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WO NOTEBOOKS, brimming with secrets, sat for years in a drawer under gift wrap and ribbons. Beside them, a manila envelope stuffed with phone records, hotel bills and receipts.

“I didn’t know what it was, but I knew it was for me,” says Alison, who asked to withhold her surname for privacy’s sake. “It seemed like God lined up a sequence of events that led me to my mom’s diaries at that moment. I wouldn’t have been able to handle them any sooner.” A few years ago, she continues telling her support group, mid-life soul-searching led her spouse, who

was adopted as a baby, to reconnect with his birth parents. Tragedy followed. His mom died; then Alison’s. A year-and-a-half later, while discussing how one of their sons might be gay, her husband of two decades came out of the closet. “Several things in a short span of time really rocked my foundation,” Alison tells the six people gathered for a recent Straight Spouse Network meeting in Sunnyvale. “We tried everything.” They went to couples therapy and opened the marriage to other partners. That, too, fell apart. They now take turns staying at the home they once shared to spend time with their three school-age children. That the journals turned up just a week ago seems, to Alison, divinely timed. When her dad asked for help moving steel cabinets from one room to another, she dismantled them

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8 inextricably linked to his identity escaped her notice. In his honor, she became a devoted ally to the LGBT community. She marched in a parade with a sign that read, “I love my gay son.” She began volunteering for the nonprofit Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). “That was the beginning of parents sticking up for their gay kids,” says Miller, who is slight and meticulously kempt, her white hair cropped close in a pixie. “But while some people were celebrating the fact that they had gay kids, I began hearing about these straight spouses who weren’t seeing a reason to celebrate.” Social, religious and family pressures have forced men and women into the closet from time immemorial. As growing acceptance and landmark victories—such as last year’s Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex unions— embolden more people to claim their true identities, that sometimes means leaving a straight partner behind. On the cultural front, these relationships between straights, gays, lesbians and transgender men and women have figured into Netflix shows Frankie and Grace and Orange is the New Black and Caitlin Jenner’s real-life coming-out. Amity Pierce Buxton founded the Straight Spouse Network 30 years ago in Oakland after the father of her two children and husband of 25 years came out as gay. For a time, Miller had PFLAG direct the straight spouse hotline to her personal phone and would send people to Buxton’s support groups. She eventually realized that Silicon Valley needed its own chapter and began hosting meetings in her Sunnyvale home. By Buxton’s count, about 2 million American couples find themselves in Alison’s quandary, though stigma and denial make it tough to get an exact number. People marry mismatched partners for complex reasons that may include discrimination but also real affection, wishful thinking and the shape-shifting ambiguities of sexual attraction. Still, the split can send the abandoned spouse into a crisis of identity and faith in their own judgment. “Before every rainbow, there is a storm,” Miller often says. When Alison reveals her family secret, her support group peers—

who asked to use pseudonyms to protect their families from gossip— widen their eyes. “They say children are drawn to men who are similar to their father,” says David, who sits just left of Alison at Miller’s dining room table. “Maybe there was something there that made you feel comfortable with your husband.” Alison nods. “I mean, when I look at a woman now, I’m cautious,” continues David, who lost his pastor wife to another woman in the church choir. “I think, ‘Is she gay or is she straight?’” “Me, too,” says Mary, a British ex-pat whose Orthodox Jewish exhusband lived a double life, dating similarly closeted husbands for decades before their split. “I mean, what if there’s something about me that’s attracted to gay men?” Evelyn, who warns the group that she can only talk about this with a heavy dose of expletives, shakes her head. “But we had sex all the time,” she says in exasperation, adding that she enjoyed 20-some-odd years of relative bliss before her ex’s jarring pronouncement right before her 50th birthday. “That was never a problem. How do you fake that? I don’t know. I really don’t. When I married my husband I was dating three guys and I picked the fucking asshole.” That may be the most difficult part to understand, Mary says. She often wondered whether her husband willed his erections by thinking of other men. Another attendee—Eric, whose wife left him for her best friend after he uncovered their affair— remarks on the irony of some of their gay spouses being so homophobic. “I think it comes from fear,” Mary says. “Even if they’re living a homosexual life, it’s been suppressed for so long that it sort of deranges the psyche. There’s a lot of anger there. But for the straight spouse, too. Because you gave your life to this person, but didn’t realize that you signed separate contracts.” Eric says he was never angry with his wife. Well, maybe about the deception. “All I know is I can’t watch lesbian porn now,” he says, eliciting laughter from the group. Alison says her focus has shifted from obsessing about her ex to finding her own happiness. “I do believe my mom came to this group,” she says. “That would have been around 2000.” Miller tells Alison to bring a photo of her mom next time. Maybe it will jog her memory.

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N THE ORDER she got them, Amy Cohen has: a drawing by Leonard Cohen, a bouquet of flowers, a lantern, a ship bursting from a bottle, an hourglass and a wreath— “originally designed for the mannequin in the exhibit,” she says, hinting at what visitors to the McKay Gallery in History San Jose will see, should they visit the new exhibit, “Tattooed and Tenacious: Inked Women in California History.”

Cohen, the exhibit’s curator, got the idea from her own body art, and also from her line of work. She holds a degree in Museum Studies, and in 2014 she found herself working at Hayward Area Historical Society with an un-inked colleague, curator and archivist Diane Curry. “We would talk about tattoos a lot,” Cohen says, recalling her time at the Historical Society. It was Curry that recommended she consider an exhibit on tattoos. “When I sat down and started to do research, I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is huge.’” She eventually narrowed down the focus to women living in pre-World War II California—all of them tattoo artists and/or tattooed. “That’s a story people don’t really know,” Cohen says.

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TABOO YOU? Conventional wisdom tells us that only sailors got tattoos during the middle of the 20th century in America. However, women have been getting inked for a long time and today sport more body ink than men, according to a new San Jose History exhibit.

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Ink photographs by Greg Ramar

nyone with an exposed tattoo, at some point, has been on the receiving end of an inane question about the meaning behind his or her ink. The inquiry usually has less to do with genuine interest than a person simply wanting to judge the validity of the answer. Such a requirement, of course, runs counter to the entire point of body modification.

It’s art, it’s self-expression, it’s a yawning up-your-ass to corporate dress code, it’s celebrating one’s accomplishments and/or the life of another. Most of all, it’s none of their damn business. Women face a greater burden when it comes to explaining, or worse having to justify, their various forms of body modification, whether it’s piercing, ink, scars or even biohacking: the recent trend of implanting LED lights under the skin. Thankfully, the definition of what it is to be feminine has never been more fluid. When we sent Greg Ramar across the Bay Area to photograph women and interview them about their tattoos, we tasked him with the dreaded question with a minor tweak: instead of asking women what their tattoo means, he asked what their tattoos mean to them. What we learned was beautiful. Ask a woman a real question, with respect, and she’ll give you a real answer. These photos and interviews tell the story of life lessons, loved ones lost and the meaning behind art as flesh and blood. — Josh Koehn

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Evins are graduates of Cohen’s same Master’s program, and they went to Hayward to see the initial showing last summer. “When we went up there, we were like, ‘Wow, this is so cool,’” Middlebrook says. Cool, yes, but there’s more to it than that—something that connects with the blue-collar side of Silicon Valley: new immigrants, auto mechanics, the punk-rock

suburbanites, and the descendants of farmers and fruit packers. Though the South Bay is highly diverse, it also has a rep as little more than a sprawl of business parks and bedroom communities—the place where computers are made by day before going to sleep by 8 o’clock every night. This exhibit works to expose clichés for what they are by shining a spotlight on the many outsiders who populate San Jose and its neighboring cities. “I’ll be honest—I’m a middleaged white man,” says Middlebrook,

who worked with Cohen to put the exhibit together, “and the stories of hardships and people being downright mean to you, I haven’t experienced.” Working on this exhibit, he says, made him consider the hardships women faced, and still face, in the tattoo industry. “The plight that they went through just trying to work in their profession, that really resonates; how people overcome adversity. I think it’ll resonate with our audience— new immigrants, people of color.” The history of women in tattooing

and tattoo collecting goes back further than most people realize. The exhibit traces evidence of female tattooing back to Native cultures in California and shows that body ink wasn’t always such a taboo—even on women. “They weren’t really accepted in the way that people would walk around showing them off,” Cohen says, “but there wasn’t this view that people with tattoos are inherently immoral.” The notion that tattoos signify a lack of education or gainful employment wasn’t as prevalent before World War II. They were mostly associated with

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32 | MASSAGE THERAPIST | CAMPBELL I have half my sleeve—it’s not completed—but it’s of a bunch of different things: flowers, hummingbirds and dragonflies. They mostly signify a lot of the family struggle that I had to go through, and persevering through and overcoming all of that by expressing myself through positive outlets, such as singing. And it’s about finding positive outlets to kind of pave a way for my artistic abilities, to kind of express my inner angst. And it’s a daily reminder to keep going forward and look for the positive things and to constantly try to be that beautiful light in someone’s life.

Alyssa Maich 33 | MATERIAL SCIENTIST | BERKELEY My chest piece is a Japanese phoenix. It basically symbolizes a new era, rebirth. It symbolizes the yin and yang with the dragon. It’s got a lot of different meanings, depending on what different culture your looking at. I chose this one because it was the start of a new era for me. I usually get a new piece around some new point in life—this was for grad school. So, I’m due for another one because I just graduated.

Christine Shea 37 | ART THERAPY COUNSELOR | SAN JOSE My arm piece is a three-quarter sleeve and the significance behind it is I helped organize a festival in 2002. It was called Lady Fest Bay Area, a five-day festival made by women for women, and I created the logo. Five of the festival’s members had surprised me with tattoos at the time. I always swore I would get a tattoo of it when the time was right, and I made it a complete sleeve. It’s something to help remind me that I can do whatever I put my mind to.

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sailors, but even that wasn’t quite correct: “Women have been getting tattoos for a long time, and the women who have been getting them are from many walks of life,” says Cohen, noting that the tattoos women have historically put on their bodies don’t fit neatly into any sort of category. Women have inked themselves with portraits of cars, flash illustrations and much more—not just small, demure pieces seen as non-threatening in today’s corporate culture. One fascinating tidbit gleaned from the history of tattooed women

working circus sideshows: the stories they told the gawking crowds, as well as the tattoos themselves, changed with the times, and as such they served as a way of tracking the cultural zeitgeist. In the 1800s, the women would spin yarns centered around being captured by Native Americans, says Cohen, recounting stories she discovered. In one, a band of Natives captured the woman and tattooed her as their own; in another, a concerned father gave his daughter a special tattoo so he could find her in case anything happened to her in the

uncharted West. But that all changed. “In the 1910s and the Roaring ’20s, the West was no longer as fascinating,” Cohen explains. And so, all the stories the tattooed ladies told revolved around matters of the heart. It was “all about love and romance—(they) got tattooed by a boyfriend to show commitment.” Both Cohen and Middlebrook hope the exhibit leaves an imprint on observer. “That’s the theme,” says Middlebrook, “to not judge people by the color of their skin and

appearance, but also the piece of art they have on their skin: ‘Oh! You are human.’ These female collectors, they’re not sex objects. They’re not gangsters. They’re humans.” THRU

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TATTOOED AND TENACIOUS: INKED WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA’S HISTORY

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Lindsay Brown 28 | HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER | CAMPBELL NATIVE My chest was a significant piece to me, because it took my two and half years to complete—lots of pain, lots of money and ideas went into it. The initial reason why I decided to get it in the first place is really unknown. I just woke up one morning and was like, ‘you know what, I really want my chest tattooed.’ I started looking up ideas and the guy that I was going to… drew up something really cool and I tweaked it a little bit. He was really perceptive of my ideas, and we just started going to work. Two and a half years later, we just incorporated everything that I find to be beautiful: your heart, the pain that goes behind the things that are in your heart, your soul, love, hate, anger, everything gets kind of shown—and then it kind of branches out to be a beautiful foliage-looking thing. I don’t really know how to describe it—it has two of my favorite flowers.

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Davi Kerley 53 | INVENTORY SPECIALIST | SAN JOSE NATIVE On my left arm is a tribute to my mom and stepdad, who I both lost to lung cancer. So, it’s about lung cancer awareness and they both had a love of hummingbirds, so that’s what this is.

This is my half-sleeve. There’s a lot of family history to it. It’s in memory of my great uncles, Meryl and Skippy, and they were both figure skaters, very well known back in their day. They passed away in 2012. They were in World War II and they were in the 10th Mountain Division, the Special Forces of their time, and they were the ski troops. They got released on the weekends to go and figure skate and put on shows. They did everything from slapstick comedy to actual figure skating. Had it not been for World War II, my uncle Skippy would have been in the Olympics—he actually qualified. Uncle Skippy and Uncle Merle were the first to do backflips on ice. They’re in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!

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Kristen Thoeni 32 | PHOTOGRAPHER | SALINAS My memorial piece for my grandmother is probably the most important tattoo I have. All of my tattoos tell a story, but this one is really special to me, because she raised me and it was really hard to see her go. So, by having this piece I get to look at it every day and know she is with me, because there are some of her ashes in it.

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The biggest one I have was a reward and also serves as a reminder for the learning I gained through two years of weekly group therapy. To kind of come to terms with things in my family, things in my relationships, things that I deal with in daily life; I got it as kind of a graduation gift to myself when I finished therapy. I wanted a reminder to stay true to myself and to be truthful to other people, so it is the Latin word “VERITAS” on my back in mirror image.

Out of all my tattoos, I would choose the memorial tattoo that I got for my Dad when he passed away a couple years ago. I would honestly have to say out of all my tattoos I’ve gotten over the years, it’s the only meaningful tattoo—everything else I have is just random stuff I like, and this is actually meaningful compared to everything else I have on my body. (Galvan actually tattooed someone while doing this interview. —Editor)

The phoenix on my arm is representative of myself. I went through a really hard time: I lost my sister to suicide; I lost my father to suicide by cop and my mother to a massive stroke— all in a really short period of time. So, the Phoenix is me. It’s rising from what could have taken me to a really dark place. I feel like it brought me into the light more.

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*wed ELLIE GOULDING SAP Center, San Jose Wed, 7pm, $60 The year after she starred as the Scarecrow in her high school production of The Wizard of Oz, Ellie Goulding found electronic music. Her textured soprano seems tailor-made to sit atop the springy beats and crystalline synths of modern pop. She rumbles through steamy bedroom coos, belts glass-shattering high notes and warbles deep ineffable pains. On top of this, she’s mastered the art of vocal-layering into a rounded, distinct sound. Her mega-hit, “Love Me Like You Do” builds upon trash-can snares, ballad piano chords and glittery swooshes into a stuttering crescendo hook that will rattle in your brain for the next week. (JF)

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It may sound newfangled, but Silicon Valley Robotics is hosting its seventh annual Robot Block Party—the longest-running and largest event in National Robotic Week history. Everything from fun gizmos to the latest in robotics technology will be on display, including SoftBank’s humanoid robot, Pepper. Representatives from RoboTerra, SICK Sensors, MOTI and more will also be on hand. This family friendly event requires an RSVP, but is otherwise free to attend. No prior knowledge of robotics is required, just a healthy curiosity. (TM)

Too often pop music falls into repetitive gestures, as though music is all just a matter of shuffling around the same old instruments, cultural tropes and imagery. But then you get someone like Joanna Newsom. Her approach has been to simply do whatever she wants. A harpist with an immediately recognizable voice, Newsom has worked with everyone from director Paul Thomas Anderson—playing the role of Sortilège in the Joaquin Phoenix-starring Inherent Vice— to The Roots, collaborating with Jimmy Fallon’s house band on the 2010 song “Right On.” (MH)

*fri CROWNS

Tabard Theatre, San Jose Fri, 8pm, $15-$40 Thanks to popular demand, Regina Taylor’s vivacious musical Crowns is returning to the Tabard Theater. An adaptation of the Michael Cunningham’s 2000 book Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, Taylor’s Crowns uses the tradition of female church hat fashion as a catalyst for a wildly imaginative and joyous story about coming to terms with yourself—and more importantly, the idea of coming home—with each of the main characters hats’ acting as a visual allegory for their lives. The play will feature its celebrated original 2009 cast. (TM)

THE BEARD OF AVON The Pear Theatre, Mountain View Fri, 8pm, $10-$35 Shakespeare’s true identity has always been fodder for historical reimaginings. It has been floated that Sir Francis Bacon was, in fact, the man behind the quill. Others have suggested that the bard was actually Christopher Marlowe. Playwright Amy Freed uses this intellectual speculation as the basis for The Beard of Avon. A whimsical tale of a conspiracy between stage managers, Queen Elizabeth I, and others to keep the authorship of Shakespeare’s works a secret, Avon revises the past with wit and a great deal of imagination. It also serves as a love letter to the world of theatre. (TM)

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THE PURPLE ONES The Ritz, San Jose Fri, 8pm, $15-$20 Prince recently visited Oracle Arena, where he sat courtside as the historically great Warriors played The Thunder. He wore navy blue silk, wielded a silver scepter and left at halftime, without explanation. But after seven Grammys and over 100 million record sales, Prince doesn’t have to explain anything to anyone. Ever. The living legend stands apart for his unrestrained flamboyance, absurd vocal range and savant capabilities on a mythic array of instruments. To do his rich and diverse discography justice, The Purple Ones bring together 10 accomplished musicians from nationally renowned groups, including Huey Lewis and the News and Pacific Mambo Orchestra. (JF)

THE DARKNESS

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The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Fri, 9pm, $25

O’Malley’s, Mountain View Sat, 8pm, Free

Back in the early 2000s, The Darkness stormed U.S. airwaves with the unapologetically decadent single, “I Believe in a thing Called Love,” from their grandiosely titled One Way Ticket to Hell…and Back. They may have only had one hit in America, but with their unabashed guitar heroics, arena-ready riffs and dog whistle-soprano lead vocals the U.K. outfit helped give the platform soul boot to all of those obnoxious post-grunge balladeers that had been ruling alt-rock airwaves—paving the way for the true spirit of rock & roll to return to the FM dial. (MH)

When it comes to metal, San Jose rolls deep. The city has long been a mecca for punishing guitardriven music. Sleep, arguably the most influential stoner metal band of all time, arose from the hazy practice spaces of our hallowed city; KFJC’s legendary DJ Cy Thoth took his press photos in front of the Rosicrucian Museum; on any given night, The Caravan is being ripped apart by ruthless cadre of local grindcore bands; and if you’re in the know, there are plenty basements around town, which regularly host PBRfueled power violence parties. Enigma rep their city hard with a highly technical blend of death metal and deathcore. (MH)

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA

Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz Tue, 7pm, $31 Unknown Mortal Orchestra is an example of the strange new narratives in today’s music industry. In 2010, a lone single was uploaded to an anonymous Bandcamp page, with no attribution or indication of who may have been responsible for producing it. Subsequently found and shared by music bloggers, the track eventually led to the creation of the name “Unknown Mortal Orchestra,” and a widely popular debut on Fat Possum. Just a few years later, the band has become widely known. UMO is touring on last year’s Multi-Love, their third record, and second on Jagjaguwar. (MH)

WEEZER

Jul 31 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

KENNY CHESNEY

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JACKSON BROWNE

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DEMI LOVATO & NICK JONAS Aug 18 at SAP Center

HEART, JOAN JETT & CHEAP TRICK

Aug 24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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Sep 2 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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Sep 3 at Levi’s Stadium

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Sep 8 at The Ritz

JETHRO TULL ROCK OPERA Oct 22 City National Civic

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Boldly Subtle TERRIFIC TEXTILES The modern work of Kaffe Fassett is contrasted with Victorian-era quilt and needlework in an exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.

‘Blanket Statements’ contrasts antique, contemporary quilts BY SHERYL NONNENBERG

HE ADAGE “everything old is new again” certainly applies when viewing the current exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. “Blanket Statements” is a color-saturated display of both historical quilts from the 18th and 19th centuries and the recent work of contemporary fabric designer Kaffe Fassett.

On view until July 3, the 20 new quilts and 15 vintage quilts present a wide range of technique and subject matter—a sort of visual history of this old and venerable medium.

The exhibition was created by the York Quilt Museum and Gallery in England and has been presented at two other venues in the United States. Items from the York Museum’s Heritage Collection include silk coverlets from the early 1700s and hand block-printed cottons from the early 1800s. Kaffe Fassett, who was born and raised in California but has lived in England since 1964, is highly regarded in the world of textiles as a quilter, knitter, rug-maker and mosaic artist. Museum curator Nancy Bavor explained that she learned of the exhibition while attending a lecture given by Fassett in Pacific Grove two years ago. “I have long admired Kaffe’s work—knitting, needlepoint, fabric design—and thought his work and

this exhibit would appeal to our visitors,” she says. The show pairs an old quilt with one or two of Fassett’s quilts, all of them created in response to the vintage piece. A quick look around the room reveals that the historical quilts are much more somber and subdued in color palette. This is largely due to the quality of dyes available at the time. What they lack in color, however, is more than compensated for in the incredibly intricate techniques they display. One standout is a wonderfully detailed appliqued quilt from around 1860, entitled the “Red Manor House Quilt.” Relying on a basic layout of a large central square (depicting the manor house) surrounded by outlying rows of squares that feature flowers, geese, horses and pinwheels, it is a delightful representation of a 19th-century household. And because of the uncommon treatment, appliqué, the piece is not only beautiful but rare. In response, Fassett has created a quilt with a similar square design,

but with eye-popping colors that almost require sunglasses to take in. “He has kept the format and the basic layout, but when executed in his brilliant fabrics, the quilt just glows,” Bavor says. “Really, it glows!” According to one biographer, Fassett is known as a guru in the world of color and textiles. Lore has it that he was first influenced by his mother, a frustrated artist who delighted in wearing marvelous patterns. After settling in Europe, he was introduced to knitting by a fellow traveler on a train. He took up the hobby and then discovered needlepoint. Soon, he was designing hand-painted fabric that took the textile world by storm. A deep love of color and pattern, influenced by travels to Asia, became his trademark. “Color is the reason I make stuff, so that I can play with color,” he is quoted saying in an interview with Making Magazine. “It is the first and foremost consideration.” His response to Church Window (182575)—a quilt with small, busy prints all arranged in a hexagon—is to combine hexagons with small squares of polka dots, stripes and abstract flower shapes. Fassett, who was the first living artist to have a one-man show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1988, works with several textile manufacturers to create a range of fabric prints for the patchwork market. Although he began quilting just 15 years ago, he has achieved a worldwide reputation thanks to his innovative and distinctive designs. He travels the globe in order to gain new ideas and perspectives on color and pattern, which then find their way into his designs and books. The museum has also devoted a room to some of Fassett’s work in other media, like paintings and drawings. “Having the additional art works shows the breadth and depth of his artistry during a career spanning over fifty years,” Bavor says. The quilt makers of old joined together to pass the time, while creating functional objects that were aesthetically pleasing. Fassett has taken that collaborative spirit and, with his spectacular color and design sense, created objects of art that are a joy to behold. THRU

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THE ELEPHANT MAN

CONTINUING THEIR TRADITION of performing classic movie scores live beneath the big screen, Symphony Silicon Valley is tackling The Godfather—playing Nino Rota’s revered compositions while Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Diane Keaton and the rest of that star-studded cast bring Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s gangster epic to life.

BY BERNARD POMERANCE DIRECTED BY LISA MALLETTE

MARCH 17 – APRIL 17, 2016 “Wonderful, moving and purely theatrical. A giant of a play!” –New York Post

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Matching revered films with the dynamics of a live orchestra might seem a throwback to the silent film era. But, according to SSV’s general director Andrew Bales, the marriage of live music and talkies is a new—but increasingly popular—art form. The demand for such productions is growing around the world, Bales says, pointing to the recent success Symphony Silicon Valley had live-scoring The Lord of The Rings. Music can bring polish and measure to an otherwise lackluster movie, and it can make a great film sublime. But it’s often the thing most overlooked by audiences. However, when a film’s score is performed live, all the nuance and craftsmanship of the composition is magnified. The orchestra forces an audience to take notice.

The Godfather: Live in Concert Apr 8-10, Fri-Sat: 7pm, Sun: 2pm, $70-$95 San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

“Talented artists create those sounds,” Bales says, “and we have them here among us. Yes, they can play Mozart and Bach, but they can also play John Williams and Nino Rota.” Each movie-based production requires instruments not conventionally found in symphonies. With The Godfather’s score, he explains, Symphony Silicon Valley “went out and found the best accordion and mandolin players in the region.”

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While many other films have comparatively more music in their scores, the sounds of The Godfather pack a serious emotional punch, Bales says. “The music here is so pointed, so apt, and so iconic to people, it almost chills to the bone.” In the proverbial record books of critics come and gone, The Godfather’s score has been called the fifth-best ever written for a movie. “I don’t know if it’s the fifth-best,” Bales says, “but that solo trumpet line that everyone knows well, it’s just so extraordinary. To have that ring out live while you’re watching the movie is an exhilarating event.”—Tad Malone

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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 17-Apr 17. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company. San Jose.

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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 day-to-day horrors of WWII. Apr 7-May 1. $18-$28 Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company. Los Altos.

RENT

Young bohemians wrangle with their loves, dreams and futures in the shadow of HIV/AIDS in this heavy, groundbreaking musical set in the East Village of New York. $14-$30. Apr 9-May 1. Sunnyvale Community Players. Sunnyvale Theatre.

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.

San Pedro Square Market hosts its monthly, lastSaturday 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.

OFF THE GRID

A rotating cast of food trucks and music acts characterize this weekly event. Sat. Free. Computer History Museum. Mountain View.

*opera CAFFE FRASCATI

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

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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.

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TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

CANTOR ARTS CENTER

“Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.” Thru May 9. “Myth, Allegory, and Faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints.” Thru June 20 “Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed” Thru Aug 22. “Edward Hopper: New York Corner” Thru Aug 22. Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM

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

DE SAISSET MUSEUM

“Bear Witness” Photographs and Interviews by S. Beth Atkin. Thru Apr 8-Jun 10. California History Exhibit always on display. Santa Clara.

Saturday, April 16 3pm & 8pm Tickets: $20/$15 advance purchase, $25/20 at door School of Arts & Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza Tickets/information: www.taiko.org or 408-293-9344

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES

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

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

Rhythm Spirit 2016

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

GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI

Age is just a number—a societal construct meant to be torn down and ridiculed with absurdist nonsequiteurs and nonsensical visual juxtapositions. And so, as the Dadaist movement turns 100, Anno Domini is celebrating the preposterous nature of life and humanity with a new exhibition of work by Berlin-based artistic duo, Various & Gould. The pair have created a series of artworks for their first solo show, "Permanently Improvised.” Thru Jun 18.

ART BOUTIKI

Monthly Midtown Beat Show. San Jose.

CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

April 7 – May 1, 2016

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Gallery AD celebrates 100 years of Dada with “Permanently Improvised.”

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

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA

“San Shui” Paintings by Russell Altice Case. San Jose.

GALLERY HOUSE

“Michot/Midori.” Thru Apr 23. Palo Alto.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE

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

KALEID GALLERY

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

PALO ALTO ART CENTER

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

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

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SEEING THINGS GALLERY

Watercolors by Sukerti Berg. San Jose.

PSYCHO DONUTS

Works by John Renzel, Lacey Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Michael Foley, Michael Borja, Valery Milovic, Carlos Villez, Eric Joyner, Laura Callin Bennett, John Hageman and Robert McColley. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

“Gideon Rubin:” Memory goes as far as this morning. Thru May 22. “You Are Exactly

“I’M A JOKE.” Illustration by Metro contributor Mr. Harada. Thru Apr 25 San Jose.

*events BAY AREA BELLY DANCING FESTIVAL

Scored by live Middle Eastern music, the area’s finest belly dancers will showcase their gyrating skills alongside vendors hawking accessories for those who get inspired to pick up the craft. Sun, Apr 10, 11am-7pm. $15. Redwood City. The Fox Theatre.

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‘DEMOLITION’ MAN In the Jean-Marc Vallée’s latest film, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Davis, a widower dealing with the death of his wife in destructive ways.

‘Demolition’ fails to illuminate any sort of meaning amid the chaos BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

HOUGHT YOU’D escape the wanton devastation in Batman v. Superman by going to the allegedly mature drama Demolition? The joke’s on you. Jean-Marc Vallée’s follow-up to his excellent Wild and his middling Dallas Buyer’s Club concerns a man who seeks catharsis through smashing things. Like Bruce Wayne, Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal) is an affluent, muscular executive, driving around in an expensive car, traumatized by the death of a loved one. The real Batman never had to describe the worst day of his life as Davis does at the dinner table, when

he displays a stiff upper lip over the death of his wife Julia (Heather Lind): “Massive head trauma in a car accident. Can you pass the salt?” Davis has been cracking up ever since his wife was killed, and he’s acting out through an obsession to take things apart—requiring bigger and better tools with each new project. Clearly, Davis’ compulsive deconstruction is a way of anatomizing his melancholy. He says he wants to see how things work. It’s like the existential anecdote about Mr. Flitcraft in The Maltese Falcon, the man who was almost killed in a freak accident and who felt like some force had taken “the lid off of life and let him look at the works.” Davis’ boss, Phil, is also his fatherin-law. Played by Chris Cooper (too good for the flat part of an ornery investment banker), this alsogrieving father is becoming alarmed

by the disassembled computers and taken-apart bathroom stalls turning up at his office. In one scene, Davis recounts his sad story in letter form to the complaints department of a vending machine company. As if he hadn’t been manic-pixie enough for one movie, ultimately his correspondent gives him a phone call in the middle of the night. She’s Karen Moreno (Naomi Watts). The running joke is: “Not Hispanic, like her name suggests.” What begins is a relationship of equal parts stalking and love letters. To give the relationship some friction, Karen is living with her boyfriend and boss, Carl (C. J. Wilson), a tough, middle-aged man with tribal tattoos and, unaccountably, a Joy Division T-shirt. Staying with them, unhappily, is Karen’s fatherless and angry teenage son, Chris (Judah Lewis). The boy’s favorite word starts with the letter “F.” Chris and David bond through mutual smashing and recreational gunplay. Wearing a bulletproof vest, Davis volunteers to be a human

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target for Chris. The wacky behavior liberates him. Davis starts to dance in public; in concealed camera shots, real-life people react to the sight of noted actor Jake Gyllenhaal twirling down Manhattan streets. He’s lightfooted, but this is a heavy-handed movie. Gyllenhaal has been getting some praise for this performance, and the narcissism is attractive for a time. But after a while we’re stuck in his zone—cornered. Considering what a vivid, not-tobe-consoled ghost Laura Dern was in Wild, it’s surprising how little we can feel for the ghost Julia, popping up in flashbacks. The grieving Davis seems to have one job— picking candidates for a memorial scholarship. He ultimately prefers a more accessible monument to his wife, giving supremacy to a kid’s view of happiness over what can be achieved through learning. This movie isn’t about recovering passion with a new lover or coming to an understanding about the depth of grief. It’s about tantrums. It’s about making couch-forts with sheets and flashlights, and riding carousels. Bryan Sipe (The Choice) scripted the film, but who knows who to credit for the ending, which features a matching pair of fistfights edited in with what looks like last-minute panic. (The surefooted editing in Wild, which kept Cheryl Strayed’s ordeal in a constant present tense, is tangled up in this finale.) Sipe, who is from the Jersey Shore, cited Bruce Springsteen as an influence on his writing. There’s not much common-man celebration, though, in a story of a man with so much money he can drive a sledgehammer through his granite kitchen counters and his 40-inch TV as a way of releasing his bottled up tensions. And there’s not much interest in the blue-collar characters—like the two low-comedy construction guys, willing to be bribed so that this suit-clad Davis can wield a Sawzall for therapy. If there’s such a thing as artisanal soap, there must be artisanal soap operas. There hasn’t been a movie about grief this awkward since Reign Over Me.

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“OFFBEAT AND EXUBERANT. A HIGHLY ENJOYABLE RIDE.” – JORDAN MINTZER, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“JAKE GYLLENHAAL SHINES.” – LOU LUMENICK, NY POST

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or when things were sweet between him and Audrey. Abraham modernizes the early 1950s sets with unmounted camera and self-conscious zooms. The visuals match current attitudes toward an early 1950s subject—it’s made for today’s impatience, with no sense of a slower time and unbuilt up horizons. Hiddleston looks right at times, in profile. He shows the death’shead face of the singer in one of his many moments of pain or alcoholic obliteration. The British actor’s drawl is light and high, but Hiddleston polishes up the pine-board rawness of Williams’ voice. One of the big issues between the couple was Audrey’s case of Linda McCarthy syndrome—a conviction that she could sing. Olsen’s Audrey looks pert and intimidating in a khakicolored cowgirl outfit, moist-eyed with her longing to get up on stage and stink. Even an actress this charismatic can’t jump the banks of this narrow characterization. Escott notes that talking about Hank Williams without talking about booze, is like talking about the Titanic without talking about the iceberg. The book and the movie based on it are similar. They’re both about an iceberg. (Camera Cinemas). (RvB)

I SAW THE LIGHT It’s just like its subject on New Year’s Day 1953: the film I Saw the Light is dead on arrival. Director Marc Abraham charts the short, busy life of Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston), gone at 29 from ill health, overwork and alcohol. A calamitous marriage to Audrey (Elizabeth Olsen), who complicated both his off-stage and on-stage life, didn’t give him any peace. This film may have been soured at its source. Trying to cut through the Nashville romanticizing about Williams’ talent and potential, Colin Escott dug up all the facts—the birthdays of sidemen and a definitive discography. But Escot is unmoved by a lot of Williams’ material, as well as the singer/songwriter’s lack of complexity amidst all that post-war pop musical evolution. It’s not that we needed hero worship—just some sympathy or some dark humor about Williams’ careening, pain-wracked life. Like the book, the movie doesn’t take huge pleasure in the top-of-theworld moments, in which Williams had the crowd where he wanted them,

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Revivals THE LADY VANISHES/ STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1938/1951) Alfred Hitchcock's real international breakthrough film is an entertainment with a moral about the coming war. It's all about the disappearance of a nice old lady named Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty), who vanishes during the course of a train ride back to England from the Balkans. As a folk-music student (Michael Redgrave) and a tourist (Margaret Lockwood) search for clues, they work their way down a list of their fellow travelers—maybe, literal Fellow Travelers with an unnamed foreign threat. They include a too-chipper brain surgeon (Paul Lukas), a heavily accented baroness (Mary Clare) and a pacifist (Cecil Parker). Comic relief is provided by Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford (later re-teamed in 11 other movies, including Dead of Night as the pair of rival golfers who make a suicidal bet). As Orson Welles claimed to have seen this 11 times, The Lady Vanishes had its mark on The Third Man and elsewhere. BILLED WITH Strangers on a Train. A three way collaboration between Raymond Chandler, Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith (who wrote the source novel for the movie Carol). Even if none of the three was completely happy with the results, the audience certainly will be. It’s one of Hitchcock’s best. The gimmick is a luscious one: Two strangers have drinks together on the New York–to-D.C. train. One, Guy (San Jose's own Farley Granger), is a celebrated tennis player who has climbed out of the ghetto. The other is a senator's son, Bruno (Robert Walker). When Bruno suggests the idea of killing a troublesome woman in Guy's life, the tennis player thinks it's a joke. Bruno is all too serious, and after performing the hit in question, he wants Guy to reciprocate. It’s genuinely macabre— with one haunting scene of a girl’s eyes lighting up with the reflection from a murderer’s cigarette lighter for instance—and there’s a wild climax on a carousel. But what repays the rewatching is Walker's Bruno, one of cinema's most memorable villains—the effete, aesthetic kind, a combo of one of Bill Murray's silky scroungers and Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter. Keep an eye open for one of the best jokes about abstract art ever carried out in the movies. (Plays April 7-10 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre). (RvB)

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Race Relations STREET PREACHER Like Kendrick Lamar, Vince Staples has made a name for himself with his insightful rhymes.

Vince Staples challenges white fans to confront their own privilege BY JOHN FLYNN

N THE ERA of performative wokeness, it didn’t take long for the Internet to explode in a fit of raging think pieces over the second single from Macklemore’s second LP, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made. The eight-minute “White Privilege II” finds the white Seattle rapper taking a long, hard look in the mirror— acknowledging his complicity in cultural appropriation and conceding that he has, and continues to, reap untold benefits simply because he happened to be born with a pale face and blond hair.

On Summertime ‘06, an album released a year and a half earlier, a young, black rapper by the name of Vince Staples, finds himself taking an equally long and hard look in the mirror. On “Lift Me Up,” the album’s lead single, Staples ponders his own complicity in in the black-on-black violence and crime that has long plagued his city of Long Beach. And, not unlike Macklemore, he considers the state of hip-hop—a genre of music created for and by African Americans, which now finds itself catering to an audience that gets whiter with each passing year. “All these white folks chanting when I ask them, ‘Where my niggas at?’” Staples rhymes pointedly on “Lift Me Up.” “Goin’ crazy, got me goin’ crazy, I can’t get wit’ that / Wonder if they know I know they won’t go where we kick it at.”

The targeted line captures a tension in modern hip-hop. The genre has long since crept from its birthplace on downtrodden inner city streets into comfortable two-story suburban homes. As an artform, hip-hop necessarily operates in the figurative sense. Listeners can draw conclusions about “the streets” that are fundamentally misguided and lacking in nuance. Early rap hits, like “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy, meditated on sociological issues and portrayed gangster lifestyles like Scorcese did in Goodfellas— savoring the benefits, but also highlighting the immense, long-lasting pitfalls of the dangerous lifestyle. However, by the late ’90s and early 2000s, gun-toting, drug-dealing kingpins were celebrated in mainstream hip-hop. I watched 50 Cent’s film. I played his video game. I told my public defender mother I wanted to be a pimp—much to her horror. I thought being a pimp meant being just a really awesome, respected dude. Thirteen-year-old

me didn’t want to oversee a stable of prostitutes, I just wanted to embody the bulletproof cool of 50 Cent. Vince Staples and Kendrick Lamar represent a new, and more nuanced strain of gangsta rap. As demonstrated by the aforementioned line from “Lift Me Up,” the mental mining in which Staples is engaging can unearth some rather difficult and unwieldy realizations. And that’s where I come in— cheering Staples on, celebrating his ability to balance gritty, unflinching realism with worldly, philosophical rumination. I rap along, delighted in his depictions of the grisly realities that have killed his friends and driven his loved ones to drugs. I can imagine why my chanting must drive him nuts. He knows that I don’t have the frame of reference to understand his struggle. When I listen to him, it’s tourism. Through his imagery-laden selfexpression, I merely catch a glimpse of things I could never fully understand. As much as I’d like to be in his circle, enjoying complete solidarity with Staples isn’t something I’ve earned, or likely would even want to. Staples’ rap comes from bleak circumstances. I can’t relate to a lot of it. But I don’t listen to music solely as a reflection of myself. That’s dull and limiting. On his album, Staples paints a meticulous self-portrait within a highly detailed landscape. He drips with disarming authenticity. His raw self-awareness inspires my admiration. He can’t educate me sufficiently on his own, but he highlights circumstances that I should understand before making social, personal and political decisions that affect people very different from myself. I don’t identify with the precise details of his upbringing, but I can gain from the universal truths he’s culled from his life. And plus, his beats bang. Next Monday, Staples will open for Logic, a half-black rapper who scans as white with—let’s face it—a lot of white fans. At some point during Staples’ performance, some of those white fans might feel uncomfortable singing along, and that’s fine. After all, in those moments, it’s probably better just to listen.

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

AT A GLANCE

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

87 N. San Pedro St. Downtown San Jose • SanPedroSquareMarket.com

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

THE BACK BAR SOFA Every Wed, 9pm: The Cypher, feat. Hip-hop, Jungle, Soul, Reggae, Dubstep, Trap, BreakBeat, House and more. San Jose

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Every Wed: DJ 512. Every Thu: DJ Nico & Neeber. Every Fri: DJ Benofficial & Clay. Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

CARDIFF LOUNGE

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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.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY AGENDA LOUNGE

BRAINSTORMER’S TRIVIA JERRY SAUCIDO ISAIAH PICKETT BAND CHROME DELUXE WIL ROBERTS

Kumar’s Band. Every Thurs: DJ Mist. Fremont.

Every Tues, 10pm: Resident DJ Gabriel Black presents Beat Culture. Every Wed, 10pm: Rubber Soul w/ Wen Davis, Nappy, Cutso, and Golden Child (Hip-Hop). Every Thu, 10pm: Roger Morehouse Presents Foxy Thursdays. Campbell.

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

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Every Thu, 10pm: Karaoke. Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ. Santa Clara.

EAST COAST ALICE Every Fri & Sat: Live Music. Saratoga.

MARIANI'S Fri-Sat: Live Music. Santa Clara.

MOJO LOUNGE Most Fri/Sat: Live Music. Every Sun, 8pm: Acoustic Jam. Every Tue, 8pm: Aki

Every Wed: J.C. Jam. Thu, Apr 7, 8pm: Kid Dynamite. Fri, Apr 8, 8pm: Decades. Sat, Apr 9 8pm: Big Daddy Rockers Los Gatos.

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

BLUE ROCK SHOOT Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase. Every Sat: Live Featured Show. Every Sun: Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga.

CAFE STRITCH

Every Mon, Wed & Thu: Pro Jam. Sunnyvale.

Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Thu-Sat: Live Music. San Jose.

THE RITZ

CAFFE FRASCATI

Fri, Apr 8, 8pm: The Purple Ones. San Jose.

SAN JOSE STATE EVENT CENTER Mon, Apr 11 9pm: Logic and Vince Staples. San Jose.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, Apr 7, 7pm: Jerry Sauceda. Fri, Apr 8, 7pm: Isaiah Pickett Band. Sat, Apr 9, 7pm: Chrome Deluxe. Sun, Apr 10, 1pm: Will Roberts. San Jose.

SAP CENTER Wed, Apr 6, 7pm: Ellie Goulding. San Jose.

THE X BAR Every Thu: No Cover night. Every Sat: Saturday Nite Live Music Show. Cupertino.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE Fri: Live music. Santa Clara.

Jazz/Blues/ World

Sat, Apr 9, 8pm: Inspire Community Showcase. San Jose.

CAFE PINK HOUSE Thu, Apr 7, 7:30pm: Danny Green Trio with Harvey Wainapel. Fri, Apr 8, 7:30pm: Scott Barnhill Group. Sat, Apr 9, 2pm - 3:30pm: Live Music Hangout. Sat, Apr 9, 7:30pm: Daria. Sun, Apr 10, 6pm: Boss City. San Jose.

CASCAL Every Fri & Sat: Live Music. Mountain View.

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Fri, Apr 8, 8pm: Rock N’ Soul’s Time-Traveling Band. Sat, Apr 9, 8pm: Salvador Santana, Camino, Foreign Frontiers. Redwood City.

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

FLINT CENTER

AGAVE

Sat, Apr 9, 7:30pm: Googoosh. Cupertino.

Every Thu: Banda La Unica. Every Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo. San Jose.

HEDLEY CLUB AT HOTEL DE ANZA

AGENDA LOUNGE Every Wed, 8pm: Salsa. Every Thu, 9pm: Banda Night. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays. Wed, Apr 6, 6pm: Kate Targan. Thu, Apr 7, 7:30pm: Pamela Rose & Her Swinging Band. Fri, Apr 8, 8:30pm: The Tribal

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

HUKILAU Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music. San Jose.

JJ’S BLUES Wed, Apr 6, 8pm: Brian’s Singer-Songwriters. Thu, Apr 7, 9pm: Bazooka Joe. Every Fri: Latin Rock Nights. Sun,

Apr 10, 8pm: SugarSmack. San Jose.

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Fri, Apr 8, 8pm: Lavay Smith & Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Saratoga.

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

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

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

CHARLEY'S LG Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/ live Country music. Every Tue, 7pm: Tuesday Bluesday w/ live Blues music. Los Gatos.

MISSION PIZZA Thu/Fri, Apr 7-8, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Sat, Mar 16, 7pm: Canyon Johnson. Fremont.

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

PIONEER SALOON

33 THE CATS Every Tue: Funny Farm hosted by Butch Escobar. Los Gatos.

CITY ESPRESSO Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

IMPROV Wed, Apr 6, 8pm: American Me Comedy. Thu, Apr 7, 8pm: Full Throttle. Fri-Sun, Apr 8-10, various: Dave Davidoff. San Jose.

JJ’S BLUES Sat, Apr 9, 8pm: Kabir Singh

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Every Tues: Pro Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.

Sun, 9:30pm: Comedy. San Jose.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MDN Handyman, 2949 Moss Pt. Dr., San Jose, CA, 95127, Mark Neves. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Mark NevesThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/30/2016. (pub) 4/06, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27/2016

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pirata Trucking, 415 Aldo Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Israel H. Gonzalez. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/18/16. /s/Israel H. Gonzalez This 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 #615174 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Saddlery Solutions, 4412 Hampshire Place, San Jose, CA, 95136, Kristen Vlietstra. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein./s/Kristen Vlietstra This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/15/2016. (pub Metro 3/30, 4/06, 4/13, 4/20/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #614944 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Juleson Pool Service, 206 Bret Harte Ct., Santa Clara, CA, 95050. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10-98. /s/John JulesonThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/092016. (pub) 4/06, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #615172 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

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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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #614421 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Little Meg, 1311 Cristina Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Meg Perotti. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Nov 1, 2015. /s/Meg PerottiThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/25/2016. (pub) 3/23, 3/30, 4/06, 4/13/2016

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #615425 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Julie’s Hair Design, 5138 Monerey Hwy, STE C, San Jose, CA, 95111, Khanh Q. Nguyen, Thuyen T. Le, 2480 Shilshone Cir., San Jose, CA, 95121. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/23/2016 /s/Khanh Q. NguyenThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/23/2016. (pub) 3/30, 4/06, 4/13, 4/20/2016

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Gödel (1906-1978) was among history’s greatest logicians. His mastery of rational thought enabled him to exert a major influence on scientific thinking in the 20th century. Yet he also had an irrational fear of being poisoned, which made him avoid food unless his wife cooked it. One of the morals of his story is that reason and delusion may get all mixed up in the same location. Sound analysis and crazy superstition can get so tangled they’re hard to unravel. The coming week will be an excellent time to meditate on how this phenomenon might be at work in you. You now have an extraordinary power to figure out which is which, and then take steps to banish the crazy, superstitious, fearful stuff.

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Snowmass Cycle,” Stephen Dunn declares that everyone “should experience the double fire, of what he wants and shouldn't have.” I foresee a rich opportunity coming up for you to do just that, Scorpio. And yes, I do regard it as rich, even marvelous, despite the fact that it may initially evoke some intense poignance. Be glad for this crisp revelation about a strong longing whose fulfillment would be no damn good for you!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “When I look at my life I realize that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgment but failures of feeling.” Writer Jeanette Winterson said that, and I’m passing it on to you at the exact moment you need to hear it. Right now, you are brave enough and strong enough to deal with the possibility that maybe you’re not doing all you can to cultivate maximum emotional intelligence. You are primed to take action and make big changes if you discover that you’re not feeling as much as you can about the important things in your life. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Psychotherapist

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky said that in his novel The Idiot, and now I’m passing it on to you just in the nick of time. In the coming weeks, it’s especially important for you to not oversimplify your assessments of what motivates people—both those you respect and those you don’t fully trust. For your own sake, you can’t afford to naively assume either the best or the worst about anyone. If you hope to further your own agendas, your nuanced empathy must be turned up all the way. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Believing love is work is certainly better than believing it’s effortless, ceaseless bliss,” says author Eric LeMay. That’s advice I hope you’ll keep close at hand in the coming weeks, Pisces. The time will be right for you to exert tremendous effort in behalf of everything you love dearly—to sweat and struggle and strain as you create higher, deeper versions of your most essential relationships. Please remember this, though: The hard labor you engage in should be fueled by your ingenuity and your creative imagination. Play and experiment and enjoy yourself as you sweat and struggle and strain! Homework: Comment on Bertrand Russell's statement, “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

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HIRTY YEARS after Somini Sengupta left India as a child, she returned to work as the New Delhi Bureau Chief for the New York Times. She was the first reporter of Indian descent ever assigned to the post and, in the process, Sengupta discovered a brilliant way to rediscover her own roots while documenting the future of Indian kids and their predicaments at the same time.

The result is a fantastic new book, The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young, in which Sengupta weaves the results of her own journey, both personal and journalistic, into the trajectories of seven different Indian youth cases, creating a tapestry with the author/journalist as the observer/ participant. Sengupta is the common thread, and she refreshingly shatters all divisions between the objective and the subjective. Forget all that stuff about the reporter staying at a distance from the story. That wasn’t going to work in this case. In fact, it made the book better and I’m glad I showed up when Sengupta came to speak at a Commonwealth Club event in Santa Clara a few weeks ago.

With 365 million people between the ages of 10 and 24, and a million turning 18 every month, India can be understood as the youngest country in the world, ever, and Sengupta’s book is about them: the kids, their aspirations and, more importantly, their obstacles in a society still deeply ingrained with class and gender inequalities. Building on that foundation, Sengupta takes inspiration from Salman Rushdie, who famously wrote about “Midnight’s Children,” those born around the time of India’s independence in 1947. Following Rushdie’s lead, Sengupta refers to the current-day generation of youth as “noonday children,” who are now vastly important in rewriting India’s freedom story. “It is a tipping point generation in the arc of independent India’s history,” Sengupta writes. “It makes new demands on India’s democracy in at least three important ways: genuine

equality of opportunity, dignity for girls, and civil liberties. It pushes India to keep its promise.” The promise and aspirations of this generation, and where they fail, are what drive the interconnected chapters. In one instance, the sheer amount of kids streaming into school dwarfs the numbers from decades ago. Another chapter features India’s indigenous people, the adivasis, who comprise 8 percent of India’s population. There we find Mani, who escapes the jungle wasteland to become a live-in maid, and at the polar opposite place, Gurgaon, a gated community, a “manicured paradise,” a “Xanadu of a new Indian imagination.” Both Maoist rebels and Prime Minister Modi are likewise given their due. We get to see a young female warrior, a communist insurgent hit-woman who provides an insider’s perspective on the recruitment process the guerrillas use to target throngs of illiterate jungle youth. In the very next chapter, we see how Modi took a huge portion of Obama’s playbook on grassroots social media organizing to target millions of young people. As a result, the right wing Hindu nationalists rose to power in unexpected proportions. Speaking of social media, another chapter uses Facebook to show just how backward India is in regards to free speech. Two girls get arrested for criticizing an organization on Facebook, prompting a national debate over the right to free expression in a networked age. With each story in the book, Sengupta cycles back to India’s independence, its constitution and one of that document’s primary architects— social reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar. She seems to take just as much inspiration from Ambedkar as she does Rushdie. Not a bad combo. Framing The End of Karma, the story shows Sengupta’s own life-adventure functioning as a hall of mirrors. She worked various jobs after coming of age in the U.S. but never felt satisfied with the sedentary life. It was not until becoming a reporter that she found her calling. “This is where I discover I can make a living to-ing and fro-ing, poking my head into one world, then another, having to belong to none,” she writes. “Cognitive dissonance becomes my travel mate. I become a journalist. I am a fish in water. Home.”

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Tapsilog Bistro Breakfast here puts a traditional pancake brunch to shame. A tapsilog breakfast consists of garlic fried rice and a fried egg and usually some type of meat. Order the sizzling sisig platter, which is meant as an appetizer—maybe for Joey Chestnut—but it’s sized like an entrée. 819 W Hamilton Ave., Campbell.

Toppings Tree Don’t be alarmed if the tocino comes out bright red here. It’s the sugary seasoning on the pork that makes it so good and colorful. The specialty here is a flavorful orange java rice and vinegar sauces that balance well with the intense meats. 1171 Homestead Rd., Santa Clara.

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Barrio Fiesta Barrio Fiesta means neighborhood celebration, which embodies the Filipino spirit. They serve a wildly popular kare-kare—a stew made from oxtail—that is accompanied by a thick peanut sauce. Other hearty items not to be missed are the caldereta (beef stew) and crispy pata (fried pig trotters with vinegar soy dipping sauce). The interior here is like a trip through a museum of island treasures. 1790 Milmont Dr., Milpitas.

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