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Billboard Empire Since entering the stadium business with the San Francisco 49ers, the city of Santa Clara has been dogged by allegations of backroom deals and influence peddling. To shake the reputation, city officials adopted new sunshine rules modeled after San Jose’s. The ordinance enacted last winter requires elected officials to publish their calendars online and lobbyists to publicly report who they’re representing. Former mayor and veteran councilwoman PATRICIA MAHAN must’ve missed the memo. The estateplanning attorney, who’s again running for City Council, apparently lobbied on behalf of a billboard-ad broker at least seven times since May without having registered as a lobbyist. City Hall watchdog and conspiracy theorist DEBORAH BRESS, who’s running against ROD DIRIDON JR. for the City Clerk post and once accused the city of killing her dog, They noticed the oversight Did while researching her What? ballot statement. In a SEND TIPS TO letter sent this week to FLY@ Mayor LISA GILLMOR METRONEWS. and her council COM colleagues, Bress urges the city to take some kind of enforcement action. “As Ms. Mahan has recently self-identified herself as a council candidate, I believe it is even more important that this matter be done with urgency and not be swept under the rug,” Bress wrote. Mahan texted right before press time saying she had a medical issue and would respond Wednesday. Councilwoman KATHY WATANABE, who met with Mahan about the billboard business one of those seven times, tells Fly that she hopes the city investigates the apparent violations. “Cities are meant to be open and transparent,” says Watanabe, adding that she had no idea that Mahan hadn’t registered. “This definitely needs to be addressed, especially since we’re here in campaign season.”

How to Get a Rep HOTSTEPPER Rep. Mike Honda’s ethics scandal approaches its one-year anniversary.

Honda’s campaign misleads donors as ethics investigation lingers

BY JOSH KOEHN

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ONGRESSMAN MIKE Honda has an inauspicious anniversary on the horizon. Just a little more than year ago, the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) issued a report that cited “substantial reason to believe” the eight-term representative’s office abused House resources to keep him in office, and may have even traded official access and favors for campaign contributions.

Both actions would likely constitute violations of federal law.

Since that time there has been little movement in the ethics probe, as a referral to the House Committee on Ethics to continue investigating Honda’s office does not set any deadlines for announcements. Former Honda campaign manager Doug Greven, who the OCE labeled “a noncooperating witness” when suggesting he be compelled to testify via subpoena, had yet to be interviewed as of just a few months ago, parties tracking the investigation say.

However, one source tells Metro that Greven has since been contacted to testify in the ethics probe. The former Honda campaign manager did not respond to requests for

confirmation.

A concern amongst supporters of Ro Khanna—once again challenging Honda in a rematch of the 2014 election—is that congressional watchdogs are simply trying to run out the clock on the investigation.

Khanna’s surprising June primary victory gives him an advantage going into November, and $1.45 million war chest as of July is expected to propel him in the fall. If that’s the case, Honda’s ethics probe would then become moot, as there is little incentive to investigate a defeated congressman.

“It’s been ongoing for a year,” Khanna said, referencing the OCE’s report. “It shows how serious it is and it’s another argument against re-electing someone who is literally facing a huge ethics scandal and ongoing investigation. He still hasn't held anyone responsible. He still hasn’t apologized. He owes the district greater transparency.”

FEC Fakeout On the morning of July 31, Honda’s campaign sent out an email blast urgently requesting supporters to contribute before the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) deadline at the stroke of midnight.

“The FEC deadline is at midnight tonight,” the email said. “We are relying on you to step up with a

contribution to help us meet our endof-month fundraising goals so we can stay on track to win this race.”

This would have been par for the course of almost every congressional campaign that touts its “grassroots” support, except for one detail: No FEC deadline falls on July 31.

Ignoring requests for a phone call interview, Honda campaign manager Michael Beckendorf said in an email that the campaign’s erroneous message was “part of a subject line test that reached a narrow audience. The error was caught and corrected before going out to our broader list.”

Beckendorf refused to provide answers to follow-up questions such as: how the error was corrected; what the campaign means by a “subject line test;” why the message contained incorrect information in the body of the email, and not just the subject line; how many people received the email; how much money was raised on the false deadline day in question; and whether it planned to refund any money raised after pushing a bogus deadline.

Vedant Patel, a spokesman for the Honda campaign, sidestepped specific questions in an email by noting that “[f]undraising e-mails go through edits all the time on campaigns.” He then said “the real story” is Khanna’s donor support from Wall Street and wealthy conservatives Previous reports have found that both Honda and Khanna receive support from upper-crust Republicans, but Honda’s campaign has a clear lead when it comes to playing fast and loose with the rules.

The congressman’s own campaign website has routinely suggested that Honda has the support of President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, despite the fact that both decided not to endorse him in this race as they did in 2014—before the OCE ethics investigation was launched.

A “Get Involved” tab on the congressman’s campaign website directs to a photo of Honda and the president and instructs people to: “Join President Obama and Support Mike Honda for Congress.”

A YouTube video on the website also includes the same image of Honda and Obama, again suggesting he still has the support of the president.

Beckendorf, Honda’s campaign manager, again did not respond to a request for comment.

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Of the things Honda’s camp does well, transparency is not high on the list.

Last week, the campaign began circulating a report to hand-picked reporters to write about Honda’s legal defense fund, which was created at the end of last year to help pay legal bills related to his ethics probe—total costs have exceeded $200,000. In a bureaucratic quirk, the report was due at the end of the last month but there is no requirement for the Legislative Resource Center, which is located in Washington, D.C. and provides documents strictly through in-person requests, to release the report for 30 days.

Even after Honda’s operatives floated the documents for stories in the Los Angeles Times and Mercury News, with a caveat that they not publish the actual report, Honda’s camp refused to provide the documents to Metro, whose reporting sparked the initial investigation after a whistleblower came forward with internal emails.

The two stories about the defense fund stated that Honda paid his two law firms—Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Miller & Chevalier—a total of $32,000 in the first half of this year. Honda relied on Bay Area businesses and a few specially tabbed supporters, dubbed “cranes” as part of a special fundraising strategy, to help him raise $36,950.

The disclosure that Honda continues to spend time and money on a legal defense fund, after a report that noted little activity to begin the year, suggests the ethics probe has not yet run its course.

“It's highly unusual that something like this isn’t resolved,” Khanna said. “They could have just issued a letter of reprimand, but obviously there is more to it. How long is this going to last?”

If recent Honda campaign activity is taken into consideration, perhaps not any time soon.

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JUDGING JUDGES State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson voted to authorize an

audit of California judges, saying the public ‘deserves answers.’

Commission on State’s Judges to Receive Scrutiny

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Lawmakers have called for an audit of California’s Commission on Judicial Performance for the first time in the agency’s 56-year history.

The commission, which is responsible for disciplining judges, has drawn the ire of activists who say it protects bad jurists, and from bench officers who say it overpenalizes them for minor missteps.

A joint audit committee of the California Legislature authorized the review in a unanimous vote last week. The audit will look at 26 issues, including whether the commission upholds due process when looking into allegations against judges and how investigators determine which complaints to dismiss.

In the past decade, the judicial commission has fielded anywhere from 900 to 1,200 complaints about judges each year. But 90 percent of those cases were closed right away, while more resulted in no discipline even after an

investigation. Only 3.4 percent ended in disciplinary action, and less than a percent led to public censure. None of these decisions were transparent.

Roberta Fitzpatrick, who attended last week’s hearing in Sacramento, filed a complaint against a Santa Clara County judge for granting custody of her niece to a known abuser.

In 2005, a family court judge sent 14-year-old Alycia Mesiti-Allen to live with her father, Mark Mesiti, despite a documented history of drug abuse and domestic violence. Four years later, cadaver-sniffing dogs found Alycia’s body buried in the backyard of her father’s Modesto home. Mesiti was charged with murdering and raping his daughter.

In 2010, Fitzpatrick filed a complaint with the commission, which closed the case a year later without recourse. A letter announcing the dismissal said the agency found no grounds for disciplinary action.

The lack of transparency in how the

commission reaches those decisions has become a common frustration.

Scrutiny of the judicial commission intensified this summer after Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced disgraced Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to six months for sexual assaulting a woman on campus. In an effort to oust the judge, activists gathered thousands of signatures and filed complaints with the judicial commission. But, as in every case involving a judge, the agency will not disclose how many complaints have been logged against Persky and how many will be investigated.

“This is about more than one case, one judge, one issue, or one side,” said state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), who co-signed the audit authorization. “This commission has never before been audited in its 56-year history, and the public and the legal community have questions that deserve answers.”

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The Bay Area economy got a $240 million boost from Super Bowl 50, which took place in February at Levi’s Stadium. But the South Bay, where the game took place, reaped only 20 percent of the quarter-billion haul. That’s according to a report released Monday by the Super Bowl host committee, which found that San Francisco reaped the lion’s share—57 percent—of Super Bowlrelated economic activity. Santa Clara claimed just 7 percent of the impact and San Jose a touch more than 12 percent ($29.5 million). But San Jose spent $900,000 on public safety during game week—the bulk of that on police overtime. It spent another $65,000 on escort services for the NFL and $125,000 on a reimbursement basis to ramp up security at the Marriott Hotel.

And then there’s the $593,000 San Jose dished out to spruce up downtown and $510,000 on events to capture some of the Super Bowl crowd. Unfortunately, San Jose’s hotel tax revenue fell far short of the $1.9 million projection despite hoteliers jacking up room rates for the football extravaganza.

County Court Clerks End Strike Santa Clara County court workers voted Sunday to end a strike that halted all but essential services at South Bay courthouses for nearly two weeks.

The walkout by more than 300 members of the Superior Court Professional Employees Association marked the county’s first court strike in 14 years. Union officials demanded a raise for employees who had reportedly gone eight years without one.

Monday morning, the county’s 11 superior courthouses resumed operations just as the twelfth and newest building—a $208 million facility on North First Street in San Jose—marked its grand opening.

—Jennifer Wadsworth

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I WAS AT SFO about a year ago waiting for my flight to Salt Lake City to attend a journalism conference when a man shuffled into a seat across from me. At first I thought he was homeless or maybe a bit crazy because of his disheveled, rather greasy hair and the bulky, tacticallooking vest he was wearing. But then I recognized him. Holy shit. That’s William T. Vollmann.

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I quickly Googled him on my phone to confirm his identity. The wire-rim glasses and distinctive mole on his face matched the photos I was looking at.

“Are you William T. Vollmann?” I asked, stuttering a bit.

“Yes, I am.”

Vollmann is a literary hero of mine.

It was his outrageously ambitious and honest works of nonfiction that fueled my interest in journalism back when I was in my 20s and living in San Francisco. Ironic that I was heading off to a journalism conference when I should meet one of my first literary inspirations.

Vollmann proceeded to ask me where I was going and about my work. A journalism conference? What is your favorite story you wrote, he asked.

That led to a discussion of mushrooms, Cambodia and radioactive contamination, at which point he pulled out a yellow Geiger counter he was carrying in his backpack. He was headed to West Virginia to research fracking for a book he’s working on about carbon and climate change.

The device was part of his research.

How’d you get the Geiger counter past security, I asked.

“They don’t even know what it is,” he smiled.

Before we parted, I asked if he’d be interested in writing for the Bohemian. He immediately said yes, provided the assignment was “fun.”

Vollmann doesn’t use email or a cell phone, so we began corresponding and talking on the phone about possible stories. Is there some kind of lesbian commune or maybe a marijuana encampment in the North Bay, he asked. Probably, but I don’t think I could grant you access. After spending a night drinking beer and painting a nude model he had at his studio in a razor-wire-surrounded building in Sacramento, we settled on a story about Redding.

He’s writing a novel about the black sheep of a famous political family who goes underground to escape his past. It was fascinating for me to see how he blends fact with fiction. I hope you like the story

—Stett Holbrook

A few years after deciding to write a novel about a young man named Matthew who sets out to see America, I met Mr. Stett Holbrook of The Bohemian (Editor’s note: The North Bay Bohemian is a sister paper of Metro), with whom I contracted to deliver what we officially agreed would be a short piece about something or other. The only stipulation was that whatever I turned in show some relation to The Bohemian’s area of readership.

Since I live in Sacramento, I settled on Redding, which was not only a fairly straight shot north, but also virtually unknown to me. In Sacramento, which can get plenty hot, some people smugly console themselves that at least we often get the famous Delta breeze,

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while poor Redding, etcetera, etcetera. The only information I had on Redding was from my local newspaper, which, as newspapers will, retailed accounts of drug busts and violent crimes.

Thinking to follow up along those lines, I telephoned a Redding private eye, who, unlike all the others of his kind whom I have hired over the years, was gruff, suspicious and sullenly unhelpful. None of the other P.I.s returned my calls. I set out expecting to find a sweltering, downtrodden place. In fact, Redding was cool and green just then, and its inhabitants turned

out to be some of the nicest people I have ever met.

The following draft is one iteration away from my original notes. All the conversations in it come nearly or entirely verbatim from actual interviews.

The novel will be called A Table for Fortune. I hope to finish it in about 2018. I thank The Bohemian for the opportunity, and my friend Greg, who was my driver and companion on the trip; the avocado stories come from him. And I thank the people of Redding.—WTV

T THIS TIME the young man named Matthew discovered a certain kind of sunshine unlike Sacramento’s, which to say fiercer and more withering, one of time’s best weapons for degrading newsprint yellowish-orange and wrinkling people before their time; once upon a certain August which measured somewhere below far and gone in his ephemeral existence he had been hitchhiking south from Susanville and was set down in Redding where he waited five midday-girdling hours at an on-ramp whose dusty blackberry brambles were actually dripping with melted black sun-made jellies; but in the strange cool May of this current year as he hitchhiked

north toward Redding the sunshine had shifted to an opposite otherness from Sacramento’s, being somehow greener in its goldenness and more wild, as if the mountains were tinting it. The truth is that Matthew had sought sublethal sunshine in which to hide from his father, expecting most Reddingtonians to be lurking indoors in the fashion of Mohave, Calexico and Mexicali; he too would lurk, while perfecting his disappearance. On triple-digit days in Sacramento, the hardiest of the homeless trundle into thickets

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and culverts; those who remain sit stupefied, with heads hanging down, or else lie on the sidewalk, while flies crawl slowly over their faces. Richer souls shelter behind drawn curtain, listening to their air conditioners; and I for my part believe that the city to be sustained by invisible armies of sweating, hollow-eyed air conditioner men. The sun clangs in everyone’s ears; even police veterans can get deafened. . .

So it should have been in Redding, but this wild green sunshine changed everything. And by “green”

I do not mean what you might think this color should convey; it had nothing to do with the restful or menacing green glooms of Oregon.

Venus flytraps and emeralds were as far away from it as palm fronds.

Yes, it was green, but not exactly. It refreshed Matthew because there was nothing of him in it. No one in Redding would put a spoke in his wheel. The complementary consideration was nobody would help him, but as long as the green sunshine kept on, what could he need from this world?

In his boyhood he must have seen something that made him want to go way out into America, to find out what our country was, but whether he had been enticed by the best golden loneliness or hounded by the loneliness that lives in our homes and gnaws misunderstood children, or perhaps heard something about faraway hills in a bedtime story, whatever had provoked the wish was lost. He himself was not lost, except to his parents, who troubled over him with loving bewilderment; nor did he feel in want of anything;

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thus as I begin writing this I myself cannot tell you what he was going to find on what Thomas Wolfe called the last voyage, the longest, the best— in other words, the only voyage, the one toward the grave. And so, hitching a ride, Matthew left behind all the other times of his life.

As they rolled north into Colusa, with the Sutter Buttes’ dusty blue knuckles over and behind the olive orchards, the driver was saying: You know, I grew up on a citrus farm in southern California. I picked avocados for another farmer all summer, but we used a manlift. I think avocado trees get forty to sixty feet at least.

We’d have about four big bags in the cage. One flatbed truck with four bins of avocados in it, it took us all day to pick that! That gave me a real sense of accomplishment...

Right away, Matthew, who believed that anything he did could be undone, or done better, because it lay in his power to live any number of lives, began contemplating hiring on in an avocado orchard. First he’d grow sunburned, and then confident.

Women might possibly love him.

The driver was saying: One year when prices spiked we were getting fifty cents an avocado wholesale. Wholesale!. . . —by which time Mount Shasta was glowing double-nippled against the milky clouds.

And the driver said: The boss was a real good Christian guy who’d been in the Marine Corps, and he had a mental breakdown, had to take some time off. We were unloading avocados from a manlift when the hydraulic brakes failed. The thing picked up speed, crashed into a tree. He was super understanding when we visited him in the mental hospital— Just then they came into Red Bluff: red rock, long yellow grass, cool clouds.

Green sunshine sped into their eyes, intoxicating their hearts. They were almost in Redding. Matthew kept grinning at the driver without knowing why. Beaming back at him, the driver said: A big tree can make more than a hundred avocados but all at different times; it takes six years to grow an avocado; I’m talking about the Haas kind, which is what I know...

Redding offered half a dozen exits.

The driver let him off in the old downtown, not far from City Hall.—I sure appreciate it, said Matthew, and they shook hands. He lifted his backpack. Opening the passenger door,

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ON THE GROUND William T. Vollmann (left) does his own reporting when researching his novels. he still expected to be sunblasted in his forehead, wrists and ears, breasting an upsurge of reflected sidewalk heat which would come dryly into his lungs. But Redding was like that. He looked back at the driver, who waved, then pulled away, bound for Eugene.

There stood Matthew in Redding, wondering what to do. First he felt anxious; then he began to get excited.

His plan was to have no plan. He crossed the street and began walking in the most pleasing direction, saying to himself: I do not know where I am going.

I do not know where I am going.—And he exulted in this. If not even he knew this, how could anyone ever find him?

Within ten minutes he arrived at a bar whose midafternoon quietude compelled him through the window, so he walked straight in, and the tattooed barmaid raised her beautiful face like a sunflower following light.

The counter shone clean and empty.

He seated himself beside the only other customer, an old hospital engineer who had just seen a bald eagle carrying a trout in its mouth.

The engineer smiled at him, then

said: This area is loaded with historical stuff and beautiful visual stuff. All the clouds go up and the sun goes down and you get the best sunsets.

Accordingly, Matthew decided to watch the sunset.—It is true that his impressionability sometimes made him foolish. But his foolishness might have been no worse than the way that old people so often visit a new place in order to project their brilliant pasts upon its mediocre indifference. He was drawn to the engineer because neither of them were afflicted with the chronic disease called irony.

The engineer told him: It’s been a hardscrabble life. See, my Dad came up here; he was a Ford mechanic; you had to love nature to come here. So this basically was the turnaround for the railroad. This was as far north as it went.

You wanted to go north from here...

Before Shasta Dam was built, you used to have to come here by boat. This is five hundred and twenty-eight feet.

Wiry and aware, he exemplified strength in age. His name was Jacob.

The tendons were corded on the backs of his workman’s hands. Matthew

supposed that they were becoming friends. He asked: Where would you go if you wanted to see America?

The old man said: I’ve been to Montana; I’ve built factories in the Midwest, but I’ve never been to the Deep South...

And right away Matthew could imagine himself in the Deep South!

There he would discover what to live for. Jacob already knew how to live his life, but that knowledge must be good only for him. Matthew must find his own way; that was why he had come to Redding.

Matthew’s beer was cold and clean. When he finished it, Jacob set his down and said: I think that this election’ll be fought out on television. Here’s why there’s delegates: Here’s my good friend who has money. But I live way up in French Gulch and can’t afford to get down here. But then it gets corrupted. Like all this campaigning in this state, winner take all, and the popular vote gets set aside. But I still think we live in the greatest country on earth.

And Matthew believed. Looking

right in front of him, he could see how wonderful America was! Why shouldn’t it be the greatest? And he was out in it now; he would go farther and farther...

Laying a cell phone on the bar, the old engineer activated its screen and showed off a photograph of his daughter, who was a smiling, freckled brunette of about twenty-five.—She’s hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, Jacob said. She loves snow camping. She’s hardcore. She and her boyfriend, they’ll go out more than thirty miles in the hills by themselves.

Matthew imagined being with Jacob’s daughter, or with any woman who would lead him into the mountains. He could not picture this angel very well; her hair altered from brown to blonde and back again. But she was holding his hand. And she knew the country—or, better yet, she didn’t, and they would explore it together. The more beer he drank, the more joyous he felt. One day he too might be happy and old, with his pockets full of eagle-stories and a mountain or two in his backyard! Or else he would die in some woman’s arms.

And now the tattooed barmaid began to confide in him, saying: I told her, look, we need to get out of here. He shares custody with his ex... —Matthew felt lucky and grateful that she trusted him. Tenderly she set another beer before him; he had told her to pick our her favorite kind. —Once you get through altitude sickness you’ll be fine, the engineer explained. But you have to want to. You know what’s cool when you get up there? You can see the curvature of the earth. That makes you feel you’ve done something.

Matthew made up his mind to go high enough in life that he could see the earth curving down before him.

He wondered if it were too late for him to become an astronaut.

Jacob was saying: We went for eleven days through the mountains.

First we prepared. We buried whiskey caches, and we had fun, drinkin’ beer, cookin’ trout...

Matthew bought him another beer, and Jacob said: If I’d’ve known you’d be comin’, I’d’ve made a whole bunch of smoked albacore.

Will you be here tomorrow?

Sure.

I’ll come back then.

They fixed a time, and Matthew rushed out into the green sunlight to

15 afraid of. I have no problem pullin’ a gun, pullin’ the trigger, and laughin’ about it. I don’t care. I got no heart.

Matthew did not care if this was true or not. He just felt happy that Roy was telling him things. And Roy said: Some guy swung on me. I walked up and popped him. When I hit him, my hands turned illegal; they’re registered. I have killed but not on purpose. I killed the head leader of the Fresno State Bulldogs.

They’re Bloods and that, or I call ’em, slobs. I been a Crip since I was seven.

They’re makin’ us into so many new gangs. In Portland they got the Dragon Eyeballs. A bunch of fuckin’ niggers.

Oh, you’re prejudiced. No I’m not. I’m a cracker. I’m fuckin’ white trash!

And Matthew, being Matthew, could not help but wonder whether he himself might enter upon this sort of life, warring and begging and hiding, free and angry or free and scared—or had Roy paid for nothing this price of becoming bitter and maimed?

He disliked the mean things that Roy said. But since he never stopped hoping for answers and had just today in this marvelous green sunshine realized what he cared about most of all, he said: Tell me what you think about America.

Sucks, said Roy, staring into his face.

—Because we keep givin’ Iraq weapons and then they’re tryin’ to bomb us. And all these people who got money and they think they been better than us.

Right away, Matthew decided that America sucked. How then could he make America better? He would start by going to the best place, and learning what made it good. So he said: I’m hiding out. Where should I go?

Fresno. People are actually really really nice. There’s this one lady who look works out there, a Mexican lady; we call her Mama; she makes us fresh watermelon juice and won’t take no money for it...

Matthew thought to himself: Fresno sounds just like Redding. I think I’ll stay in Redding.

So what I wanna do, said Roy, is to be gettin’ out of here and findin’ something somehow to help us get to Fresno. I can get a one-bedroom apartment for six hundred. I was on SSI but I have a misdemeanor warrant.

I got caught with thirteen days in the county jail. I have a problem with

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have more adventures. After the cool dimness of the bar, Redding enlarged itself all the more. He could see to the mountains. Here was Shasta County Superior Court on Yuba and West; and he stopped in the middle of the empty street, feeling as if he had found someplace where it would always be early on a summer morning. There was Placer and then Tehama; and right here stood Matthew, looking around him in hopes of learning where in America he should go.

In one of the bays behind the Greyhound station he met a bearded little man, almost elfin in profile, who had parted ways with several teeth. His face shone red and his pores were coarsened by hard living.

The woman beside him looked tired and old. Their daughter was sixteen going on forty-six. They sat on the blacktop, waiting for something to happen. How this world could contain both them and Jacob was a question for moralists, sociologists and theologians, but not for Matthew, who wanted to make friends, which was why he gave the man ten dollars, and asked about his life.

The man said: Originally I’m from Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. My wife, she wanted to come back home. Now she wants to get back out of here. We came from Spokane. Everybody knows everything about everybody. Trying to rip everybody off... I got in trouble with the law. And then got out, found the manager of the money I had, and he never paid it, ripped me off...

His name was Roy. Matthew told his own name. They sat down on a bench away from the wife and daughter, and Roy began again to speak, perhaps because that strange May weather had opened the hearts of everyone, although the ten dollars could have had something to do with it. He lisped a little, on account of his missing teeth. He said: First time I been on the streets, I was seven years old. Got away from Washington, ran away to Fresno.

You see, I decided to get in people’s cars and trucks and kept on goin’.

Fresno was lot of killings. I started doin’ dope and went to heroin. Started doin’ it all. You name it, I done it.

Now, my wife, her Dad was the head of the Hell’s Angels and I been workin' with him since I was about seven. I made him a hundred eighty grand in about six months. And I’m one he’s

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authority; I’m unextraditable.

And then what?

I wanna own some more land and be happy.

Should I do that, too?

Why fuckin’ not?

Up until now Matthew had supposed that his life would somehow make something, not a child but something else. It might be that he would improve the world, or even save it—but never bit by bit, as if he were some nine-tofiver ageing for the sake of a paycheck from which he would save nothing but money. But maybe land, a woman and a child would be his destiny.

Trustingly he asked Ray: What’s the most beautiful kind of woman’ Smart. Looks, I don’t care about looks. I mean, I dated girls this big. I dated girls that big. This one here, I did fifteen years in the slammer and she never left. She never wrote me but she was there when I got out. Plus I got eight kids, and she don’t mind.

That’s good, said Matthew. Where can I find a woman?

Roy called over to his wife: Baby, where’s a good place to buy a bitch?

Off of Cypress, by the park.

When does what’s-her-name the black bitch show up there?

About nine thirty, ten-o’clock.

Roy remarked evenly, with triumphant contempt: I know every Spokane ho in there. In Pullman I know ’em all cause they’re all mine. There was one nigger and I took every one of his prostitutes except one, and I didn’t take her because she’s fucking ugly.

Thanking him for his advice, Matthew walked on. Should he make a child, wander the Deep South or pick avocados? His eyes were on the bright green sunlight of Redding.

Had he told anybody, your sunlight is green!, it might not have turned out especially well for Matthew, so he kept quiet as always, studying the people and trying to decide whether he should become one of them.

Against the outer wall of the Amtrak station lay a homeless man who explained: This place is my living room. —gesturing at the tracks and the Greyhound station behind them, he said: There’s my TV. Matthew leaned up against the wall beside him. He asked: Do you have a good life?

The man said: I’m from Alturas.

That’s a really small town. If you’re on the main street after ten-o’-clock at night the police are gonna take you in. Here, nobody bothers me because I keep it clean. I pick up after myself and others. And I’ve learned how to be happy. I’m happier here every day.

I want to stay right here, all my life.

Matthew thanked him. He decided he believed him. Perhaps the man was Christ, or one of His relatives, in which case what Matthew should do was sit down right here and watch the tracks for half a century. But for some reason he found himself continuing on.

He walked up and down, then closed his eyes, pretending that something better or worse than Redding would appear when he opened them; that was a game he had often played, and until today the results had been consistently disappointing; just now he opened his eyes and was glad to still see Redding.

Now he had better find a room.

Twenty minutes later he was watching the paling of the cloudy sky from the second floor deck of the Sunshine Motel where somebody in Room 29

was plinking on a ukulele and singing in imitation of Neil Young while a cool breeze came from the cottonwoods and the cars in the parking lot did nothing but sparkle. It was all new to Matthew.

He looked around his room and loved it. No one would find him here. He had paid the Gujurati desk clerk thirty-two dollars cash, no identification required. He lay down on the big double bed and decided to get a girlfriend and bring her straight here. He still wanted to make a child.

Locking his door, he descended to the street, found a restaurant and ordered a hamburger. The waitress was sweet; he felt happy just gazing shyly at her hands; so he asked whether she would like a drink. He never expected her to say yes, but she did, because this was Redding, where everyone was friendly, at least while the green sunshine lasted.

He was drinking beer; she she poured herself a shot of vodka and thanked him.

Then she went to attend to her other customers while he returned to his hamburger—the best ever, of course.

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He realized that he had failed to watch the sunset. The old engineer in the bar had told him about Redding sunsets, and he had forgotten! Well, he would that tomorrow night.

At ten-o’clock, Virginia, who was sixty-three but looked a hard, sexy fortythree, came knocking at the door of the adjacent room because some girl had stolen the vacuum cleaner; he promised that it wasn’t him and that he lacked any connection to that unknown girl.

Virginia believed him. He asked her how the motel was, and she said: Oh, they’ve cleaned it up real good. We’re not even on the bad list no more.

She had been living in Room One for two years. Her son lived there also. He asked what she thought about America, and she said: What’s not to love?—Right away he realized that she was right; how could he not love his own country?—He wanted everybody to be right. He would feel better believing in everything.

Virginia rushed off and he could see her sweeping the sidewalk down by the office. She wanted the place to look good for the Greyhound drivers who checked in at night and slept during the daytime.

Matthew wandered in and out of his room. It was ten-thirty; Virginia kept sweeping the sidewalk. Two doors down, the magnificent black woman who had been haunting the doorway upstairs now stood patiently facing the parking lot, half-smiling, with her arms folded across her big breasts.

Reminded by her of the prostitute who according to Roy’s wife would now be working “off of Cypress by the park,” he considered hunting for her, but decided that he liked Virginia better.

Maybe when she had finished sweeping he would ask her if she wanted to travel the Deep South with him and buy land.

And Matthew stood listening to the world. To him it was all very wonderful.

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ON STRIKE ‘Waiting For Lefty,’ part of the Stanford Repertory Theater’s series ‘Theater Takes a Stand,’ is set against the backdrop of a taxi driver strike.

Stanford Rep’s ‘Waiting For Lefty’ sizzles with energy

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LIFFORD ODETS wrote this American classic in 1935, mid-Depression, for the New York-based Group Theatre—an avant-garde troupe known for its timely and relevant productions.

In recent years it has seen a revival of interest, first in London in 2013 and now at the Stanford Repertory Theatre.

Set loosely against the backdrop of a taxi drivers’ strike, the play addresses the woes of workers fighting to navigate a cruel and indifferent capitalist system. It fits well within

the theme for SRT’s current season: “Theater Takes a Stand.” Depressionera audiences are said to have raved over the play, cheering it on and revelling in its message of revolt and activism. But the crowd at a recent showing didn’t seem spurred to action.

The story opens on a group of taxi drivers as they debate a possible strike in their union hall. The drivers’ wages have sunk to a new low, the bosses are unresponsive, there’s no work to be had and the struggle for survival is becoming dire. Amid fierce arguments and hotly thrown insults, they wait for Lefty—a recognized leader whom they all trust to help them decide their best move.

Cutting away to a troubled home, the narrative narrows its focus, zooming in on a family

hit hard by dried-up wages. More scenes unfold to show variations on a theme—the greedy policies of hard-hearted business owners, the struggles of working people, the fight for unions, and the trickle-down effects of low wages on all. At times, speaking directly to the audience, characters enlist our agreement, our understanding and empathy for the plight. A vigorous petition leaves no doubt where our allegiance should lie.

SRT's production gives the piece great energy and passion, and there’s no question these themes are still relevant today. However, the audience at a recent performance was decidedly cooler in its response, greeting the players with polite applause rather than shouts and cheers. Some of the play does feel dated—reflecting 1930s mores; but its themes should nevertheless resonate with a modern audience. Wage gap?

Heck yeah! Union-busting? Of course!

Fired for having ethics? Been there!

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So, why the chilly reception?

Odets employs storytelling methods common to agit-prop plays popular in the ’30s, including an episodic structure. The play unfolds in six loosely related vignettes. Actors frequently address the audience directly, including them in the action as if they’re attendees at the union meeting. Reportedly, audiences of the ’30s were empowered by the play.

Perhaps those techniques no longer elicit the same kind of response in a world driven by social media, where furious debates are tapped out 140 characters at a time, but rarely translate into face-to-face political action.

Is agit-prop dead? Are theatre audiences no longer interested in political activism generated within a theatrical context? Or is it possibly a generational issue?

Would millennials, if they come to the theater at all, find this kind of production more invigorating than standard theater fare? It’s puzzling.

Essentially, all stage productions are political on some level; but do we now prefer something more subtle rather than a direct punch?

Director Marty Pistone and his cast have given the play a generous airing, investing it with a raw power and vitality that surely could rouse an audience to its feet. The mostly young, dynamic cast includes standouts Austin Caldwell as Joe, Dante Belletti as both Miller and Clayton, and Fiona Maguire as Florrie. Costumes by Alina Bokovikova capture the period well, and a few well-placed props help ground us in the decade. The nearly bare stage, as recommended by Odets and realized by Pistone, leans on the audience’s imagination to picture a corporate office, a living room, a union hall and more.

Would it have fared better if the piece were updated? Would it have spurred more outrage if the taxi drivers were being replaced by Uber operators? Would a contemporary context and a more diverse cast help bring the timelessness of the message to a modern audience? Catch the show and see for yourself.

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JERRY SEINFIELD

SUMMER OF VR

TOO $HORT

JERRY SEINFELD

Thu, 6:30pm, $13-$20 Computer History Museum, Mountain View

Thu, 9pm, $30-$35 Back Bar SoFa, San Jose

Thu, 7pm, $50-$150 Flint Center, Cupertino

Todd Anthony Shaw, better known as Too $hort, may have been born in South Central L.A., but he will most certainly go down in the hip-hop history books as one of the most influential rappers to ever come out of Oakland, where he was raised. From his first fulllength, Born to Mack, released in 1987, through his hyphee-era classic, Blow The Whistle, on to more recent collaborations with the likes of Game, G-Eazy and Lil Wayne, he has remained consistent and prolific. He’s also worked with hip-hop royals 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G, Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z. (ST)

For ’90s babies, Jerry Seinfeld’s voice may call to mind the character of Barry the Bee from the animated film Bee Movie.

Others will know him from his appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Louie, and from his web program, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. But to most, Seinfeld is known for Seinfeld, the “show about nothing,” which revolutionized the sitcom genre with its trademark brand of acerbic, observational humor. The program has held up remarkably well over the years, and so has its titular star. The comedian brings his latest stand-up tour to Cupertino this week. (ST)

Virtual reality and augmented reality are definitely having a moment. From the introduction of affordable headsets that transform smartphones into VR goggles, to Pokémon Go’s ingenious deployment of AR, it seems we are finally approaching the future that writers like William Gibson have been promising for decades. The upcoming “Summer of VR” event will feature demonstrations of new VR and AR technology from companies like FOVE, Inc.—a Tokyo-based firm responsible for the world’s first eye-movementtracking head-mounted VR display—as well as a panel of VR experts discussing the future of virtual and augmented reality. (MH)

CHOICES BY:

DEMI LOVATO & NICK JONAS Thu, 7pm, $30-$90 SAP Center, San Jose Singer, songwriter and actress Demi Lovato’s career began on Barney & Friends and started to gather steam with her roles on Disney Channel shows, including As The Bell Rings, Sonny With A Chance and Camp Rock. Her 2015 album Confident yielded the hit “Cool For The Summer.” Nick Jonas also began acting at a young age before storming the pop charts as part of The Jonas Brothers. He recently released his third full-length solo album, Last Year Was Complicated.

Lovato and Jonas have bonded over their shared experiences as child stars and are now embarking on a joint tour, which stops in San Jose this week. (ST)

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TREVOR NOAH Fri, 7:30pm, $50 Mountain Winery, Saratoga When the news media fractured into a kaleidoscope of truth, Jon Stewart provided a sane tonic to cable viewers. When he exited The Daily Show in 2015, he left behind Shaq-sized shoes to fill. And for the past two years, Trevor Noah has been wiggling his toes behind that legendary desk, providing a cooler-headed, outsider perspective on world events. In post-apartheid South Africa, Noah’s birth to a Xhosa mother and a Swiss-German father was considered illegal. But from those origins, the natural storyteller and insightful analyst has become one of the most popular comedians in the world, touring internationally thanks to his fluency in seven languages. (JF)

* concerts HEART, JOAN JETT & CHEAP TRICK

Aug 24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

RINGLING BROS.

Aug 25 at SAP Center

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY

Aug 29 at Mountain Winery

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

Sep 2 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

COLDPLAY

Sep 3 at Levi’s Stadium

EVE 6

Sep 8 at The Ritz

COUNTING CROWS & ROB THOMAS

Sep 10 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

CARRIE UNDERWOOD Sep 10 at SAP Center

PROPHETS OF RAGE

DEMI LOVATO & NICK JONAS

Sep 13 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

MANÁ

Sep 17 at SAP Center

DRAKE & FUTURE

Sep 24-25 at SAP Center

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RON JEREMY

LA BOHEME

Sat, 7pm, $15-$25 Quarter Note, Sunnyvale

Sat, 8pm, $20 First Baptist Church of Palo Alto

Playing the part of America’s most recognizable sleazeball, Ron Jeremy has appeared in music videos, movies, videogames and television shows. Still, not much compares to his Guinness World Record for “Most Appearances In Adult Films.” Nothing in Jeremy’s life has been orthodox—from leaving a teaching gig to pose in Playgirl, to vowing never to retire from the porn industry, even after undergoing heart surgery. Recently he’s ventured into stand-up. When Shaun Weiss from The Mighty Ducks trilogy and MTV’s Garrett Gonzales join Jeremy on his first comedy tour, the jokes are bound to be X-rated. (MH)

The Peninsula Opera Ensemble presents a production of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème. Often identified as the world’s most popular opera, it tells the story of a group of bohemians living, loving and creating together in 1830s Paris. The classic tale has served as the template for a number of modern musicals—from Rent to Moulin Rouge—and has made cameos in everything from The Simpsons to the Nic Cage and Cher-starring Moonstruck. This full-length presentation will focus on the performers rather than the elaborate set design of the original and subsequent productions. POE will stage the opera twice this weekend: on Saturday at 8pm with a matinee on Sunday at 2pm. (NV)

CHACHO’S TACO FESTIVAL

*sun BRICKS BY THE BAY

Sat, 11am, $10 St. James Park, San Jose

Sun, 10am, $14-$22 Santa Clara Convention Center

Last year, to win Chacho’s Taco Eating Contest, San Jose professional eater Matt Stonie scarfed down 101 tacos—in eight minutes. The Major League Eating-sanctioned bout will be held again this year, and Stonie will be defending his title. Those without industrial-grade guts will be able to savor a broad sampling of tacos in San Jose’s most historic park, while listening to live music and weaving through rows of vendors. Among the craftsman showing their wares: Henry Miyoshi with his Korrupt label clothes; visual artist Fernando “Force 129” Amaro, Jr., with pieces from his art and design studio; and Ruben Dario Villa with his high-class, Mexican-cultureinspired air fresheners. (JF)

In an era where technology has wormed its way into every corner of our busy lives, a simple little building block toy still rules: The Lego. These colorful interconnecting bricks have been around since 1949, and were named the “world’s most powerful brand” just last year by Brand Finance. And with good reason.

The Lego brand extends well beyond its line of toys into films and amusement parks. The Lego Movie was praised for connecting with both adults and children. This year’s Bricks by the Bay celebrates the Lego by bringing together builders, artists and hobbyists. (ST)

BLINK-182

Sep 28 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

GWEN STEFANI & EVE

Oct 8 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

PENTATONIX

Oct 17 at SAP Center

JETHRO TULL

Oct 22 at City National Civic

BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT

Oct 22-23 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

MARC ANTHONY

Nov 4 at SAP Center

CHARLIE PUTH

Nov 7 at City National Civic

BILL MAHER

Nov 12 at City National Civic

WAR

Dec 29 at City National Civic

TWENTY-ONE PILOTS Feb 10 at SAP Cente

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Aug 16 at City National Civic

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BUY-BYE Empire 7 Studios in Japantown will be forced to move.

“Flat-out electrifying!” – Boston Globe

Fall of an Empire THIS MONTH, Jim Phillips’s iconic “Screaming Hand” art exhibit was immortalized in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. The central image—a disembodied blue hand flying through the air, with a screaming mouth in the palm—has been in circulation for more than 30 years in skate and surfer culture, most notably on skate decks and shirts for Santa Cruz Skateboards.

But before traveling the world and eventually settling at the SCMAH, the exhibit opened at Empire Seven Studios, right here in San Jose’s Japantown. “Even the mayor stood in line for, like, 30 minutes to come in and see the show,” says gallery director Juan Carlos Araujo.

AMERICAN IDIOT Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com

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While the exhibit is regarded as a piece of local history, the studio where it opened is now the most recent casualty of the housing market. In March, right after he had finished building a second gallery inside the leased warehouse, Araujo learned that the whole block had been sold to a developer. He had also just quit his job of 15 years to focus more on growing the studio.

“It’s just such a frustrating thing to go through,” he says, audibly flustered.

Araujo’s studio and gallery space has been on the corner of Empire and 7th Street since 2007. In that time, Araujo and his partner, Jennifer Ahn, have worked with local businesses to beautify the area, painting numerous murals around Japantown and greater San Jose. “That’s my goal,” he says: “To make a landmark for arts and culture in San Jose.”

The good news is that Araujo plans to hold onto the name Empire Seven, and continue working in service of the arts in San Jose. Still, the experience has cast a shadow.

“Now that I know that I’m losing my building, I definitely think twice about investing all the money I’ve poured into this warehouse and doing it somewhere else.”

This is the real cost of San Jose’s recent real estate boom: the people who work the hardest to give the city a definitive aesthetic and artistic identity are often the very ones who are edged out by developers.

“It’s changing so fast,” Araujo says. “We need our city officials, and everybody who can make a difference, including ourselves. We can’t just expect people to do the work for us. In order to make change we need to be present.”

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Wherever he goes next, Araujo vows he will be present in San Jose.

—Mike Huguenor

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TEXTING NIRVANA Buddhist monks on cell phones in a scene from the new documentary, ‘Lo and Behold.’

Werner Herzog shines a light on the dark side of the web

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ECHNOLOGIES SHAPE us before we even halfway sense their presence. Werner Herzog examines the internet itself in Lo and Behold: Reveries of a Connected World, a documentary in 10 chapters, with commentary by local engineers such as Elon Musk and Stanford’s Sebastian Thrun.

The foreboding words, “What hath God wrought?” were the first ever transmitted via telegraph; the first message delivered over the nascent internet was a single word: “Lo.” It sounds Biblical. But this

message, sent between labs at UCLA and Stanford, was little more than a glitch. The message supposed to read, “Log In.” But the system crashed just two characters in.

Our genial German directorflaneur comments on what he sees—in a famous voice that is as even-tempered under pressure as a Western movie sheriff. It’s a calm under which compassion is barely audible yet easy to sense.

Herzog visits the site of this historic transmission, which occurred Oct. 29, 1969 at 10:30pm. Observing the non-descript UCLA hallway, Herzog mutters, “The corridor here looks horrible.” He’s welcomed to the historic site, a small office still containing the metal monolith that dispatched the single, significant syllable. The computer is about 5 feet tall, a piece of military hardware.

Scientist Leonard Kleinrock, present on that fateful day, opens up the machine to give Herzog a whiff of vintage computer guts.

The early cyber-pioneer Ted Nelson had hoped the internet would be like a body of water—free flowing and open to all; he calls the current tangle of snakes and ladders, money and piracy, “a crime against humanity.”

Conversely, Carnegie Mellon professor Adrien Treuille demonstrates a pretty game of dancing lights and musical tones, which he hopes will help scientists design folding molecules and win the war against against disease; and Thrun’s open-source education platform, Udacity, reaches 160,000 virtual students with its “massive open online courses.”

But no one comes into a Herzog documentary looking for optimism.

He visits the victims of a spectacularly vicious internet hazing: the Catsouras family of Southern California, deluged with emails filled with hacked photos—originally taken by police at the scene of their daughter Nikki’s

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fatal car crash—carrying captions such as “Woo hoo, Daddy! I’m still alive.”

“Woo-hoo,” Herzog repeats, incredulous. Just as he decides not to include the Timothy Treadwell death tape in Grizzly Man, the director does without a photo of Nikki as she was in life, in favor of a shot of a room where the girl’s piano still sits.

In a West Virginia valley where cell phone transmissions are banned to aid the search for interstellar signals, Herzog encounters Jay Lockman, an astronomer who likes to play the banjo. Nearby are a small colony of people who are hiding from the internet. Jennifer Woods, like Michael McKean’s character on Better Call Saul, is infernally sensitive to electromagnetic radiation. Here also are self-proclaimed internet addicts, who can’t even talk about the oceans of time they evaporated online, for fear of a relapse.

What does this all add up to: Korean gamers, diapered so they don’t have to leave their keyboards for a bathroom break; cagey government cyber-warriors, celebrity hackers, and an interview with the astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz, who has a tattoo on her left shoulder of the art surveyed in Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams?

We don’t realize how dependent we are on this world-wide web, subject to utter collapse due to hacking, solar flares or some other unseen danger— perhaps even, ridiculous though it sounds, Skynet-style sentience. What of the possibility of the internet on Mars? Here, Herzog offers himself up to Elon Musk as a passenger in that tycoon’s private Martian rocket.

Musk could do worse. I’m as sensitive to advertisements as some people are to radio waves, and I’ve lately been exposed to a persistent TV commercial of a family cracking up under the strain of a half hour without DSL. This didn’t strike me as funny, but as decadent, and perhaps terrifying. What’s more scary—contemplating the vanishing of the internet, or contemplating its very existence, its possibilities for surveillance and harm?

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(1953/1944) Wish you could see another movie as good as Singin’ in the Rain? You can’t, but The Band Wagon is the next best thing. The first image is of Fred Astaire’s top hat and cane about to be put under glass in a museum, while Astaire (playing Astaire, pretty much) prepares to be put out to pasture. He leaves Hollywood and returns to 42nd Street, finding that what once was a sea of black coats and white ties is now a riot of color, Hawaiian shirts, and pinball arcades. Thanks to the help of a young actress (Nanette Fabray), this

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genteel but rusting figure of the Art Deco 1930s finds harmony with the widescreen brassiness of the 1950s.

The highlight is the show-stopping Mike Hammer-themed “Girl Hunt” number, in which Astaire has his best duet ever with Cyd Charisse. It’s as much a revue as a movie—there’s all sorts of styles, from the slightly grotesque big-baby comedy of “Triplets” to the debonair soft-shoe of “I Guess I’d Better Change My Plans” to the kind of extinct German dialect specialty number that Astaire would have performed in vaudeville.

Throughout, Astaire demonstrates a unique, timeless grace that defies the haste of life. BILLED WITH Meet Me in St. Louis. A masterpiece. Minnelli's cherished musical is about the 1903 World's Fair in St. Louis and a family’s awakening to the new century. It’s nostalgia with shadows, emblematic of the bleak year in which it was made (the darkness is overheard in its hit, the diminuendo wartime Christmas carol “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”). The film offers a lot, including Garland’s fine blend of frailty and feist, a very pretty young June Lockhart done up in 1903 clothes, and a Halloween sequence that’s a highlight of 1940s film. No Tim Burton fan should miss it. (Aug 20-23, Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

WAR DOGS

War Dogs is a dog. Among the myriad problems of Todd Phillips’ unconvincing, unfunny and often sleazy comedy is that Miles Teller’s David doesn’t get much of a conscience until he’s held at gunpoint. Playing David’s wife Iz, Ana de Armas has the most dolorous, least flattering female role in a major movie this year—phoning in or Skyping her worries about David’s dodgy career while brandishing a baby. We know where the real romance is, between the pair of former Hebrew school pals David and Efraim (Jonah Hill), both stoners, who get into the arms racket during the depths of the Iraq war.

Phillips uses a lot of distancing devices to try to perfume a pair of genuine weasels: black on white intertitles (“God bless Dick Cheney’s America” says one), Scorsesean slo-mo and endless ’60s needle drops. He can’t seem to get De Palma’s Scarface out of his mind (extreme closeup on a mound of coke) or Rain Man (the two characters coming up slowly on an escalator).

Despite a moderately entertaining passage about a night’s smuggling on the road between Jordan and Baghdad, Phillips keeps bending the film to give Hill one more pissing scene, one more scene of bullying. It’s a strange movie where Bradley Cooper, playing a larger and more dangerous rat, ends up as the moist-eyed voice of conscience. (RvB)

REVIEW

GUNSMOKE Chris Pine attempts to save the ranch by robbing banks in the excellent ‘Hell or High Water.’

Western Recession NOTICEABLY OVERWRITTEN, yet tremendously exciting—Hell or High Water well deserves its growing rep as one of the best movies of the year. In West Texas, a pair of brothers turns modestly criminal, wearing black ski-masks and raiding the cash drawers of several half-dead smalltown banks. There is a Robin Hood element to the crimes: they’re intended to pay the mortgage on a family ranch.

Toby (Chris Pine) is just a good, desperate man, but his ex-con brother Tanner (Ben Foster) enjoys the thrill, and is growing more vicious with every heist.

Meanwhile, aging Texas ranger Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges), in his last month before retirement, picks up the case.

In the same way that soundtrack artist Nick Cave strains to be Johnny Cash, scripter Taylor Sheridan (Sicario) strains to get the good ol’ boy voice. The characters tend to mythologize themselves, as in a scene where Tanner gets into a stare-down and argument with a massive Native American gambler at an Oklahoma casino. Everyone keeps going on about the banks and the land grabs they’ve made, so that the movie will stay on message. The racist gibes exchanged between Marcus and his Comanche-Mexican

deputy Alberto (Gil Birmingham) have little purpose—they’re not colorful and they don’t advance the plot.

Still, director David Mackenzie has a great Hell or High Water vision of the roads and plains—in wraparound shots of big, battered R; 102 Mins. muscle cars or a helicopter Camera 12 soaring over die-straight county roads. Bridges and Birmingham manifest all the carnivorous pleasure of pursuit. The violence has speed, impact and follow-through—it’s a magnificent rebuke to all the hundreds of cute killings on screen in summer movies. Hell or High Water is always bringing in small-town Texans to add to the depth: Dale Dickey, as a bank teller who stands up for herself; Katy Mixon as a simmering, flirtatious waitress; and Margaret Bowman, as a tough old bird at the T-bone steakhouse.

One fears that Pine will be overlooked, in comparison to Foster’s flashy badman.

Actors tend to drown out reactors, so be sure to notice how solid, right and attractive Pine is—it’s the performance of his life.—Richard von Busack

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POSITIVE VIBRATIONS Veteran Bay Area musician Michael Franti remains optimistic about a world on fire.

Michael Franti & Spearhead spread the love at Mountain Winery

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OR MICHAEL FRANTI, the word “soulrocker” represents much more than just the title of his ninth studio album. In many ways, it also describes the role he’s played as a creative leader and positive force behind the genre-defying, signature sound of Michael Franti & Spearhead, a group that has promoted social and political consciousness and positivity for 25 years.

“I believe a soul rocker is a person who lives from their heart, who has compassion for all and has a tenacious enthusiasm for music, for life and for the planet,” Franti says, speaking from a dressing room in Flagstaff, Arizona,

shortly before leading a yoga session with fans prior to the show. “Right now is a time in the world where there is seemingly so much chaos, division and violence, and this record is really dedicated to speaking to some of those issues, but with an eye for positivity.”

Co-produced by Jamaican “studio magicians” Stephen McGregor and Dwayne Chin-Quee, Soulrocker champions the themes of good vibrations, consciousness and intention that Franti’s fans have come to expect, while also expanding into new territory with dancehall riffs and electronic flourishes—including a few bass drops massive enough to pull the candy kids away from the silent disco to the festival main stage.

“I wanted to include electronic music, in part because I personally like that style of music, but also because I get bored doing the same thing,” Franti explains. “After 25 years

of making music, I constantly have a creative chatter in my mind about the next thing I’m going to do.”

A Bay Area native, Franti’s upbringing in a diverse and politically active environment contributed significantly to his perception of the world, exposing him to a variety of people and sounds. All of these elements entered his “musical bloodstream” and led him to pursue music as a career. The sheer variety of sounds available to Franti led the developing songwriter to create music that sampled a little bit of everything— from hip-hop to punk to jazz to Latin.

He was also interested in the political ideas swirling around him.

“The Bay Area is a hotbed for activism, and it’s also a place of cultural hybrids—where you can experience everything musically,” he says. “In a place where there’s really so much diversity compared to other parts of the country, people have to get along with all different groups of people. It’s a really great challenge that all of us face, and as Bay Area residents, we have this opportunity every day to learn how to better get along with one another.”

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In a time of intense political divisiveness across the nation, from the 2016 presidential campaign to incidents of police brutality, getting along can seem like a distant reality.

Yet Franti’s unapologetically upbeat lyrics work to stay above the fray. He sings about compassion, love and taking care of one another. His refusal to give into negativity—though he sometimes feels helpless—is something he strives for every day.

“When you practice positivity daily, it becomes easier to go to a positive place as a default mode, so you don’t see everything like it’s a problem, but you do see everything as an opportunity to do things differently,” he says.

As a person who considers his strongest musical attributes to be “writing words, sitting with the guitar and coming up with melodies,” Franti says finding the lyrics to grapple with the troubling rhetoric emerging in American culture and society can be difficult for him—and often bittersweet. He has traveled the world and seen people deeply hurt by these issues, yet he’s equally moved when he sees them demanding change in their communities.

“The mainstream media has sort of set things up where you’re either a Black Lives Matter person or a Blue Lives Matter person, which totally underestimates the capacity of the intellect of everybody, as well as the capacity in our hearts to hold compassion,” he says. “There’s been so much name-calling and straightup bullying, frankly, but at the same time I see people who are out there every day saying this is not what we want our country to be, and I see the positivity out there despite the appearance of chaos.”

Franti’s upcoming performance at the Mountain Winery with indie pop songstress Zella Day is sure to be an example of that positivity. After all, the biggest joy in making music is sharing it, he says.

“I make music because I care about people and the planet. And mostly I hope that my music helps people make it through challenging times.”

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Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop THE BACK BAR SOFA

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

Thu, Aug 18, 8pm: Year of the Cobra, Kook, Brume and Supernaut. San Jose.

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BRANHAM LOUNGE

Every Fri, 10pm: Quality Control (indie, rock and hip hop). Every Sun, 10pm: Sunday Mass w/ Rev. Sean Blak. Every Mon: Mad Mondays Industry Night with DJ Sean Blak. Every Tue, 10pm: Irie Nights w/DJ Hi Grade and Friends. San Jose.

Every Wed: Ben B and DJ Test.

San Jose.

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

Every Thurs: DJ Mist. Fremont.

MOUNTAIN WINERY

Every Thu: DJ Maniakal. San Jose.

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Every Thu: DJ Benofficial. Every Fri: Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock.

San Jose.

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Every Tue: DJ Music (goth, industrial, ’80s). San Jose.

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

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Every Wed, 10pm: College Night DJ. Every Thurs, 10pm: Karaoke.

Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ. Santa Clara.

Fri, Aug 19, 8pm: Bri Cauz. Sat, Aug 20, 8pm: Isis and The Cold Truth. Saratoga.

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Every Mon: Gangster rap, rock, metal with Ben B and Sean Blak. Every Tues: Hip Hop, EDM with Sean Blak and guests.

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

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Every Tue, 7pm: Open Mic Night.

Every Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night. First Saturday of the Month, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. Wed Aug 17 7:30pm: Open Mic Night Sketch Improv. San Jose.

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

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Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. San Jose.

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Every Wed: J.C. Jam. Los Gatos.

Every Mon: Live Music Jam with Kimberley’s Band. Every Wed: Live Music Jam Funk. Every Thu: Jam Funk with Vicious Groove.

Sunnyvale.

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CASCAL Every Fri & Sat: Live Music.

Mountain View.

Thu, Aug 18, 7pm: Demi Lovato w/ Nick Jonas. Fri, Aug 19, 6:30pm: Comedy For Kids. San Jose.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE First and Second Fri, 9:30pm: Live PRO Jam. Third and Fourth Fri: Live bands. Santa Clara.

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

Every Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo, 9:30pm: DJ Norman. Every Sat: Las Mejores Bandas De La Bahia. Every Sun: 4pm-8pm: Edith Del Sol. San Jose.

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

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Every Tue, 8:30pm: Tuesday Night Blues. Every Sun: Jazz or Blues. Milpitas.

Sun, Aug 21, 7:30pm: Michael Franti & Spearhead’s SOULROCKER Tour. Mon, Aug 22, 7:30pm: The Go-Go’s. Saratoga.

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HEDLEY CLUB AT HOTEL DE ANZA Every 1st and 3rd Wed: Jazz Jam. San Jose.

HUKILAU Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

JJ’S BLUES Every Tue: MikeB Interactive Jam. Wed-Sun: Live Music.

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Musical Connection MIRANDA LEE and Gemma Rose first sang together in a fifth grade choir in the tiny Iowa town of Fairfield. They went to different schools, so they didn’t reconnect until a mutual friend’s birthday party during college. There, they became instant, vocal soulmates over their shared passion for obscure harmonies.

“I was just nerding out in a dark corner with a piano and she came over and I was like, ‘Oh, let me teach you this French opera duet,’” Lee recalls. “We started signing it, and the rest was history.”

After being two-thirds of another band for nearly a decade, Lee and Rose decided to start Dagmar.

Both are formally trained singers and musicians, and they label their sound “classical indie”—which translates to crisp, raw ballads centered mostly upon their pleasantly dissonant harmonies pulled from the Medieval era.

“We kind of approach vocals more like instruments,” Lee says. “So our [voices] often don’t go together rhythmically or melodically, but they’re more like two different instruments playing on top of each other. And I feel like I sing better when I’m singing in harmony and I enjoy it so much more.

It’s about creating something bigger than us.”

Dagmar Aug 20 7:30pm, $10 Art Boutiki, San Jose

On “What Do You Want,” from their most recent album, afterlight, they compose the central melody with breathy, ping-ponging notes, which recall the staccato indie rock scatting of Dirty Projectors and Björk. Then they take turns crooning the verses before weaving in and out of each other during interludes. The song centers on the idea of being trapped in an unsatisfying life, an echo from Lee’s messy divorce.

The rest of afterlight wrangles with similarly heavy themes. Rose worked for the past four years as a nurse in an intensive care unit. Daily, she saw what “most people don’t see more than a couple times in their life,” yet found inspiration and beauty in the poignant emotions that she saw surface in strangers after they witnessed the death of a loved one.

The duo moved to San Francisco in March, but Dagmar cultivated the core of its sound in Iowa’s wide open spaces, where the duo had time to expand creatively and channel “big feelings” into their lyrics. Below the melancholy surface, they radiate a comfortable humility, an aura that’s soothing like a cool night under a clear sky.

“We really are pretty darn happy and giddy,” Lee says. “And I think it’s because we’re able to let out our more heavy feelings and thoughts through our music. When one of us is feeling something very strongly, it’s easy for us to get into that and write together in this moment of pain or discomfort. It’s our relationship that makes us able to write that way. We’re sisters.” —John Flynn

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Fri, Aug 19, 7:30pm: Trevor Noah.

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Every Thu: Trauma Thursdays Every Fri-Sat: DJs featuring a variety of Top 40, Hip Hop, EDM; Every Sun: Service Industry Night (1/2 off drinks w/industry card).

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY: JOSEPH VINCIGUERRA, CASE NO. 1-15-PR176513

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 23,2016 at 2:00 p.m., the undersigned, as Administrator of the Estate of JOSEPH VINCIGUERRA, intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located in City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California, which properly is more particularly described in Exhibit “A.” attached hereto and incorporated by reference. The sale shall be subject to confirmation by the above-entitled court.

Bids for the property are hereby invited.

All bids must be on the bid forms provided by the undersigned or Peterson Properties and may be mailed or personally delivered to the undersigned at the Office of the Public Administrator, 333 W. Julian Street, 4th Floor, San Jose, CA 95110, or toPeterson Properties, 1129 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125. All bids must be accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit, with the balance of the purchaseprice to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. The full terms of the sale are contained in the bid form.All bids will be opened at the Office of the Public Administrator at 2:00 p.m., or thereafter, as allowed by law. The subject property is commonly known as 833 Willis Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125-1550, and shall be sold “as is.” The undersigned reserves the right to reject any and all bids prior to entryof a court order confirming a sale. For additional information and bid forms, apply at the office of Peterson Properties, Attention: Randy Peterson, Telephone (408) 354-4992.JAMES J. RAMONIPublic Administrator ofSanta Clara, Petitioner MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County CounselAttorneys for Petitioner(Pub CC 8/03, 8/10, 8/17/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619724 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Hip Joint, 1026 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125, Joanne Coppolino, 912 South 10 Street, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/1/16.Refile of previous file #617863 sue to publication requirement not met on previous filing. /s/ Joanne CoppolinoThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/05/2016. (pub Metro 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2016)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE: CASE NO. 1-16-PR-177748

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on September 8, 2016 at 2:00 p.m., the undersigned, as Administrator of the Estate of JUDITH CATHRYN BARES, aka JUDITH C. BARES, intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located in the City of Santa Clara, County of Santa Clara, State of California, which property is more particularly described in Exhibit “A” attached hereto and incorporated by reference. The sale shall be subject to confirmation by the above-entitled court.

Bids for property are hereby invited. All bids must be on the bid forms provided by the undersigned at the Office of the Public Guardian, 333 W. Julian Street, 4th Floor, San Jose, CA 95110, or to Salomon Properties, Inc., 1075 Space Park Way #158, Mountain View, CA 94043. All bids must be accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. The full terms of the sale are contained in the bid form. All bids will be opened at the Office of the Public administrator at 2:00 p.m., or thereafter as allowed by law. The subject property is commonly known as 52 Claremont Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95051 and shall be sold “as is.” The undersigned reserves the right to reject any and all bids prior to entry of a court order confirming a sale. For additional information and bid forms, apply at the office of Salomon Properties, Inc., 1075 Space Park Way #158, Mountain View, CA 94043, Attn: Mara Salomon, (650) 716-6143.JAMES J. RAMONIPublic Administrator of the County ofSanta Clara, PetitionerJAMES R. WILLIAMS, Acting County CounselMARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy CounselAttorneys for James J. Ramoni, Public Administratorof the County of Santa Clara (Pub CC 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619031 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ms. Amy’s Candy Shoppe, 1111 West El Camino Real, #185, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Amy Lisa. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/16./s/Amy L. LeslieThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/01/2016. (pub Metro 7/27, 8/03, 8/10, 8/17/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #618988 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Japantown Art Association, 525 N. 7th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Juan Carlos Araujo, Jennifer Ahn, 526 N. 7th St., San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is conducted by an unincorporated association other than a partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business

name or names listed herein on 1/1/16. /s/ Juan Carlos Araujo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/01/2016. (pub Metro 7/27, 8/03, 8/10, 8/17/2016)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE: CASE NO. 1-16-PR-178294

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on September 8, 2016 at 2:00 p.m., the undersigned, as Administrator of the Estate of Betty Jean Drury, intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located in the City of Santa Clara, County of Santa Clara, State of California, which property is more particularly described in Exhibit “A” attached hereto and incorporated by reference. The sale shall be subject to confirmation by the above-entitled court. Bids for property are hereby invited. All bids must be on the bid forms provided by the undersigned at the Office of the Public Guardian, 333 W. Julian Street, 4th Floor, San Jose, CA 95110, or to Salomon Properties, Inc., 1075 Space Park Way #158, Mountain View, CA 94043. All bids must be accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow.

The full terms of the sale are contained in the bid form. All bids will be opened at the Office of the Public administrator at 2:00 p.m., or thereafter as allowed by law. The subject property is commonly known as 178 Granada Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043 and shall be sold “as is.” The undersigned reserves the right to reject any and all bids prior to entry of a court order confirming a sale. For additional information and bid forms, apply at the office of Alain Pinel Realtors, 750 University Avenue, Suite 150, Los Gatos, CA, 95032.

JAMES J. RAMONI Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara, Petitioner JAMES R. WILLIAMS, Acting County Counsel MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy Counsel Attorneys for James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara(Pub CC 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619849

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: M&D Kapoor Enterprise LLC, 638 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/26/16. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/ Ramjit Badwal(owner) CEO#201532210195 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/26/2016. (pub Metro 8/03, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619714 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mind 2 Muscle, 1825 San Carlos St., San Jose, CA, 95128, Joshua Dusan, 2200

Curtner Ave., #86, Campbell, CA, 95005.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/21/2016. /s/Joshua Dusan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/21/2016. (pub Metro 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/07/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619756 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Uvas Pines RV Park, 13210 Uvas Road, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, J. Robert Taylor, Trustee, 636 Olympic Dr., Tahoe City, Ca, 96145. This business is conducted by a Trust. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/27/2016. /s/J. Robert Taylor, Trustee This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/22/2016. (pub Metro 7/27, 8/03, 8/10, 8/17/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620045 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MZ Painting & Services, 2980 Huff Ave., #2, San Jose, CA, 95128, Jose R. Zarazua, Samuel Munoz Granodos, 1450 Ontario Ln., #A, Campbell, CA, 95008. This business is conducted by an general partnership.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/2/2016./s/Jose R. ZarazuaThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/02/2016. (pub Metro 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619589 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sweet Passions Bakery, 1512 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Blanca Lilia Sanchez, Luis A. Sanchez Castellanos, 1617 Shortridge Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116. This business is conducted by a married couple.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Blanca Lilia Sanchez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/18/2016. (pub Metro 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/07/2016)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #620250 The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Arc Services And Referral Agency, 1690 Civic Center Drive #Unit 502, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Eileen Curran. Filed in Santa Clara County on 10/21/2011 under file #557357This business was conducted by an individual/s/Eileen CurranThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/16/2015.(pub Metro 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/07/2016)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I tried to meditate

on your horoscope, my next-door neighbor was wielding a weed-whacker to trim her lawn, and the voices in my head were shouting extra loud. So I decided to drive down to the marsh to get some high-quality silence. When I arrived at the trailhead, I found an older man in ragged clothes leaning against the fence. Nearby was a grocery cart full of what I assumed were all his earthly belongings. “Doing nothing is a very difficult art,” he croaked as I slipped by him, “because you’re never really sure when you are done.” I immediately recognized that his wisdom might be useful to you. You are, after all, in the last few days of your recharging process. It’s still a good idea for you to lie low and be extra calm and vegetate luxuriously. But when should you rise up and leap into action again? Here’s my guess: Get one more dose of intense stillness and silence.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My readers have a range of approaches for working with the counsel I offer.

Some study the horoscopes for both their sun signs and rising signs, then create do-it-yourself blends of the two. Others prefer to wait until the week is over before consulting what I’ve written. They don’t want my oracles to influence their future behavior, but enjoy evaluating their recent past in light of my analysis. Then there are the folks who read all 12 of my horoscopes. They refuse to be hemmed in by just one forecast, and want to be free to explore multiple options. I encourage you to try experiments like these in the coming days. The moment is ripe to cultivate more of your own unique strategies for using and interpreting the information you absorb—both from me and from everyone else you listen to.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Have you been drinking

a lot of liquids? Are you spending extra time soaking in hot baths and swimming in bodies of water that rejuvenate you? Have you been opening your soul to raw truths that dissolve your fixations and to beauty that makes you cry and to love that moves you to sing? I hope you’re reverently attending to these fluidic needs. I hope you’re giving your deepest yearnings free play and your freshest emotions lots of room to unfold. Smart, well-lubricated intimacy is a luxurious necessity, my dear. Stay very, very wet.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In my opinion, you need to bask in the glorious fury of at least one brainstorm— preferably multiple brainstorms over the course of the next two weeks. What can you do to ensure that happens? How might you generate a flood of new ideas about how to live your life and understand the nature of reality? Here are some suggestions: Read books about creativity. Hang around with original thinkers and sly provocateurs. Insert yourself into situations that will strip you of your boring certainties.

And take this vow: “I hereby unleash the primal power of my liberated imagination.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When you were a child,

did you play with imaginary friends? During your adolescence, did you nurture a fantasy relationship with a pretend boyfriend or girlfriend? Since you reached adulthood, have you ever enjoyed consorting with muses or guardian angels or ancestral spirits? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are in a good position to take full advantage of the subtle opportunities and cryptic invitations that are coming your way. Unexpected sources are poised to provide unlikely inspirations in unprecedented ways.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When you were born, you

already carried the seeds of gifts you would someday be able to provide—specific influences or teachings or blessings that only you, of all the people who have ever lived, could offer the world. How are you doing in your quest to fulfill this potential? Here’s what I

suspect: Your seeds have been ripening slowly and surely. But in the coming months, they could ripen at a more rapid pace. Whether they actually do or not may depend on your willingness to take on more responsibilities—interesting responsibilities, to be sure—but bigger than you’re used to.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect that you

will soon be culminating a labor of love you’ve been nurturing and refining for many moons. How should you celebrate? Maybe with some champagne and caviar? If you’d like to include bubbly in your revels, a good choice might be 2004 Belle Epoque Rose.

Its floral aroma and crisp mouth-feel rouse a sense of jubilation as they synergize the flavors of blood orange, pomegranate, and strawberry. As for caviar, consider the smooth, aromatic and elegant roe of the albino beluga sturgeon from the unpolluted areas of the Caspian Sea near Iran. But before I finish this oracle, let me also add that a better way to honor your accomplishment might be to take the money you’d spend on champagne and caviar and instead use it as seed money for your next big project.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some species of weeds become even more robust and entrenched as they develop resistances to the pesticides that are designed to eradicate them. This is one example of how fighting a problem can make the problem worse—especially if you attack too furiously or use the wrong weapons. I invite you to consider the possibility that this might be a useful metaphor for you to contemplate in the coming weeks. Your desire to solve a knotty dilemma or shed a bad influence is admirable. Just make sure you choose a strategy that actually works.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your assignment,

if you choose to accept it, is to compose an essay on at least one of the following themes: 1. “How I Fed and Fed My Demons Until They Gorged Themselves to Death.” 2. “How I Exploited My Nightmares in Ways That Made Me Smarter and Cuter.” 3. “How I Quietly and Heroically Transformed a Sticky Problem into a Sleek Opportunity.” 4. “How I Helped Myself by Helping Other People.” For extra credit, Capricorn—and to earn the right to trade an unholy duty for a holy one—write about all four subjects.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suspect that in the coming months you will be drawn to wandering through the frontiers and exploring the unknown.

Experimentation will come naturally. Places and situations you have previously considered to be off-limits may be downright comfortable. In fact, it’s possible that you will have to escape your safety zones in order to fully be yourself. Got all that? Now here's the kicker. In the coming weeks, everything I just described will be especially apropos for your closest relationships. Are you interested in redefining and reconfiguring the ways that togetherness works for you?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’re playing the card game known as bridge, you’re lucky if you are dealt a hand that has no cards of a particular suit. This enables you, right from the beginning, to capture tricks using the trump suit. In other words, the lack of a certain resource gives you a distinct advantage. Let’s apply this metaphor to your immediate future, Pisces. I’m guessing that you will benefit from what may seem to be an inadequacy or deficit. An absence will be a useful asset.

Ask your benefits manager to schedule a trial delivery today

Homework: What’s the situation in your life where it’s hardest for you to be loving?

Practice being a master of compassion there in the coming week.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Can you imagine feeling at home in the world no matter where you are? If you eventually master this art, outer circumstances won’t distort your relationship with yourself. No matter how crazy or chaotic the people around you might be, you will remain rooted in your unshakable sense of purpose; you will respond to any given situation in ways that make you both calm and alert, amused and curious, compassionate for the suffering of others and determined to do what’s best for you. If you think these are goals worth seeking, you can make dramatic progress toward them in the coming weeks.

By ROB BREZSNY week of August 17

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620060

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Custom Hot Mop and Water Proofing, 1233 Willomar Dr., San Jose, CA, 95118, Matthew Hathaway. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 6/10/16. /s/Matthew HathawayThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/05/2016. (pub Metro 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620309 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: My Car Auto Sport, 1011 Knox Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Quoc Anh Dai Nguyen, 1909 Senter Rd., Apt 251, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/10/16. /s/Quoc Anh Dai Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/10/2016. (pub Metro 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/07/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620117 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: M.B.S.S, 408 Raymond Ave., San Jose, CA, 95008, Michelle Batra, 19353 Pinnacle Ct., Saratoga, CA, 95008. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michelle BatraThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/04/2016. (pub Metro 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620444 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JDS’s JUST......A 4/LETTER WORD, 6270 Valroy Dr., San Jose, CA, 95123, Janet Lloyd-Davis. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Janet LloydDavisThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/18/2016. (pub Metro 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/07/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620149 The following person(s) is (are) doing

business as: lucidbeaming, 2420 De Soto Dr., San Jose, CA, 95124, Joshua Curry. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein./s/Joshua Curry This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/05/2016. (pub Metro 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620144 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tha Bong Broz, 455 Meridian Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126, Paramount Imports, Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Stacy SargentPresident#1094646 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/04/2016. (pub Metro 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/07/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619266 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: El Toque de Elegancia

By Jeybi, 665 Dakota Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111, Elsa J. Valencia. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.Refile of previous file #614947 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing./s/Elsa Valencia This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/08/2016. (pub Metro 8/03, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620145 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lost Horizon, 455 Meridian Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126, Paramount Imports, Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/12/02.

Refile of previous file #415180 after 40 days of expiration date.Above entity was formed in the state California/s/ Stacy SargentPresident#1094646This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/04/2016. (pub Metro 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/07/2016)

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I dress like a tomboy: jeans, T-shirts, hoodies, and work boots. My boyfriend of a year wants me to wear skirts and dresses more often. Nothing trashy.

Just not my usual tomboy wear. This weekend, I wore a sundress to brunch. It made him so happy, and he kept telling me how beautiful I looked. I did feel a little uncomfortable because I’m not used to dressing like that. Some women in my circle are like, “He should accept you as you are. Don’t change for a man.” Am I giving up some important source of power?—Redressed Your boyfriend’s asking you to sometimes wear a dress for him, not hold out your wrist so he can chain you to the pipe in the basement with the six other sister wives.

There are women out there who still see dressing to please a man as some sort of Stockholm syndrome thing—participating in your own (flouncy, spaghetti-strapped) subjugation. So, it’s possible that those advising you “Don’t change for a man!” are just trying to help you be a modern and empowered woman. Of course, one could argue that actually being a modern and empowered woman means you don’t have to dress like you’re hoping to get a call to clean out a sewer line.

Maybe those in your advice coven really do believe they’re acting in your best interest. Maybe. Social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Jean Twenge report that it’s widely believed that men drive the “cultural suppression of female sexuality”— which could include shaming women for how they dress. However, in reviewing the research, they make a persuasive case that it’s primarily

women (often without awareness of their motives) who work to “stifle each other’s sexuality.”

This is right in keeping with research on female competition. While men fight openly—“Bring it! I will ruin you!”— women take a sneakier approach. As female competition researcher Tracy Vaillancourt explains it, women fight for their interests using “indirect aggression,” like gossip, mean looks, disparaging remarks, and other underhanded tactics to “reduce the mate value of a rival.”

Underhanded tactics? You know—like suggesting you’re selling out womankind if you wear a skirt or winged eyeliner.

In other words, your best interest and these other women’s may diverge— though they may not consciously intend to hurt you. As for whether you should throw on a dress from time to time, consider that if you love somebody, you do sweet things for them. Sometimes, this requires a bit of a stretch on your part—like from the teen boys’ section of the department store to that rack in the women’s department.

I’m a 39-year-old woman dating for the first time since the ’90s. I’m doing the online thing, and none of these guys look like their photos! It’s incredible.

When we meet, they always say, “You look just like your pictures.” Isn’t that the point?—Frustrated Guy, in online dating profile: “I’m 55!”

Guy’s neck, when you meet for coffee: “I was a war hero. In the Peloponnesian War.” Unfortunately, Mr. Peloponnesian Pants On Fire has plenty of company on dating sites. In fact, about a third of the photos people post aren’t true to life, according to research by psychologist Jeffrey T. Hancock. Sometimes, that’s due to Photoshop; sometimes, the photo is less-than-current; and sometimes, along the lines of “every picture tells a story,” the story is “This is how I’d look if I were someone else entirely.”

That last kind of lie—posting photos of somebody else—is less common than other photographic deceptions, because, as Hancock notes, people have to balance looking good enough to meet with not

making somebody stomp angrily away once they do. The same goes for the other lies people tell. Hancock also finds that 81 percent of people on dating sites are lying about their height, weight, and age—but often just a little.

So, where you go wrong is in your expectations—expecting online daters to be truthful. Going forward, assume everyone on a dating site is lying. Meet prospective partners as soon as possible and as casually as possible. If you’re throwing back a $4 latte, as opposed to waiting for the waitress to bring the entree, it’s a little easier to make a quick exit from the guy decades older than his picture: “Wow, will you look at the time?! I didn’t realize 20 years had passed since we set up our date.”

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INTRODUCTION Cannabis, or marijuana, is still completely illegal under federal law. Your Voter Information Guide contains false and misleading statements in favor of this ballot measure. Proposition 64 is a measure that would change the manner in which marijuana is treated under California law—and only California Law. The proponents of the measure propose to communicate to voters that passing the measure will make adult use of marijuana "legal" in California and will "end the criminalization" of the adult use of marijuana. But those statements are not true. The federal Controlled Substances Act makes it a crime to possess marijuana in any of the fifty states-- California included. And of course that will not change regardless of whether Proposition 64 passes. What Proposition 64 actually does is open the door for corporate cultivation and extreme taxation. The real intent of this proposition is profit. Profits for large corporations, wealthy backers, and the State of California.

FACTS A. Proposition 64 and the Federal Controlled Substances Act Proposition 64 is a ballot measure that will appear on the ballot for the upcoming November 2016 election. The measure is lengthy, but, generally speaking, it changes the manner in which marijuana is treated under California law: it makes using marijuana no longer subject to prosecution pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code, and implements a system of taxation and government regulation. The measure fails to educate the public about the dangers of violating federal law. The federal Controlled Substances Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1970. See 21 U.S.C. §801, et seq. Marijuana is listed as a Schedule I controlled substance, which means it is considered to have a high potential for abuse and no legitimate medical purpose. As such, the possession of marijuana for any purpose whatsoever is currently prohibited under federal law, and those who possess any amount of the substance commit a federal crime. Indeed, simply possessing marijuana subjects a person to criminal penalties that include up to one year in prison.21 U.S.C. §844. As recently as August 11, 2016 the federal government reaffirmed its position that marijuana is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance, meaning it is completely prohibited. The IRS is currently pursuing & enforcing the federal laws in Colorado and others states regardless of the federal spending amendment.

B. The False and Misleading Statements Contained in the Voter Information Guide The proponents of the ballot measure have submitted "Arguments in Favor of Proposition 64" to be included in the Voter Information Guide provided to California voters. The statements that are not accurate and are therefore at issue in this proceeding are the following (with emphasis added): a. "Proposition 64 Finally creates a safe, legal, and comprehensive system for adult use of marijuana while protecting our children." b. "Prop 64 controls, regulates and taxes adult use of marijuana, and ends the criminalization of responsible adult use."

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Twenty years ago, California passed the Compassionate Use Act, a ballot measure that changed state law with regard to marijuana used for medical purposes. See Proposition 215 (1996), codified at Health and Safety Code §11362.5. As the Compassionate Use Act worked its way through the courts, one point of law became crystal clear: California laws which allow for the use and possession of marijuana in no way effect the federal law which prohibits marijuana in every state. See City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patients Health and Weilness Center, Inc. (2013) 56 Cal.41h 729, 740 ["The CUA and the MMP have no effect on the federal enforceability of the CSA (Controlled Substances Act) in California. The CSA 's prohibitions on the possession, distribution, or manufacture of marijuana remain fully enforceable in this jurisdiction."]; See also, City of Garden Grove v. Superior Court (2007) 157 Cai.App.41h 355, 384-385: On its face, the [Compassionate Use] Act does not purport to make legal any conduct prohibited by federal law; it merely exempts certain conduct by certain persons from California drug laws. No state law can change or supersede federal law, in fact the “Supremacy Clause” says Federal Law is the law of the land. The United States Supreme

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The Constitution has not changed since the enactment of the Compassionate Use Act and the cases cited above, so the Commerce Clause and the Supremacy Clause are still in effect. So too is the Controlled Substances Act. This must mean, then, that like the Compassionate Use Act before it, Proposition 64 necessarily has no effect on the federal Controlled Substances Act, and "the CSA's prohibitions on the possession, distribution, or manufacture of marijuana remain fully enforceable in this jurisdiction." See City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patients Health and Wei/ness Center, Inc., supra, 56 Cal.41h 729, 740. The following statement is therefore unequivocally true: it will be a crime to possess or use marijuana in California, regardless of whether Proposition 64 passes.

Ill. THE STATEMENTS INDICATING THAT PASSING PROPOSITION 64 WILL MAKE ADULT USE OF MARIJUANA "LEGAL" IN CALIFORNIA ARE FALSE AND MISLEADING As established above, basic principles of constitutional law make it necessarily true that regardless of whether Proposition 64 passes in November, a person who uses or possesses marijuana in the state of California violates federal law and is subject to criminal penalties. But a voter who reads the arguments in favor of Proposition 64 will be told a much different story: "Proposition 64 finally creates a safe, legal ... system for adult use of marijuana ... Prop 64 [ ... ] ends the criminalization of responsible adult use ... adults 21 + will be allowed to possess small amounts of nonmedical marijuana, and to grow small amounts at home for personal use. Sale of nonmedical marijuana will be legal... "A reasonable reading of the text in question would certainly leave a voter with the impression that voting for Proposition 64 will allow an adult to use marijuana in California without fear of any criminal penalty - - because that is precisely what the arguments say. But the opposite is true: regardless of Proposition 64, the federal Controlled Substances Act makes it a crime to use marijuana in California.

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Notably, the proponents of Proposition 64 themselves recognize that allowing something under state law that is prohibited under federal law does not make it "legal," and they have used that concept to their advantage. In the arguments submitted in rebuttal to the argument against the measure, the proponents proudly wrap themselves in the constitution and its supremacy clause: "Nothing in 64 makes it legal to show marijuana ads in TV. Federal law prohibits it!" (See Rebuttal to the Argument Against Proposition 64 [RJN, Ex. 3]). The proponents cannot have it both ways: they cannot be allowed to argue, on the one hand, that federal law prohibits marijuana television advertising so obviously the state ballot measure cannot allow it, but then, on the other hand, tell voters Proposition 64 will make adult use of marijuana legal even though federal law prohibits that, as well. The bottom line is that the arguments at issue in this proceeding leave voters with an inaccurate understanding of what Proposition 64 does. The arguments tell voters that, if they pass the measure, adult use of marijuana will be "safe," legal," and "allowed," and that it will "end the criminalization" of marijuana.

The truth is much different: even if Proposition 64 passes, adult use of marijuana in California - -just like in the other 49 states - - will be a criminal act, will be illegal, and will only be safe if one considers it safe to commit a federal crime punishable by a year in prison. The false language relating to Proposition 64 making marijuana legal in California should be deleted to ensure voters are not misled as to what they are voting on. In the alternative, the language should be amended to make it clear that, regardless of whether the proposition passes, using marijuana in California will remain a criminal act.

California should be educating its inhabitants of the risks involved with blatantly violating Federal Law rather than avoiding these facts!

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Communal Collabo SAX MACHINECut: Summer Jazz Fest had a little something for everyone, including the Miguel Zenon Quartet.

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Activity spiraled out from the main stage into the surrounding corridors, clubs and hotels, unleashing wild sonic environments for both sedentary and nomadic types.

A forest of lawn chairs filled parts of Plaza de Cesar Chavez while other fans migrated around the urban landscape.

In the VIP area, one could easily listen to the main stage and the salsa stage at

once. If one prowled the neighborhood, a variety of performances created urban sound collages of the most transcendental sort.

There was something for everyone at the 2016 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. Suburban nuclear families parked themselves on the grass and 81-year-old Tootie Heath told masturbation jokes inside Cafe Stritch. All bases were covered.

On South First Street, fans lined up outside Stritch and the California Theater all weekend long. On the other side of the ’hood, the normally Vietnamese-specific Jade Leaf restaurant jammed itself to capacity with numerous acts all weekend long.

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a grand surprise unfolded inside Camera 12 Cinemas. The 2015 film, Song of Lahore, about a group of traditional Pakistani musicians who travel to New York City to perform with Wynton Marsalis, screened to a crowd of eight people that included the filmmaker. Thousands of festival attendees crawling all over the neighborhood might not have known about the film since it was only mentioned on the jazz festival website and not on the printed schedules.

There was no signage for the film anywhere, not even in the theater.

I am not here to point fingers, as mistakes happen everywhere, including in this column. But needless to say, the scene was so goofy it deserves mention and Song of Lahore is an awesome movie. Camera 12 was hosting a major Indian film festival all week, replete with a red carpet, along with a step-and-repeat outside on Paseo de San Antonio. As a result, tons of Indian people in traditional

attire congregated inside and outside the theater, yet none of them had any idea the jazz festival was going on and none of them seemed to know about Song of Lahore because no signage existed. Likewise, no one at the Jazz Festival seemed to know the Indian film festival was taking place.

Amid such confusion, there I was, inside Theater No. 4, along with eight people to watch a fantastic film filled with music, laughter and the human spirit. It requires some historical background, so bear with me for a few measures: The capital of old Punjab, Lahore, was also for centuries the cultural capital of Northern India, a religiously diverse and cosmopolitan epicenter of music, poetry, film, architecture and just about all flavors of arts intelligentsia—before the British violently split the country and destroyed it all. As a result, that version of Lahore is long gone now. It exists only in myth.

These days, radical clerics and rightwing authoritarian nutcases adhering to more extreme interpretations of Islam don’t seem to want anyone playing music, so traditional Pakistani musicians are viewed on the same social level as prostitutes. They have to hide in their flats and practice so that nearby radicals don’t hear them.

The Sachal Jazz Ensemble endeavored to revive traditional Pakistani music history but couldn’t get any recognition or support, so they started incorporating Western jazz elements into their practice.

Their version of Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” went viral all over YouTube, resulting in Wynton Marsalis inviting them to perform with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The chaotic scenes of both ensembles rehearsing together exemplified a breathtaking clash of cultures, with the Sachal musicians visibly nervous and barely on the same page, musically speaking.

But they pulled it off in masterful fashion, hiring a replacement sitar player at the last minute and practicing in their hotel rooms straight up through the morning of the gig. Scenes from the performance itself were joyous to watch, a true meeting of East and West.

That was just one event, of course.

In the end, the 2016 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest included people who played with John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus—enough reason for anyone to celebrate.

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ERUVIAN FOOD IS a rarity in Silicon Valley. There is certainly an audience for it, though, as people here tend to embrace Latin American flavors. Newly opened Sipan Peruvian Restaurant and Bar in Saratoga aims to satisfy with their traditional dishes and lively music.

On the day of our visit, Big Basin Way was bustling with activity from the Saratoga Classic Car Show. This energy continued into the establishment. With the dim lighting and lively sounds, the place felt more like a bar than a restaurant. For those who enjoy Pisco Sours, Sipan offers a variety of Pisco-based cocktails using spirits from Peru.

We were immediately seated for lunch, and the menu was easy to understand despite all the items having a Peruvian name. The Lomo Saltado ($24) is a traditional beef stir fry with French fries and an Asianinfluenced sauce. It is meant to be a quick and comforting dinner to please even finicky kids. The beef was overcooked but the sweet red onions gave it a nice touch. It was overall a solid dish, even if it didn’t taste as flavorful as it sounded.

With speedy service, we received the appetizer and second entrée at the same time. The Paella de Mariscos ($26) was possibly one of the best I’ve had. Only a made-up word like tomatoey with a hint of spice could describe the sauce. It had large kernels of corn that looked like hominy but were actually choclo, a Peruvian corn. The octopus was soft and tender, proving that the chef really knows how to handle difficult seafood. The other usual suspects like mussels, shrimps and calamari were present, and I particularly enjoyed the pickled onion and green sauce drizzled on top.

While the New Zealand green mussels and cassava fries in the Mussels Moche ($16) were both good, the true star was the mildly smoked sausage. The chunks were smokier than expected, but it was much appreciated. After finishing the mussels, we dipped the fries into the buttery white wine sauce, which had soft pieces of stewed leeks.

Service was wonderful and the paella was out of this world, but portion sizes were small for the price. Sipan Peruvian is worth a visit if close to the area, but don’t come too hungry. Do, however, order the outstanding paella. —Ngoc Ngo SIPAN PERUVIAN RESTAURANT AND BAR 14486 Big Basin Way, Saratoga.

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San Jose Brew Bike allows the adventurous and 15 of their closest friends (or strangers) to take a night on the town, visiting local restaurants and bars while playing their own favorite tracks through a provided stereo hook-up. The brew bike has become a global phenomenon, starting in Now Serving Gator $10 DOMINO TOURNAMENT, SUN., AUG. 7, 12-6 PM Amsterdam and then moving as close as Sacramento.

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