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The sun shone, the chickens clucked and my mangoñada had melted into a delicious sweet-spicy slush during a friend’s kid’s party at Emma Prusch Farm Park. Perhaps because of my calmness, the ensuing chaos nearly induced a heart attack. A floppy-eared terrier that had been lounging in a nearby stroller shot up and bolted after a brood of unsuspecting chickens.

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Myth Buster PROFESSOR’S PUSH Anna Sampaio has urged Santa Clara University to make ethnic studies its own department.

New research shows ethnic studies improves learning across the board

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SAAC NIEBLAS’ world changed when he signed up for a Chicano Studies class at Santa Clara University. The son of Mexican immigrants, Nieblas grew up for a time in Arizona, where ethnic studies were banned from the public school curriculum during his sophomore year of high school.

He never had the opportunity to learn about Mexican American history, politics or literature, creating a disconnect he felt for his course material until attending college. It was the first time in his life that he was learning about his own people.

“I felt I was studying who I was as a human,” says Nieblas, now a junior. “Learning about the Chicano revolution in the 1960s made me feel as though my concerns, my issues, my humanity were legitimate.”

“I felt more enthused and I was having more conversations, because I knew that my people were just as smart as anyone else,” he says. “Having that understanding revamped my perception of who I was as a person and as an intellectual being.”

Nieblas’ experience with ethnic studies is far from unique, but for the first time it’s being quantified. New research out of Stanford University shows clear academic benefits to ethnic studies.

Thomas Dee, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, recently tracked more than 1,400 ninth-graders enrolled in a pilot ethnic studies program in the

San Francisco Unified School District.

The students were enrolled in the course if they had a GPA below 2.0 the year before, meaning they were considered at-risk for dropping out.

“The way they rolled out the pilot made it highly amenable to credible quantitative research design,” Dee explains. “It essentially says, ‘Let’s compare the kids at 1.99 GPA and the kids at 2.01.’ They’re fundamentally the same kid, and we can test by that.”

Dee found that the students who took the ethnic studies courses, which focused on issues such as social justice, discrimination, stereotypes and social movements in U.S. history, saw a boost in overall academic performance—not just in the ethnic studies—compared to their peers. Ethnic studies students increased their attendance by 21 percent, credits earned by 23 and cumulative GPA by 1.4 points, going from failing grades to the B-minus/Cplus range. Some of the highest GPA gains were made in math and science.

While there have been many qualitative studies on the value of

The opposition to embracing ethnic studies is not entirely surprising.

“Ethnic studies completely shifts the learning rubric,” Sampaio explains. “It says the center of the universe isn’t just rich, white, well-educated men.

It can also be poor, working-class communities of color or women of color, and their voices have validity.”

Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have required the California Department of Education to develop an ethnic studies curriculum for public schools. Still, some California school districts are working to implement ethnic studies on their own. In 2014, Los Angeles approved plans to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, and San Francisco and Oakland school boards voted to mandate that all high schools offer ethnic studies.

For the San Jose Unified School District, the largest public school district in Santa Clara County, ethnic studies are neither required nor uniformly offered, according to assistant superintendent Jim Willis.

Only three of its six high schools feature a Hispanic Studies class.

Up the peninsula, Los Altos High School once boasted a diverse course offering, including Latino American history and African American history, but it has since dropped the classes. “A lot of what we used to have was a casualty to STAR Testing,” Derek Miyahara, department head of social studies, explains of the standardized testing regime that was implemented in 1999.

“We moved to classes that shored up our performance on those tests, which came at the cost of elective classes.”

Now that the STAR Testing program has expired, Los Altos has the opportunity to go beyond Modern European and U.S. History and add ethnic studies classes back into the curriculum, says Miyahara, who pushed for Asian American Studies classes at Stanford when he was a student in the mid-’80s.

Nieblas argues that, given his own experiences, ethnic studies should be required starting in elementary school.

“I’m one out of 87 in my kindergarten class to make it to university,” he says.

“If those other 86 could have seen themselves in the books—if they knew there was an Angela Davis, a Malcolm X, a Cesar Chavez—I think it could have made a ton of difference.

“I could be at this university with all of my childhood friends.”

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culturally relevant pedagogy, this is the first quantitative study of its kind.

“I’ll confess that when we first generated these results, I was incredulous,” Dee says. “If I was reading a study saying that taking the course increases GPA by 1.4 points, I would not believe that.”

While the results seem clear, the reason for the benefits may be less so. Dee attributes the value of ethnic studies to pedagogy. “It’s about having instruction that corresponds with the out-of-school experience of these kids,” he says. “It’s simply going to fit them better and promote academic engagement.”

Another explanation is the stereotype threat, which theorizes that minority students underperform in the classroom because of anxiety stemming from the expectation of negative stereotypes. But through buffering, either by forewarning against stereotypes or providing external examples of the challenges people of color face, students can overcome.

“When I look at the ethnic studies curriculum,” Dee says, “it has many of the active ingredients of these lighttouch psychological interventions.”

Anna Sampaio, director of ethnic studies at Santa Clara University, notes that Dee’s research matches what she sees everyday in her college students.

“The idea that their own personal histories resonate within the academic environment, the idea that their family’s history—even if it didn’t begin on Plymouth Rock—has validity, is profound,” she says. “It gives them the sense that they belong here, and it means they can walk into any other academic environment and feel confident instead of feeling vulnerable, unsure and marginalized.”

Despite newly identified advantages to ethnic studies, the field has faced political challenges since its inception in the 1960s. Even though Santa Clara has one of the oldest ethnic studies programs in the country, Sampaio says, it still hasn’t been granted departmental status, and it still can’t offer a standalone major to undergraduates.

“We have been in existence for 45 years. We have made formal proposals to become a department eight times and have asked for a standalone major since the first ethnic studies program was established here, but we haven’t gotten it,” she says. “That tells you there’s a huge mismatch on a social justice campus like ours in terms of what they say about diversity and where they are willing to invest their resources.”

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WHO MATTERS? An arbitrator reinstated a San Jose police officer who tweeted threats at Black Lives Matter

SJPD Forced to Reinstate Officer Who Tweeted Threats

BY JOSH KOEHN San Jose’s police department has a White privilege problem.

This isn’t the insidious issue in which white people blithely advance and prosper at the expense of non-white peers. The problem starts and ends with SJPD officer Phil White, and the issues at play include free speech, hate speech, union contracts and the expectations we place on individuals given the ultimate authority.

In December 2014, officer White sent out threatening tweets directed at sympathizers of the late Eric Garner and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

White said he would be off duty at the movies, carrying his gun, and if anyone had a problem with that, or threatened him or his family (whatever that means), he would use his “God given law appointed right and duty to kill you.” He ended with the hashtag #CopsLivesMatter.

This was the culmination of several weeks of Twitter screeds by White.

Fast forward several months, and last week the department announced that White was reinstated through an independent arbitrator’s ruling. The contract structure between the city and its police union allows all personnel disputes to be taken to the civil service commission or an independent arbitrator. All documents related to arbitration are confidential, and the ruling to reinstate White is binding.

That is officer White’s privilege, and it’s now San Jose’s problem.

Police Chief Eddie Garcia and Mayor Sam Liccardo both expressed their disappointment in the decision to reinstate, but that failed to appease the very people officer White intended to intimidate. On Wednesday, activists from Silicon Valley De-Bug and the NAACP held a press conference calling

on the city to challenge the arbitrator’s ruling in Superior Court. The city of San Jose has 30 days to respond.

The chances of winning such a challenge are slim, but in no way should that prevent the city from exploring every option to do so. White’s words were hateful, dangerous and sustained over a period of time. I asked Chief Garcia if officer White had learned anything and the chief couldn’t say. “I would hope so,” Garcia said.

Does officer White even believe he needs redemption? Who knows.

Challenging the arbitrator’s decision sends a message to every other SJPD officer that they do not have a “God given and law appointed right to kill you.” It sends a message that words matter. It sends the message that officers granted the ultimate authority—to take a life—cannot threaten the very citizens they’ve sworn to protect.

Report: County Jails Lack Oversight A recent review of Santa Clara County jails found that inmate complaints often fall on deaf ears and that a lack of oversight allows guards to conceal their own misconduct.

The findings—part of an independent analysis presented last month to the county’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Improving Custody Operations—pointed to “critical failures at every stage” of the grievance process. Consultant Aaron Zisser said the complaint system has been corrupted by a lack of confidentiality and accountability.

In a concurrent report based on interviews with 944 inmates, San Francisco attorney Scott Emblidge echoed Zisser’s findings. Inmates told him that jailors often retaliate by writing them up or reducing out-of-cell time for complaining about inadequate medical care, living conditions and brutality.

—Jennifer Wadsworth

SJ Pot Measure Heads to Ballot An initiative that would replace San Jose’s long-crafted medical marijuana ordinance is headed to voters, and elected officials aren’t happy. The City Council tasked Mayor Sam Liccardo with penning an argument and rebuttal for the June 7 special election ballot.

San Jose enacted its pot club regulations in the summer of 2014 and spent the ensuing year-and-a-half enforcing them to whittle collectives from 80 to 16.

Proponents of the Sensible San Jose measure qualified for the 2014 ballot but tabled the effort until last fall.

Oakland-based attorney James Anthony revived the measure after Gov. Jerry Brown signed off on statewide cannabis regulations that reaffirmed local control.

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USUAL SUSPECTS Cardboard politicans got the lineup treatment at last week’s Democratic Party convention in San Jose.

Republican millionaire John Cox hopes to ridicule political actors into reform BY JOSH KOEHN

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IGHTEEN LIFE-SIZE politicians have assembled in San Jose on the first day of the state’s Democratic Party convention, and they all look stupid. Their suits and skirts and pantsuits

have been flattened and covered from neck to toe in corporate and union logos. One elected official stands not far off but apart from the group, and he looks genuinely mystified by the scene of cardboard cutouts.

Rich Gordon, an assemblyman representing Palo Alto, Mountain View and other parts of the peninsula, has stumbled upon a protest against the influence of money on state politics. Before he can shrug and make his way into the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, however, another man races toward him with a small group of photographers in tow.

John Cox, a 60-year-old Midwesterner who made his fortune in law and real estate, confronts Gordon with a cardboard version of the assemblyman in his hand. Cox moved to San Diego to play golf and upend the state’s political system, he says, and he wears black wingtips, dark jeans and a white dress shirt under a slate gray blazer. His hair is white, with a sweeping part that

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GORDON MEETS GORDON John Cox confronted Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Palo Alto) with his own logo-adorned cutout.

thins at the base, and his eyebrows and nose sprout dark and white whiskers that lock like fingers.

Cox wastes no time in educating Gordon about his ballot initiative, which would force all state legislators to wear patches of their top 10 donors any time they speak or take an official action on the Senate and Assembly floors. While holding Gordon’s grinning cardboard cutout in one hand—his donor patches include Chevron, Walgreens, Time Warner Cable (none of which actually top his list) and a collection of unions—Cox tells

the assemblyman that he and his colleagues should be scared of the ballot measure he’s organizing. After a brief exchange, Cox shifts tone and boldly asks Gordon if he wants to team up.

“Would you be willing to introduce this to the Assembly?” he says.

“No,” Gordon says, turning to go inside the convention.

The brief confrontation leaves Cox a bit disappointed but undeterred.

“I don’t even know who he is,” he says. “I feel sorry for him. I guess he was offended. But it’s not that

he’s corrupt; it’s that he works in a corrupt system.”

Shame Game No pretenses are being made that Cox’s potential ballot measure will actually improve the system.

Disclosure of all campaign contributions after raising $2,000 is already required by law, and those interested in the way money moves in politics can find reports on the Secretary of State’s website. The title of Cox’s initiative, Name All Sponsors California Accountability Reform,

was a clever goof to use the acronym NASCAR. Just like the stickered racecars that require funding to roar around in varying degrees of left turns, or the drivers whose flame-retardant suits double as fitted billboards, it’s a nod to the fact that politicians in near-constant election cycles also have their influencers.

But considering the recent wave of corruption scandals engulfing California’s capital, the timing for such an outlandish initiative could be politically ripe.

A little less than two years ago the state Senate voted 28-1 to suspend Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), Ronald Calderon (D-Montebello) and Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood).

Wright resigned in September after being found guilty of felony perjury and voter fraud. Calderon, who termed out of the Senate after being indicted for allegedly accepting $88,000 in bribes, still awaits trial.

Last week a federal judge sentenced Yee to five years in prison for racketeering and accepting bribes in exchange for political influence.

A few days after the verdict, Cox ferried his collection of cardboard cutouts to San Francisco and San Jose to preach for political reform.

Slapping sponsors’ logos on an elected official’s suit won’t stop the money from coming in, or dissuade felonious legislators from attempting to personally benefit from their public offices, but it might make legislators feel a little more self-conscious as they sing for their supper on the Senate and Assembly floors. Logistics such as the size of patches or placement are of little concern to the organizer.

“You understand: I don’t care how it works,” Cox says. “It’s just to shame them.”

Perhaps. But it could also be a way of raising the profile of a serial candidate in pursuit of elected office.

In 2000 and 2002, while still living in Illinois, Cox twice ran for Congress and lost. He had a stint as chair of the Cook County Republican Party and made another unsuccessful run for county recorder in 2004. Four years later, Cox became the first Republican candidate to declare for the 2008 presidential nomination. He says he spoke to standing-ovation crowds

‘You understand: I don’t care how it works.

It’s just to shame them.’ of the 365,000 required by April 26 to qualify for the November ballot, is part of his larger goal to overhaul the entire state Legislature.

Cox wants to break the state’s districts—40 in the Senate, 80 in the Assembly—into hundreds, if not more than a thousand, smaller districts. To do that, he’s committed to spending a million dollars of his own money to support NASCAR and set the stage. “[NASCAR] is not going to make a difference just by itself, but it will get the public agitated and interested in reform,” says Cox, who uses the word “crony” about as often as The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield used the word “phony.”

“The reform we’re talking about is the Neighborhood Legislature,” he continues. “It’s not about expanding the legislature, it’s about shrinking the size of districts and getting money and influence out of the picture.”

Multiplying the number of state representatives, he argues, will remove the incentive for donors to throw around as much money. Votes would be diluted and influence would dissipate. It would also make Sacramento a joke and completely unmanageable, according to a few of the individuals who cast votes.

“We have campaign disclosure,” Assemblyman Gordon says, “so to have somebody wear a uniform is pretty ridiculous.”

Evan Low, a first-term assemblyman who represents Campbell, scoffed at the idea of hundreds of individuals with competing agendas accomplishing much of anything. The 120 individuals who make up the Senate and Assembly are hard enough to corral, and using an initiative like NASCAR to get there, he adds, is misguided.

“I think it’s a silly idea, but I also recognize the intent of what he’s trying to accomplish,” Low says.

“One thing I don’t really like about this is we are making a circus of our public servants and democracy and the electoral process. Just imagine, if implemented, what this would look like: you sort of parade people around uncomfortably in this attire.”

Say it like that and more disillusioned voters might be motivated by schadenfreude.

But the attention being paid to NASCAR could be a new starting point for Cox, who admitted he might have an interest in running for governor after his current initiative. And after shaking up the statehouse, of course.

“You ask me if I’m going to run for governor,” Cox says, his voice rising.

“I’m going to change the legislature.”

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in Iowa and South Carolina but called off his run because he couldn’t match the financial backing of better-known candidates. He says he debated a young Barack Obama and marched in parades with currently incarcerated former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.

“I’m a Republican and he’s a Democrat, so we didn’t have that much contact,” Cox says. “I marched a couple parades with him and knew he was an empty suit.”

Cox’s political NASCAR push, which has reportedly collected more than 70,000 signatures out

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biggest opponent to Voters Right to Know might not be special interests or shadow organizations affiliated with the Koch Brothers, but other government reform initiatives like NASCAR. Competing measures often make it more likely all proposals, even those with actual teeth, will fail.

Stern, who co-authored California’s Political Reform Act in 1974, called Voters Right to Know “the most significant” effort to police political contributions since the state’s landmark legislation more than 40 years ago.

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Billionaire GOP activist Charles Munger Jr. is also pushing a constitutional amendment to make the system more transparent.

Titled the California Legislature Transparency Act, the initiative would: require the language of all bills to be finalized 72 hours before a vote is taken, preventing any sneaky late additions; make all floor sessions and committee meetings available online within 24 hours; and allow anyone to video record these meetings, which is currently a misdemeanor.

“I would recommend this for all

states,” Munger, a Stanford alumnus, told the school’s newspaper last month. “It’s time for all state legislatures to join the 21st century.”

Cox says he and Munger have met and discussed ideas to reform the state’s political system, but it doesn’t sound like the two saw quite eye to eye.

“I was president of the Cook County Republican Party,” Cox says. “I don’t take a backseat to any Republican.” In regards to Munger’s constitutional amendment, he adds: “It’s not going to move the needle.”

It’s that kind of talk that makes

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and Gov. Jerry Brown, who is a third bigger than the rest. The ease with which Cox can explain the idea and the familiar acronym, make it a humorous proposal to pitch to journalists and voters on the street. There aren’t too many people who would pass up a chance to dress down a politician by making them dress up in donor logos.

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Few electronic acts are more renowned than Daft Punk. The French house pioneers broke open sonic possibilities by deftly incorporating funk, disco and techno into clubby grooves.

They’re known for songs like “Around the World” and their recent Pharrell-featuring smash hit, “Get Lucky.” Only problem: they’re about as elusive as snow leopards when it comes to live appearances. One More Time, a tribute group named after the Daft Punk song of the same name, mimics the futuristic theatrics of the twosome for fans who love the music but are too busy dancing to worry about who is actually beneath those space helmets. (JF)

Big Mountain looks the part. They boast a majority of members with long locks—either hanging in ropey dreads or bunched in messianic mops. The multicultural San Diegans build from gentle reggae-pop rhythms, folding in ska and mariachi sensibilities. Their biggest hit is a cover of the Peter Frampton classic, “Baby, I Love Your Way.” In 1994, this breezy rendition sauntered to the top of Mainstream Top 40.

They toured constantly until 2005, when the band took a brief hiatus, during which lead singer Quino McWhinney taught at Olympia High School in Chula Vista. After the school posted state records for the CAHSEE test, McWhinney got a mix of new and old members and began touring again. (JF)

PRONG

Jun 1 at RockBar Theater

RASCAL FLATTS

Jul 7 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

GENERAL MOJO’S

CANDY & CHROME

Art Boutiki, San Jose Sat, 8pm, Free

MACLA, San Jose Sat, 12pm, Free

In Seattle, the sky fills with clouds 255 days a year. As such, denizens of the Emerald City are no strangers to spending time indoors. Some pass the time at vintage clothing shops, picking out the perfect plaid flannel, brainstorming nifty, asymmetrical hairdos or experimenting with genre-bending psychedelic rock. It would seem that General Mojo do all three. The band’s upcoming stop at Art Boutiki marks the mid-point in a month-long excursion down the West Coast aimed at gathering a larger following. Their latest single, “Geese on the Lawn,” centers around springy piano taps, jaunty horns and recalls the bouncy, unserious catchiness of the Flaming Lips. (JF)

The emphasis on fuel efficiency ruined the style of automobiles. After realizing we were killing our planet and draining our wallets by driving glitzy, gas-guzzling land-boats, the fat chrome bumpers, winged spoilers and steel bodies went the way of the dodo. But back when these beasts ruled, they represented the achievement of the American dream.

MACLA's Candy & Chrome Car Show celebrates lowrider culture and serves as a primer for the upcoming oneman play, ‘57 Chevy—which follows “double immigrants,” who first move from their native lands to American barrios, then out to the manicured suburbs in search of a white picket fence and a sweet ride. (JF)

STING & PETER GABRIEL Jul 14 at SAP Center

ADELE

Jul 30-31 at SAP Center

WEEZER

Jul 31 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

KENNY CHESNEY

Aug 6 at Levi’s Stadium

DEMI LOVATO & NICK JONAS Aug 18 at SAP Center

HEART, JOAN JETT & CHEAP TRICK

Aug 24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

Sep 2 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

COLDPLAY

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The Crossing THE LONESOME WEST Photographer Richard Misrach and composer Guillermo Galindo collaborated on the multimedia exhibit, ‘Border Cantos’—melding haunting photographs with atmospheric soundscapes.

‘Border Cantos’ highlights life in the transitory space between the U.S. and Mexico.

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HE CALL AND response of photographer to composer and back again informs the collaboration of Border Cantos. The photographer is Richard Misrach; the composer Guillermo Galindo. The subject is the border between the United States and Mexico.

With his snapshots, Misrach captures the vast desert expanses, along with the fences and walls that divide the two countries. Galindo composes sonic landscapes using one-of-a-kind handmade musical instruments which

he has fashioned from various materials and personal objects found strewn about the scrubby, wind-swept terrain that straddles the border.

The exhibit explores the geographical, political and psychological ramifications of life on the border. Through photography and music, both artists aim to accurately reflect life in this transitory zone—showcasing its beauty as well as its dark side and documenting the dangers inherent in attempting to cross from one side to the other.

In Misrach’s unassuming Berkeley studio, he and Galindo discuss the details of the project’s inception.

Misrach’s initial project, Desert Cantos, began 40 years ago. During regular visits to the border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, he found a variety of objects that piqued

his interest, concern and curiosity: a water station marked “agua” in the middle of nowhere; border patrol shotgun shells; disembodied sections of the border walls; tires and chains.

It all got Misrach thinking: “What’s going on here?” In 2009, at the same time he was noticing that immigration authorities were ramping up construction efforts along the border, he also started to see a strange series of figures planted in an area surrounding the California town of Jacumba.

Misrach calls them “effigies.”

The figures in this series look like headless scarecrows. There is something deeply unsettling about the “X” made of branches or tree limbs and the long sticks that hold up the hollowed out clothing in the shape of men. Not only do they call to mind a crucifixion, they also hold an eldritch energy that appears both religious and anti-religious at the same time. An empty numbered football jersey has never been more menacing or forlorn.

In the sound room of the gallery at the exhibit where one of the effigy

portraits hangs on the wall, one of Galindo’s tracks fills the air.

These soundscapes were created with assorted items—all of them thrown away or lost by the people who frequent these crossings. Galindo bangs on scraps of metal and wood; scratches at abandoned shoes and drags them through sand; he plucks the few remaining teeth of an old pink comb; and creates chords by blowing across the tops of an empty half-pint of liquor and dusty soda bottle.

The objects, Galindo explains “give a voice to the people that once owned them. They tell stories about their journeys in sound.” By incorporating the shotgun shells, tires, and discarded or abandoned clothing into a reconceived erhu or zapatel, he draws attention to the actual human element of those border crossings.

“To me everything is a musical instrument,” Galindo says. “I don’t see any difference between a plastic bottle and a flute.” Furthermore, he adds, everything has a certain sonic quality that can tell the listener something about that object— including its intended purpose.

For example, Galindo continues, many of the objects that were left behind by the border patrol were large, heavy and made of dense materials, such as wood or metal.

These objects produced deep, loud and sometimes fearsome sounds.

Galindo’s instruments work as a sonic counterpart—a companion and guide—to Misrach’s photographs. The composer says that he is working to create visual sound.

“It’s kind of my idea of synesthesia,” he explains. “It’s the translation and interpretation of visual art into sound”—namely the translation of Mirach’s photos into music.

Misrach is happy to provide the inspiration—and to take inspiration in return. In describing Galindo’s influence on his work, Misrach recalls the two of them visiting a sandy windswept region along the Arizona border. “And there's a bombing range nearby. The wall picks up the sounds of the bombing range, of the wind. It became sonic for me, which, in the past, it never would have been.”

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Happy 25 Anniversary!

Celebrating 25 years of music and friends.

Pizzicato by Vivian Fung Oboe Concerto (premiere) by Pablo Furman featuring Sherry Sylar (NY Phil), oboe EKTA III (premiere) by Brent Heisinger featuring royal hartigan, world percussionist and Wes Brown on bass The Anniversary Project curated by Michael Touchi …bits and pieces of many of the works premiered by SJCO in the past 25 years, stitched together for a grand musical journey Trianon Theatre, 72 N. 5th Street, San José Tickets: 408 295-4416 – www.sjcotickets.org Supported, in part, by a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San José, and by a grant from Silicon Valley Creates in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council.

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*stage CROWNS

In response to its smashing reception in 2009, this flamboyantly potent musical that focuses on large church hats returns to the theatre. $15-$38. Apr 8-May 1.

Theatre on San Pedro Square.

San Jose.

THE ELEPHANT MAN

This titanic drama draws on the life of John Merrick from the Victorian era in England.

Merrick contracts a disfiguring disease, but his acceptance by a doctor, then high society highlights the overwhelming power of the human spirit. Mar 17-Apr 17. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company. San Jose.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV COMEDY

Laugh until your stomach hurts at this improv battle of wits, all audience-sourced and suitable for the entire family. Ongoing. $12-$15. Camera 4, San Jose.

CATCH 22

This comedy you can’t laugh at follows the singularly crafty bombardier, Yossarian as he does all that he can to escape the horrific day-to-day of WWII. Apr 7-May 1. $18-$28 Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company. Los Altos.

MY FAIR LADY

Lower-class Eliza Doolittle hacks into high society with the aid of ingenious and frumpy linguist, Henry Higgins, who molds her into a vision of elegance before falling recklessly in love. $20-$39. May 21-Jun 10.

South Bay Musical Theatre.

Saratoga Civic Theatre.

VALLEY OF THE HEART

Written and directed by the famed Luis Valdez, this bold epic throws the divide between American ideals and actions into powerful relief. This play is performed in conjunction with the activist company, El Teatro Campesino. Feb 10-Mar 6. $55-$65. The San Jose Stage.

*concerts DAYDREAM NATION

San Pedro Square Market

hosts its monthly last Saturday, alternative concert.

Free. San Pedro Square Market. San Jose.

MUSIC AT THE MARKET

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

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

TOSPS TUESDAYS

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

*opera CAFFE FRASCATI

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

*art MUSEUMS NUMU LOS GATOS

“The Art of Social Justice: Woody Guthrie and the Power of Songwriting.” Thru May 16. Los Gatos.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM

“Healthyville” Discover ways to live better. San Jose.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM

“Gold Rush” Exploring the regional symbolism of gold through art, sports and culture.

Thru Mar 13. Santa Clara.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM

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

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE

“Slugs, Dingbats, and Tramp Printing”The printing press is one of the most important inventions in human history. See the machine that printed the first newspaper in California.

Thru April 28. San Jose.

LOS GATOS COMPANY

“Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery,” featuring the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Maasai tribe of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania. Artist in Residence Gallery. Los Gatos.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

“Diebenkorn in the Bedroom,

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DeFeo in the Den: Generous Gifts from the Dixon and Barbara Farley Collection,” Thru Feb 28. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES

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

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

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

Thru April 3. Santa Clara.

GALLERIES ART BOUTIKI

EXPRESSIONLESS Gideon Rubin gives the viewer plenty of detail,

BRUNI GALLERY

Face Blind

GALLERY HOUSE

THE TITLE OF Gideon Rubin’s first public solo show in the U.S. is taken from a line of poetry. In “Delivering Newspapers,” the Chinese poet Bei Dao alludes to the disposable nature of news: “The nation has lost its memory/Memory goes as far as this morning.”

Monthly Midtown Beat Show.

San Jose.

Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan. Mon-Sat, 1-6pm. San Jose.

“Spacial Memories” Joyce Savre, Sydell Lewis. Thru Mar 1. Palo Alto.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE

First Fridays feature new artwork, demonstrations, and conversations with artists.

San Jose.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER

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

but never shows the face of his subject. Pictured: ‘Braids.’

In this digital age of taking, sharing, scrolling through and ultimately disposing of myriad selfies, the collective unconscious has become a blurred record of far too many faces frozen in grins. Look at Rubin’s new collection of faceless portraits and you’ll find an artist actively looking at our profound ability to forget.

Class of 1947 is a grouping of 12 small paintings, which together mimic a page from a high school yearbook as they hang close together on the wall. In rows of three and columns of four, each young woman wears the same pale rose dress. They could be debutantes.

Gideon Rubin: Memory Goes as Far as This Morning Thru May 22, Free San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

The hair colors and styles differ, as do the placement of accurate neckline shadows, but each face is erased. What could read as a gimmick turns instead toward an anonymous and disconcerting sense of self. This could be your sister’s group of high school friends, or your mother’s, or your grandmother’s. By concentrating on all the painterly details— the folds and creases of a dress, the arc of a specific neck, someone’s particular shade of auburn—Rubin engages the viewer in an estranged nostalgia.

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Despite a back catalogue that offers proof of his skillfully rendered and recognizable human faces, Rubin is prepared for the inevitable question, “Where are the faces?”

“Gideon Rubin:” Memory goes as far as this morning.

Thru May 22. “You Are Exactly Where You Need To Be:” Susan O’Malley. “Demarcate: Territorial Shift in Personal and Societal Mapping.” San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST FRIDAY ARTWALK

A self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent businesses featuring exhibitions and special performances, including Street Eats & Live Beats at Parque De Los Pobladores. First Friday of the Month. Venues along S. First Street and throughout downtown San Jose.

“My work has always been between figuration and abstraction somehow,” he says. “By not painting the face … you focus on an abstract. You focus on everything else, [the face] becomes a shape, it becomes a form, it becomes a form with its own rules of paint, which is as real as everything else in the painting.”

An element of biography is also at play. As a witness to 9/11 and as a member of a family with Holocaust survivors, Rubin’s series of Memory paintings serve as a poignant memorial of absence and presence. The pain of calling up specific memories is soothed in snapshots of lost relatives and friends. By omitting their personal features, the artist distills the human form down to its universal essence, and restricts the pain of remembrance to the size of a canvas. —Jeffrey Edalatpour

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MEDICINE MAN In ‘Embrace of the Serpent,’ Nilbio Torres plays an Amazonian shaman studying the white explorers who have come to study his people.

Embrace of the Serpent merges Conrad and Herzog with mixed results

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE OSCAR-NOMINATED Embrace of the Serpent is the biggest European guilt-whip since Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, during which Johnny Depp got called “Stupid white man” half a dozen times.

The Colombian film contrasts two incidents in the life of the Amazonian shaman Karamakate, the last of his nation. He encounters two explorers, some 40 years apart, in the first half of the 20th century. Karamakate (played in youth by Nilbio Torres) is a noble, scornful warrior—physically splendid,

with a look of James Woods-worthy disdain on his face. Braced against his seven-foot blowgun, he wears his thong like Superman’s trunks.

In 1909, the feverish, dying explorer Theo (Jan Bijvoet), on assignment from the museum in Stuttgart, has travelled deep into Karamakate’s forest. He arrives in a dugout canoe by his friend and guide Mandula (Yauenkü Migue), a refugee from the rubber plantations. The two seek a semi-legendary drug, derived from a rare flower called yakruna. The shaman wants nothing to do with these interlopers, at first. Karamakate then changes his mind and agrees to guides the two deeper into the jungles and the wastelands.

The riverlands are blighted with

massacres. There are border wars between the Colombians and the Peruvians. Rubber planters commit atrocities that rival those inflicted by the European exploiters in Heart of Darkness. Down the river, Theo gets into a quarrel with a group of natives who steal his compass. The professor wants it back, to keep them from losing their ancestral traditions of celestial navigation. Karamakate is for giving the compass up: “Knowledge belongs to everyone!” he shouts.

Later, as Theo grows sicker, the trio comes to a savage Capuchin mission where prayers by day are followed by whippings by night.

Forty years later, a North American explorer named Evan (Brionne Davis) encounters the shaman (now played

by Tafillama, a.k.a. Antonio Bolivar Salvador). The outsider says that he’s come to study plants. “That’s the most sensible thing I ever heard a white man say,” the shaman says. But the aged Karamakate—who looks like

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the elderly Picasso—has forgotten all his lore and become, he says, a “chullachaqui,” a spiritless ghost haunting the jungle clearings.

On their travels together, they see rot and decline. The mission has gone full Captain Kurtz. Seeing the cryptoChristian savages there, Karamakate exclaims, in case we didn’t get it, “They are now the worst of two worlds.”

As played out by the young director Ciro Guerra, working from the diaries of two real-life explorers, it’s not Karamakate’s otherness that makes us want to learn, nor is there give and take between the shaman and the two white voyagers. He’s selfsufficient—it’s the white men who need and want and grasp. Embrace of the Serpent bypasses heading back to Carlos Castaneda right into the realm of James Fenimore Cooper’s super-Indians.

In black and white and widescreen, Guerra’s vision of the rainforest is lambent and gleaming. When Evan submits to the yakruna, the documentary imagery melts into dream sequences of bleedy dayglow psychedelia.

Embrace of the Serpent has been compared to the work of Werner Herzog by critics; some business with a wind-up portable photograph echoes scenes from Fitzcarraldo. But the great pessimistic filmmaker’s original theme of white rapacity went meta while on location. Herzog himself went temporarily mad, as per the jungle-loathing rant in the documentary Burden of Dreams: “It’s chaos … even the birds are screaming in agony!”

It’s not cosmic indifference that is the culprit here. Guerra’s focus is far more narrow, even with his shots of glowing stars and celestial fireballs.

The movie keeps rebuking the clumsy packrat whites who carry so much with them: “they’re just things,” Karamakate says, as if he were one of those professionals you hire to get the clutter out of your house. The movie isn’t completely a celebration of the last of a vanished breed able to talk to the rocks and the trees. Instead, Embrace of the Serpent is a cranky, repetitive complaint issued in clearly European terms.

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Cinequest BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO SNUFF Director Mitchell Altieri and the North Bay’s Butcher Brothers (The Hamiltons, Cinequest ’06) collaborate on this violent yet amiable satire of the forbidden genre of snuff films.

This urban legend was inflamed by a terrible recut grindhouse film titled Snuff (1976) which boasted it was shot “In South America…where life is CHEAP!” The slick Dresden (Richard Kern) and his gullible brother Domenic (Luke Edwards) are running out of money and hope in Los Angeles, and

may have to go back to Minnesota.

They hear of a horror movie contest and decide to trick some unfortunate actress into believing that she’s fallen into the hands of maniacs. “Don’t say anything about this being a snuff film,” Dresden advises. “We’re calling it an experimental film, at this point.”

Jennifer (the terrific Bree Williamson) gets cast as the victim, and that was the two fools’ biggest mistake…soon, it’s a Ransom of Red Chief situation in which even the safe word (it’s “Mockingjay”) can’t save them. (Mar 4, 9:45pm, Mar 6, 7pm at Hammer Theater; Mar 11, noon, Camera 12.)

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FUTURE SHOTS James Franco kicked off this year’s Cinequest with a discussion on the future of storytelling through film.

Hometown Hero THE HYPHENATE of all hyphenates, James Franco, paid a visit to his hometown of Palo Alto this past weekend, to accept the lightning boltshaped Maverick Spirit Award from Cinequest co-founders Halfdan Hussey and Kathleen Powell.

Franco bungeed into the Four Seasons Hotel on the Palo Alto-East Palo Alto border on Feb. 28 to speak in front of a selected audience of 100 or so before a quick return to Los Angeles.

The actor, director, writer and producer recently added another title to his CV: high school film class teacher. In September of 2015, under the direction of his former teacher, Esther Wojcicki, Franco led a series of film writing and storytelling workshops at his alma mater, Palo Alto High School.

The future of storytelling through film was the focus of Franco’s three-way discussion with Marty Cooper (inventor of the cell phone) and Jens Christensen, CEO of the Palo Alto-based virtual reality company, Jaunt VR. Disney, ABC and Sky Network are all developing VR projects, as are the NFL, NHL and MLB. Franco said he had seen a VR film exhibit at Sundance recently, which impressed him, though one production meant to simulate the experience of date rape may not have been synced up correctly.

“The people who made it said it was supposed to make you queasy,” he told the crowd, “but everyone I talked to said they just got motion sickness from it.”

Franco is keen on the idea of multiple angles of say, a VR version of Citizen Kane.

Indeed, there are some great films—Kane or Children of Paradise, for example— which have characters that one could follow into their own adventures.

At 37, Franco is working on a PhD, and speculating about slowing down. He quoted the story of the dying patient who said “I wish I’d spent more time with my family.”

“I love my family, and I see them often,” he said. “But I don’t have one of my own.

I guess I’m a workaholic. The movie business is hard to break into and hard to maintain. As soon as I started teaching, it was a relief. Teaching helps me fall in love with filmmaking all over again.”

On the different methods Franco uses for storytelling—from teaching to painting to writing—he said, “It’s exciting to me not to be limited to one medium, If I have a certain subject, there’s a variety of ways I can tell it. I was talking to David Simon, creator of The Wire. He said that there’s all this immense scholarly work that’s been done on the Holocaust. Yet this one little book written by a little girl in an attic tells us everything. That’s the power of storytelling.”

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Custom Lives: Rasquache Renaissance | Now – Mar. 13, 2016 Candy & Chrome Car Show March 5 Curated by Marcos Gaitan of Hightone Car Club ‘57 Chevy featuring Ric Salinas of Culture Clash March 10-13 One man comedy chronichles the misadventures of “double immigrants” who moved to the U.S. barrios in search of opportunity.

Latino Art Now! Auction: May 14 510 S. First Sreet, San Jose | 408.998.2783 | maclaarte.org San Jose Stage Company 490 S 1st St, San Jose 408.283.7142 thestage.org

Caffe Frascati 315 S 1st St, San Jose 408.287.0400 caffefrascati.com

Tuesdays: Open Mic NIght 7pm Wednesday: Comedy NIght 7:30pm Friday: Opera Night! - 8pm (March 4 South First Friday Art Walk) Saturday: The Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience 8pm Check our website for more great entertainment all month long!

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles 520 S 1st St, San Jose 408.971.0323 sjquiltmuseum.org

Gideon Rubin: Memory goes as far as this morning Now- May 22 Focus Gallery Susan O’Mally - You are exactly where you need to be: Pt. 2 Now - May 22 Cardinale Project Room Demarcate Territorial Shift in personal and societal mapping Now-May 29 Main Gallery

San Jose Stage Company 490 S 1st St, San Jose 408.283.7142 thestage.org Valley of the Heart | In association with El Teatro Campseino Feb. 10 – Mar. 6 | Written & directed by Luis Valdez

March 12 – June 28, 2016 Blanket Statements: New Quilts by KAFFE FASSETT and Historical Quilts from the Collection of the Quilt Museum and Gallery, York, England Included in this exhibition—only one of two U.S. museum venues—are fifteen historic quilts from The Quilters’ Guild Collection, York, England and twenty quilts produced by Kaffe Fassett that were inspired by the designs of the historic quilts.

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The fight to maintain dignity, identity, family and love in the face of war and fear are at the heart of this American love story deeply rooted in the fertile Santa Clara Valley.

Luis Valdez’s sweeping epic illustrates the ironic divide between America’s ideals and its actions in what the San Jose Mercury News says is a “multicultural touchstone,” and of which the Los Angeles Times says “We need memory plays as powerful as this one ... a quintessentially California play, written by a master of the genre.”

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SoFA: Silicon Valley’s

Kansas City, collaborations with everyone from Ray Charles to Herbie Hancock, and a revolutionary style, Nicholas Payton is considered one of the most important and distinct boundary pushers in jazz. This innovation extends to the use of other instruments such as keyboards and organs, which further extend Payton’s tantalizing but ethereal soundscapes.

Much of this is a showcased on the Nicolas Payton Trio’s 2015 double album Letters, which they will be performing along with other numbers at the Jade Leaf Lounge. Payton’s trio also includes bassist Vincente Archer and drummer Bill Stewart. (TM)

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Nosotras MACLA; Fri, 8pm, Free

All That Jazz KING OF THE HILL Internationally renowned trumpeter Marquis Hill has been playing the trumpet since he was 12 years old.

A selection of artists performing at San Jose Jazz Winter Fest

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AN JOSE JAZZ Winter Fest brings 24 live performances from veteran and emerging jazz acts, as well as student groups. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting musicians playing at this year’s gathering.

Marquis Hill Cafe Stritch; Thu, 7pm, $15-$25

Known for his technical but elegant sound, trumpeter and composer, Marquis Hill is quickly becoming

recognized as one of the most imminent trumpet practitioners of his generation. Hill has had a long history in jazz with a resume to prove it. Since the age of twelve, Hill has performed in countless ensembles, earning a MA in Jazz Pedagogy from DePaul University from which he began leadership of his long running ensemble, the Blacktet. With four albums under the belt, Hill’s innovative composition and performance was awarded with the 2012 International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition and the 2014 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition. Hill is also a noted musical educator, with past

teaching positions at University of Illinois, Chicago and the NIU Summer Jazz Camp. Marquis Hill and the Blacktet, which includes Christopher McBride on alto sax, Justin Thomas on vibraphone, Joshua Ramos playing bass, and Makaya McCraven on drums will be performing for one night only at Cafe Stritch. (TM)

Nicholas Payton Trio Jade Leaf Lounge; Fri, 8pm, $25-$35

San Jose Jazz has a built reputation for consistently exhibiting exciting and imaginative musicians. With their upcoming presentation of the Nicholas Payton Trio, the company is ramping up its renown. Two decades ago he was hailed as one of the jazz’s most promising trumpeters. Now with a grammy under his belt for Best Instrumental Solo in the movie

In 2007, an 8.0 earthquake struck Peru. It lasted for three minutes and killed 519 people—including 17 attending mass in a church in Ica. More than 1,000 people were injured and 50,000-plus houses were destroyed. The destruction still affects daily life. Nosotras formed to raise money for the survivors. Composed of female performers, the renowned collective has toured South America, hoping to inspire and stress the crucial role women play in the arts.

The quartet plays modern jazz, spiced up by percussive dancing by Gabriela Shiroma and conga and cajon slapping by Peta Robles. (JF)

Incendio Jade Leaf Lounge; Fri, 10pm, $15-$25

Before J.K. Rowling borrowed the word to christen flaming spells, Incendio served as a fitting moniker for this energetic group. Meaning “fire” in both Italian and Spanish, the band plays “Latin guitar world fusion,” which means they lay down some truly blistering acoustic and electric licks over a eclectic array of clean, invigorating rhythms. Since 2000, they’ve averaged more than 150 shows a year, hitting venues like the Sundance Film Festival, the California World Festival and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. They’ve released nine studio albums— their seventh, “The Shape of Dreams,” sat atop the Amazon Flamenco charts for the better part of 2013. (JF) —John Flynn and Tad Malone

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SONIC SOUL L.A. trio KING count Erykah Badu and Prince as fans.

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WHEN LOS ANGELES-based R&B trio KING independently released their three-song The Story, the music blogosphere went crazy.

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NPR Music called the arrangements of “Supernatural,” the EP’s second track, “celestial.” The collection’s closer, “Hey,” landed on Pitchfork’s perpetually updating “Best New Music” list and Kendrick Lamar sampled the track. Prince proclaimed his love of the group. It was clear that KING were going places—fast.

In reality, things didn’t go very fast. It took KING five years to follow up The Story. However, by most accounts it was worth the wait. The group’s meticulous full-length release, We Are KING, arrived to the delight and relief of their early—and patient—fans on Feb. 5.

KING consists of sisters Paris and Amber Strother and Anita Bias. Amber and Anita are the lead singers. And although all three of them write songs together, Paris is the sole producer of the album and grounds the band with her keyboard playing.

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It’s a role she is happy to take on while leaving the singing to her sister and Bias. “The connection that the two of them shared was instant. I don't know if I've heard two people sound like that together,” Paris says. “There are a lot of great singers but a lot of singers can't fall directly into step with another singer like that unless they've had like many years of experience.”

Listening to We are KING in one sitting, it’s easy to drift into the sonic otherworld that the trio has created. And that was certainly the aim, Paris says.

“I think that creating the album, we really wanted to present a landscape—to make it almost a destination people could go to, to escape,” the keyboardist and producer says of her group’s debut full length. “Stevie Wonder's albums do that for me.”

If you crossed Jill Scott’s first single from 2007 “A Long Walk” with the Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love,” the result might sound something like We Are KING’s second track, “The Greatest.” KING shares some of Scott’s sunny uplift, while adding in oddly persuasive digital and synth overlays.—Jeffrey Edalatpour

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SHORT FUSE Close connections brought Kneebody and Daedelus together to form the fusion of sound that is Kneedelus.

Prolific pair of musical forces unite to form Kneedelus

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.A.-BASED PRODUCER Daedelus has a reputation as a musical wizard. Known for his genre-hopping, unique brand of electronic music, he is a veteran of the L.A. scene and his work a constantly evolving gem in a sea of monotonous electronica.

Kneebody is a jazz-fusion band based out of L.A., which also has become known for its utterly unique approach to music.

The band earned a Grammy nomination with Theo Bleckmann and a residency with the New Manhattan Music Project.

Together they are Kneedelus, a powerhouse of multi-faceted musical sophistication. With the release of its eponymous debut collaboration, Kneedelus is currently on tour across the United States, Brazil and Europe—

twice—and stopping by San Jose’s Cafe Stritch to melt the face off even the most well-versed music nerd.

Kneebody’s sound is, well, complicated. At the very least it’s jazz fusion; and at the other extreme it's a brash and inquisitive compendium of every genre and sound wrapped into one explosive experience. This also describes Daedelus, whose work is a panoply of musical genres under an electronic umbrella.

“I think we've almost become famous for being the band that's impossible to describe”, says Ben Wendel, Kneebody and Kneedelus saxophone player, with a laugh.

“Daedelus is kind of the same way.

So it’s a perfect storm of difficult-todescribe music.”

While they both err on the side of complicated, mind-bending soundscapes, members of Kneedbody and Daedelus have also known each other since high school, where Wendel and Daedelus were together in marching band, orchestra and their own musical outfit.

“We even had a jazz band where we would play on the 3rd St. promenade for tips,” Wendel says.

Over the years they drifted into different regions of the musical hemisphere, but never lost touch.

“There were a handful of times where Kneebody would do shows with (Daedelus), where we just kind of collaborated, improvised on the spot,” says Wendel. These on-the-fly shows inspired both groups to combine forces.

Starting with a music grant from Chamber Music America, Wendel wrote a handful of songs that would become the core of the Kneedelus album. From there, everyone took a stab at it. Kneebody and Daedelus recorded together at Sunset Sound Studios, along with the input of other musicians. After that, Daedelus sat on the album for two years, slowing tweaking and rearranging what would become Kneedelus. “It was fun because we didn't have to have too set of a plan,” Wendel says.

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Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop AGAVE Every Fri, 9:30pm: DJ Norman.

San Jose.

AGENDA LOUNGE Every Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays w/ free dance lessons. Every Thu, 9pm: Banda Night. San Jose. Every Sunday: Hip-hop & reggae. San Jose.

ART BOUTIKI Wed, Mar 2, 6pm: Ras Mikey, Dread Ramas. Fri, Mar 4, 7:30pm: Killer Queens, Diamond Lane. Sat, Mar 5 7:30pm: Life Size Models, General Mojo, Haunted Ghost Town. San Jose.

THE BACK BAR SOFA

THURSDAY MONDAY Brainstormer’s Trivia Treatbot Karaoke Night Night every Monday @ 7pm in The Garage

every Thursday @ 7:30pm in Market Hall in front of Treatbot

THUR-SUN Live Music ThursdaySaturday at 7pm & Sunday at 1pm

Eat, drink, shop & listen to live music all in one place.

Thu, Mar 3, 7pm: Mary Ellen Duo. Fri, Mar 4, 7pm: The Jerry Sauceda Trio. Sat, Mar 5, 7pm: Groovy Judy. Sun, Mar 6, 1pm: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS Thu, Feb 25, 6pm: James Supercave. Sat, Feb 27, 4pm: Israel Sanchez. San Jose.

AT A GLANCE

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Every Wed, 9pm: The Cypher, feat.

Hip-hop, Jungle, Soul, Reggae, Dubstep, Trap, BreakBeat, House and more. San Jose

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

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Thu, Mar 3, 9pm: Marquis Hill Blacktet.

Fri, Mar 4, 8:30pm: Kneedelus.

Sat/Sun, Mar 5/6, 8;30pm: San Jose Jazz Festival. Every Sun: The Eulipions Jam Session. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Fri, Mar 4, 8pm: Opera Night. Sat, Mar 5, 8pm: The Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Call for info. San Jose.

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THE CATS Call for info. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Fri, Mar 3, 8pm: Barualia Barrera.

Sat, Mar 4, 8pm: Big Mountain, Pacific Vibration. Redwood City.

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

FOX THEATRE Mon, Mar 7, 8pm: Ratking.

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Thu, Mar 3, 8pm: Roger Steen Band. Fri, Mar 4, 6pm: Terry Hanck Band. Sat, Mar 5, 6pm: GG Amos Band. Sun, Mar 6, 2pm: PHB Band w/ Sid Morriss. San Jose.

SAM'S BBQ Wed, Mar 2, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, Mar 8, 6pm: Carolina Special. San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

UNWINED Every 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm: Don Balistreri. Every Sat, 7-9:30pm: Live jazz. Every 1st and 3rd Sat, 9pm: Randy Whiting and “@Jazz.” San Jose.

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

Sat, Feb 27, 8:30pm: Boomer Humor Redwood City.

Wed, Feb 24, 7:30pm: Richard Sears / Sam Gendel. Thu, Feb 25, 7:30pm: Sheryl Bailey / Harvie S Quartet. Fri, Feb 26, 7:30pm: Hristo Vitchev Quartet. Sat, Feb 27, 2pm: Live Music Hangout. 7:30pm: Hristo Vitchev Quartet. Sun, Feb 28, 6pm: Thuy Linh.

San Jose.

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Every Wed, 9pm: Comedy Caravan.

Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Redwood City.

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ Wed, Mar 2, 7pm: Denis Dove.

Every Thu, 8pm: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fri, Mar 4, 8pm: Gregg Wright. Sat, Mar 5, 8pm: The Jokers. San Jose.

Fri-Sat: Live Music. Santa Clara.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

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Thu, Mar 3, 8pm: Willie K. Sat, Mar 4, 8pm: Antonio Zambujo. Saratoga.

Every Thu, 9:30pm: DJ night w/ DJ BenOfficial & DJ Vex. Every Fri and Sun, 9:30pm: Karaoke w/ DJ NoWrath. Santa Clara.

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

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

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

CARAVAN

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IMPROV Wed, Mar 2, 8pm: American Me Comedy. Thu, Mar 3, 8pm: Raw Comedy. Fri-Sun, Feb 4-6, various: Bobby Lee. San Jose.

MARMIST COCKTAIL LOUNGE Sun, 9:30pm: Comedy.

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

Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.

GILROY BOWL Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

AGENDA Wed: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Shakalosos Banda Nights.

Sun: Reggae Vybez. San Jose.

DJs and dancing every night.

Mon-Sat, 6pm-1am; Sun, 8pm-12:30am. San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

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

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

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Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

Tue thru Sat: Karaoke. San Jose.

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BRANHAM LOUNGE Wed: Almaden Valley Beer Pong with DJ ONEmanARMY. Thu: Vintage (’80s, ’90s, Pop, Rock, Hip Hop) with DJ David Q. Fri: Quality Control with DJ DLuzion. Sat: Lounge Life with DJ Krucial and DJ NESSrock. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN

Fri, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed & Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug.

Sunnyvale.

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

Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

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Sat, 9pm: Karaoke evenings.

Santa Clara.

Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

PLAZA GARIBALDI Wed & Sun, 7pm-close: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

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

Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall.

Woodside.

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

San Jose.

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Wed, Fri & Sun, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No cover. Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

RED STAG LOUNGE

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Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

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

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Fri, Mar 4, 10pm: Major Airborne. Sat, Mar 5, 10pm: DJ Scene. Sunnyvale.

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

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Cupertino.

THE CARAVAN Mon, 10pm: Mandatory Monday Karaoke. San Jose.

THE CARLOS CLUB Fri & Sat: Karaoke night. San Carlos.

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

WILLOW DEN Every Wed at 9:30pm: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

COURT’S LOUNGE Mon, Thu & Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Campbell.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat & Tue, 9pm-2am, & last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke.

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Mountain View.

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed. /s/Primitivo MartinezThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/29/2015(pub Metro 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/24/2016)

Santa Clara County on 2/19/2016.(pub) 3/02, 3/09, 3/16, 3/23/2016

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Samantha Cook, 33 S. 3rd St., Apt 406, San Jose, CA, 95113, Samantha R. Yee. This business is conducted by an indivdual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Samantha R. YeeThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/04/2016. (pub Metro FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 3/02, 3/09, 3/16, 3/23/2016)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Innovillis, 1349 Sierra Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, Denise Rehner Mome, LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company Above entity was formed in the state of California.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #614273 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Home Run Limo Corp, 6130 Monterey Hwy, #276, San Jose, CA, 95138, Home Run Limo Corporation. This business is conducted by a corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name

or names listed herein on 11/28/12Refile of previous file #572148 with changes. /s/Bruce CarlsonPresident #C3653375 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/23/2016. (pub) 3/02, 3/09, 3/16, 3/23/2016

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Ngu Long Restaurant and Lounge 1150 Murphy Ave., Suite D, San Jose, CA, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 95131, MATHH Inc. This business is conducted NAME STATEMENT by a corporation. #614272 The following person(s) Above entity was formed in the state of / entity (ies) has / have CaliforniaRegistrant has abandoned the use of not yet begun transacting the fictitious business name(s): MBT Academy, business under the 625 Wool Creek Dr., Suite fictitious business name or names listed herein.

A, San Jose, CA, 95122, Cenorina Delgado, 2997 /s/Anthony DoPresident #C3824354This statement Linburn Ct., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara is conducted by an County on 2/08/2016. individual. Registrant (pub) 2/17, 2/24, 3/02, has not yet begun 3/09/2016 transacting business under the fictitious business name or names FICTITIOUS BUSINESS listed herein. /s/Cenorina NAME STATEMENT Delgado This statement #613509 was filed with the County The following person(s) Clerk of Santa Clara is (are) doing business County on 2/23/2016. as: KSS Carrier, 1643 (pub Metro 3/02, 3/09, Orleans Drive, San Jose, 3/16, 3/23/2016) CA, 95122, Kuldip Singh Sandhu. This business STATEMENT OF is conducted by an ABANDONMENT OF individual. Registrant began transacting USE OF FICTITIOUS business under the BUSINESS #613431 fictitious business name The following person(s) or names listed herein on / entity (ies) has / have 2/01/2016. /s/Kuldip Singh abandoned the use of SandhuThis statement the fictitious business was filed with the County name(s): Healthy Clerk of Santa Clara America, 2523 Glen County on 2/01/2016. (pub Hastings Ct., San Jose, CA, Metro 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 95148, Quynh To. Filed 3/02/2016) in Santa Clara County on 3/19/15 under file FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #602863This business NAME STATEMENT was conducted by an #613569 individual/s/Quynh The following person(s) ToThis statement was is (are) doing business as: filed with the County Touch Creative Agency, Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/28/2016.(pub 15732 Los Gatos Blvd., #435, Los Gatos, CA, Metro 2/24, 3/02, 3/09, 95032, Randall Froh, 10 3/16/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #613023 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: La Famode, 2517 Gerald Way., San Jose, CA, 95125, Mei Zheng. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein 1/15/2016. /s/Mei ZhengThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/15/2016. (pub Metro 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/02/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #613923 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Las Delicias Restaurant, 3130 #B, Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, 95127, Jose Juan Garcia. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/02/04. /s/Jose Juan Garcia This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/10/2016. (pub Metro 2/17, 2/24, 3/02, 3/09/2016)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I do not literally paint

that table, but rather the emotion it produces upon me,” French artist Henri Matisse told an interviewer.

“But what if you don't always have emotion?” she asked him. This is how Matisse replied: “Then I do not paint. This morning, when I came to work, I had no emotion. So I took a horseback ride. When I returned, I felt like painting, and had all the emotion I wanted.”

This is excellent advice for you to keep in mind, Taurus. Even more than usual, it’s crucial that you imbue every important thing you do with pure, strong emotions. If they’re not immediately available, go in quest of them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some night soon,

I predict you'll dream of being an enlightened sovereign who presides over an ecologically sustainable paradise. You’re a visionary leader who is committed to peace and high culture, so you’ve never gone to war. You share your wealth with the people in your kingdom. You revere scientists and shamans alike, providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm. Have fun imagining further details of this dream, Gemini, or else make up your own. Now is an excellent time to visualize a fairy tale version of yourself at the height of your powers, living your dreams and sharing your gifts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s not always

necessary to have an expansive view of where you have been and where you are going, but it’s crucial right now. So I suggest that you take an inventory of the big picture. For guidance, study this advice from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: “What have you truly loved? What has uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?

Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and they may reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of your very self.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Sportswear manufacturer Adidas is looking for ways to repurpose trash that humans dump in the oceans. One of its creations is a type of shoe made from illegal deep-sea nets that have been confiscated from poachers. I invite you to get inspired by Adidas’s work. From an astrological perspective, now is a good time to expand and refine your personal approach to recycling. Brainstorm about how you could convert waste and refuse into useful, beautiful resources—not just literally, but also metaphorically. For example, is there a ruined or used-up dream that could be transformed into raw material for a shiny new dream?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There isn't enough of

anything as long as we live,” wrote Raymond Carver.

“But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, prevails.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Virgo, you'll soon be gliding through one of these intervals. Now and then you may even experience the strange sensation of being completely satisfied with the quality and amount of sweetness that arrives. To ensure optimal results, be as free from greed as you can possibly be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “For a wound to heal, you

have to clean it out,” says author Yasmin Mogahed.

“Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence.

And so much patience.” According to my analysis, Libra, you should be attending to this tough but glorious task. Although the work might be hard, it won’t be anywhere near as hard as it usually is. And you are likely to make more progress than you would be able to at other times.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The other day, lying in bed,” writes poet Rodger Kamenetz, “I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized

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how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.” He speaks for the majority of us. We spend much of our lives entranced by the relentless jabber that unfolds between our ears. But I want to let you know, Scorpio, that the moment is ripe to rebel against this tendency in yourself. In the coming weeks, you will have a natural talent for celebrating your body. You'll be able to commune deeply with its sensations, to learn more about how it works, and to exult in the pleasure it gives you and the wisdom it provides.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his “Dream Song 67,” poet John Berryman confesses, “I am obliged to perform in complete darkness operations of great delicacy on my self.” I hope you will consider embarking on similar heroics, Sagittarius.

It’s not an especially favorable time to overhaul your environment or try to get people to change in accordance with your wishes. But it’s a perfect moment to spruce up your inner world—to tinker with and refine it so that everything in there works with more grace. And unlike Berryman, you won't have to proceed in darkness. The light might not be bright, but there'll be enough of a glow to see what you’re doing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here's the

dictionary's definition of the word “indelible”: “having the quality of being difficult to remove, wash away, blot out, or efface; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.” The word is often used in reference to unpleasant matters: stains on clothes, biases that distort the truth, superstitions held with unshakable conviction, or painful memories of romantic breakups. I am happy to let you know that you now have more power than usual to dissolve seemingly indelible stuff like that. Here’s a trick that might help you: Find a new teacher or teaching that uplifts you with indelible epiphanies.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to poet Tony Hoagland, most of us rarely “manage to finish a thought or a feeling; we usually get lazy or distracted and quit halfway through.” Why? Hoagland theorizes that we “don't have the time to complete the process, and we dislike the difficulty and discomfort of the task.” There's a cost for this negligence: “We walk around full of half-finished experiences.” That's why Hoagland became a poet. He says that “poems model the possibility of feeling all the way through an emotional process” and “thinking all the way through a thought.” The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get more in the habit of finishing your own feelings and thoughts, Aquarius. It will also be more important than usual that you do so! (Hoagland's comments appeared in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Unless you work at night and sleep by day, you experience the morning on a regular basis. You may have a love-hate relationship with it, because on the one hand you don't like to leave your comfortable bed so early, and on the other hand you enjoy anticipating the interesting events ahead of you. But aside from your personal associations with the morning, this time of day has always been a potent symbol of awakenings and beginnings. Throughout history, poets have invoked it to signify purity and promise. In myth and legend, it often represents the chance to see things afresh, to be free of the past’s burdens, to love life unconditionally. Dream interpreters might suggest that a dream of morning indicates a renewed capacity to trust oneself. All of these meanings are especially apropos for you right now, Pisces.

Homework: Imagine gazing into the eyes of the person you were ten years ago.

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HE FOLKS at CreaTV are doing something a tad bit different for this year’s CreaTiVe Awards. The ceremony usually unfolds at the California Theatre, but for 2016 the annual gala will erupt at Club Auto Sport. Each year, CreaTV’s signature awards event, now called the Creatives, doles out accolades to individuals, community access programs, filmmakers, student projects and more.

Member-based, CreaTV is a nonprofit community access TV outlet, media center and public educational nexus that manages the public TV and Internet channels for the city of San Jose. They’ve collaborated with numerous organizations and institutions across the whole town. They’ve supplied multimedia equipment to schools and spearheaded programs. They’re all over the place.

This year’s event promises to be unique in several ways, as Silicon Valley De-Bug, the nationally recognized, San Jose-based media portal and community-organizing cadre of characters, will receive this year’s Leigh Weimers Community Media Champion Award. SV De-Bug

are constantly at the forefront of social justice issues in this neck of the woods. Since their 2001 inception, De-Bug have produced numerous award-winning projects highlighting ignored voices, especially those of youth, immigrants and other marginalized communities. Their projects stir the pot and shake up the landscape. You can call them artists, storytellers or even journalists, more than deserving of the award.

One of De-Bug’s recent efforts is also among the finalists for the Creative Special Award. The film, Exodus from the Jungle, produced by De-Bug’s Andrew Bigelow and Daniel Zapien, documents the closing of what was one of the country’s largest homeless encampments, right here in good ol’ San Jose. A very unhappy film, Exodus from the Jungle provides an eye-opening look at the failed policies of America’s 10th largest city.

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homeless people depicted in the film have their own copies. Those people have now given the film to churches and other community centers, which in turn have now jumped in to assist the homeless in ways they weren’t doing before. The film affected people in ways no one expected.

“I see how the documentary has shaken things up,” Bigelow says. “I think what the documentary does really well is that it challenges people's’ hearts and minds. It engages them to have empathy.

And to personalize this experience, in how it relates to themselves.”

Even if Exodus from the Jungle doesn’t win the category in which it’s nominated, Bigelow says the film has already opened up more dialogue about poverty in the self-proclaimed “capital” of Silicon Valley, especially at a time when San Jose is receiving international press for destroying the Jungle. The entire affair has not been a good look for the city’s image.

“I think it’s so interesting for people that don’t live here, that such extreme poverty and extreme wealth can live next door to each other,” Bigelow says. “I think people that live outside the area, or outside the U.S., are probably thinking, ‘How can that happen?’”

Maybe that’s why the film is being nominated. It asks questions and challenges assumptions. There was no “big data”-assisted research or landmark technology involved. Storytellers took handheld cameras into the encampment right as it was being demolished and captured the moment.

“If you want to learn about poverty, you don’t ask CEOs,” Bigelow says. “You don’t ask people that are crunching numbers. You ask the people who are living it.”

All of which should be hysterical to witness at an opulent bastion of Silicon Valley wealth and real estate panache, Club Auto Sport. The incongruity here is beyond ridiculous: One of the worst homeless camps in the country gets destroyed and cleaned out, thereby distributing the homeless across the rest of the city; young filmmakers produce a heartbreaking film that confronts the issue head-on; and then they receive a Media Champion Award at a diamond-soaked palace of uninhibited excess where C-level executives discuss their Maserati collections.

“The irony is heavy,” Bigelow says.

Apparently, CreaTV agrees.

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