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STORE HOURS M-F 8-9, Sat 9-9, Sun 9-8 Prices Good Wednesday, February 10, 2016 through Saturday, February 13, 2016.

Prices subject to change after Saturday, February 13, 2016.

Limit Rights Reserved. Not Responsible for Typographical Errors. No Sales to Dealers or Resellers. Rebates Subject to Manufacturer’s Specifications. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. Sales tax to be calculated and paid on the in-store price for all rebate products.Actual memory capacity stated above may be less. Total accessible memory capacity may vary depending on operating environment and/or method of calculating units of memory (i.e., megabytes or gigabytes). Portions of hard drives may be reserved for the recovery partition or used by pre-loaded software.

Fry’s Electronics, American Express® Cards, MasterCard, Visa Card, and Discover Network Card, Accepted at All Fry’s Locations “We Will Match Any Competitive Price*.” Before making a purchase from a Fry’s Electronics store, if you see a lower current price at a local authorized competitor in-stock, or from an authorized Internet competitor ready to ship, Fry’s will be happy to match the competition’s delivered price*.

“30-Day Low Price Guarantee*.” If within 30 days of purchasing an item from a Fry’s Electronics store you see a lower current price at a local authorized competitor in-stock, or from an authorized Internet competitor ready to ship, Fry’s will cheerfully refund 110% of the difference. Or if within 30 days of purchase you see a lower current price from a local Fry’s Electronics store, Fry’s will refund 100% of the difference. To apply for Fry’s low price guarantee, simply bring in your original cash register receipt and verifiable proof of a current lower price. *Note: Other conditions apply. See additional terms and conditions at http://www.frys.com/onlineads/0001507075

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

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So much 49ers-Santa Clara secrecy involving Levi’s Stadium, story from San Jose Inside @TIMKAWAKAMI VIA TWITTER RE: “WELCOME TO SANTA CLARA,” COVER, FEB. 3

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RE: “OP-ED: SAN JOSE STREET VENDORS LEFT IN THE COLD,” SAN JOSE INSIDE, FEB. 3

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Please, pretty please, don’t call the cops. This isn’t what it looks like. I know you’re just a concerned neighbor.

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THE FLY

Bar None When TAM NGUYEN began campaigning for San Jose City Council, his whole life was in flux. After years of trying, the self-described poorest attorney in town had finally separated from his wife of 20-some-odd years. To keep the peace, he left her the house they shared and moved into a bare-bones $700-a-month room. A fresh start on both sides, particularly for Nguyen, who beat out nonprofit director MAYA ESPARZA for the District 7 seat that opened when MADISON NGUYEN termed out in 2014. A new job, a decent salary and a relentless schedule made it easier to cut ties with the past. But in breaking up, he left a few loose ends. Nguyen’s ex used to manage his law office, taking care of accounting and administration. In the chaos of their separation, they two let things lapse, including a $5,000 payout owed to former client PHIL TRUONG. Truong notified the California Bar Association, which suspended Nguyen’s license to practice law. Since all this was happening in the thick of a divorce and his campaign, Nguyen chose not to fight it.

They Did “It’s all resolved now,” he tells Fly. “Whatever What? was left, I paid it off—I SEND TIPS TO took immediate action.”

FLY@ A similar thing happened METRONEWS. COM about a decade ago, he acknowledged.

“My estranged wife, she managed the accounts,” he says. “But I don’t mean to put blame on anyone. I took full responsibility.” After accepting the disciplinary action, Nguyen went on to resign from the bar last fall. With his long days as an elected, he says, he’s too busy for lawyering anyway. He can apply for reinstatement in the future. For now, his heart is in his work and—as he demonstrated by serenading Fly shortly after he took office—in his name, too.

Tam translates to “heart” in Vietnamese, according to his campaign theme song.

“Heart it is my name/Passion is my soul/ Hero’s sacrifice giving me freedom/Love is my song/I’m singing the song of my heart for you.”

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Venture Cannabis THE DABBLER Sean Parker plunked down $250,000 and recruited other techies to fund a ballot measure to legalize marijuana in California.

Venture capitalists race to corner market on medical marijuana

BY CAITLIN YOSHIKO KANDIL

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OR YEARS, David Hua encountered problems with medical marijuana deliveries. Online menus were often outdated.

Ordering by phone took forever. Requests by email risked compromising private data. And delivery dudes were notoriously unreliable.

“Sometimes it took an hour ... sometimes shorter, but you never really know,” he says. “The larger windows made it difficult to schedule your day. But since you’re ordering medicine, you’d wait just like you’d wait for the Comcast guy.”

Hua, who has used cannabis for the past five years to relieve chronic neck and shoulder pain, knew there must be a way to improve service, especially in the Bay Area, where one can order everything from takeout to manicures on demand.

So in 2014 Hua launched Meadow, a one-hour delivery service for more than 30 Bay Area pot clubs. Customers order by smartphones and get estimated delivery times with real-time tracking updates. Online menus update inventory, while HIPAA-compliant servers protect patient privacy. Meadow also offers video chats with doctors who can prescribe cannabis.

Known as the “Uber for medical marijuana,” Meadow became the first pot-related startup to land funding from the Mountain View-based seed accelerator Y Combinator. Meadow has joined a burgeoning medical

marijuana industry, which has been dubbed the “green rush” but might as well be the modern-day gold rush, given its growth and profitability.

“Just as the gold rush once needed tools such as pick axes, shovels and jeans, now the tools are online ordering, compliance, streamlining their operations and making sure best practices are followed,” Hua says.

Legal cannabis sales topped $5 billion in 2015, according to industry research firm ArcView Group, and the cannabis sector is expected to reach $6.7 billion this year. By 2020, the legal cannabis market could reach nearly $22 billion in sales.

“In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs and investors are always looking for the next thing that technology can disrupt, the next marketplace where there’s an incredible growth curve that they can participate in,” ArcView CEO Troy Dayton says. “In that way, the cannabis industry is seen by many as the next great American industry.”

But unlike other industries, Dayton

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Since then, 24 states as well as Washington, D.C. have decriminalized the drug to varying extents. While California has yet to legalize general adult use, it’s now legal in Washington, Colorado, Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia.

The nation’s shift towards legalization—58 percent of Americans now support it, according to Gallup— has opened the doors to a growing cannabis industry in California. Gov. Jerry Brown signed off on a slew of new marijuana laws last fall, giving businesses and buyers more clarity on how to operate above board. “Because of this shift,” Dayton says, “the best minds of our generation are just finally starting to put their attention on this space.”

Hua agrees: “If we had tried to do this five years ago, I don’t think the market would have been there because people’s risk appetite and exposure weren’t there.”

Cannabis-related startups now include a variety of consumer devices, delivery services, social media, software products and agricultural innovations.

Loto Labs, based in Redwood City, developed Evoke, an induction-powered vaporizer that allows users to customize heat and dosage settings on a built-in control panel or smartphone app.

“You’re able to see how much you’re puffing, just like your Fitbit tells you how many steps you’ve climbed,” says Neeraj Bhardwaj, president of Loto Labs. “If you have cancer and you’re trying to dose correctly, or if you’re trying to quit smoking, you can track your progress.”

San Francisco-based HelloMD offers telehealth services that connect patients to cannabis-friendly doctors. “Going to a regular healthcare provider for cannabis is problematic for most people,” says company founder Mark Hadfield. “Your traditional doctor is going to say, ‘I don’t feel comfortable, I haven’t seen enough studies, or I don’t know how to provide a recommendation.’”

HelloMD also allows patients to order medical marijuana and have it delivered. “This experience means that patients who have never participated in cannabis are more willing to,” Hadfield says. “We’re seeing the demographic shifting, from young people who are recreationally oriented to an older

demographic with more women, who are using cannabis for health and wellness. These people are coming into the market for the first time because of the ease and convenience of the service and lack of stigma. The technology means that they can now participate.”

Even PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has put his stamp on cannabis startups. Last year his investment firm, Founders Fund, joined a $75 million investment for Privateer Holdings, a private equity firm that invests in the medical marijuana industry.

But not everyone is seeing green.

David Welch, founding partner of DR Welch Attorneys at Law, which specializes in the business aspects of the medical marijuana industry, expresses skepticism toward the so-called modernday gold rush. “There’s a lot of fool’s gold out there,” he says. “You’ll become a millionaire a lot faster on Wall Street than buying and selling marijuana.”

Silicon Valley’s has started to flex its power beyond investments, though; it’s also throwing weight behind policy reforms. In January, Sean Parker, of Napster and Facebook fame, announced that he was donating $250,000 to support a legalization initiative. The Adult Use of Marijuana Act is slated to appear on California ballots this fall.

While the proposal has received support from groups such as the Drug Policy Alliance, the Marijuana Policy Project of California and the NAACP, groups such as the California Grower’s Association and ReformCA feel extensive regulations will hurt small growers.

“It’s disappointing to see Sean Parker attempting to restrict it to where, logistically, only people who have a great deal of money and influence can participate in the industry going forward,” says Mickey Martin, director of ReformCA. “It creates a lot of red tape and additional cost that keep the price of cannabis high and makes it difficult for the normal mom and pop business to operate under that regime.”

Attorney Welch agrees, adding that the transformation of the marijuana industry has created tensions between new businesses and longtime players. “You see a lot of fear on behalf of the old guard, that they’re going to lose their livelihood to people who have less experience but a lot more money,” he says.

But ArcView’s Dayton argues this isn’t the case. “The best teams,” he says, “are always a mixture of longtime cannabis talent with longtime business talent.”

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QUITTIN’ TIME A day after Santa Clara hosted the Super Bowl 50, the city’s top elected official resigned.

Santa Clara Mayor Unexpectedly Resigns

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Santa Clara Mayor Jamie Lee Matthews announced his resignation on a high note Monday, a day after his city played host to Super Bowl 50.

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to have served as Santa Clara’s mayor,” said the 53-year-old Matthews, who has nearly three years left in his term. “Now it’s time for me to focus on my family and look forward to the next chapter of my life.”

His health, he said, had nothing to do with the decision. No mention was made of the civil grand jury investigation into the city’s Stadium Authority, which oversees operations at the game-day venue, Levi’s Stadium; or of the fact that his resignation, effective Tuesday, came on the same day Santa Clara City Manager Julio Fuentes was up for a closed-session performance evaluation.

Matthews also failed to address the timing of his announcement, which caught even his close colleagues off guard. There’s some suspicion that something happened on game day that led to his surprise announcement.

A New York Times profile published just before Sunday’s game noted that Matthews—who said he knows nothing about football— might be the only mayor in the nation to host the Super Bowl with no interest in attending the event.

He must have changed his mind.

In a post-game wrap-up that ran in Monday’s print edition of the Mercury News, columnist Mark Purdy wrote that the mayor “watched the entire afternoon and evening unfold from the SAP Suite Tower” on Sunday. Hours later, the story was updated online to

indicate that Matthews visited the stadium before the game to show his face and thank staff, but then “headed home at kickoff time to watch on television.”

Maybe it’s nothing. Or maybe the mayor thought twice about being on the record as a Super Bowl attendee with a luxury suite pass valued at anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000.

Accepting a gift of such extraordinary value would flout state and local election laws, which limit perks to $460 in a calendar year.

Attempts to reach Matthews through city spokeswoman Jennifer Yamaguma were unsuccessful as of press time. Vice Mayor Teresa O’Neill will serve as interim mayor until the council appoints a successor or sets a special election to let voters decide.

Nudist Resort Pleads No Contest to Water Theft Lupin Lodge owner Lori Kay Stout pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of trespassing on public land, where prosecutors say she siphoned water from a creek to her drought-affected nudist resort.

According to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, the Los Gatosbased company and Stout, 53, piped water from nearby Hendry’s Creek despite repeated warnings to stop.

Judge Allison Danner sentenced Stout to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service.

She also has to pay a $2,500 fine and $9,800 in restitution to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, a public agency that oversees the Hendry’s Creek property.

Lupin Heights, Inc. also pleaded no contest to three misdemeanors, but the legal troubles could be far from finished.

As a Metro cover story revealed last summer, Lupin Lodge also stands accused of widespread wage theft and contributing to the wrongful death of a motorcyclist.

The Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement has fined the company for failing to compensate workers and keep enough safety measures in place.

Its restaurant has been repeatedly shut down for violating health standards.

More serious allegations have been filed in civil court. A wrongful death case aims to hold the resort liable for a car accident involving a Lupin Lodge employee who barreled into an oncoming motorcyclist.

In a separate case, several Lupin Lodge employees claim that the resort has violated a litany of labor laws.

The class-action suit filed by former employee Dara McClellan accuses the resort of forcing her and many others to work without a written agreement for less than minimum wage and no overtime.—Jennifer Wadsworth

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Home Again NEW DIGS The Black & Brown consignment shop has relocated from The Alameda to a historic building on West San Carlos Street.

The Black & Brown consignment shop settles into its new home

BY GARY SINGH

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HE TWO-STORY building at 751 West San Carlos St. used to be a convenience store, a boarding house and a brothel. So says Monisha as she shows me around the new locale for Black & Brown, her popular buy-and-sell vintage clothing boutique.

Due to real estate greed, the store had to leave its former spot on The Alameda. Now, as we traipse up a

few stairs, across old-school wooden flooring and into different rooms, the new space is emerging. A better picture becomes apparent.

Featuring 4,800 square feet, the historic building is ripe for a new era.

Men’s clothing will now occupy the upper floor, while women’s goods will fill the downstairs area. As we walk around, I can see where temporary walls have been removed. Clothing racks are being installed. Tools, hooks and hangers appear everywhere. Music pipes in over the speaker system. The newly painted walls emit a shade of white. Pieces of track lighting are strewn about the floor, awaiting installation.

The second level is a glorious maze of rooms. There’s even an office and a tiny upstairs patio overlooking a courtyard. From there, one can look across McEvoy Street and gaze at a metal fabrication warehouse or the decades-old San Carlos Street overpass.

Both are bastions of faded glory.

Connoisseurs of the ancient, rusty and desolate will love this neighborhood, or at least this corner, which is located just over the hill from Orchard Supply Hardware—right on the other side of the tracks. There’s a certain “sympathy with time” quality that pours out of every crack on the sidewalk here. No one ever seems to go down these side streets off San Carlos. The isolation is immaculate.

The locale is a forgotten, discarded area, a piece of old industrial San Jose oozing a typically interesting

“escape from downtown” charm.

Indeed, descriptors like “interesting” and “away from downtown” might become synonymous pretty soon, thanks to the tides of gentrification.

I even went back on opening day, last Saturday, as DJ Cutso was spinning tunes. From both stories of Black & Brown, one can look out multiple windows, gaze across San Carlos, and see developments underway—more lifelessly uniform condos that will undoubtedly offer nauseating chain retail on the street level. Get ready for another Starbucks or a Chipotle. Other parts of San Carlos, and even Sunol, a block over, will host similar atrocities, but the building that houses Black & Brown doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. It sits on the corner like a defiant statue.

In a strange way, it’s both vintage and modern, just like the clothing Black & Brown sells. What a perfect match.

In that sense, by moving into this old building, Black & Brown has found an interstice, a place between places, a safe zone amid the waves of destruction and creation, a rupture in the folds of urban topography.

With gentrification and the brokers who worship it just starting to infiltrate downtown, there really aren’t that many of these urban havens left anymore. Luckily Black & Brown found just such a place. And with it comes an art gallery.

Up on the second level of 751 W. San Carlos, in one tiny 300-squarefoot room, I’m told Seeing Things Gallery will relaunch its operation, after leaving its previous location at 30 N. Third St., where it offered a small but thriving selection of street-inspired art and photography.

Next month, the gallery will feature the perfect artist to address the sentiments in this column. Josh Marcotte of Lost San Jose fame, will debut a new series of photographs documenting the underbelly of Monterey Highway: dive roadside motels, discarded junk, abandoned cars, weeds, and the whole nine yards from San Jose’s legendary boulevard of broken suburbia. That should be a raging good time. Don’t miss it.

So, outside and in-between the soul-crushing excess of the condopocalypse, there seems to be hope.

Interesting people still do live here and are trying to do interesting things.

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IN SILICON VALLEY, innovation is part of our DNA. That goes for the latest unicorn startup, as well as the neighborhood black-box theater.

In the coming months, as temperatures rise and flowers bloom, artists all over the South Bay will try new things. Jose Manuel Carrenño, Silicon Valley Ballet’s artistic director, debuts Director’s Choice—a suite of bleeding-edge ballet and modern dance pieces. Playwright and filmmaker Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit, La Bamba) holds the world premiere of his new play, Valley of the Heart, at The Stage in San Jose. And the Cinequest film festival celebrates 26 years of cinephilia by honoring Palo Alto’s own James Franco. These exciting events are just three of the many local cultural offerings you’ll find in this roundup. —Nick Veronin

FUTURISTIC FOOTWORK Jose Manuel Carrenño, artistic director of Silicon Valley Ballet, is calling the shots

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For the first time in its history, the company is touring internationally.

Currently on an exhibition tour in Spain, the company has been delighting audiences everywhere from Seville to Santander—an exotic warmup for its expansive and imaginative 2016 schedule.

After it arrives back home in San Jose this week, the company will kick off its spring season with a one weekend-only presentation of Cuban Pas De Deux, a show designed, musically arranged, and

choreographed by the company’s artistic director, Jose Manuel Carreño. As a showcase of Silicon Valley Ballet’s 30-plus dancers and

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The company will be presenting three works this spring, with each piece representing a different style in the history of dance, as well as some unlikely experimentation, something Carreño is careful to reaffirm: “I want people to see all types of dancing.”

The first show with a full run is Glow-Stop. Originally premiering in 2006, the ballet is the brainchild of Boston Ballet’s resident choreographer, Jorma Elo. An abstract and kinetic show that fuses the music of Mozart and Philip Glass, Glow-Stop follows the style of many of Elo’s ballets: complicated— if not busy, experimental and brash.

The second show of the season is Prism, by internationally renowned choreographer and dancer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. Set to a half-hour jazz improvisation from the ‘70s by pianist Keith Jarrett, Prism is a multifaceted exposition of a moody, but beautiful, jazz epic.

Minus 16, which was featured in Silicon Valley Ballet’s 2014 season, will be the third and final show for the spring. A collection of vignettes by legendary Israeli choreographer and dancer, Ohad Naharin, Minus 16 is a mind-blowing display of synchronization and measured energy.

Over the course of the season, audiences will be treated to a nearcompendium of dance history, says Carreño. “We start from classical and go all the way up to contemporary dance. I think it’s a very good variety of styles,” he says. “I want my dancers to explore everything they can.”

While currently bolstering its international reputation, the company was already more cosmopolitan than it might appear.

Although a number of the dancers are locals, just as many are from places such as Cuba, Japan, China, Spain or Venezuela.

With a veteran dancer in the artistic director position, Silicon Valley Ballet has further sought to develop its art. Now in his third year, Carreño has seen the ups and downs of that process—but is more than confident in the abilities of

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his performers. That is one of the primary reasons the company is on a European tour.

“We really needed to travel and show the world this great product we have,” says Carreño, “We only used to dance in San Jose and now it’s an international company. I want people to see the kind of talent we have, both international and domestic.”

WEST BAY OPERA YEVGENY ONEGIN This tragic lyric opera follows the title character as he laments the choice to challenge his best friend to a duel and to abandon the affection of a woman who pledged her love to him. Feb 19-28.

OPERA SAN JOSE CARMEN Though author Georges Bizet died only a month after his opera’s debut, this masterwork about a duplicitous, gypsy seductress has been performed continuously for more than a century. Feb 13-28.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE The play that made Marlon Brando famous tracks Blanche DuBois, who moves from the country to her sister’s city apartment and slowly goes insane due to the immense cruelty of her brother-in-law. Apr 16-May 1.

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Italian composer Giampaolo Bisanti has compiled a complimentary set of symphonies—the polished grace of Faure followed by the intensity of two Russian composers that belong to the famed Mighty Handful. Mar 18-20.

SAN JOSE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! To celebrate 25 years of sustained sonic excellence, Michael Touchi has curated an orchestral extravaganza including Pizzicato by Vivian Fung that will revisit some of the finest pieces to debut in this ensemble’s storied history. Mar 12-13.

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PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Led by long-tenured PACO director, Kris Yenney, this delightful evening of music looks forward and backward at the company’s career—performing pieces such as Boccherini’s “devilishly playful” La Casa del Diavolo. Mar 12.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS PIANO RECITAL United Nations honorary medal-winner and renowned teacher/performer, Ms. Kurtova, will presents her distinguished students—aged 7 to 18—who will perform pieces from Mozart, Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff. Feb 13.

STANFORD LIVE JON NAKAMATSU Stanford’s lauded musical puffers will collaborate with one of the finest pianists in the world—Jon Nakamatsu who is the rare American winner of the gold medal at Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Dinkelspiel Concert Hall. Feb 13.

PAN ASIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL To celebrate Asian culture and the Chinese New Year, Stanford has brought the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra from China to play alongside local specialists of the broad Asian sonic diaspora. Bing Concert Hall. Feb 19-20.

THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE Founded by Yo-Yo Ma, this varied ensembled hails from over 20 countries. They perform on an array of instruments and have been marrying classical and world music for 15 years. Bing Concert Hall. Feb 24.

THE CHOIR OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE This choir hails from a college within Cambridge University and has existed since 1511. They rank among of the world’s finest collegiate choirs and are exemplary for their distinctive “continental” sound. Cambridge Memorial Church. Mar 29-30.

BOLERO SILICON VALLEY New York choreographer Larry Keigwin dazzled audiences with his colorful tribute to the intricacies of New York City

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TAKACS QUARTET W/ GARRICK OHLSSON To tackle Elgar’s Piano Quintet, the thoroughly beloved and oft-awarded quartet will team up with champion pianist Garrick Ohlsson who became internationally renowned after snagging first prize in the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition. Bing Concert Hall. Apr 10.

PIANIST MURRAY PERAHIA Perahia just completed a tour of Asia with the well-regarded Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and at this show, the expressive soloist will be just absolutely wailing on the ivories, interpreting the masterpieces of legendary composers. Bing Concert Hall. Apr 14.

TRIO CLEONICE Featuring a cellist, violist and pianist, this trio recently won the John Lad Prize and will be performing pieces by Haydn, Davidovsky and Mendelssohn as they continue the proud tradition of chamber music.

Bing Concert Hall. Apr 17.

AXIS DANCE COMPANY Hailing from Oakland, Axis Dance Company employs dancers with and without disabilities and they will be performing “to go again,” a piece that considers the resilience of American veterans in the face of their many challenges. Bing Concert Hall. Apr 23.

MIDORI The stunning JapaneseAmerican violinist made her bold debut when she was only 11 at the New York Philharmonic in 1982.

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PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE Returning for their fourth season, this “premier period-instrument ensemble” will tackle compositions of the Classical and Baroque periods by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Bing Concert Hall. Apr 27.

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STORY OF forbidden love in a tumultuous and rapidly changing world, Valley of the Heart tells the tale of a young Mexican-American sharecropper who falls for the Japanese-American daughter of the farmer who owns the land, which his family relies upon for both sustenance and salary.

Written by Luis Valdez—often recognized as the father of Chicano theater—the play is set against the agrarian backdrop of 1940s Santa Clara Valley during the height of WWII. For Valdez, the man behind Zoot Suit, La Bamba and El Teatro Campesino, Valley of the Heart is quite personal.

The story is “something I’ve been carrying for a long time,” Valdez says.

Born in 1940, the playwright spent the war years believing his family owned the ranch they worked on—

21 the struggle her grandparents and mother faced by reading their reactions. “(My grandmother is) proud that I’m pursuing what I love, and that I have an opportunity to tell a poignant story,” Mah says, “but I think it was painful for her to sit through it and be reminded of everything. You do see that generation come to see the show, and they’re very emotional and grateful their story is being told in 2016.”

Valdez has been workshopping the show with his San Juan Bautista company, Teatro Campesino, since 2013. The play has generated a buzz all over the state.

“There’s a lot of excitement to bring it to San Jose,” he says. The production marks the play’s world premiere. The cast is a mix of Teatro Campesino veterans, including one of his sons, and newcomers.

Both Valdez and Mah hope that, in addition to being entertained by local history and the love story at its heart, audiences will come away from the show with a better understanding of the mistakes of the past and more hope for the future.

“The play is really much more about the future than it is about the past,” Valdez says. “I think these kinds of interracial relationships are growing, in every way. People from all over the world are meeting and falling in love and having kids, creating another version of the American people.”

Mah agrees that the issues covered in the play are still relevant today.

“Right now, more than ever, there are a lot of controversies about race and religion,” she says. “America is supposedly this melting pot, and at the same time is still discriminating against people. We need to continue to reflect on not only how we treat people who are different, but how we view them. I just hope that this show makes people leave the theater thinking a little bit differently about our society.”

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but came to learn that it actually belonged to a Japanese-American family; the federal government had confiscated it following Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the war, his family resumed life as migrant farmworkers. Around age seven, Valdez made friends with a boy from a migrant family unlike any he had previously known. His new friend had a Japanese-American mother, Thelma, and a MexicanAmerican father, Benjamin.

“I was really amazed that my friend had a Japanese mother,” he says recalling his youth. “Some nights she would cook Mexican, sometimes Japanese, and I hung around for dinner.” Though he knew the family for only a few months, Valdez says he never forgot them.

“That couple became really an eye-opener for me,” he says of the multicultural family. When he finally set out to write Valley of the Heart, he named the lovers in his story Thelma and Benjamin.

Valdez says his play is about “the meeting of two cultures,” but also about the culture they share as Americans. While the script features “some Spanglish, some Japanese,” it’s a quintessentially American story, he adds, noting that Japanese- and Mexican-Americans have a long shared history in the Bay Area.

“There was contact that was made just living life, but that led to a lot of interracial marriages,” he says. “It’s part of the multicultural fabric of California. It’s important to know that background and history and better understand where we are today.”

Valley of the Heart also connects in a very personal way with Melanie Mah, who stars as Teruko “Thelma” Yamaguchi. Her Japanese-American mother was born in Cupertino, where Mah’s grandmother still lives, a block from Apple headquarters.

Her grandparents were imprisoned in internment camps during the war, much like what happens to her character’s family in the play.

“My grandparents and mother were adamant that my brother and I knew about our family’s history and our country’s history,” she says. “When I heard about this show, it tugged at the heartstrings. I’m really grateful to have this opportunity to tell their story.”

In telling the story on stage, Mah was able to learn a bit more about

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TIGERS BE STILL After Sherry Wickman graduates with a degree in art therapy, she falls into a depression while living with her parents. Oh … and a tiger has escaped from the zoo. Thru Feb 21.

THE ELEPHANT MAN Based on the true story of a young man living with a disfiguring neurological condition, this uplifting classic serves as a testament to healing power of kindness. Mar 17-Apr 17.

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THE STAGE SAN JOSE BOEING BOEING this high-flying farce, a polyamorous man with three fiancees must scramble to maintain his love life after a newer, faster Boeing jet throws off his normal schedule of seduction. Apr 6-May 1.

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Sunday, Feb 21, 2016 2pm Mission City Center for Performing Arts Santa Clara

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HONK! CMT Rising Stars presents: Honk! an adaptation of the classic fable The Ugly Duckling. This uplifiting tale follows Ugly on his adventures around the farm. Feb 24-28.

SISTER ACT Premiering on the CMT San Jose main stage, Sister Act—based on the 1992 film—aims to be fun for the whole family. Mar 4-13.

TABARD THEATRE SAN JOSE I DO! I DO! Over half a century, this endearing musical for two tracks the the trials and tribulations of a married couple, Agnes and Michael Snow. Feb 12-28.

LOS ALTOS STAGE COMPANY LOS ALTOS 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. Thru Feb 21.

21 CATCH 22 Based on Joseph Heller’s work of satire, this production follows the exploits of an insane bombardier flying an insane machine in an insane war. Apr 7-May 1.

SOUTH BAY MUSICAL THEATRE SARATOGA FOREVER PLAID Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie formed a flannel jacket quartet who perished on the way to their first gig in a collision with a school bus. But now, the ethereal fellas will get one more shot to hit a heavenly harmony. Thru Feb 21.

THEATREWORKS PALO ALTO/ MOUNTAIN VIEW TOKYO FISH STORY A strict traditionalist of a sushi master struggles to preserve the old ways of his craft as the world changes around him in this comedic drama.

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CYRANO The pen is at least as mighty as the sword in this swashbuckling tale full of witty wordplay. Apr 6-May 1.

THE PEAR THEATRE MOUNTAIN VIEW UNCLE VANYA This classic of Russian theater by Anton Chekhov explores themes of estrangement, unattainable love and the feeling that one has wasted his life—all from a tiny country estate. Feb 25-Mar 13.

PALO ALTO PLAYERS PALO ALTO INTO THE WOODS Stephen Sondheim’s modern classic mashes up all of the best characters from the best-known fairy tales—Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Cinderella, to name a few—and sets them to singing and dancing. Apr 22-May 8.

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WHAT TO WATCH

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He’s been reviewing films for the paper since its founding in 1985. Here are are some of the films he is looking forward to seeing at the 26th annual Cinequest film festival, running Mar. 1-13 in downtown San Jose.

MR. INVINCIBLE A demonstration of the three-screen Barco Technique (four screens, if you’re checking your cellphone): it’s the story of a man whose invulnerability is a bug, not a feature.

EYE IN THE SKY Opening night: Gavin Hood (of the South African drama Tsotsi) directs Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman. It’s a critique of drone warfare in which a terrorist needs to be run to earth, not blown to hell.

REMEMBER ME Rita Moreno won all four legs of the EGOT, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. With luck, she has space on her mantle for a Cinequest Maverick award. Her new film, shot in the East Bay, concerns a grandmother who may not quite be ready for the old folks home.

FILM HAWK Robert Hawk, involved with the indie film movement (as well as Cinequest) since the early days, tells his story in this documentary.

MANHUNTER This 1986 film features a moonstruck Midwestern serial killer (Tom Noonan, lately the voice of most of the known world in Anomalisa); on his trail is an FBI agent (William L. Petersen). In his hunt, the latter requires a little assistance from an expert in insanity.

The expert’s name is Dr. Hannibal Lecktor. Michael Mann directed this very first adventure of the mad, bad and dangerous to know doctor, played

FOND FAREWELL Alan Rickman gives one of his last on-screen performances in ‘Eye in the Sky,’ screening at Cinequest 2016. with sinister relish by Brian Cox. Hosting the screening is the cult film’s longtime champion, Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman.

GIRL SHY (1924) Harold Lloyd as a stuttering twerp who has a secret writing project. At night, he works on his book, The Secret of Making Love, a memoir that could be described as “speculative fiction.” This comedy’s bracing finale is often excerpted in anthologies of silent humor: racing to the altar to prevent a marriage, Lloyd steals every kind of vehicle to get to the church on time, including a hurtling, out-of-control streetcar. Dennis James at the California Theater’s Wurlitzer.

THE DAUGHTER Simon Stone, a theater director rising in prestige, helmed this variation on Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck in Australia: a retired timber magnate (Geoffrey Rush) decides to take a young wife, thus infuriating his long absent son (Paul Schneider, of Parks and Rec).

HELLO MY NAME IS DORIS Has Sally Field lost her mojo? Not according to the 35-year-old man (Max Greenfield) whom she attracts in this amiable comedy.

THE MEMORY OF WATER In Chile, two parents cope with the death of their daughter. The director is Matias Rize— an able teller of stories of everyday life, as per his earlier The Life of Fish.

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The Reliever San Jose’s very own Guy Noir—a setup man named Johnny Adcock

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HAT would happen if San Jose’s Major League Baseball team included a divorced, aging reliever who moonlighted as a private eye and lived in a high-rise condo downtown? So far, two crime novels present just such a scenario.

HARDBOILED HARDBALL T.T. Monday (right), a.k.a. SJSU professor Nick Taylor, has In 2014, local author T.T. Monday published penned his second novel about the fictional The Setup Man, which pitcher and private eye Johnny Adcock. became the first of a new series. The second showers himself. Similarly, as a private novel, Double Switch, comes eye, he’s not a world-beater either. He’s out March 1. Both books a “fixer” like Travis McGee in the John D. MacDonald books. feature pitcher Johnny When it comes to baseball, Adcock Adcock, whose side job keeps realizes that ludicrous ballplayer salaries him busy.

Author T.T. Monday—the pseudonym of SJSU professor Nick Taylor—says the idea of a ballplayer moonlighting as a private eye came to him while he was on a Fulbright residency in India for a year. The Giants had just won the 2010 World Series and Monday was entrenched in his research work, as well as cricket, India’s most popular sport, when he began to reflect and compare.

“When you’re abroad, sometimes it makes you think more critically about where you’re from, and the things that you’re into, back home,” Monday says. “And that led me to thinking, ‘Well, I’d like to write an existential detective novel. But what kind of detective would he be?’”

In the books, pitcher Johnny Adcock isn’t a marquee player. He’s a setup man—a middle reliever brought in to strike-out a couple hitters or force a ground out before hitting the

tend to attract blackmailers and other predators who prey on the egos of the athletes. When these players, their coaches, agents, or even their wives, have “issues” that can’t be made public, they call Adcock. He’s just a regular old guy, virtuous but frugal, trying to eke it out for San Jose’s baseball franchise and a few side jobs.

“I don’t think I’d be interested in writing this series if he were like Clayton Kershaw, or somebody similar,” Monday says. “He’s just a journeyman reliever.”

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Time Travelers Upcoming exhibitions peer into the past and anticipate the future CANTOR ARTS CENTER STANFORD

the origins and development of the Mannerist style. Feb 10-Jun 20.

INTO THE FOREST While Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe will not be on loan from the Musée d’Orsay for Into the Forest, the famous painting does epitomize the mode and mood of French “plein air” painters in the 19th century. Look instead for prints, drawings and photographs from his contemporaries James Tissot, JeanBaptiste Camille Corot and Camille Pissarro. Feb 3-Jul 4.

THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN Indigenous undergraduates are curating a companion exhibition to the Cantor’s current show Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn featuring contemporary indigenous artists and their take on Custer’s last stand. Feb 24-Jun 13.

MYTH, ALLEGORY AND FAITH The artistic school of painting known as Mannerism began in Italy during the 16th century. This comprehensive exhibition surveys over 180 engravings, etchings and woodcuts from THE KIRK EDWARD LONG COLLECTION in order to trace

WALL STORIES The ‘Border Cantos’ exhibit at SJMA explores the U.S.-Mexico border in photos and collages of found objects.

THE WONDER OF EVERYDAY LIFE The black and white etchings by Rembrandt and his contemporaries in this collection capture the daily life of Dutch society in the 17th century. Their gritty style of visual realism offers 21st century viewers various points of entry into the domestic interiors and exterior landscapes of the era. Feb 24-Jul 11.

WHO WE BE Inspired by Jeff Chang’s 2014 book Who We Be: The Colorization of America, this exhibition examines the visual culture of America—how popular culture, multiculturalism and movements for justice intersect and overlap. The question raised: How do Americans see race now? Mar 30-Aug 29.

BLOOD IN THE SUGAR BOWL Like the cotton trade in the rural South, sugar plantations in the 18th and 19th centuries were also entirely dependent on slavery. To illustrate this history, hand-crafted

sugar bowls and lush paintings of plantations are juxtaposed against portraits of slaves with excerpts from their own narratives. Apr 6-Jul 4.

THE MALE GAZE The Austrian male gaze is scrutinized with examples of fin-de-siècle artists like Oskar Kokoschka and Max Kurzweil: did these artists create accurate or false depictions of women and their role in Viennese society? Apr 13-Aug 8.

AN OASIS IN GLASS A date-shaped flask; a cracked fragment of a indigo blue mosaic glass; a sea green vase of free-blown glass: these are just a few of the 4th-century glass works from Syria and Egypt that will be on display in a space designed to recreate the wide expanse of a desert dune. Apr 13-Aug 8.

NEW MUSEUM LOS GATOS (NUMU) THURSDAY NIGHTS AT NUMU In an effort to expand the individual museum goer’s experience of an exhibit, NUMU holds panel discussions, guest lectures and conversations with the artists on Thursday nights. Additionally, once a month, a StoryShare takes place to celebrate the art of storytelling.

Upcoming topics include: the design and engineering of Versailles; guidelines for becoming a collector; the approach to color by 16th and 17th century European masters. Feb 4,11,18 & Mar 3, 10, 24.

THE JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE The mission of the museum is “to collect, preserve and share Japanese American history, culture and art” with its main focus on the Bay Area. The museum is a showcase of permanent and rotating exhibits that chronicle a century of Japanese-American immigration and integration. The permanent collections emphasize such diverse topics as the internment camps of WWII and the subsequent resettlement of those released; the pioneers of San Jose’s Japantown; and, sports in the Japanese-American

community. In February, a new exhibit opened, Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History, which explores the complex history of mixed race and mixed roots.

COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM MOUNTAIN VIEW There isn’t a better location than San Jose—the epicenter of Silicon Valley—to house the Computer History Museum. Explore, online and off, the way in which technology has impacted how we work and play. One of the permanent exhibits, Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing, is 25,000-square-feet which includes 19 galleries and 1,100 objects that document the history and glory of computing. You’ll also find fascinating and thoughtful exhibits on autonomous vehicles, hacker culture and a tribute to Ada Lovelace, the visionary mathematician. The summary of the exhibit lovingly notes, “She has been referred to as ‘prophet of the computer age.’”

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SUSAN O’MALLEY Like Jenny Holzer and Laurie Anderson before her, O’Malley’s language-based installations were entirely dependent on platitudes and clichés. Unlike them, she presented her new age signage without irony, brightened by rainbow colors and her belief in love and good cheer. Feb 20-May 22.

GIDEON RUBIN A routine examination of Gideon Rubin’s faceless portraits yields more questions than answers.

The poetic title of this exhibit, “MEMORY GOES AS FAR AS THIS MORNING,” may provide a clue to their meaning. However, it’s an oblique and ellusive one. These paintings erase the identity of his subjects, rendering the scenes an anodyne stillness. And yet, all that neutrality allows space for projection and recognition, like a house that’s been staged for a potential buyer. With so much absence, the viewers must actively engage with the empty, forlorn spaces. Writing about his process in the essay “Why my figures lost their

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DEMARCATE Cartographic imagery (the making of maps) is the shared and common denominator for the artists. Examining the “TERRITORIAL SHIFT IN PERSONAL AND SOCIETAL MAPPING” this exhibit tackles such themes as urbanization, the natural environment and the location of our social, emotional and political identities. Feb 28-May 29.

MACLA SAN JOSE RASQUACHE RENAISSANCE From the hubcaps on your car to the barrettes in your hair, you declare your particular identity through the customization of the objects you buy. The show’s motto could be: I buy, therefore I am. Through Mar 13.

‘57 CHEVY The American dream is continually redefined: not only through the eyes of each generation but also through the arrival of new immigrants who imagine their own version of prosperity and freedom.

In this one-man play, Ric Salinas explores one family’s move from Mexico to South Central Los Angeles and into the San Fernando Valley suburbs. Mar 10-13.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART TABAIMO: HER ROOM Tabaimo’s videos are immersive and interactive: they cause an itch in the mind. The familiar takes a quick turn towards the disturbing. You’re in for a trip.

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features,” Rubin says the minimalist landscapes are deliberate. He transforms found photographs, old yearbook pictures and imagery from the Internet into “the materiality of paint” on his canvases. These eerie figures don’t impart discomfort as much as spark forgotten or buried memories of family outings and adolescent friendship. In case you want to ask Rubin if he attempted a self-portrait with this approach, there are two opportunities to hear the artist speak. On Feb. 23, San Jose State University’s Art Department will host him for a talk. He’ll also be in attendance at the ICA on Feb. 28 for the opening reception and book signing. Feb 20-May 22.

BORDER CANTOS Richard Misrach, a photographer of vast expanses, collaborated with experimental composer Guillermo Galindo to document the borderlands— geographical and psychological— that lie between the U.S. and Mexico. Feb 26-Jul 31.

SJ’S 20TH CENTURY VANGUARD Alongside the arrival of tech industry geniuses, a generation of experimental artists also moved into town: they helped establish a vital new aesthetic era in San Jose. Mar 11-Sep 18.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC & ARTS MOUNTAIN VIEW CSMA STUDENTS & FACULTY This year CSMA students and faculty will exhibit work on the theme of “Fur, Fins and Feathers,” featuring approximately 500 pieces of art by students (grades K-8) and their art teachers from more than 20 local schools. Through Feb 26.

KALEID GALLERY SAN JOSE USE THE FORCE 129 To date, the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens has earned closed to $2 billion at the box office. In case you’re in need a local tie-in, this exhibit inspired by the film features artwork and a coffee table book by Fernando Amaro, Jr. Through Feb 26.

FIRST FRIDAY MARCH Jason McHenry’s quest continues. He’s intent on creating one million paintings before he dies.

This exhibit celebrates the 333,000th one; only 666,000 to go. Mar 4.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER BIRD IN THE HAND More than 40 international artists collected here found inspiration in the wings and songs of birds. This “exotic aviary” is dedicated to the depiction of our fine, flapping feathered friends.

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Globetrotter Grub DUCK QUICK The Socialight’s duck nachos appetizer pairs deliciously with pepper jack and crema.

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HE SOCIALIGHT used to be a lighting store with a beautiful collection of lamps, leading to the new restaurant’s catchy name.

The space, located on a prime corner in downtown Campbell, has undergone a drastic transformation to become a bar and restaurant.

Exposed bulb chandeliers run the

length of the dining area, but the storefront’s tall windows have replaced colorful lamps with a showcase of wine racks that double as barriers between booths.

The service was accommodating when we finally got our waiter’s attention, and we started on appetizers that came in larger portions than expected. The seared duck breast nachos ($12) were a delightful hit with pepper jack and crema on housemade multi-colored tortilla chips. Duck and cheese may not sound appetizing, but the nachos

made for a satisfying combination.

The Socialight advertises food with a global influence, like the Filipino style adobo pork riblets ($11) served over crispy rice noodles and peas. This dish was enjoyable with a good helping of tender pork riblets.

It did feel slightly generic with the crispy rice noodles and what tasted like Thai sweet chili sauce from the bottle. The lamb sliders ($12) with harissa chili paste, feta, and tzatziki fared similarly, as it was too bland and tasted more of tzatziki than the other seasonings.

By this point, we were already full thanks to the large portion of appetizers, but we ventured onward to a few lunch entrees.

The BBB is often misread as BBQ; it really stands for beef, bison, burger ($15) and has short rib, bison and

ground chuck in the patty. Served with sharp cheddar, onion relish, lettuce, tomato and grilled red onions, it tasted more like beef than a bison mix. The patty was cooked medium rare but lacked flavor aside from the cheese and onion relish.

For an extra $2, I substituted my fries with a hefty serving of spinach salad in a light vinaigrette. The salad could have used other ingredients to add variety, though the dressing was nice. The Reuben sandwich ($13) had tender corned beef slices layered with pastrami, sauerkraut and Swiss on marbled rye bread with Russian dressing. It was well-made and all the elements of the classic sandwich were highlighted. With a side of crunchy fries, the dish rounded out a filling meal.

The BBB stands for beef, bison, burger and has short rib, bison and ground chuck in the patty Socialight’s lunch menu does not quite align with their goal to serve incredible food from all over the world. It does execute well on a selection of New American fare.

Prices are standard for this location and type of cuisine.

The service was inexplicably slow in the beginning, as we waited to be seated while employees hovered at the back of the bar. Menus were also a long time coming. Some of the food like the burger and lamb sliders could be enhanced with more seasoning or sauces, but the restaurant is fairly new, so there is a chance to iron out the kinks.

With more dishes like the duck nachos and Reuben sandwich, The Socialight is on the right path to providing a tasty dining experience in a bright environment.

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OTPOT FIRST SHABU sells soup like Ikea sells furniture: you have to assemble it yourself. The technique of flash-cooking raw ingredients in boiling cauldrons of broth originated among nomadic Mongolian tribes. It then made its way into the kitchens of courtly Chinese chefs during the middle of the 17th century. Eventually, the style landed as a trend in Tokyo and “little Tokyos” throughout the United States like Japantown in San Jose.

Inside, overhead vents keep the restaurant from turning into a savory sauna as guests sit at tables specially fitted with central hot plates.

From there, you choose either American Kobe Beef ($20.99 for a large dinner), Angus Lean Beef ($19.99), Lamb ($19.99) or Pork ($18.99) to go with your entree that also comes with fish balls, crisp napa cabbage, tofu pillows, a tiny stalk of enoki mushrooms, a couple slivers of imitation crab and a nest of thin vermicelli. The meals are enough for two, but come with a splitting charge ($4.99).

I went with the American Kobe Beef. It’s a slight misnomer. The American version of this lauded cow doesn’t get massaged or fed beer or played classical music as is mythologized in Japan, but the oval ribbons of meat were thickly dappled with fatty marbling. The wafer-thin slices cooked instantly, but can scald a bit if you don’t turn down the hotplate after it reaches a steady simmer.

For broths, I went with their signature “Spicy and Numbing,” which lived up its reputation as it prompted a heat-tickle in the back of my throat before my mouth went vaguely numb—a singular taste experience caused by the curious flavor of Sichuan peppercorns. I also chose the “Tonkotsu,” a tenured Japanese variety built from the EmerilLagasse-adored culinary cornerstone—pork fat.

Other sides include kabocha pumpkin ($3.49), potstickers ($4.49) and udon ($3.49)—if you like your noodles to have a bit more body. The tables come set with soy miso and sweet roasted sesame sauces, plus a little jar of creamed garlic that dissolves into a potent cloud.

At first, the many choices and unfamiliar cooking method can be a smidge overwhelming. But after a few tries, one starts to get the hang of it. Like cracking sunflower seeds, the hassle is half the fun. Plus, each bite is a new creation—a taste that no one else has replicated in the hundreds of years people have been cooking this way.—John Flynn HOTPOT FIRST SHABU 171 Jackson St., San Jose.

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*wed *thu *fri SUPER FURRY ANIMALS The Ritz, San Jose Wed, 8pm, $20-$25 In their prime, Super Furry Animals were pop provocateurs with Sgt. Pepper’s/Pet Sounds-level ambition. Unfortunately, they’ve never recaptured the polished grandeur of 2001’s Rings Around The World or its weirdly brilliant predecessor, Guerilla. And yet, even during the lost years, they’d occasionally find their perverse voice—as on “Baby Ate My Eightball” from Hey, Venus. Their bubbly 2009 release, Dark Days/ Light Years signaled a rebirth of sorts. Following five years of selfimposed exile they’ve been gigging hard since 2015 and just re-released Mwng, a beloved Welsh-language album. Stoner folk-metallers Dead Meadow open. (AL)

DEAD HEAVENS Café Stritch, San Jose Thu, 9pm, Free

In the tradition of reinventing himself with every project, DIY icon Walter Schreifels (of Gorilla Biscuits and Quicksand) goes off in a ’60s blues-rock direction with the newly assembled Dead Heavens.

The quartet has only released two singles so far, but a split 7” with single “Feel Low” and a cover of Krautrock legends Can (!) comes out Friday. We’re still scratching our heads over Quicksand breaking up after only two brilliant albums and why the short-lived Rival Schools never took off, but such is the way with restless geniuses. Mrs. Magician, who have been rising in the psychedelic garage-pop ranks, open the show along with Jean Jackets. (AL)

VALENTINES THROWBACK JAM SAP Center, San Jose Fri, 7:30pm, $30-$52

Sir Mix-A-Lot was never about being hard. Instead, he bemoaned the way crack made girlies butts drop.

And given the ubiquity of “Wild Thing,” it’s easy to forget that Tone Loc immortalized the munchies on “Cheeba Cheeba.” But it’s Shock G of Digital Underground (Oaktown in the house!) who gets the Raddest Bassline Ever award with “Humpty Dance.” Maybe Vanilla Ice rode a Queen sample too hard, but his sole hit is kinda infectious. So, like Young MC, “bust a move” on out here with a special someone because, as Rob Base and late partner DJ EZ Rock said, “It takes two to make it outta sight.” (AL)

LED ZEPAGAIN RockBar Theater, San Jose Fri, 7pm, $15-$80 After 27 years, Led Zepagain have honed their act so well, even those insufferable classic rock purists are forced to appreciate the tribute band’s efforts. However, convincing as Robert Plant lookalike Swan Montgomery may be—sashaying across the stage stage in his bellbottoms—what counts is the way Led Zepagain inhabit the music, not trick you into thinking it’s the real thing. The only better tribute band is Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience featuring the late drummer’s son on that amber acrylic Ludwig kit.

Still, Plant himself attended a Led Zepagain show in L.A. and gave the thumbs up. So c’mon and get the Led out. Again. (AL)

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THE ENGLISH BEAT The Ritz, San Jose Sat, 8pm, $20-$25 There’s nothing like two-tone rhythms to make your weekend upbeat, and no one does it better than 2nd-wave ska pioneers The English Beat, who burned brightly on three albums before frontman Dave Wakeling and toaster Ranking Roger formed one-hit wonders General Public (Roger currently fronts the U.K. version of The Beat).

But with Wakeling based in L.A. now, The English Beat play 180 shows a year, so expect the setlists to get deep and, tonight, maybe sample from the forthcoming album—the group’s first in 30 years. And remember, without The English Beat there wouldn’t have been a No Doubt. (AL)

* concerts Feb 10 at The Ritz

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

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

BACON & BEER CLASSIC

Feb 27 at Levi’s Stadium

DRIVE LIKE JEHU Feb 27 at The Ritz

RIHANNA

Feb 28 at SAP Center

CASH’D OUT

Mar 11 at The Ritz

JUSTIN BIEBER

Mar 17 at SAP Center

STYX

Mar 17 at City National Civic

THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT Mar 18 at The Ritz

YANNI

Mar 19 at City National Civic

MELVINS

Mar 19 at The Ritz

THE STONE FOXES Apr 1 at The Ritz

ELLIE GOULDING

Apr 6 at SAP Center

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CARMEN

Caravan Lounge, San Jose Sat, 9pm, Free

Pure Lounge, San Jose Sat, 10pm, Free before 10:30pm

California Theatre, San Jose Sat, 8pm, $75-$150

San Jose trio Rex Goliath make one catchy racket. The recent No Magic is 10 tracks of post-punk fury, with singer Dominic Miranda coaxing a dirty squall from his guitar and plenty of outrage in his lyrics. Joan and the Rivers’ brand of punk-infused blues is something else entirely, with “A Chick Named Tim” being the best of the confessional slow burners on Love Bumps. Don’t miss Oakland pop-punkers TV Static— easily the funnest, most Ramonesinfluenced of the evening’s lineup.

Any cover of David Bowie is sure to be tinged with melancholy, but their take on “Suffragette City” is still a blast. (AL)

This Australian songstress possesses the spectral vocals tapped most often for trance grooves. Her crystalline voice infuses mesmerizing dance tracks with a frosty yearning that has been oft-imitated, but never replicated. After touring her country with an acoustic guitar, then backing out of a brief deal with Sony Music, Hewitt has found her home on the tracks of Euro DJs. She collaborated with Dash Berlin for her biggest hit, “Waiting,” which features undulating synth, awe-inspiring builds and a righteous drop. Her latest track, “Restless Hearts,” juxtaposes her chilly voice with buzzy growls and ear-smacking kicks. (JF)

Georges Bizet died 36 days after his opera, Carmen, debuted in 1875. The show received a hohum response and Bizet passed away an embarrassed man. But later, Carmen gained international repute for its scandalous characters, atypical arrangement and tasty melodies—giving Bizet an immortality that few artists ever achieve. Opera San Jose kicks off their 2016 season with this gradually appreciated masterpiece.

In it, a gypsy seductress snags the heart of noble soldier, Don José, who abandons his childhood sweetheart and military obligations for her. When she dumps him for the glitzy bullfighter, Escamillo, suffice to say, José does not take it well. (JF)

THE GROWLERS AND JONATHAN RICHMAN The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Sat, 9pm, $22 The Growlers call their music, “Beach Goth.”They meld poppy hooks, psychedelic effects, surf rock riffs and country plodding bass. Their lyrics drip with bemused wisdom and they wear drag, wigs and heavy make-up for some of their live performances.

“Going Gets Tough,” the biggest hit off their new album, Chinese Fountain, displays the band’s growing polish—bouncing off reggae licks that bolster their comforting ode to perseverance. Jonathan Richman fronted impactful proto-punk band The Modern Lovers. His low-key acoustic jams simmer with simple infectiousness and his lyrics shine with tongue-in-cheekiness. (JF)

SELENA GOMEZ

May 11 at SAP Center

BEYONCE

May 16 at Levi’s Stadium

PRONG

Jun 1 at RockBar Theater

STING & PETER GABRIEL Jul 14 at SAP Center

ADELE

Jul 30-31 at SAP Center

KENNY CHESNEY

Aug 6 at Levi’s Stadium

DEMI LOVATO & NICK JONAS Aug 18 at SAP Center

COLDPLAY

Sep 3 at Levi’s Stadium

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Superdouche SEX AND VIOLENCE In the Ryan Reynolds-starring ‘Deadpool,’ every noble superhero quality is ‘tossed aside in favor of mindless, speedy sadism.’

‘Deadpool’ appeals to the lowest common denominator, but that’s kind of the point

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HERE ISN’T AN aspect of superhero lore that isn’t rubbished by the Apatow-meets-SpiderMan comedy Deadpool.

By the lights of this decade’s movie making, that’s a lot of rubbishing: a defacing of the nocturnal sacrifice of Batman; a mocking of the touching shyness of The Thing when he’s romancing his little blind girlfriend; a satire of Superman’s crushing sense of responsibility. Here, all these noble qualities the movies usually

ask us to honor are tossed aside in favor of mindless, speedy sadism.

Deadpool is all about the importance of quipping when killing—and making the quip suit the killing.

It’s the kind of movie that comes along when a genre is running out of ideas and patience. Wade (Ryan “The Arch-Bro” Reynolds) was once a violent mercenary, temporarily redeemed from his cruel life by love for a prostitute, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). Now terminal cancer has come for him.

“Cancer is a shit show,” Wade says.

“It’s like Yakov Smirnoff opening for the Spin Doctors at the Iowa State Fair.”

Seeking a solution, Wade is fried in a gene-scrambling hyperbaric chamber

by a vicious criminal mastermind known as Ajax (Ed Skrein). When the DNA fixing is all done, Wade looks like a man of living pizza.

A thoroughly disfigured but nigh-immortal vigilante with mutant healing skills, Deadpool claims “I’m not the hero, I’m the bad guy who fucks up worse guys.” Carrying samurai swords and a pistol, this maniac busts heads while breaking the fourth wall, an amazing novelty for those who never saw Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.

During his mission, he’s forced into partnership with a pair of figures of (relative) sanity: Brianna Hildebrand, as the sulky yet explosive Negasonic Teenage Warhead, as well as the X-Man known as Colossus—a big, over-sincere Yakov Smirnoff of living chrome.

As Ajax, Skrein is big and snidely British—and his superpower is the inability to feel pain. But Skrein demonstrates the principle that it’s

better to have a real actor siccing the ginormous muscle man on our protagonist, than for said muscular brute to be the head villain.

Coiffed with the cropped, asymmetrical hairstyle of Hopi Glass in Love and Rockets, Baccarin gets to go appealingly lowdown. She’s been perhaps too stately, as the sacred courtesan in Firefly/Serenity and as the ridiculously nice girlfriend of Commissioner Gordon in Gotham. We don’t expect our movie love-objects to know how to peg their men, far less to the music of Neil Sedaka. It’s low stuff—please understand that Deadpool is low, low stuff. Yet one approves of the pegging scenes. Here, as in 50 Shades of Black, it teaches the menfolk to respect the ladies.

That dildoing may be the only thing we’re supposed to feel, from the ending to the beginning—a 3-D freeze-frame of Deadpool renovating a fleet of Chevy Suburbans packed with thugs, using everything from a cigarette lighter to the schoolyard wedgie as weapons. Deadpool is as laughable as it is mean, but it’s strange how one starts to respond to a halfcoalesced moment of moral centering, in what’s supposed to be a boring speech by Colossus. What’s so funny about justice and mercy?

As Deadpool has all the stark realism of a Rob Liefeld pose, one wonders what the film offers to someone who is not—either currently or formerly—a bloody-minded, thwarted kid. Its appeal is so narrow that it’s hard to claim it’s one of those movies that makes the world a worse place.

(Consuming swill doesn’t make you a pig.) Maybe it earns some virtue from the confessional self-loathing demonstrated in the presskit, where Deadpool is described openly as a “Moderately priced, three-quadrant, February opening tentpole.”

Director Tim Miller’s frankness about how much this superhero farrago is what it is, is visible even in the titles which literally claim “Starring Some Douchebag …

Produced by Asshats.” How can you not applaud such truth in advertising? Yet how exactly would they characterize their audience?

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Synth-Thesis FUNKED UP Dâm-Funk, has made a name for himself with his future-minded funk, soul and R&B.

Modern funk maestro, Dâm-Funk embraces the weird and the wild

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T’S NO EASY task to be a creator of throwback sounds in this modern era without sounding overly derivative, disingenuous, or worse yet, like a novelty act.

But for the last few years, Pasadena-based Dâm-Funk (pronounced “Dame-Funk”) has earned underground and critical acclaim doing just that.

Born Damon Riddick, the producer and vocalist has emerged with as sound that may best be described as modern funk—think George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic stripped down with layered synths and an emphasis on drums. He has a penchant for penning love songs with uplifting, anthemic lyrics.

It’s been a slow rise for Riddick, but his career is certainly on the upswing. From basement tapes on vintage gear in 2007 to a 2013 studio album with Snoop Dogg (7 Days of Funk), the gifted multi-

instrumentalist has proudly toured the world a few times over.

“I learned how to play drums and read notes in junior high, but on keyboards, I was self-taught,” Dâm recounts in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. “I was afraid to unlearn what I learned. It was good I didn't, as I created my own type of chords without a teacher. Maybe one day I'll go learn how to read Bach, but it hasn't hurt me yet.”

His 2015 release, Invite The Light, a mix of bouncy tracks with ethereal moments scattered throughout was positioned atop of several year-end “best of ” lists. Even for Dâm, whose prolific creative streaks are widely known, this new album took six years from start to finish. The songs have washes of breathy, Princelike vocals while others are hard-

knocking, instrumental party joints.

Dâm has garnered glowing acclaim from the likes NPR and The New York Times.

The new album, along with his previous projects—including a massive five-record box set compilation—have all been released on the L.A.-by-way-of-San Jose underground tastemaking label, Stones Throw.

Label founder Peanut Butter Wolf—a.k.a. Chris Manak, brother of Jonny of Jonny Manak and the Depressives—remains at the helm and has flouted convention for decades, with eclectic projects ranging from soul to vintage electro.

It’s a fitting imprint for Dâm. The label has also pushed projects from hip-hop and soul oddballs like J Dilla, Mayer Hawthorne & Madlib.

Dâm is slated to perform a live DJ set at The Ritz on Friday—sharing the stage with electro-rap pioneer and 808 visionary Egyptian Lover, as well as modern synth producer Brian Ellis. It’s a show that promises more of an effusive party atmosphere than a neatly orchestrated performance.

The show marks Dâm-Funk’s first ever appearance in San Jose and serves as a benchmark for The Ritz’s expanding efforts to bring toptier touring acts to the South Bay. Acts on Dâm’s level often skip over Silicon Valley—hopping from San Francisco or Oakland to Santa Cruz and vice versa.

Local record shop Needle To The Groove deserves some credit for helping to book the show. In addition to curating an eclectic catalog of vintage vinyl for sale, the shop also functions as a record label and entertainment company. The overarching goal of Needle to the Groove is sourcing quality acts and music for San Jose.

“We want to bring relevant independent music to the South Bay,” says Allen Johnson of Needle to the Groove. “Ultimately, we hope to see more national and local acts take the stage in San Jose, not just in our neighboring cities.”

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Thu, Feb 11, 8pm: Timezone w/ DJ Bit. Fri, Feb 12, 8pm: Dam Funk and Egyptian Lover. Sat, Feb 13, 8pm: The English Beat plus Guests. San Jose.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, Feb 11, 6pm: The Honeywood. 9pm: Bob Burnett Trio ft. Tammy Brown.

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CAFE PINK HOUSE Thu, Feb 11, 7:30pm: Three Vocals Night. Fri, Feb 12, 7:30pm: West Coast Jazz Guitar Summit. Sat, Feb 13, 2pm 3:30pm: Live Music Hangout.

7:30pm: Ed Johnson & Novo Tempo. Sun, Feb 14, 6pm: Jessica Johnson. San Jose.

CITY NATIONAL CIVIC Sun, Feb 14, 8pm: I Love You Valentine’s Day Concert. San Jose.

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

HEDLEY CLUB AT HOTEL DE ANZA Every 1st and 3rd Wed: Jazz Jam. San Jose.

Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Fri, Feb 12, 8pm: Bad Boy Eddy, Thadeus Gonzalez, Gypsy Flight. Sat, Feb 13, 8pm: Richard Bean and Sapo.

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Fri: Live music. Santa Clara.

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Feb 12, 8:30pm: The Escovedo Brothers. Sun, Feb 13, 7pm: Perspective Dance Company Dancers. Redwood City.

Fri, Feb 12, 7:30pm: Valentines Old School Throwback Jam. San Jose.

Every Thu, 10pm: Karaoke.

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Lunch & Dinner Breakfast Sat./sun.

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San Jose.

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Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

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

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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 #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)

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 #613391 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Nor-Cal Hobbies & Raceway, 2099 S. 10 St., Unit 50 San Jose, CA, 95112, Eric Vasutin, 4712 Bucknall Rd., San Jose, CA, 95112.

This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein 1/27/2016. /s/Eric VasutinThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/27/2016. (pub Metro 2/03, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #613238 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ladino Construction, 1541 Ford Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95110, Ender Ladino. This business is conducted by an indivdual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Ender Ladino This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/22/2016. (pub Metro 2/03, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24/2016)

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)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Samba Motorsports, 1724 Don Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95124, Fredrik Haghveroian. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/29/2016. /s/ Fredrik Haghveroian This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/29/2016. (pub Metro 2/03, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24/2016)

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 STATEMENT #613113 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 #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 #613286 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eye Focus Optometry, 2980 Capitol Expressway, Suite E, San Jose, CA, 95148, Cindy P. Nguyen, 4061 San Ysidro Way, San jose, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/25/16. /s/Cindy P. Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/25/2016. (pub Metro 2/03, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24/2016)

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 #613449 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: California Yearbooks, 770 Opal Dr., Apt 3, San Jose, CA, 95117, Nicole Gravlin. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Nicole Gravlin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/28/2016. (pub Metro 2/03, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24/2016)

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My girlfriend got laid off four months ago, along with many of her co-workers. She is not making a serious attempt to find a job and is just living off unemployment benefits. She stays up until morning watching TV and sleeps until the late afternoon. I figured that she may be depressed, so I encouraged her to go to counseling and to volunteer or take a course so she would feel productive, but she refused. She has a great work ethic when she’s employed, so I'm very puzzled by this. Worse yet, I'm quickly losing respect for her.—Disturbed Unfortunately, drooling while napping is not considered a form of multitasking.

It’s understandable that you’re losing respect for your girlfriend, given her newfound leadership in the Occupy The Couch movement. Now, maybe she is just lazy, or maybe, like dieters who decide to eat like walruses over the holidays, she’s decided to take some lazytime. However, because you describe her as pretty industrious when she’s working, it’s possible that her descent into human slipcoverhood comes out of how frustratingly scarce jobs are in certain professions. When you’re hardworking and good at your job, the answer to “Where do you see yourself a year from now?” isn’t supposed to be “On a corner with a cardboard sign, begging for change.”

The sense that productivity has become unproductive can trigger an emotional response called “low mood,” marked by fatigue, deep pessimism, feelings of worthlessness, changes in appetite and sleep, and a slowing of motivation (symptoms also seen in depression).

Psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse believes that low mood evolved to stop us from wasting our energy by persisting in fruitless endeavors, like waiting around for our bison dinner to grab a drink at a watering hole that’s run dry.

To understand why our psychology would be set up like this—to stick its foot out and trip us—it helps to recognize that our emotions are basically traffic directors for our behavior, designed to maximize our survival and reproductive success, not our happiness. Accordingly, Nesse explains that the “disengagement” from motivation that accompanies low mood serves a number of purposes: to immediately prevent further losses, to make us rethink what we’re doing, and to signal to others that we need care.

The psychiatric bible of mental disorders, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, doesn’t bother to differentiate between the “adaptive” low mood Nesse

is talking about and depression caused by malfunctioning brain chemistry.

The DSM’s diagnosis of depression just involves taking count: Five or more almost daily symptoms (fatigue, pessimism, etc.) lasting for more than two weeks? Congratulations! You’re depressed. But what’s important to note from Nesse’s work is that depression isn’t necessarily a sign of brain dysfunction.

And there’s a lot of hope in this, because if your symptoms have an environmental reason, maybe you can see your way to an environmental remedy.

If your girlfriend is experiencing low mood, the last thing she needs is the sense that her job loss will soon have the loss of her boo to keep it company.

Let her know that you love her and are there for her, and then tell her about Nesse’s thinking on low mood, which might help her scavenge enough hope to start thinking outside the, uh, bed.

Physical action is another emotionchanger—even if you have to force it.

For example, research by psychologist James Laird finds that busting out smiles actually makes people happier. Research by biopsychologist Timothy Puetz finds that acting energized—like by regularly doing 20 moderately paced minutes on an exercise bike—actually energizes, with the ensuing raised heart rate and various surging biochemicals basically standing in for force-feeding a 5-Hour Energy drink to that ugly low mood.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy, which uses reason to help people dig out of their emotional problems, could also be helpful. However, because your girlfriend’s idea of productivity now seems to involve simply sitting in the dark rather than lying in the dark, you might take on the therapeutic preliminaries: Find the therapist; make the appointment; and be there to drive her at the appointed time.

However, you should also be prepared for her to refuse to get in the car when that time comes. That said, being something of a pushy jerk for the woman you love will probably mean a lot.

©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 550 S. First St., San Jose, CA 95113, or email adviceamy@aol.com.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #613667 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Marisco’s Fiesta Y Taqueria, 1201 E. Julian #4, San Jose, CA, 95116, Harjinder Singh, 2712 Wilbur Ave., San Jose, CA, 95127. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/04/2016. /s/ Harjinder Singh This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/04/2016. (pub Metro 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/02/2016)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By ROB BREZSNY week of February 10

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Love is a fire,” declared Aries actress Joan Crawford. “But whether it's going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” I disagree with her conclusion. There are practical steps you can take to ensure that love's fire warms but doesn't burn.

Start with these strategies: Suffuse your libido with compassion. Imbue your romantic fervor with empathy. Instill your animal passions and instinctual longings with affectionate tenderness.

If you catch your sexual urges driving you toward narcissists who are no damn good for you, firmly redirect those sexual urges toward emotionally intelligent, self-responsible beauties.

goal to strive toward Chagall's ideal for short bursts of time. And the coming weeks happen to be a favorable phase for you to do just that. Your success may be partial, but dramatic nonetheless.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Fifteenth-century

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. He believed that if you want to join your fortunes with another's, you should ask yourself whether you will enjoy your conversations with this person for the next 30 years—because that's what you'll be doing much of the time you're together. How do you measure up to this gold standard, Sagittarius? What role does friendship play in your romantic adventures?

If there's anything lacking, now is an excellent time to seek improvements. Start with yourself, of course.

How could you infuse more camaraderie into the way you express love? What might you do to upgrade your skills as a conversationalist?

writer Thomas à Kempis thought that real love can arouse enormous fortitude in the person who loves.

“Love feels no burden,” he wrote. “It attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.” As you might imagine, the “real love” he was referring to is not the kind that's motivated by egotism, power drives, blind lust, or insecurity. I think you know what I mean, Taurus, because in the past few months you have had unprecedented access to the primal glory that Thomas referred to. And in the coming months you will have even more. What do you plan to do with all that mojo?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini novelist

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was fascinated in “life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off.” She knew both states from her own experience. “When you love someone,” she mused about the times the lid had come off, “all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that you engage in the following three-part exercise. First, identify a part of your life that has the lid tightly clamped over it. Second, visualize the suppressed feelings and saved-up wishes that might pour forth if you took the lid off. Third, do what it takes to love someone so well that you'll knock the lid off.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved,” wrote author Mignon McLaughlin. I think that may be true. The gap between what we yearn for and what we actually get is never fully closed. Nevertheless, I suggest that you strive to refute McLaughlin's curse in the coming days. Why? Because you now have an enhanced capacity to love the people you care about in ways they want to be loved. So be experimental with your tenderness. Take the risk of going beyond what you've been willing or able to give before. Trust your fertile imagination to guide your ingenious empathy.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here's the counsel of French writer Anatole France: “You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” What he says is always true, but it's especially apropos for you Leos in the coming weeks. You now have a special talent for learning more about love by loving deeply, excitedly, and imaginatively. To add further nuance and inspiration, meditate on this advice from author Aldous Huxley: “There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving—by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I do not trust people

who don't love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you,’” said author Maya Angelou. She concludes: “There is an African saying: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” With this in mind, I invite you to take inventory of the allies and relatives whose relationships are most important to you. How well do they love themselves? Is there anything you could do to help them upgrade their love for themselves? If their self-love is lacking, what might you do to protect yourself from that problem?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Only love interests me,” declared painter Marc Chagall, “and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” That seems like an impossibly high standard. Our daily adventures bring us into proximity with loveless messes all the time. It's hard to focus on love to the exclusion of all other concerns. But it's a worthy

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “A coward is

incapable of exhibiting love,” said Mahatma Gandhi. “It is the prerogative of the brave.” That's my challenge to you, Scorpio. In accordance with the astrological currents, I urge you to stoke your uninhibited audacity so you can press onward toward the frontiers of intimacy. It's not enough to be wilder, and it's not enough to be freer. To fulfill love's potential in the next chapter of your story, you've got to be wilder, freer, and bolder.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Love isn't

something you find,” says singer Loretta Lynn. “Love is something that finds you.” Singer Kylie Minogue concurs: “You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend your life. Love is like a lottery.” I think these perspectives are at best misleading, and at worst debilitating. They imply we have no power to shape our relationship with love.

My view is different. I say there's a lot we can do to attract intimate allies who teach us, stimulate us, and fulfill us. Like what? 1) We clarify what qualities we want in a partner, and we make sure that those qualities are also healthy for us. 2) We get free of unconscious conditioning that's at odds with our conscious values. 3) We work to transform ourselves into lovable collaborators who communicate well.

Anything else? What can you do to make sure love isn't a lottery?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime,” writes Chuck Klosterman. “It's easy. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. You'll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years.” He concludes, “A lover like this sets the template for what you will always love about other people.” I suspect that you have either recently met or will soon meet such a person, Aquarius. Or else you are on the verge of going deeper than ever before with an ally you have known for a while. That's why I think what happens in the next six months will put an enduring stamp on your relationship with intimacy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso described one of love's best blessings. He said your lover can reunite you with “a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing.” You Pisceans are in a phase when this act of grace is more possible than usual. The revelatory boon may emerge because of the chemistry stirred up by a sparkly new affiliation. Or it may arise thanks to a familiar relationship that is entering unfamiliar territory.

Homework: Want some inspiration as you compose your romantic invitations? Go here: http://bit.ly/LoveAd 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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