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THE FLY

Class Clown DAVID GERARD, a first-year school board trustee in Morgan Hill, might want to staple a dunce cap to his head after pulling a series of head-slapping rookie moves in emails discovered by the Morgan Hill Times. Numerous messages show Gerard has been cozying up to community activists while insulting his board colleagues and the Morgan Hill Unified School District superintendent.

In one message, Gerard disparaged former trustee AMY PORTER-JENSEN as “Bully PJ,” adding that she had a “big ass” and wore “slut shoes."

He also used his district-provided email account to pen fictional news accounts, one of which documented Superintendent STEVE BETANDO’s imaginary flight to Mexico with millions in district funds while palling around with a 19-year-old, drug-smuggling prostitute. The emails were made public last week, when Gerard and the rest of the seven-member board were taking part in an annual education conference They in San Diego. Guess Did who wasn’t invited to What? happy hour? Reached SEND TIPS TO by phone, Gerard FLY@ apologized for the METRONEWS. COM emails. He said he was simply trying to “cheer up” activist ROB GUYNN, who was sick and depressed on his birthday, and hoped to make him “spit up in laughter.” Instead, Morgan Hill residents were spitting up their breakfast. In another email, Gerard compared an angry parent who speaks regularly at board meetings to ROSA PARKS, “who refused to ride in the back of the bus!”

Superintendent Betando was compared to infamous Governor GEORGE WALLACE, while Gerard compared himself to the iconic BOBBY KENNEDY. “It’s something that I shouldn’t have written,” Gerard said. “I’m going to be raked over the coals and deserve to be.” Actually, he deserves to be recalled, but Morgan Hill residents should settle for his resignation.

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AN JOSE SaberCats owner Dave Fry stood field level with his son as the team prepared for a late summer game against the rival Arizona Rattlers. Bad blood was brewing. The winner would advance to ArenaBowl XXVIII. As Fry scanned the field, Rattlers owner Ron Shurts and AFL commissioner Scott Butera approached. Fry acknowledged the commish but was short on words for Shurts, who launched into an expletivefilled tirade.

Walking away, he delivered a simple message to Fry. “It doesn’t fucking

matter what you do anyway,” Shurts said.

“Your season ends tonight.”

The very next week, after San Jose defeated Arizona and advanced to the ArenaBowl, the SaberCats sought to change the date of the championship game. Originally scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 29, team executives requested the game instead be played the following Monday and the site shifted to their home base of SAP Center in San Jose.

Scheduling conflicts had driven the team 80 miles up the road to Stockton for all but one playoff game, after securing home field advantage and finishing with an unprecedented 17-1 regular season record.

Rescheduling the game would affect the league’s standing with cable provider ESPN, Shurts argued to the commissioner. Butera, in his first season at the helm, denied the SaberCats’ request. Undeterred, the SaberCats

won the ArenaBowl and captured their fourth league title. But in a stunning turn of events, the game is almost certain to be the last for San Jose’s franchise.

In a statement released last month, the AFL announced that “for reasons unrelated to league operations, the owners of the San Jose SaberCats have notified [Butera] that they will no longer continue as members of the AFL.” The wording of the statement, and the league’s shaky history, has raised suspicions that the AFL is spinning an incomplete narrative for the sake of damage control.

Why would the Fry family, which has declined to comment publicly, walk away from their beloved SaberCats for no apparent reason? The family’s passion for the team has never been questioned.

As a token of gratitude in championship seasons, ownership bought players and coaches rings as gaudy and diamondstudded as those given to NFL Super Bowl winners. The San Jose SaberCats, under Fry family ownership, have not only fostered the development and culture of arena football, the team also happens to be the most successful

just two days before ArenaBowl XXII, league commissioner David Baker unexpectedly resigned. In December of that year, the league announced that the 2009 season would be cancelled entirely. The AFL tried to spin the hiatus as part of â&#x20AC;&#x153;a long-term plan to improve its economic model.â&#x20AC;? At the time, Sports Business Journal reported that the AFL owed approximately $14 million to its creditors. In August 2009, the league ďŹ led for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Since a relaunch in 2010, the league has struggled to survive. Eleven teams have folded under multiple commissioners, and several incidents have brought embarrassment to the league. Ex-Chicago Rush owner David Staral Jr. was arrested on federal fraud charges late last year, after claiming to have a net worth of $5 million. In fact, prosecutors said, Staral lived in his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basement when he bounced a rent check to the Allstate Arena, which housed Rush games. In 2013, San Antonio Talons owner David Lynd couldn't even afford to pay his mascot, Swoop, and his players faced eviction from their team-supplied apartments.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not difficult to see why the Fry family, or any other owners in the league, would object to a league budget increase. The Frys have a fortune valued at $2.2 billion, according to Forbes, but the commissionerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to increase the budget, a source said, was seen by the Fry family as â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ nancially distastefulâ&#x20AC;? and a sign of â&#x20AC;&#x153;immaturity.â&#x20AC;? The ownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decision to sever their relationship with the league was based on league operations, contrary to Buteraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statement, the source said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a remarkably loyal fan base in the San Jose area and we are working aggressively to secure new ownership for the franchise as soon as possible,â&#x20AC;? Butera said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the process of rebuilding, there is an evolution that brings change and growth.â&#x20AC;?

The AFL intends to carry on with the expansion of three teams in the United States and an additional three teams in Mexico, the league revealed last month. The SaberCats have been excluded from league scheduling, but a source said Vivek Ranadive, owner of the NBAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sacramento Kings, is considering purchasing the rights to San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s franchise.

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Founded in 1995, the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Cats have captured four championships, three conference crowns and 10 division titles while making 16 playoff appearances.

The majority of these accolades were collected in front of a rabid fan base. San Jose has never drawn less than 10,000 fans to a home game and more than 2 million people total have attended SaberCats games, according to the statistical website ArenaFan.com.

Ivan F. Soto, executive director of the playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s association, noted in an email how the team has connected with the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no way to value the impact they have had on so many of our players and fansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives,â&#x20AC;? Soto said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have always valued players as the main product, and that has resonated with players across the league both past and present.â&#x20AC;?

Rumors have circulated that the Fry family was caught paying players under the table, but Commissioner Butera called those accusations â&#x20AC;&#x153;categorically falseâ&#x20AC;? during a phone interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any such event of cheating would immediately go through my office,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found no such violations in San Jose.â&#x20AC;?

The Fry familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to divest from the league seems to have started during the ďŹ nal weeks of the 2015 season, when two AFL franchises, the New Orleans Voodoo and the Las Vegas Outlaws, announced they were folding. Another team, the Spokane Shock, announced it was defecting to the recently formed Indoor Football League.

Owners of the SaberCats and several other teams began discussions about taking the league into bankruptcy, according to a team source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The source also revealed that owners sought to re-negotiate Commissioner Buteraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contract, with the issue of revenue sharingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with larger budgets subsidizing the existence of lower-proďŹ t teamsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; among the biggest complaints.

Butera, who receives annual salary of $1 million, increased the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spending by an additional $1 million last season, and another $2 million for the upcoming seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all while the league purportedly generated a paltry $13,000 to $17,000 in endorsement revenue.

Fiscal irresponsibility has been a hallmark of the the AFL. In 2008,

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RAISE THE STAKES Santa Clara Valley Water District CEO Beau Goldie got a raise after bypassing the board in curious fashion.

Water District: CEO Can Read the Board’s Mind

BY JOSH KOEHN The Golden Spigot has got some brass. That’s the only way to explain the explanations coming from the Santa Clara Valley Water District.

Last month, San Jose Inside published emails from a top district attorney, Leslie Orta, who noted in September 2014 that CEO Beau Goldie violated rules by amending contracts with RMC Water and Environment.

Goldie and top administrative staff have said for months that all dealings with RMC were done by the book, despite concerns of improprieties being raised by district staff for more than a year and a half. The matter has received extra scrutiny because one of Goldie’s top administrators, Melanie Richardson, is married to a principal owner of RMC, raising conflict of interest concerns.

But the district, which provides water and flood control for 1.9 million people, remains steadfast, insisting in

emails to San Jose Inside that Orta’s legal opinion was incorrect and that the CEO and general counsel “concluded that the intent of the board, though not explicitly stated, was that the CEO” could modify the contracts.

This is some legalese gymnastics, but it gets crazier. District spokesman Marty Grimes admitted, “There was no written legal opinion generated when that determination was made.”

The mechanics of such a scenario mean Orta, a respected attorney for the district, sounded alarm bells and the CEO and the district’s top counsel, Stan Yamamoto, discussed the issue and moved on without a single note or correction.

The district documents everything: memos, emails, legal opinions, writeups for racist and homophobic emails shared by staff; everything.

It even has a so-called “firewall”

arrangement to keep Richardson away from RMC business, although the district dubiously refuses to release the document, citing attorney-client privilege.

And yet, the general counsel thought a potential violation of rules by the CEO—involving a company that stood to gain millions and also happens to be owned by the spouse of a top district administrator—was not worth picking up a pen or drafting an email. It was as casual as Yamamoto and Goldie asking about each other’s weekend, or debating where to go for lunch.

Gary Kremen, chair of the board, said he intends to make sure future decisions are vetted.

“I will be spearheading an effort to ensure such financial commitments by the district are explicit and not someone’s vague interpretation of intent,” he said.

Ex-Attorney to Sue Milpitas for Retaliation Milpitas’ former city attorney, whose entire office was outsourced to a private law firm this past summer, plans to sue the city for retaliation.

Michael Ogaz claims the city broke the law by firing him for investigating a personnel complaint. Milpitas City Manager Tom Williams violated his free speech rights and ousted him for essentially doing his job, according to a pre-lawsuit charge filed with the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), as well as a government tort claim.

The DFEH reviewed those allegations and authorized Ogaz to bring a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the city, which already faces a slew of litigation for age discrimination and other workplace issues.

“We think the evidence is very compelling,” his attorney, Adam Zapala, told San Jose Inside. “I’ve rarely started out an employment case where we have as much evidence as we have now.”

Williams, the attorney contracted to replace Ogaz and a public relations firm hired for crisis management have yet to respond to requests for comment.

The case stems from a complaint filed in April by the city’s former planning director, Steve McHarris, and former personnel chief, Carmen Valdez, who accused Williams of racial harassment, age discrimination, defamation and unethical conduct with developers.

Because of the seriousness of the allegations, Ogaz launched a probe and alerted the City Council.

“Almost immediately,” per the tort claim, Ogaz and McHarris “experienced both the threat of and actual retribution.”

Milpitas has repeatedly come under scrutiny for its high staff turnover and personnel problems, many of them pointing back to Williams.

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UnGrateful BROKEDOWN PALACE San Jose’s City Hall didn’t get much of a draw to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the first Grateful Dead show.

It’s a no-brainer for San Jose to embrace Grateful Dead legacy

BY GARY SINGH

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ast Friday at noon, almost 10 people showed up outside of San Jose City Hall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the famous Ken Kesey Acid Test which took place in a house at 43 S. Fifth Street on Dec. 4, 1965.

This was the legendary party Tom Wolfe documented in The Electric KoolAid Acid Test, the same party at which the Grateful Dead first performed as the

Grateful Dead. That monumental event 50 years ago was the second of several acid tests thrown by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, the first one of which went down in Soquel a week earlier.

Thousands of Deadheads should have been there last week. Ken Babbs, whose “spread” hosted the first acid test, should also have been there. Every news station in the Bay Area could have shown up. Representatives from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame could have documented a huge party. Of course, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann should also have been there, along with Grateful Dead biographer Dennis McNally.

Then there’s Neal Cassady’s son, John Cassady. He should have been there. Technicians from Meyer Sound, stagehands from Bill Graham Presents, and even the Hells Angels all should have been there. With all due respect to the organizers, it really felt like a major opportunity was blown.

Since the famous acid test in question went down right where City Hall now sits, last week’s event came together with the purpose of declaring an official effort to place a permanent historical plaque somewhere on the property. In any real city, this would be a nobrainer. The site would vault San Jose to international recognition, as thousands of Grateful Dead fans would regularly visit the plaque, in the same way they visit Ron “Pigpen” McKernan’s grave in Palo Alto. There could be concerts every single year on

that date. Anyone with half a brain can imagine more ideas.

The Dead have all sort sorts of history in the South Bay, so let me digress a bit. When Bill Graham built Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, in the ’80s, he and Jerry Garcia designed the entire layout of the premises to resemble the Grateful Dead’s “Steal Your Face” logo. If you look at an aerial photograph of the property, you can easily see it. The oldtimers will show you.

San Jose should do something similar with City Hall: Bulldoze the wannabe-urban-chic rotunda that looks like a deodorant stick and replace it with something, anything, that pays tribute to the Grateful Dead. And since no one at City Hall had enough vision to understand the rotunda would need decent acoustics—use a microphone in the place and it sounds you’re talking in an airplane hangar—the city can hire Meyer Sound to implement a better events space. Imagine Mayor Sam Liccardo holding a press conference with the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound behind him. Now that would be something to brag about.

So, yes, of course, there should be a historical plaque. Why do we need to even advocate for it? I mean, it has nothing to do with whether or not you listen to the Grateful Dead (I don’t) or if you even experienced the 1960s (I didn’t). It’s about significant, cultural events that happened here, monumental stuff that should be recognized. This is another instance of something that should be second nature to any culturally literate, 20th-century, even halfwayinteresting city official. It shouldn’t take more than a few meetings for this to get decided. Yet all of us have to scream about it for years before the bureaucracy in City Hall gets rolling. That’s what really has to change around here.

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Sometimes I’m convinced that City Hall’s attitude is this: If the citizens want anything interesting to happen around here, then they should fight for it. That’s always been the city’s mentality. If this plaque finally happens, I guess we can hope, at least for now, that when 2,000 more homogenous tech schmoes move into downtown solely because they can no longer afford Mountain View, they’ll at least realize that cool and rocking history exists here.

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BUSTED Ken Kesey, Lee Quarnstrom and Neal Cassady are arrested for marijuana possession in April of 1965.

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through the mind-numbing bluewindow conformity of the postwar American night.

San Jose was at the epicenter of this mid-20th Century disruption of not only music and popular culture but politics, gender roles and work culture (casual Mondays anyone?), a shift that provided the creative foundation of Silicon Valley’s technology revolution.

Kesey’s kids (Sunshine) and later Garcia’s wife. It was uncertain if she had been in Santa Cruz the week before—she couldn’t remember, it’s possible she was with family for Thanksgiving—but she told me this week that she was there in San Jose.

She is absolutely certain.

And therein lies the rub. This history is all something of a blur.

At an event celebrating the Golden Anniversary of these events this an Jose City Hall’s dome, of past week in Santa Cruz, artist and all places, stands today on Prankster Roy Sebern said to me, “I South Fifth Street (see related don’t remember anything, really. No story, page 12). It was there on that details. It all just flowed together.”

Saturday night in late 1965 that At one point when I pressed Lee what has been Quarnstrom—former identified as either San Jose Mercury the first (or second, News columnist, depending on how lifelong Prankster you count) “Acid and author of the Test,” staged with thoroughly enjoyable some of the major memoir When I Was a cultural figures Dynamiter—for precise of the era: The data of those first novelist Ken Kesey, events—to the point, celebrated author I am sure, of being a of One Flew Over pest—he wrote me Over the Cuckoo's back that “frankly I cannot remember Nest and Sometimes who all was there, a Great Notion; Neal nor whether the Cassady of On the whole Grateful Dead Road fame who MAKE WAY The house where was there or just was then living in the San Jose acid test took a few. Fifty years Los Gatos with his place was moved 11 blocks super-imposes either wife and three kids; away to E. St. James Street. a golden hue or a and Ken Babbs, thick fog over many Kesey’s Prankster memories … I doubt whether this lieutenant, the “Intrepid Traveler,” is all that helpful to you, but my an ex-Marine and Vietnam War mental exercises in 1965 were often veteran who sat shotgun with Kesey. too strenuous to help me remember Various members of that Palo that party clearly.”

Alto rock band who at their gig “It’s all a myth now anyway,” in Santa Cruz a week earlier were Babbs, the Intrepid Traveler, said known as the Warlocks—Jerry when I questioned some of the Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Ron details of his recollection, laughing “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill that deep wild Prankster laugh of Kreutzmann—but who would come his. “Tell it however you want.” to San Jose under their newly chosen So be it. After conducting more appellation, the Grateful Dead, than a dozen interviews and with various friends in attendance, consulting more than two-dozen including “Foxy” Connie Bonner and accounts of these events and what “Faithful” Sue Swanson. led up to them—in writing, in And perhaps the most enduring conversation—I suppose what Prankster of them all is Carolyn emerges is more of an abstract Adams, aka Mountain Girl— painting than a precise photo-like described by Tom Wolfe in The rendition of history in the making.

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as “a tall Let’s be candid: My sources were girl, big and beautiful, with dark all high on LSD and weed and who brown hair flowing down to her knows what else. shoulders”—mother of one of

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his tale starts in La Honda, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a windy half-hour drive above Stanford, where Kesey had taken graduate courses in creative writing and where he began work on his brilliant —yes, it was brilliant—first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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Once the bus ride was over, the Pranksters returned to La Honda and continued their quest, only to be raided in April 1965 by the San Mateo County Sheriff ’s Department, during which Kesey, Babbs, Mountain Girl and a host of other Pranksters were arrested and charged with various narcotics violations.

The heat was on. Journalist Lee Quarnstrom, who had hooked up with Kesey and his band in La Honda after writing an article for the San Mateo Times about the author, quit his gig, collected unemployment and moved into a cabin near Kesey’s, was one of those caught up in the April 1965 raid.

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TESTING Ken Kesey (center-left, shirt off) and Ken Babbs (holding microphone), at an early Acid Test, 1965-1966.

Angels hanging around, so that “one by one, the Pranksters living in La Honda began a Diaspora that brought me and a few others down the coast to Santa Cruz.”

By November of 1965, Quarnstrom, along with other Pranksters and associates, including the entire Kesey family, Babbs, Demma, Mountain Girl, Bevirt and his girlfriend Space Daisy had moved into a run-down ranch house called The Spread a few miles east of Santa Cruz in the small, rural community of Soquel.

By then, Kesey and the Pranksters had brought their experiences with mind-expanding drugs to the masses.

In the words of Wolfe, Kesey had intended to develop “a ritus, often involving music, dance, liturgy, sacrifice, to achieve an objectified and stereotyped expression of the original spontaneous religious experience.”

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ccording to Wolfe, the Pranksters had been looking for a larger, public venue in Santa Cruz to hold their embryonic event, but the “Pranksters were

not the best mechanics at things, like hiring a hall.” So the Spread in Soquel was a last-minute fallback location. Roughly 50 people showed up during the evening.

The Pranksters had set up a film projector and were showing sequences from the footage accumulated on their cross-country bus trip. Music was blasting, there was a light show—and there was LSD (which, it should be noted, was legal at the time).

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t hadn’t really been a fully public event—far from it, as Wolfe noted.

“It didn't really … reach out into the world”—it had been contained and not all that different from similar parties thrown by the Pranksters and Warlocks in La Honda, but the happening in Soquel would serve as a test run, a prototype, for the event a week later in San Jose.

Saturday, Dec. 4, 1965, would be a momentous night in San Jose. The Rolling Stones—in the middle of their second American tour promoting their latest album Out of Our Heads, that saw them performing back-toback shows in Vancouver, Seattle,

Sacramento—played two shows that evening at what was then known as the San Jose Civic Auditorium (today it’s the City National Civic) on West San Carlos Street.

Waiting outside were members of the Pranksters and various members of their cohort with fliers asking “Can You Pass the Acid Test?” with an address on it at South Fifth Street, roughly seven blocks away from the exits of the Stones’ concert.

As in Santa Cruz, the Pranksters had tried to find a formal hall to stage their event but once more couldn’t close the deal. Instead, the event, which by various accounts drew 300400 people, was staged in the home or garage of a biker who has been recorded by history with the politically incorrect appellation “Big Nig.” He eventually tried to shake down Garcia for some cash.

According to Wolfe, the big guy whose real name no one seems to remember told Garcia, “I didn't charge Kesey nothing to use this place. Like free, you know? And the procedure now is that every cat here contributes, man, to help out with the rent,” because the Dead’s electrical equipment had blown through something like a half-dozen fuses in the poorly wired 1895 Victorian (moved by Redevelopment, apparently, to 635 St. James St., where it sits today behind a bougainvillea-wrapped fence and a sprawling pepper tree).

Phil Lesh would remember it this way: Unfortunately the room was very small, so all the attendees were crammed into the same space as the band, and the crush of bodies together with the wind-tunnel sound and flashing projections turned the Test into a mindnumbing blur of noise, light and heat. ... It was a free-for-all, with untold amounts of input quanta streaming into one’s sensory cortex all at the same time. The band was set up in one corner, with speaker columns so large one could crawl into the subwoofers and lie there. Across the room was Prankster Central, where the supplemental sound and some lights resided. The tape-loop master control was in Prankster hands; this ran a series of very long delays through the Mobius strip

speaker setup, with speakers in all corners of the room, receiving input from microphones and other mixers scattered everywhere.

Mountain Girl recalled the event in San Jose triumphantly. “It was a complete blowout —a manic bash.

Nobody forgot it. It was cataclysmic!

The band played, everybody got high, weird and strange. People were taking high doses [of LSD]. Some people took their clothes off and it spilled out into the street.”

Eventually, San Jose’s finest had enough of the Pranksters’ social experiment and closed down the party. Ram Dass would later recall it being referred to in the pages of the Mercury News as “a drug orgy.”

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he San Jose Acid Test was followed in quick succession by similar events at Muir Beach, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Portland and then, in mid-January, by a three-day “Trips Festival” at the Longshoreman’s Hall in San Francisco that had been organized and promoted by Stewart Brand, later of Whole Earth Catalog fame.

There was one hitch to the Trips Festival. On the “Acid Test” day of the event, Kesey had to come incognito—he wore a spacesuit and helmet, while his voice blasted over the sound system—because he and Mountain Girl had been busted a second time for pot a few days earlier on a rooftop in San Francisco (he had just been sentenced to six months in county jail for his first offense, promising the judge that he was moving permanently to Santa Cruz). Now, he was being threatened with up to five years in prison.

Shortly thereafter, Kesey faked his suicide and headed for Mexico. Many of the Pranksters followed Kesey down to Mazatlan. Mountain Girl, who gave birth to Kesey’s daughter Sunshine in mexico, was placed on two years probation. Eventually, Kesey served out a plea-bargained jail sentence to lesser charges in San Mateo County and moved back to Oregon.

And on Oct. 24, 1968—a week before Richard Nixon was elected president—LSD was made illegal by the federal government. The party was over. Those early acid tests, however, had set the stage, literally and figuratively, for the long strange trip that was to come.

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HE STREETS of Saratoga around the holidays are picturesque, like a postcard of New England. Strings of lights adorn the tree-lined streets. On a Saturday night, downtown is remarkably empty—in stark contrast to the general bumperto-bumper pace of Silicon Valley. Nearly everyone is inside a restaurant or shop, making it a perfect backdrop for the romantic evening that dining at East Coast Alice provides.

It’s hard to imagine having a cold beverage on a chilly night, yet the North East Bramble ($11) was just the right drink for the occasion. Berries, lemon juice, syrup and ginger ale balance the Gruven Vodka, and the waitress had no problem accommodating my request to replace ginger beer with ginger ale.

A commonly expected bread basket at the beginning of service was notably absent, but it was made up for by the addition of a garlic bread triangle served with almost every dish. The steamed clams ($16) and garlic bread ($5) appetizers arrived in time, and each bite of soft cheesey garlic bread was enhanced

by a warm and satisfying dip in the white wine sauce. The clams themselves were sweet and juicy.

The kitchen was running behind, but we hardly minded thanks to the cozy lighting and warmth of the small cabin-like dining area—and, of course, the North East Bramble that facilitated conversation through the night. Our waitress paced about the refurbished wooden floors to frequently check in on us.

When the entrees were served and we found ourselves polishing off a Halupki casserole ($18). Like a very structured slice of Hungarian goulash, the Halupki is a mixture of ground pork and beef with brown rice, layered between cabbage leaves and cooked in a sauce of stewed tomatoes and brown sugar. The serving size was perfect, as there is only so much beef and cabbage that’s palatable in one meal, even if it’s as good as this casserole.

The pasta menu had simple classic dishes echoing the restaurant’s mantra to serve comfort food from American/Italian family recipes.

The Amatriciana ($17) with added prawns was a fulfilling portion of bucatini pasta and pancetta in tomato sauce and romano cheese.

It also comes with a slice of garlic bread. If I were Italian, I would say this dish is just how grandma used to make it. The Puttanesca pasta ($17) was a take-out order and held up very well by the time we got home.

The anchovies could hardly be seen or tasted and it was chock full of kalamata olives and capers, giving it just the right amount of salty seasoning from the respective brines.

If I were Italian, I would say this dish is just how grandma used to make it.

As the old adage goes, “It’s all about location, location, location,” and East Coast Alice hits it on the mark with the streets and building.

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Giacomo Balla’s Disintegration x Speed (1913) could have easily served as inspiration for the Cantor exhibit Speed and Power. The painting expresses both the physical and psychological disintegration of an accident and its aftermath—one that involves an inhuman sense of velocity. Airplanes, trains, automobiles: each new technological advance in locomotion propels us forward, faster and faster through the 20th and 21st centuries. Speed and Power offers an artistic examination of our mechanized lives as it relates to the evolution of transportation in our highly trafficked urban centers. How we live now looks a lot like Giacomo Balla predicted it would a century ago. (JE)

Who is taking pictures of the San Jose skyline and the people who inhabit its neighborhoods? At the ImagineSJ Showcase, you’ll meet several local photographers in a panel discussion on what it means to live in San Jose as a working artist.

If you’re not yet familiar with the ImagineSJ Showcase series, it’s a collaboration between Future Arts Now and Kooltura Marketing. This monthly event features presentations and performances that are meant to encourage new ways of thinking about topics—from arts to technology—that impact daily life in Silicon Valley. The evening will also feature a photo book exhibition and a Polaroid photo booth. (JE)

The Moving Units seek to differentiate themselves within the dense landscape of dance music by channelling the genre’s past. Blending punk, disco and indie sounds, the Los Angeles natives infuse their jumparound jams with chilly angst and self-loathing that smack of the precise hairstyles and heavy eye makeup of ’80s pop. They’ve opened for bands like the Pixies and Nine Inch Nails with their blend of adrenalized rhythms and sulky moods. “The World Is Ours” features stomps, bassy buzzes and hyper whines in an giddy ode to a big night out. (JF)

Ever wondered what it would sound like if Santa met Santana?

Wonder no more, as holiday songs are performed in the styles of classic rock acts such as Sting, ZZ Top, The Who, U2 and that sultan of six-string soloing, Carlos Santana.

The seasoned makers of “A Classic Rock Christmas” boast some classic-rock credentials of their own, having worked with Sammy Hagar, Boston, the Tubes and more.

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Local five-piece Blue Dali is holding another celebration of its summer release, No Exit, a blend of Billy Joel-esque piano pop and progressive-rock tendencies— counting Muse, Dream Theater and Faith No More among their contemporary influences. Most of the members contribute to the songwriting, sing and play multiple instruments. They're joined by the multicultural, highenergy ska/soul/pop group Sweet HayaH and indie rockers Periscope and Relapse. (KK)

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UNASSUMING PSYCHO Seeing Things Gallery, San Jose Fri, 12pm, Free Daryl Angel skateboards around the world for a living. If this had been an option for Jack Kerouac, On the Road would have been a very different book. In fact, it might have looked a lot like the photographs Angel takes while he’s riding around streets in China, Brazil, Japan and Hawaii. While the rest of us are working for The Man, Angel keeps his eyes open to the sights and sounds of the places he visits with a camera in hand. The images aren’t formally composed per se; they’re more like snapshots that capture urban life and all its hopeful grit. (JE)

ADAFEST Computer History Museum, San Jose Fri, 10am, $15 Countess Ada of Lovelace was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, who would abandon the family only a month after her birth. Her mother resented the unstable poet and encouraged Ada to pursue her mathematical and logical passions.

Eventually, she would team up with British Mathematician, Charles Babbage and work with him on his Analytical Machine. As a teenager, she wrote an algorithm to be carried out by the machine, the very first of its kind, and what many consider the earliest version of a computer program. This day highlights this pioneering woman with demonstrations of her life in Victorian England. (JF)

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San Jose-born blues rocker Tommy Castro has been performing for four decades and he's still going strong, along with his backing band, The Painkillers. His current tour is in support of his new record, Method to My Madness— his 15th studio album—which presents a raw, live, stripped-down sound. “My main objective when making a new album is to do something different from before,” Castro says. This time around, the newness comes in the form of Castro taking his first turn as producer. (KK)

BLACK SABBATH Feb 9 at SAP Center

VALENTINES OLD SCHOOL JAM Feb 12 at SAP Center

RAGAZZI CONTINUO All Saint's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto Sat, 2pm, $15-$18 First there was the Ragazzi Boys Chorus, then the boys became men and created Ragazzi Continuo, an elite choir made up of young men, all of them chorus alumni. They'll perform their annual holiday show, Carols Ancient and New, featuring, as the title suggests, a variety of Christmas music from around the world and spanning six centuries of holiday song traditions. Don Besig’s “Glory Hallelu” and Philip Lawson’s “Veni, Veni Emmanuel” will be sung, along with more global works. (KK)

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

RIHANNA Feb 25 at SAP Center

CASH’D OUT Mar 11 at The Ritz

JUSTIN BIEBER Mar 17 at SAP Center

STYX Mar 17 at City National Civic

THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT Mar 18 at The Ritz

YANNI Mar 19 at City National Civic

SELENA GOMEZ May 11 at SAP Center

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New Nut ORIGIN STORY In crafting her rendition of ‘The Nutcracker,’ choreographer Karen Gabay takes a deeper dive into the fantastical children’s story that inspired the ballet.

Former Silicon Valley Ballet dancer takes a crack at ‘The Nutcracker’

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AREN GABAY was eight years old when she first saw The Nutcracker.

Correction: Gabay was eight years old when she first appeared in a production of The Nutcracker.

It was that formative experience—of being in a production rather than simply watching a performance—that

inspired her current role in Silicon Valley Ballet’s newest iteration of Tchaikovsky’s holiday ballet: she’s the choreographer.

Until 2013, Gabay had been a beloved principal dancer with SVB (formerly Ballet San Jose) for decades. That’s when she made the transition from dancer on center stage to the ballet company’s artistic associate, working behind the scenes. In this year’s production of The Nutcracker, the audience can still delight in Gabay’s artistry, in her concept and choreography, if not her jetés. But this isn’t the first

time Gabay has stepped out of her ballerina’s shoes.

“I choreographed as a kid,” Gabay says of her early dabbling in constructing dance routines. “I would play and tinker around with things. It was always an opportunity for me to be creative. I liked that aspect, aside from being a dancer and interpreting roles. Musicals inspired me so it was fun to create things.”

Gabay also co-founded a dance company in 2001—Pointe of Departure, which provides her with an opportunity to choreograph in SVB’s offseason. But what inspired Gabay in her approach to the Tchaikovsky ballet? The Nutcracker is ubiquitous at this time of year, mounted in professional and amateur productions alike. What makes her version unique? Having danced the role of Clara, it’s this particular

choreographer’s experience of working from the inside out.

“As a dancer people asked me, ‘How did the Nutcracker become a prince? How did that happen?’ I felt that was an important part of the story to tell, the story within a story,” she says, recalling the question she fielded again and again when performing in the Christmastime classic.

In order to answer that question, Gabay revisited The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the fantastical 1816 story by Prussian writer E.T.A. Hoffman, from which the ballet’s libretto was adapted.

“There is a boy who could crack the hard nut,” the choreographer says, briefly describing the origins of the mystical nutcracker character—a quintessentially Eastern European children’s story involving a seven-headed mouse king and his army, a magical clockmaker and a strange curse, which could only be broken by cracking an extremely hard nut.

“He was an actual person before he turned into the Nutcracker, and then became human again. That was the back story I thought the audience would like to know.”

Gabay choreographed a production of The Nutcracker back in 2012 for SVB as well. However, this year’s concept and storyline is her own—not the previous artistic director’s. While the 2012 set and costume designs by David Guthrie are still in use, Gabay also hired Victoria Mearini to create new costumes for the additional parts.

“I've had to take my concept and try to reimagine it now on a different production,” she says.

It’s clear that Gabay has earned the hard-won pride she takes in her artistic life and craft. From the 8-year-old running out from under Mother Ginger’s skirts, to the principal dancer inhabiting the lead role, to the choreographer animating the dance: this rejuvenated Nutcracker has been incubating in her imagination for years.

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HEARING IS BELIEVING The Tabard Theatre is staging a live radio play version of ‘Miracle on 34th Street.’

DECEMBER 17th Noon to Midnight 199 Martha St + 5th Downtown San Jose info: 408.476.1968 apreciado @bcp.org

Christmas Magic FOR CHRISTMAS, the Tabard Theatre is doing a play about a radio broadcast of a film. In a Miracle on 34th Street, the ensemble portrays actors reading scripts through old-timey microphones to a “studio audience.” Meanwhile, a stage manager and sound effects man (Patrick DeRosa) bangs on a typewriter, raps on a small door or prompts “blings” Miracle on 34th Street and “clunks” from a rotary phone to match the action, manually creating the sonic illusion we outsourced to Theatre on San Pedro computers long ago.

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Thru Dec 18, Set in 1948, the nostalgic take highlights the hard work $15-$40 once needed for immersive showbiz magic, giving the play a humble feel that’s consistent with the home-cooked moral.

And despite the postmodern concept and a dedicated gag for Lux Soap (a phony advertiser), the show treats Miracle on 34th Street with the reverence it has typically received during the last half-century.

In the cherished holiday saga, a New York City Macy’s employs a man who believes he is the bona fide Santa Claus. While employed, the man pioneers a profitable generosity-driven marketing scheme, sparks love between lawyer Fred Gailey (Kevin Kirby) and single mother Doris Walker (Mary Melnick) and finds himself pleading his sanity in a courtroom.

Like all Christmas stories, the protagonists tsk-tsk rationalism and the audience sides with the sympathetic (if a bit delusional) believers.

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Despite all logic, the judge dismisses the case. After the trial, Santa gives Gailey and the two Walker gals directions to the perfect colonial home for their soon-to-be family. Inside, the trio find the old man’s distinctive cane, proving to them that the codger actually was Santa, and not just the beneficiary of some clever legal maneuvers.

I still don’t buy it, and I actually think the story gains something when you see the central character as a nutter hellbent on proving he’s a mythical do-gooder. The Christmas Spirit inspired him to risk permanent psychiatric institutionalization just to improve the Macy’s shopping experience, unite three lonely strangers into one family and research the real estate market to find them the house of their dreams. That’s a miracle.

No one should believe in Santa. But we can still believe in the selflessness he embodies and the lasting satisfaction he promises. When we’re young, we live in a magical world, where if you’re good, you get what you want. But as we grow older, we realize magic is made by people working very hard behind the scenes.—John Flynn

Walking Dead DAMNED SPOT Lady Macbeth (Marion Cotillard) and her king, (Michael Fassbender), in the latest, psychedelic adaptation of the Scottish tragedy.

Mud, marble and mumbling: ‘Macbeth’ is atmospheric, abridged and often aimless

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KING-PLEASER as much as he was a crowdpleaser, Shakespeare tailored his Scottish tragedy to the new King James: Macbeth was short, violent and full of witches, since His Majesty had a lively interest in sorcery.

Director Justin Kurzel’s new film version of Macbeth has, in the form of Michael Fassbender, a solemn, dogged soldier with a thousand-yard stare, who climbs his way to the top through

murder. But this Australian director (Snowtown) doesn’t have a new take on the tragedy—in this view, royalty means nothing except bigger halls to be miserable in and more children to be slaughtered. The beauty of the highlands and the frosty mountains standing sentinel over them are magnificently depressing; the fog overshadows bloody, mud-dwelling humanity. But ordinarily, even in a production that gives darkness and doubt their weight, you can make a contrast between the depths of human evil and the height of the dialogue.

Unlike your common regicide, Macbeth knows he is a puppet, a shadow musing at the passing of useless days (“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”); the words, at least, encompass the suffering.

Kurzel switches from the grisly slomo battlefields and wind-rattled huts to huge interiors in Ely Cathedral and Bamburgh Castle—the latter being where Roman Polanski shot his similarly realistic Macbeth in the 1970s. It’s hard to see how Kurzel’s two kingdoms co-exist: one all mud, the other all marble.

Polanski went to Goya with his witches, making them bare-breasted hags; Kurzel gives them the look of farmers sadly contemplating a potato blight. For whatever reason, the weird sisters here get no pleasure from their witchery.

Mourning, marked with ritual scars, they gaze solemnly at human strivings; no “double, double, toil and bubble” incantations, or threats of deadly mischief.

Macbeth learns to beware his nemesis Macduff because of an apparition: the ghosts of the dead muttering the warning “Beware Macduff” as they walk by their still-living comrade. The tone of these walking dead isn’t much different than

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the murmuring of the shell-shocked Scots lords and men. Kurzel, co-credited with script along with two other writers, is terrified of a declamatory acting style.

One high-spirited moment—David Thewlis’ appealing King Duncan investing his son as a prince—is broken into two camera angles so there won’t be any undue exuberance at the boy receiving his new rank.

The actors nearly whisper their lines, to each other, or to themselves.

Lady Macbeth (Marion Cotillard) talks into the nape of her husband’s neck, sealing their contract to murder with an act of sex; she’s seen praying in a chapel, entreating the spirits to make her a human vessel of poison. Does she think God will help her? I’ve seen some serious Lady Macbeths, from Judi Dench to Dame Judith Anderson. Cotillard isn’t in the league of her predecessors, but her accent is steady. This little, scrappy queen has a wanton side—she knows how to use her body to keep her husband focused. But as soon as Macbeth is crowned, looking sated and a little poisoned himself, he’s out of her control.

The movie begins with her burying her son. The essence to this ambitious lady is disappointed motherhood. It’s not an interpretation that does one of literature’s great villainesses a service.

Jed Kurzel, the director’s brother, scored The Babadook. In that horror movie, a drone of fear was justified.

Kurzel’s soundtrack here is a keening of Scandinavian strings that almost never ceases lowing—when King Duncan’s corpse is discovered, the groaning strings alternate with a sonic wobble that sounds like the siren on a British ambulance. This audio hurlyburly camouflages what remains of the severely cut dialogue.

Fortunately, it ceases during the firestorm at the end, after the King torches Birnam Wood to protect himself from the prophecy of his downfall. This flaming end was inspiration: Macbeth seems to be fighting for his crown on the plains of Hell. What gets this director really ardent is the mayhem, the killings in the forest, and the closequarters stabbing scenes, instead of the magnificent language that evens the estates of commoners and kings.

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metroactive FILM A VERY MURRAY CHRISTMAS A Christmas miracle: see this and you won’t hate Miley anymore.

Sofia Coppola—deep in her comfort zone as a director—leads this brief and charming pastiche of the cheap old TV network holiday specials. Some will remember these programs, wrought out of a Burbank soundstage and some apparent passersby—“Why, look who’s at the door! Foster Brooks!”—hosted by some tuxedoed, aging, and reluctant celeb. Poor Bill Murray—there was a freak snowstorm. Stranded are all the guests, including Pope Francis and Iggy Azalea, who were to join him live at the Bemelmans Bar of the Hotel Carlyle for some song and reminiscence. But with Bill’s bosom pal, Paul Shaffer, at the piano, the holidays get rung in. A just-passing-by Chris Rock is forced to duet with Murray on “Do You Hear What I Hear?” Maya Rudolph emulates the Shirelles, and doubles with Rashida Jones to sing the Kirsty MacColl part of “Fairytale of New York.” Finally, a special fantasy appearance by none other than George Clooney and Miley Cyrus. Her rendition of “Silent Night” proves to be a song that one can neither massacre nor improve: the world’s worst singer and the world’s best singer are on equal footing with that one. Still, Cyrus is rather little and sweet in a red fur-trimmed elf dress, and Murray hoists her as if she were Tiny Tim. “Soiled Kimono” cocktails are similarly hoisted in honor of Mr. Mike O’Donoghue. Murray’s long-ago TV pose as an unctuous, insensitive crooner of the Jack Jones school turns out to conceal pretty good pipes. Calm and bright, like the song says, this strangely limber, beautifully melancholy performer shows the virtue of taking it easy. (Netflix Streaming.)

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CHI-RAQ (2015) This new Spike Lee joint is about women in Chicago following the path of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: after a baby is killed by a gangster’s stray bullet, the women of the area go on a sex strike until a truce between warring sides can be declared. The cast (Wesley Snipes, Nick Cannon, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Samuel L. Jackson, Dave Chappelle) is unimprovable.

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KRAMPUS Do we war on Christmas, or did that holiday hit us first? Many anti-Noel warriors cherish the legend of Santa’s enforcer, Krampus, a vicious Sasquatch still at large in backwards parts of Germany and Austria.

(Krampus cards, showing the monster taking bad children to hell where they belong, were popular up to the modern era; if kids misbehave now, maybe it’s because we forget the old ways at our peril.) In this fable by Michael Dougherty (X2,, Superman Returns) a family of awful people are stalked by a vengeful Krampus; the Christmas beast’s victims include the ever-surly Adam Scott, the ornery David Koechner, exasperated mom Toni Collette, and Two and a Half Men’s prodigious, W. C. Fields’ like maid Conchata Ferrell.

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LAZYBONES/STREET ANGEL (1925/1928) Buck Jones, Tom Mix’s biggest rival, here plays a straight semi-comic role as a country loafer who ends up taking care of a fatherless girl, causing scandal among his neighbors. BILLED WITH Street Angel. In Naples, a starving city girl (Janet Gaynor) is sent to prison, but not before she makes a tremendous impression on an equally poverty-stricken painter (Charles Farrell). The director is Frank Borzage, scarcely rivalled in the field of finding nobility and deep romance in the grimmest city settings. Dennis James is at the Stanford Wurlitzer.

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PSYCHOTRONIC FILM FESTIVAL It’s a strange time of year. This semi-annual gathering of fans of the bizarre and beautiful in 16mm film aims to make it stranger. Seasonal bummers—scary and dodgy Santas, and advertisements for lethal toys—are part of the mix, but the focus tonight is on the appeal of the Scopitone—the analog pre-MTV shorts of the 1960s, especially those featuring the well-built chanteuse Joi Lansing. A carnival of things too eccentric for the human tongue to describe, as well as door prizes.

Benefits KFJC 89.7 FM. (Plays Dec. 12 in Los Altos Hills at Foothill College, Room 501, 7pm-11 Saturday. $5 for admission, $3 in quarters for the wretched parking meters.) (RvB)

HE IS ‘LEGEND’ Tom Hardy plays twin London gangsters in ‘Legend.’

Twin Town I’M LOOKING FORWARD to the post-Scorsesean gangster movie. It’s getting far too easy to predict the angles of the director’s imitators, to coldly admire the fluidity of the tracking shots, and then try to convince myself that there’s some truth to the endless justification of thugs.

Legend is director Brian Helgeland’s take on the career of the Kray Brothers.

They’re maybe best known in parody form through the Piranha Brothers sketch by Monty Python, though in the 1990 film, The Krays, actors Martin and Gary Kemp played the pair of gangsters who ruled London’s Clubland. By digital trickery Tom Hardy plays both Krays until you forget the seam between them. It must have been a nightmare to engineer, but even Hardy’s noteworthy skill can’t differentiate the two Talking through the clogged sinuses of a busted nose is Hardy’s Ronnie, a paranoid schizophrenic slurring from his medications; he’s an out gay man too dangerous to be persecuted. And since he was the lover of a prominent member of the house of Lords, he had a get-out-of-jail card. Hardy also plays the cannier, cooler Reggie—building up an empire of swinging London nightclubs where Joan Collins, Shirley Bassey and Sonny Liston used to turn up.

Holding the sprawl together is heavy narration by Emily Browning, as Reggie’s wife, Frances, a girl from the East End, whom Reggie lured with candy and kept with diamonds. Browning is Legend small of stature and she plays the part like a waif.

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Since she is the film’s Camera 7, counterpoint—the sad, Campbell moral part of the story— much depends on her. While we hear a great deal of what Frances thinks, it’s still an underwritten part.

The tone of her narration is like the writing in an as-told-to biography—her words are far more exculpatory than anyone trying to talk to themselves with honesty ought to be.

Some solid supporting actors include the former Dr. Who, Christopher Eccleston, as a dogged Scotland Yard detective; David Thewlis as a muchbattered adviser to the brothers; and the Welsh singer Duffy, who turns up as a chanteuse, singing the film’s leitmotif, “Make The World Go Away.”

Legend seems like a gratuitous retelling; the film is mostly light nostalgia for a London in the days when St. Paul’s was the tallest building on the skyline.

—Richard von Busack

Forrest Flow BETTER WITH AGE Opio (left) has been rapping for decades and says he wants to continue pushing the boundaries with producer Free the Robots (right).

Opio recorded proggy, new album, ‘Sempervirens,’ in NorCal redwoods

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AST BAY RAPPER Opio has gray hairs winding through his twisty locks. The tenured spitter has been a pillar in the Bay Area underground since the early ’90s, operating on his own and with the Souls of Mischief as part of the hallowed indie hip-hop collective, Hieroglyphics.

With his most recent project, Sempervirens, Opio is announcing he isn’t content with retreading the same old path. The record finds him teaming with progressive producer, Free the Robots, to blend his vintage flow with vanguarding beats.

“There is just an infinite amount of cool shit going on,” Opio says. “But I’m trying to go beyond that, beyond the plethora of artists, and step outside of anything that anyone is doing. I’m trying to be futuristic and retro.”

The album’s title comes from a species of atmosphere-brushing sequoia.

It means “always flourishing.” These woodland giants surrounded the studio in the gut of the NorCal mountains where Opio’s silky bars blended with Free the Robot’s astral synths, pregnant 808s and slinking snares. The duo sought the woodsy air for the monastic clarity it provides.

“It was just a way for us to decompress and really get re-energized and into that creative spiritual space,” he says. “Watching the waves roll in, or being in the middle of the forest or right next to the river, that shit

has always been something that I’ve grown up with and been around. But the canvas doesn’t reflect that. It’s not like I’m saying, ‘Yo check out the ill redwood tree.’”

Opio first heard hip-hop in kindergarten. In 5th grade, he started rapping at local battles of the bands, eating pizza backstage with musicians twice his age. In Oakland, a hub for the burgeoning genre, Opio spent Christmas money on studio time, but also DJ-ed, sprayed graffiti and joined in breakdancing circles with supportive elders.

“Everybody that I looked up to in my neighborhood was into hip-hop,” he says. “The culture itself had just this magnetic aura about it. It was also purely youth culture at that time.

It was just for the kids. Your parents didn’t have any idea what the hell all this hippity-hoppity stuff was.”

In high school, the Souls of Mischief congealed. On the title single of their first album “93 ’til Infinity,” Tajai, Phesto, A-Plus and Opio trade verses.

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boom-baps and early electro echoes.

The sage teenage crew stretched the West Coast sound in new dimensions, forsaking the gangsta mojo of N.W.A., et al, and pioneering a pot-mellowed hippie vibe. They toured with De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, breaking ground for the experimental, subterranean West Coast scene.

“We were just being ourselves and articulating that naturally in our environment,” he says. “We had a very universal ear for the history of black music. We were really into Miles Davis, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, the list goes on and on. It was a combination of all those experiences that helped us create something original.”

Souls of Mischief is a subset of the broader Hiero crew—which also functions as a record label and is home to Del the Funky Homosapien, who joined the collective after chafing under the limited scope of his cousin Ice Cube’s production team.

To Opio, group recordings magnify creativity as ideas ricochet from brain to brain, but the surplus of creativity can lead to a glut, which is why, he says, it’s nice to work solo.

“The vibes can be thick and it’s a good feeling,” he says. “But that means ideas that I have are not able to come into full view without everyone else’s approval.

There’s just not enough time in the day to do everything that we might think of.

So it’s good to step outside of that.”

Over his prolific career, Opio has burrowed into many niches within his genre. He can be silly like on Mark It Zero, a mixtape built from quips and soundtrack snippets from The Big Lebowski—or contemplative, like on the latest Souls of Mischief project, There is Only Now, a layered narrative that sprawls from a near-death experience.

He peppers all his acrobatic stanzas with calm wokeness that never veers into sheeple-preaching.

“Music just has to sound good,” he says. “I’ve heard conscious music that sucks. I’m just being realistic. Shit could be fucked up all around you, but you still want to have fun. You can still enjoy yourself without being blind to what goes on in the world.”

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LITTLE LOU’S BBQ Every Thu: Aki’s Original Blues Jam. Fri, Dec 11, 8pm: Howell Devine. Sat, Dec 12, 8pm: Flash Crash and Thunder.

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

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

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I have a bad temper, and I’m trying to change. Now when I’m mad, I leave the room to compose myself. Recently, my boyfriend said something that really upset me. Taking a break allowed me to calmly explain that he’d hurt my feelings. He apologized, and I could tell he truly felt bad—much worse than if I had raged on him. Can you explain this?—Formerly Volcanic

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Kudos to you for recognizing that having a feeling isn’t reason to hop on it and ride it like a hoverboard. But in light of how gnarly-hard impulse control can be, what’s most impressive are your adult timeouts—putting space between having a feeling and acting on it. It is good for your boyfriend to believe he can always count on you—but not to explode and take his hand off like black-market fireworks you bought with the possum jerky out of the trunk of some guy’s car.

I have noticed something odd in my relationship: The less demanding I am the more my boyfriend does what I want. Are guys so defiant, like little boys, that if you tell them what to do, they won’t do it? Curiously, if, after saying what I want, I add “but do what you want,” he usually does the thing I was hoping for. I don’t get it.—Puzzled

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Pick one—having a relationship or ruling the world’s tiniest totalitarian state.

There are ways to get a man to do your bidding, and barking orders at him is among the least successful. (This is not the kind of doggy-style a man is hoping for.)

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created “30 Pieces,” an installation that consisted of pieces of paper on which he had typed the following statement: “Something which is very near in place and time, but not yet known to me.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, this theme captures the spirit of the phase you're now entering.

But I think it will evolve in the coming weeks. First it'll be “Something which is very near in place and time, and is becoming known to me.” By mid-January it could turn into “Something which is very near and dear, and has become known to me.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is uncanny, wild, and lawless.”

Greek philosopher Plato wrote that in his book The Republic, and I'm bringing it to your attention just in time for your Season of Awakening and Deepening Desire. The coming days will be a time when you can, if you choose, more fully tune in to the uncanny, wild, and lawless aspects of your primal yearnings.

But wait a minute! I'm not suggesting you should immediately take action to gratify them. For now, just feel them and observe them. Find out what they have to teach you. Wait until the new year before you consider the possibility of expressing them.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Congratulations! You have broken all your previous records for doing boring tasks that are good for you. On behalf of the other eleven signs, I thank you for your heroic, if unexciting, campaign of self-improvement. You have not only purified your emotional resources and cleared out some breathing room for yourself, but you have also made it easier for people to help you and feel close to you. Your duty has not yet been completed, however. There are a few more details to take care of before the gods of healthy tedium will be finished with you. But start looking for signs of your big chance to make a break for freedom. They'll arrive soon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The English word “fluke” means “lucky stroke.” It was originally used in the game of billiards when a player made a good shot that he or she wasn't even trying to accomplish.

Later its definition expanded to include any fortuitous event that happens by chance rather than because of skill: good fortune generated accidentally.

I suspect that you are about to be the beneficiary of what may seem to be a series of flukes, Leo. In at least one case, though, your lucky break will have been earned by the steady work you've done without any fanfare.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You may not have to use a literal crowbar in the coming weeks, but this rough tool will serve you well as a metaphor. Wherever you go, imagine that you've got one with you. Why? It's time to jimmy open glued-shut portals . . . to pry loose mental blocks . . . to coax unyielding influences to budge . . . to nudge intransigent people free of their fixations. Anything that is stuck or jammed needs to get unstuck or unjammed through the power of your willful intervention.

“I’m sorry, but my holiday spirit peaked sometime on a Tuesday in early November.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to consort with hidden depths and unknown riches. In every way you can imagine, I urge you to go deeper down and further in. Cultivate a more conscious connection with the core resources you sometimes take for granted.

This is one time when delving into the darkness can lead you to pleasure and treasure. As you explore, keep in mind this advice from author T. Harv Eker:

By ROB BREZSNY week of December 9

“In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, what's under the ground creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits you have already grown is futile. You can't change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. But you can change tomorrow's fruits. To do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming weeks, the pursuit of pleasure could drain your creative powers, diminish your collaborative possibilities, and wear you out. But it's also possible that the pursuit of pleasure will enhance your creative powers, synergize your alliances, and lead you to new opportunities.

Which way will you go? It all depends on the kinds of pleasures you pursue. The dumb, numbing, mediocre type will shrink your soul. The smart, intriguing, invigorating variety will expand your mind. Got all that? Say “hell, no” to trivializing decadence so you can say “wow, yes” to uplifting bliss.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Garnets are considered less valuable than diamonds. But out in the wild, there's an intimate connection between these two gemstones. Wherever you find garnets near the surface of the earth, you can be reasonably sure that diamonds are buried deeper down in the same location. Let's use this relationship as a metaphor for your life, Sagittarius. I suspect you have recently chanced upon a metaphorical version of garnets, or will do so soon. Maybe you should make plans to search for the bigger treasure towards which they point the way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ready for the Cool Anger Contest? You can earn maximum points by expressing your dissatisfaction in ways that generate the most constructive transformations. Bonus points will be awarded for your ability to tactfully articulate complicated feelings, as well as for your emotionally intelligent analyses that inspire people to respond empathetically rather than defensively. What are the prizes? First prize is a breakthrough in your relationship with an ally who could be crucial to your expansion in 2016. Second prize is a liberation from one of your limiting beliefs.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A fourth-century monk named Martin was a pioneer winemaker in France. He founded the Marmoutier Abbey and planted vineyards on the surrounding land. According to legend, Martin's donkey had a crucial role in lifting viticulture out of its primitive state. Midway through one growing season, the beast escaped its tether and nibbled on a lot of the grapevines. All the monks freaked out, fearing that the crop was wrecked. But ultimately the grapes grew better than they had in previous years, and the wine they produced was fabulous. Thus was born the practice of pruning, which became de rigueur for all grape-growers.

What's your equivalent of Martin's donkey, Aquarius?

I bet it'll exert its influence very soon.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important,” said educator John Dewey. If that's true, Pisces, you are on the verge of having your deepest urge fulfilled more than it has been in a long time. The astrological alignments suggest that you are reaching the peak of your value to other people. You're unusually likely to be seen and appreciated and acknowledged for who you really are. If you have been underestimating your worth, I doubt you will be able to continue doing so. Here's your homework: Take a realistic inventory of the ways your life has had a positive impact on the lives of people you have known.

Homework: Make a guess about what you will be most proud of 15 years from today.

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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