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comments@metronews.com RE: “THE SUPER SEX MYTH,” COVER, JAN. 20

You’re about to see a bunch of stories about the Super Bowl and sex trafficking. Proceed with caution.

Hey buddy, it’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you’re hunched over next to a woman in the pouring rain on the sidewalk.

Sorry to ask if you’re all right.

I’m not sure what the situation is, but it’s definitely a situation.

Your two friends are in a car, stopped in the middle of this one-way street at a green light. So excuuuuse me for expressing concern. Didn’t think that called for your rage-filled rant of expletives (which, by the way, you so bravely waited to spew until I was already on the other end of the block). But you’d have to expect at least a little bit of curiosity from passersby.

You look like you’re crying, for chrissakes. Did you just get in an argument with your friends? Did you jump out of the car? Who’s the woman? Don’t bite my head off for inquiring. Someone else might’ve called the cops.

RE: “THE SUPER SEX MYTH,” COVER, JAN. 20

I appreciate the voice of sex workers in the article but not at the cost of those that are being coerced into the work. @MSANDREADIAZ VIA TWITTER

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RE: “THE SUPER SEX MYTH,” COVER, JAN. 20

Gary Singh’s column about funky shops on Park Avenue was terrific, and as always a welcome antidote to more conventional perspectives in the media. And the cover story on the myth of Super Bowl human trafficking was perhaps the most significant piece of serious journalism I’ve read in a long time, especially since it has an “emperor without clothes” quality to it in attacking a politically correct shibboleth.

Great article in @metroactive by @gary_singh about #sanjose Park Ave …

Shout out to Val @Bigsby #cityofdjinns #stsj

I’m against trafficking and taking advantage of young men and women being sold to the highest bidder… however, and I know I’m gonna get a whole lotta haters and naysayers responding as they do but … if any man or woman who is of consenting age chooses to sell their “services” to lonely men … I don’t judge.

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Polluted Poll Earlier this year, Santa Clara County announced a $64 million plan to shelter 6,000 of the region’s chronically homeless.

The ambitious proposal stemmed from an ad hoc Housing Task Force formed by Board of Supervisors prez DAVE CORTESE. To answer what Supervisor CINDY CHAVEZ called the “$64 million question,” the board decided to appeal to constituents. Any day now, pollsters from EMC Research will start calling likely voters to gauge their willingness to bump up the countywide sales tax. But the questions don’t exactly relate to homelessness—rather, the poll will query three groups about a special, general and combined tax. This isn’t the survey’s first run, either. South Bay Labor Council (SBLC) chief BEN FIELD had EMC ask voters those same questions last year, yielding less-than-favorable results. The labor council attempted to give it a second shot by teaming up with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group on a transportation tax, but the answers were apparently even less promising and that partnership has since fallen through. The SBLC has now targeted They taxpayer funds to ask the Did same questions until they What? get the answers they SEND TIPS TO want. A no-bid county FLY@ contract approved by METRONEWS. supervisors will spend COM $50,000 to conduct the three-pronged poll, by the same firm, EMC, used by the SBLC. One miffed source compared the back-door polling efforts, as well as conducting three different surveys, to taking “three different bites at the apple.” The ploy is especially disingenuous considering the county just asked voters to approved a half-billion dollar sales tax in 2012. Measure A pushed the county’s sales tax to one of the state’s highest at 8.75 percent, and ended up raising more money than the county needed. Supervisors put $9.6 million in “surplus” funds up for bid in 2014. It came as no surprise when KATHLEEN KING, who ran the county’s Measure A campaign along with Chavez, nabbed $6 million for her fledgling nonprofit, the Healthier Kids Foundation.

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Gov. Rainmaker BROWN GRASS The governor has a cautiously pessimistic view of the state’s economy.

Jerry Brown’s new budget expresses caution over extended drought

BY TOM GOGOLA

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N A STATE that’s been dealing with a drought for the past four years, Gov. Jerry Brown yet again played the role of cautiously pessimistic weather forecaster when he released his $170 billion 2016–17 budget.

Suggesting the next recession might be right around the corner, Brown emphasized in his early January announcement that California should put a little something aside—$2 billion—for the state’s rainy day fund.

Prudence and discipline were also hallmarks of his 2016 State of the State address last week, which lasted all of 20 minutes, and Brown’s budget has a number of drought-beating, water

security items embedded within it, including an update to the Delta Plan.

Of eight “significant adjustments” noted in the budget’s action plan for water, he’s earmarked $3.6 million to flow the WaterFix Delta conveyance plan into the broader Delta Plan.

Translated into English, that means, yes, Brown is pushing ahead with his plan to build two large water tunnels to ensure the flow of desalinated water from the Sacramento River southward, which has drawn substantial backlash to the governor’s chagrin.

The water security part of the plan has been cleaved from habitat restoration efforts underway in the Delta. The broader effort is now undertaken as the so-called 4A option, which state and federal authorities enacted last April.

Now the state Natural Resources Agency is the lead on the habitat restoration part of the deal, under the WaterRestore plan, while WaterFix builds the tunnels

and associated other infrastructure to hedge against future droughts and their crippling impacts on Big Ag. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan is just one of a number of budget nuggets released by Brown that are of interest to the Bay Area. Here are some of the highlights:

Failing Grads The governor gave the California State University system high marks for making college affordable, but graduation rates are nowhere near acceptable. Less than a fifth (18 percent) of first-time college students graduate within four years.

In particular, San Jose State University ranked 18th out of 23 schools in four-year graduation rates for first-time students (11 percent).

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government—will turn out to be a positive or a negative.

Last year, the CSU Chancellor’s office rolled out the Graduation Initiative 2025 to increase graduation rates for the abovementioned students to 24 percent in the next 10 years, and Brown’s budget provides an additional $225 million to the CSU’s general fund.

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Brown’s budget also responds to two recent lawsuits brought against the state that address broader issues around criminal justice reform.

Under his plan, the state will spend $9.3 million to comply with the ruling in Sassman v. Brown, “which requires the state to expand the existing female Alternative Custody Program to males.” Under this program, inmates serve out the last year or two of their terms in home detention or a residential facility.

This bill could be a boon for private providers of electronic monitoring services, given the expanded pool of inmates.

“It is unclear how many males will ultimately qualify for an alternative placement,” Brown notes in his budget summary. “Consequently, future budget adjustments may be necessary to capture the full impact of this program expansion.”

The state also reached an agreement last year in Ashker v.

Brown that hit on the overuse of solitary confinement in prison. The agreement moves the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation “away from a system of indeterminate terms for segregated housing to a system that focuses on determinate terms for behavior-based violations,” Brown notes.

The state would save $28 million by shutting down some solitaryconfinement units, and the governor pledges to spend $5.8 million “for additional investigative staff to monitor gang activity in prisons as the new segregated housing policy changes are implemented.”

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Brown is offering some $300 million to deal with damage from last year’s big fires in Lake and

Calaveras counties, but the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, CalFire, is hampered in its firefighting efforts because of its fleet of 12 Vietnam-era, military surplus helicopters, which are aging and not up to the task, CalFire says.

Brown offers an unspecified figure for the replacement of the choppers and says he is waiting on a procurement plan which should be unveiled this spring, just in time for fire season.

Minimum Wage Brown says it would be nice, but fiscally foolish, to push for a statewide $15 minimum wage (it’s $10 an hour as of Jan. 1) for all workers, but in the meantime, he and the state Legislature have to deal with a federal Department of Labor ruling from last year that said In-Home Supportive Service (IHSS) workers are entitled to overtime, travel time between clients and wait time pay related to doctor visits.

Brown also proposed to lift a 7 percent reduction in service hours slapped on IHSS workers around the time of the Great Recession, which he says will cost the state $236 million in 2016–17. The overtime ruling could cost nearly $1 billion a year starting in 2016–17; about half of that would come from the state’s general fund.

“These regulations will lead to over $440 million annually in additional state costs,” notes Brown. The federal overtime rules are anticipated to be implemented in February.

Medical Marijuana Last year Brown signed off on the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, a statewide regulatory framework that will oversee the “licensing and enforcement of the cultivation, manufacture, transportation, storage, and distribution of medical marijuana.”

The governor is asking for $25 million and 126 new state positions, spread across numerous agencies— Fish and Wildlife, Public Health, Food and Agriculture and the State Water Resources Control Board, among others—to ensure a steady and just roll-out of the new medical cannabis regime.

Josh Koehn contributed to this report.

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‘DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH’ San Jose police ended a high-speed chase with three arrests and no injuries.

A High-Speed Chase with San Jose Police at 1,000 Feet

BY JOSH KOEHN We don’t know that the stolen car barreling down a residential street lined with grade schools contains two minors, one just 13 years old. All we know is what the radio tells us: a disturbance at a nearby Rotten Robbie; a records check of the license plate comes back stolen.

The Airbus EC12OB positions itself above the corner of Story Road and Hopkins Avenue on San Jose’s East Side, and a spotlight with a 1,000-foot stare washes the suspects’ vehicle like a wellplaced interrogation room lamp. The light might as well have been green, as the high-speed chase begins.

We track the vehicle south and kill the spotlight to coax the driver into letting off the gas and avoid smacking into oncoming traffic. The driver seems unmoved, and the vehicle, presented with a “T” intersection and options of only left or right, clips a parked car

before coming to a stop. Two people hop out and book it while a third, 18-year-old Gianna Marlee, the only adult in the car, jumps into the driver’s seat and attempts to skirt the corner.

She too will soon flee on foot, but only a 17-year-old male escapes police custody for longer than a minute.

For what seems like an eternity, we circle, and an infrared camera scans houses, backyards and neighboring streets and we no longer bank left or right but pedal turn, which gives the unusual feeling of being held by the waist and hung over the side of a building as if money was owed. A few inches in front of my face I see several small white bags that have been placed in the seat pocket in case I lose my nerve. A perimeter forms and our work—well, their work—is done. We’ll later learn that the last suspect was

found hiding in a residential trash can.

The chances of seeing a high-speed chase on a ride-along is a “diamond in the rough,” according to my escorts, San Jose Police Department officers Chuck Moggia and Andy Cacayo, who pilot the Airbus EC12OB. The 15-year-old, single-engine eye in the sky has become especially helpful for a department that has lost hundreds of officers in recent years because of budget shortfalls and a pension reform war.

The 90-minute trip took months to arrange, mostly due to maintenance issues, including a rogue bird smashing through the Airbus EC12OB’s windshield in December. The collision, pilots tell me, nearly forced an emergency landing on Highway 101 in the middle of evening rush hour.

To read a longer version of this story go to SanJoseInside.com.

Beau Goldie made an unexpected— and extended—goodbye tour last week at the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s offices, and things got more than a little awkward. Of course, his “retirement/resignation” was so contrived it’s possible Goldie thought he was still running the show. Since his last day on Jan. 15, it’s been reported that he received a six-month severance package of more than $152,000, rather than simply calling it a career.

The former CEO and 31-year district employee popped up three straight days last week, after his last official day.

During these drop-ins Goldie Beau Goldie reportedly violated rules on unsupervised visitors and may have even attempted to influence staff direction on future work.

According to an internal email sent out Friday on behalf of Chief Operating Officer (COO) Norma Camacho, the former CEO had discussions with staff that allegedly included disparaging comments about the board, as well as giving instructions to staff working on recycled water projects.

The latter item is especially worrisome considering Goldie and his colleagues have been accused of conflicts of interest and violating rules in expediting contracts with RMC Water and Environment on an $800 million recycled water treatment plant. The company is owned in part by a district administrator who reported to Goldie.

In the final months of his tenure as CEO, Goldie remained steadfast that all contracts and district protocols were followed in relation to RMC work.

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BY GARY SINGH

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The results were horrific.

Approximately 10 million people were forced to leave their ancestral territories on a moment’s notice. Families split up. Wealthy people lost everything. As refugees traveled back and forth between the two countries, Hindus, Sikhs

and Muslims committed massacres against each other. An estimated one million people lost their lives.

Aside from exacerbating religiousbased distrust in that part of the world, the Partition of 1947 is often understood as having significance equal to the Holocaust or the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yet it remains ignored in comparison to those other tragedies, especially in the West.

Many survivors of the Partition era are still alive, but their numbers are dwindling. In response, the 1947 Partition Archive was launched in 2008 to give voice to those who witnessed the horrors by collecting and preserving their stories on

digital video. Anyone still around from those days can contribute a story to the archive. On Feb. 18, a poignant event will take place at Stanford University. Co-produced by the Stanford Center for South Asia, witnesses from the events of 1947 will attend, videos will be shown and discussions will take place.

The 1947 Partition Archive began as the brainchild of Guneeta Singh Bhalla, a Ph.D. candidate in physics at UC-Berkeley. Originally from Delhi, she came to the U.S. at age 10.

Partition stories were always in the back of her mind.

“I had been thinking about it for a very long time,” she says. “I'd grown up hearing the stories and I knew I wanted to do something, because there’s a huge disconnect between what we learn in our history classes and what we learn through folk stories in our communities.”

While finishing her Ph.D. research

in Tokyo, Bhalla made a trip to Hiroshima, where she experienced the oral history archives. The stories left a profound effect on her.

“It was much more powerful than reading about it in books, or what we usually hear, or in movies,” she says.

“To hear the personal accounts and watching people tell it on video, I realized at that moment, this is what we needed to do for Partition, to make it legitimate in the public’s eye.”

Skip to 2016 and Silicon Valley donors are starting to jump on board.

The project now has five full-time staff members, 16 part-time interns and more than 500 volunteers around the world, all of whom have helped capture 2,000 stories on digital video. So far, stories have come in from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Israel, and Europe totalling more than 12 different countries. Whoever wants to volunteer their personal account can do so.

However, there is still a long way to go. Everyone involved feels a sense of urgency to carry out the work as fast as possible, since most of those who remember Partition are now at least 80 years old. Millions of stories could still be uncovered. Since the archive essentially functions as a nonprofit startup, an NGO of sorts, fundraising is still the biggest challenge and Bhalla says she wants the project to grow at a faster pace. The goal is to archive 10,000 stories by the end of 2017, the 70th anniversary of Partition.

What’s more, as the project continues to evolve, those archiving the stories, especially the younger volunteers, have all discovered deeper aspects of their own roots and histories than they ever would have learned in school. Bhalla includes herself among this group.

“I’ve met a lot of really educated women from that time period,” she says. “You wouldn’t think that there were South Asian women with advanced degrees or medical doctors back in the ’40s, but there were.

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Hail Satan, Full of Grace How Satanists became government watchdogs

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

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UNDAY EVENING, the Lord’s Day, at Flames: a few lost souls wander around the San Jose diner trying to find a ruck of Satanists. They’re late, sidetracked by a bunch of leather-vested bikers who rented the banquet room for a holiday party. After a couple wrong turns and awkward exchanges, the stragglers arrive. One of them, a young man—crimson hoodie, red hair, flushed cheeks—sidles into a seat and lets out a relieved sigh.

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“That’s right,” Schadenfreude affirms. “We want to help the community because that is the rational, satanic thing to do.”

Temple Tantrums The Satanic Temple stormed into the public eye on the steps of the Florida state capitol in January 2013. A throng of caped Satanists staged a rally to facetiously applaud Gov. Rick Scott for pushing a bill that sanctioned prayer at public school assemblies.

They raised a banner proclaiming “Hail Satan! Hail Rick Scott!” and gushed to news cameras about how the new law would allow students to offer up invocations to the Prince of Darkness.

Doubtful that honest-to-God Satanists would salute a politician who openly promotes Christianity in government, journalists blew their cover. Turns out a New York-based film crew had put out a casting call for unpaid “minions” and extras to act in a “mockumentary” about “the nicest satanic cult in the world.”

The “Satanists for Scott” stunt went viral. But the temple realized that in order for its message to truly resonate, they had to drop the act. Doug Mesner, the Harvard-educated ringleader, assumed the name Lucien Greaves and became the face of the organization. He set out to prove that despite the fake film setup, the Satanic Temple is the real deal.

Originally conceived as a “poison pill in the church-state debate,” as Mesner phrased it in a 2013 interview with Vice, the temple has since evolved beyond reactive political ploys. “Our message and beliefs are deeply sincere,” says Jex Blackmore, who leads the group’s highest-profile chapter in Mesner’s native Detroit. “To us, Satan is a figure that embodies the characteristics that inform our deeply held beliefs, rather than a stab at the superstitious.”

Adherents of the Satanic

Temple have no qualms with the occult or low-key spirituality. But Greaves and his ilk embrace an atheistic philosophy that views Satan not as a deity but a literary symbol. Satan, in this brand of “ism,” stands for reason, autonomy and rejection of superstition and arbitrary authority. Through this lens, he bears more resemblance to the rebel angel of Paradise Lost than the Bible’s rendition of evil incarnate.

In the spirit of Satan as eternal outcast, activism remains central to the group’s mission. Where religion has already breached the churchstate divide, the Satanic Temple elbows in to remind lawmakers that those privileges necessarily extend to other beliefs.

Following the Florida demonstration, temple chapters began cropping up throughout the country to promote plurality and shine a critical light on the intersection of church and state.

They touched down in Mississippi, to officiate same-sex unions on the grave of Catherine Johnson, whose son Fred Phelps founded the militantly anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. Mesner declared her a lesbian in the afterlife and ended the affair by tea-bagging the late Johnson’s headstone.

The scrotum incident incited outrage, predictably, but also garnered widespread support for its most incendiary project: a 9-foot statue of the goat-god Baphomet. Greaves et al famously petitioned to have the one-and-ahalf-ton bronze figure, paid for by $30,000 in donations, installed on the lawn of the Oklahoma state capitol alongside a monument of the Ten Commandments.

A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union derailed those plans, however, as the state was forced to remove the Christian display.

Satanists, of course, welcomed the outcome. The timing was impeccable, too. With Arkansas poised to display the 10 Commandments on the capitol grounds in Little Rock, the Satanic Temple asked lawmakers

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“Who else thought those bikers were Satanists?” he asks. “I thought Satanists wore black.”

Jedidiah Schadenfreude, a dyed-in-the-wool Satanist whose burly build occasionally gets him mistaken for a Hell’s Angel, chuckles.

“Oh we do,” says Schadenfreude, who, in addition to a diabolical alias, sports leather cuffs, a black button-down shirt, shaved head and kohl-smudged eyes. “But not all people who wear black are Satanists.”

They wonder how many of the bikers were asked with straight-faced sincerity about their allegiance to Lucifer. The inaugural gathering of the Satanic Temple’s San Jose chapter draws a handful of inquisitive strangers. Some look the part— slag-black garb, dye-darkened hair, facial piercings. Others, in Carhartt coats and heavy work boots, could pass for God-fearing, salt-of-the-earth folk.

“This is good,” Schadenfreude says, nodding his head approvingly as people settle in. He’d been apprehensive about the first public meeting, inviting a bunch of strangers to a satanic mixer—for good reason.

Chapters elsewhere have faced death threats, some broadcast on national talk radio. Thus, the pseudonym.

With beers ordered and introductions made, Schadenfreude cracks open a white binder to review the fundamentals of Satanism.

The tenets he reads invoke compassion, reason, justice, the inviolability of one’s body and freedom that never encroaches upon another’s.

“But even these aren’t set in stone,” he says, glancing up from the page to gauge the group’s reaction. “These are guidelines to hold us accountable to ourselves and to each other. These are here to promote personal responsibility and rational inquiry.”

Schadefreude’s right-hand man, who goes by the decidedly less sinister anonym Nolan Bell, chimes in to explain that their

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Deal With the Devil The man known as Schadenfreude, a 43-year-old artist-musician who lives in Campbell, asks to meet at his favorite haunt, Flames. In a black T-shirt emblazoned with a red devil-horned PBS logo, he’s easy to spot if you’ve got your eyes peeled for a Satanist. I wave him over to my booth, where he explains how he had a hard time leaving his flu-addled girlfriend.

“I tucked her in and made her dinner,” he says, apologizing for seeming preoccupied. “Sometimes she wants me to leave so I don’t fuss over her.”

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“I used to listen to that song ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’ and think the devil got a bad shake,” he says.

“My Sunday school teacher didn’t like that either.”

By his teens, Schadenfreude says, he embraced Satanism with a “piss on the Bible” kind of fervor. He turned his walk-in closet into a satanic shrine, with an altar and candles, where he’d practice spells. That her son had long since sworn his soul to the devil only dawned on Schadenfreude’s mother years later. The nationwide “satanic panic” of the 1980s compelled parents and church groups to censor anything remotely blasphemous, from heavy metal to Dungeons and Dragons, David Bowie and Cabbage Patch Dolls. TV shows and a resurgence of a conservative spin on “family values” fueled a pandemic paranoia that demons lurked behind every doorknob.

“My mom heard Geraldo Rivera going on about how to tell if your kid has fallen prey to a satanic cult,” Schadenfreude says. “Something must have clicked—the dog collars, the black clothes, the mohawk—because she marches up to my friend’s house, where I just happened to be watching the movie ‘Hellraiser,’ and demands I get home right that minute.”

To his mother’s chagrin, the Satan thing wasn’t just a phase. (They’re cool now, as long as he doesn’t mention it.) At the time, the Church of Satan remained the nation’s leading satanic institution. Founded a half-century ago by circus organist-turned-mystic Anton LaVey, who died in 1997, the church espoused a virtue of selfishness and a touch of what it called “lesser” magic.

Schadenfreude identified more with Aleister Crowley, whose occultism, while not overtly satanic, embraced “the shadows and darkness of mankind.”

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Schadenfreude, who converted to a more occult form of Satanism as a teenager, says he joined the Satanic Temple because it so clearly struck a nerve. Its campaigns, he says, have forced the powers that be to engage in a dialogue that makes the world more equitable for all beliefs. “That’s what pulled me in,” he says. “I like to tell people: We’ve got teeth.”

In relatively progressive Silicon Valley, however, the movement may be less defined and the battles less pronounced. In the Midwest and other conservative parts of the United States, Satanists have tilted against religion-based laws that sanction prayer in public school or threaten access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare.

“Our role is fluid depending on the culture and the place,” Schadenfreude says. “But wherever we go, we’re here for the outsider.”

Aiden Simon, 27, an atheist who joined the San Jose chapter after dropping in on the first meeting last month, says that’s exactly what brought him to the table.

“I’m transgender, and you don’t really have many spaces, even queer spaces, without some sort of opposition,” he says. “Being from more than one subculture myself, I like the idea of promoting these various groups, whether they’re on the LGBT spectrum or in the broader community. I do want to actively help and I think the [temple] can be a big part of that.”

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‘We want to help the community because that is the rational, satanic thing to do.’

By 2014, the year-old Satanic Temple had reached a level of visibility unmatched by any other satanic denomination. Many among them accept LaVey’s point about selfgratification, but argued that altruism is in everyone’s best interest. While Greaves characterizes the old school as libertarian and isolationist, modern Satanists champion progressive causes: abortion rights, marriage equality, sexual consent and ideological pluralism. They’ve taken their fight to court. A lawsuit filed by a Satanist in Missouri, a state that’s steadily scaled back abortion access, challenges a perceived government intrusion into reproductive rights.

Those public displays in the name of Satanism have so infuriated LaVey’s sectarian heir, Church of Satan Magus Peter H. Gilmore, that he’s taken to openly criticizing the upstart temple, calling its followers a bunch of attention-whoring trolls. For Greaves, the normally aloof Gilmore could barely contain his derision.

“When a fellow in horns—with an adopted moniker fit for a 1970s hairdresser—teabags a tombstone while some ‘goth’ rejects swap spit on the grave, it seems to us to be a parody of Satanism rather than a representation of some actual philosophical religious organization,” he wrote on the church’s official blog.

The temple refutes the notion that its activism—though purposefully attention-grabbing—is anything but sincere. The organization’s seven core tenets, adherents argue, prove that their mission isn’t simply reactionary. As Greaves puts it, their push for churchstate separation stems from a deeply held belief absent of superstition.

In a phone call with the San Jose chapter earlier this month, Greaves spoke about creating ordination coursework. The class, he says, will offer substantive teachings for people to officiate weddings, minister to inmates or the bereaved or offer endof-life counseling.

“There’s real substance,” says Schadenfreude, who launched the San Jose chapter in October 2014. “That philosophy about collective action and civic engagement really spoke to me.

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But the Satanic Temple has its work cut out for it, he says. Its adherents want to respond to the cultural moment and the specific needs of the community.

Here, that may entail promoting diversity in the tech industry, or providing secular charities for the homeless. It could mean advocating for sex workers or counter-protesting pro-choice demonstrators outside of Planned Parenthood.

“A lot of this is about civic justice,” says Xepher Ashe, 36, an excommunicated Mormon who handles communications for the San Jose temple. “There’s a huge potential here to do good.”

“And to stop the bad,” Schadenfreude says in agreement.

“You don’t need religion to do good,” adds Bell, 42, whose penchant for debate led him from fundamentalist

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survival of the fittest, the strong, it’s all about you, your own needs, without considering others.”

While recognizing some truth in LaVeyan Satanism, Schadenfreude began to broaden his personal beliefs into a philosophy of erring toward “lefthand path,” the term occult scholar and Temple of Set votary Stephen E. Flowers used to refer to the diametric opposite of prevailing ideology. Still, he kept Satanism at the heart of it. “It taught me personal responsibility to the extreme,” Schadenfreude says. “That really tilled the soil of my being.”

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Christianity to anti-theist Satanism relatively early in life. Even using reductive terms, “good” or “bad,” he says, makes him cringe.

“The point is,” Bell continues, “religion doesn’t have a monopoly on charity or public service.”

To that end, the San Jose Temple will conduct itself much like other service groups. They plan to adopt a highway and give Satanists a mention on the side of a major road and hold a speaker series to give voice to various cultures and causes. Taking a cue from chapters elsewhere in the country, they may sign up to deliver an invocation at a City Council or some other public meeting.

Simon, an avid gamer, suggested social events such as Pathfinder or other role-playing nights. “A lot of Satanists love role playing,” Schadenfreude replied when that particular idea came up.

During our one-on-one klatch at Flames some weeks earlier, Schadenfreude talks about having the temple encourage more people to foster or adopt shelter animals.

“And what about the companion animals being … killed—they’re being killed,” he says, choking on his words as tears spring up in his eyes. “I’m sorry.

I’m … hold on.”

He takes a swig of beer then wipes his eyes with the back of his forearm.

Unable to speak, he raises his hand to

signal a pause as he fights back emotion.

“I can’t even think about it without getting emotional,” he resumes, apologizing again.

“But people abandon rabbits, Chihuahuas and cats, because they can’t commit to the responsibility.

It’s not right.”

Satanism strives to be forever in flux, a shifting undercurrent of the mainstream, he notes. It’s an ideological check on authority, in whatever form it assumes, and a counterbalance to the dominant worldview.

In The Revolt of Angels, one of Schadenfreude’s favorite books, Anatole France writes about Satan waking from a nightmare about overthrowing God in Heaven. In this dream, the thrill of victory quelled his thirst for knowledge, “he took pleasure in mystery . . . God conquered will become Satan; Satan conquered will become God,” France’s Satan concludes. “I love Hell, which formed my genius. I love Earth, where I have done some good.”

“I love that chapter,” Schadenfreude says. “It’s a great example of how this will always be a counter ideology. The needs change, we adapt.”

The waitress, a friendly brunette with a bouncy up-do, returns with the tab and excuses herself for the interruption.

“Happy holidays!” she chirps.

“Hail, Satan!” Schadenfreude replies, just as cheerfully.

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INIMALIST DESIGN doesn’t get any simpler than a large window set against a dark concrete exterior.

Underneath this window, at Palo Alto’s Bird Dog restaurant, is a hardly noticeable, industrial-style sign cut out of metal. It is the sole indication that this is indeed Bird Dog. The sign could be missed entirely

and the grand, wood-paneled front doors would look like the opening to a boutique hotel.

The minimalism continues to the menu, which currently has a whopping 18 items. I prefer it this way.

I came to eat, not think. Our waiter was nearly flawless in his service, guiding us through the menu and ingredient substitutions for the night.

The persimmon in the salad was replaced with grilled butternut squash ($15) and served with mixed greens dressed in a vinegar from cuties— those adorable clementines. Heavenly dollops of stretchy and creamy burrata, imported from Italy, begged

to be gobbled up first. Never hesitate when it comes to great burrata.

As detected from the décor, there is a dusting of Asian influence over the establishment and a leaning towards California cuisine in the menu. It was more apparent in the heirloom carrots ($14), with sauces made from red curry and tamarind.

While the quality of the locally grown carrots was amazing, they were juxtaposed with an Asian-like sauce when they could have been at their best if simply roasted. Not to sound cliché, but less can be more.

It seems customary here to artfully arrange the food by using as little of a big beautiful plate as possible. As long as it tastes good, I don’t mind. Pieces of the Wagyu skirt steak ($29) formed a line down the center of the plate with papaya sauce dots around, an avocado smear at the edge sprinkled with

crushed pistachio, and a Fresno chile for contrast. Although skirt steak is not the tastiest of cuts, this is a Wagyu steak after all. On its own it was fair.

The papaya sauce and avocado smear helped enhance the flavor.

As I learned through the meal, the sauces were not just pretentious plate decorations. Rather, they are deliberately chosen and meticulously plated to be dipped, smeared, smothered and combined in all manners to aide in the enjoyment of the dish. The sauces were especially unique in the fried chicken thigh ($18). A crunchy chicken thigh piece with already flavorful breading sits in a pool of yellow sauce which may have had smoked uni. Separate dots of green curry sauce adorned the plate. After trying different variations, my favorite way to consume this soon-to-be famous fried chicken was to dip it in the yellow sauce and then the green curry sauce.

The bright dining room had a modern farmhouse feel. Wooden ducks are arranged on the walls, tying in with the name as a bird dog is used for hunting. Bird Dog only serves dinner six days a week, but it felt as if we were dining in broad daylight thanks to strings of orb lanterns. They line the length of the room, drawing attention to the open kitchen. It’s a daring yet trending concept to have the kitchen staff on display.

Meal service felt like dinner and a show as I sipped my smooth tequilabased Duck Blind ($14) with lemon and pear and watched the staff hard at work. It’s a pleasure to witness a kitchen staff without any tension or yelling. Most of the background noise was truly from the music and guests immersed in conversation.

Individual item prices are reasonable, but the portions are rather small.

More dishes are required to make a meal here, which is likely the intent.

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HE SANDWICH board menu outside of Hometown Noodles’ front door is written in Mandarin without translation. That wouldn’t be a surprise in Mountain View or Cupertino, areas with large Chinese populations, but not in south San Jose.

Inside, the restaurant is a cozy and tastefully decorated eatery with faux strings of chili peppers adorning the walls, a clue that the place takes the hallmark of Hunan cooking seriously.

“You can’t be a revolutionary if you don’t eat chilies,” claimed Hunan’s best known native, Mao Zedong. If true, Hometown Noodles would make the founder of the People’s Republic of China proud by bringing the revolution to a modest Cambrian strip mall. Unlike its central China neighbors in the Sichuan province, who are known for numbingly spicy dishes featuring peppercorns, Hunan food is considered spicy with dry heat, relying on chilies and flavorful, preserved ingredients.

Hometown Noodles’ Pickled Long Bean with Minced Meat ($9.98 small; $11.68 large) is authentic Hunan cuisine. It’s a bowl of rice noodles with a spicy, flavorful broth, fresh colorful ingredients, topped by bok choy and peanuts. There’s a sour taste created by the long beans to compliment the spiciness. A similarly excellent noodle dish is the Spicy Chicken ($9.98, $11.68), which lives up to its name but isn’t overwhelming.

For a milder option, the Stewed Beef Brisket ($10.98, $12.68) is an excellent choice. The meat is tender and flavorful and swims in a rich broth with the rice noodles, fresh vegetables, and peanuts.

For appetizers, the Fried Egg Rolls ($3.98) were a nice surprise as they are thin and light, not the bigger rolls that tend to get heavy from absorbing oil. The Fried Tofu ($4.98) is soft and sits in a soy sauce, topped with garlic and scallions. It’s the dish I’ll order on every visit.

For those desiring an authentic or adventurous dish, order the Homestyle Pig Ear ($5.98): a bowl of pickled, thinly sliced, cold pig ears with vegetables. The flavor is refreshing, but the texture for the uninitiated can be a gelatinous challenge.

There’s only one quasi dessert option on the menu: Beijing Yogurt ($2.78).

Unlike the other dishes, the presentation isn’t elegant. Diners get a small drink carton with a mini straw. It’s a yogurt that nicely finishes off a spicy meal.

Hometown Noodles’ service is pleasant and attentive when not too busy. Most important, the food is deliciously authentic. Perhaps it’s the beginning of a food revolution in Cambrian Park. —J.J. Carburry HOMETOWN NOODLES 3617 Union Ave., San Jose. 408.369.8868.

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We opted for coffee instead of champagne on this particular visit, though the bright, fruit-filled glass goblets brought to a nearby table looked appetizing. For birthdays, the restaurant will pour a complimentary giant mimosa (usually $20, weekends only) in a glass the size of a large table lamp.

The food portion of Mimosa’s menu has all the breakfast and brunch favorites (omelets, skillets, benedicts, waffles, pancakes, French toast) plus sandwiches and salads for the lunch crowd.

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Grateful for a break in the rainy weather, we snagged a table outside on the concrete patio, next to busy Pearl Avenue. I ordered the California Omelet ($12.25) accompanied by hashbrowns and toast, while my friend ordered the Corned Beef Skillet ($12), served with a thick biscuit. We split a waffle ($7).

My heaping omelet came filled with bacon, mushrooms, green onion and tomato, topped with jack, cheddar and swiss cheese, plus a dollop of sour cream and what looked to be half of a perfectly ripe avocado.

Accompanied with some fluffy, non-greasy hashbrowns and thick slices of sourdough toast, there was no way I could eat more than half.

I faired better than my friend though, who could barely dent her huge Corned Beef Skillet, a heap of potatoes, slow corned beef brisket (“NOT from a can” they emphasize in the description), onions, jack cheese and horseradish sauce, topped with two eggs over medium.

A greasy spoon spot Mimosas is not, as both of our meals looked and tasted fresh. But as longtime diner aficionados, we both agreed that the waffle was the highlight of the meal. I’ve had more than my share of tough, cold, unappetizing waffles. This one was light and fluffy, the perfect size for splitting. —Stephen Layton

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Los Altos Stage Company is presenting the Bay Area premiere of Middletown, a play that explores life’s big questions as well as its tiny moments. Audiences discover Middletown through the character of newcomer Mary Swanson, who begins to learn more about her new neighbors as she settles in and befriends a local man. Winner of the Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play, playwright Will Eno explores the lives of seemingly ordinary townspeople as they interact with each other, and sometimes even the audience. Heavily inspired by Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, each character subverts archetypes while revealing the complexity of his or her inner life. (ACB)

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Showcasing three bands from the Bay Area, this kind of rock is all about “trying 2 have a good time,” according to the headliners.

Expect songs about being too broke to get tattoos, stealing Thin Mints and facing your day job. The show opens with Mountain View indie band Dogcatcher. Then San Jose’s Cola channel the late, great Lou Reed during the only Bay Area performance of their January tour. The show closes with San Francisco’s Rin Tin Tiger. (ACB)

A TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL BRECKER Café Pink House, Saratoga Thu, 7:30pm, $15 Veteran jazz musicians will honor the late Michael Brecker, remembered as one of America’s most influential jazz saxophonists, in a modern venue that puts small town Saratoga on the map for live music. San Francisco Saxophonist Tod Dickow, who has collaborated with Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Harry Connick Jr.—to name a few—joins forces with three virtuosos who collectively call themselves the “Charged Particles.”

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HENRY FONG Pure Lounge, Sunnyvale Fri, 10pm, Free Henry Fong started out as a DJ seeking a way to diversify his set.

He began by fiddling with ’80s pop and ’90s rap hits, bolstering them to fit his sensibilities. From there, he built tracks from scratch— keeping them short to match the attention span of the college bar set. He first tasted fame after remixing Dillon Francis’ “Without You” into a chugging alt-electro anthem, building up to and fading from propulsive drops. Recently, the dreadlocked producer forayed into “Reggaedm” with his original mix “Wine Dem,” where he lays a stomping baseline, laser pewpews and brassy tubas below chopped-and-screwed dancehall toasts. (JF)

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WWE LIVE

Feb 6 at SAP Center

SUPER BOWL 50

Feb 7 at Levi’s Stadium

BLACK SABBATH

Feb 9 at SAP Center

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Feb 10 at The Ritz

DAM FUNK + EGYPTIAN LOVER Feb 12 at The Ritz

VALENTINES OLD SCHOOL JAM Feb 12 at SAP Center

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

DRIVE LIKE JEHU Feb 27 at The Ritz

RIHANNA

Feb 28 at SAP Center

CASH’D OUT

Mar 11 at The Ritz

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Mar 17 at SAP Center

STYX

Mar 17 at City National Civic

ANDRE NICKATINA Agenda Lounge, San Jose Fri, 10pm, $10 Andre Nickatina is a local legend.

Over the course of his 20-plus years in the game, the gangly emcee has built a diverse fan base of privileged college partiers, philosophical backpack-rap heads and straight-up gangsters. A perpetual banner-waver for the Bay, he takes a moment at every show to pay tribute to his passed compadre, Mac Dre. With a flow that is both staccato and gymnastic, the S.F.-born Dre Dog skips through bars with ease. Known for underground hits, such as “Smoke Dope and Rap” and “Ayo For Yayo,” he is capable of being unapologetically callous, insightfully introspective and absolutely absurd. (JF)

*sat BALANCED BREAKFAST SHOWCASE X-Bar, Cupertino Sat, 8pm, $7 It’s hard not to be pulled under by the narcotic waves of ambient rockers, Skyway View. On their new album, The Victoria Trap, the San Jose band weaves together an undulating fabric of droning, Interpol down strokes; throbbing ’90s shoegaze; acoustic and synthetic goth ripples; and the occasional Latin flourish. Whatever eras these hopeless (nu)romantics are jacking, a deliciously dolorous yearning is never far away. There’s hooks aplenty with Life Size Models’ jangly-strummy goodness, exploring the personal (“Bedroom Eyes”) and the pedestrian (“Bayshore Freeway”) on their catchy new 5-song EP Burden Of Youth. (AL)

THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT Mar 18 at The Ritz

YANNI

Mar 19 at City National Civic

MELVINS

MEET THE BREWERS

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Hermitage Brewing Company, San Jose Sat, 1pm, $40

Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose Sat, 2pm & 8pm, $43-$128

Apr 6 at SAP Center

Representatives from more than 30 breweries—all of them hailing from within a 150-mile radius of San Jose—are gathering for this annual celebration of NorCal beer to eat, drink and be merry. Held under a giant tent just outside of Hermitage Brewing Company’s front door, this event gives beer lovers the chance to literally meet the brewers of their favorite ales, lagers, porters and stouts. A wide selection of street snacks will be on hand, courtesy of the various food trucks associated with Moveable Feast, and the event will also feature a number of local artisans affiliated with SJMade. (AB)

Before taking the kids to see Star Wars for the umpteenth time, consider traveling somewhere over the rainbow. In a TED Talk on “How Movies Teach Manhood,” Colin Stokes criticizes the original Star Wars series for failing to be as progressive as The Wizard of Oz from 1939. This live musical production adapts the Oscarwinning movie score from the original blockbuster while introducing new songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Bringing the magic of the screen to life, the whole family can appreciate 3-D entertainment without those pesky glasses. (ACB)

Mar 19 at The Ritz Apr 1 at The Ritz

ELLIE GOULDING SELENA GOMEZ

May 11 at SAP Center

PRONG

Jun 1 at RockBar Theater

STING & PETER GABRIEL Jul 14 at SAP Center

ADELE

Jul 30-31 at SAP Center

DEMI LOVATO & NICK JONAS Aug 18 at SAP Center

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‘Open’ To Interpretation INQUISITORS ‘Los Penitentes Nomades,’ a 2014 piece by Marc D’Estout, is one of many works on display at the local artist’s NUMU exhibit.

Marc D’Estout’s NUMU exhibition is meant to spark the imagination

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WO SCULPTURES by Marc D’Estout, Muse and Abused Muse, appear to complement each other. Both are made from fabricated steel and both are mockeries of Mickey Mouse hats. Together they constitute an unabashed ridicule of every way in which Disney has infected the youth of America.

The shiny silver-colored Muse is nickel plated and appears to be upside-down. If one bashed on Muse as a musical instrument, the sculpture

might sound like some crazed Tibetan singing bowl turned industrial. In fact, the piece already looks like someone playfully bent Mickey’s ears in the wrong direction. Abused Muse, on the other hand, is not shiny. It doesn’t have the nickel plating. The ears hang down, as if someone yanked on them.

A new show at NUMU, Marc D’Estout: Open Investigation, includes 15 of the artist’s sculptures. Fusing the conceptual with the wasteful, half of the show features work he sculpted from found objects, while the other half showcases pieces he designed and fabricated from scratch.

The difference, according to D’Estout, can be understood as the difference between improvisational free jazz and

scored music—between John Zorn and Count Basie.

In the former case, D’Estout develops a creative conversation with the found object and the resulting work rarely identifies as anything remotely similar to its original intent. With the fabricated pieces, he begins the process from raw materials, often flat sheet metal, then cuts and shapes the material into various forms. After stages of welding and applying surface treatments, the creative energy emerges spontaneously.

D’Estout has lumbered around these parts for quite some time. After degrees from what was then CSU Hayward and also San Jose State, various teaching, curatorial and institutional gigs took him throughout the Bay Area. He even lived in Los Gatos during the late ’70s, at a time when he says “mostly artists and hippies” dominated the community.

The show at NUMU is now officially open for investigation, hence the title. One piece, Myopic Isolator, originated with the visual image of the

cover one puts over a kerosene lamp.

Resembling an upside-down punching bag, the work sits suspended on a pedestal in the middle of the gallery and features a tiny hole dead center.

“It’s about: ‘How do we expand our awareness?’” D’Estout explains. “How do we take our myopic habits and bring them in, so they don’t escape?”

Perhaps the most multifaceted piece is Los Penitentes Nomades. The 2014 word depicts hooded prisoners tied up in some crazed, suburban garbage contraption, but recast as a death trolley.

The prisoners are actually discarded zinc pipes from a pipe organ, but they resemble Satanic hooded characters being carted off to the hanging tree.

“I thought at first I was going to make a mantlepiece,” D’Estout says. “It was going to be an altar. I kept looking at them, I kept thinking, there’s something about the Spanish Inquisition here, just the shape of them.”

Pinhead on the other hand, was almost supposed to be a self-portrait, but D’Estout admits it really isn’t.

What looks like a flesh-colored set of shoulders gives way to a large point where the person’s head would normally sit. Again, one wouldn’t necessarily come to any conclusion that the piece resembles a head or a pin or a pinhead. That’s fine with D’Estout.

“There’s an ambiguity to these pieces,” he says. “And that’s deliberate.”

Other bizarre minimalist fabrications include: Bluebird, possibly a nod to Brancusi, resembling a blue mustache; Buried, which features the butt of a rifle crammed into a metal garbage can lid; and A Brief Case of Puppetry, in which a puppet hangs from two strings, always slightly drifting back and forth.

Each piece can be understood from numerous perspectives.

NUMU’s Julie Harper encourages visitors to arrive at any possible conclusion. While installing the show, one person told her Myopic Isolator looked like a cactus.

“We want visitors to be involved in the open investigation of this kind of contemporary sculpture,” Harper says.

“Because it’s normally such an enigmatic genre, and it could be alienating to the general public that doesn’t have a lot of experience with the art world.”

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When we are not building drones, smart watches, search engines and self-driving cars, we enjoy the amenities, culture and natural beauty of this amazing area. You’ll find the Silicon Valley culture welcoming, surprisingly rich in options and very diverse. Join us for the Big Game and come back to explore some more because there is a lot to sample and experience. This insider’s guide to the San Jose area was prepared by the editors of Silicon Valley’s weekly, Metro, with the support of Team San Jose. If you are already a local and know all this stuff, please give this to the cousin from Nebraska who’s sleeping on your couch, otherwise he’ll never get him out the door and you’ll be vacuuming up nacho crumbs all weekend.

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The city blazed a trail in 1881 with the gigantic, 237-foot tower San José Electric Light Tower at Santa Clara and Market Streets in 1881. It blew down in a 1915 windstorm, but a scale replica of it exists at History Park at 635 Phelan Ave. A series of LED stripes, known as Show Your Stripes, adorns the residential highrise at 88 E. San Fernando St. at Second Street in Downtown San Jose. To change the light pattern, call 408.287.0128 between sunset and 3am. After the tone, enter a 3 number combination (* and # can be used), then press zero, and end the call.

San Carlos Street Lantern Relay: Eight interactive lanterns on lampposts on San Carlos Street from Market through Fourth streets. Buttons allow pedestrians to change the patterns of the lanterns’ LED light displays. Seattle artist Dan Corson’s “Sensing You” installation lights up two underpasses under Highway 87 with LED rings of pulsing color in 35 different variations. Look for what locals affectionately call the “blue doughnuts.” Displayed on Adobe Corp.’s Almaden Avenue Tower, the San José Semaphore displays four wheels at four distinct positions, to display 256 possible combinations. The four wheels turn every 7.2 seconds. Try to crack the code.

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Silicon Valley’s global consciousness is evident in the cornucopia of delicious ethnic cuisines found throughout the area. Zeni at 1320 Saratoga Ave. and Gojo at 1261 W. San Carlos St. are two popular Ethiopian choices. Tayyibaat in Milpitas Center serves grilled kababs, wraps and rotisserie chicken platters, all hormone-free and halal. Established ramen hotspots like Santa Clara’s Orenchi Ramen draw long lines; newer places like Noodle Dude on Santa Clara Street and Konjoe Tei in the SoFA Market are a good bet. Vietnamese pho soup, a local staple, can be found near downtown hotels and museums at Pho 69 on South First Street (try the filet mignon).

For a more formal dining experience, try Vung Tau at 535 E. Santa Clara St or Tamarine at 546 University Ave. in Palo Alto. Other Southeast Asian cuisines include Chez Sovan (Cambodian) at 923 Oakland Rd., Layang Layang (Malaysian) at 1480 S. De Anza Blvd., and Krungthai (Thai) at 642 S. Winchester Blvd. Downtown hole-in-the-wall SA-By Thai Cuisine at 346 E. William St. is popular with locals. Experience two countries for the price of one at Thaibodia, located at 910 Meridian Ave. Campbell’s Naschmarkt is a modern European fine dining experience serving Viennese cuisine. Greek cuisine can be enjoyed at top-tier restaurants like Evvia in Palo Alto, Dio Deka in Los Gatos and Nemea in Downtown San Jose, as well as budget-friendly places like Opa! at 1100 Lincoln Ave, Nick The Greek at 143 W. Santa Clara St., and Souvlaki Skewers on 577 W. Alma Ave. Culinary dining trends like shared tables and comfort food are a good way to get to enjoy local culture. A totally off-the-radar option for most visitors is the Naglee Park Garage at the corner of 11th and San Carlos, a neighborhood casual dining destination. Jeffrey Stout’s new Orchard City Kitchen (OCK) in Campbell is a local hot spot and Bib Gourmand selection. Henry’s World Famous Hi-Life at 301 W. St John St. is a local institution that has been serving barbecued meats for more than half a century. Original Joe’s at San Carlos and First Street also belongs on any shortlist.

The San Jose area boasts a wealth of options for healthy and delicious casual dining that reflects its amazingly diverse population and various fusions thereof. Falafel Drive In at 2301 Stevens Creek Blvd. has been serving up Middle Eastern fare since 1966 and it’s legendary for falafels, foul and banana shakes. La Victoria Taqueria, home of the world famous Orange Sauce, has five San Jose locations and one in Hayward. Iguana’s in Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara is known as the “Home of the Burritozilla,” a 5-pound, 18-inch Super Burrito that’s caught the fancy of competitive eaters, but they have plenty for regular folks with a good appetite. Pizza Bocca Lupo at San Pedro Market is known for its thin-crust, individual-sized pizzas. The Hawaiian poke bowl craze is in full swing here, with Hawaiian Poke Bowl in the SoFA Market, Japantown’s Santo Market and Poki Bowl on the Almaden Expressway.

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The area that produced such legendary skateboarders as Steve Caballero and the late Tim Brauch keeps rolling. Circle-A Skateboards at 108 Paseo de San Antonio is a good place to pick up a deck. And even with the region’s gloriously warm weather, ice skating is also deeply embedded in our culture. The San Jose Sharks play at San Jose’s SAP Center, while Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi grew up in Fremont and Rudy Galindo trains and coaches at Sharks Ice San Jose. Olympic medalist Debi Thomas—the first African American to win a national championship in figure skating—grew up in San Jose, and the Five Skaters Art Piece in Guadalupe Park commemorates Peggy Fleming, Brian Boitano, Galindo, Thomas and Yamaguchi.

ASIAN TEAS & SWEETS Big straws, melon flavors and chewy tapioca pearls made from cassava root have become part of Silicon Valley’s culture and character. Boba Bar is right in the thick of things at 310 S. Third St. Tucked way inside Grand Century’s East San Jose shopping plaza is the forest-themed Tea Lyfe, 989 Story Rd. in Suite 818. Meow Tea, located by the San Jose fairgrounds at 2857 Senter Rd., is for cat lovers and prominently features portraits of the owner’s marmalade tabby, Uni. For amazing milk tea head over to nearby Soyful Desserts, 999 Story Rd. in Suite 9048-B. Brace yourself for purple everything— walls, lights, straws and fuzzy seats—at ChaTime, 311 N. Capitol Ave., which also serves a variety of fried foods. Newly opened last year, Vanitea Snow Lounge at 1195 Branhan Ln. boasts an in-house art gallery, and the jasmine milk and panda boba teas at Palo Alto’s Gong Cha, 439 Waverly St., draw loyal patrons to all of its locations, including San Jose spots 1701 Lundy Ave. and 1600 Saratoga Ave.

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bartenders to walk patrons through their preferences to identify the perfect drink.

A short drive—at this point a cab, Lyft or Uber would be smart—to Los Gatos offers two more destination lounges in Lexington House, located at 40 N. Santa Cruz Ave., and Jack Rose Libation House at 18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd.

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Downtown San Jose has the craft cocktail scene on lock, and the indie appreciation for spirits all began at the speakeasy-style saloon Haberdasher (originally known as Single Barrel) at 43 W. San Salvador St. in the SoFA District. The basement bar pours smoky and sweet, and it's a perfect place to start a cocktail crawl before stopping off at The Continental at 349 S. First St. Then head north to South First Street neighbors 55 South and Paper Plane, located by Post Street. Both have an extensive selection of spirits and experienced

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The Chromatic small batch roaster is located in downtown San Jose, with a flagship coffee shop at 5237 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara.

Another boutique roaster founded in San Jose and now based in Santa Clara is the award winning Barefoot Roasters. Rollup/Training Lab is at 408 Martin Ave. in Santa Clara, and its baristas also practice latte art at 1819 S. Bascom Ave., in Campbell. Bellano Coffee slow pours and espressos a selection of regional brand at 3985 Stevens Creek Blvd. in Santa Clara and in downtown’s San Pedro Square Market.

Roy's Station in Japantown has made good use of a converted gas station. In the SoFA District, options include the Italian-themed Cafe Frascati and the highly regarded Vero's Coffee Bar in the SoFA Market. Cupertino’s Bitter + Sweet is known for pouring Sightglass Coffee and serving specialty desserts. Bay Area favorite Blue Bottle is now at SAP’s HanaHaus at 456 University Ave., in Palo Alto. And Red Rock Coffee Co. on Mountain View’s Castro Avenue is known for specialties such as salted caramel espresso along with its community-building programming.

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Gatos just this month. Celebrities and presidents dine at The Grill on the Alley at the Fairmont Hotel, and next door, on the 17th Floor, the exclusive Silicon Valley Capital Club allows David Kinch private club members and their guests to enjoy a commanding view of Silicon Valley.

Of course if you want to drink the same coffee as they drink on the Facebook and Google campuses, there are Philz Coffee locations in San Jose, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale.

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Google’s original chef, Charlie Ayers. Jobs was also known to scarf sushi at Jin Sho at 454 S. California Ave. in Palo Alto and was fond of frozen yogurt at Fraiche Yogurt at 644 Emerson St., since relocated to 200 Hamilton Ave. Jobs recruited execs and dined with billionaire VC John Doerr at Il Fornaio in Palo Alto. Elon Musk dined with Ashlee Vance at Alexander’s The Sea. The family friendly farm-tofork restaurant in Los Altos, Bumble, is owned by the billionaire Anne Wojcicki. David Kinch’s legendary Manresa restaurant just won its third Michelin star and he opened the New Orleans cafe Bywater in Los

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Deals are cut over breakfast at Buck’s in Woodside. The Rosewood Hotel’s Michelin-starred Madera restaurant and the Village Pub in Woodside are two other favorite VC haunts. Palo Alto’s Fuki Sushi and Palo Alto Sol, a burrito and margarita cantina, catered Mark Zuckerberg's wedding, and the Facebook founder has been photographed at Walia Ethiopian restaurant in San Jose. Steve Jobs was fond of Calafia in Palo Alto, where a photo of him hangs over his table and where he was once paparazzied having coffee with billionaire Eric Schmidt. The restaurant is owned by

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Could football, as we know it, even exist without beer? Interesting question, though there’s no need to entertain the thought, as the South Bay and Peninsula are home to plenty of great microbreweries and craft beer pubs. Gordon Biersch, a pioneer in the microbrew movement, was founded in Palo Alto and is now headquartered in San Jose. Around the corner from GB’s downtown restaurant is Good Karma—home to vegan comfort food and a large (and hoppy) beer selection—and Original Gravity, where gourmandizers can order duck dogs and all kinds of great brew. San Jose is also home to some up-andcoming breweries, including Santa Clara Valley Brewing and Hermitage. On the edge of the city’s historic Japantown, you won’t find anyone calling themselves a “gastronomist” at the neighboring pubs of Teske’s Germania and Trials—just great beer and hearty food. Head south to Campbell, recently named one of the West Coast’s coolest suburbs by Sunset Magazine, to find the upscale pub Liquid Bread. And trek north to Mountain View, home to Google and Castro Street, a gourmet ghetto where the tech elite dine and sip on suds at the likes of Steins, Beirhaus and Tied House.

Wine Trails, SPEED CITY’S Tasting Rooms SPORTS & Wine Bars STARS San Jose earned the nickname “Speed City” thanks to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who blazed their way to historyat the 1968 Summer Olympics. The San Jose State track stars and their raised fists are commemorated in a massive statue on the school’s campus. Before her transformation, gold-medal winner Caitlyn Jenner chased Olympic dreams training at San Jose City College. Others greats to come out of San Jose include former MLB pitcher Dave Righetti, iconic women’s World Cup shootout winner Brandi Chastain, pro skateboarder Steve Caballero and the late Pat Tillman (pictured), who put country before multi-millions.

OUTDOOR Recreation

Alum Rock Park and Almaden Quicksilver County Park are two destinations for nature lovers within the city limits of San Jose. The 3,988-acre Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve and the Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve offer high level views of the valley floor. The Ed R. Levin County Park has 19 miles of trails and the 3,600-acre Castle Rock State Park is a great way to immerse one’s self in forests of coastal redwoods, Douglas-fir and madrone.

Three distinct wine countries, each with their own appellation, surround Silicon Valley. They are easy to get to, generally less crowded and offer better values than regions to the north. The 28-mile Santa Clara Valley Wine Trail loop has revived America’s original premium wine region. The Santa Cruz Mountains viticultural area encompasses 850 square miles and is highly regarded for premium pinots, syrahs and small production chardonnays. The Livermore Valley has more than 30 easily accessible wineries.

Tasting rooms in the central part of the valley include Travieso in Campbell, Testarossa in Los Gatos, J. Lohr at 1000 Lenzen Ave. and Big Dog Vineyards in Milpitas. Paul Draper’s Ridge Vineyards in Cupertino produces some of the best wine in the world, and many wine bars offer local wines as well, among them the Vintage Wine Bar at Santana Row, Vino Vino at the San Pedro Square Market, Vyne Bistro on Paseo De San Antonio, Wine Affairs on the Alameda, Rootstock in Los Gatos and CooperVino in, where else, Cupertino.

COUNTERCULTURE HISTORY

The Grateful Dead hail from Palo Alto, and last summer they celebrated their 50th year with two concerts at Levi’s Stadium. They first played a concert at a party thrown by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters at Fifth and Santa Clara streets in San Jose, where the City Hall dome now sits. Just up the street, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg made literary history. Those are just two footnotes in the rich history of an area that was central to the cultural and technological transformation of popular culture in the last third of the 20th Century. Bands like Moby Grape and Journey have their roots in the South Bay and on the Peninsula. The Doobie Brothers lived in a house on 12th Street in Naglee Park, next to Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

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After Sherry Wickman graduates with a degree in art therapy, she falls into a depression while living with her parents. Eventually she finds a job opportunity that gives her life new purpose.

Now her life is perfect except for a host of family problems and a tiger that has escaped from the zoo. Jan 21-Feb 21. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company. San Jose.

MIDDLETOWN

Winner of the The Horton Foote Prize for excellence in American Theater, this play follows Mary Swanson as she discovers the complex underbelly of this superficially honest and welcoming town.

Jan 28-Feb 21. $18-$28 Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company. Los Altos.

THE MOUNTAIN TOP

in conjunction with the activist company, El Teatro Campesino. Feb 10-Mar 6. $55-$65. The San Jose Stage.

of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania. Artist in Residence Gallery. Los Gatos.

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“Artists including Me: William Wegman,” “Diebenkorn in the Bedroom, DeFeo in the Den: Generous Gifts from the Dixon and Barbara Farley Collection,” “Character Studies: Clay from the Collection” Thru Feb 7. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

DAYDREAM NATION

San Pedro Square Market hosts its monthly last Saturday, alternative concert.

Free. San Pedro Square Market. San Jose.

MUSIC AT THE MARKET

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

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

TOSPS TUESDAYS

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

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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.

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

South Bay Musical Theatre.

Saratoga Civic Theatre.

WIZARD OF OZ

Iconic musical masters Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber reinvent the classic film for the stage, adding a couple surprise new songs to the timeless yarn about Dorothy, her “lacking” partners and the Wicked Witch of the West. $43-$128. Jan 29-Feb 4. Center for the Performing Arts. San Jose.

VALLEY OF THE HEART

Written and directed by the famed Luis Valdez, this bold epic throws the divide between American ideals and actions into powerful relief. This play is performed

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

*art MUSEUMS ”Missing Persons” tracks those who have been lost. Thru Mar 21.“Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed” Thru Aug 22.

“Edward Hopper: New York Corner” Thru Aug 22. “Missing Persons” dramatizes the loss of human life. Stanford.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM

“Gold Rush” Exploring the regional symbolism of gold through art, sports and culture. Thru Mar 13. Santa Clara.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE

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

See the machine that printed the first newspaper in California. Thru Jan 31. San Jose.

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“Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery,” featuring the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Maasai tribe

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“Earth Stories” 25th Anniversary Exhibition. Thru Feb 28. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

“Gridiron Glory” The Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Thru April 3. Santa Clara.

GALLERIES GALLERY HOUSE

“Breathless” Prints and Glasswork by Rozanne Di Silvestro and Rose Hagan.

Thru Jan 30. Palo Alto.

GABRIEL KAHANE & BROOKLYN RIDER FRI, JAN 29

MAIN GALLERY

“Winter Light” Thru Feb 21.

Redwood City.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

“Botanica Poetica” New Work

by Lucas Art Fellows. Thru Jan 31. Saratoga.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER

“Bird in the Hand” Over 40 artists portraying aviary things with wings. Thru Apr 10.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Jim Campbell: New Work and Collaboration with Jane Rosen. Thru Feb 13. San Jose.

KURT ELLING, PASSION WORLD SAT, FEB 27

LOVE SONGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

SEEING THINGS GALLERY “Unassuming Psycho” by Daryl Angel. San Jose.

*events PEKING ACROBATS

Celebrating 30 years, this is the gravity-defying ensemble that gave us Yin from the George Clooney’s Oceans series. They’ll be flying through the air, flipping around and doing things we humans generally haven’t done in our entire history.

Sun, Jan 31, 3pm. $10-$60.

Flint Center. Cupertino.

EXPERIENCE TWO ONE-OF-A-KIND PERFORMANCES IN THE EXCEPTIONAL BING CONCERT HALL On Friday, January 29, singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane meets the dynamic string quartet Brooklyn Rider for a night of folk-pop and strings.

Then in February, Grammy Award-winning jazz crooner Kurt Elling performs love songs from around the world.

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TOUGH LOVE Sherry (Melissa Weinstein, left) questions her sister Grace’s (Akemi Okamura) vengeful tactics in ‘Tigers Be Still.’

‘Tigers’ Be Sweet, Funny “COMEDY” AND “DEPRESSION” may not always go hand in hand, but in the case of Tigers Be Still, the new production by City Lights Theater Company, the two blend together in humorous, touching ways.

Anyone who's graduated from college only to struggle with grownup life can identify with protagonist Sherry (Melissa Weinstein), who earned her master’s degree in art therapy but fell into a funk after failing to find a job. The other women in her family aren’t doing any better.

Her elder sister, Grace (Akemi Okamura), caught her fiancé cheating, suffered a breakdown and moved back home. She spends her days commiserating with Sherry and their mother, watching Top Gun while crying into a bottle of whiskey, and stealing things from her ex's condo in an attempt to force him to confront her. Their mother has been a bedridden recluse since medication caused her to gain weight and hide from the world—even from her devoted daughters.

Tigers Be Still Sherry’s life gets an energy boost after she’s hired by her mother’s high school sweetheart, Joseph (Keith Marshall), the principal at a local elementary school.

He wants her to provide therapy to his teenage son, Zack (Sean Okuniewicz), who’s traumatized by a family tragedy and suffering from anger issues. Also, a tiger has escaped from a local zoo and may be lurking nearby.

Thru Feb 21, 8pm, $15-$30 City Lights Theater Company, San Jose

It may sound bleak, but Kim Rosenstock's script, the actors’ performances and Virginia Drake’s direction make for a winning combination. Weinstein is adorably awkward as the earnest perfectionist Sherry. Something in her chirpy manner and well-enunciated delivery reminds me of Grover from Sesame Street (and I mean that as a compliment). Okuniewicz is great as her foil and friend. As Zack, he convincingly flares with rage, while simultaneously revealing a soft side and big heart underneath. And Okamura is hilarious playing the part of a woman scorned—delivering lines like, “There's a fine line between the stupidest thing you can do and the sexiest thing you can do.” All the characters are damaged and flawed, but the audience truly roots for them to break through the depression, anger and anxiety to become their better selves.

One of the many admirable qualities of City Lights is that each production has a nonprofit partner. In this case, it’s the Silicon Valley Pet Project, inspired by two (sadly offstage) Chihuahua characters. It’s yet another touch of sweetness in a charmingly off beat show.—Karla Kane

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Senior Moments OLD ENOUGH TO REPAINT In ‘The Lady in the Van,’ Dame Maggie Smith plays an eccentric transient woman living in a gentrifying London neighborhood.

‘The Lady in the Van’ gives viewers a lesson in compassion and charity

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CHARMING MEMOIR of a smelly, prickly old lady, The Lady in the Van is based on material that was first performed on stage, then as a radio play.

Surprisingly, as a movie it hasn’t lost any keenness.

Its writer and subject is Alan Bennett (played by Alex Jennings), a playwright whose breakthrough was being part of the Beyond the Fringe quartet that paved the way for Monty

Python. In 1973, when Bennett moved to Gloucester Crescent in London’s Camden Town, it was a changing district—awaiting the gentry who inhabit it today. Priding themselves on their liberality, the neighbors put up with one Miss Shepherd (Dame Maggie Smith) a transient old lady living in her van on the street. When the parking police tried to run her off, Bennett allowed her to park in his driveway. She would be encamped there for 15 years.

Bennett once commented that he thought he’d go into the clergy just because he looked like a clergyman.

Jennings’ Bennett does look like a vicar: tall, self-effacing, awkward, limp-haired.

In his never-to-be-forgot Beyond the Fringe sketch, “Take a Pew,” Bennett played a minister trying to explain, with multiple inanities and chummy, hopeless faux-contemporary allusions, the importance of a scripture verse from II Kings 14. The quote was actually from Genesis: “But my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man.”

The funny thing is that Bennett ended up a bit of a nondenominational minister, after all.

As opposed to the more overt (and boring) St. Francis imagery in The Soloist—the Jamie Foxx-starring movie on a similar subject to this—The Lady in the Van is a sweet, subdued piece of natural Christianity.

During the course of his friendly but never informal relationship with Miss Shepherd, Bennett often has a good talk to himself. The play depicts Bennett split in half on the grounds that a writer

is actually two people in conversation with himself. And while watching this strange woman, and learning her own sad history, he has some guilt about using her for material.

Nicholas Hytner is primarily a theater director and an occasional filmmaker. He has made three movies this century. Bennett’s direct address to the camera doesn’t look stagey, and the movie is opened up to take in the hilliest, most endearing part of London as it was 40 years ago. The role is so right for Smith that it might be easy to underrate her very tough and touching work here. (Think of the twinkling a less rigorous actor would have brought to this. Smith’s derelict Miss Shepherd is no pixie.)

Smith has long been a deep-focus underplayer, from her helpless Desdemona to Olivier’s Othello, to 1987’s Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne— the soul is so strong in her that we never really think of this 80-year-old performer’s fragility until the end of the film, when her health fails. Before then, her Miss Shepherd has push. She is willing to be a pain; snarling at anyone who dares to play music around her, or talking grandly of her memoirs, to be titled either The Lady Behind the Curtain or A Woman of Britain.

The fragrance of Miss Shepherd is described as that of “a bad dish cloth”; out of folk wisdom, she eats raw onions to ward off colds. Alan, not an enormous fan of the physical world, admires the way the ambulance people or the social workers can handle this exasperating woman without minding her moods or her smell. He himself downplays his own ability to stand her bad habits, including her regularly soiling his driveway. “Caring is shit,” Alan decides.

Indeed, cleaning up shit, and putting up with it, is essential to dealing with human beings, instead of being a wry outsider who avoids them.

It’s bemusing to imagine the army of people in their vans, trucks and campers today, displaced by the obscene rents of the Bay Area, being looked after with the care and dignity demonstrated by the characters in this story. The Lady in the Van wells up with compassion; it never drills for it.

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FRANCOPHILE James Franco will be among Cinequest 2016’s Maverick Spirit Award recipients.

Cinequest 2016 PALO ALTO-BRED auteur James Franco, incandescent performer Rita Moreno, and indie film guiding light Robert Hawk are this year’s Maverick Spirit Award winners at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, March 1-13. Opening night’s film has one of the last appearances of the late Alan Rickman in director Gavin Hood’s critique of the drone program, Eye in the Sky. And closing night features The Daughter, an Australian film starring Geoffrey Rush and Miranda Otto.

Cinequest 2016 offers 26 Bay Area made films, including a work in progress

by SJSU’s Spartan Studios—a modernday adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 work, The Yellow Wallpaper.

Harold Lloyd’s 1924 Girl Shy will also be shown, with Dennis James playing the California Theater’s Wurlitzer.

The historic will be complemented by the modern. Halfdan Hussey, the festival’s executive director and co-founder (with the Cinequest president Kathleen Powell), has his eye on the future of moving image technology. Mister Invincible, for example, is a work in progress that aims to be the first feature-length, three-screen film on the Barco Escape format, which was promoted last year with excerpts of The Maze Runner.

Cinequest’s programmer Michael Rabehl points to a number of film

premieres: “Embers tells of a future in which no one remembers anything. It’s a really unique sci-fi film. Rita Moreno is here with the world premiere of Remember Me, which is hilarious. We have a new version of The Little Prince, an expansion of the original short tale, Cinequest starring Jeff Bridges; there’s a very French feel to this Mar 1-13 movie. Love is All You Need Downtown San is an expansion of a short Jose film that went viral on YouTube with 50 million hits or so. It’s about a parallel world where homosexuality is normal and heterosexuality is considered disgraceful.”

Guest programmer Charlie Cockey describes one of his favorites, the Argentinian film Parabellum, as “a journey into a most modern heart of darkness.” Chile’s Memory of Water and Peru’s Magallanes also represent the new South American cinema. The Ukrainian Song of Songs is based on the work of Sholem Aleichem, the Yiddish writer whose stories sourced Fiddler on the Roof.

More details on this festival— arguably the two most exciting weeks in Silicon Valley’s calendar (at least in the mind of this film fan)—in upcoming issues of Metro. —Richard von Busack

Not counting the best supporting actress category of the Oscars, the short animated category is the most hellishly difficult to pick. Two dark horses in the field are Chile’s “Bear Story” by Gabriel Osorio and “We Can’t Live Without Cosmos”

by Konstantin Bronzit. Osorio’s wrenching short has a bear telling his story of capture and exile, via an intricate mechanical toy he operates for coins on a street corner. What could have been alienating pathos is prevented by Osorio’s gift for the horror-comic, as in a scene of secret policeman-like ringmasters raiding a tenement of exotic animals. Bronzit’s “We Can’t Live Without Cosmos” continues the work Ray Bradbury did to humanize questions of space travel. Too bad Bradbury didn’t live to see this charming Damon and Pythias story of a pair of cosmonauts.

“Sanjay’s Super Team” demonstrates the matchless efficiency of the wordless storytelling taught at Pixar.

In an antiseptic apartment, we see a father and his son at dawn. The older man is at his Hindu ritual of aarti, lamp lighting; across the room, young Sanjay is watching a superhero cartoon on the television set. Director Sanjay Patel finds the rhyme in these two different forms of veneration.

The amazing “Prologue” is a sixminute proposal for a feature film by the 82-year-old animator Richard Williams, creator of the Pink Panther and Roger Rabbit. “Prologue” puts the agony back into cartoon combat.

His subject is arms and the man, a seriously bloody battle of two pairs of Bronze-age warriors. Williams takes us as close as a soldier’s eye and as far back as a sweeping 360-degree point of view of encircled combatants. With pencil and paper, Williams is doing all the things cyberanimation can do, only with much more power. Previously mentioned here: Don Hertzfeldt’s “World of Tomorrow” looks like nothing you’ve seen except for Chris Marker’s “La Jetee” and Koreeda's After Life. This mordant, unusually imaginative short isn’t just Hertzfeldt’s best, it’s a minor masterpiece of the science fiction film. (Opens Friday at Camera Cinemas.) (RvB)

45 YEARS It’s based on a story by David Constantine, “Another Country,” which takes its title from a famous quotation

from Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta. Fending off a criminal charge of fornication, the villainous Barabas answers “That was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead.” Director Andrew Haigh has two of the finest actors alive starring in his often touching but stiff story of dread surrounding a 45th anniversary party. Jeff (Tom Courtenay) and Kate (Charlotte Rampling) are planning a public celebration of their marriage, but the Monday before the party brings startling news. The corpse of Katya, Jeff’s old love, was just found in a Swiss ravine in which she fell when Jeff and Katya were both climbing in the Alps in the 1970s. Moving from preoccupation to obsession, Jeff muses over Katya, and his silences and omissions torment his wife as the big event approaches. While the material might be better off as theater, photographer Lol Crawley brings out painterly shots of the two actors and of the misty Norfolk countryside. What we’re seeing, though, is two great actors banking their fires. Good news is still good news, no matter how long it takes to arrive; it seems funny that Rampling, this magnificent actress of leonine carriage and hooded eyes, is finally being discovered by some film critics. Is she the kind of woman to be threatened by a 50-year-old ghost?

Courtenay, who could give you a King Lear you’d never forget, isn’t nearly as believable as a guy next door (note the way his voice rises to fill a room when he’s giving a toast to his wife). It’s only during a tipsy scene in which he’s complaining about a reunion at his workplace that he seems free at last of Haigh’s too-tight conception of old love. (Opens Friday valleywide.)(RvB)

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976) This was the late David Bowie’s best film—a portrait of an exile suffering a typical exile’s fate, an avant-garde science fiction tale of an alien who comes to Earth and ends up thoroughly probed.

Its concerns are far ahead of its time. Who back then worried then much about cataclysmic water shortages, as opposed to today?

Director Nicolas Roeg made a film heavy on the mood and light on the logic; serious sci-fi aficionados will be furious watching the scene where “Newton” (Bowie) tries to indicate where his planet is: “I’m not an astronomer, but it’s over there (pointing at the horizon).” The uncut version, with Roeg’s full-frontal love scenes intact, shows what a neglected film this is. (Various streaming services.) (RvB)

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Why So Serious GARBAGE PATCH KIDS Daly City metal crew, Kill The Messenger, are always up for a laugh.

Kill The Messenger keep their heavy, technical music light with laughter

BY ANDREW LENTZ

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ILL THE MESSENGER aren’t a mere Bay Area band. They’re from Daly City dammit, and they want you to know it. “Gotta rep the hood,” jokes drummer Danny Haddad on a fourway conference call, which includes bassist David Scanlon, guitarist and vocalist James Conelly, and lead vocalistguitarist Adam Rupp, the latter of whom gets disconnected almost immediately.

“We don’t want to just say we’re another band from San Francisco.”

Neighborhood shout-outs aside, the band’s newish 10-song album, From The Ashes, is a fearsome display of guitar heroics and chunky riffs— and, what’s more, in a genre not known for yuks, a dash of humor.

Take “Exodus” which examines the pitfalls of working out and at one point proclaims, “I am so hungry!”

“That song’s about losing your gains,” says Haddad. “Like, you don’t want to lose your gains.” Then there’s the UrbanDictionary-approved “Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Feelz.” You’d be forgiven for thinking this was self-aware hipster metal. “A lot of our stuff can be satirical,” says

Haddad, citing mock-epic “Curse Of Broseidon,” whose precision tempo and layered intricacy are anything but jokey. “But a lot of it can be touchy subjects.”

An example would be “Words Like Guns,” which the drummer penned. “I don’t want to get too deep into it but everybody has some past relationship that’s gone horribly awry and that’s what that song’s about.”

Kill The Messenger blend aspects of ‘90s Swedish melodic death-metal with strains of modern American metalcore. Occasionally, the band goes beyond the realm of metal and its myriad subgenres entirely. “Speak Now” features a Flamenco guitarinspired interlude with congas.

The album’s 12-minute-plus finale, “Phoenix,” is bathed in electronics and soaring strings.

“It’s not anything to do with genre but having everything be deliberate,” says Conelly, a classically trained

musician. “I know this is a whole tone scale, it’s going to fit in this particular chord structure.” Scanlon is more blunt: “We wanted to pull the best out of ourselves instead of pumping out the same song over and over.”

At times, Kill The Messenger achieve cinematic scope. In its final third, “For Death And Glory” features the pre-recorded chaos of a pitched battle scene. “Basically all that Viking metal is just bad-ass,” says Scanlon. “That song called out for the Norse gods.”

On a DIY budget, programmed sequences lend a certain studio gloss. “[Otherwise] we’d have to hire a keyboard player and so many other people when we play live,” says Conelly. “Logistically it made a lot more sense to do backing tracks.”

Scanlon adds, jokingly: “Plus, we couldn’t hire another person who would put up with the four of us.”

The embellishments never get in the way of the aggression. The combination of dirty and clean vocals create an added dimension to the song structures. “I do the more growly stuff, since I have a deep voice,” says Conelly. The clean vocals are courtesy of Rupp and Haddad, the latter often harmonizing while stomping speedy double-bass parts— pushing his lungs to the limit. “It’s not an ideal situation, I can tell you,” he says. “Especially when I’m about to keel over from exhaustion.”

When it comes to making money from their music, it’s good thing the boys in KTM have day jobs: Conelly is a software engineer, Haddad is a web developer, Scanlon is in real estate and Rupp works as a barista.

“Our biggest goal right now is to get the album in more people’s ears,” Haddad says. The band’s demo has been sent out to labels all over the world. In the meantime, there’s talk of a mini tour with A Human Costume, who shares the bill at the upcoming show at The Caravan Lounge.

Until then, Kill The Messenger just enjoy savoring small moments, like the time Conelly recalls, when a couple fans wanted their copies of From The Ashes signed at a show. “That was trippy.”

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Sat, Jan 30, 6pm: Gary Smith & the Blues Band. San Jose.

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

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

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Open Mic/ Comedy ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Open Mic Tuesdays.

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

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

Los Gatos.

MISSION PIZZA Thu, Jan 28, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Fri, Jan 29, 7pm: Stragglyrs. Sat, Jan 30, 7pm: Beargrass Creek. Fremont.

Thu, 7pm: Musical open mic.

San Jose.

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

CAMERA 3 Fri, 9pm, Sat, 7pm and 9:15pm: Comedy Sportz. San Jose.

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To be clear, the very first tracks that the Philadelphia indie rockers ever recorded weren’t club bangers, or even chilly IDM. Still, the founding trio of Toby Leaman, Scott McMicken and Doug O’Donnell constructed most of the songs on Psychedelic Swamp using the lo-fi synth patches and tinny drum loops of a cheap keyboard.

With the exception of the vocals and the guitars, Leaman says that just about every tone and tom-tom on the record came from a Casio sound bank. “There’s certainly no live drums on it,” the singer and songwriter says of the 2001 album, which the fledgling group stitched together with a pair of cassette four-tracks and then dubbed to even more cassettes and some CD-Rs.

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The play, Swamp is On, provided the impetus for the band to do what it had always intended: re-record their debut—with “a billion more pieces of gear and a billion more years of experience.” The revamped Psychedelic Swamp, which drops on Feb. 15, sounds both old and new.

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Wed-Fri, Jan 20-22, 8pm: Mark Russell. Cupertino.

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

QUARTER NOTE Mon: Comedy. No cover.

Sunnyvale.

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

WORKS/SAN JOSE 2nd Thu, 7pm: Words Drawing Music. San Jose.

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

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THE CARLOS CLUB

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Sunnyvale.

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

KHARTOUM Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

KING OF CLUBS Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.

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C&J’S SPORTS BAR Thu, 9pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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Campbell.

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

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

Fri & Sat: Karaoke night. San Carlos.

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Sun: Karaoke for the Industry.

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

Wed, Jan 27, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Thu-Sun, Jan 28-31, various: Myq Kaplan.

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Sun, Jan 30, 7pm: Max Amini.

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REDI ROOM Thu-Sat, 9pm: DJ Curtis. San Jose.

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Sat: Lounge Life with DJ Krucial and DJ NESSrock. San Jose.

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Wed: DJ 512. Thu: DJ Nico & Neeber. Fri: DJ Benofficial.

Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

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THE X BAR Every Fri, 9pm: Karaoke w/ KJ Vinnie. Cupertino.

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MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: Therapy Thursday. Fri, 9pm: Soul Therapy. San Jose.

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

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How worried should I be?—Kingsley Day placed them in U.S. and British banks, How many gallons of water should which in turn used the dollars to make you stock in the emergency cellar? Will loans to developing countries that three AR-15s suffice, or does the wellneeded the money to import oil, the equipped arsenal really demand four? If resulting relationship of indebtedness a these are your concerns, Kingsley, you’ll boon to U.S. global hegemony. Sound a find a fantastic resource in the Internet, bit Kissingerian? Well, the whole thing the petrodollar and the havoc that’ll was Henry’s baby: he called the scheme result from its impending collapse being “recycling petrodollars.” an extremely popular topic among the What relevance does it have black-helicopter set. You can’t go wrong nowadays? Well, to hear the, er, more with freeze-dried peas, I hear. concerned parties tell it, if the oilA calmer assessment reveals a more producing countries decide to stop prosaic concept. What we mean using the dollar for oil transactions— when we talk about petrodollars is switching to, say, the euro—it’ll send international oil sales as transacted in the world economy into a tailspin.

U.S. dollars. The dollar has long been the There has been a little attrition, most standard currency for all such dealings. notably in 2000 when the United The primary world reserve Nations’ “oil for food” program gave currency, meanwhile, is the very same Iraq permission to sell its oil for euros; dollar—full stop. The origins of this hardcore skeptics cite this threat arrangement hark back to Bretton to the rule of the petrodollar as a Woods, the 1944 confab of Allied contributing factor in the U.S. invasion. nations where it was decided that the Since then Iran has switched to dollar would be the world’s backup conducting its oil transactions in euros, buck, backed itself by gold at a fixed and recently Gazprom Neft, Russia’s rate of $35 per ounce. International third-largest oil producer, began selling spending, though—and it was a spendy oil to China in exchange for renminbi. era, what with the rebuilding of But an abrupt abandonment of the Europe, the Great Society, the Vietnam petrodollar system is in nobody’s best War, etc—promptly grew to dwarf the interest: since most major nations Fort Knox reserves, which at one point continue to back their own currency held only a third of the gold needed to with the U.S. dollar, everybody’s got a cover the dollars in foreign circulation, stake in keeping that currency stable. prompting fears of a run on the place.

That’s not to say the petrodollar In 1971 President Richard Nixon regime isn’t a bit sensitive these days, suspended the direct convertibility but it’s for another reason: fracking. of the U.S. dollar into gold, bringing Environmental implications aside, about a system of floating, rather than hydraulic fracturing has put major fixed, exchange rates. Among other shale oil reserves in play and (for things, this move, the so-called Nixon now, at least) upended the world Shock, increased the ability of the energy market. In 2011, for instance, Federal Reserve to influence monetary the U.S. imported about $360 billion policy, which in turn, decades later, led worth of oil; by 2015, that number yahoos like Ron Paul and Ted Cruz to had dropped to $120 billion. One pine for a return to the gold standard. estimate last year pegged OPEC’s 2015 (Most economists continue to see this profits at $350 billion lower than as a pretty bad idea.) those in 2014—the largest year-overBut the key development of the era, year drop ever. Oil gazillionaires who for our purposes, was a deal where, spent the commodity-boom aughts in exchange for U.S. military support buying up Manhattan penthouses and other preferential treatment, are now rapidly burning through the Saudis agreed to conduct oil their petrodollar savings; if the trend transactions in dollars only. Soon continues, Bloomberg suggested, OPEC as a whole signed on. As prices demand will fall for “everything from shot up in the ’70s, oil-exporting European government debt to U.S. real countries in the Middle East found estate.” Not nothing, in other words, themselves with more dollars than but neither is it global collapse. they knew what to do with. They

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #612728 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: QED Environmental, 636 University Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95110, Traid Mark, Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of CaliforniaRegistrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/8/2003. Refile of previous file #433900/s/John R. FinniganPresident#C2253981This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/07/2016. (pub Metro 1/20, 1/27, 2/03, 2/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #612437 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Softworks, 1214 La Terrace Circle, San Jose, CA, 95123, Richard V. Nygord. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name (s) listed below on 12/29/2015 first filing./s/ Richard V. NygordThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/29/2015. (pub Metro 1/06, 1/13, 1/20/, 1/27/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #611618

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #613113

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Paratransit Providers, 32778 Rocky Water Ln., San Jose, CA, 95148, Yihui Lin. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/1/2015./s/Yihui LinThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/01/2015. (pub Metro 1/06, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27//2016)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pacific Sierra Property Management, 643 N 3rd St., #3, San Jose, CA, 95112, Louis M. Snyder.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name (s) listed below in 1997. Refile of previous file #415429 after 40 days o expiration date./s/Louis M. SnyderThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/20/2016. (pub Metro 1/27, 2/03, 2/10, 2/17/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #612462 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: All Bay Demolition, 260 W. Dunne Ave., Apt 36, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Abonfilio E. Guzman. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/30/15. /s/Abonfilio E. GuzmanThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/30/2015. (pub Metro 1/06, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27//2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #613002 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Get On Record, 166 Sweetberry Court, San Jose, CA, 95136, Jason Patrick Sayler. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jason Patrick SaylerThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/14/2016(pub Metro 1/20, 1/27, 2/03, 2/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #6125741 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Alison Barker Physical Therapy, 1279 Curtiss Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Alison Barker. This business is conducted by an indivdual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein 1/4/2016. /s/Alison BarkerThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/04/2016. (pub Metro 1/06, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #613242 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sky Day Spa, 175 S. Capitol Ave., #1, San Jose, CA, 95127, Quan Do, 1741 Homegate Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148.This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name (s) listed herein. /s/Quan DoThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/22/2016. (pub Metro 1/27, 2/03, 2/10, 2/17/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #612931 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dong VI, 1310 Tully Road, Suite 105, San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is conducted by a corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Huyen Thi Kim Bich TranPresident & CEO #3856150This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/12/2016. (pub Metro 1/20, 1/27, 2/03, 2/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #612923 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Audit Group, 1310 North First Street, San Jose, CA, 95131, Technology Credit Union. This business is conducted by a corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Joe Anzalone EVP & Chief Banking Officer #C2122654 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/12/2016. (pub Metro 1/20, 1/27, 2/03, 2/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #613203 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Le Coucou, 1155 Tasman Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, eBranding Inc.This business is conducted by an corporation.Above entity was formed in the state of California. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name (s) listed herein. /s/Cien ShenCEO#C3666717This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/22/2016. (pub Metro 1/27, 2/03, 2/10, 2/17/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #612818 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ay Caramba Taqueria La Bamba, 580 North Rengstroff Ave., Mountain View, CA, 94043, Taqueria La Bamba LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.Refile of previous file #545248 refiled prior to expiration date or within 40 days past expiration. with NO CHANGES/s/Oscar E. Munoz President#20415010270This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/08/2016. (pub Metro 1/20, 1/27, 2/03, 2/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #612819 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Taqueria La Bamba Restaurant, 580 North Rengstroff Ave., Mountain View, CA, 94043, Taqueria La Bamba LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.Refile of previous file #545247 refiled prior to expiration date or within 40 days past expiration. with NO CHANGES/s/Oscar E. Munoz President#20415010230This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/08/2016. (pub Metro 1/20, 1/27, 2/03, 2/10/2016)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you know Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights? At one point, the heroine Catherine tells her friend about Edgar, a man she's interested in. “He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace,” Catherine says, “and I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” If you're a typical Aries, you're more aligned with Catherine than with Edgar. But I'm hoping you might consider making a temporary compromise in the coming weeks. “At last, we agreed to try both,” Catherine concluded, “and then we kissed each other and were friends.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People turn to you

By ROB BREZSNY week of January 27

the last few months of 2015. And right now is when you can lay the groundwork for that future triumph.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Playwright Edmond

Rostand (1868-1918) had a lot of friends, and they often came to visit him uninvited. He found it hard to simply tell them to go away and leave him alone.

And yet he hated to be interrupted while he was working. His solution was to get naked and write for long hours while in his bathroom, usually soaking in the bathtub. His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on socializing. In this way, Rostand found the peace he needed to create his masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as numerous other plays. I suggest you consider a comparable gambit, Scorpio. You need to carve out some quality alone time.

Tauruses for help in staying grounded. They love to soak up your down-to-earth pragmatism. They want your steadfastness to rub off on them, to provide them with the stability they see in you. You should be proud of this service you offer! It’s a key part of your appeal. Now and then, though, you need to demonstrate that your stalwart dependability is not static and stagnant—that it’s strong exactly because it's flexible and adaptable. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your superpower.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn't.” The preceding reminiscence belongs to a character in Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner.

I bring it up in hopes that you will do the opposite: Say the words that need to be said. Articulate what you're burning to reveal. Speak the truths that will send your life on a course that’s in closer alignment with your pure intentions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When winter comes,

traditional astrologers, you Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest that you may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what you have accumulated. To ensure that you will never run out of what you need, you may even ration your output and limit your self-expression.

This behavior is rooted in the belief that you should conserve your strength by withholding or even hiding your power. While there may be big grains of truth in this conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it's only part of the story. In the coming weeks, for instance, I bet you will wield your clout with unabashed authority. You won't save yourself for later; you'll engage in no strategic self-suppression.

Instead, you will be expansive and unbridled as you do whatever is required to carry out the important foundation work that needs to be done.

pine trees that grow near mountaintops may not be able to draw water and minerals from the ground through their roots. The sustenance they require is frozen. Luckily, their needle-like leaves absorb moisture from clouds and fog, and drink in minerals that float on the wind. Metaphorically speaking, Gemini, this will be your preferred method for getting nourished in the coming weeks. For the time being, look UP to obtain what you need. Be fed primarily by noble ideals, big visions, divine inspiration, and highminded people.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): We all go through phases when we are at odds with people we love.

Maybe we’re mad at them, or feel hurt by them, or can’t comprehend what they're going through. The test of our commitment is how we act when we are in these moods. That’s why I agree with author Steve Hall when he says, “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” The coming weeks will be an important time for you to practice this principle with extra devotion—not just for the sake of the people you care about, but also for your own physical, mental, and spiritual health.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): After fighting and killing each other for years on end, the Roman and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 CE. The treaty was optimistically called “The Endless Peace.” Sadly, “endless” turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. I'm happy to announce, though, that your prospects for accord and rapprochement are much brighter. If you work diligently to negotiate an endless peace anytime between now and March 15, it really is likely to last a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I shiver, thinking

how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.” Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, and now I'm offering it to you, just in time for your Season of Correction and Adjustment. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to get smarter about evaluating your allies—and maybe even one of your adversaries, as well. I expect you will find it relatively easy, even pleasurable, to overcome your misimpressions and deepen your incomplete understandings.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In June 1942, the U.S. Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was crucial to America’s ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One military historian called it “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.”

This milestone occurred just six months after Japan's devastating attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. To compare your life to these two events may be bombastic, but I'm in a bombastic mood as I contemplate your exciting possibilities. I predict that in the second half of 2016, you'll claim a victory that will make up for a loss or defeat you endured during

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to some

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It seems that the whole time you're living this life, you're thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that the coming months will bring you excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, you can shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what you are doing.

You can get the hang of what it’s like to thoroughly accept and embrace the life you are actually living.

And now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on this project.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Even nightingales cannot be fed on fairy tales,” says a character in Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance. They can’t eat dreamy stories. Having acknowledged that practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy stories and rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much as you need your daily bread. Your soul’s hunger has reached epic proportions. It's time to gorge.

Homework: What could you do to free your imagination from its bondage? Read “Liberate Your Imagination”: http://bit.ly/ Liberate

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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