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I pulled up to the local 7-Eleven expecting to return my Redbox and rent a new flick in a few-minute span. So, I didn’t change out of my yoga pants and Hello Kitty slippers. Instead of my entire purse, I just brought my wallet. In hindsight, maybe that wasn’t the smartest move because you seemed to take my exposed wallet as an invitation to fleece me of my rare haul of spending money. Three of you ambled up beside me, complimented me on my slippers and then demanded my wallet. “I’m going to just cancel the cards, so how about leaving those and taking the cash?” I offered, attempting to turn this mugging into a reasonable compromise. You diplomatically obliged, so thanks for that, I guess. But in addition to the $129 and some change, which I regret ever earning for you fucks, you also took my watch (a silver number I scored for $19.99, Target) and my black sunnies ($5, Forever 21). Not sure what three salty street pirates are going to do with throwaway Jackie O shades and a girly watch, but, by all means, enjoy.

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More solid, sober reasons for voters to reject all tax increase measures and eliminate wasteful government grants. Thieves like this $250K/ year bureaucrat need to be weaned from the public trough, as well as the wasteful programs used as facades for such mischief. STEVE VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE

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THE FLY

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Fight Night Which state Assemblywoman’s spouse rumbled at a “Casino Night” last month at the Fairmont Hotel? If you guessed NEIL STRUTHERS, spouse of NORA CAMPOS (D-San They Jose), step right up and Did claim your punch in the What? face. Naughty Neil has a history of getting into SEND TIPS TO chest-bumping matches FLY@ METRONEWS. with political adversaries COM at Starbucks, but this time he tussled at the annual Vegas-style hoedown for the Santa Clara and San Benito County Counties Building and Construction Trades Council (SCBTC). As former CEO of the organization, which oversees 25 local unions, Struthers apparently hurled a couple slurs at ENRIQUE ARGUELLO, business manager for laborers union Local 270. Arguello’s outfit has been a rogue political force, at times swimming against the South Bay Labor Council current. Local 270 had a hand in MAGDALENA CARRASCO bouncing XAVIER CAMPOS—baby bro of Nora—off the San Jose council, and the group also might have swayed a secret vote leading to Struthers’ resignation from the SCBTC. Back to Casino Night. After some mad dogging, Struthers made some hand gestures suggesting Arguello was gay before calling him a “fucking faggot,” according to multiple sources. Struthers also reportedly made a derogatory comment about Arguello being Mexican, perhaps forgetting about his own wife and brother-in-law. It’s not clear who threw the first punch, but Fly confirmed that Arguello kicked Struthers in the crotch. A scrum ensued as Josue Garcia, CEO of the SCBTC, pleaded for calm. Struthers walked away with a few scratches, perhaps because his backup, Xavier, supposedly ran away. When asked why he didn’t have his brotherin-law’s back, Baby X told folks he was getting a weapon from his car. Yeah, because he’s about that life. In a brief call Xavier jumped off the line, never calling back like he promised. The timing is especially poor since Nora is running for state Senate in an uphill battle against incumbent JIM BEALL.

TWO SIDES TO A COIN Rep. Mike Honda’s donors also give money to the right, according to campaign forms.

Honda’s Wealthy Backers Support GOP, Too By Josh Koehn Voters in local elections don’t always pay attention, so they could be forgiven for assuming Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) is in the fight of his life against the California equivalent of Ted Cruz. In his eighth term, Honda finds himself embroiled in a House ethics scandal for allegedly misusing official resources for campaign purposes. To combat this issue, he has gone on the offensive, consistently labeling his chief opponent, Ro Khanna, a puppet of “right wing millionaires and billionaires.” Never mind that they’re both running as Democrats, or that many of the people who threw gobs of cash at Khanna in 2014, as well as this year’s race, bleed blue, according to their party declaration forms. Just last week, when Honda’s new legal defense fund—created to pay legal bills for his ethics investigation— disclosed its first quarterly report, a

measly $1,750 was all the congressman had raised. His accountants, ever wise to timing their own bills, know that the next reporting deadline doesn’t arrive until after the June 7 primary election, so drawing more attention to the $200,000-plus he’s already spent on the scandal would be counter-productive. Honda is now free to raise money without worrying his donors. When the Mercury News asked how much the legal defense fund has raised since the last reporting period, Honda spokesman Vedant Patel changed the conversation. “Ro Khanna consistently tries to score cheap political points and smear the reputation of a well respected progressive champion while filling his campaign coffers with money from right wing millionaires and billionaires who want to dismantle social security, outsource good paying middle class jobs,

and don’t have the best interest of Silicon Valley’s middle class families at heart.” A closer inspection of the congressman’s campaign donors, however, suggests Honda’s own wealthy supporters aren’t exactly shy in showing the right some love, too. Records filed with the Federal Elections Commission for the last five years show that Honda received at least $115,000 from billionaires and millionaires who also support GOP and Tea Party candidates. William Lauder, former CEO of The Estee Lauder Companies, has given Honda two contributions of $2,000 or more in the last two years, while at the same time giving cash to four conservative congressmen. In 2012, Lauder raised $30,800 for the Republican National Committee and $5,000 for Mitt Romney’s presidential run.

three gave thousands to Honda while supporting GOP candidates. Hong Ki-myung actually gave Honda $2,700 on Oct. 13, 2015—the same day he gave money to the RNC. Honda’s campaign manager, Michael Beckendorf, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Khanna spokesman Hari Sevugan said the reports indicate a double standard. “If Congressman Honda's attacks on Ro are to be believed, these donations prove that Mike Honda is nothing but a crypto-Republican, corporate shill. But, of course, that's not true, just as it wasn't true when Honda used the same evidence to launch those attacks against Ro. What it does show, however, is far more revealing. “It demonstrates Congressman Honda's willingness to do and say anything to stay in power, no matter how brazenly hypocritical. It demonstrates Congressman Honda's preference for demonizing instead of coalition building; his preference for name calling instead of problem solving.”

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Celebrity Attorney Sues Gilroy School District over Lewd Texts Civil rights and sexual harassment attorney Gloria Allred, never one to shy away from a camera, sued Gilroy’s school district for negligence and failing to safeguard a 15-yearold from a teacher’s lurid sexual taunts—even after the girl’s mother complained. The lawsuit includes text messages that Gilroy High School Gloria Allred chemistry teacher Doug Le allegedly sent to the girl in October 2014. San Jose Police arrested Le, 25, on April 26 on suspicion of enticing teen boys by dressing as a woman and asking them for nude photos, according to the lawsuit and police. Le resigned from his teaching position April 29, some 18 months after Celest Benn claims to have alerted Gilroy school officials of his behavior. Le also coached track and was a

student mentor and advisor at GHS, according to the suit. At a press conference last week, Allred would not read aloud all of the words in the texts, instead using a single letter for male genitalia. Le allegedly wrote: “You suck d,” “Yeah your whore mouth can fit whole apples in there,” “You’ll die alone,” and another about defecating on the teenager. The suit alleges the district and high school’s failure to prevent and stop Le’s behavior more than a year ago harmed the girl and that stopping and reporting him then might saved as many as 500 minor boys from Le’s advances. It calls Le’s and the district’s behavior “outrageous and extreme” and alleges also that the district knew that “Le had engaged in dangerous and inappropriate conduct, both before his employment [by GUSD] and during that employment.” Allred also claims that the district violated state law by not reporting what they knew to the proper authorities.— Jack Foley

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Before Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry ate what was left of Paul Allen’s soul, the Portland Trailblazers owner and Microsoft co-founder gave two contributions to Honda over a 16-month period. Since that time Allen has also supported three Republican senators. Rocklin-based developer Martin Harmon, who routinely gets down with the Tea Party, supported Honda with a $1,200 contribution in September of last year. East Bay investor Dennis Albers, tabbed to be a donor in Honda’s notorious “1000 Cranes” fundraising project, has given Honda $1,000 on three occasions since 2011, the most recent contribution coming last June. Albers also gave money to conservatives Rob Portman, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Lee, Joni Ernst, Eric Cantor and former House Speaker John Boehner. Additional “cranes” who’ve given to the right include Bill Imada, Sukhan Kim and Ngai Nguyen. All

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MEA CULPA SJPD veteran Officer Phillip White said he’s embarrassed about a “hurtful” Twitter rant that cost him his job.

San Jose Cop Apologizes for Threatening Tweets By Jennifer Wadsworth for that I am sorry.” White—a 19-year SJPD veteran—got canned in October but successfully appealed his termination. Four months later, he won his job back despite community backlash, as well as Police Chief Eddie Garcia and Mayor Sam Liccardo’s public denouncements. In Tuesday’s closed session, however, the council decided to let White keep his job. White’s social media rants became national news in December 2014 amid protests against grand jury decisions not to indict police officers for killing unarmed black men in Ferguson and New York. “Threaten me or my family and I will use my God given and law appointed right and duty to kill you,”

read one of White’s tweets, which he closed with #CopsLivesMatter. A follow-up tweet read: “By the way if anyone feels they can’t breathe or their lives matter, I’ll be at the movies tonight, off duty, carrying my gun.” Civil rights groups in the South Bay launched a campaign to kick White off the force, urging the public to demand City Hall #FireWhiteNow. When he got his job back a few months ago, Silicon Valley De-Bug filed a legal challenge against his reinstatement. In an interview with NBC Bay Area, White said he wrote those tweets in response to direct threats against his family. Still, he acknowledged, he regrets ever sending them. Monday’s letter may be his first public apology, he wrote, but it won’t be his last.

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A San Jose policeman fired for unleashing an anti-Black Lives Matter tirade on Twitter a year-and-a-half ago has issued a public apology. Officer Phillip White, whose union got him rehired earlier this year, appeared before the City Council on Tuesday for a closed-session review of his reinstatement. The day before, he sent a letter to city officials expressing remorse for the “lapse in judgment” that led to him to tweet about using his “duty to kill” anyone who threatened his family. “I’m now asking the community I serve to forgive me and judge on my entire life’s work and contributions to our city’s well-being and not solely on the few minutes where I did not exhibit the best judgment,” he wrote to city leaders. “I made a mistake and

The Super Bowl has passed, but Plaza de Cesar Chavez has a new lineup of events to kick off the summer. City officials, the Knight Foundation and Adobe have partnered to launch Spring in Plaza de Cesar Chavez, a weekly outdoor lineup of lunches, dinners and outdoor events. Food trucks scheduled to take part include: 3 Greeks, Oaxacan Kitchen, Thai Thai, Soulnese, Sam’s Chowdermobile and more. New outdoor seating at the park will provide a place for families and downtown workers to enjoy the open air. Danny Harris, program director for the San Jose branch of the Knight Foundation, says the beatification of the downtown park not only provides a comfortable space to hangout, but also encourages visitors to linger and support local businesses. In addition to co-funding this project, the Knight Foundation, as part of its Cities Challenge, also plans to transform Post Street into a night market and increase offerings at the Mayfair Community Center. Harris says these projects are vital to “creating more vibrant dynamic places for people to come enjoy spaces in downtown San Jose. “Millennial talents are being drawn to large cities,” he adds. “It’s important that we fund local ideas that respond to national trends while creating a strong identity in San Jose.” Spring in Plaza de Cesar Chavez will offer its food options through May 31. — Yasmin Deosaran

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Drugs: It’s What’s f Federal approval brings MDMA from club to clinic BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

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OR A PROPER psychedelic trip, the late ethnobotanist Terence McKenna famously prescribed what he called “the heroic dose” of magic mushrooms: “Five dried grams and silent darkness.”

Josh Tiefer gobbled up a gram less, but on an empty stomach and a broken heart. Rather than darkness, he opted for a late-night showing of The Last Samurai. He was 24 at the time, battling the depressive fallout of a breakup and newly

36 now and recounting his trip to a gathering of psychonauts and inquiring minds. “I’ve been too chicken shit to do it ever since.” His audience—a group of about 20 or so people seated around a fire pit on an assortment of mats, blankets, benches, chairs and pillows in a meadowy backyard—laughs and applauds at Tiefer’s conclusion. “I’ll have what he’s having,” a bespectacled university professor quips.

For Starters Witching hour on a recent Sunday, and we’re about four-and-a-half hours into a potluck raising money for a kilo of pure MDMA. Or as it’s colloquially known, molly or ecstasy. There’s an eclectic turnout of academics, ravers, techies, a white blazer-and-aviators-clad financial adviser, a toddler, artists, musicians and the husband-and-wife hosts Nadia and Dmitry V., the latter two 30-something therapists and Russian émigrés. “It’s great to have a whole night just devoted to psychedelics,” says Dmitry, whose gaunt frame and back-length hair make him look like a Byzantine icon. “There needs to be a coming out in this community.” Despite the talk of “coming out” for the cause, though, few people want their full name publicly associated with the gathering and Dmitry preferred to whittle his surname down to its firstletter initial for this story. One attendee remarked on the dilemma of wanting to do her part to legitimize the psychedelic scene with her open support, but being afraid of the stigma associated with drugs as criminalized as cocaine. Indeed, the federal powers that be regulate acid and psilocybin mushrooms as closely as crack and heroin. Yet psychedelics have outgrown their hippie-fringe roots to become, to some extent, part of the mainstream— particularly in Silicon Valley, where users typically lead otherwise straight lives. Government restrictions have started to ease up thanks to the work of advocates who defied the taboo and rebranded psychedelics as therapeutic. The late- April fundraiser marked one of hundreds around the globe to benefit the Santa Cruz-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies—MAPS for short— an organization devoted to researching the medicinal value of psychedelic drugs and cannabis.

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HIGH TIME Psychedelic dinners, including one hosted by therapists in San Jose, raised money to buy a kilo of MDMA to treat trauma-afflicted patients in legal clinical trials.

obsessed with McKenna’s gospel of chemically induced enlightenment. In the theater, the psilocybin began to cast its hallucinogenic spell. “Something happened,” Tiefer recalls, “because I was like, ‘This movie’s getting pretty good.’” Motion trails and vibrant colors overwhelmed his vision. But the euphoria gave way to a soul-chilling terror, a sense that some unfathomable force could delete his soul from the cosmic record—total erasure, a fate worse than death. Horrified, he shut his eyes and shrunk into his seat, crippled by the sense that, in some inexplicable way, everything hung in the balance. Then it started to get really good. “I had my beanie in my hand,” he says. “You know, like my beanie hat, and suddenly everything was very, like, the essence of beanie. Like, you know, the way the actors were up on the screen, you know—the essence of beanie. The patterns of the beanie were shown to be evident in all things in the fucking world.” In a flash to the present, he realized he’d been pressing into a stranger—a preternaturally patient stranger—in the next seat. Tiefer looked down to see that his feet had stretched a thousand miles underground “like a bunch of roots and shit.” Then, his mind, forming what seemed like infinite synesthetic bonds between senses and worlds, sparked a revelation of the Buddhist precept of interconnectedness. Or, as Tiefer verbalized it, “the universe is like one mush” and he was mushing into everyone and everything. “Like, I’m a Siamese twin with this person over here,” he says, gesticulating with one hand while gripping a sketchpad in the other. “But the way the actors were expressing themselves was also shown to be, like, this similar medium that was me, and all this other shit at the same time.” When he summoned the wherewithal to open his eyes, he saw the movie screen swirling with watercolor-like canyons, vibrant greens and blues and shifting pixels, fractals and grids. The performative emotions of the Tom Cruise warrior epic struck open some untapped well of feeling. Once the credits began to roll, Tiefer’s friends pried him from the chair and took him to Denny’s, where he glutted and purged. “Most things are disappointing, but this was the real deal,” says Tiefer, an artist by occupation who’s

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‘Psychedelics are like a helicopter ride to the top of the mountain you could otherwise climb’ The California nonprofit has been using a batch of MDMA made in the 1980s by Purdue University chemist David Nichols. But regulators want to keep their eyes on the entire manufacturing process before it signs off on third-phase clinical trials for up to 400 patients. An estimated 5 million people suffer from PTSD, a condition triggered by rape, combat, natural disasters or serious accidents. Left untreated, it sends the afflicted into lifethreatening depression and substance abuse. Antidepressants and antianxiety medication only treat symptoms, while traditional talk-therapy could take years to pinpoint root causes. In the MAPS trials, patients take a carefully measured dram of MDMA and spend the day discussing their trauma with therapists. Psychotherapy in general and PTSD therapy in particular focus on exposing a patient to distressing thoughts to eventually desensitize them. MDMA’s capacity to suspend a person’s fight-or-flight instinct, which shifts into overdrive in people suffering from PTSD, allows them to face their traumatic memories until those thoughts lose the brunt of their power.

“The immediate effects of MDMA make people feel intimate, so there’s that bonding, that connection,” Burge says. “People tend to become more present, which lends itself well to therapy, of course.” In his Pulitzer Prize-winning causa sui The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker points out that humanity goes to just about any length to avoid contemplating their own mortality. Life is fatal, but people forget. Trauma makes it impossible to deny. PTSD sufferers develop a heightened, crippling death-awareness. Becker writes in his 1973 tome: “The irony of man’s condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.” Yes, he derided psychedelic drugs as a Dionysian excess, bemoaning modern man for “drinking and drugging himself out of awareness.” Ironically, though, MAPS has found that a certain strain of chemical fix can help confront rather than escape one of the greatest agonies of the human condition: consciousness of our inevitable demise. “On some level, psychedelics push you to the brink of understanding that you’re mortal,” one of the dinner guests, a San Jose musician, explained after a colorful telling of her most memorable, jarring psilocybin trips. “You know? You’re forced to confront those fears. A lot of people are wound really tight, or stuck to this world. Sometimes you have to force your way outside of yourself to realize that to be unafraid of death means accepting that they’re part of nature and that there’s a lot more possibility than you imagined.” For anyone who finds it odd to see MDMA classified as a psychedelic, Burge explains that it’s more an umbrella term than a scientific one. Think of it this way: all hallucinogens are psychedelic, but not all psychedelics have hallucinogenic effects. Consider MDMA a psychedelic as defined by Humphry Osmond, the mid-century British psychiatrist who coined the term for chemicals he considered “mind manifesting.” “That’s what we mean when we use the word,” Burge says. “And it certainly applies to MDMA, which isn’t really a hallucinogen but definitely has

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INQUIRING MIND San Jose psychotherapist Dmitry V. hopes to one day use legal psychedelics to treat patients. psychedelic, mind-manifesting, or mind-expanding impact.” The first two rounds of clinical trials have gone exceptionally well, with success rates up to 83 percent, according to psychiatrists involved in the research. After a few rounds of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, several patients who took part say their symptoms of trauma have all but vanished. Doctors hesitate to use the word “cure,” but four years past the first double-blind trials, the results look promising. “It took a lot of work on the part of MAPS to get to this point, to be on the brink of FDA approval,” Burge says. “MDMA had been legal until 1985 and had been used in therapy. When it was criminalized, that put all the legal, above-ground therapeutic use to a stop. It also stopped major funding overnight. That probably set us back 30 years. There’s a lot of catching up to do.” Psychopharmacological scholar Rick Doblin founded MAPS a year after the ban, in 1986, to research the clinical benefits of psychedelics and marijuana. While trippers generally remain discreet about their activities, especially of recreational use, MAPS has made a point of operating scrupulously above board. Under Doblin’s purview and guided by his Harvard University-honed expertise in public policy, the nonprofit has

published journals, statistics, action studies and methodical protocols that slowly chipped away at some of the counterculture stigma attached to psychedelics. The method took a few decades but seems to be paying off. To date, MAPS has raised more than $36 million, largely from individual donors and small foundations, to study cannabis and psychedelics and educate the people about their risks and benefits. The nonprofit celebrated another landmark victory this month when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency approved a clinical trial of marijuana to treat PTSD. Seventy-six trauma-stricken military veterans will take part in the study, which marks the first time federal regulators officially allowed research meant to make smoked cannabis a legal prescription. Silicon Valley Gives, the region’s annual 24-hour fundraising drive that took place last week, gave MAPS another big boost. Together, with money raised from its 30th anniversary gala in March and some 300 grassroots psychedelic dinners like the one hosted by Nadia and Dmitry last month, the organization has raised about $236,000 for its kilo, or 8,000 doses, of MDMA. “We’ve had to combat years of negative propaganda, negative

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science to prove that there are legitimate contexts for these type of substances,” Burge says. “We’re always trying to bring more people into the fold by informing not just people who are already involved in psychedelic circles, but also the ones who may be on the fence or don’t know enough about it yet.” A secondary aim of the dinner parties, he notes, is that they give people a chance to talk openly about their psychedelic experiences—or lack thereof. Some people at the San Jose event say they’ve never experienced anything more than a weed high. Still, they showed up out of curiosity, or because a friend came back from an ayahuasca ceremony or a psilocybin trip raving about the transformative effects. “I do have to say that it’s very daring to do psychedelics,” Dmitry says, urging people to treat the psychoactive high as more than a gratuitous head change. “There’s a reason we’re all talking about it here.”

Expedited Trip At the bonfire dinner, the conversation gets headier, more numinous as the hours pass and the sun dips below the horizon. Throughout the night some 20 or so people trickle in and out of the grassy yard, where windchimes lilt in the background and guests help themselves to fruit, dolmas, hummus, tofu pot pie and a Chicago-style deep-dish pizza. Five hours in, the financial adviser exits the circle to collapse in a hammock. Save for the craft beer, no intoxicants are consumed, though they’re the main course of discussion. People read a “conversation menu” prompt to open up about their most white-knuckling psychedelic trips. Dmitry recounts a time he puddled out on acid and jumped into what seemed like another dimension, a realm in some far-flung reach of the universe. When he came to, he says, he had stigmata-like gouges on his palms. They discuss the Silicon Valley angle,

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namely the industry’s not-so-secret penchant for the molecular mind show of hallucinogenic drugs. Much has been made of Steve Jobs’ reverence for psychedelic enlightenment, but McKenna—whose name comes up a number of times during the dinner party—spent a lifetime studying the intersection of new technologies and ancient pagan customs. In Food of the Gods, published in 1992, McKenna makes the iconoclastic case that psychedelics jumpstarted human advancement by giving our mushroomeating forebearers a leveling-up from animal instinct to higher consciousness. In the 1990s, he popularized the idea of virtual reality and accurately predicted that the internet would galvanize psychedelic subcultures by providing a space to connect and organize. “Psychedelics are woven into the Silicon Valley ethos,” remarks a dinner party guest who declined to share her name. “I want to take mushrooms or

LSD to shift my perspective before tackling a new project.” The conversation touches on how psychedelics exploded into American culture in the 1960s, and spawned a counter-culture inherently at odds with society. But a lot of those same people grew up and brought those sensibilities to the mainstream, ideas that manifest in academia, medicine and technology. Take Google’s DeepDream, one of the guests says. The artificial intelligence program used an algorithm to find and enhance psychedelic patterns in images. “That’s one more example of the interplay between technology and psychedelics,” remarks one of the guests, an engineer at a local startup. Like virtual reality, he continues, a trip “isn’t real,” but can transport a person and spark some lasting insight. The university instructor who listened intently to Tiefer’s wild account of a mushroom high says psychedelics have far more applications than medicinal use. If used with intention, he says, they could provide novel answers to not only personal pain points, but also some of the most pressing political and environmental problems. It’s a thesis similar to Becker’s, that the root of evil isn’t humanity’s animal nature, territorial violence or innate selfishness. Rather, it’s the death-denying impulse to establish some self-serving legacy to outlast us. In Becker’s words, “Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.” A recurring theme from the MAPS fundraising dinner was the power of enlightenment to veer us away from those destructive, if occasionally wellmeaning, tendencies. For expediency’s sake, that may entail a chemical aide. “I think psychedelics are like a gateway to the mystical experience,” says an engineering professor, who asked to withhold his name because he doesn’t want his employer to associate him with anything illegal. “They’re not the only way to get there. You could spend your whole lifetime getting there. But psychedelics are like a helicopter ride to the top of the mountain you could otherwise climb.” Some people may prefer the slow, steady trek, he says. But why not hitch a ride up? “As long as you bring something back from it that’s healing or lifealtering,” he advises. “Otherwise you’re kind of wasting the experience.”

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Now in its 13th year, the Pear Slices series brings 14 short plays by local playwrights from The Pear Playwrights Guild. For the first time the performances are broken into two slates of seven one-act plays, with a single $10 ticket earning you admittance to one full slate. These works will cover a variety of topics—with plays about chance encounters and last chances, a humorous reimagining of several Shakespearean tragedies, technology, kidnappings, death and finding love again at the end of life. (NV)

At first blush, Selena Gomez’s latest single, “Hands to Myself,” and accompanying video, seem to be about masturbation. However, as the young starlet has explained, the track is really about the gulf between fantasy and reality. It’s a topic that this childhood star should know about. First appearing on TV at the age of 10 in Barney and Friends, Gomez—who was named after Tejano singer Selena—went on to star on Wizards of Waverly Place on The Disney Channel and endured the scrutiny of the tabloids during her relationship with Justin Bieber. On Revival, Gomez is clearly processing these experiences and more. And her fans are eating it up. (NV)

When it comes to collecting big names to drop in the EDM world, Holland-based producer Wiwek is doing quite well for himself. The Dutch DJ counts both Diplo and Skrillex as colleagues. He released his Totem EP on Mad Decent back in 2012 and dropped another EP, The Free and Rebellious, on Sonny Moore’s Owsla imprint this past February. The five-song Rebellious features verses from Oakland emcee Lil Debbie and New Orleans bounce pioneer Big Freedia. A mish-mash of roiling trap beats, frenetic dubstep squeals and laid-back tropical tones, Wiwek describes his sound in just two words: “jungle terror.” (NV)

Ah, to be young and in love, stealing kisses under the boardwalk on a warm summer night. There’s only one problem: high school kids are terrible at negotiating relationships and great at getting into trouble. But from trouble and romantic turmoil, springs the plot of this Broadway and film classic. Led by the Artistic Director Kevin R. Hauge, the CMT Mainstage players—ages 14-20—take on Grease and all of its timeless numbers, including “Greased Lightnin,’” “Those Magic Changes,” “You’re the One that I Want,” and, of course, “Summer Nights.” (NV)

Downtown San Jose has plenty to offer when it comes to drinks, live music and pretty ladies. But if you want them all in one place— along with a heaping helping of chairs to the face, piledrivers onto a bed of thumbtacks, and a crowd-pleasing, dildoswinging psychopath—there’s only one real choice: UGWA! The Underground Wrestling Alliance is back for another installment of brutal beatdowns and good, oldfashioned melodrama. And this time around, they’re joined by the lovely burlesque performer Faline Dé Vine. Come celebrate 20 years of UGWA brutality and cheer for your favorite hero or villain. (NV)

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Blending laid-back hip-hop beats, with spacious, atmospheric synth tones, the Seattle electronic production duo ODESZA have worked their way from being just another pair of college buddies making beats in their free time to a national headlining act. The boys of ODESZA—Harrison Mills (CatacombKid) and Clayton Knight (BeachesBeaches)—are currently touring behind their expansive 2014 album, In Return, which featured the hit “Say My Name” with guest vocalist Zyra, and their set of re-worked tracks, Just Remixes, released in February. (NV)

A lot of rappers struggle just to get passersby to take free copies of their latest mixtape. Not Nipsey Hussle. With his eighth official release, Crenshaw, the Southside L.A. emcee believed he had something people would be willing to pay top dollar for. He made 1,000 limited edition Crenshaw CDs, which he sold for $100 each. His bet paid off. Hussle sold out of his initial pressing. In a show of support, Jay-Z bought 100 of copies for himself. The SoCal spitter is still on his grind and coming to town with a brand new single, “Ocean Views”—a track about paying dues and achieving one’s dreams. (NV)

Redwood City-based proggy post-hardcore outfit Sea in the Sky deploy overlapping, punchy vocal lines; an avalanche of glossy, fuzzed-out guitars; and athletic drumming to create propulsive songs that sprint and bound ahead like a professional free runner dashing through a jagged urban landscape. Reminiscent of groups like Saosin and Circa Survive, the band play with a precision that borders on synthetic—in a good way. Their single “Visions” is a powerful and explosive track, which grapples with the concept of faith and the lack thereof. (NV)

Elvis Presley was emphatic that you not step on his blue suede shoes, Nancy Sinatra’s boots were made for walkin’ and Nelly is straight up infatuated with his Air Force Ones. Ever since The King demanded that we all watch our step, footwear has been an essential part of the pop culture landscape. So, it should come as no surprise that some people out there obsess over their sneakers. The Sneaker Con Bay Area is the place to get your hands on the footwear you need—from oldschool Chuck Taylors, through every iteration of Jordan’s, on to those impossible-to-get Yeezy Boosts. (NV)

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JACKSON BROWNE

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DEMI LOVATO & NICK JONAS Aug 18 at SAP Center

HEART, JOAN JETT & CHEAP TRICK

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JETHRO TULL ROCK OPERA

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Off The Wall MANO DEL MISTICO Italian street artist Basik explores mysticism in his work. His painting ‘Poenas Solvis,’ is part of Anno Domini’s group show, ‘Graffuturism Six-Year Anniversary Exhibition.’

New Anno Domini exhibit elevates graffiti to realm of high art BY TAD MALONE

NEW GROUP show at Anno Domini presents some of the world’s most famous graffiti artists working outside of their comfort zones— with both marvelous and jarring results. When artist and curator Poesia started Graffuturism as an art blog more than six years ago, he never imagined it would evolve into the 75-member art collective it is today.

Rather than seeking to codify a discrete aesthetic, Graffuturism intends to rally its members and audience around a shared ethos. The graffuturism is a community consists of dedicated and forward-thinking street artists and graffiti artists, explains Poesia, who is known only by his nom du plume. “We all come from a graffiti background, but we all work in different styles,” he says. While there is no expectation of theme or consistent vibe, with Poesia’s eye for art and scope, it has grown into a style of its own. It is graffiti, but not graffiti; it’s fine art but still very raw. “It’s about pushing your artwork beyond graffiti,” says Poesia, who believes movement is less about art ism’s

and speculation than action. And it shows in a interesting mix of spectrums that seem complete departures from the artists’ signature styles. With exhibitions featured in galleries all over the world, including Paris and London, the creator of the project—Poesia, a San Jose native— has launched a global movement. Six years since he began, Poesia has brought that movement home for the “Graffuturism Six-Year Anniversary Group Exhibition.” The global nature of the Graffuturism brand comes through in the diverse collection of artists in the exhibit. There are only a few American-based artists in the cosmopolitan show—the rest come from a wide swath of countries, including England, Spain, Ukraine, and even Siberia. The pieces in the show all come from Poesia’s expanding collection, and are only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the amount of Graffuturism art he’s gathered over the years. In

fact, he has so much artwork that he's running out of space to keep it. Legendary Parisian graffiti writer and bomber, Tomek—of the innovative PAL Crew—is known for his wild, incredibly detailed, Disney-esque lettering style. While Tomek’s line work seems familiar, the swirling, mellifluous brush strokes on acetate in Gray Color Sponge and 5 Color Sponge make for an elegant step forward in his art. SABER, one of the most famous graffiti writers in the world, is best known for producing what may be the largest work of illegal graffiti in history: an elaborate, 250-by-55-foot piece on the cement flood-control banks of the Los Angeles River. Yet one would be hard-pressed to find any of Saber’s wicked graphic style in his piece, Interactions 2. Free of lining, this modestly sized canvas explores shadows and shapes. It’s a striking study in threedimensional illusion. Other notable pieces include Poenas Solvis by Basik, a sleek, mystical portrait of gesturing hands, and Arnaud Liard’s compositionally astounding piece Out of the Wall. Using a hand-poured mixture of concrete and resin with a nearly imperceptible linen outer layer, Liard creates an eerie, pensive portrait of a man in white and red, which seems to dissolve into its thick concrete base. With so much talent in one place, it’s hard to name a true standout piece from this show. But this is another testament to the varietal but quietly unified exhibition. But even though graffiti futurism has evolved into a style all its own, each of the contributors approached their pieces from utterly different stylistic disciplines. Using house paint, acrylics, oil on glass, paint pens and even cement, “Graffuturism” offers a fascinating glimpse into a more conventional side of renegade. Even those who don’t consider themselves fans of graffiti may find themselves pleasantly surprised by “Graffuturism.” It's a step inside and out of graffiti subculture. It stands as both a compelling collection of fine art and a window into the expressive spirits of society’s most controversial artists. JUNE

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Will Durst’s brand new one-man show, stalking the presidential election cycle like white on rice. Assisted by his trusty overhead projector, this 80-minute production reflects Durst’s outraged and outrageous sensibilities, accessing the topical through the jugular, as current as Bernie Sanders’ lead staffer’s latest tweet. May 27-28. $15$40. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

I AND YOU

Caroline, a pessimistic student in need of a liver, and Anthony, a peppy prep star, must work together on an English project as they work against the clock and discover something startling despite their differences. May 19Jun 19. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company. San Jose.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV COMEDY

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

BAT BOY THE MUSICAL

This hard rock musical drew inspiration from tabloid headlines based on a half-boy, half-bat creature that hung upside down in a cave outside of Hope Falls, West Virginia. May 26-June 25. $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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS

“Inspiring Brahms,” highlighting the composer’s most iconic chamber works—the Trio in Eb Major

for violin, horn, and piano. Featuring the talents of CSMA faculty members Carrie Campbell (horn), Klara Frei (piano) and Antoine van Dongen (violin), the program will explore the influences that inspire composers to create music. Mountain View.

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.

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.

*art MUSEUMS NUMU LOS GATOS

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

CANTOR ARTS CENTER

“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.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM

and Tenacious: INked Women in California’s History” Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

LOS GATOS COMPANY

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

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

“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, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES

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

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

“Salon at the Triton: 2016 Statewide 2D Competition & Exhibition” Thru May 29. “A Contemporary Lineage” by Susan Manchester. Thru Jun 5. “Tableau: Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection.” Apr 30-Jun 12. Santa Clara.

GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI

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

ART ARK GALLERY

“Home Is Where The Heart Is.” An exhibition celebrating a decade of art (2006-2016) at Art Ark Gallery and the development of a thriving arts community, which has made Art Ark Gallery the heart of the Martha Gardens neighborhood. San Jose.

THE ARSENAL

“Mr. Haunt’s Nostalgic Labeling.” Thru May 27. Free. San Jose.

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

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“The Wireless Age: Electric Entrepreneurs before Silicon Valley.” Thru Oct 27. “Tattooed

Monthly Midtown Beat Show. San Jose. Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan. Mon-Sat, 1-6pm. San Jose.

CREATIVE ECOLOGY Artist David Tomb aims to promote conservation through his paintings of birds. DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA

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

GALLERY HOUSE

“Open Studio.” Thru May 28. Palo Alto.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE

Showcasing artwork, demonstrations, and conversations with local ceramic and clay artists. San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY

“Colors of Dreams” by Rosa Younessi, a mix emotion, fun and lots of colors. “Beautiful Garbage” by Sandi Billingsley, which aims to raise awareness of the need to recycle. San Jose.

James Gouldthorpe, explores the passage of time and the aggregation of the self over a lifetime. Thru May 29. San Jose.

PACIFIC ART LEAGUE

Ron Andrews: Andrews’s abstracted compositions contemplate the grandeur and beauty of nature through intricate patterns and textures. His work strives to evoke subjective reflections on nature, and exploit the spontaneity, flow and blending qualities of his media. Thru May 31. Palo Alto.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER

Art by J. Danniel. Mezcal Restaurant, San Jose.

“Cultural Kaleidoscope.” Hundreds of student artists throughout Palo Alto and Menlo Park will meet at the intersection of creativity and innovation during this year’s annual Cultural Kaleidoscope and Youth Art exhibition. Thru May 29. “Youth Art*” Thru May 22.. “Creative Ecology.” In his residency at the Palo Alto Art Center, self-proclaimed “bird nerd” and artist David Tomb shares his passion for birds in hopes of promoting conservation through art and science. Thru Jul 3. Palo Alto.

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“18th Latino Art Now! Auction and Exhibition.” Thru May 14. San Jose.

MAIN GALLERY

“What Dreams May Come” the mixed media artwork and jewelry of Pia Brandt, Susan Fast and Katinka Hartmetz. Thru May 29. Redwood City.

MEZCAL

“Particles: Painting in Ten Chapters,” an exhibit by

Watercolors by Made’ Sukerti Berg. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

“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

“The Portal Shrinks” by Tim Lierman, who deploys “strange beings, symbols and monuments as stand-ins for ordinary struggles with friends and foes,” to explore what lies beyond. San Jose.

TECHSHOP SAN JOSE

Daily Classes offered on Art and Technology. San Jose.

WORKS SAN JOSE

Pieces from benefit art auction. San Jose.

*events LUCHA LIBRE

Local pro wrestlers, Luchade Titanes, exemplify the flamboyant theatrics of Mexico’s twist on stylized grappling and feature fighters with names like Blue Demon and Negro Navarro. City National Civic. Sat, May 14, 7pm: $43-$60.

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Battle Royal GOOD VS. GOOD In ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ superheroes go toe to toe with the bad guys and each other.

‘Captain America: Civil War’— crowded but never bloated BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

LAYING THE NOBLEST American of them all, Chris Evans is easy to underrate. As in previous installments, Captain America: Civil War shows the World War II hero, frozen and revived for our complex times, as a touching and skeptical immortal. Our Captain could also be seen as a symbol of the U.S. government’s unilateral actions in foreign affairs. But the Russo brothers’ terrific action opus addresses directly what

Batman v. Superman hinted at. It’s the most expensive, entertaining movie anyone’s made about blowback. A squad of The Avengers are in Lagos, Nigeria, preventing the theft of a vial of ebola-like serum. During the ensuing, epic shootout, the powerful telepath Wanda (a hypnotically pretty Elizabeth Olsen) saves Captain America’s life but accidentally kills a dozen bystanders. An international outcry builds on top of the anger at the aftermath of the Balkan catastrophe, seen in Age of Ultron. The Secretary of State (William Hurt) announces an international accord in which the Avengers will be leashed by U.N. restrictions. A weary Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.)—the vincible meat inside the shell

of the Invincible Iron Man—urges his fellow heroes to sign. Captain America has his doubts. In between them is Natasha, the Black Widow (Scarlett Johannson, given much more screen time than she had in Ultron). In Vienna for the signing of the accord are representatives of Africa’s Wakanda, the only source for the super-powerful ore vibranium. They are King T’chaka (John Kani, unforgettable from Master Harold…And the Boys) and his son T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman). What happens next demonstrates why a king and his heir should never travel together. A terrorist attack is seemingly carried out by the Winter Soldier, formerly known as Cap’s wartime buddy Bucky (Sebastian Stan). Pressured, the Avengers crack. In hiding, watching the fissures, is the mysterious Zemo (Daniel Bruhl). It’s a long, rich movie, neither too jokey nor too ponderous. Stark’s own self-satisfied bluster doesn’t hide his sorrows. His right-hand woman Pepper has left him. He has troubles that he’s

willing to spill in public. At MIT he demonstrates his newest invention. It’s a holodeck-like therapy machine, in which a simulacrum of the young Stark copes with his WASP-y parents (John Slattery and Hope Davis). This satisfying adventure is rich with the things Marvel comics always did best: critiquing the consequences of power in explosive, four-color form. Even this moralizing can be parodied, though. When Iron Man’s armor is infiltrated by Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), and Stark demands to know who goes there, the tiny intruder quips: “This is your conscience speaking…” Everyone has grown here: Anthony Mackie’s Falcon and Don Cheadle’s Rhodes are nobody’s sidekicks. The action scenes are flawless, including a sequence where Cap wrestles a helicopter like a bulldogger taking down a steer. He and Bucky escape from a SWAT team using the cops’ own rappels as if they were trapeze wires. At an air and land battle at a German airport, the crowd of superheroes doesn’t seem like excess. It’s not like the directors are trying to sell us the toys after we see the movie. It’s like they’re having a good time playing with them. Recruited by Stark, Spider-Man ends up at the airport fray. The bright young Tom Holland (Billy Elliot) brings delight to the role, missing from the dim, serious recent Spider-Man films. (Stark is dismayed by Peter Parker’s enthusiasm; there’s a witty moment where he tries to figure out whether or not he ought to pat the kid on the shoulder.) Boseman is terrific as an avenger in both senses. Clad in a vibranium suit of armor with retractable claws, his Black Panther is more than worthy of a spin-off. The touches of romance, visible in the high humidity of Johannson’s glances, are as involving as the battles. You get to travel a bit—Berlin’s Spree River, the Lagos marketplace, stormy seas, icy dungeons and a stopover in Cleveland. Going for escapism, a crowd is given something to ponder. The question of what to do with “unlimited power and no supervision” isn’t just The Avengers’ problem, it’s America’s.

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Now Playing As in his 2002 Russian Ark, which prowled St. Petersburg’s massive Hermitage museum, director and narrator Alexander Sokurov sees ghosts in the hallways of the Louvre. Or rather, a spirit: Marianne, the female personification of France. The unseen narrator of Francofonia also meets Napoleon Bonaparte. The emperor pauses in front of David’s portrait of his coronation, pointing and boasting, “That’s me!” Sokurov probes a crisis point in the museum’s multi-century history: the story of how much of the Louvre’s collection was hidden from the Nazi occupiers. Sokurov considers the war years the most fascinating part of the tale. Rather, the director is at his most interesting when he’s recording his Roland Barthes-like observations. Does art, like France, truly have a civilizing mission? He considers the massive art heists by Napoleon and Hitler as a means used to empurple their regimes—to make them royal. Sokurov mulls over the importance of portraiture, asking: “Who would I have been, if I never saw the eyes of those who came before me?” One suspects he may be alluding to fundamentalist Muslims who reject all depiction of the human form. But who can say? It’s a slippery film. Enjoy scoping the aspects of the Louvre you can never quite get a look at because of the stampede of tourists, and mull over Sokurov’s sentiment that the contents of his fabled museum are worth more than all of France. (Camera 12) (RvB)

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Slapp Happy BOUNCE Local rapper and producer Traxamillion wants to put himself and his town back on the map.

San Jose beatmaker Traxamillion transitions from hyphy to trap BY JOHN FLYNN

FTER LAYING DOWN beats, hooks and verses for six songs, Traxamillion got tired of his own voice.

So he tapped three friends to feature over his hard-knocking trap tracks. After that, he threw the snack-sized project up on Soundcloud, tweeted it to his 25,000plus followers and kicked back as the internet distributed the digital tape. “The future is now,” the 37-year-old San Jose native says, reflecting on how much faster things move these days compared with 10 years ago, when he helped jumpstart the Bay Area’s

hyphy movement with his sparse, rumbling production style. “Back in the day, you used to have to print CDs, stand on the corner, hand it out, then go to the club and hand it to the DJ,” he continues. “Now, you got a little social media network and it blossoms from there.” His latest blossoming project, “Trapp Addict,” hearkens back to 2006’s “Slapp Addict,” and reflects the transition of San Jose’s foremost producer to trap from hyphy. Back in the mid-2000s, Trax rose to national renown for epitomizing the thoroughly Bay Area brand of hip-hop—a style epitomized by thundering kick drums, uptempo bass lines, 808 plink-plonks and emcees, like E-40 and Mac Dre who sputtered out energetic bars, slathered with uproarious and unique regional slang.

“It's all about bounce,” he says. “Like slap (Trax’s preferred term for hyphy), the main component is the 808, but trap has a slower bounce. There’s a simplicity, but making it sound simple is really intricate.” Trap’s best known practitioners— artists like Young Thug and Fetty Wap and producers like Mike Will and Metro Boomin—all hail from the deep South. But the style has infected every realm of modern music. Its minimalist construction and deliberate pace prioritizes novel noises—spawning a sonic arms race among producers who have delved into EDM filtration techniques to extract beat-accessorizing muffles and whines. Like slap, the style balances humongous bass with electro-influences, but trap artists have pioneered atypical rapping techniques that juxtapose melodic autotuned croons with spazzedout flows punctuated by propulsive ad-libs that burst free in a schizophrenic call-and-response. “The ad-libs are as intricate and as

important as the main vocals,” he says. “It's like two extremely different verses. You're your own hype man.” Trap, slang for a destitute neighborhood or crack house, continues the tradition of gangsta rap, but paints layers of nuance into semi-fictitious portraits of perilous extravagance. On “Joogin and Finessin,” Trax growls that “fucking bitches is (his) profession.” At first blush, it’s a crude boast, but when juxtaposed against the lamentation of ignoring his mother’s intervention, it reads more like a desperate deflection—a coping mechanism learned on the mean streets. He spits, hoots and hollers over quick-hissing hi-hats, spacey wahwahs and hollow barrel smacks. It’s quintessentially modern—an admirably deft positioning from an artist over a decade into an established career. “I've always been interested in what's in the club, what particular rhythms get people moving,” he says. In his early teens, Trax soaked up hip-hop hanging out with college DJs and attending local shows. He started rapping in middle school while also beat-boxing, banging on tables and fiddling with his keyboard—the first suggestions of his knack for beat-making. In 2005, he produced “Super Hyphy” for Keak da Sneak, laying a hypnotizing bass loop and funky chirps below Keak’s gravelly verses. Soon after, he crafted “Sideshow” for Mistah F.A.B. and Too $hort. The hit rode catchy bloops, deep buzzing synths and womp-womping horns. It became an anthem for the raucous, ghost-riding parties that claimed the Bay’s night time streets. “Every record I did after that mimicked the same swag and same style,” he says. “The Bay Area has a lot of pride in ourselves. So to get that co-sign made me feel like I earned my place in hip-hop.” His next project, Tech Boom, is due in June. Trax will leverage his rep to expose San Jose artists like Ziggy, City Shawn and Flammy Marciano while expanding the repertoire of known names like “funky white boy” bassist, Paul de Lisle of Smashmouth.

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

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BRAINSTORMER’S TRIVIA THE CRUISETONES JODY ONO SPILL-THE-WINE JERRY SAUCIDO THURSDAY MONDAY Brainstormer’s Trivia Treatbot Karaoke Night Night every Monday @ 7pm in The Garage

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

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

8pm: Led Zepagain. San Jose.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Wed, May 12, 7pm: The Cruisetones. Fri, May 13, 7pm:Summit 2V1. Sat, May 14, 7pm: Spill the Wine. San Jose.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS Fri, May 27, 6pm: Monkees Listening Party. San Jose.

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BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Thur: DJ Maniakal. Fri: Superbad. Sat: StompboxThur: DJ Maniakal. Fri: Superbad. Sat: Stompbox. San Jose.

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

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Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays. Wed, May 11, 6pm: Rick Ferguson Trio. Thu, May 12, 7:30pm:The Terry Hanck Band. Sat, May 14, 8pm: Nancy Gilliard Trio. . Redwood City.

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.

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Fri, May 13, 7pm: Johnny Neri. Sat, May 14, 9pm: Dolce MusicFri, May 13, 7pm: Johnny Neri. Sat, May 14, 9pm: Dolce Musica. Saratoga.

Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Thu/Fri, May 12/13, 8pm: The Cuenca Bollenback Blades Trio featuring Bob Kenmotsu and Lyle Link. Sat, May 14, 8:30pm: The Adam Shulman Sextet. Every Sun: Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI MOUNTAIN WINERY Fri, May 13, 7:30pm: Jewel. Sun, May 15, 7:30pm: John Prine/ Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires. Saratoga.

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 Every Wed: J.C. Jam. Thu, May 12, 8pm: Kid Dynamite. Fri, May 13, 8pm: Touch N Go. Sat, May 14, 8pm: Dutch Uncle Band. Los Gatos.

THE RITZ Fri, May 13, 8pm: Ugwa Presents Megalo Mania 2. Sat, May 14,

Sat, May 14, 8pm: Dead Sea Fish. San Jose.

CAFE PINK HOUSE Fri, May 13, 7pm: Johnny Neri Acoustic. Sat, May 14, 9pm:Dolce Musica . San Jose.

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Fri, May 13, 8pm: The Purple Ones—10 Piece Tribute to Prince. Sat, May 14, 8pm: Evolution—tribute to Journey and Feather Witch. Redwood City.

FLINT CENTER Sun, May 15, 2:30pm: Peninsula Symphony. Cupertino.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Russian writer Anton Chekhov was renowned for the crisp, succinct style of his short stories and plays. As he evolved, his pithiness grew. "I now have a mania for shortness," he wrote. "Whatever I read—my own work, or other people's—it all seems to me not short enough." I propose that we make Chekhov your patron saint for a while. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are in a phase when your personal power feeds on terse efficiency. You thrive on being vigorously concise and deftly focused and cheerfully devoted to the crux of every matter. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Creativity is

intelligence having fun." Approximately 30,000 sites on the Internet attribute that quote to iconic genius Albert Einstein. But my research strongly suggests that he did not actually say that. Who did? It doesn't matter. For the purposes of this horoscope, there are just two essential points to concentrate on. First, for the foreseeable future, your supreme law of life should be "creativity is intelligence having fun." Second, it's not enough to cavort and play and improvise, and it's not enough to be discerning and shrewd and observant. Be all those things.

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peacock is a symbol of vanity. When we see the bird display its stunning array of iridescent feathers, we might think it's lovely, but may also mutter, "What a show-off." But other traditions have treated the peacock as a more purely positive emblem: an embodiment of hard-won and triumphant radiance. In Tibetan Buddhist myths, for example, its glorious plumage is said to be derived from its transmutation of the poisons it absorbs when it devours dangerous serpents. This version of the peacock is your power animal for now, Gemini. Take full advantage of your ability to convert noxious situations and fractious emotions into beautiful assets.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Clear moments are so short," opines poet Adam Zagajewski. "There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form." Here's what I have to say about that: Even if it does indeed describe the course of ordinary life for most people, it does not currently apply to you. On the contrary. You're in a phase that will bring an unusually high percentage of lucidity. The light shining from your eyes and the thoughts coalescing in your brain will be extra pure and bright. In the world around you, there may be occasional patches of chaos and confusion, but your luminosity will guide you through them.

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Regret": "I'm sorry I lied. Sorry I drew the picture of the dead cat. I'm sorry about the stolen tampons and the nest of mice in the stove. I'm sorry about the slashed window screens. I'm sorry it took 36 years to say this. Sorry that all I can do is worry what happens next. Sorry for the weevils and the dead grass. Sorry I vomited in the wash drain. Sorry I left. Sorry I came back. I'm sorry it comes like this. Flood and undertow."

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the British podcast series "No Such Thing as a Fish," there were only a few satisfying connubial relationships in late 18th-century England. One publication at that time declared that of the country's 872,564 married couples, just nine were truly happy. I wonder if the percentage is higher for modern twosomes. Whether it is or not, I have good news: My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you Scorpios will have an unusually good chance of cultivating vibrant intimacy in the coming weeks. Take advantage of this grace period, please!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Some days I feel like playing it smooth," says a character in Raymond Chandler's short story "Trouble Is My Business," "and some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron." I suspect that you Sagittarians will be in the latter phase until at least May 24. It won't be prime time for silky strategies and glossy gambits and velvety victories. You'll be better able to take advantage of fate's fabulous farces if you're geared up for edgy lessons and checkered challenges and intricate motifs. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Rebecca

Solnit says that when she pictures herself as she was at age 15, "I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one." Let that serve as an inspiration, Capricorn. Now is an excellent time for you to celebrate the heroic, messy, improbable victories of your past. You are ready and ripe to honor the crazy intelligence and dumb luck that guided you as you fought to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. You have a right and a duty to congratulate yourself for the suffering you have escaped and inner demons you have vanquished.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "To regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear." The poet James Richardson wrote that wry advice, and now I'm passing it on to you. Why now? Because if you enhance your appreciation for the sour, the bitter, the salty, and the clear, you will not only regain patience, but also generate unexpected opportunities. You will tonify your mood, beautify your attitude, and deepen your gravitas. So I hope you will invite and welcome the lumpy and the dappled, my dear. I hope you'll seek out the tangy, the smoldering, the soggy, the spunky, the chirpy, the gritty, and an array of other experiences you may have previously kept at a distance. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home." That's from a Coleman Barks' translation of a poem by the 13th-century Islamic scholar and mystic known as Rumi. I regard this epigram as a key theme for you during the next 12 months. You will be invited to shed a host of wishy-washy wishes so as to become strong and smart enough to go in quest of a very few burning, churning yearnings. Are you ready to sacrifice the mediocre in service to the sublime? Homework: Whether or not we believe in gods, we all worship something. What idea, person, thing, or emotion do you bow down to? FreeWillAstrology.com.

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assist the design, development and implementation of next generation data center analytics platform. Resume to 1740 Technology Dr, Suite 150, San Jose, CA 95110. Attn: HR Job#31416-01. Nutanix, Inc.

Member of Technical Staff, QA at San Jose, CA: Design & develop test cases for a highly distributed system that manages data for virtual machines in a cloud computing environment. Res to 1740 Technology Dr, Suite 150, San Jose, CA 95110. Attn: HR Job#415161. Nutanix, Inc.

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RetailNext, Inc.: Computer Support Engineer in San Jose, CA. Responsible for IT customer support. Provide diagnosis, fault replication & resolution customers, w/ engineering fix problem defects. Investigate issues via stack traces/core files. Create Shell/Python/Perl/SQL Scripts. Work w/ onsite tech to deliver solution & troubleshoot. Bachelor’s or its equiv. in CS or related & at least 2 yrs of exp. in a s/w development. Exp. w/: CentOS & Fedora; Python & Java; development & administration of PostgreSQL; creating SQL Scripts; creating RPMs & managing installs w/ Yum; RemedyForce; Network architecture & protocols (TCP/IP, SSH, SCP & Ethernet); troubleshooting network, software & operating system issues in a distributed s/w environment; using tools: Wireshark, Ethereal, tcpdump, strace, sar, top, vi rc scripts, sed, awk, etc. Resume to A. Golden, Head of Talent/HR, RetailNext, Inc., 60 S. Market St., Fl. 10, San Jose, CA 95113.

TECHNOLOGY Ruckus Wireless, Inc. has follow’g jobs opps. in Sunnyvale, CA: Sr. Business Analyst [Req. #JAL49]. Solve org info prblms & req’s by analyz’g req’s, dsgn’g comp prgrms, & recmmend’g sys ctrls & protocls. SCG System Architect [Req. #GBM82] Serve as SmartCell Gateway sys architct for highly scalable WiFi Controller Sys. Mail resumes refrnc’g Req. # to: Attn: N. Enzminger, 350 W Java Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. IT ANALYST/STATISTICAL PROGRAMMER

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ENGINEERING Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. has a Sr. Software Development Engineer opening in San Jose, CA. Work closely with engineering team & marketing to develop, support & enhance MCU, Wireless & Automotive products. Communicate with & support the US Customers as required. Mail resume to Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., Staffing Dept., 2595 Junction Ave., San Jose, CA 95134. Must reference Req. # 4012

Senior Systems Analyst (SSA-ST) Responsible for detailed implementation of control algorithms & safety sys for new surgical robots & surgical instruments. MS+2 or PhD. Send resumes to Intuitive Surgical Operations, Attn: Hien Nguyen, 1020 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Must ref title & code.

Software vIPtela, Inc. is seeking a Fullstack Engineer - Responsible for working on highly scalable and reliable applications using latest web technologies to support high volume transaction. Worksite: San Jose, CA. Submit resume to Nehal@viptela.com, attn: HR.

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ENGINEERING Blue River Technology, Inc. has a Sr. Software Engineer opening in Sunnyvale, CA. Design, implement & test Computer Vision programs to segment plants & objects from background, track object moving in front of camera calculating their speed & recognize objects. Design, implement & test programs that run in real time C++ programming language using Open CV libraries. Mail resume

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Analog Bits, Inc. seeks Senior Circuit Design Engineers (Job Code:AJAK) for multiple openings in Sunnyvale, CA. Dsgn, dvlp, & anlyzmixed signal circuits including high-precision Sensors, Phase or DelayLocked Loop, High speed SerDes & specialzd I/O components; Implmntcircuits at gate & transistorlevel, & verify prfrmnce & functn; Dvlpfully customzd IP components for intgratn into digital SoC includingsystm & block level modeling of mixed signal circuits; Assist w/layout tasks & characterize/evaluate silicon in labs; Provide supprtfor IP integratn; & Create docs for dsgn & lab measurmnt results. Sendresumes w/ Job Code to HR, Analog Bits, Inc., 945 Stewart Dr., Ste.250, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Job details: www.analogbits.com

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Cisco Systems, Inc. is accepting resumes for the following positions in San Jose/ Milpitas/Santa Clara, CA: Program Manager (New Product) (Ref.#: SJ982): Coordinate and develop large engineering programs from concept to delivery. Deploy technical solutions to large cross functional groups. Product Manager, Engineering (Ref.#: SJ717): Responsible for managing the development and implementation of new product introduction engineering activities to meet production launch schedules, quality and cost objectives. Product Manager (Ref.#: SJ17): Create high level marketing strategies and concepts for company solutions for markets and segments worldwide. Business Analyst (Ref.#: SJ510): Use Case/Business case development skills by interfacing with subject matter experts in business operations, business process, Org Adoption and IT team members. Telecommuting permitted. Product Manager, Marketing (Ref.# SJ621): Manages the activities of a functional area within the Product Marketing organization with responsibility for results in terms of costs, methods and employees. Telecommuting permitted. Business Analyst, Operations (Ref.#: SJ946): Use Case/Business case development skills by interfacing with subject matter experts in business operations, business process, Org Adoption and IT team members. Business Analyst (Ref.#: SJ31): Use Case/Business case development skills by interfacing with subject matter experts in business operations, business process, Org Adoption and IT team members. Business Operations Manager (Ref.#: SJ317): Provide business planning assistance, periodic measurements of effectiveness, and facilitate efforts to optimize operational efficiency through business process definition and re-engineering. Telecommuting Permitted. Project Manager (Ref.#: SJ18): Coordinate small, medium, large/complex and multiple projects throughout the project lifecycle (initiate, plan, execute, control, close) or a portion of a larger, more complex project. Program Manager (Ref.#: SJ22): Coordinate and develop large engineering programs from concept to delivery. Deploy technical solutions to large cross functional groups. Project Manager (Ref.#: SJ831): Coordinate small, medium, large/complex and multiple projects throughout the project lifecycle (initiate, plan, execute, control, close) or a portion of a larger, more complex project. Telecommuting permitted. Program Manager, Solutions (Ref.#: SJ384): Coordinate and develop large engineering programs from concept to delivery. Deploy technical solutions to large cross functional

groups. Project Specialist (Ref.# SJ545): Manage small projects and/ or provide support to other program and project management staff by assisting in the organization and management of their projects. Product Manager, Marketing (Ref.#: SJ126): Manages the activities of a functional area within the Product Marketing organization with responsibility for results in terms of costs, methods and employees. Finance Analyst (Ref.# SJ21): Optimize operational efficiency and develop systemic process solutions. Auditor, Internal Audit (Ref.#: SJ814): Perform audits using specialized auditing knowledge and developed business expertise. Travel may be required to various unanticipated locations throughout the United States. IT Program Manager (Ref.#: SJ580): Coordinate and lead strategic and global IT programs that have a significant impact across a large client base. Telecommuting Permitted. Business Systems Analysis Manager (Ref.#: SJ813): Analyze business requirement to configure rule management and define systems solution. Business Systems Analyst (Ref.#: SJ598): Optimize operational efficiency and develop systemic process solutions. Business Analyst (Ref.#: SJ319): Responsible for evaluating and documenting business needs, recommending business process and information Technology solution alternatives and coordinating delivery of technical solutions to clients. Project Specialist (Ref.# SJ956): Provide project management support to the program and project managers for planning, coordination, scheduling, and execution of project work. Sales Strategy & Planning Director (Ref.#: SJ894): Analyze new product sales, identifying areas for improved sales performance and recommending impactful metrics for sales effectiveness inspection and executive reporting. Business Systems Analysis Manager (Ref.#: SJ320): Drive transformational Forecasting efforts globally for the entire Sales and Services organization. Please mail resumes with reference number to Cisco Systems, Inc., Attn: M51H, 170 W. Tasman Drive, Mail Stop: SJC 5/1/4, San Jose, CA 95134. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. EOE. www.cisco.com

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #616947 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pizza Party, 1998 Homestead Road, Santa Clara, CA, 95008, Libero 7, LLC, 3879 Via Salice, Campbell, CA, 95008. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/ Kemo DjedovicPresident #201608910393This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/29/2016. (pub Metro 4/27, 5/04, 5/11, 5/18/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #616506 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 5 Star Limo Service, 1051 Richard Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Limo 5, LLC. This business is conducted by a

limited liability company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/19/2016Refile of previous file #465629 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Avtar Thakur President #201034010031 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/19/2016. (pub Metro 4/27, 5/04, 5/11, 5/18/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #615595 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: To Escapes, 2523 Glen Hastings Ct., San Jose, CA, 95148, Quynh To. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Quynh ToThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/25/2016. (pub) 4/20, 4/27, 5/04, 5/11/2016

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #616140 The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Dong Em, 2645 Senter Road, San Jose, CA, 95111, Huyen Tran, 2600 Senter Road, #142, San Jose, CA, 95111 . This business was conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/24/2014 under file #596859 /s/Huyen Tran This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/11/2016. (pub Metro 4/27, 5/04, 5/11, 5/18/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #614134 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dâ€™Milpas Painting, 768 Nevin Way., #2, San Jose, CA, 95128, Rafael M. Avalos. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/19/2016. /s/Rafael M. AvalosThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/19/2016. (pub) 3/18, 3/25, 4/01, 4/08/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #616746 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CV Fit, 5037 New Trier Ave., San Jose, CA, 95136, Anatole Roussere. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Anatole RoussereThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/25/2016. (pub) 5/04, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25/2016

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kettlee, 1610 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Yuszra LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Rubina AnjumCEO #20160991023This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/11/2016. (pub Metro 4/27, 5/04, 5/11, 5/18/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #616753 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Thai Love You SJ, 6055 Meridian Ave., San Jose, CA, 95120, Thai Love You LLC, 11300 Alba Rd., Ben Lomond, CA, 95005. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Brendan McCarthyManaging Member #201609810461 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/25/2016. (pub Metro 5/04, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #616992 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Samantha Cook, 33 S. 3rd St., Apt 406, San Jose, CA, 95113, Samantha Robidoux Cook. This business is conducted by an indivdual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/29/2016. Refile of previous file #613680 with changes/s/Samantha Robidoux CookThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/29/2016. (pub Metro 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/01/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #616511 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KZK Concrete Pumping, 7431 Church St., Gilroy, CA, 95020, Juan Carlos Nuno. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Juan Carlos NunoThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/19/2016. (pub) 4/27, 5/04, 5/11, 5/18/2016

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Solis Jumpers, 1541 Ford Ave., San Jose, CA, 95110, Mardoqueo Ladino, Sandra Suazo. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #616674 with changes. /s/Mardoqueo Ladino This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/22/2016. (pub Metro 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/01/2016)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hotncold.com, 1151 Ringwood Ct., Suite 50, San Jose, CA, 95131 Jura Egro USA, LLC, 2761 Camino Del Rey, San Jose, CA, 95132. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/3/2011 Refile of previous file #548722 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Rono Henley WubkerManaging Member #201030010094This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/03/2016. (pub Metro 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/01/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #616254 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Taylor & Jayne Salon, 14070 Blossom Hill Rd., Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Michele Mirassou, 1860 Rosswood Dr., San Jose, CA, 95124, Sydney Zolezzi, 3743 Arbuckle Dr., San Jose, CA, 95124. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on June 1, 2016. /s/Sydney J. ZolezziThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/13/2016. (pub) 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/01/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617179 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Force Auto Transport, 527 Charcot Ave., #309, John Masri, 151 Woodland Way., Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/John Masri This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/05/2016. (pub) 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/01/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #615280 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gaolin Fu, 1150 Ranchero Way #7, San Jose, CA, 95117, BalancePoint Financial Services, Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Gaoling Fu President #C3654556 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/17/2016. (pub Metro 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/04/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #615917 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cash Finance, 4783 Pine Forest Pl., San Jose, CA, 95118, Tammy Corona Blevins. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Tammy Corona Blevins This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/05/2016. (pub) 5/04, 5/11, 5/18, 5/25/2016

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS NAME #616567 The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Dong Em, 2645 Senter Road, San Jose, CA, 95111, Ha Nguyen, 458 Archcove, San Jose, CA, 95111, Huyen Tran, 2610 Toy Lane, San Jose, CA, 95121. This business was conducted by copartners. Registrants began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/15/2013 under file #583816. /s/Ha Nguyen/ Huyen Tran This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/20/2016. (pub Metro 4/27, 5/04, 5/11, 5/18/2016)

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ASUAL OBSERVERS might know the ao dai as a traditional long gown worn by Vietnamese women, but it’s much more than just attire. The ao dai symbolizes many things: liberation, struggle, empowerment and obstacles overcome. Its history goes far outside the scope of this page, but one can go as far to say it’s now a symbol of national pride and serious inspiration

for artists, painters, photographers, poets and newspaper columnists. The 2016 incarnation of the Ao Dai Festival erupts Sunday, both inside and outside the Fairmont San Jose. An elaborate multi-dimensional ceremony in the Circle of Palms area kicks off the evening, followed by the ticketed event, an even more elaborate dinner and fashion show inside the hotel ballroom. Music, dance, visuals and storytelling will rule the evening, all to benefit the Friends of Hue Foundation Children’s Shelter in Central Vietnam. Jenny Do is a long-time San Jose attorney and leader in the Vietnamese-American community who runs the Hue Foundation.

She also heads up the myriad teams behind the Ao Dai Festival. Perhaps more than anyone, Do has mainstreamed the ao dai as a symbol of pride. So much so, that she even took a delegation to Sacramento last week to cheer on state Sen. Janet Nguyen (R-Long Beach), who helped pass a resolution to officially designate May 15 as Ao Dai Day. Nguyen was the first sitting senator ever to wear an ao dai on the state Senate floor. The resolution passed unanimously. “It was so emotional when it passed, when it happened,” Do said, her voice choked with emotion. “We were counting every single vote, watching as the votes came.” After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Do explains in an essay, she remained in Vietnam for nine years of hunger and misery, with barely any decent clothes. While suffering through a period of so-called “educational

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reforms,” intellectual erosion and being a victim of the “new economic zone,” Do could not fathom better days. Throughout those nine years under the communist regime, she never saw Vietnamese women wear the ao dai anywhere on the streets. “When I was a child, I remember my mother was very beautiful when she put on the ao dai,” Do writes. “She looked radiant, graceful and noble in that long traditional dress. But without it, during those dark nine years, I did not find such beauty in her when she wore other torn outfits.” Do dreamed that one day she would again see these graceful dresses beautify a city. It was a simple dream, but as every year went by, it felt further out of reach. That dream has become a reality, thanks to the senators and legions of folks helping to make the Ao Dai Festival a success. This Sunday, the outdoor phase of the evening—free for everyone— will unfold in the Circle of Palms between the Fairmont and the San Jose Museum of Art. The “Princess Coming-of-Age Celebration” will introduce the mythological tale of “Sơn Tinh (mountain), Thơy Tinh, (water).” It features traditional Vietnamese music and the latest fashions of ao dai designers, and is usually a grand-scale, multisensory experience. The luminous color palette of the Ao Dai celebration—attire, props, dragon troupes, horses and the overall pageantry—blooms like a floral display amid the palm trees and surrounding beige landscape. In the story, the princess has reached the age of marriage, so her father calls for prospective suitors (ao dai designers) to battle for his daughter’s hand. The dressmaker who dazzles the princess with the most beautiful ao dai will win her heart and become her husband. Expect a rocking experience with a slew of stilt-walkers, horses, vibrant banners and zithers. Once inside, everyone with a ticket then attends the dinner, fashion show and auction. The entire affair benefits the Hue Foundation’s Children’s Shelter, a very worthy cause.

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