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JUNE 25 STANFORD STADIUM

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

Mural Madness I saw you, culturedestroying restaurateur— or rather, I saw your minions—painting over one of Willow Glen's most charming murals and leaving the wall a blah, beige with a boring McSign.

I'm surprised how much this pains me, but it was such a cool, individualized mural.

There would have been room to add a little sign for your restaurant into the mural, but instead you chose to take away some of the history and aesthetic value of our community.

This is how you treat the people you hope will be your customers?

RE: “STUCK LOVERS,” COVER, MAY 25

Fantastic reporting. Well done.

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Man things might've gotten worse but at least you can go jogging in the hood now that you got all these hipsters moving in lol RAUL RODRIGUEZ VIA FACEBOOK RE: “STUCK LOVERS,” COVER, MAY 25

RE: “COUNCILMAN NGUYEN PLANS TO SLEEP IN PORTLAND HOMELESS CAMP,” FLY, MAY 25

RE: “2 JAILERS CHARGED WITH BEATING SHACKLED INMATE,” SAN JOSE INSIDE, MAY 25

Saw this article going around. Feel like, if you can, now's the time to gtfo of San Jose.

Homeless issue is overwhelming in D7.

Gotta find solutions before too late.

The guards were suspended during the Jail Blue Ribbon commission hearings, but conveniently that didn’t come to the commission’s attention before their wrap-up. Makes me wonder what else has not been disclosed.

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No Shame Shameless legislator NORA CAMPOS spent the past month accusing state Senator JIM BEALL of various improprieties while her husband, NEIL STRUTHERS, fended off accusations that he stooped to racial and homophobic slurs while provoking a losing fight at a Fairmont Hotel ballroom. All the while, Campos refused to provide nary a shred of evidence to back up her accusations.

Before that, her embarrassments were mostly confined to running her Assembly office like GORDON RAMSAY’s Hell’s Kitchen and being accused of funding a stolen election for her baby brother, ex-San Jose Councilman XAVIER CAMPOS. Her shamelessness quotient has risen to new heights, however, with her decision last week to award Voler Strategic Advisors the “Business of the Year” award for Assembly District 27, which covers east and south San Jose. For those unfamiliar with Voler’s work, Fly checked it out and none other than Xavier works for the tiny consulting firm that also employs Nora’s longtime They political consultant.

Did ROLANDO BONILLA. No What? one at Campos’ capitol SEND TIPS TO and district offices could FLY@ provide any information METRONEWS. on what Voler does, COM or why it received the award over other small businesses, and the company’s website announces more info is “coming soon!”

CEO PERLA RODRIGUEZ cut short a phone interview after she refused to name even one of her company’s clients. A little more digging found that Voler hardly qualifies to be a “Business of the Year” considering it received a California business license on July 23, 2015—less than a year ago. One client we did find is a $21,000 contract Voler signed with the Franklin-McKinley School District, which almost passed without a single discussion were it not for OMAR TORRES, the lone trustee to vote against the contract. “With all the businesses in Assembly District 27 making great contributions,” Torres said, “that is ridiculous that [Nora] would nominate Voler.”

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Sex Stings SCRIPT FLIPPED Local law enforcement agencies say they now treat prostitutes as victims first.

A behind-the-scenes look at SJPD’s human trafficking crackdown

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

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RESSED IN A BLUE lace teddy and pink ankle socks, a young woman opens the door expecting her third client of the night.

The man—unassuming in a rumpled plaid button-down, jeans and sneakers—asks if she’s “Lexi,” the one he’d been texting about a $160-anhour blowjob-and-then-some romp by way of Backpage.com. Yes, she replies, wondering aloud if he brought condoms.

It’s a quick exchange, but with the Bitcoin-paid ad for a “SeXy Latina” bringing him to the Holiday Inn, it’s enough for a bust.

“San Jose PD,” the undercover cop tells her, flashing a badge.

Moments later, a handful of officers join him in the double-king suite. It’s a surprisingly upscale room, one remarks.

Lexi sits on the edge of the bed nearest the door, blank stare, back slouched, legs crossed and one arm self-consciously clasping her midriff. Police dump the contents of a black-and-pink Adidas duffle bag on the other bed: receipts, makeup, out-of-state government documents, an empty burner phone box and a baggy of meth with a glass pipe.

One of the officers hands Lexi an aqua-blue hoodie and blue Warriors sweatpants to wear. The lone female officer asks about the name tattooed in black cursive on her left forearm.

Anthony, that’s her son. What about “Queen Star,” inked in thick, looping script on her neck?

“The girl I used to work for,” she says.

“Your pimp at the time?”

Lexi shrugs. Has she heard of human trafficking? No, she answers.

Sgt. Eric Quan, who leads the San Jose Police Department’s Human Trafficking Unit, asks if she’s thought about getting out of this life. Yes, she says, but she always comes back.

“My mom used to do it. She sold me to her friend for crack when I was 14.”

Up until her 18th birthday, that would have made Lexi a sex slave and the hotel sting her emancipation. A social worker would have been summoned and the man who booked the room arrested for human trafficking. But Lexi’s 20 years old—too old to rescue unless she asks. She’s cited for prostitution.

Magic Number Metro accompanied San Jose police officers on an undercover human trafficking operation in April that ended as a prostitution sting.

It’s an outcome that underscores the complexity of enforcing anti-

What’s less defined, however, is the protocol for helping women too old for perfunctory rescue, particularly young adults aged 18 to 24.

“I think the biggest issue right now is a lack of resources,” says Flores, who helped coalesce the South Bay’s interagency antitrafficking coalition 12 years ago. “You can’t force people to get help.”

Though police try to target minors because of their legal classification as victims, it’s a guessing game. Hours before SJPD followed the ad to Lexi, officers scoured online sex ads for young-looking escorts—hardly a scientific measure. A lot of the women don’t even use their own photo.

Sgt. Kurtis Stenderup, Sgt. Quan’s counterpart at the Santa Clara County Sheriff ’s Office, says that helping adult sex workers often entails connecting them with social workers and building long-term relationships. In that sense, it’s a lot like helping victims of domestic violence—it can time to reach the point of seeking help.

“We have to gain the trust of the victims,” Stenderup says. “When we’re dealing with human trafficking, it’s similar to domestic violence victims in the sense that there’s a lot of manipulation, there’s a cycle of violence, and the victim relies on the exploiter.”

When a sting nets an adult instead of a minor, he adds, sometimes they just let them go. “We’re not here to fight prostitution,” Stenderup says, “we’re here to fight human trafficking.”

Little Help Inside a garish orange motel room that smells like weed, police banter with two young women, both in their early 20s—one in a long-sleeved black top and the other draped by a Sponge Bob Square Pants blanket. Like many of the sex workers police encounter, they’re from out of town. Their presumed pimps, two 19-year-old men, sit on the curb outside. They’re from Fresno.

“No one’s forcing you to do this?” an officer asks. “You sure about that?”

“I’m positive,” the blanket-covered woman replies. “I take care of my own thing.” The men outside are just friends, they say.

“Do you understand that there is help if you want?”

“I do understand,” she says, “but I’ve been doing this for a long time.”

“Anything else you want to tell me?”

“That I want to go home,” she says.

“And thank you.”

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trafficking laws with adults and how the line between coerced and consensual sex work can get blurry.

San Jose’s use of its human trafficking unit to arrest prostitutes touches on a national debate over how to identify, let alone help, victims of sexual exploitation.

“Maybe they’re a victim, but they don’t want to report their trafficker,” says Sgt. Quan, a department veteran who’s spent the past few years working with local nonprofits to build what he calls a more victim-centered approach. “Maybe they’re scared. Or maybe they’re thinking how else they would make $1,000 a night. Ultimately, it’s up to them.”

The most sensible tack, he says, is to target youth. State law deems any minor involved in commercial sex a victim of trafficking, immune from prosecution and entitled to social services.

“Sex trafficking with minors is lowhanging fruit,” says Ruth Silver-Taube, legal services chair of the decade-old South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking. “The prosecutor need not show force, fraud or coercion.

A commercially exploited minor, even [one engaged in] survival sex, is automatically a trafficking victim.

There is nothing else to prove.”

Coupled with higher penalties for pimps and traffickers passed in 2012, the policy has emboldened authorities to narrow their focus to victims under 18. To that end, the SJPD merged its missing persons, juvenile and human trafficking units this spring.

To authorities, the difference between trafficking—considered modern-day slavery—and prostitution comes down to not only a person’s age but also the intent and funding behind the enforcement. A vice squad goes after prostitutes. A human trafficking unit looks for slaves and their captors, using designated federal and state anti-trafficking grants.

Because of those efforts, Sgt. Quan says, SJPD has rescued upward of 80 minors forced into sex work in the past few years. The department went from dealing with only a few human trafficking cases in 2009 to two-dozen in 2012 and 37 in 2015. The number of identified victims went from four in 2009 to 44 in each of the past two years.

“Law enforcement has been very committed to this issue,” says Perla Flores, who oversees human trafficking services for Community Solutions, which dispatches on-call advocates to help Sgt. Quan.

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EPIC VIEW A hiker peers into Yosemite Valley from Taft Point.

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ROM THE CRAGGY peak of Denali to the humid marshes of the Everglades, and from the lush greenery of Acadia to the parched alkali plains of Death Valley, the National Park System comprises 84 million acres of land and 4.5 million acres of lakes, ocean and reservoirs.

First established in 1916 and expanded over the last century, there are now 59 National Parks—and San Jose resident QT Luong has photographed every single one.

The National Parks Service will celebrate its centennial on Aug. 25. In commemoration of the milestone, the United States Postal Service is releasing a series of National Park stamps—one of which features a picture, taken by Luong, of the Little Missouri River bending through the badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. The stamp will be unveiled in a ceremony in New York City on June 2.

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LARGE FORMAT Luong captured the bone-dry beauty of Joshua Tree National Park (above) using his large format field camera.

The image used on the stamp (below) was taken with a digital camera.

‘Even the parks that are well known, there are still views to discover’

The image is masterfully composed, as Luong traces the line of the river as it snakes along in the shadow of ragged bluffs. The earthen brown and dark green of the rising hills is reflected in the waters below, and a repetitive zig-zagging pattern draws the eyes up from the stream to the top of the frame before leading the viewer back down again.

Luong says that he first took a wider angle shot of the area, before zooming in on the feature. “You see the river leading toward a hill and then you see a pattern of horizontal lines,” he explains. “That was really the centerpiece of what attracted me

to the viewing of that place.”

Over the course of his career as a photographer, Luong has trained his eye to catch these kinds of details.

And as he has pushed himself further into more remote corners of the National Parks, he has been rewarded with unexpected and beautiful scenery.

As far as Luong knows, he is the only professional photographer to have taken photos at all 59 of the country’s National Parks. It’s a claim corroborated by the Ken Burns documentary, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, for which Luong was interviewed on camera.

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Luong says every National Park he’s photographed features an amazing amount of variation—in the landscape, wildlife and overall feel of the terrain. “Even the parks that are well known, there are still views to discover,” he says.

Just as it took the National Park Service a century to grow to the size it is today, it has taken Luong close to half of his life to visit and document the parks. His journey began back in February of 1993.

Born in 1964 to Vietnamese parents living in France, Luong grew up a self-described “city boy.” A smart young man—he completed his initial

post-secondary and doctorate work in science at the University of Paris, where he earned a PhD—Luong was also adventurous. In his spare time, he enjoyed mountain climbing and skiing in the French Alps.

His work in the sciences brought him to UC Berkeley in 1993. He says he chose the school for one simple reason. He was a rock climber and Cal was close to Yosemite. It was on his first trip to the park that Luong encountered a problem to which any amateur photographer can relate.

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Dome standing sentinel over the green valley, a rainbow stretching across the sky. In that moment Luong understood—for the first time, and in a visceral way—the power and overwhelming beauty of the National Park system.

“It was love at first sight,” Luong wrote of Yosemite in a recent blog post.

He pointed his camera at the landscape, depressed the shutter button and hoped for the best.

When he had his photos developed, he was disappointed. On that crisp, winter day in 1993, Luong was less an artist and more of a rock climber and outdoorsman with a budding interest in photography. Today, he is a professional photographer who

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It’s not enough to simply point and shoot, Luong says, recalling the moment. In the interest of “doing justice to the feeling of being there,” he would return to the same spot over and over again for 20 years.

Each time he returned, Luong was armed with better photography equipment—including his prized large format field camera—and an increasingly refined skillset, honed across two decades of shooting at the edge of active volcanoes and freezing dunes, on top of mountains and in the midst of vast prairies.

Finally, two decades after that fateful February day, Luong says he got a shot

he felt was worthy of publication.

Sitting at the dining room table in his home, tucked away in a hilly neighborhood in Silver Creek, he gestures to a large photographic print hanging on the wall behind him. “That’s the picture,” he says. On the table before him rests a dummy version of his forthcoming book, Treasured Lands, which collects all of Luong’s photographs—several from every National Park in the country.

He picks up the tome, beaming.

“It will be more comprehensive than any other book,” he says of the 456-page work. “It’s my contribution to the Centennial. I hope that it will inspire people to discover areas of the parks that are out of the way.”

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GOOD BOY Councilman Ash Kalra announced his plan for a no-kill shelter alongside Peekaboo, a disabled pit bull.

Kalra Proposes No-Kill Animal Shelter San Jose Councilman Ash Kalra wants to turn the San Jose Animal Care Center into a no-kill shelter.

In a press conference held last week, the District 2 councilman unveiled the plan alongside a 5-monthold paraplegic pit bull named Peekaboo—one of many special needs animals in the shelter.

The plan comes as a budget proposal, which asks the city to put up enough cash to curb its kill rate by offering more free-to-low-cost spaying and neutering.

Kalra said he got the idea from the city of Los Angeles, which has several no-kill shelters in the area. San Jose’s live release rate, which refers to the percentage of animals that get adopted every year, has reached

87 percent this past year. That’s a historic high and well over the national average of 46 percent.

If the shelter reaches a live release rate of 90 percent, it would technically qualify as a no-kill facility, something Kalra hopes to achieve with more funding.

He added that he’s confident, given the right tools and resources, that the shelter can save more lives. “I really hope that by putting more resources into spaying and neutering, people take it more seriously,” Kalra said.

As part of the proposal, he wants to create a mobile spay and neuter clinic, that way the shelter can go out into the community and be more available to the public, he said.

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contributors to our high save rate has been preventing animals from being born through low cost and free spay-neuter services,” said Jon Cicirell, assistant director of Public Works. “We have learned that this is one of the best ways to invest in our community and achieve our goal of reducing the number of stray animals.”

Though he doesn’t have any pets of his own, Kalra said his district office is full of animal lovers. Several of his staffers have adopted dogs and cats from the local pound. He encouraged people who want a pet to visit the local shelter first before going to a pet store.

For more information about the San Jose Animal Care Center, check out their website at sanjoseanimals.com.

In what’s become a stale tradition between elected officials in opposing sports cities, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has placed a bet on the Stanley Cup Finals with his Pittsburgh counterpart, Mayor William Peduto.

The fact that I’m writing this and you're reading it is proof we’ve already lost.

The San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins are currently playing in a best-of-seven series—the Penguins are up 1-0 as of deadline— and whichever team loses, the corresponding mayor will pony up some hometown treats.

The defeated mayor will also make a donation to the other’s charity of choice and take a photo “to be posted on social media”—oh snap!—wearing the captain’s jersey of the championship team. The jersey will then be auctioned off to benefit the winning mayor’s charity of choice, because who can resist spending hundreds more on an already ludicrously priced sweater that has been worn by a middle-aged man smelling of hand cleanser?

As part of his potential “gift basket full of local goodies,” Peduto’s proposed offerings include Primanti’s sandwiches—a quick check on Yelp suggests some abomination of pastrami, french fries and cheese— and Heinz Ketchup products.

Meanwhile, if the Sharks lose, Liccardo suggested he would ship off Gordon Biersch garlic fries and beer, as well as La Victoria’s Orange Sauce.

It doesn’t take Silicon Valley’s vaunted “1+1=3” math skills to know the proposed payouts don’t add up. We’re sending beer and an addictive hot sauce, and in return they offer a heart attack in a sandwich and ketchup?

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Some rappers, like Desiigner, are launched into the spotlight via big-name endorsements. TOPE hasn’t been so fortunate, but he’s fine with that. Getting his start at local hip-hop showcases and freestyle cyphers, this upand-coming Mississippi emcee is known for his independence in the field—booking his own tours and designing his own merchandise.

Of late, he’s garnered attention from major press outlets such as Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club, The Source and 2DopeBoyz. To date he has released 14 albums and crisscrossed the nation on tour.

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Booze and technology have never looked so great together. This summer mixer gives robotics nerds and novices the opportunity to cut loose, kick back and even dance (the robot, perhaps), while discussing the rapidly growing field of robotics. Discuss Google’s self-driving cars, or quadrupedal automatons built to serve as U.S. Army scouts, or perhaps just workshop your idea for a cocktailmixing robot. Sponsored by Silicon Valley Robotics—the folks who brought you the Silicon Valley Robot Block Party—the idea is to facilitate an exchange of ideas and foster stimulating conversation in a casual and fun atmosphere. (DM)

A merchant marine by day, Willow Glen-born artist and photographer Martin Machado uses the sites of sea and harbor for inspiration. His travels have taken him all over the world, providing him with plenty of inspiration for his latest series exploring the disconnect between the local inhabitants of port cities in the developing world, and the rich Westerners who vacation and hide their money there. With a mixture of N.C. Wyeth’s seafaring sensationalism and the line-work of late 19th century political cartoons, Machado creates evocative nautical portraits with an almost linear pointillism. (TM)

After a brief hiatus, the Finish Ticket is back with their new single “Color.”

They’ll be headlining this show at The Ritz before taking the stage at Live 105’s annual BFD summer music festival. Best known for collaborating with Big Data on the hit single “Dangerous,” Joywave will also be in the building along with Night Riots—whose single “Contagious” calls to mind The Cure and The Killers.

Last but not least, alternative radio pioneer Aaron Axelsen will be behind the boards, spinning up modern rock jams and mashups designed to keep feet moving. (DM)

Now in it’s ninth year, SubZERO is back with its trademark medley of art, technology and culture.

The two-day celebration will take over San Jose’s SoFA District, packing the streets with musical performances, live painting exhibitions and countless other street performers and attractions.

This year also will feature an area called The Secret Garden, a makeshift musical bar presented

by Lagunitas Brewing Company. If that’s not enough to satisfy your cultural (or actual) hunger, nearly a hundred local businesses—from clothing brands to tattoo shops— will be showing off the talent of the city. (TM)

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Coming to redefine the conventional boundaries of music and music composition is Guillermo Galindo. This Mexican composer is known for many talents including building musical instruments from basic found objects. He has performed at important music festivals, concert halls, museums and art exhibits throughout the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia. One of his famous creations is the mystical “zapatello” in which he used gears and cranks to hit a shoe and glove on a drum made out of tire and rawhide. His performance is just one of the many reasons to check out Maker Day. (DM)

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D.I.Y. Literature PERSONAL MANIFESTO Think & Die Thinking, Cheers From the Wasteland and Silicon Valley De-Bug are teaming to host a zine-making initiative.

Zine project aims to prove San Jose is not a literary wasteland

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HE HISTORY OF zine culture is a history of resistance. For about as long as the novel has been around, political dissidents, cultural outcasts and the institutionally overlooked have all used self-published small run magazines (or, zines) to reach and sway a wider audience. Reagan-era punks, Russian anti-Soviets and golden age sci-fi authors have all used the format to great success.

Even Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass arguably started as a zine.

This summer, three of San Jose’s most proactive cultural institutions— DIY punk collective Think & Die Thinking, literary journal Cheers From the Wasteland, and alt-entrepreneurial group Silicon Valley De-Bug—bring us Summer of Discontent, a three-month long zine initiative that aims to unite all of the disparate voices of our city.

“A lot of D.I.Y. events are centered around music and musicians, which is cool, but we wanted to open up the space more for other people,” says Rich Gutierrez, of Think & Die Thinking.

“It can be really disheartening living here at times. It’s changing really fast and the city seems to be going in a direction that is silencing our histories.

A lot of folks are feeling pushed out and unsupported.”

As the ghoulish skeletons of impending condos rise all around us, Gutierrez’s statements seem empirically true: San Jose is actively silencing its history in favor of big moneyed interests. The city has become entranced by the digital, as though the decision makers read a copy of Neuromancer with all of the dystopian aspects redacted.

According to its Facebook Page, Summer of Discontent “serves to document our experiences and record our collective histories through selfpublishing.” Anyone and everyone in San Jose is encouraged to write, create, and submit a zine to the initiative. Zines can be on virtually any subject—from diary-style personal narratives to photo books, political writings to how-to guides.

The format for zines is also extremely open. Submissions can be made of any size (though the half

sheet of printer paper is somewhat standard), and have no requirements for word length or even language. It is a radically open initiative, empowering anyone whose voice has been paved over in our hyper-gentrifying city to speak out through the cracks.

“I hope to stay away from corporation sponsored events,” says Gutierrez. “A lot of events in the South Bay can seem like they are kind of riding alongside the gentrification, sadly.”

He’s right about this. While events like C2SV have brought bands as big as The Stooges to San Jose, they’ve come with numerous speeches from tech CEOs, corporate suits and panels espousing the use of drones, self-driving cars, and all of the technology that is quickly replacing the humans of San Jose.

The groups presenting the Summer of Discontent have a radically different vision of how life here could be.

Gutierrez: “I would love to see more events planned, facilitated, sponsored, run, promoted and enjoyed by the people of our hoods. It would be great to have more events have a focus on youth accessibility and always have marginalized folks at the forefront of support.”

Submissions for the Summer of Discontent are open until June 20.

Those with something to say about this town, its community, life and personal beliefs, are encouraged to submit before then. To help lend support to those interested, Think & Die Thinking is hosting a free zine making workshop in the courtyard of Seeing Things Gallery on June 12.

Then, on Aug. 27, the release party for Summer of Discontent will take place at Silicon Valley De-Bug. Each participant will receive 10 zines by other participants as well as 10 copies of their own. Everyone will have a chance to share with local creators, meet fellow members of the community, and table and sell their creations. And in case that sounds stuffy, it’s also billed as a dance party.

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A Creative Community A MILE OFF Highway 280, just north of downtown, hidden in a small sea of industrial facilities and drab warehouses, is arguably San Jose’s greatest artistic hive: The Citadel. A collection of more than seventy active studios, with at least 500 more studios to spare (literally), The Citadel and—by extension—Citadel Art Studios, has been active for more than two decades and is the largest artistic community in the South Bay. Now the Citadel's tenants are coming together for their first ever groupbuilding show, entitled “FUSE: Distributive Cognition.”

Originally a cannery, the building’s layout provides for an incredible amount of usable space. Especially for Silicon Valley. Though it’s filled with working artists experimenting in every medium and scope imaginable—and also features a full-size gallery space—a FUSE: Distributive Cognition passerby might never guess at the creative energy that hides behind the nondescript warehouse walls. This has Jun 4, 6pm, Free been both a blessing and a curse for the creative-types who The Citadel, call The Citadel home. The quiet spaces are ideal for artistic San Jose focus. However, they also serve to shut out the surrounding community. Now the tenants intend to end their isolation.

“This group was formed because we were tired of having to wonder whether our next neighbor was going to be an artist or just someone looking for a cheap spot," says artist Carlos Rodriguez regarding the shaky management history of the building. “There are really no other opportunities for artists to venture out and grow,” he adds. “I truly feel most of us are here because there’s no other place like this in San Jose.”

“FUSE” is the first time that a cross-section of Citadel artists have come together to share and collaborate. “Even though we were basically doing separate shows here, we never really came together as a group,” says long time resident and artist Al Preciado. And given the array of artists and styles (at least 20 of The Citadel’s residents will be presenting), from graphic acrylic woodcuts to traditional technique Renaissance oil painting, “FUSE: Distribute Cognition” will be an encyclopedia of the talents secretly thriving in San Jose.

“We wanted to ensure their is a community here that is focused on art, creating art for San Jose and—more importantly—letting people know we exist,” says Rodriguez. —Tad Malone

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Sad Hatter WACKY WASTE Once again, Johnny Depp’s talents are squandered on the overly cartoonish character of The Mad Hatter in ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass.’

Very little conjures genuine joy in ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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LIBSTERS SAY A book can never be ruined by a movie—“There it is, still up on the shelf.”

This rule doesn’t apply to James Bobin’s Alice Through the Looking Glass. It’s so misbegotten that it must— somehow—poison its source.

Kids who somehow have a good time at this soulless film are never going to get the same pleasure out of the Lewis Carroll original, expecting it to have the same relentlessness, bad-

television-Christmas-special plotting, and Transformers-like robots.

It is a special book. Here is an introduction to linguistics, to talking insects decades before Kafka, and to other bizarre fauna—sometimes, “very unpleasant characters” as Alice describes The Walrus and The Carpenter. You could say it even anticipates cubism, when Humpty Dumpty speculates that human faces would be more memorable if both eyes were on the side of a nose.

In this Underland—Alice got the name wrong, as we learned in Tim Burton’s original—the bland characters sit around waiting for Alice to do the proactive thing and help them. In a preamble, Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is

a Victorian sea captain in the south seas; an occupation that garners her no respect. (Why is it just assumed that no one would be thrilled to hear the story of her voyages?) Linda Woolverton’s script frames Alice as put-upon from the beginning. She’s snubbed for the exotic Chinese outfit she wears at the ball of her ex-boyfriend Hamish (Leo Bill). One agrees with the chortlers— to use a verb Carroll coined; the silk outfit, with its spiked shoulders and and gold doodads, doesn’t do Wasikowska any favors.

Hamish, the chinless suitor she once spurned, is now Lord Ascot. He holds the mortgage on Alice’s house, forcing her to take a job as a file clerk. When Alice escapes this fate by jumping through an enchanted mirror, she discovers the Mad Hatter, whose real name is Tarrant Hightopp (Johnny Depp), is depressed. “He’s grown darker,” says a bystander. (A lot of that going around in 2016 fantasies.)

The Mad Hatter turned into the Sad Hatter after the Jabberwocky’s rampage in the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland. To bring Tarrant back from a lethal swoon, Alice must brave the castle of Time itself. The place is ruled by a Werner Herzog soundalike (Sasha Baron Cohen) in a steampunked-Samurai outfit.

He’s surrounded with little minion ‘bots who can assemble themselves into a giant mechanical man. Time is the overlord of a giant clock; this machinery of fate is powered by “the chronosphere.” Alice intends to steal the widget and voyage into the past.

Destroying the time-space continuum to cheer up a bedridden mope may not be the best idea a film ever had. As for Depp’s horrorclown Hatter, who had a little warmth and brio in the previous Alice, he lays around staring off into space through painful-looking contact lenses. He’s chief among the squandered actors, including the late Alan Rickman who has a few lines as the Caterpillar who metamorphosizes into a blue butterfly. The saddest waste: Lindsay Duncan trying to animate the part of Alice’s debt-stressed mother. No help either from Helena Bonham Carter, as the Red Queen, whose oversized head and angry inner child are both explained away as a failure of therapy.

If the digital color is more bright and modulated than it was five years ago in 3D, so much of what’s done here is something used before: from the backdrops of waterfalls and pink Maxfield Parrish clouds, to the meshing and turning of mammoth gears in Time’s fortress. It’s all as flat as the repeating backgrounds from a Hanna Barbera cartoon.

In the wrong hands, prequels strip all the fascination out of all tales of enchantment. They explain everything you wanted to suppose about. Every character here is diagnosed and instructed in good behavior. This movie takes the curiosities of Wonderland and turns them into a plasticized theme park.

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Specters of Pop TIME WARP Sounds both old and new are mixed together in The Monophonics’ brew.

The Monophonics draw on the past to create futuristic echoes

BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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N HIS MIND-bending essay on Marx and Shakespeare, visionary French philosopher Jacques Derrida imagined a future, which comes from the past. “The same question had already sounded,” he writes in Specters of Marx. “The same, to be sure, but in an altogether different way. And the difference in the sound, that is what is echoing this evening.”

Echo. Sound. The echo of past voices in current artists. Artists who could not have been foreseen in past eras, even if they now harken back to those same eras. The interchangeability of times in art.

“It’s not older music, it’s just music,” says Kelly Finnegan over the phone.

Kelly sings for the once—or future— San Francisco band, The Monophonics.

“Music is the only thing… it’s not like anyone looks at a painting and goes, ‘That’s an old painting.’ It’s just art. It’s a stamp of time.”

The Monophonics came to prominence when Finnegan joined the band in 2010—riding a wave

of bands which harkened back to a previous era of music. “Popular music,” Finnegan is quick to clarify.

“Popular music was such a different term back then,” he says.

“Because it was just popular music, and now it’s kind of just… pop. James Taylor was popular music, the Isley Brothers, really it just described people who were selling records. You know what I mean?”

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings found great success reviving the classic sounds of ’60s soul and motown in 2002. The soul revival went global with Amy Winehouse in 2007, and Duffy in 2008. More recently, Charles Bradley, with his almost unbelievably moving voice, has captured the popular imagination while recalling a similar era.

Though they draw from a related pool of influences, The

Monophonics also bring elements of ’60s psychedelia into the mix, which sets them apart from their contemporaries. Strains of Jefferson Airplane, Love, and The Zombies can be heard all over their 2015 album, Sound of Sinning. The title track, with its bob and weave bass line, tambourine snaps, and crisp ooh-ing background vocals instantly recalls the paisley pysch of the Zombies’ classic, “Time of the Season.”

The band is incredibly tight on record. Each guitar line and overdriven horn part are woven together into a seamless and taught sonic fabric. They sound like they’ve been working out each minute detail of the song together for months on the road. So it is almost bewildering to hear about the Monophonics’ unconventional writing style.

“We don’t demo songs, we don’t rehearse them for weeks, we don’t like go and be like, ‘Let’s see how audiences react,’” Finnegan says.

“Every song that you hear is written that day and played like an hour later. So if we show up at noon, we’ll sit around, we’ll talk about what we want to do that day, we’ll listen to some music…and then we start writing a tune. We roll tape that day and record it, and 95 percent of the time, that’s what gets kept.”

This may sound like a slapdash approach. But Finnegan once again draws from an earlier era to explain the thought process.

“A lot of the songs we all like from the ’80s and ’90s,” he says.

“Someone would show up to a session and it’d be like, ‘Here’s the song, here’s the charts,’ and a couple hours later they’re rolling tape and, boom, it’s done.”

The proof is in the pudding.

The band sounds hot as hell.

Throughout the record, moments from earlier times pop up, like the echo of a ghost, drenched in reverb and compression. “A question of repetition,” Derrida reminds us. “A specter is always a revenant… it begins by coming back.”

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You’ll probably think I’m messing with you, but I swear I’m not. I am a man who has no desire to have sex. I was married, but after my wife got pregnant with our second (planned) child, we never had sex again. I just had—and have—no desire to do anything sexually with another person. I have now been divorced for 11 years and celibate for almost 21. Since my divorce, I have never hooked up or even gone on a date. I don’t want to. Sometimes, I have an urge to masturbate, but I have no desire to involve anybody else. I simply don't get why there is all this kerfuffle about sex. I see no reason to ever have sex again.—Curious As To Your Reaction Like many men, you’re looking to emulate something you saw in porn—only it’s the coffee table in the background.

Though you refer to yourself as celibate, celibacy is a behavior a person chooses—a decision to fight off the urges most people have to hop on another person and do the humpus rumpus. What you have is a feeling—a longing for sex on a par with the enthusiasm of a guest at a trendy cocktail party being offered a slightly squirming sushi appetizer: “Uh, thanks, but don’t mind if I don’t.”

Assuming you’ve been checked out by a doctor for any possible medical issues, chances are you’re “ace”—as people who are asexual like to call themselves.

Asexuality is a sexual orientation—that of a person who, as social psychologist Anthony Bogaert puts it, has “a lack of sexual attraction or desire for others.”

Asexuality is pretty uncommon.

According to a survey that Bogaert did in the U.K., maybe 1 percent of the population has an asexual orientation.

(This estimate may be on the low side, as it was done in 2004, long before the varieties of sexuality and gender began rivaling the choices in the salad bar at Souplantation.)

Asexuality plays out in varied ways.

Some asexuals lack any interest in sex, finding it about as appealing as having another person stick a finger up their nose repeatedly (while panting, moaning, and shrieking in ecstasy).

Others sometimes have urges for sexual release; they just have no desire to expand their dating pool beyond their hand. So, while sexual attraction involves noticing another person and wanting to do all sorts of sex things with them, asexuals might find a person aesthetically pleasing but are generally as sexually interested in them as most of us would be in an adding machine or a potato.

There are those who contend that asexuality is a physical or psychological disorder. And sure, some people probably use asexuality as a cover for unresolved issues or for shock value—like my

(decidedly straight) sister did in coming home from college freshman year and announcing to my conservative Republican mother, “I think I’m a lesbian.”

My mother handled this perfectly: “That’s nice; please put out the plates for dinner.”

Clinical psychologist Lori Brotto explains that asexuality doesn’t meet the psychiatric bible’s criteria for an arousal disorder—physiological impairment or distress at the lack of attraction to others.

Research by Brotto and others also finds that asexuals, in general, don’t seem any crazier than the rest of us and have normal hormone levels and normal arousability, reflected in erectile function and vaginal lubrication. As one asexual put it: “I did, you know, test the equipment…and everything works fine, pleasurable and all; it’s just not actually attracted to anything.’’

Some asexuals get into relationships with other people because they want a partner and/or a family. (They’re asexual, not aloving.) The problem comes if they don’t disclose that their sexual orientation is “Do you mind if I read while you do that?”

As for your situation, if you don’t feel there’s anything missing from your life, well, yay for you. But consider the “self-expansion” model for romantic relationships, by psychologist Arthur Aron and his colleagues. It confirms what many of us intuitively understand: In addition to the ways a relationship challenges people emotionally, it expands who they are as individuals through exposure to their partner’s ideas, identity, possessions, and social circle.

You might be able to have that sort of partnership—with a girlfriend who likes the same hot stuff you probably do in bed (microwaved Chinese food). You can connect with like-minded individuals on the big forum for asexuals—AVEN, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network (asexuality.org). You might make some friends, and who knows…you might even meet the woman of your dreams— one who can't wait to go home with you for a long night of meaningless Scrabble.

©2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 550 S. First St., San Jose, CA 95113, or email adviceamy@aol.com.

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The mountaintop perspective affords a sweeping look at a vast landscape. But sometimes this perspective isn't perfectly useful. What we most need to see may be right next to us, or nearby, and it's only visible if our vision is narrowly focused. Here's how poet Charles Bernstein expresses it: "What's missing from the bird's eye view is plain to see on the ground." Use this clue in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I foresee fertile

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to many

sources on the Internet, "werifesteria" is an obscure word from Old English. But my research suggests it was in fact dreamed up within the last few years by a playful hoaxster. Regardless of its origins, I think it's an apt prescription to fix what's bugging you. Here's the definition: "to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery and adventure." If you are not currently seeking out at least a metaphorical version of that state, I think you should be. Now is an excellent time to reap the catalytic benefits of being willingly lost in a wild, idyllic, relaxing setting.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I'm debating about which of your astrological houses will be your featured hotspot in the coming days. I'm guessing it will come down to two options: your House of Valid Greed and your House of Obligatory Sharing. The House of Valid Greed has a good chance to predominate, with its lush feasts and its expansive moods. But the House of Obligatory Sharing has an austere beauty that makes it a strong possibility, as well. Now here's the trick ending, Leo: I'd like to see if you can emphasize both houses equally; I hope you'll try to inhabit them both at the same time. Together they will grant you a power that neither could bestow alone.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Between now and July

25, there's a chance you will reach the peak of a seemingly unclimbable mountain. You could win a privilege that neither you nor anyone else ever dreamed was within your reach. It's possible you'll achieve a milestone you've been secretly preparing for since childhood. Think I'm exaggerating, Virgo?

I'm not. You could break a record for the biggest or best or fastest, or you might finally sneak past an obstacle that has cast a shadow over your selfimage for years. And even if none of these exact events comes to pass, the odds are excellent that you will accomplish another unlikely or monumental feat. Congratulations in advance!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "My mother gave birth to me once, yeah yeah yeah," writes author Sara Levine.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author Rebecca Solnit

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"Pain serves a purpose," she says. "Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of." With that in mind, Scorpio, I urge you to take full advantage of the suffering you're experiencing.

Treat it as a gift that will motivate you to transform the situation that's causing you to hurt. Honor it as a blessing you can use to rise above the mediocre or abusive circumstances you have been tolerating.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Aphorist James Guida contemplates the good results that can come from not imposing expectations on the raw reality that's on its way. "Not to count chickens before they're hatched," he muses, "or eggs before they're laid, chickens who might possibly lay eggs, birds who from afar might be confused with chickens."

I recommend this strategy for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Experiment with the pleasure of being wide open to surprises. Cultivate a mood of welcoming one-of-a-kind people, things, and events.

Be so empty you have ample room to accommodate an influx of new dispensations. As James Guida concludes: "Not to count or think of chickens."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "No gift is ever

exactly right for me," mourns Capricorn poet James Richardson. Don't you dare be like him in the coming days. Do whatever you must to ensure that you receive at least one gift that's exactly right for you. Two gifts would be better; three sublime.

Here's another thought from Richardson: "Success repeats itself until it is a failure." Don't you dare illustrate that theory. Either instigate changes in the way you've been achieving success, or else initiate an entirely new way. Here's one more tip from Richardson: "Those who demand consideration for their sacrifices were making investments, not sacrifices." Don't you dare be guilty of that sin. Make sacrifices, not investments. If you do, your sacrifices will ultimately turn out to be good investments.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Life will invite you to explore the archetype of the Ethical Interloper in the coming days. The archetype of the Helpful Transgressor may tempt you, as well, and even the Congenial Meddler or the Compassionate Trickster might look appealing. I urge you to consider experimenting with all of these. It will probably be both fun and productive to break taboos in friendly ways. You could reconnoiter forbidden areas without freaking anyone out or causing a troublesome ruckus. If you're sufficiently polite and kind in expressing your subversive intentions, you might leave a trail of good deeds in your wake.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your theme comes

from the title of a poem by Fortesa Latifi: "I Am Still Learning How to Do the Easy Things." During the next phase of your astrological cycle, I invite you to specialize in this study. You may imagine that you are already a master of the simple, obvious arts of life, but here's the news: Few of us are. And the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to refine your practice. Here's a good place to start: Eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're tired, and give love when you're lonely.

Homework: Psychologists say that a good way to eliminate a bad habit is to replace it with a good one. How will you do that?

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lana Insurance Agency, 2180 Story Rd., Ste 204, San Jose, CA, 95122, Hien Nguyen, 3171 Cayman Place, San Jose, CA, 95127. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/16/16. /s/Hien Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/16/2016. (pub) 5/25, 6/01, 6/08, 6/15/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617457 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Loft2Paint, 542 Tubman Court, San Jose, CA, 95125, Tammera Wright. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/28/16. /s/Tammera Wright This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/17/2016. (pub Metro 6/01, 6/08, 6/15, 6/22/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617362 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Egotrip Productions, 1354 The Alameda, #411, San Jose, CA, 95126, Boy Boy Lemoorebach. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/12/16. /s/Boy Boy Lemoorebach This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/12/2016. (pub Metro 5/18, 5/25, 6/01, 6/08/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617542 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Patio Kitchen, 550 Hull Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Ingrid Holguin. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ingrid Holguin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/17/2016. (pub) 5/25, 6/01, 6/08, 6/15/2016/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617641 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Golden Gate International Film Festival, 1440 Koll Circle, Suite 110, San Jose, CA, 95112, Net Effect Media, 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/Kapil Sethi President #C2267178 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/19/2016. (pub Metro 6/01, 6/08, 6/15, 6/22/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #616965

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Pink Elephant Bakery, 415 South King Rd., San Jose, CA, 95116, Meza Corporation, 2. Pink Elephant DeliCafe, 3. Pink Elephant Laundry Mat, 4. Jalisco Taqueria Mexican Food, 5. Pink Elephant Center, 6. Pink Elephant Bakery #2. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein in 1980. Refile of previous file #476456 after 40 days of expiration date. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Maria Elena Meza Vice President #01235403 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/29/2016. (pub Metro 5/25, 6/01, 6/08, 6/15/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617372

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Your Move Games, 814 Harliss Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95110, Bomb Chukka Games. 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/Corey SomaviaSecretary/Treasurer#3897284This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/12/2016. (pub Metro 5/18, 5/25, 6/01, 6/08/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #616831 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mosey Handmade, 1846 Tioga Way, San Jose, CA, 95124, Jessika Anthonis. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Jan 1, 2016. /s/Jessika Anthonis This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/27/2016. (pub) 5/25, 6/01, 6/08, 6/15/2016/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617220 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Maid Pro, 1400 W. Campbell Ave., Campbell, CA, 95008, Grewal Service Group, 3854 Aelna Springs Way., Sacramento, CA, 95834. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on May 2, 2016. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Satnam Singh President #3878076 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/06/2016. (pub Metro 6/01, 6/08, 6/15, 6/22/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617309 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ineffable Interiors, 1475 De Rose Way, Unit 247, San Jose, CA, 95126, Jessica Nakamoto. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jessica Ellen Emi Nakamoto This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/11/2016. (pub) 5/25, 6/01, 6/08, 6/15/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617030 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eclipse Event Staffing, 3637 Snell Ave., San Jose, CA, 95136, John Marin. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/2/2016. /s/John Joel Marin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/02/2016. (pub Metro 5/18, 5/25, 6/01, 6/08/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #617498 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 365 Alarm, 1194 Tofts Dr., San Jose, CA, 95131, Khanh M. Duong. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. /s/Khanh M Duong This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/17/2016. (pub Metro 5/25, 6/01, 6/08, 6/15/2016)

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“The cost of operations for indoor cultivation is starting to outweigh the revenue,” says Adam, a Sonoma County cultivator for 15 years who didn’t want to use his full name. “The price per pound has been steadily declining over the past 10 years.”

In Washington state, where recreational marijuana is legal, prices are dropping for wholesale and retail by about 2 percent per month—that’s a drop of more than 21 percent a year. A recent forecast by industry analyst the ArcView Group shows the national cannabis market soaring to $21.8 billion by 2020, with an annual growth rate of 31 percent. This is incredible, but it may mean falling wholesale prices as supply increases.

State policymakers crafted MMRSA in 2015 in part to protect California’s environment by incentivizing growers to adopt more sustainable practices. But the lack of available space for indoor growing— there’s only a 2 percent vacancy rate for industrial space, according to commercial real estate company Keegan & Coppin—makes running a cannabis business even harder. With the space crunch, where to turn for manufacturing, processing, testing, storage and distribution?

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WHO's Trying to Make San Jose Safer?

In December of 2015, the San Jose City Council passed several amendments to its Medical Cannabis program. These amendments allow collectives to freely exchange cannabis (without any proof the source) and allow for manufacturing of cannabis products at off-site locations. These amendments further allow for cannabis profiteering and decrease the City of San Jose’s control over an already unregulated industry. MediMarts, a true closed loop, vertically integrated collective, submitted the following letter to the City Council before that meeting.

MediMarts Response to the City BACKGROUND MediMarts has worked with the city for several years now and we have worked to ensure that our business model conforms to the Ordinance. MediMarts and the City both want to enable the seriously ill citizens of San Jose access to a natural alternative to addictive and harmful pharmaceuticals. The finish line is near and the City should not alter course and enable unlawful entities to continue to operate illegally in order to collect revenue from what will soon be determined to be an unlawful tax. Law abiding “collectives” or “cooperatives” are still exposed to potential federal criminal prosecution because federal law prohibits any involvement with marijuana due to its current classification as a schedule 1 controlled substance. Therefore, it is imperative that the City’s program ensure that it is not creating additional risks. If the City accepts the proposed amendments it would be endorsing felonious criminal activities and the City would need to answer to the citizens of San Jose after it reinvigorates the commercial marijuana trade.

We commend the City and staff for writing and enacting the lawful process and overall regulatory scheme in all of California for legally operating closed-loop “collectives” or “Cooperatives.” As the Mayor himself says “Medical marijuana is a complicated and constantly evolving issue that warrants time for an extensive discussion” and as a stakeholder that is probably the only true lawful “collective” operating in the City today we hope the City will engage with us for a more thorough analysis of this issue.

Good policy decisions have brought the City this far and where we are now, any step backwards would be disservice to the public. If the City is truly concerned with the “black market,” and not the money stream collected from bad actors holding themselves out to be good ones, the amendments must be rejected. Nobody wants to abandon vertical integration (closed-loop) and these proposed amendments do just that, the City needs to understand that responsible lawmaking requires the ability to be cognizant of the practical reality and the flexibility to re-examine the facts.

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fact and the reality that corporations, for-profit or otherwise cannot be in the medical marijuana industry. As such, the City should disqualify any and all entities holding themselves out to be anything but a member-owned collective. The attached letter from the Secretary of State clearly explains that only a human being that either has a qualified medial condition, or is a primary caregiver to a person with such a condition, is permitted to engage in any medical marijuana activity.

2) Staff and Council also need to understand that anytime marijuana changes hands, it is “diversion” unless those hands are the patient members of the same “collective” or “cooperative”. “Diversion” is the primary evil that the Medical Marijuana Program Act and the San Jose Municipal Code aim to prevent. We can all agree that keeping medicine in the hands of the ill, and the ill alone, is of the utmost importance. Allowing transactions of a controlled substance to occur outside of the closed-loop lawful entities is illegal no matter how you approach or look at the issue. Moreover, it is supports transactions involving the black market and/or unqualified individuals. Supporting or authorizing any such unlawful activity is essentially aiding and abetting drug trafficking of a controlled substance. (see the Memo from our lawyer, Steve Horner) 3) Staff and Council must also understand that the “black market” or “underground market” are created by the consumer and their demand for marijuana medical or otherwise at a fair and reasonable price. In order to prevent a “black market”, we have to lower the price of marijuana so the demand and need for a “underground market” dissipates or diminishes until it disappears all together. Increasing the price of marijuana by enacting exorbitant fees, taxes, licenses, etc only makes it harder for lawful “collectives” or “cooperatives” to do just that (lower prices) and compete with drug cartels.

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4) The MBT issue (U.S. Constitutional constraints on a de facto sales tax in a federally illegal commodity) is currently on appeal in the Sixth District of California and we are confident that the court will reverse the lower courts findings. As a result, the MBT will cease to exist as it is today. We are not against contributing to governmental oversight and administration etc but it must done carefully and lawfully.

We are also questioning the state’s new Medical Marijuana Regulatory and Safety Act (MMRSA) and challenging it in the highest courts. This will most likely put a hold on any and all laws related to marijuana “sales” and “profit” in all states and local municipalities throughout the nation. So until such time and the Federal Supreme Court issues a finding regarding “federal supremacy” when a state law directly conflicts with federal law (CSA) which clearly does NOT allow for the “sale” or “profiteering” from the controlled substance marijuana for any reason whatsoever we simply ask that the City refer only to the state laws regarding marijuana medical or otherwise as they exist today.

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OT MANY GALLERIES can open three shows at once, but this weekend the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art will do just that, unleashing three exhibitions that highlight the creative use of paper and books. Time-tested techniques of photography, collage, assemblage, textile work, sculpture, ready-mades and more will persuade gallery participants to rethink their relationships to these media.

The three shows, along with 46 others, may even set a record for the most artists ever simultaneously exhibiting at SJICA. We will have to wait and see. In any event, attendees will explore deep below the surface of everyday objects.

Two shows—NextNewPaper and This is Not a Book: Chapter 2—will take over the main galleries. In the first case, 19 Bay Area artists articulate the myriad ways in which the material of paper can serve as source material. In the other half of the gallery, Donna Seager, of Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, helped orchestrate a show of visual works made from books, pages, book covers or any assemblage of book pieces by an international array of artists. Even though the

presentation is that of two distinct shows, they don’t necessarily require the visitor/participant to experience them separately. One will immediately forge connections between the two.

All the world is a page, in this case.

For NextNewPaper, Annie Vought provides a large-scale mandala of intricate design, a silhouette-like reflecting pond of painstaking detail that resonates like an optical illusion, with light and shadow fusing into one. A big piece, it traps the viewer into something 3D, yet something meditative. One can stare at it for an hour. I dove in and got lost. In fact, I’m still lost in it.

There’s also a collaboration between Loren King and Julia Goodman. Via handmade paper, yarn and markers, we see brain maps of four different individuals. They could be mixed-media Rorschach tests, but there’s an organizational playfulness to them—or maybe a playful organization—that straddles the route between art and research.

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In Michael Buscemi’s case, he provided two of his large-scale whiteon-white collages of thinly cut rag paper strips. The detail is painstaking in a glorious way.

This is Not a Book: Chapter 2 arrives thanks to the Seager Gray Gallery, a place regularly foregrounding the genre of book art, or visual works created with book parts. Upon immersion in the show, one forgets all assumptions about spines or cloth pages. Imagine elegant chess pieces fabricated from miniscule book pages.

In another instance, visualize open-spine books converted into teastained swaddling pillows for a corner installation and that’s what Jody Alexander did. An artist, bookbinder, papermaker, librarian and teacher, Alexander removes the book covers, metaphorically tearing away the layers to reveal the beauty, variation and craftsmanship of book spines, carefully wrapping them in cotton batting, after which she then tea-stains the batting, so it matches the aged colors of the book spines.

Book beauty is more than skin deep, of course.

The pages don’t stop there. Over in the back room, formerly the ICA’s print center, now rechristened the Off Center Gallery, the photography of Mary Ellen Bartley explores the materiality of the printed book, but in zen-like simplicity.

Looking Between the Covers includes work from three still life series made between 2009 and 2012.

Still life has multiple layers of meaning in this sense. The pages come to “life” via the photos while appearing “still” in the way a zen monk might appear while meditating. Alive or not, and with profound subtlety, the images convey a daring close-up of the ways that pages unfurl when a book is placed on its spine. The photos offer a pleasantly puzzling harmonization of opposites: form and no-form; context and subtext; intimacy and distance. Looking Between the Covers is the first solo show to take advantage of the newly renovated, former print center space.

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I saw him there on a recent Saturday evening, hanging out in a chef’s jacket on the back patio.

He seemed too relaxed to be the chef-owner of three-Michelin starred Manresa Restaurant, but here Kinch was chatting with diners in the intimate patio and bar of The Bywater.

The restaurant achieves Kinch’s vision of casual New Orleans dining, playing jazz and brass in the background of a French Quarterstyle dining room. The wait times on most nights are around 40 minutes to one hour and they do not take reservations. Even with a sparse menu of four small plates and eight entrée options, it was difficult to choose between the inviting Creole offerings. The menu offers no descriptions to help aide in the selection process.

For a starter, we began with Oysters Rock-a-Fella ($24 for 4). The price is a bit higher than the classic usually fetches, but it was worth it to try properly made oysters Rockefeller for the first time. The

original dish is so laden with butter that it was named after the richest man of the early 20th century, John D. Rockefeller. Bywater stayed true to tradition with creamy béchamel and chopped watercress and spinach baked hot-to-the-touch on top of the oysters. It was a very worthwhile dish.

Our first entrée, the fried chicken with a cup of butter beans ($22), was an obvious choice. Three large pieces were served in a red fast-food basket and a side of creamy butter beans.

The batter was crispy and evenly browned covering the juicy tender chicken. A good dribble of Crystal Hot Sauce from Louisiana made each bite of chicken perfect. The butter beans were a nice balance of hearty yet light to pair with the chicken.

The Gumbo Ya Ya ($18) won me over to pass on other enticing options like the Gumbo Z’Herbes ($16), a lighter gumbo with more vegetables, and the Po Boys ($15-19).

What arrived was a bowl of rich

smoky gumbo with a blackened whole shrimp, toasted bread with crab meat and a scoop of white rice.

Sifting through the dark roux were hidden treasure pieces of oyster and Andouille sausage.

Even with a sparse menu of four small plates and eight entrée options, it was difficult to choose between the inviting Creole dishes.

It was about this time that Chef Kinch appeared on the patio to mingle with diners. This was very exciting— and distracting, as I had almost forgotten to order dessert … almost.

Beignets ($11 for 6) can never be bypassed. To say our beignets were dusted with powdered sugar would be an understatement. The mound of square fritters looked like snowcapped mountains, though the pastries themselves were soft and sweet with just the right springiness.

The line at The Bywater is unlikely to disappear as the restaurant matures. Luckily, they do take a phone number and call when seats open to make the wait more tolerable. It is better to come in with the expectation that the prices are higher and the portions on the lighter side.

Otherwise, expect to enjoy quality food, drinks and music—and maybe a conversation with one of the world’s most famous chefs.

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Mr. Harada and I gently slid our wood-strip canoe into the river and started paddling towards the Taylor Street docks. We waved to various folks who have taken residence on the shores of the mighty Guadalupe, and felt some ambivalence that the old Huck Finn tradition survives.

We tied up to a pile of mountain bike frames underneath the bridge and made our way to Renegades.

A small establishment on the corner of Taylor and Coleman streets, Renegades’ outdoor sign features three male silhouettes, so I assumed this was a bar for street toughs. As urban adventurers, Mr. Harada and I hoped to discover a scene out of Over the Top. What we found was a quaint and colorfully decorated interior, a pool table and an outdoor patio. The walls were adorned with different forms of visual art celebrating the male form. This was a refreshing change from the usual dive bar posters that tend to focus on females wearing swimwear with beer logos. We took our place at the bar and ordered a couple of pints, which came out to $5.25 a piece. It’s cash only at Renegades, which can be a bit of a hassle if you plan on staying awhile. I don’t like to tip with change but had little choice with all those quarters.

The Renegades crowd was friendly, the music was extremely good if you like dance tunes, and the beer and liquor selection is plentiful.

“Power Hour” is between 10pm and 11pm, and it’s well vodka, gin or rum for $2 a shot. That’s a great deal, but you need experience to make it worthwhile. An hour of $2 shots is the F1 class of drinking, so make sure you’re skillset has been honed.

One unique detail that Mr. Harada and I noticed was a row of small wine bottles at the bar, mostly Sutter Home, like you’d get on a flight.

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