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Don’t Duet Rep. MIKE HONDA is a karaoke legend.

He can go up-tempo; he can sing ballads. ¿Canta en Español? Claro que si. But, to date, Honda hasn’t sung his way out of a congressional ethics probe.

The eight-term San Jose congressman is under investigation for bending the rules on using official House resources to support his past campaigns, as well as trading official access for campaign support. Now, it seems, some of Honda’s supporters may be breaking the rules.

A tipster passed on an email sent last month by LORI RAMOS EHRLICH, CEO of job training nonprofit ConXion to Community, inviting “friends” to a karaoke fundraiser “supporting our favorite Congressman, Mike Honda” at Mexico Lindo in San Jose. The email features a photo of the congressman with a microphone and requests donations of $50 to $250. “You don’t have to sing to support Mike,” Ehrlich writes, “but it sure will be fun watching you try!” While the missive came from a personal email address, Ehrlich included her official work signature and contact info, and invited people to call her at work with any questions.

The email also directs They Did checks to the nonprofit’s What? address. Honda is an honorary ConXion board SEND TIPS TO member. The problem with FLY@ such an email is the IRS METRONEWS. COM forbids nonprofits from supporting or opposing political candidates. Doing so could cost an organization its 501(c)3 tax-exempt status. Fly showed up at the Feb. 18 event to ask Ehrlich about the invite, but she ducked inside before Fly was told to leave the private event. It’s not clear how many more people arrived beyond the seven we counted. Weeks of phone calls to Ehrlich since the event have gone unreturned. The one time we did get her on the phone, she hung up. Honda spokesman MICHAEL BECKENDORF confirmed Ehrlich hosted a campaign event but wouldn’t comment on how money was raised.

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Cordoba Outcry GETS THEIR GOAT Members of the South Valley Islamic Community battle allegations that they intend to start a holy war by building a mosque in San Martin.

Renewed plans for South County mosque stokes Islamophobia

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OR A SMALL but vocal band of self-styled patriots, the Cordoba Center poses an existential threat. They fear the two-story mosque planned for a 16-acre steppe of San Martin will bring Islam one step closer to world domination.

To defend the town of 7,000 from Muslim conquest, the Tea Partyspawned Gilroy-Morgan Hill Patriots have turned to an old ally, Peter Friedman. The soi-disant quranic scholar retired from the aviation trade a few years back to become a firearms instructor, Napoleon buff and antimosque crusader. Come Friday, the impassioned crier behind IslamThreat.

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Friedman is hardly alone in seeing the Cordoba Center as an ominous symbol of one of the most ubiquitous religions on the planet. In a March 6 blog titled, “Rural mosque or Trojan horse?” writer Janet Levy echoed his call for caution, likening the future mosque to an outpost in a holy war.

“Does this project represent a benign construction of a house of worship?” she muses on a conservative website called American Thinker. “[Or is it] yet another orchestrated effort to oust traditional American values and replace them with Islamic practices, laws and beliefs?”

Hamdy Abbass, a South Valley Islamic Community (SVIC) trustee and cofounder, can’t help but let out a sigh.

“They are the loud ones,” says Abbass,

whose group recently revived the mosque project after trying to build it for the better part of a decade. “From day one, they turn to the same old tactics of Islam-bashing and fear mongering.”

Small-town Islamophobia is nothing new, of course. Before a lawsuit sidelined the Cordoba Center in 2012, hearings on the mosque grew so heated that police had to escort a number of hijab-wearing women to their cars. Four years later, the congregation has started anew. But in a political culture marked by talk of a registry for Muslims and religious screening for Syrian refugees, Abbass senses a sharper edge to the discourse.

“The current political climate is beyond inflammatory,” agrees Sal Akhter, the Cordoba Center’s project manager. “It’s downright dangerous.”

At a Feb. 25 meeting in a Morgan Hill community center, more than 200 people showed up to see the expanded scope of the mosque, with its attendant playground, campground, cultural center and cemetery. Nearly 30 of them took to the podium to voice reasonable misgivings about traffic, aesthetics and

the rush-hour commute to the nearest mosque in Santa Clara. Initially, they met in a rented office and then a ramshackle barn, where they remain to this day. The “barn mosque,” as Akhter calls it, sits on a dirt plot surrounded by goats, ponies and jerry-built fences. For larger holiday services, the group rents a Morgan Hill community center.

Abbass says it became clear early on that the assembly of about 100 families needed a permanent home. By 2006, they pooled enough money to buy land at Monterey Road and California Avenue. They named their mosque after the Spanish city of Cordoba, the Moorish capital once deemed Europe’s “Jewel of the Middle Ages.” In 2012—after six years of lobbying, fundraising and emotionally fraught debate—the county Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the mosque and rejected an appeal from neighbors. But a group called the People’s Coalition for Government Accountability sued, forcing SVIC to table the project. Until now.

All the while, SVIC refined its plans. The latest iteration proposes a larger mosque and community hall, a caretaker’s cottage and maintenance shed. Outside the cluster of buildings, blueprints show a cemetery, playground and campground. An orchard would buffer traffic, while native landscaping would blend the parcel’s southern edge with surrounding countryside. Having reintroduced the project, developers can prepare for an environmental review, says Donald Sobelman, SVIC’s pro bono attorney. Once the study wraps up in another year or so, county planning commissioners and supervisors will vote on use and cemetery permits.

Meanwhile, the public will have plenty of chances to weigh in.

SVIC trustees say they’re heartened by support from pastors, rabbis and other religious leaders. Rabbi Debbie Israel, who leads Morgan Hill’s Congregation Emeth, denounced some of the remarks at last month’s meeting as un-American and xenophobic. Abbass says he welcomes debate about the merits of the project. But he knows enough to keep his guard up, he adds, noting the flyer for Friedman’s conspiracy-tinged seminar.

“That tells you that for some people it’s not the water, not the cemetery, not the noise,” Abbass says. “It has everything to do with religious bigotry.”

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pollution. “I’m concerned about the impact on water,” San Martin denizen Karen Harley said, “and the impact on the peacefulness of our community.”

Several attendees called the scale of the Cordoba Center—with its 8,938-square-foot mosque and 14,548-square-foot meeting hall—out of place in bucolic San Martin. They hoisted signs with the bold-lettered insistence that “SIZE MATTERS.” Others waxed indignant about less temporal concerns, like the nature of Islam. Admissions of fighting the mosque for religious reasons elicited claps, shouts and jeers from the crowd.

They called Islam destructive, incapable of coexisting with other faiths. One man suggested that a mosque would incite terrorism in unincorporated South County. A man and a woman uttered thinly veiled threats about how rabbit hunters might accidentally shoot kids running around the mosque.

Anxieties over the Cordoba Center reflect a broader backlash against building minority religious spaces. The Pew Research Center, which keeps track of such disputes, found a nationwide uptick in the number of campaigns against mosque construction. In 2000, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), which protects faith-based assemblies from restrictive zoning. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has since kept a close eye on local compliance as the number of mosques more than doubled to 2,100 by the 10th anniversary of the mandate.

In the last half of 2010, the DOJ launched more investigations into anti-mosque conflicts than it had in the previous nine years combined.

Investigators often found ideological gripes couched in concerns about zoning, parking or environmental impacts. In Santa Clara County, however, the backlash stems not from local government but outspoken neighbors. In 2010, the Santa Clarabased Muslim Community Association found itself in a similar predicament when plans to build a 64-foot minaret drew the ire of a businessman. His appeal called the tower incompatible with the locale. But in public hearings on the matter, detractors railed more against Islam than architecture.

Controversy over the Cordoba Center erupted from the get-go. The SVIC formed in the late 1990s, when a handful of Muslim families grew tired of

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HE MORNING run to Austin is full as usual on the second Thursday in March, and just about everyone is immersed in their devices.

The millennial in the window seat talks to his Netflix colleague about his impending 30th birthday.

Midway through the flight, I paged through Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling’s new Transreal Cyberpunk anthology.

I noticed that my two seatmates had picked up books and gone analog as well, a fitting prologue to the digital days ahead.

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Two years ago, mass surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden’s virtual interview was the mosttalked-about appearance. A couple of years before, Bruce Springsteen. This year it’s President Obama.

Austin, Texas native Hugh Forrest spent the festival’s opening Friday with the 300-member White House security and advance team, “then

sitting around for two hours waiting for it to happen.” While Obama was down the street shaking hands with the kitchen staff at Torchy’s Tacos and offering to buy patrons lunch, Forrest, the young-looking 53-year-old head of the SXSW Interactive, learned, minutes before he walked on stage to introduce the commander-in-chief, that one of SXSW’s four original founders had died.

Then the president walked in and said, “Let’s do this,” Forrest recalls.

“The reason I’m here really is to

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From left: Barack Obama defended the government’s right to search phone data; San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo attended an Aspen Institute policy meetup; Torchy’s Tacos welcomed the President; SXSW Interactive head Hugh Forrest discussed economic impacts.

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BY DAN PULCRANO recruit all of you,” Obama told the audience, which he presupposed was filled with technical wizards who can help him hack some of the nation’s problems. As far as conference speakers go, it doesn’t get any more A-list than that. Every year, the press dutifully reports that SXSW is no longer indie, alternative or cool; that it’s peaked or gone mainstream; that another Twitter, Foursquare or Airbnb is unlikely to spring from its ranks. Nonetheless, the event

continues like a force of nature, with no end in sight.

A few hours after the big event, Forrest is back checking email in the pipe-and-drape cubicle behind the registration counter that serves as SXSW’s command center at the Austin Convention Center. The suit he’d uncharacteristically worn for the introduction hangs next to a freshly-autographed Shepherd Fairey “Hope” poster.

Nick Barbaro, pony-tailed publisher

of the alt-weekly Austin Chronicle and co-owner of the festival, sits in a lounge chair and munches on a trail bar. The son of 1946 Miss America Marilyn Buferd and an Italian submarine commander, Barbaro was raised in Los Angeles and studied film criticism at the University of Texas, where he met fellow film buff Louis Black, his business partner in the Chronicle and SXSW. The festival, originally a music and film event, grew out of “that era of leftist cultural criticism,”

says Barbaro, who writes a weekly soccer column.

He empathizes with Austinites who bemoan the commercialization of an event whose sponsors include Bud Light and McDonald’s, admitting, “Capitalism bothers me.” That ambivalence has not put a damper on a phenomenon that has transformed modern Austin into a boomtown. The festival contributes $317 million annually to the local economy, a festival-commissioned

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CHANGING CITY Art glass installation at 2nd and Brazos; Austin Mayor Steve Adler; SXSW co-founder Nick Barbaro; The Austonian tower; a small protest against the big changes economic impact study calculates, the equivalent of half to two-thirds of a Super Bowl every year.

“We’re not bringing them to an arena and selling them beer, though.

It’s decentralized,” Barbaro notes.

“The whole city is benefiting. For many businesses, it’s their biggest weeks of the year. It’s their Christmas season. I’m kind of proud we are contributing to that.”

More than 35,000 people registered for SXSW Interactive and almost 50,000 historically register for the music, film and education events. At least another 150,000 show up for the parties and overall madness but never bother to buy a badge. “We never thought we would be so successful,” Barbaro understates.

His technical competence doesn’t extend much past email. “I don’t have a Facebook. I tweeted twice. Maybe three times,” he says. “I enjoyed it. I may do it again some day.”

Barbaro also maintains there have been no discussions about selling the event either. “We don’t have an exit plan,” he says with a shrug.

Brand Austin In the early 1990s, Louis Black had taken me and another newspaper editor on a tour of Austin’s clubs, on

the eve of what was then just a modest regional music festival. Austin in those days was a hippie town with a scrappy live music scene, and its downtown was filled with unpaved parking lots.

Its culture was more authentic than cosmopolitan, and Texas’ capitol city was subject to the rises and falls of the oil industry and a five-month flurry of activity in odd-numbered years, when the legislature meets.

How did Austin go from an economic backwater to the place where the President of the United States went to recruit the technical elite, bypassing Silicon Valley? Austin Mayor Steve Adler acknowledged SXSW’s transformative role when he introduced SXSW’s Forrest, “whose legacy changed my city,” to a gathering of U.S. mayors at SXSW earlier this month.

“It helped create this brand Austin,” Forrest told the mayors.

Forrest called the pre-1998 days for the “small, struggling event” a “12-year valley of death.” After six more years of building, “the hockey stick started in 2004. We were in the right place at the right time talking about this social media stuff.”

Attendees enjoyed the music, weather and friendly locals and some were impressed enough to move to town. A few started companies.

Housing prices were still low, just like in the early days of Silicon Valley.

Presently, San Jose and Austin, in that order, are the nation’s top economies, measured by growth in gross domestic output. San Jose residents have the nation’s most patents; Austin dwellers are a close second in innovation.

While our area has the edge in industrial output, Austin outpaces the valley by other benchmarks. While San Jose grew by an impressive 42 percent between 1985 and 2015, Austin more than doubled its population. In the past 10 years, Austin added more than 200,000 residents, double San Jose’s growth during that period. The Austin metropolitan area’s population stands at about 2 million, bigger even than Santa Clara County, which has been one of California’s fastest growing.

Austin has erected 25 highrises in the past 10 years—with nine completed last year alone. If laid end-to-end, the 25 buildings would extend a mile and a half. San Jose during the same period produced seven highrises that would stack up to less than a fifth that high.

(San Francisco built just eight, which would collectively rise three-quarters of a vertical mile.)

Thirteen of Austin’s highrises exceed the height of anything in Silicon Valley.

They include the 56-story Austonian,

the tallest U.S. residential building west of the Mississippi River, overtaking its 44-story 360 Condominiums, which briefly reined as the highest.

The Austonian’s glory will be short-lived, however, as it will soon be bested by a 58-story residential tower with a private theater and dog lounge that residents have taken to calling the “Jenga Tower.” Also under construction: a 50-story, $350 million Fairmont Austin, which at 1.4 million square feet will clock in as the world’s largest Fairmont property. (No slouch, San Jose has some million-plus developments slated, including a mixed-use project near the arena and a planned 4 million square foot Apple expansion in North San Jose.)

Some of Austin’s biggest wins have been small scale, such as the preservation of a neighborhood of small, historic wooden bungalows on Rainey Street, now a hopping bar and restaurant district.

Affordability crisis Celebrity chefs and food show segments are common in Austin.

While it’s still famous for its barbecue joints, one of its top culinary destinations is the acclaimed sushi restaurant Uchi, and newcomer Qui offers a $55 seven-course vegetarian

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tasting menu that would cost at least double that in the Bay Area.

The city that coined the much copied “Keep Austin Weird” mantra is becoming more stylish and less quirky. The glitzy Houston-based Hotel Zaza group will open a 24-story luxury hotel downtown next year. Mayor Adler even tried to spin the anti-gentrification rallying cry with a more corporate-safe interpretation. “‘Keep Austin Weird” means ‘Keep Austin Creative’,” Adler told his fellow mayors.

Red Wassenich, who coined the “Keep Austin Weird” phrase and printed up the first bumper stickers never intended it that way. “It was a small attempt to counter Austin’s descent into rampant commercialism and over-development,” he told an interviewer.

Housing affordability, once Austin’s killer app, is forcing out the musicians and artists who gave the city its distinct personality, as prices for downtown bungalows shoot into the high six figures. A historic Latino neighborhood and community businesses were displaced to make way for the newly-opened JW Marriott and Kimpton-operated Hotel Van Zandt.

“Oh well, kids weren’t very New Urban anyway,” a columnist remarked when Escuelita del Alma was relocated.

Few SXSW conference-goers this month noticed a small but loud group of marchers carrying signs and demanding prosperity “not just for the white and wealthy.”

A pedicab operator told me he moved to Austin five years ago and rented a two-bedroom apartment for $599 a month. Now he’s paying $1,200 for a one-bedroom with the $20 fares he collects pedaling around the downtown.

Austin locals reminisce about the old days of Austin, which was known for “the wave”—a gesture of appreciation when a driver yielded a road courtesy. Now motorists are just as likely to receive a horn blast or onefingered salute.

Austinites talk about the “douchebags” from New York and California who’ve moved to town.

Two members of the food service industry laughed about a bartender who deliberately ignored a patron who started waving bills to try and attract service.

Austin now ranks first among the largest metros for new residents as a percent of total population. California contributed the most new residents.

Mayor Adler hopes to build 100,000 new housing units by 2025, which will make Austin one of the nation’s 10 largest cities.

We saw this coming Silicon Valley’s wake-up call came in 1988 when the computer chip consortium Sematech chose Austin over San Jose for a manufacturing and development center, despite California Gov. George Deukmejian’s $125 million offer. San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery declared at the time that the valley was “in danger of losing our leadership position with the high technology industries.”

A blue ribbon task force of the valley’s government and industry leaders got down to business in 1992 with a flurry of meetings, reports and media announcements. Declaring “the Silicon Valley economy is at risk,” they set out to improve the valley’s transportation systems, expand its housing stock and launch workforce training programs, along with branded schemes like the “21st Century Education Initiative.” While California offered subsidies and a series of “Measure A” sales tax initiatives to widen roads and install light rail tracks, Texas offered no taxes, cheap rents, good music and cold beer.

Magically, Silicon Valley survived and prospered, but it had little to do with public-private initiatives of Joint Venture Silicon Valley or San

Jose’s now-defunct Redevelopment Agency. The introduction of the Netscape browser in 1994 and the touchscreen smartphone in 2007 proved to be the transformative breakthroughs that no committee could have ever wrapped their agendas around.

Today, Silicon Valley’s biggest city is madly trying to catch up by artifying every traffic control box, empty doorway, crosswalk and empty wall it can attack with paintbrushes in a top-down beautification push to degenericize the urban landscape.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo joined mayors from Albuquerque, Sacramento, Baltimore and elsewhere at SXSW this month to discuss subjects such as reinventing civic IT infrastructures and the impacts of contract employment in the sharing economy.

As Liccardo left Austin’s new JW Marriott hotel, a 15-passenger pedalpowered party tram cruised by. Liccardo paused to admire the sidewalk art at 2nd and Brazos, an embedded art glass mosaic ribbon.

He commented on the “spellbinding collection of the brightest creative people here in Austin” for SXSW. Then he stopped mid-sentence, and added with a sigh, “Half of them are from the Bay Area.”

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ROB SCHNEIDER

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

*thu DEAP VALLY

CARMEN LYNCH

The Ritz, San Jose Thu, 8pm, $10-$13

Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale Thu, 8pm, $14-$22

Rock & roll isn’t a life you can just live on the weekends. L.A. garage rock duo Deap Vally recently proved that by conducting an interview with Vice at drummer Julie Edward’s baby shower. The pair sound absolutely ferocious on their recent single “Royal Jelly.”

Produced by Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, the Angelinos pay loving homage to all things sultry in the song’s accompanying video, which features Mick Jagger’s daughter, Georgia. "If you wanna be queen bee, you gotta make the honey,” guitarist and vocalist Lindsey Troy sings. Indeed, with drones everywhere, these girls go for the throne. (MH)

After nearly flunking biology and chemistry in college, Carmen Lynch decided that she probably wouldn’t make a very good doctor. After taking a stand-up comedy class, the six-foot Spaniard found her calling and began cobbling together a bilingual career. She blends deadpan understatement with loony observations and stars in the online series Apt. C3 with her comedian roommate, Liz Miele. The show was birthed while the two were bored and waiting out Hurricane Irene. On her recent Conan appearance, she talked about getting backhanded compliments from middle school teachers who said she should go into modeling because of her height, but neglected to compliment her looks. (JF)

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LORIN FERGUSON FUNDRAISER The Ritz, San Jose Fri, 8pm, $10 Playing in a band and drinking cheap beer at rock shows is not just a passing phase. There’s a reason the word “punk” signifies more than just a genre of music. Within the broader punk community, there is a long tradition of deploying the ecstatic power of guitar, drum and bass for the greater good. Proceeds for this show—which features The Shitkickers, The Forgotten, Hayride to Hell and The Odd Numbers—will go to help Lorin Ferguson, a.k.a.

Rod Comstock, a man who gave a great deal to the San Jose punk scene and is currently battling cancer. Support your loco! (MH)

SANDER VAN DOORN Pure Lounge, Sunnyvale Fri, 10pm, $20 Consistently ranked among the top DJs in the world for the past decade, Sander Van Doorn knows how to make a ruckus. The Dutch producer has spun up remixes for massive artists, including Sia, The Killers and Depeche Mode—all while earning himself residencies at clubs in tropical party destinations, like Miami and Ibiza. His propulsive, clubby compositions build and exhale into springy synth-laden drops that have appeared on the soundtracks of Fast and Furious movies and Halo video games. The music video for “Joyenergizer” features the DJ in a black mask, walking through a dystopian club containing a gasoline fire and KY Jelly fight. (JF)

*sat

ROB SCHNEIDER Improv, San Jose Sat, 7:30pm, $27-$37

This stocky shape-shifter has acted as the foil in 18 Adam Sandler films. He was a dopey delivery man in Big Daddy, a creepy pot head in 50 First Dates and a horny inmate in The Longest Yard. His early career stint on SNL gave American culture such timeless characters as “Ron, the Orgasm Guy,” who cannot contain his excitement for even his most trivial likes.

He wrote and starred in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Now, after a two-decade hiatus, he is returning to the stage with stand-up act, in which he wrangles with the unglamorous rigors of aging. (JF)

* concerts Apr 1 at The Ritz

ELLIE GOULDING

Apr 6 at SAP Center

LOGIC & VINCE STAPLES

Apr 11 at SJSU Event Center

GEOGRAPHER

Apr 30 at The Ritz

SELENA GOMEZ

May 11 at SAP Center

BEYONCE

May 16 at Levi’s Stadium

THE CURE

May 26 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

PRONG

Jun 1 at RockBar Theater

MAC SABBATH & DR. TACO Jun 11 at The Ritz

ELECTRIC SIX

Jun 28 at The Ritz

RASCAL FLATTS

Jul 7 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

STING & PETER GABRIEL Jul 14 at SAP Center

WEIRD AL

Jul 24 at City National Civic

HD AND A-ONE

TESS DUNN

BackBar SoFa, San Jose Sat, 9pm, $15

Streetlight Records, San Jose Sat, 4pm, Free

The Internet has changed things for rappers on the come-up. Back in the day, aspiring emcees hawked mixtapes outside hip-hop shows and record stores in an effort to build their name in the local community. Now, all that work can be done in the digital arena. Oakland hip-hop collective Bearfaced epitomizes this shift—shotgunning the web with releases and music videos, as well as offering stylish merch featuring their logo: a polar bear munching on a stereo. HD and A-One rank as the most formidable artists in their stable. They unspool druggy anthems over chill, dusty beats, spitting rhymes about their persistent struggle to rise from humble beginnings to lavish endings. (JF)

Punky singer-songwriter Tess Dunn is freshly back from Los Angeles where she tracked her fourth EP, Polarity. An inspiration to many, Dunn has made serious strides in the music business, despite battling a multitude of serious chronic conditions. The 21-year-old San Jose resident is a seven-year veteran of the Warped Tour and has been named one of the Bay Area’s Top Artists

by KMVQ-FM—also known as 99.7 Now! At her upcoming performance at Streetlight Records in San Jose, she’ll be performing new songs from the forthcoming Polarity. (NV)

*mon *tue RIMSKYKORSAKOV STRING QUARTET

CSMA, Mountain View Mon, 7:30pm, $10-$20 Formed in 1939 in and based in St. Petersburg, Russia, The RimskyKorsakov String Quartet is named after famed Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov. The quartet, composed of four graduates from the prestigious St. Petersburg Conservatory, specialize in Russian music and most frequently perform the music of Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Taneyev and Stravinsky at festivals around the world. Their upcoming appearance at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View features a program of original works and classics. (NV)

IL VOLO

City National Civic, San Jose Tue, 8pm, $55 Few acts can capture the blend of grand-scale talent and pop sensibilities like this unfairly handsome Italian trio. They follow in the footsteps of the Three Tenors, crafting titanic international hits under their fusion genre of “popera.” They deploy their tremendous vocal range in moody ballads and beloved covers, and with songs in Italian, English and Spanish, they’ve landed on niche charts in multiple countries. Well-traveled and widely respected, they performed at a Nobel Prize concert in Norway, during New York’s 2015 Columbus Day Parade and in front of the Italian Senate for the traditional Christmas concert. (JF)

ADELE

Jul 30-31 at SAP Center

WEEZER

Jul 31 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

KENNY CHESNEY

Aug 6 at Levi’s Stadium

JACKSON BROWNE

Aug 16 at City National Civic

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

Sep 3 at Levi’s Stadium

EVE 6

Sep 8 at The Ritz

JETHRO TULL ROCK OPERA Oct 22 City National Civic

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*stage

*art

CROWNS

MUSEUMS

In response to its smashing reception in 2009, this flamboyantly potent musical that focuses on large church hats and the ladies who wear them 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 by high society, highlights the overwhelming power of the human spirit. Mar 17Apr 17. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company. 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 day-to-day horrors 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.

*concerts 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.

NUMU LOS GATOS

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

CANTOR ARTS CENTER

“Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed” Thru Aug 22. “Edward Hopper: New York Corner” Thru Aug 22. Stanford.

More listings:

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“Gridiron Glory” The Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Thru April 3. Santa Clara.

GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI

A Tribute to Olivier Messiaen and the “Quartet for the End of Time.” Thru Apr 16.

“Permanently Improvised” by Various & Gould. Thru Jun 18.

ART ARK GALLERY

Silicon Valley Open Studios.

Thru Apr 1. San Jose.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM

ART BOUTIKI

NO JOKE The simplistic line drawings of mr. harada tackle complex human emotion.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM

GALLERY HOUSE

Dark Comedy

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

“Bear Witness” Photographs and Interviews by S. Beth Atkin. Apr 8-Jun 10.

California History Exhibit always on display. 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.

SJ MUSEUM OF ART

“Border Cantos,” photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo combine mediums to explore the border. Thru Jul 31. “New Stories From the Edge of Asia” Tabaimo blends reality and make-believe. Thru Aug 21. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES

“Blanket Statements” by Kaffe Fassett. Thru Jun 28.

San Jose.

Monthly Midtown Beat Show.

San Jose.

“Spacial Memories” Joyce Savre, Sydell Lewis. Thru Mar 26. Palo Alto.

KALEID GALLERY

One Thousand Thousand: The First Third Retrospective by Jason McHenry. San Jose.

MACLA

18th Latino Art Now! Auction and Exhbition. Apr 1- May 14. San Jose.

MAIN GALLERY

“Stories” by Thru Apr 3.

Redwood City.

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

IT’S TELLING THAT Jeremiah Harada prefers his artistic nom de plume, “mr. harada,” spelled sans proper capitalization. The subjects of his simplistic line drawings tend to be sad sacks, wallowing in the midst of existential crises. And why bother with grammar when the world is a series of cruel jokes at your expense?

Harada’s new show at Seeing Things Gallery, “I’m a Joke,” may just coax a crooked grin out of those with a certain, twisted sense of humor. It will surely prompt some knowing grimaces, as his darkly comic, cartoonish drawings explore feelings I’m a Joke of despair, angst and embarrassment.

Like Seeing Things director Jai Tanju, Hardara is a member of the TiltMode Army—a group of San Jose skaters who, since the mid ’90s, have developed a cult following for their off-beat aesthetic and impressive videos.

Mar 25, 7pm, Free Seeing Things Gallery, San Jose

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“I’m really grateful to have grown up with these guys and skated with them,” Harada says of his TiltMode friends. The relationship also helped him get work designing a series of decks for Enjoi Skateboards in 2004.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Besides his skating background, Harada is known for his extensive art postcard campaign. The postcards exemplify his unembellished, barebones drawing style, featuring odd characters and sardonic slogans.

Watercolors by Made’ Sukerti Berg. San Jose.

“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.

SEEING THINGS GALLERY “IM A JOKE” by Mr. Harada.

Thru Apr 25 San Jose.

TECHSHOP SAN JOSE

Daily Classes offered on Art and Technology. San Jose.

The project began with postcards for friends. “But then, more and more people started catching on. It’s really cool because now I get people from Ireland to China requesting these silly, absurd and subtlety provocative postcards.”

Harada, who recently started contributing to Metro on a regular basis, combines sly humor and silliness in his spontaneous drawings. “I keep it as simple and loose as I possibly can,” he says. “I don’t want to go backwards. I don’t want to erase.” Though endearingly unadorned in execution and tinged with comedy, the work in “I’m a Joke” can cut deep.

“While the show is called ‘I’m a Joke,’ the theme is more, ‘I am something,’” Harada says. “We’ve all felt vulnerable. We’ll all felt like we could fly. I think it’s important for everyone to see in each of us, that these things exist.” —Tad Malone

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Frag Radius CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR The tightly wound procedural thriller, ‘Eye in the Sky,’ follows the trail of decisions and decision-makers behind a single drone strike.

‘Eye in the Sky’ examines emotions behind the ‘kill chain’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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OUTH AFRICAN director Gavin Hood’s military thriller Eye in the Sky is frequently exciting, sporadically dull and ultimately invaluable. The big names, Helen Mirren and the late Alan Rickman, deliver their goods—unselfconscious power on her side, and bilious melancholy on his.

It’s a wider film than the similarly themed Good Kill. Hood shows us the war on terror as a literal world war, being strategized everywhere from the dust to the heavens.

Yet Eye in the Sky truly belongs to Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips). Abdi is the anti-terrorist coalition’s point man, Jama, who keeps surveillance on a heavily guarded compound on the outskirts of Nairobi. This spy pilots an insect-sized gadget, a flying, beetle-shaped drone camera. He poses as a peddler distracting himself with a thumb-operated cell-phone game, while selling buckets at an open-air bazaar. Abdi—a thoughtful, bemused actor—delivers during the tensest moments in this film. The varied military personnel on the coalition are merely risking their careers and their consciences. Jama is the one with his life on the line.

In a tin-roofed house just a few hundred yards from the marketplace

where Jama spends his days hiding in plain sight, there is a secret meeting of al-Shabaab operatives—all guarded by militia men wielding truck-mounted machine guns. Two of the attendees are wanted by both the U.S. and British governments. One is an American citizen. The other an English national.

“Operation Egret,” the mission to capture the deviant duo, is the brainchild of the British Colonel Powell (Mirren), who has been chasing them for six years. At bases as far apart as Pearl Harbor and London, observers wait to view the terrorists’ capture by local military authorities.

That’s when images reveal that the fanatics are preparing to strike again, immediately. At an airbase near Las Vegas, manned by a rookie airman played by Aaron Paul, observers prepare to trigger a Hellfire missile.

The “kill chain” begins. In London’s Whitehall, Rickman’s Lt. General Benson persuades high-ranking yet timid government officials to consent

to the execution of a British citizen.

Amusingly, the dithering intelligence group is called “COBRA.” What stalls the flight of a droneborn missile is the presence of a potential collateral victim, visible to the many watchers of the situation.

There’s a little red-robed girl (Aisha Takow) sitting by the wall of the targeted home, selling loaves of bread on a market’s table. Her decision to stay or go is halting the kill-chain.

Hood sets up this drone strike as if it were Star Trek’s “Kobayashi Maru” test.

“There is no law covering a situation like this,” says Mirren’s Powell. And there is no ingeniously correct action that prevents the killing of bystanders, either through a surprise missile strike or through inaction.

White haired and splendidly uniformed in olive and crimson, Rickman has the final word during his last scene on screen. It’s a memorable parting shot about the mistake of telling a soldier that he hasn’t seen the cost of war. For one last time, we can take in Rickman’s weight and menace, his baleful sensitivity, and the entropic quality of slow words, chilled down to absolute zero.

But, too often, Eye in the Sky boils down to scenes of soldiers looking at computer screens in their bunkers.

Hood persuades, and is himself persuaded, of the occasional necessity of these drone strikes. He shows us a letter-perfect and thoroughly vetted missile launch, studied from all angles. The top politicians may be slightly ludicrous—a Home Secretary, toilet-bound with food poisoning in Singapore, a beefy American Secretary of State, busy playing ping pong with the Chinese delegation. But they do their jobs, and they’re on hand to rule on a state-sanctioned killing.

When the hypotheticals are stacked this high, a viewer has no way out except to agree. It’s like watching an episode of 24, where the terrorists’ hands couldn’t be redder.

The argument that is impossible to accept—even after seeing the brimming eyes of actors playing the soldiers—is that their tears have an equal value to the blood of innocents.

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BOY CRAZY In ‘Hello, My Name is Doris,’ Sally Fields falls for a much younger man.

Lady Gaga in person and witnessed her charm. It’s a strange experience to see an actress evolve from a 1960s beach bunny to an elder stateswoman, but there’s a lot that time hasn’t worn away. Fields plays her comedy in a hushed ladylike voice, and she’s lithe enough to fit into spandex Hello, My when she descends Name is Doris into Brooklyn.

“These people R; 95 Mins. have welcomed me CinéArts, Palo Alto into their world,” & San Jose Doris says, and the Camera 7, Campbell excursion of course is bittersweet. The film doesn’t fire on all cylinders, despite agile support by Natasha Lyonne and Tyne Daly: we’re not allowed to take the crush all that seriously. Still, Fields—in nearly every scene—savors the material and runs with it. Likability has never been her problem, and you see through the age to a strange, merry spirit that never seems too manic pixiesh to bear.

The film isn’t as mordant as Harold and Maude; it’s more like the odd romances of the ’80s, like Sugarbaby and I Hear the Mermaids Singing.

—Richard von Busack

It’s what The Hateful Eight promised to be: the toughest Western since True Grit, complete with awe-inducing snowscapes. It’s dazzling to see how much magnificent desolation is left in our crowded world. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu grounds the violence in the fur trade in the upper Missouri river in the 1820s—the result of a bubble in the price of beaver hides.

Rival groups of Europeans denuded the forest of its creatures, holding off the understandably furious Arikara Indians as they harvested pelts. Scouting for a party of trappers, Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is mauled by a bear and left for dead by his companions. Despite severe wounds and a broken leg, Glass fights his way back to civilization… to confront the man, one Fitzgerald (the ever-impressive Tom Hardy) who abandoned him. What doesn’t happen to DiCaprio’s Glass in this epic, set in the Dakotas, but shot in real-life locations from Tierra del Fuego to British Columbia? Indian attacks, blizzards and the money scene from Jack London’s “To Build A Fire.” A fall off a cliff, a tumble down the freezing river rapids, a cauterization that tops the one in Two Mules for Sister Sara, Gollum-style meals of raw fish and the most vicious bear attack ever filmed for a fictional movie, wrought by a sow grizzly protecting her cubs. As seen from his various melodramas—from Babel to Biutiful, Iñárritu is a stranger to the word “enough.” (Still, the plethora of events includes an intelligent subplot: a chief and some of his companions searching for a kidnapped girl, as if in an inversion of John Ford’s The Searchers.) Within the extremities and occasional nonsense in The Revenant is a superb blood and guts Western, with memorable shock and sweeping visual scope. Hitting age 40, a never-tougher DiCaprio makes you tend to believe this story of hellish endurance.

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With the help of an owlish patent lawyer (Buck Henry) the alien becomes a multimillionaire thanks to several advanced technologies he brought with him from space. Newton can retreat back to the desert while he finances an interstellar ship. But there’s something he hadn’t expected. He develops a kind of love for a maternal housekeeper named Mary Lou (Candy Clark, blending the best qualities of Shelley Winters and Stella Stevens). She introduces “Newton” to something earthlings really love: alcohol.

It’s a true planet crossed romance, and the moment where Mary Lou learns “Newton” isn’t just alienated, but a genuine alien, is portrayed with great revulsion and terror. And yet it’s easy to see how this shock turns into salty, drunken familiarity. Nicolas Roeg (Don’t Look Now) made a film that is heavy on the mood and light on the logic; serious sci-fi aficionados will be furious watching the scene where “Newton” tries to indicate where his planet is: “I’m not an astronomer, but it’s over there (pointing at the horizon).” Bowie is dressed chicly, pioneering the late ’70s avant-garde fashion of buttoned-tothe-top shirts without ties. His hair is hennaed to a radioactive orange hue.

Roeg said recently that it was his way of indicating that “Newton” was prepared for his journey by off-worlders who only knew of Earth from crude color TVs signals. In 1976, audiences stayed away, aiding to the view that Bowie was too weird to be anything but a guest star. Six years after, they showed up in droves for E.T., a 1982 feel-good fantasy of alienhuman healing that’s the exact opposite of this tragedy. The uncut version, with director Nicolas Roeg’s full-frontal love scenes intact, shows what a neglected film this is. (Various streaming services.)

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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976) This was the late David Bowie’s best film—a portrait of an exile suffering a typical exile’s fate, an avantgarde science fiction tale of an alien who comes to Earth and ends up thoroughly probed. Its concerns are far ahead of its time. Who back then worried much about cataclysmic water shortages? The Man in question arrives in New Mexico via interstellar flight. (Roeg uses stock footage of rocket stage separations to indicate it). He carries with him a rack of identical gold wedding rings, which he pawns to get a bankroll. In New York he poses as the reclusive inventor “Newton.”

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MORTALITY SHADES director Michael Showalter’s comedy Hello, My Name is Doris. The slight but endearing plot has an armature—a significant mention of The Glass Menagerie sets the stage. Like poor Laura, Doris (Sally Fields) has been walled-up tending her aged mother, and is gradually turning into a trash-picker and a cat-pamperer. Her brother is even named Tom (Stephen Root), as per the Tennessee Williams’ play.

Doris still works a 9-5, rocking her batty personal style at a chic clothing manufacturer in Manhattan; she’s bedecked with bows and found objects, and a double pair of glasses. Doris has these excellent vintage mother of pearlencrusted cat’s spectacles that she can’t give up, even if she can’t read with them on. Still, her eyesight is good enough to see the new marketing boy, John (New Girl’s blandly cute Max Greenfield). She falls for him hard and fast, even though he’s about 40 years her junior.

Speaking of eyes, they’re the last thing to go on an actress, and Field’s are sharp, dark and expressive. I’d like to speculate that Fields was the subject of Amy Schumer’s “Last F-able Day” sketch, because Schumer had seen Fields

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Everything Zen DHARMA DJ Though he cut his teeth cutting up beats on actual vinyl, master turntablist DJ Qbert has embraced the minimalism of computer-assisted DJ-ing.

DJ Qbert achieves equilibrium balancing old-school turntablism and cutting-edge technology

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UTTING AGAINST THE grain has pretty much always been Rich Quitevis’ thing. The San Francisco-born Quitevis, better known as DJ Qbert, just prefers zagging where others zig. “You ever see schools of fish at the aquarium?” he asks. “They’re all swimming in the same direction but there’s one that’s swimming backwards the other way? That’s kind of who I am.”

It would seem his contrarian strategy has paid off. Over the course of his decades-long career, Q has collected a legion of loyal fans, been praised by fellow DJs, from A-Track to Z-Trip, and proven himself again and again in competitions: he was named the United States’ top DJ at the 1991 DMC World DJ Championship and was voted No. 1 in the America’s Best DJ competition in 2010.

Since he began working the decks in the mid-1980s, Quitevis has sought to push the boundaries of his artform.

With his crew, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, he pioneered the art of the turntable ensemble. Working in unison, the

Piklz trio painstakingly mixed up drums, bass, guitars and other sounds from a variety of different records to create an entirely new song.

It’s an impressive feat, which clearly required both patience and dedication to the craft of turntablism to perfect. And yet, while one might presume an old-school DJ hero like Qbert to be a staunch traditionalist, Quitevis says he isn’t married to the analog techniques he worked so hard to master. In fact, he seems to welcome the computer-assisted DJ-ing revolution and is currently working with Intel to help DJs shrink their rigs even further by creating a mixer with a built-in computer.

“When we were DJing before, we had to bring a bunch of records and equipment along,” he says, explaining his appreciation of technologically assisted spinning. “Laptops replaced lugging around heavy vinyl.”

The new product Qbert is working on with Intel would allow

DJs to ditch their laptops for a microcomputer-powered mixer.

“Some people like to bring a gang of equipment,” he laughs. “I just need a mixer and computer and I’m happy.

Now, everything is literally on one screen on top of your mixer. It helps me keep a sort of Zen mentality.”

In addition to the Intel project, Quitevis is also preparing a new release with his avant-garde collective, Invisibl Skratch Piklz.

The current incarnation of the crew features the San Francisco-based DJ Shortkut and one-time San Jose resident, D-Styles. The new record, 13th Floor, is due out this year.

“It was an experience,” he says of the album, recorded during a marathon session at the Red Bull Music Academy's studios in Tokyo.

“Those guys choose the illest sounds and that’s why we all vibe as a crew.”

Specifically, Q notes, the process of tracking 13th Floor was a learning experience, which is something he is always happy to encounter.

“I learned a lot while making the new album,” he says. “I’m learning as I’m speaking to you right now.

Learning is never ending. There’s all this knowledge from music theory that all these geniuses came up with hundreds of years ago that we’re just starting to apply to what we’re doing. … There’s so much more we can do.”

Qbert says he looks forward to showing San Jose what he’s learned how to do recently at The Ritz this weekend. Presented by Needle to the Groove as part of their “Cosmic Slap” series, the show will also feature live performances by San Francisco future-funk producer and turntablist, Teeko, as well as producer Diamond Ortiz. Local rap hero Rey Resurreccion will host the evening— adding a special live set with Squareweezy from San Jose-based DJ and production crew, The Bangerz.

“I can tell you that I’ll be playing heavy, abstract tracks,” he says. “It’ll be interesting. I practice all kinds of scratches and have lots of new tricks.

I love performing, especially when I catch a vibe; it feels like meditation.”

Nick Veronin contributed to this story.

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Wed, Mar 23 7:30pm: Daddio’s Big Band. Sat, Mar 26, 9pm: Wallace, Snow Apple, Jeff Conley, and Pseudonym. San Jose.

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Every Wed, 10pm: Wi3rd Wednesdays. Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/live country music. Los Gatos.

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NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE 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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Fri, Mar 25, 8pm: Joint Chiefs. Sat, Mar 26, 8pm: Take 2. Los Gatos.

RED ROCK COFFEE Sat, Mar 26, 8pm: Rabbit Quinn. Mountain View.

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Every Sat: Saturday Nite Live Music Show. Cupertino.

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Every Fri: Latin Rock Nights.

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LITTLE LOU’S BBQ Wed, Mar 23, 7pm: Scott Goldberg Trio. Every Thu, 8pm: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fri, Mar 25, 8pm: Corduroy Jim. Sat, Mar 26, 8pm: Mitch Polzak and the Royal Duces. San Jose.

MOROCCO’S WOODHAMS LOUNGE Fri: Live music. Santa Clara.

Jazz/Blues/ World AGAVE Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

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

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/ Sid Morris & Kyle Jester. Thu, Mar 24, 8pm: John Garcia Blues Band. Fri, Mar 25, 6pm: Rick Estrin & the Nightcats. Sat, Mar 26, 6pm: JC Smith Blues Band. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays. Wed, Mar 23, 6pm: Rick Ferguson.

Thu, Mar 24, 7:30pm: Summit 2V1 w/ Michael Vincent. Fri, Mar 25, 8:30pm: Aja Vu and Stealin’ Chicago. Sat, Mar 26, 8:30pm: The Turco Irish Dancers.. Redwood City.

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 24, 8pm: Jessica Jones Quartet.

Fri, Mar 25, 8:30pm: Tiffany Austin Quintet. Sat, Mar 26, 8:30pm: Smith Dobson Quintet. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Sat, Mar 26, 8pm: Seth Elsom.

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CAFE PINK HOUSE Wed/Thu, Mar 23/24, 7:30pm: Jamal Ramirez Group ft. Dayna Stephens. Sat, Mar 26, 7:30pm: Times 4. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Fri, Mar 18, 8pm: Orq Salson. Redwood City.

JJ’S BLUES Wed, Mar 23, 8pm: Rob

SAM'S BBQ Wed, Mar 23, 6pm: Loganville.

Tue, Mar 29, 6pm: Leftover Crow. San Jose.

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.

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

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

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MISSION PIZZA Thu, Mar 24, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Fri, Mar 25, 7pm: Stragglyrs. Sat, Mar 26, 7pm: Beargrass Creek. Fremont.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Every Thu: Acoustics Music Nights. Every Fri & Sat: Acoustics/Bands Music Nights. Campbell.

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BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm: Karaoke Friday Nights. Santa Clara.

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

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

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

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CARAVAN Every Wed, 9pm: Comedy Caravan.

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Karaoke

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COURT’S LOUNGE

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

GALAXY Thu, 9pm-2am: August.

Milpitas.

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

Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

CHARLEY’S LG Wed: EDM Music. Fri-Sat, 10pm: DJ (follows live music).

Los Gatos.

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

JOHNNY V’S Mon: ReToxx. Tue: Trap Shop. Wed: Hip-Hop/Top 40. Thu/Fri/Sat: ’70s, ’80s, ’90s Funk, House. Sun: Slow Jams, Karoake Dance Party.

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

Fri, Mar 25, 10pm: Sander Van Doorn. Sat, Mar 26, 10pm: Aries. Sunnyvale.

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Sun: Karaoke for the Industry.

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KATIE BLOOM’S Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

KHARTOUM

Every Wed: Wingy Wednesdays.

Every Thu: Tanked Thursdays w/ VJ DVS Dave. Every Fri: VJ One. 2nd and 4th Saturdays, 10pm: Dluzion. San Jose.

STUDIO8

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Fri, Mar 25, 10pm: Kravers.

Sat, Mar 26, 10pm: Eden Roc San Jose.

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

MARIANI’S

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7 STARS BAR & GRILL Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

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Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

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Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

RED STAG LOUNGE Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

Every Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke; Every Thu: $2 Drink Night; Every Fri/Sat: DJs featuring a variety of Top 40, Hip Hop, EDM; Every Sun: Service Industry Night (1/2 off drinks w/industry card).

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Of course it’s what’s on the inside that really counts, which is why men’s magazines so often run glossy spreads of stout, good-hearted older women crocheting afghans for nursing home patients.

FaceTime should be renamed UglyfaceTime for what it does to a person’s features, and especially to a woman’s (in lumps, jowls, and eye baggery not apparent in photos).

While the camera is said to add 10 pounds, FaceTime adds 10 miles of bad road. The good news: You look just like a movie star! The bad news: It’s the zombie Orson Welles.

Friends will remind you that your boyfriend loves you and tell you you’re being silly (read: shallow). Some will offer helpful suggestions, like “It's all about the lighting!” They aren’t wrong.

I suggest avoiding light entirely, like by FaceTiming from a dark closet.

Right now, countless readers are getting ready to email me to tell me I’m an idiot. (Hold your fire!) First, male sexuality is highly visual—in a way female sexuality is not. And then there’s what psychologists call “the contrast effect”— how the attractiveness of someone or something changes, depending on the “neighborhood”: how attractive or unattractive the nearby alternatives are. So, you could be an easy 8.5 in Smalltownville

and come to Hollywood—aka mecca for every high school’s golden-blondest cheerleader—and find yourself struggling to hang on to a 5.8.

The contrast effect even holds true for somebody we love. In research by evolutionary psychologists Douglas Kenrick and Steven Neuberg, when men in relationships were exposed to pictures of very attractive women, they perceived their partner as less attractive—and (eek) felt less satisfied with and less committed to her.

Obviously, looks aren’t all that matter. But sexual attraction naturally wanes over time. Best not to help it along with a “just keep your chins up!” attitude about FaceTiming. This isn’t to say you should leave your boyfriend visually starved. You can keep him well-supplied with images of you that you can control: selfies.

These selfies could even be used for a “foreign correspondent” approach to FaceTime—keeping the camera on a still photo of yourself (like when a CNN reporter is on an audio-only connection from a tent outside of Jalalabad).

This will allow you to focus on your boyfriend instead of on another man— one with the medical training to make your cavernous nasolabial folds look less like the place they’ll find Jimmy Hoffa, or your dad’s coin collection.

When my boyfriend and I are on the phone, he won’t sign off with “I love you” if his guy friends are around. Meanwhile, these guys have met me, and most are in relationships. So what’s with his cool act? I know he loves me. Why be embarrassed to say it publicly?—Emotionally Honest There are a lot of ways a man can show that he loves you. Does it really have to be “Hold on, guys, while I give my balls to my girlfriend!”?

Women often think it’s a bad sign if a man won’t go all “wuvvywoo poopielou” in front of his bros. But sex differences researchers Anne Campbell and Joyce Benenson point out that women—the caregivers of the species—evolved to bond through sharing vulnerabilities. This is how they show other women that they aren’t a threat. Men, however, evolved to be in a constant battle for dominance. They succeed socially by displaying toughness,

not giggling behind their hands.

In other words, when you love a man, you show it by not demanding that his phone calls with you end in a social hanging. He’ll feel better, and you’ll ultimately respect him more. Sure, like other women, you may believe you want the “sensitive man”—until you start despising him for his compliance and dump him for someone a little more like an action hero. Those guys are men of few words—words like “I’ll be back” and not “Yes, dear, I’ll be back with a box of super-plus extraabsorbency unscented.”

©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 #613848 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Clout Magazine LLC, 525 N. 7th St., San Jose, CA, 95112.This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #614522 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ChiroBalance Spine & Sport, 590 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126, Derek Ko, 1201 Parkmoor Ave., Unit 1124, San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Refile of previous file #604662 with changes. /s/Derek KoThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/29/2016. (pub Metro 3/09, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30/2016)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Wilbur Wright were kids, their father gave them a toy helicopter powered by a rubber band. The year was 1878. Twenty-five years later, the brothers became the first humans to sail above the earth in a flying machine. They testified that the toy helicopter had been a key inspiration as they worked to develop their pioneering invention. In the spirit of the Wright Brothers’ magic seed, Aries, I invite you to revive your connection to a seminal influence from your past. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to feed a dream that was foreshadowed in you a long time ago.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The task of a writer

is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly,” said Russian writer Anton Chekhov.

Whether or not you’re a writer, Taurus, that is also your special task in the coming weeks. The riddle that has begun to captivate your imagination is not yet ripe enough for you to work on in earnest. It has not been defined with sufficient clarity. Luckily, you have the resources you need to research all the contingencies and you have the acuity to come up with a set of empowering questions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The good news is

that if you eat enormous amounts of chocolate, you will boost your memory. Science has proved it.

The bad news is that in order to get the full effect of the memory enhancement, you would have to consume so much chocolate that you would get sick. I propose that we consider this scenario as a metaphor for what may be going on in your life. Is it possible you're doing things that are healthy for you in one way but that diminish you in another?

Or are you perhaps getting or doing too much of a good thing—going to unbalanced extremes as you pursue a worthy goal? Now is a favorable time to figure out if you’re engaged in such behavior, and to change it if you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When the young director Richard Lester got his big break, he took full advantage. It happened in 1964, when the Beatles asked him to do their first movie, A Hard Day's Night. Lester's innovative approach to the project propelled his career to a higher level that brought him many further opportunities. Writing of Lester's readiness, critic Alexander Walker said, “No filmmaker ... appeared more punctually when his hour struck.” That's what I hope you will soon be doing in your own chosen field, Cancerian. Do you understand how important it will be to have impeccable timing? No procrastination or hemming and hawing, please. Be crisply proactive.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As a young man, the poet

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) left his home in France and settled in Abyssinia, which these days is known as Ethiopia. “I sought voyages,” he wrote, “to disperse the enchantments that had colonized my mind.” You might want to consider a similar strategy in the coming weeks, Leo. From an astrological perspective, it’s going to be an excellent time both to wander free of your usual haunts and to disperse the enchantments that have colonized your mind. Why not find ways to synergize these two opportunities?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): At one point in his

life, author C. S. Lewis had a rude awakening as he took stock of the progress he thought he had been making. “I am appalled to see how much of the change I thought I had undergone lately was only imaginary,” he wrote. I want to make sure that something similar doesn't happen to you, Virgo.

You're in the midst of what should be a Golden Age of Self-Transformation. Make sure you're actually doing the work that you imagine you're doing— and not just talking about it and thinking about it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers,” wrote Agatha Christie. I would add that there are also questions you don’t ask because you mistakenly think you already know the answers. And then there are questions you don’t ask because their answers would burst your beloved illusions, which you’d rather preserve. I’m here to urge you to risk posing all these types of questions, Libra. I think you’re strong enough and smart enough, and in just the right ways, to deal

constructively with the answers. I'm not saying you’ll be pleased with everything you find out. But you will ultimately be glad you finally made the inquiries.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you are enmeshed in

a jumble that makes you squirm or if you are caught in a tangle that stifles your self-love, you have three choices. Here's how Eckhart Tolle defines them: 1) get out of the situation; 2) transform the situation; and 3) completely accept the situation. Does that sound reasonable, Scorpio? I hope so, because the time has come to act. Don’t wait to make your decision. Do it soon. After that, there will be no whining allowed. You can no longer indulge in excuses. You must accept the consequences. On the bright side, imagine the new freedom and power you will have at your disposal.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here's a proposed experiment. Sidle up to a creature you’d love to be closer to, and softly sing the following lyrics: “Come with me, go with me. Burn with me, glow with me. Sleep with me, wake with me.” At this point, run three circles around the creature as you flap your arms like a bird’s wings. Then continue your singing: “Rise with me, fall with me. Work with me, play with me. Pray with me, sin with me.” At this point, leap up into the air three times, unleashing a burst of laughter each time you hit the ground. Continue singing: “Let me get high with you. Laugh with you, cry with you. Make me your partner in crime.” At this point blow three kisses toward the creature, then run away. (P.S. The lyrics I'm quoting here were composed by songwriter Fran Landesman.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In getting

energy from food, we humans have at our disposal over 50,000 edible plants. And yet we choose to concentrate on just a few. Wheat, corn, rice, and potatoes make up two-thirds of our diet, and 11 other staples comprise most of the rest. Let’s use this as a metaphor for the kind of behavior you should avoid in the coming weeks. I think it will be crucial for you to draw physical, emotional, and spiritual sustenance from a relatively wide variety of sources. There’s nothing wrong with your usual providers, but for now you need to expand your approach to getting the nurturing you need.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “We teach each other how to live.” Poet Anne Michaels said that, and now I’m passing it on to you—just in time for the phase of your cycle when acting like a curious student is your sacred duty and your best gift to yourself. I don’t necessarily mean that you should take a workshop or enroll in a school. Your task is to presume that everyone you meet and every encounter you have may bring you rich learning experiences. If you’re willing to go as far as I hope you will, even your dreams at night will be opportunities to get further educated. Even your vigils in front of the TV. Even your trips to the convenience store to buy ice cream.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her poem “Time,”

Piscean poet Lia Purpura wonders about “not picking up a penny because it’s only a little luck.”

Presumably she is referring to a moment when you’re walking down a street and you spy an almost-but-not-quite-worthless coin lying on the concrete. She theorizes that you may just leave it there. It adds next to nothing to your wealth, right?

Which suggests that it also doesn’t have much value as a symbol of good fortune. But I urge you to reject this line of thought in the coming weeks, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wise to capitalize on the smallest opportunities. There will be plenty of them, and they will add up.

Homework: Imagine that seven years from now you will want a new career or line of work. What will it be? Write: Truthrooster@ gmail.com.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Web Design, 667 Modern Ice Drive., San Jose, CA, 95112, Liying Xu. This business is conducted by an indivdual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Liying XuThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/17/2016. (pub Metro 3/09, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30/2016)

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The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Golden Coast Cannabis, 2483 Whitney Dr., #3, Mountain View, CA, 94043, Raymond Larios, Alice Larios. This business is conducted by an unincorporated association other than a partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS name or names listed herein on 6/23/2013 NAME STATEMENT under file #606314/s/ #614473 Raymond LariosThis The following person(s) statement was filed is (are) doing business with the County Clerk as:Bluefire Limo, 3870 Quimby Rd., San Jose, CA, of Santa Clara County 95148, Jatinder S. Gill. This on 2/08/2016. (pub Metro 3/09, 3/16, 3/23, business is conducted by 3/30/2016) a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the FICTITIOUS fictitious business name BUSINESS NAME or names listed herein STATEMENT #614531 on 8/11/2014. /s/Jatinder S. GillThis statement was The following person(s) filed with the County Clerk is (are) doing business as: Alberto’s Farm, of Santa Clara County on 1465 San Pedro Ave., 2/26/2016. (pub) 3/09, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30/2016 Carlos Diaz. This FICTITIOUS BUSINESS business is conducted by a individual.

NAME STATEMENT Registrant began #615131 transacting business under the fictitious The following person(s) business name or is (are) doing business as: names listed herein Pirata Trucking, 415 Aldo Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95051, on 01/01/16./s/Carlos DiazThis statement was Israel H. Gonzalez. This business is conducted by an filed with the County individual. Registrant began Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/29/2016. transacting business under the fictitious business name (pub) 3/16, 3/23, 3/30, or names listed herein on 4/06/2016 1/18/16. /s/Israel H. Gonzalez This statement was filed FICTITIOUS with the County Clerk of BUSINESS NAME Santa Clara County on STATEMENT #614872 3/15/2016. (pub) 3/23, 3/30 4/06, 4/13/2016 The following person(s) is (are) doing business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS as: Debt Resolution Attorneys, 2670 South NAME STATEMENT White Road, #275, San #614592 Jose, CA, 95148, Cara The following person(s) Johnson. This business is (are) doing business is conducted by a as: Upstyle Apparel, 1045 individual. Registrant Lewis Street, #4, Santa began transacting Clara, CA, 95050, Kasandra business under the Solorio. This business is fictitious business conducted by a individual. name or names listed Registrant has not yet herein on March 1, 2016. begun transacting business /s/Cara H. JohnsonThis under the fictitious statement was filed business name or names with the County Clerk of listed herein./s/Kasandra Santa Clara County on SolorioThis statement was 3/07/2016. (pub) 3/16, filed with the County Clerk 3/23, 3/30, 4/06/2016 of Santa Clara County on 3/01/2016. (pub) 3/09, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30/2016

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Amazing Pet Companion, 350 E. Taylor St., Apt 8207, San Jose, CA, 95112, Laura Warecki. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Laura WareckiThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/08/2016. (pub) 3/16, 3/23, 3/30, 4/06/2016

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Bigger Picture Photographic, 156 Red River Way, San Jose, CA, 95136, Eric J. Davis. This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/14/2016. /s/Eric J. Davis This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/14/2016. (pub) 3/23, 3/30, 4/06, 4/13/2016

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sunny Acres Collective, 900 E. Hamilton Ave., #100, Campbell, CA, 95008, KGS Association. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/3/16.Above entity was formed in the state of California/s/Matt VigilPresident#14716 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/03/2016. (pub Metro 3/16, 3/23, 3/30, 4/06/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #614352 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Garden to Table, 651 Macredes Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Garden to Table Silicon Valley. 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 8/05/2013.Refile of previous file #579157 with changes. /s/ Zach LewisExecutive Director#3548174 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/24/2016.(pub) 3/09, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30/2016

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bubbala Productions, 1314 The Alameda #336, San Jose, CA, 95126, Robert S. Young, Scott Goldberg, 251 W. Capitol Ave., Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on March 15, 2016. /s/ Robert S. YoungThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/15/2016. (pub) 3/23, 3/30, 4/06, 4/13/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #614963 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Blue Rhino Insurance Services, 345 E. Santa Clara Street, #207, San Jose, CA, 95113, Luat Nguyen 2161 Osborne Cir., Hollister, CA, 95023, Du Nguyen, 3015 Wall St., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Luat NguyenThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/09/2016. (pub) 3/23, 3/30, 4/06, 4/13/2016

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GRAINY UNTITLED photograph by Marcy Stoeven depicts an abandoned apartment.

Broken glass, a destroyed fridge and scattered plaster comprise the subject matter. In the text panel, Stoeven writes that her PTSD came from domestic violence, resulting in a sense of isolation.

She often can’t get out of bed or pay attention to anyone’s stories.

She wants to connect, but doesn’t know how. “I’m a photographer and often take pictures of abandoned

buildings, maybe as a metaphor for my sense of isolation.”

Stoeven’s photo is only one of several artworks, all part of PTSD Nation: Art and Poetry From War, Gun Violence and Domestic Abuse, currently occupying the Jennifer & Philip DiNapoli Gallery on the second floor of the MLK Main Library until April 28. Through dozens of visual works, writings and stories, the exhibit rams it home that PTSD is not even remotely limited to those with military combat experience.

The exhibit unfolds in five different sections, accompanied by numerous hanging scrolls with explanatory information. “Our Harming Traumas: How PTSD Found Us” depicts the condition as a room, common in America, although many come into that room through different shaky

doors. For example, one can grow up in a dysfunctional household, witnessing domestic violence or emotional abuse for years and then develop PTSD. Having relatives or friends die from gun violence, anywhere, can also result in similar symptoms. Everyone trembles and bleeds equally. Whether the triggered traumas are physical or psychological, all survivors share an element of recurring terror, in that they simply don’t feel safe.

That’s just the first section. The next scroll, “Our Brains (And Lives) On PTSD,” explains in common language the mechanisms of the brain and nervous system, and how they’re different in people with PTSD. Another section, “What Impedes Our Healing: Triggers and Retraumatizations,” will be especially revealing for many. Aside from incidents triggering feelings of trauma, survivors might also experience retraumatizations, which are different.

In such cases, your brain is practically rewired into its most limited capacity to protect itself against perceived danger.

Seemingly minor inconveniences or frustrations—things non-PTSD people would claim are just part of everyday life—might have dramatic effects on people already emotionally raw with PTSD, people who already exhibit vulnerability, a lack of ego strength or limited personal power. These retraumas can be devastating, adding new dimensions of not feeling safe.

In a mixed media work, “I Should Have ...” by Julia Marshall, different layers of the work represent different layers of healing. Marshall, a combat veteran, explains in the accompanying text panel that after a military friend of hers committed suicide, the empathy she felt for him was balanced by the rage she felt toward a system that left both of them broken and alone. For those with PTSD, just viewing violence in daily life, being treated abusively, or seeing others being treated abusively, can often trigger conditions that further impede healing.

Which brings us to the last few sections of the show: “Healing: The Power of Kindness and Other Modalities” features even more visual artworks, poetry and explanatory information. Some of the artists explain how the creative process was part of their self-therapeutic journey. At the end of the exhibit, tips for survivors, loved ones and communities are listed on more hanging scrolls. For individuals with PTSD: learn everything you can about the condition and be your own gentle monitor of your symptoms. Keep telling your story. Tell it to a journal if no one safe is available. For the public: consistently treat each person with tender kindness and dignity. For society: establish free PTSD support groups in every community.

No matter how much the viewer might think he or she knows this material, something in the exhibit will hit close to home, and maybe even manifest new degrees of empathy.

The final section leaves the viewer with a distinct sense of hope. “A Wall of Heroes: Healing, Capable, and Deserving of Praise” presents a grid of 32 examples of people with PTSD who’ve gone on to become artists, writers, educators, counselors and many other professions, all talking about how they’ve dealt with the condition.

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Upscale funk appears to be the style George Sanchez has cultivated since his 2011 relaunch of neighboring Chacho’s, a Mexican bar and restaurant that looks like Frida Kahlo and Dia De Los Muertos had a baby that exploded out of a pink piñata. Old pieces of luggage headline the upper areas of Deluxe’s walls and a lounge area in the back has retro leather couches and chairs.

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S NEW BUILDINGS sprout up around the valley, Mr. Harada and I sit back and casually observe the action from behind a pen and bar tab. Certain architectural trends and styles are more prominent than others, but one look keeps popping up as we pogo around town: the Mediterranean revival.

It’s a fitting look for these parts, considering our climate shares similarities with parts of Italy. The execution, however, is often reminiscent of Brad Pitt’s accent in the final scenes of Inglorious Bastards: “Buongiorno progress!”

But we have a soft spot for one Southern European-influenced locale more than a century old: Hayes Mansion (est. 1905). The South Bay gem sits within some of San Jose’s most forgettable roads: Branham, Chynoweth and Monterey. These bits of tarmac are our worst offenders of urban sprawl, but they also lead to a watering hole that is anything but a hole in the wall.

Mr. Harada and I were told the Palm Plaza Lounge was a lot better than the name sounded, so we had to investigate. Because of a scheduling error— my Palm Pilot refuses to auto-update daylight savings time—Mr. Harada and I arrived separately. I came down a lamp-less road next to a mobile home park and assumed I had been kidnapped before the driver turned into the driveway.

The simple act of arrival is monumental if you’re heading to the Palm Plaza Lounge for the first time. The name recalls a strip-mall dive tucked between a Vietnamese nail salon and shady tax attorney, but you end up in a sprawling, luxurious South Bay mansion. The lounge is the door on the port side of the main entrance. The outfitted patio is filled with sparsely attended furniture, and the place is ready to host hundreds but usually remains quiet.

Happy hour, from 4-6pm every day, serves craft drafts for $4 a pint and includes $6 small plates, making it perhaps the best weekend deal around. It’s a bit of a journey, but guests will not be disappointed. The adjacent park, with BBQ and tennis courts and manicured grounds, provides an unusually serene spot for great food and cheap drinks.

Palm Plaza stays open until around 10pm, and while I considered axing this column to keep it hidden forever ... actually, forget everything.

Mr. Harada and I visited the Cheesecake Factory. It was awesome. We don’t know what the Hayes you’re talking about.—Tomek Mackowiak PALM PLAZA LOUNGE 200 Edenvale Ave. San Jose. 866.981.3300

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