The emcee and producer comes to San Jose in support of his summer 2015 release, Lofty Goals, but he could just as easily still be touring behind his prior record, A Thousand Cuts, which he released in the spring of 2014. (NV)

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Not The Nutcracker BREAKING BREAD Josh (Max Tachis) and Ayelet (Roneet Aliza Rahamim) find rapport over grape juice in ‘Handle With Care,’ which is billed as the ‘perfect Jewish Christmas story.’

‘Handle With Care’ is an alternative to traditional holiday productions

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EEN ENOUGH SCROOGES to last a lifetime? All Nutcrackered out?

Those looking for something sweet and different from the traditional holiday entertainment options may want to check out Handle with Care, the latest offering from City Lights Theater Company.

The bilingual romantic comedy by Jason Odell Williams (with Hebrew portions written by his wife, Charlotte Cohn) is billed as the “perfect Jewish Christmas story,” although it's only loosely a holiday tale.

The action takes place on a snowy Christmas Eve in an unremarkable motel room in Goodview, Virginia.

Ayelet (Roneet Aliza Rahamim), a tourist from Israel, has recently lost her grandmother (played in flashbacks

by Roberta J. Morris). She has “lost” her figuratively—in that she has just died hours earlier—and literally, in that her body has been, er, misplaced by the dim-witted deliveryman Terrance (Jeremy Ryan), hired to help transport it back to Israel for burial within 24 hours, as per traditional Jewish custom. Ayelet doesn't speak much English and Terrance speaks no Hebrew, so he calls on his old childhood pal Josh (City Lights regular Max Tachis), who, with his half-Jewish

background, Terrance hopes, can at least communicate a few words with the distraught woman.

At first Josh is reluctant to get involved, fearing Terrance is trying to rope him into a blind-date situation. He's been alone since the tragic death of his wife 20 months earlier. Once he realizes the situation, though, he feels a connection to Ayelet and the griefstricken pair begins to slowly let their guard down and form a bond.

Meanwhile, through flashbacks, we see Ayelet and her grandma Edna in the same hotel room the day before.

(The actors speak in English in these scenes but it is understood that the characters are actually speaking in their native Hebrew.) Edna has been dragging Ayelet, damaged from a bad relationship and haunted by recurring dreams, on a tour of dull Virginia towns and motels, to see the “real America,” but her true motivations are eventually revealed.

I'll try not to spoil any plot twists, except to say that there are some nice ones.

In addition to the play's writers being a married couple, the charming lead actors Rahamim and Tachis are real-life lovebirds, which sweetens the production. They have some lovely scenes together using a mix of broken English and Hebrew, discussing everything from pop culture to the importance of Shabbat. I can't vouch for Rahamim's Hebrew skills or accent but it sounded convincing to me, as she switches effortlessly from Hebrew to Israeli-accented English, to American-accented English. Though many of her lines are in Hebrew, the audience, much like Josh, doesn't need to know the language to follow along.

Overcoming the language barrier through human connection, though, is part of the show's theme.

I found the characters of Edna and Terrance to be somewhat less endearing than the principals. Edna is a stereotypical “quirky,” busybody of a woman—always knowing better— while goofy Terrance is a bit too over the top in his guileless yokel routine.

Still, Tachis and Ryan do have good chemistry, and share some funny moments playing off each other's reactions. Terrance calls Josh “broseph.”

Ron Gasparinetti has done a great job of recreating the look of a bland hotel that could be anywhere in middle America. Lighting and effects cues remind us of the blizzard raging outside each time a character opens the door, adding subtly to the winter atmosphere.

Other than some mentions of the date, along with It's a Wonderful Life and Josh's family’s “HanuMas” celebrations (plus some Christmas Carols included in the pre-show playlist), the show is not overbearing with its holiday spirit, although Edna and Terrance act as angels of sorts, working to bring about a miracle for their lonely loved ones. Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, both, or neither, Handle With Care is a cup of good cheer, warming up the season like peppermint cocoa on a cold night.

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Call 408-286-9905 or visit www.sjdt.org San JosĂŠ Dance Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN The winner of 13 Tonys, 9 Drama Desk Awards, and the Pulitzer, this American classic follows the last days of Willy Loman as he deals with disintegration of his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hopes for the American Dream. Jan 15- 31. $32. Lucie Stern Theatre.

Palo Alto Players. Palo Alto.

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

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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.

THE MOUNTAIN TOP In April of 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. This awardwinning production inserts spunky motel maid Camae, who bends facts toward the fantastic. Jan 15-31. $10-$35.

Pear Theatre. Mountain View.

on the way to their ďŹ rst gig in a collision with a school bus. But now, the ethereal fellas will get one more shot to hit a heavenly harmony. $20-$35. Jan 30-Feb 21.

South Bay Musical Theatre.

Saratoga Civic Theatre.

39 STEPS In the course of 100 minutes, four actors step in and out of 139 roles in this award-winning farce that follows a proper British, Hitchcockian hero who encounters two-timing spies and deceitful dames. An absurdist masterwork. Nov 25-Dec 20. $55-$65. The San Jose Stage.

*concerts DAYDREAM NATION San Pedro Square Market hosts its monthly last Saturday, alternative concert.

Free. San Pedro Square Market. San Jose.

Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie formed a ďŹ&#x201A;annel jacket quartet who perished

*art MUSEUMS NUMU LOS GATOS â&#x20AC;&#x153;The NASA Paintingsâ&#x20AC;? by Rick Guidice. Thru Feb 14. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art of Social Justice: Woody Guthrie and the Power of Songwriting.â&#x20AC;? Thru May 16. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER â&#x20AC;&#x153;Piranesiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered.â&#x20AC;? Thru Jan 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Artists at Workâ&#x20AC;? demystiďŹ es the creative process. Thru Jan 18. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed.â&#x20AC;? Thru Feb 8. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Edward Hopper: New York Corner.â&#x20AC;? Thru Feb 8.

Stanford.

CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DISCOVERY MUSEUM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Imagination Playgroundâ&#x20AC;?

Put together megasized foam tinker toys to construct an endless array of possibilities. 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.

TOSPS TUESDAYS A weekly showcase of Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budding music scene across all genres.

Most Tuesdays, 7pm. Thru Dec. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

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

Computer History Museum.

Mountain View.

*opera MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masterpiece details a comedic love square between a Count, a Countess and two of their servants, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the most performed operas worldwide.

Nov 14-29, various times: $75-$150. Opera San Jose.

California Theatre.

CAFFE FRASCATI FOREVER PLAID

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Opera Night. First Friday of every month. San Jose.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Closer by the Minuteâ&#x20AC;? David and Hi-Jin Hodge explore the contrast between the splendor of Niagara Falls and the shabby town near it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rewind: Works from the Video Collectionâ&#x20AC;? Thru Dec 6.

Santa Clara.

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

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Slugs, Dingbats, and Tramp Printingâ&#x20AC;? The printing press is one of the most important inventions in human history.

See the machine that printed the ďŹ rst newspaper in California. Thru Dec 12.

San Jose.

LOS GATOS COMPANY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery,â&#x20AC;? featuring the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Maasai tribe of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Woodcarvings of Val Gardena, Italy,â&#x20AC;? featuring handcrafted wood-carved ďŹ gures. Los Gatos.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maker Spaceâ&#x20AC;? Thru Jan

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SoFA District (and beyond) on the First Friday of the month.

DECEMBER 4th ART WALK

Anno Domini

Art Ark Gallery

KALEID Gallery

366 So. 1st St.

1035 So. 6th St.

88 So. 4th St.

galleryONE: Eminence Front Bill Koeb (NC) solo exhibition.

Bill Koeb is a painter, illustrator and comic book artist well known for his work in the comic series Hellraiser by Clive Barker and his paintings in the film The Crow City of Angels (attributed to character Sarah.) The series presented here are new monographs by Koeb depicting intimate desires and secrets of anonymous subjects.

THE MORE THE MERRIER VI 2015 Salon-style Holiday Art Exhibition and Sale Featuring original artwork by 50 local artists working in a variety of media with most work priced under $200, making this event the perfect place to find gifts for the holiday season.

HARK! Annual Holiday Show & Sale

photo by Lost San Jose/ Josh Marcotte

MLK Public Library ThirdSpace Fitness

WORKS San José

150 E. San Fernando St.

550 So. First St.

365 So. Market St.

Limitations in Digital Media or It’s not a bug it’s a feature! Digital art by game developer Kelsey Higham as well as mainstream games by Capcom and Tomohiro Nishikado. This interactive exhibit will investigate the unique nature of digital development and their limitations.Today, these limitations can be imperceptible to human senses, but in the early years of digital art and game development these limitations actually became features associated with the game.

Type as Image Design students of Professor Vera Fainshtein at the College of San Mateo will be debuting their digital illustrations created with various forms of typography.

Benefit Art Auction Nearly 100 works of art have been donated by our region’s established and emerging artists for the Benefit Auction on 12/12. Now it’s your turn to support community art by building your art collection in Silicon Valley’s most accessible, eclectic, and exciting art auction!

Featured students: John Carungay, Jennifer Chiapelone, Derrick Chinn, Ariana Ferguson, Evghenia Greiner, Angela Kim, Nicole Ortega, Clarissa Perez, Daniel Welch and Haowei Zhou.

Daguerreotype by Binh Danh

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galleryTWO: Orbital–Cut Up and Rewired Dale VN Marshall (UK) Marshall has cut up and reworked parts of a 30 foot self portrait on recycled cardboard originally exhibited illegally on the streets in Bristol UK.

Over 40 artists from KALEID Gallery plus others invited from our broader arts community participate in this festive annual event. Multiple works by each artist will be available at holiday gift giving prices. Hundreds of one of a kind paintings, sculpture, photography and jewelry will be available beginning First Friday December 4th at 7pm during the South FIRST FRIDAYS Art Walk. First come, first served–all works may be taken home at the time of purchase.

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

KALEID GALLERY “God’s Garden” by Anthony Palomo. “Atomic Number 92”

by Andrew Irvine. San Jose.

MEZCAL Art by J. Danniel. Mezcal Restaurant, 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.

PHO69 Watercolors by Made’ Sukerti Berg. San Jose.

PSYCHO DONUTS Works by John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, John Hageman and Robert McColley. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

MAN OF LA MANCHA The original knight errant comes to Los Altos Stage Company.

28 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.

Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

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

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “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.

GALLERIES 2TWENTY5 Alternative Art next to fresh duds. San Jose.

Jim Campbell: New Work and Collaboration with Jane Rosen.

Nov 15-Feb 13. San Jose.

ANNO DOMINI

SEEING THINGS GALLERY

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

Thru Dec 12. San Jose.

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

ART ARK GALLERY

STUDIO ROCK CLIMBING GYM

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

“Petrified” Works by Andy Wallace. San Jose.

ART BOUTIKI

TECHSHOP SAN JOSE

Monthly Midtown Beat Show.

San Jose.

Daily Classes offered on Art and Technology. San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY

WORKS SAN JOSE

Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan.

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

Pieces from benefit art auction. San Jose.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS

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“The Sum of Parts” Artwork from CSMA's Visual Art Classes. Dec 11-Jan 18.

Mountain View.

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

GALLERY HOUSE “Artful” Holiday Show. Thru Dec 24. Palo Alto.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI MOVIE NIGHT Kidnappings, Nihilism, and Vietnam all factor prominently in this indescribable cult comedy that unravels in spectacular fashion after a Zen stoner gets his room-unviting rug urinated upon. Wed, Nov 25, 6pm. Free. Art Boutiki.

Girl Interrupted BEEKEEPER’S DAUGHTER Gelsomina (Maria Alexandra Lungu) plays an Italian pre-teen yearning for a life beyond the simple farm where she’s grown up.

In ‘The Wonders,’ an adolescent Italian girl is tempted by television

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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OMETIMES, WHEN WATCHING a really firstrate movie, you don’t know where everyone stands—after an hour or two, the characters’ loyalties and disappointments are still a mystery. How deeply have they hurt each other? How far are they sunk in their own obsessions? That’s for them to know and for you to find out.

Director Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders is set during the summer in

Italy’s Etruscan region. Occupation by humans for 3,000 years can certainly scrape a place bare. A large mixed family works at beekeeping while living in a rented ruin of a farmhouse. The would-be patriarch of the family, Wolfgang (Sam Louwyck), is from some especially self-serious part of Germany. He’s solemn and hollow-eyed from the lack of money and the worry of having sired so many little girls. (The Italian locals taunt Wolfgang, asking him when he’s going to get around to having sons.) Some sort of fanaticism hangs over Wolfgang like fever hangs over a marsh. Rohrwacher keeps Wolfgang’s motives for becoming a farmer a mystery—when he gets a moment in

front of the TV cameras, he starts to talk about his views on the upcoming end of the world, but no one wants to hear him out.

It’s tacitly agreed among the family that Gelsomina (Maria Alexandra Lungu) is the brains. She’s 11 and has a strong resemblance to Mona Lisa in both olive coloring and cryptic half-smile. It only takes one moment to make us realize that The Wonders is Gelsomina’s story—it’s the moment when we see Gelsomina looking over her shoulder at her childish sisters playing in the middle distance. We seem to be watching the very instant when Gelsomina crosses the edge of adolescence.

An exchange of lines between the parents keeps us from really knowing how long the family is going to stay: “This is supposed to be a vacation.” “No, it’s not!” The rounds of the day include keeping track of the bucket under

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the slowly dripping honey extractor.

Another task is retrieving a swarm of bees from a churchyard, while trying to make the priest understand that they’re not acting as pest control for free.

Just as you can’t tell how old the crumbling farmhouse is—100 years or 300?—we never resolve the question of what the forlorn adult friend named Coco (Sabine Timoteo) is doing with the family. Is she an aunt?

A sister-wife? A hired hand?

The arrival of outsiders brings this vacation/not a vacation to an end. On an expedition to a nearby beach, the beekeepers stumble across a live film set. It’s a TV pageant meant to tantalize tourists, luring them to the area for a farms-to-forks scheme. Gelsomina and her sisters are charmed by the show’s princesslike hostess, Milly (Monica Bellucci, who recently appeared in Spectre, plays this UHF TV-worthy chimera).

Winners of the best local farm award will attend a ceremony filmed inside an Etruscan tomb, tarted up for the occasion with Christmas lights and costumes. The Wonders’ odd title comes from the name of this show within a show. Even this low-budget telefest is too much for the father, who views the tinsel, costumes and wigs as a corrupting force, luring his daughters away from the soulcleansing of hard work.

While everything in this movie could be transplanted with ease to, say, Tehama County, The Wonders is unique beyond its Etrurian terroir.

Rohrwacher, who had some childhood experience tending bees on a farm, claims she had a “pre-Freudian” fairy tale of a film in mind. She’s achieved it—this is an alluring coming of age story in which the fault lines between the extended family members don’t run in the customary places.

The young heroine is on her own enchanted wavelength. Gelsomina has a memorable trick—she’s so in touch with the animistic world around her that she can carry a live bee in her mouth without being stung. The details of low-budget farming are observed with clarity, but it’s still a movie of strange country magic.

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metroactive FILM VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN Victor (James McAvoy) is a mad scientist of 1850 who revivifies circus chimps and gives impromptu claret-fueled lectures on the future of in vitro fertilization to shocked society ladies. His new BFF (Daniel Radcliffe) is a nameless circus hunchback who is actually a brilliant self-trained physician, practicing medicine when he isn’t wearing greasepaint and staring longingly at the aerialist Lorelei (Jessica Brown Findlay, who turns up every thirteen minutes or so, and then goes away).

Victor gives the hunchback a bit of doctoring, some chiropractic manipulation, and a corset, and then bestows on him the name Ygor, because that was the name of Victor’s previous roommate. Now he is the pretty Daniel Radcliffe we all know and love. Trying to reanimate what it considers dead flesh, Max Landis’ script for Victor Frankenstein insists that we’ve heard the story before. (Landis must have read the shmoop.com version of the Mary Shelley, and adapted that complete with dated gags.) Director Paul McGuigan, who revivified Sherlock Holmes for the BBC, keeps the tempo going. The film’s standout is production designer Eve Stewart (Les Miz) who created a mud and satin London with baroque details, such as a Gotham City-style abandoned factory with an animated giant wooden sign outside. The thin copper wire, which filigrees the dead meat of Frankenstein is dazzling, resembling a jeweler’s version of veins and capillaries.

Another unsettling touch—the Frankenchimp gives off sparks from its overloaded circuits as it walks.

The attitude of the mad scientists toward their God-defying work changes with every scene, but their persecutor, Inspector Turpin (Andrew Scott) takes this vivisection as an offense to the Almighty.

Unfortunately, Victor Frankenstein never rises to Scott’s level of seriousness. (RvB)

JUST IMAGINE/UP THE RIVER (both 1930) It’s clumsy and static in that early talkie stand-andenunciate style, but you’ll want to see it. In this, the Futurama of its day, we travel to the amazing world of 1980. There are hoverplanes, food and booze pills, baby-making machines and suits with those pointed collars they wore in Goodfellas (an obscure style of the 1930s Scorsese revived). But these inventions have a cost: wives are

assigned by the government, and two lovelorn futurians don’t want to marry the ladies they’ve been issued. That’s when a resurrected man from the past (the once enormously popular Swedish dialect comedian Elmer “El” Brendel) bumbles his way into the plot. A musical, but the operetta-ish show tunes aren’t noteworthy, except for the novelty number “Never Swat a Fly,” which ought to be learned by every uke-bearing individual (it was recorded decades ago by jug band revivalist Jim Kweskin). The sets and props were reused into the 1930s Flash Gordon serials, George Lucas’ primary inspiration for Star Wars, and the finale is a rocket trip to Mars where the Martian girls look like Bernadette Peters BILLED WITH Up the River. Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy are feuding fellow jailbirds in this rumbustious John Ford comedy that ends with the two macho leads in drag. (Plays Nov 25-26 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

CRIMSON PEAK Director Guillermo del Toro’s tribute to the English macabre cinema is so worshipful that he even names his captive girl Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) … as in Peter Cushing, icon of Hammer Films. The haunted but lovely daughter of a master builder in Buffalo in the 1890s, Edith longs to be a writer. And when a slim, black-clad baronet named Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) arrives to cause a social sensation, Edith wants to marry him. But this aristocrat is penniless, and Edith’s doting father Carter (Jim Beaver, very believable as a man of his time) detects the smell of a fortune hunter. When the millionaire dad meets with a fatal mishap, Edith is spirited away to Allerdale Hall on the cold borderlands with Scotland. Because of the damp blood-red clay in the area, the crumbling old manor is known as “Crimson Peak”—and Thomas’s sinister, raven-haired sister (Jessica Chastain, terrific) seems ready and willing to add to the local color. Back in Buffalo, Edith’s old friend, Dr. Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam) an oculist who believes in ectoplasm, heads for a long slow rescue. For its décor and ravishing color, the haunted house is insubstantial in CG, as well as unfeasible—gooey with red clay and open to the elements, it’s so draughty it snows indoors.Del Toro has taste and yet knows how to twist a knife. (RvB)

REVIEW

SHINE A LIGHT ‘Spotlight’ tells the story of a special investigative team that uncovered a pattern of child abuse within the Catholic archdiocese of Boston.

All The Archbishop’s Men WITH TREMENDOUS cynicism, the Catholic archdiocese of Boston concealed the actions of dozens of priests who were known to be serial pedophiles—a story exposed by the Boston Globe in a Pulitzerwinning series in 2002. It’s hard to imagine a film approaching this subject without fury, but Spotlight is one such movie—and one honors the film’s lack of thundering about the horror of it all. This film lets its audience bring their own anger.

In the year 2001, the “Spotlight” team was a group of deep investigative reporters based in a windowless room at the Globe.

It’s leader is Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton). Keaton can be a glorious minimalist as an actor, and seeing the flickers in his face, one can imagine (just as when he was Batman) that he’d be a hard man to lie to. A chilly new editor enters the scene—Liev Schrieber’s Marty Barton.

This cold fish in wire-rim spectacles has one advantage. As a Jew from out of state, he’s not part of the Boston Irish milieu in which the politicians, the police and the church are entangled.

The movie insists on the importance of keeping hysteria out of the newsroom. Of the crew of newspaper reporters we see here, only Mark Ruffalo’s Mike Rezendes gets seriously exerted—he gets the runaround

when he discovers that the Church can somehow reach into the public hall of records and remove embarrassing material from its files. Rachel McAdams’ Sacha Pfeiffer is an expert at finding leads, from unearthing a senile priest who confesses all, to coaxing the truth out of a Spotlight molestation victim.

The top-drawer cast R; 128 Mins. includes Len Cariou as Valleywide Cardinal Law, and Stanley Tucci and Billy Crudup as lawyers of very different ethical standards. Director Tom McCarthy has made a few small character studies such as Win-Win and The Station Agent. This is his first great movie: an intricate, wellpulsed film, a model of cool handling of inflammatory subject matter. No Sorkinist nose-to-nose scenes here.

And McCarthy is a master of details.

In a scene set in the Globe’s morgue preparing a file for the reporters— McCarthy watches the process step by step—we see Spotlight as a tribute to the vanishing world of how news was once gathered. It might be easier to forgive the Catholic Church than it is to forgive the Wall Streeters who gutted these papers of record.

—Richard von Busack

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MAJOR TOM The Oakland-based Phenomenauts have been putting a sci-fi spin on psychobilly for 15 years.

Phenomenauts hack Warped Tour, love Neil DeGrasse Tyson

BY NICK VERONIN

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HE PHENOMENAUTS are not unlike The Justice League or The Avengers. This rocketfueled collective of rockabilly punks have been featured in their own comic books, each member of the group has an alias, and they hold meetings at a home base, known as The Command Center.

And just like Batman—the vigilante, dark knight—or the oftmisunderstood Man of Steel, the Oakland-based band has been forced to bend the rules on occasion. But

only when the powers that be are unable to see just what a powerful force for good they are missing out on.

Consider their origin story: Formed in 2000, the Phenomenauts struggled to book gigs during their first couple of years on the scene—especially at bigger venues.

Undaunted, band leader Commander Angel Nova formulated a plan. The band set up their own clandestine stage outside the gates of the San Francisco stop of the 2002 Warped Tour. Not long after they began playing to the legions of punk rock fans filing into the festival, a security guard told them to get a move on. However, while loading their gear—in full “uniform”—into the group’s “space van,” another

security guard kindly directed them to the official artist entrance.

“He assumed they were supposed to be there,” says AR7, the group’s guitar-playing and singing “robot.”

Though he was not a part of the band at the time, AR7, like all inductees into the Phenomenauts, has become well versed in the group’s storied, 15year history.

Once inside the perimeter, the band identified a place to play, adjacent to an empty stage and were promptly invited to take the stage by a friendly sound engineer, who informed them that the band scheduled to play in the upcoming time slot had cancelled.

“They sold every single item of merchandise they brought with them this day,” AR7 says, adding that on that day Nova decided that the following year, the group would attempt to sneak into as many stops on the Warped tour as they could.

In 2003, the group found it was easy enough to get into the Warped

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venues, AR7 says. And by deploying their culinary expertise—in the form of complimentary breakfast burritos for the Warped crew—the Phenomenauts forged powerful alliances. By the time Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman caught wind of their stunt, he was a fan. He invited them back in 2004 and even gave the band curatorial control over their very own “Space Station Stage.”

In the years following their storming of the Warped Tour, The Phenomenauts have gained a loyal following in the Bay Area and earned fans all over the world. AR7 contributes the band’s success to a refusal to conform.

“I think that all of us, we’re sort of tired of the idea of a band just going up in their regular clothes, playing some songs and not putting a lot of energy—or, for lack of a better word, pizazz—into their shows.”

A Phenomenauts show is nothing if not full of pizazz. Every member of the band wears a uniform reminiscent of those worn by enlisted personnel on the Starship Enterprise. Over the years, the group has introduced a number of so-called “Phenoma-gadgets” into their performances. There is AR7’s “Theramatic Helmerator,” a piece of headgear equipped with a wireless Theremin; and the “Streamerator,” a leafblower that unfurls rolled toilet. All of these homemade devices are an integral part of the show, according to AR7.

“It’s important to us, because we want to just blow the lid off of every place we play,” he says. “We want to give the most entertaining show— visually and aurally—that we can.”

The group brings that show to The Ritz this weekend. AR7 says they’ll be performing music from their 2014 full-length, Escape Velocity, and may even play one—or both—songs from their forthcoming 7-inch picture disc, “I’m With Neil” (a tribute to Neil DeGrasse Tyson) and “Every Day is Science Friday” (a paean to the NPR program of the same name).

“A lot of our fans are into science, comic books and science fiction,” AR7 explains. “They appreciate it.”

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Sat, Nov 28, 7pm: The Fabulous Cruisetones. Sun, Nov 29, 1pm: Wil Roberts Duo. San Jose.

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METROACTIVE.COM Mike Schermer. Sun, Nov 29, 2pm: Rusty Zinn’s Reggae San Jose.

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

San Jose.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE Fri: Live music. Santa Clara.

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.

Jazz/Blues/ World AGAVE

C&W/Folk

AGENDA LOUNGE

DANA STREET COFFEE

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

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

CARDIFF LOUNGE

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CUSTOM SHIRT PRINTING

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.

Full color T-Shirts from your art, no set-up charges, no minimum order starting at $15.

Wed, Nov 25, 7:30pm: Maneck. Fri, Nov 27, 8pm: Eddie Toro Band. Sat, Nov 28, 8pm: Tsunami. Every Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

MOJO LOUNGE

THE ART BOUTIKI 408-971-8929 www.artboutiki.com

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

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

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday.

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Are bananas radioactive? Sure. In fact, a few decades ago, a government physicist with a knack for public relations created what he called the banana equivalent dose, or BED, which proposes one bananaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth as the measure of a minuscule amount of radiation. He was trying to convey the notion that minuscule amounts of radiation are something we encounter everywhere, including, yes, the produce section.

Are bananas, by virtue of their radioactivity, dangerous? If that logic attracts you, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want to spend tonight on the sofa. Over a year, sleeping next to your boyfriend is liable to expose you to one millirem of harmful radiationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; about a hundred times more than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get from eating the average banana, and thus 100 BEDs. Physicists call this background radiation, which we absorb constantly from sources both natural (like radon gas, the result of uranium breaking down in the soil) and manmade (like nuclear power plants). In this case, both boyfriend and banana contain the element potassium, which winds up in the body via food and in food via soil, fertilizer, etc.

Bananas are a good source of potassium nutritionally, but the amount they contain is small: only about four grams per kilogram. Now, about 0.01 percent of all potassium occurs in the form of the unstable though extremely long-lived isotope potassium-40, or K-40.

Roughly one in 11 times that K-40 decays, it converts to argon-40. Ar-40 is stable, but conversion from K-40 leaves it very brieďŹ&#x201A;y in whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called an excited state, overcharged with energy. In promptly transitioning to its normal energy level, or ground state, it kicks out a biologically harmful gamma rayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the stuff your mother warned you about, provided your mother was a nuclear physicist. Within the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior, potassium-to-argon conversion is occurring continually on a beyond-massive scale. The radioactive output of a single banana, though, is tinyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fractions of fractions of fractions.

OK, you say. But what about, like, a whole bunch of bananas? I mean, truckloads of the fruit have been known to trigger radiation sensors at international borders. There are some countries in Africa where bananas constitute up to a quarter

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Outside of a shielded laboratory environment, taking an exact measurement of bananagenic radiation is tricky. Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try, though. I sent my assistant Una to the nearest grocery to gauge conditions in the ďŹ eld. She started by measuring the ambient radiation in the air at the store: eight microrems. (The rem is a unit of radiation dosage that, like much of our metric-system-defying measurement, is unique to the United States; more advanced civilizations have switched to the sievert.) Then Una measured the radiation in the banana bin: 15 microrems. Una broadened the investigation. Idaho potatoes? Eleven microrems. Kitty litter? A whopping 19.

(We presume youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not eating that.)

Not to unduly freak your boyfriend out, but Brazil nuts, lima beans, and red meat can all produce Geiger readings as high as or higher than bananas do.

Exposure-wise, then, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much of a threat here. Diet-wise, I asked Una to crunch the numbers. The key here is that (assuming normal kidney function) potassium doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accumulate in the body; the K-40 youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dealing with is whatever youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve recently ingested. Thus, according to Una, in order to get radiation poisoningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; not even dieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from consuming bananas, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to put away 82,552,779, a meal after which, obviously, radiation is going to be the least of your bodily concerns.

So thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the micro to the macro.

What about the other way around?

Here we ďŹ nd some wit at Forbes trying to downplay the effects of the 2011 nuclear meltdown at Fukushima by comparing the radiation emitted there each hour to 76 million bananasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only 76 million! Hence we get a peek at the dark side of the BED, which certain paranoid corners of the Internet see as a nefarious distraction promulgated by Big Nuke: Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s afraid of a little old banana? Humorless, sure, but these folks arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t totally off-base. For instance, a 2014 op-ed column in South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Business Day endeavored to make the case that, in the wake of Fukushima, the proposed building of new nuclear power plants was really no big deal because, come on, bananas are radioactive too. The guy who created the BED just wanted to demystify radiation, but I wonder if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s developed any concerns about the conceptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s half-life.

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It was so much easier when we only wore fig leaves and you could just rake next to the bed.

To be human is to be annoying to some other human. Like by doing that weird clicking thing with your tongue or always leaving the kitchen cabinets ajar (very helpful for any dishes prone to claustrophobia).

At first, such behaviors can seem oddly endearing—as does a new boyfriend’s abandoning his socks instead of making that harrowing 62.5-inch trek to the hamper. In time, however, a woman can start having some less-than-constructive ideas.

As your boyfriend’s letting his socks fall to the bedroom rug like snow, do you think he’s all “Ha, I’ll show her!”—or more “Pillow, here I come!”? The air bag against resenting him is love— not love as a mere feeling but love as an activity, an action you choose to take. Assuming your guy’s basically a good person who loves you, try to behave as if you haven’t forgotten that you love him. Even when you hate him a little.

Unfortunately, change is hard.

Behaviors become habits, and the

personality traits that contribute to them are biologically driven. However, psychologist Art Markman explains that we can structure our environment to help us reshape our behavior. In “Smart Change,” he advises building a reminder to do a desired behavior into your environment in a way that it can’t be avoided. Upon repeating a new behavior about 20 times, you create the beginnings of a new habit.

In your situation, this could even be fun. Each night for a few weeks, leave a sheet of paper with a different message on his pillow, maybe starting with a Magic Markered smiling cartoon hamper saying, “Feed meeee!” (One night, you could even tuck the hamper in under the covers.) Should you fail to amuse him out of his laundry-leaving ways, try to maintain perspective.

Consider the idiocy of some people who say they’ll do “anything” for love: move, quit, give up the British throne (sadly, a moot point for most of us).

Their stance only changes once they have love—at which point “anything” involves stopping just short of picking up a small fabric item from the rug.

I contributed to the ruin of my marriage with my big mouth, constantly sharing our intimate details with my girlfriends. Well, my wonderful new boyfriend is a pretty private person and has asked that I not share this stuff with my chick circle, and I’ve agreed. However, my friends have gotten used to living vicariously through my drama, and they aren’t liking my new tight-lipped approach. They even seem resentful, like I don’t trust them anymore.—New Boundaries

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Yes, I’ve heard—privacy is supposedly dead (buried in a shallow grave with a dial-up modem somewhere in Jersey).

And yes, many people treat it that way.

However, though the private details of our lives—our thoughts, emotions, and closed-door doings—aren’t things you can hold (like your Hooked on Phonics coffee mug), they are our possessions just like the physical objects we own. In an 1890 Harvard Law Review article, Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren explain that privacy is a natural human right that

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Explain that this has nothing to do with them and everything to do with your boyfriend’s right to pick the privacy settings on his life. And no, the fact that you and he are in situations together doesn’t change that. He’s agreed to share his life with you, not with your friends, your Twitter followers, and three cranky federal agents in the “Heating and Cooling” van outside his house.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘yes’ without having asked any clear question,” wrote French author Albert Camus.

I have rarely seen you better poised than you are now to embody and capitalize on this definition of “charm,” Aries. That's good news, right? Well, mostly.

But there are two caveats. First, wield your mojo as responsibly as you can. Infuse your bewitching allure with integrity. Second, be precise about what it is you want to achieve—even if you don't come right out and tell everyone what it is. Resist the temptation to throw your charm around haphazardly.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I suspect that in the coming days you will have an uncanny power to make at least one of your resurrection fantasies come true. Here are some of the possibilities. 1. If you're brave enough to change your mind and shed some pride, you could retrieve an expired dream from limbo. 2. By stirring up a bit more chutzpah that you usually have at your disposal, you might be able to revive and even restore a forsaken promise.

3. Through an act of grace, it's possible you will reanimate an ideal that was damaged or abandoned.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To the other eleven signs of the zodiac, the Way of the Gemini sometimes seems rife with paradox and contradiction. Many non-Geminis would feel paralyzed if they had to live in the midst of so much hubbub. But when you are at your best, you thrive in the web of riddles. In fact, your willingness to abide there is often what generates your special magic.

Your breakthroughs are made possible by your high tolerance for uncertainty. How many times have I seen a Gemini who has been lost in indecision but then suddenly erupts with a burst of crackling insights? This is the kind of subtle miracle I expect to happen soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In September of 1715, a band of Jacobite rebels gathered for a guerrilla attack on Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Their plan was to scale the walls with rope ladders, aided by a double agent who was disguised as a castle sentry.

But the scheme failed before it began. The rope ladders turned out to be too short to serve their intended purpose. The rebels retreated in disarray.

Please make sure you're not like them in the coming weeks, Cancerian. If you want to engage in a strenuous action, an innovative experiment, or a bold stroke, be meticulous in your preparations. Don't scrimp on your props, accouterments and resources.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you give children the option of choosing between food that's mushy and food that's crunchy, a majority will choose the crunchy stuff. It's more exciting to their mouths, a more lively texture for their teeth and tongues to play with. This has nothing to do with nutritional value, of course. Soggy oatmeal may foster a kid's well-being better than crispy potato chips. Let's apply this lesson to the way you feed your inner child in the coming weeks. Metaphorically speaking, I suggest you serve that precious part of you the kind of sustenance that's both crunchy and healthy.

In other words, make sure that what's wholesome is also fun, and vice versa.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your mascot is a famous white oak in Athens, Georgia. It's called the Tree That Owns Itself. According to legend, it belongs to no person or institution, but only to itself. The earth in which it's planted and the land around it are also its sole possession. With this icon as your inspiration, I invite you to enhance and celebrate your sovereignty during the next seven months. What actions will enable you to own yourself more thoroughly? How can you boost your autonomy and become, more than ever before, the boss of you? It's prime time to expedite this effort.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Police in Los Angeles conducted an experiment on a 10-mile span of freeway. Drivers in three unmarked cars raced along as fast as they could while remaining in the same lane. The driver of the fourth car not only moved at top speed, but also changed lanes and jockeyed for position. Can you guess the results? The car that weaved in and out of the traffic flow arrived just slightly ahead of the other three. Apply this lesson to your activities in the coming week, please.

By ROB BREZSNY week of November 25

There will be virtually no advantage to indulging in frenetic, erratic, breakneck exertion. Be steady and smooth and straightforward.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will generate lucky anomalies and helpful flukes if you use shortcuts, flee from boredom, and work smarter rather than harder. On the other hand, you'll drum up wearisome weirdness and fruitless flukes if you meander all over the place, lose yourself in far-off fantasies, and act as if you have all the time in the world. Be brisk and concise, Scorpio. Avoid loafing and vacillating. Associate with bubbly activators who make you laugh and loosen your iron grip. It's a favorable time to polish off a lot of practical details with a light touch.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.” Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön said that, and now I'm telling you. According to my divinations, a new frontier is calling to you. An unprecedented question has awakened. The urge to leave your familiar circle is increasingly tempting. I don't know if you should surrender to this brewing fascination.

I don't know if you will be able to gather the resources you would require to carry out your quest.

What do you think? Will you be able to summon the necessary audacity? Maybe the better inquiry is this: Do you vow to use all your soulful ingenuity to summon the necessary audacity?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe that two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot,” Mary Ruefle wrote in her book Madness, Rack, and Honey. “The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground.” I think that's a paradox you'd be wise to keep in mind, Capricorn. In the coming weeks, what's most delicate and vulnerable about you will have more staying power than what's massive and fixed. Trust your grace and tenderness more than your fierceness and forcefulness. They will make you as smart as you need to be.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aztec king Montezuma II quenched his daily thirst with one specific beverage.

He rarely drank anything else. It was ground cocoa beans mixed with chili peppers, water, vanilla, and annatto.

Spiced chocolate? You could call it that. The frothy brew was often served to him in golden goblets, each of which he used once and then hurled from his royal balcony into the lake below. He regarded this elixir as an aphrodisiac, and liked to quaff a few flagons before heading off to his harem. I bring this up, Aquarius, because the coming weeks will be one of those exceptional times when you have a poetic license to be almost Montezuma-like.

What's your personal equivalent of his primal chocolate, golden goblets, and harem?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Unfortunately, I'm pretty lucky,” my friend Rico said to me recently. He meant that his relentless good fortune constantly threatens to undermine his ambition. How can he be motivated to try harder and grow smarter and get stronger if life is always showering him with blessings? He almost wishes he could suffer more so that he would have more angst to push against. I hope you won't fall under the spell of that twisted logic in the coming weeks, Pisces. This is a phase of your cycle when you're likely to be the beneficiary of an extra-strong flow of help and serendipity. Please say this affirmation as often as necessary: “Fortunately, I'm pretty lucky.”

Homework: What's the most selfish, narcissistic thing about you? Do you think that maybe you should transform it? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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

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