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ERTAIN TOPICS WERE off limits when Forest Stuart attended high school. Civil rights were covered, but rarely did classes take a deep dive into the contributions of minority communities. Stuart first learned about the LGBTQ community from Tumblr.

One teacher, however, a field hockey coach at Monta Vista High School, encouraged Stuart to learn about the group’s history and other topics deemed too risque.

“She was always really great at bringing in the history of minority

groups that are usually lost or not discussed in class,” Stuart says. “The other teachers covered little to nothing.”

Stuart identifies as trans, non-binary and queer. Family was supportive from the start, beginning when they—Stuart uses “they/them” pronouns to identify as both masculine and feminine—started to question gender and sexuality in middle school and high school, all the way through coming out last year.

“They’ve been really receptive in me teaching them and bringing them up to speed on all the terms,” Stuart says.

Not everyone has been so supportive, though. Stuart faced harassment from some classmates on social media after becoming heavily involved in the Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA).

“The general school population who was vocal was really accepting and excited for me, and that was nice,” Stuart says. “Being pretty out there and outspoken meant that whenever people

could voice their opinions anonymously they did take that chance.”

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“The power and importance of queer and LGBTQ people coming together and providing for our own is huge, creating a space that is so vibrant and energetic where people can thrive and learn about themselves,” Stuart says.

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“Being a queer person in a school, anything that is said [about LGBT figures] really stands out,” Stuart says. “It’s so different having these subjects in a classroom setting.”

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Stuart will soon attend West Valley College to study in the Women and Gender Studies program. College has often been the first place students begin to learn about sexuality and LGBTQ issues, but that’s about to change.

In 2010, state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 48, also known as the FAIR Education Act (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful Education Act). The bill requires California public school textbooks and curriculum to include lessons on the political, economic and social contributions of people with disabilities and the LGBTQ community.

The Senate passed SB48 in April 2011.

Two months later it passed through the Assembly and less than two weeks later after that, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law. At the time, he estimated the curriculum would probably not be in textbooks until 2015. It turns out he was one year too optimistic.

While educators and LGBTQ advocates worked on creating structured, age-appropriate lesson plans, a conservative group called Stop SB48 tried to place two measures on the 2014 ballot, arguing the new curriculum is a “promotion of homosexuality.”

One effort hoped to eliminate the bill completely and the other wanted to give parents the option to opt out of having their children taught LGBTQ history.

The efforts fell short of the 500,000 signatures required.

More robust accounts of LGBTQ figures like Harvey Milk—the first openly gay elected official in California—are now expected to be woven into history and social science classes. Milk served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for 11 months and passed a gay rights ordinance for the city before being assassinated in 1978.

Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager, the first openly gay man to be elected in county history, says that learning about someone like Milk in school would have made a huge impact on him. “All of this is so personal,” Yeager says. “Some kid will be reading a textbook in the solitude of their bedroom and it will bring such comfort to them. It is going to make them feel that they have self-worth and that there are any number of possibilities open to them.”

Peter Allen, a spokesman for San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD), the largest district in the county overseeing

42 schools, points out that for many children, adding these figures into history lessons gives straight and LGBTQ students people they can relate to.

“Every story has to have a protagonist, or a hero; you’re trying to tell a narrative,” Allen says. “In order for history to resonate you have to have individuals, moments, events that give context.”

Maribel Martinez, a manager for the county’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs, the first department of its kind in the country, views the changing framework as coursework that fits in with existing history and social sciences. Educators, she adds, will now have more tools to teach young people about inclusion. Martinez helped the LGBT Inclusion Coalition, which sent a letter July 1 to State Board of Education President Michael Kirst asking for the adoption of the Fair Education Act. On July 14, the board adopted new guidelines for what school districts can incorporate into existing Common Core curriculum. Martinez calls the Fair Education Act’s implementation, which will also have an emphasis on the contributions of minorities and the disabled, “a turning point.”

Elementary school students will now be introduced to marriage equality and the acceptance of families with two moms or two dads.

In middle school, students will learn about the Boy Scouts lifting their ban on gay scout leaders and the brutal killing of Matthew Shepard.

High school will require studies on transgender identity and the process of coming out; the Stonewall Riots of 1969; what it was like to be gay in different generations; and how to overcome or break out of gender stereotypes. By graduation, students will have studied the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized samesex marriage and more cases about gender neutral bathrooms.

Gabrielle Antolovich, president of the Billy DeFrank Center, which conducts outreach and programs for the South Bay’s LGBTQ community, calls the implementation an exciting yet long overdue development.

Students will receive “age-appropriate” lesson plans that exclude “intimate details of historical figures’ lives,” according to the Fair Education Act’s website.

SJUSD has taken the content and made it available to social studies teachers to use as early as this school year.

Teachers are being monitored to ensure they incorporate the new information into their lesson plans.

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CHANGING TRAINS Next year youth will no longer face criminal charges for

skipping out on VTA fares, but they will be fined.

New Laws Aim to Decriminalize Youth Offenders

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Kids who skip out on transit payments will no longer face criminal charges under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday. Fare evasion will result in administrative fines, but won’t escalate into a misdemeanor charge or jail time once the law takes effect at the start of next year.

Santa Clara County’s Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), which relies on the honor system for fare collection, already curbed the number of unpaid-ticket write-ups for youth a few years back. From more than 1,000 in 2013, the number of citations for the under-18 crowd fell to 435 the following year and 206 in 2015.

“It wasn’t worth our time to issue citations, which can take up to 20 minutes,” VTA spokeswoman Stacey Hendler-Ross said. “We don’t make money on them. So in the past few years, we really started focusing on education and telling people to buy

a fare at the next stop, or to sign up for programs we have to help them afford fare.”

Under the new law, unpaid fines would head to collections instead of resulting in a warrant, according to Santa Clara County Sheriff ’s Office spokesman Sgt. James Jensen.

“Therefore, juveniles do not go to Juvenile Hall over a fare evasion,” he said.

San Francisco and Los Angeles counties took a similar tack a few years ago to prevent minors from getting caught up in the criminal justice system for petty violations.

The new law, Senate Bill 882, will expand that approach statewide.

The bill, authored by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), is part of an ongoing push by California lawmakers to dial down overly harsh penalties for youth and the working poor. Last year, Herzberg

spearheaded an amnesty program to reduce traffic fines by taking into account a person’s income level.

Later this week, legislators will vote on a few more bills that would help decriminalize youth indiscretions. Assembly Bill 2298, introduced by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), would bring much-needed accountability and transparency to the state’s deeply flawed gang database, CalGang. The proposal would require police to notify anyone added to the list of alleged gang members.

Weber’s bill comes in response to a damning audit of the secretive database in four jurisdictions, including Santa Clara County. From a small sample of the 150,000 names entered into CalGang, auditors found 42 babies under a year old and a disproportionate number of black and Latino people.

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That’s according to a new report by TRIP, a national transportation group, which found that 79 percent of roads in Santa Clara County are in poor or mediocre condition. County Supervisor Dave Cortese said the report should spur lawmakers to invest in roadways.

“We need to dig into our own pockets now and put more local dollars to work to repair, maintain and improve our transportation network,” he told reporters at a presser last week. “Here in Santa Clara County, we have an opportunity to do just that.” The opportunity he’s talking about comes by way of a regional half-cent sales tax on the November ballot, which would generate an estimated $6 billion to repave streets and bolster transit systems throughout the county.

Jails to Offer College Classes Santa Clara County residents didn’t have to vote for Bernie Sanders to get free higher education—they just have to get arrested.

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N DECADES PAST, five big arts groups dominated the Silicon Valley culture scene, slurping up the majority of public support and private donations, while dozens of much smaller organizations fought over the table scraps.

With annual budgets that in better times passed the $5 million mark, Ballet San Jose, San Jose Rep, San Jose Art Museum, Opera San Jose and the Symphony were big companies that were dominated for years on end by big artistic forces—Dennis Nahat, Timothy Near, Jim Reber, Leonid Grin or the late Irene Dalis and George Cleve.

The local arts scene looks quite different these days. San Jose

Symphony declared bankruptcy after its 2001 shutdown, ending a 64-year run. Silicon Valley Ballet called it quits earlier this year, while the Rep gave its final curtain call in 2014.

The 13-year-old Symphony Silicon Valley, a nimble successor to the original company, recently took a hit when Target ended its sponsorship of the annual Summer Pops series, and Opera San Jose dipped into its cash reserves

from 2009 until this past season, when the organization’s new director put together a program that actually put the opera—barely—back into the black.

Still, even as these major groups have struggled, the performing and visual arts have proved resilient. The companies are younger and more diverse, both artistically and in terms of their leadership, virtualizing their operations and striving to do more with less. They are breaking out of the rigid confines of European tradition.

“There are a lot of things that aren’t right with the arts,” says Andrew Bales, executive director of

Symphony Silicon Valley. But, he continues, that doesn’t mean the South Bay has given up on culture.

In fact, according to Bales, “There really has been quite a resurgence of young folks in the arts—and it’s not even that they’re so young—it’s just a new generation of people.”

While there are fewer concentrations of power in Silicon Valley’s art scene today, there are many more important players—all of them working hard to bring relevant music, art and stage productions to the Bay Area’s most populous metropolis. —Nick Veronin

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Erin Salazar, founder of the Exhibition District, a local nonprofit dedicated to creating and funding public art, has painted murals for Original Gravity, Cafe Stritch and Good Karma Artisan Ales & Cafe. A graduate of San Jose State University, she realized not long after these

projects that she needed to find a way to make her city beautification efforts fungible.

“I did a couple murals for free and for beer,” Salazar says. “But I couldn’t pay my rent with free beer, so I had to start charging, which I did begrudgingly.

And now I just want to make sure that other artists have the opportunity to try their hand at large-scale public art and make it their masterpiece”—while making a living wage. That’s where her expertise in fundraising comes in.

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partner Chris Morrish—would rather be out painting all the time, in order to pay artists, they have to spend a fair amount of their time writing grants and soliciting donations. They also have two main sponsors: The Knight Foundation and San Jose Made.

“I love artists,” she says. “But they’re weird and they’re bad at business, and if I can help take care of the business, then they can be weird by themselves and they can create and do what they do best.”

The hope is that if more artists are fairly compensated for their labor, more of them will come into San Jose to create top-quality street art. That art will tell the city’s story, contribute to a distinct San Jose aesthetic and fight the perception that our town is little more than beige suburban sprawl.

“I can’t make it less expensive,” she says.

“But I can make it cooler to live here.”

Salazar’s most recently completed project is the massive cornucopia mural that now adorns the side of the De Anza Hotel. The Exhibition District also has murals on the side of The Tech Shop and the Workingman’s Emporium— and owes San Jose two more public art works by the end of next year. Salazar hopes to keep cranking them out at a pace of three or four pieces annually.

LIZ SULLIVAN

PRESIDENT OF PACE PALO ALTO Pace Gallery has been a trendsetter in the contemporary art world since it first opening in Boston in 1960, the organization has expanded with exhibition spaces in London, Beijing, Hong Kong and Paris.

This past year, Pace opened two galleries on the Peninsula—in Palo Alto and Menlo Park—bringing its strong curatorial voice to the heart of Silicon Valley. “The community has really embraced us,” says Liz Sullivan, president of Pace Palo Alto.

It’s not surprising. Pace hit the ground running in Menlo Park by playing to the interests of its techie neighbors with “Living Digital Space” and “Future Parks”—a pair of exhibitions by the Japanese collective TeamLab, known for its seamless synthesis of art and technology. The twin shows—staged inside a former Tesla dealership— feature LED sculptures, holograms and interactive pieces that change based upon the movement of gallery visitors.

It can also be controlled via a free smartphone app.

SOUND IN MOTION Multidisciplinary artist Nick Cave (not of The Bad Seeds) builds ornate ‘Soundsuits.’

Arts Listings ANNO DOMINI San Jose

“THINGS, MEREOLOGY AND SCHEMES”

In his latest installation, Spanish artist Leon Ka, aka Kafre, explores the mathematical study of parts and the wholes they form, schemes and the distinction between natural things, non-natural things and the artifacts that occur between them. Thru Oct 22.

“ART OF ZINES”

Hundreds of zines from basements, bedrooms and midnight copy shops from throughout the U.S. and abroad will be featured. At the same time, Anno Domini will host panel talks for the Alternative Press Expo. Oct 7-22.

BAY AREA GLASS INSTITUTE Palo Alto

“THE 21ST ANNUAL GREAT GLASS PUMPKIN PATCH”

The largest glass pumpkin patch in Northern California returns with an outdoor installation of over 10,000 unique glass pumpkins, which are available for purchase. Exhibit: Sep 27-30.

Sale: Oct 1-2.

“GLASS PUMPKIN PATCH AT SANTANA ROW” Colorful hand-blown pumpkins by artists of

the Bay Area Glass Institute will be on display and for sale at Santana Row with a live glass blowing performance. Oct 7-9.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER Stanford University

“CALIFORNIA: THE ART OF WATER”

An exhibit exploring the way artists and photographers have portrayed California’s most precious resource. The exhibition features over 50 works of water subjects by eminent artists, including Ansel Adams, Albert Bierstadt and David Hockney. Thru Nov 28.

“SOULMAKER: THE TIMES OF LEWIS HINE”

A hundred years ago, the photos of Lewis Hine showed the lives of child factory workers to the world. His photographs are among the most haunting images of children ever made.

Thru Oct 31.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM Santa Clara University

“BRUCE BEASLEY RECENT WORK: CORIOLIS AND TORQUERI” Internationally known artist Bruce Beasley finds inspiration in what he calls “the building blocks of nature,” that is, the various forces that shape and sustain the universe. Sep 30Dec 4.

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Walk in the footsteps of the most famous lovers of all time! We Players will blur the boundary between audience and actors, history and the present moment, in this unique site-integrated production. Audiences will be on their feet physically moving with the actors as the action unfolds across Montalvo’s grounds.

Hear the clash of steel as sword fights fly on the Great Lawn; join the Capulets at their infamous masked ball in the historic Villa; participate in the rituals of marriage and death in the Italianate Garden; and let Romeo & Juliet fill you with joy—and break your heart.

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For Lauren Dickens, who took over as art curator of the San Jose Museum of Art earlier this year, her new job is both a fresh challenge and a return to her roots.

After spending the majority of her adult life on the East Coast—most recently as a curatorial consultant at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.—Dickens is excited to return to her childhood home. She lived in Willow Glen until the age of 4, when her family moved to Sonoma County, and would return often to visit her grandparents. She has fond memories of trips to La Villa’s ravioli and the Willow Glen public library.

“It feels good to come back,” she told Metro in April, at the start of her tenure. “There is so much energy and growth in the city right now.”

That energy extends to her position at SJMA, an institution she

described as “small and dynamic.”

It’s a perfect fit for her curatorial interests in Asian artists and experimental artists. That kind of work “is not something larger institutions can do,” Dickens says. “It requires an agility and attentiveness to audience,” that is more easily found in smaller museums.

One of the things that excites Dickens most about working and living in San Jose is the community.

From the museum’s dedication to local artists to the vibrancy and ethnic diversity of her neighborhood, she’s ready to weave herself into that community and continue the movement that is revitalizing San Jose’s storied art scene.

AMY LONG HISTORY CURATOR, NUMU

For the past half-century the Los Gatos Museum Association administered two museums. Known as the Museums of Los Gatos, one specialized in art, while the other focused on history. But after moving from their former location into

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“CROSSING CULTURES: BELLE YANG, A STORY OF IMMIGRATION”

Born in Taiwan and now living in Santa Cruz County, artist Belle Yang shares the story of her family’s journey from China to America through vibrant paintings, illustrations and graphic novels. Sep 30-Dec 4.

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“TATTOOED & TENACIOUS: INKED WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA’S HISTORY EXHIBIT”

Discover the fascinating and largely unknown history of the foremothers of modern tattooing prior to WWII. Thru Dec 31.

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“IRIDESCENT”

Chemist and ceramic artists Andrew Irvine combines art and science in his latest exhibition, working with silver and bismuth lustre glazes along with a raku fuming process.

The resulting vibrant and otherworldly colors pop out when hit by different light sources.

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shapes and colors from a kaleidoscope.

Sep 2-30.

“LIFE ANEW”

San Jose based artist David Canavese blends the organic and technological with the use of various media like steel, polyurethane, paper and digital. His latest work focuses on the recently discovered creatures “Podships.”

Oct 7-28.

“LOVE IS TRANSITORY”

In 1997 Josh Marcotte began writing short stories inspired by his grandfather’s upbringing in San Jose. He then started photographing the places that influenced those anecdotes and the images for “Lost San Jose” were born. This photography exhibition highlights the ever changing environment .

Oct 7-28.

“PRIOR ART”

The influence of technology and digital media has spread to the art world with computer software like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

The new series of paintings by Julie Meridian takes the viewer on a tour of analog media manipulation and vintage virtual reality that inspired the digital tools we know today.

Nov 4-25.

“ORBITER”

Nicole Linde draws inspiration from a variety of sources ranging from myths to space, yielding colorful oil paintings reminiscent of

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the old Los Gatos Public Library building, the museums merged and re-wrote their mission statement.

Now NUMU, as the New Museum of Los Gatos is known, aims to “engage community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibits, programs and experiences.”

“There isn’t any really other museum in Silicon Valley that’s doing what we’re doing,” says Amy Long, history curator at NUMU. Since rebranding in 2015, the museum has pivoted away from its Los Gatos-centric past, and is now working to curate exhibits on topics that concern the entire Silicon Valley. So far, they’ve shown a series of speculative space colony illustrations created by local graphic artist Rick Guidice for NASA, and hosted an exhibit that looked back at several local theme parks— including Frontier Village and Lost World—which was a massive hit, according to Long.

“I’m not exaggerating. People had tears in their eyes,” she says, recalling the debut of that exhibit, “It Takes a Village.” “Those parks represented an era before all the tech companies came into the valley.”

Soon NUMU will host a collection of images taken during the Lunar Orbiter missions. These photographs—the first captured by a spacecraft passing so close to the moon—were almost lost to history.

But thanks to a fortunate series of events, and a dedicated team working out of an old McDonalds building on Mountain View’s NASA Ames campus, the pictures have been restored.

“I think we are doing something that is really unique compared to the other museums,” Long observes.

While there are plenty of local institutions that focus on very specific topics, like the Computer History Museum or the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, NUMU may just have the broadest scope when it comes to the history and art of Silicon Valley.

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“MITCHELL VS. STEINBECK” “WEDDING DRESS: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW”

A richly illustrated exhibition featuring over 50 wedding dress examples from cultures around the world, spanning the last 100 years.

Today’s diverse wedding couture will also be on display. Thru Oct 2.

“WEDDING RING EXPLOSION”

Mike “Mac” McNamara has made 21 Double Wedding Ring quilts for his couple friends and family, gay and straight. Mac’s quilts look at how wedding quilt traditions have changed over the centuries and how 21st century quilt makers are celebrating today’s marriages.

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SEEING THINGS GALLERIES San Jose

“LEOTA”

Murphy Adams and daughter Ivy Atoms’ exhibition is a family affair. Named after the family matriarch, “LEOTA” captures the feminine experience from each woman’s perspective. Opens Sep 9.

Through research, documents, photos, ephemera and interviews “Mitchell vs.

Steinbeck” looks at the historical events that inspired John Steinbeck to write The Grapes of Wrath and the controversial literary duel with neighboring Los Gatos novelist Ruth Comfort Mitchell through her book Of Human Kindness.

Thru Oct 16.

“SCRIPT AND SCRIBBLE: THE HISTORY AND ART OF HANDWRITING” The value of practicing traditional handwriting in a world that is increasingly concerned with abbreviated communication and what the possible extinction of penmanship might mean are explored. Thru Oct 16.

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Connect and Collect provides a unique opportunity for art enthusiasts and collectors to view and purchase artwork by rising artists.

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“INDESTRUCTIBLE WONDER”

An exhibit from SJMA’s permanent collection exploring the delicate relationship between humans and nature. Based on the environmental art movement that was inspired by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the exhibition will include contemporary works by Anne Appleby and others. Thru Jan 29, 2017.

“LIFE AND LABOR: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MILTON ROGOVIN”

Photographer Milton Rogovin gifted a collection of photos to SJMA in 2011, and this exhibition marks their public debut. The photographs chronicle the lives and trials of miners, steel-industry workers and the poor working class in Buffalo, New York, where Rogovin lived. Thru Mar 19, 2017.

“BEAUTY: COOPER HEWITT DESIGN TRIENNIAL”

San Jose is the only stop on the Smithsonian Design Museum’s triennial exhibition. “Beauty” gathers more than 200 works by 63 designers worldwide to question our ideas of beauty and the purpose it serves. Works will include experimental prototypes, interactive games, fashion and architectural structures.

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TRITON MUSEUM OF ART Santa Clara

“SUSAN PARKER: COLOR, FORM AND MEMORY”

Parker uses specific characteristics of places—memories of being on the water, or observations of the tides—to shape her abstract paintings. She uses layers of color, form and pattern to build paintings at once eerie and tranquil that form “maps of the imagination.” Thru Oct 23.

“FRANCISCO (PANCHO) JIMÉNEZ: EXCAVATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS”

Santa Clara’s own Francisco (Pancho) Jiménez asks viewers to consider the elusiveness of dreams and memory in his first solo exhibition at a Bay Area museum. The show includes sculptures from the last seven years made from repurposed ceramic molds for decorative household objects. Thru Oct 30.

“WENDY RED STAR”

Acclaimed emerging artist Wendy Red Star’s work has exhibited nationwide, including in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Her insightful and biting work makes viewers consider the appropriation and misappropriation of cultural images and icons, particularly Native American ones. Sep 16-Oct 30.

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“JAMES TURRELL”

The inaugural exhibit of Pace’s Palo Alto gallery showcases works from artist James Turrell, including his “Reflective Hologram” and “Wide Glass Series.” These works showcase Turrell’s interest in light and indeterminate space to extend and enhance perception. Thru Aug 28.

“LOUISE NEVELSON”

Pace has represented the late sculptor Louise Nevelson for more than 50 years and will mount an exhibition of her work. Nevelson is known for black wood landscape sculptures, which prominent museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art added to their collections in the mid-1950s. Sep 29-Nov 27.

PACE ART + TECHNOLOGY Menlo Park

“TEAMLAB: LIVING DIGITAL SPACE AND FUTURE PARKS”

An extension of the Pace Gallery in Palo Alto, this space dedicated to the intersection of art and technology will host teamLab, a lauded Japanese art collective. The large-scale installation of 20 digital works encourages viewers of all ages to immerse themselves in the “digital playground.” Thru Dec 18.

ANDERSON COLLECTION Stanford University

“NICK CAVE”

Eight of Cave’s famous full-body sculpture “Soundsuits” will be on display at the Anderson Collection. Soundsuits are both pieces of art and performative costumes that conceal a wearer’s age, gender and race. They are made from collected and repurposed objects, including buttons, beaded baskets, doilies and sequined fabric. They will be shown along with three videos by the interdisciplinary artist and a documentary on Cave, titled “Here.” Sep 14Aug 14, 2017.

SANTA CLARA ART AND WINE FESTIVAL Santa Clara Set in Central Park, the festival features the talents of local and regional artists with nearly 175 booths, 25 community groups serving international foods, four vintners pouring wines, micro-brewed beer and live entertainment on three stages. Sep 17, 10am6pm. Sep 18, 10am-5pm.

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TRAXAMILLION HIP-HOP PRODUCER

When he started his career about a decade ago, Traxamillion struggled to find talent in San Jose. So the budding hip-hop producer journeyed north, becoming a major player in the hyphy movement by crafting hits for E-40, Keak da Sneak and Too $hort. Since establishing himself, Trax has returned to his South Bay home with the aim of championing unknown voices. His latest project— the Tech Boom mixtape, due Aug. 26—culls the little-heard cream of San Jose’s hip-hop crop.

“All the kids who were listening to the hyphy music—they’re 24, 25 now—and they’ve got their own opinion,” he says. “And they got something to say now.”

On the album, Trax lays the foundation for 15 local emcees, four singers and two producers to showcase their individual talents. The collection includes the likes of City Shawn, Flammy Marciano, Ziggy, Molina, Jacuzzi and many more.

An avid practitioner of hyphy and trap, he seeks to blend the past and the present while folding in softer elements, like the occasional foray

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into R&B. Trax has also hidden some easter eggs outside of the official track listings for careful listeners.

“It’s kind of like a mixture of my classic sound—big 808s and very synthy—and me delving into a whole new creative production lane,” he says. “I’ve got some unconventional slaps that you wouldn't think would be from me on there. It’s a free flow of production. I feel like I’m just really flexing my muscle. I feel like it’s my best work.”

Beyond his individual goals, Trax seeks to rectify the lack of recognition San Jose artists have received within the Bay Area hip-hop community.

After years of being told he’s an “exception,” he wants to provide a platform for the broad talent pool within his city.

“Flammy Marciano, he’s a lyricist, but he’s different,” the producer says. “To me he could branch into the alternative lane. City Shawn is more of a street rapper, but he has just crazy punchlines. A-Dough, he’s really street and his stories are

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really intricate. He has a way of telling a story that’s just really intriguing. They’re all good in their own different ways. I didn’t know we had this much variety out here. San Jose is a big city.”

Music Listings HENDERSON/CUENCA/ZAK/ ESSIET QUARTET Aug 19, Café Stritch Originally from San Jose, jazz drummer Sylvia Cuenca returns to her hometown for one night at Café Stritch before a string of festival dates in Russia. Now based out of New York, Cuenca is best known for the 17 years she spent as Clark Terry’s drummer. In San Jose, she’ll be joined by trumpet and flugelhorn player Eddie Henderson, who clearly follows in Terry’s footsteps, along with pianist Peter Zak and bassist Essiet Okon Essiet. With this group of players the music is likely to please

fans of the genre, without being too outthere for newcomers.

INVERTS, PVBLIC BATH, ANYBODY BUT THE COPS, UND @ SJ SALON Sep 1, SJ Salon SJ Salon on 10th Street is one of the newest places holding shows in San Jose, and they’re off to a strong start. Oakland’s Inverts are a sludgy queercore band that channel noisepunks Flipper as much as they do current trans and queer groups like G.L.O.S.S. or PWR BTTM. With them, Pvblic Bath bring the kind

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CUKUI MUSIC FESTIVAL @ GREAT AMERICA Sep 3, Great America Pacific and Caribbean culture will be on full display at the Cukui Music Festival, with a number of influential artists in reggae, island music, hip-hop, and Latinx-rock performing.

Acts include Ozomatli, J Boog, Iamsu!, Morgan Heritage, Tribal Seeds, and San Jose rappers Drew Deezy and Rey Res. DJ sets include Cutso and Goldenchyld from the Bangerz. Tickets to the concert also include access to the park for the day.

GOVERNMENT FLU, DEAD PRESSURE, ANINOKO, AND TIME TO KILL Sep 9, SJ Salon On tour from Poland, Government Flu are likely to blow the roof off the SJ Salon at this show.

The band is named after a Dead Kennedys song, but their music most resembles other hardcore pioneers like Minor Threat, and Poison Idea. With the recent critical success of A24’s punk-thriller Green Room, and a whole slew of new voices taking on the genre mantle, hardcore seems to be going through a bit of a second golden age at the moment, and San Jose is making its case as an important stop for international bands in the genre.

DOLLY PARTON Sep 24, Shoreline Amphitheatre Now 70 years old, Dolly Parton has accomplished just about everything a musician could hope for in life. She’s been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and been nominated for almost 50 Grammys.

She comes to Mountain View in support of her 43rd studio album, Pure & Simple. The tour is supposed to be a minimalist affair, free of any big production tricks, giving the audience a chance to see one of America’s most beloved songwriters with few distractions.

DRAKE & FUTURE Sep 24-25, SAP Center Just like Dr. Dre in the ’90s and Yeezy in the mid-’00s, it would be hard to overstate the influence these two emcees have had on popular hip-hop in recent years. Consider Drake’s championing of The Weeknd—along with his confessional lyrical style and sluggish, lean-soaked production values—or Future’s viral flow, which has been mimicked by everyone from Desiigner to G-Eazy, and it’s plain to see that these two have done a great deal to shape the sounds coming from your favorite rap radio station.

STEVE GUNN Sep 27, Don Quixote’s Music Hall Fresh off one of the highest reviewed albums of the year, the Matador-released Eyes on the Lines, contemplative folk rocker Steve Gunn stops by Don Quixote’s Music Hall in Felton for what is likely to be an intimate show by a very promising young artist. Gunn’s guitar playing is airy and intricate; his voice honest and unaffected. The end result is a mellow psychedelia somewhere between Stephen Malkmus’ work with the Jicks and San Francisco’s Sun Kil Moon.

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THE COMPLETE PHILIP GLASS ETUDES Sep 29, Bing Concert Hall The celebrated composer comes to Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall to perform his complete set of 20 etudes. Joining Glass are four pianists widely celebrated in their own right: Anton Batagov, Aaron Diehl, Jenny Lin and Sarah Cahill (who many in the area know from KPFA).

Written over a two-decade span, the etudes were only recently completed, meaning that this concert is a unique chance to see Glass perform relatively new material, as well as see how the concept evolved over his career.

THE SKATALITES Oct 1, The Ritz Make no mistake: The Skatalites are a band absolutely at the foundation of Jamaican music as we know it. If you like Bob Marley, you have The Skatalites to thank. The drum beat used in most of Marley’s most enduring songs—including “Get Up, Stand Up,” “No Woman, No Cry” and “I Shot the Sheriff”—was invented by Skatalites drummer Lloyd Knibb.

Although Knibb passed in 2011, the band has continued touring. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these pioneers of ska, rocksteady and reggae in the flesh.

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MAXWELL BORKENHAGEN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF CAFÉ STRITCH

Over the course of the past few years, San Jose’s SoFA District has undergone a transformation.

The addition of The Ritz, The Continental and the SoFA Market; Motif ’s transformation into Aura; Single Barrel’s rebranding as Haberdasher; and the expanding presence of Back Bar SoFa have all made the area a much livelier place.

And while everyone involved deserves credit, it’s clear that Café Stritch, and its young artistic director, Maxwell Borkenhagen, led the vanguard of the SoFA District’s revival—or, reupholstering (hat tip Fil Maresca).

South Bay nightlife veteran and

Continental co-founder Sam Ramirez says Café Stritch played an important and pioneering role in the SoFA District’s resurgence.

“There’s no question,” he says. “They did have some influence on my decision to come back here (and open The Continental).”

A musician himself, Borkenhagen plays in a local psych rock outfit called The Gentle Cycle, and in the early days of Café Stritch, he booked more indie and punk bands. But these days, his focus is primarily on jazz—and in making jazz cool and accessible to a younger generation of music fans. “For me, in general it’s about trying to redefine jazz for my generation,” Borkenhagen recently told Metro.

“There is this incredible world of jazz musicians in the Bay Area, and they don’t really have a place to play,” he continues, noting that he derives a great deal of satisfaction from providing working musicians—as a large proportion of jazz players

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Singer—is a pretty incredible sight to behold.

Elements of her previous projects can be heard in her latest work, but this time around the sound she’s hitting upon might best be described as a kind of riot grrrl krautrock, which uses repetitive hooks to build tension as Hanna goes wild over the whole thing.

DANNY BROWN Oct 12, The Catalyst

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Danny Brown is one of the best alternative rappers in the game right now. The Detroit emcee’s delirious second album, XXX, is one of the most consistently surprising pieces of music to come out of any genre in the last decade. After a somewhat restrained follow-up (2013’s Old), the Adderall Admiral comes to Santa Cruz in support of his highly anticipated new record, Atrocity Exhibition.

Brown is the real deal, with a voice and delivery like no one else on the scene. And based on Atrocity Exhibition’s relentless first single, it sounds like he’s going to be hitting the Catalyst at the top of his game.

are—with a venue where they won’t be low-balled, told to turn down or asked to dial back the improvisation.

Under Borkenhagen’s watch, Stritch has become a go-to hangout for locals of all stripes—drawing in patrons with affordable, quality drinks, a simple, tasty menu and, of course, great ambiance.

Terrie Odabi, an Oakland jazz musician who regularly performs at the café, sings Stritch’s praises for the way the venue presents itself to the public. She says she’d rather play Stritch than the stuffier, more expensive Yoshi’s in Jack London Square. “It’s not pretentious in the least bit, and the food is amazing,” she says of Stritch. “These days, if I mention Café Stritch, people know about it. They’ve definitely created a name and a buzz.”

It’s the kind of ringing endorsement any local establishment would covet, but when it comes to a jazz club, “buzz” is as good as bullion.

THE SONICS Oct 16, The Ritz There’s really no way to overstate the importance of The Sonics. You can draw a straight line from just about any rock artist in the last 56 years right to their doorstep. They basically wrote the blueprint for punk and garage rock. Whether you’re into rock, punk or garage, this is a chance to see where a lot of it began.

BRAND NEW, FRONT BOTTOMS, MODERN BASEBALL Oct 31, San Jose Event Center Long Island emo band Brand New has only recently begun to release new material (their first since 2009), but people’s excitement about them has not waned in the intervening years. Coming off a recent co-headlining tour with Modest Mouse, the band brings two of the biggest emo bands to have emerged from the DIY scene in recent years: The Front

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October 29th & 30th - 3 Performances San Jose Center for the Performing Arts The Harry Potter™ film series is one of those once-in-a-lifetime cultural phenomena that continues to delight millions of fans around the world. This concert will feature Symphony Silicon Valley and SSV Chorale performing every note from HArry POtter And tHe SOrCerer’S StOne™. Audiences will be able to relive the magic of the film in high-definition on a giant screen while hearing the orchestra perform John Williams’ unforgettable score.

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BACK PAIN? STILL TRUCKIN’ Country music legend Dolly Parton plays Shoreline Amphitheatre this fall.

Bottoms, and Modern Baseball, each of whom could easily pack a large room in San Jose on their own. If you’re not one for the capitalistpagan mashup ritual of dressing up as Spongebob and begging for candy, this is the show for you on Halloween.

SEPTEMBER SUBROSA Aug 28 Oort Cloud w/ Purple Bong River

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FERNANDO JULIAN PEREZ FIESCO SONIDO CLASH

The East Side of San Jose boasts a rich history. Most notably, it’s where Cesar Chavez launched the grape boycott that drastically improved conditions for farmworkers. But this immigrant-heavy enclave has long struggled to push Latino art and music to the forefront of the city’s cultural scene. Fernando Julian Perez Fiesco (pictured bottom left) hopes entertainment collective Sonido Clash will fill that void by showcasing the variety of music the area’s artists have to offer.

“People will stereotype Latin music, saying that it's just trumpets and mariachis,” he says. “But we take the best of both worlds. We use the contemporary sound: electronic, reggae, hip-hop, rock. And we mix it up with our parent's music

and make new fusions of that music.”

On Sept. 4, at the School of Arts and Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza, they’ll be hosting their Music and Mezcal Fest, bringing 11 acts and a bevy of vendors to the public square. They hope the party serves to bring together young and old for the continuation of a cultural tradition.

“You have to respect the traditional stuff,” he says. “We were brought up in that. At the end of the night, the last song that plays isn’t the new hit that just came out in 2016. It’s an oldie. And everybody comes to the stage. And now you’re not at the club. You’re at a family party. You’re at a quinceañera.”

Past performers, like DJ Cutso and DJ Easy Uno, use the traditional

Latin music stylings as samples for their own mixes, repackaging the music and memories of their youth in a modern context. And as these shows continue, Fiesco hopes to partner with the East Side’s council members, business leaders, and high schools to broaden reach.

“We’ve actually had a struggle getting into the East Side because there’s limited resources,” Fiesco says. “We want to not just be at 300 [people] capacity stages. We would love to fill up areas like the fairgrounds. There’s a whole load of art and music to be discovered out here. And we hope to be the platform for those artists to get the audience.”

And though he’s married, Fiesco promises another crucial difference between the typical club scene and Sonido Clash: “Women outnumber men at our parties 7 to 1.”

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BRENDAN RAWSON SAN JOSE JAZZ

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San Jose native Brendan Rawson has broadened the horizons for jazz in the city since he took the helm of San Jose Jazz in 2013. This expanded sense of what belongs on a jazz stage comes from his appreciation of other genres, including indie and R&B, as well as his view that change is part of jazz’s DNA. “Improv and being able to adapt is an essential part of jazz,” Rawson told Metro recently.

He’s used that sensibility to guide the organization’s Summer Fest and Winter Fest, where he’s made it Brendan Rawson a priority to bring younger, cutting-edge acts— including Ali Shaheed Muhammad, formerly of A Tribe Called Quest; saxophonist Kamasi Washington, who appeared on hip-hop visionary Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 smash record, To Pimp a Butterfly; and Dakhabrakha, a Ukrainian ensemble that plays what it calls “ethnic chaos” music.

Highlighting a wide range of genres, as well as creativity and experimentation, is something Rawson sees reflected in other sectors of his native Bay Area, such as the tinkering, building “maker” culture. Under Rawson’s direction, San Jose Jazz reflects that appreciation for things new and different with its Jazz Beyond program, which tries to attract a more diverse audience by highlighting talented younger musicians with connections to pop music, such as Washington.

“We offer so many different genres,” he said. “That variety, I don’t think you get to see that very often.”

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OCT. 27 / WE GONʼ BE ALRIGHT: Jeff Chang

A Conversation on Resegregation + the Movement for Racial Justice Now Moderated by Queena Kim (KQED) with guest panelists Teresa Alvarado (SPUR), Jose Antonio Vargas (Define American), and Linda Vallejo (Visual Artist, The Brown Dot Project).

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NOV. 11 - 13 / SANDRA ANTONGIORGI: IN CONCERT

Chicago-based Latin Neo Soul singer Sandra Antongiorgi brings her raw, powerful, high-energy music performance to San Jose for three ticketed events.

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SEPT. 2 - NOV. 13 / PATTERN RECOGNITION

Artists Aaron De La Cruz, Adrian Esparza and Linda Vallejo construct, unravel and mark to reencounter the familiar.

DEC. 2, 2016 - MAR. 12, 2017 / 6TH CHICANA/O BIENNIAL

An exhibition and public forum that presents the continuously emergent energy within contemporary Chicana/o art.

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ONGOING / SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS AT MACLA

The South First Fridays art walk in downtown San José is a self-guided evening tour through galleries, museums, and independent creative businesses. At MACLA you can browse our latest exhibition and dance with us. Our performers represent the best of the Latino diaspora in the Bay Area.

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Dalia Rawson is totally adamant on one point: Ballet is far more than “girls in pink tutus spinning around in circles.” She chafes at the classification of the rigorous dancing technique as “high art,” as if it is better than other forms and accessible only to the most elite connoisseurs. Rawson (unrelated to San Jose Jazz’s Brendan Rawson) leads The New Ballet School, endeavoring to introduce her lifelong passion to locals and teach young performers.

“We don't want to be a school where rich, white kids learn how to dance,” she says. “It's not what we are. We have a robust outreach program. We want to touch everyone in the San Jose public school district. We offer over $100,000 a year in scholarship training to students with the interest and the aptitude to study ballet.”

A homegrown talent, Dalia has performed for years in the area.

She founded her school to fill the void left by the shuttering of Silicon Valley Ballet a few months ago and the San Jose Repertory in 2014.

Teaching students from 18 months to 22 years old, the school has already become an international hub, taking students from China and Ecuador for their summer intensive program and sending graduates to Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell.

“Students who go through this type of rigorous training really develop skills for focus and creative thinking that lead them to be successful in all types of fields—not just ballet or the arts,” Rawson says. “It gives young people an opportunity to focus on a goal throughout their young lives.

And we think that helps grow an exceptional human being.”

Rawson has led performances at public schools, the Tech Museum and at Revival, an outdoor ballet and classical music showcase hosted

by The Commons in St. James Park. Right now, she’s working on a production of The Nutcracker that will fold in stories from local history and is slated to be staged at the Hammer Theatre, former home of The Rep. Starting in September, she will open rehearsals on Fridays from 1-2:30pm, so lunch-breaking workers can see dancers in the process of practicing and putting together a ballet. “I think that everyone in this area feels a deep affinity for creation, imagination and innovation—and ballet is a part of that,” she says.

“Seeing the virtuosity and the athleticism of the work up close, it does change people’s perspectives.”

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was: “If there’s nothing to do, you might as well do something yourself.”

Clark decided he would do something himself. Not long after, he began organizing local parties and ultimately he hit upon The Commons, an event series which aims to “recontextualize classical culture with the goal of building new audiences.”

Clark believes that a reason many of the bigger high arts organizations in Silicon Valley are suffering is that their model is outdated.

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One night, not long after Drew Clark moved to San Jose from Montreal, a young woman handed him a particularly incendiary flyer while he was walking around downtown with some friends.

The leaflet, much like those dropped by the Green Berets over Vietnam and the CIA over Talibancontrolled territories in Afghanistan, was meant to spur counterinsurgent action.

But instead of calling upon South Bay denizens to take up arms or feed information to intelligence officials, these handbills challenged the locals to go to shows.

“San Jose is lame because you are lame,” Clark says, recalling the message on the flyer, which also had a calendar of upcoming musical performances, art galleries and other community events.

The point, he says, was to show that there was plenty going on in San Jose—the only thing missing was the audience. Or, alternatively, the message

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houses is nice, but it just isn’t getting younger audiences in the door. At the same time, younger, classically trained musicians are having a hard time making a living in a shrinking marketplace.

The Commons addresses both of these problems by hiring up-andcoming, classically trained musicians and performers, as well as staging events that appeal to younger audiences.

So far, under The Commons name, Clark has hosted a “black metal opera”; a “Sadie Hawkins” dance, complete with swing dancing lessons and a full big band; and Revival, a ballet performance showcase held outdoors at St. James Park, featuring dancers from Dalia Rawson’s New Ballet School.

The Commons also recently teamed with the BAMN SQUAD to produce a show called Trap Ballet. Through live ballet set to trap beats, it tells the story of a young ingénue who is sucked into a life of crime and drugs.

Ultimately Clark says he is pursuing The Commons because he feels that Silicon Valley deserves, and is capable of supporting, a stronger arts scene—just so long as the nonlame folks continue to stick around and create.

“We could go to L.A. and we could go to Oakland and San Francisco,” he says of the people the works with.

“But this is the place that needs us.”

When Larry Hancock took over as general director of Opera San Jose, the company was in bad financial shape.

The organization was seeing houses filled at only 50 percent capacity, and from 2009 until the end of the 2013-14 season, he says, the opera was running in the red and regularly dipping into its cash reserves.

The state of Opera San Jose’s finances was not all that surprising. As Hancock, an industry veteran, observes: “We’ve lost 40 opera companies nationwide over the past 10 or 12 years.” The real surprise is what came next.

Under Hancock’s leadership San Jose Opera may just be turning around.

The organization didn’t touch its cash reserve last season and ticket sales are higher than they’ve been since 2010.

Unwilling to call a single year’s improvement a trend, Hancock says he isn’t guaranteeing that OSJ will continue to stay in the black, but he is doing his best to make keep patrons interested in the opera.

That means seeking out the new and cutting edge, as well as bringing in Broadway musicals—something OSJ has never done, but which they will try this year.

In the 2016-17 season Opera San Jose will stage Silent Night—an opera about the so-called “Christmas Truce,” a series of impromptu and unofficial ceasefires organized by troops along World War I’s Western Front on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day of 1914. This coming year, OSJ will also present a production of South Pacific, the classic Rogers and Hammerstein musical about racial prejudice.

Bringing in the new and acclaimed works of opera is a point of pride for Hancock, who says San Jose is as deserving as any other major city of top-notch opera. As for the introduction of Broadway musicals, he is hopeful it will work to bring in larger audiences and also beef up the resumes of his singers, who are working in a shrinking marketplace and who could benefit from being able to branch out into the world of touring Broadway shows.

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“THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA”

Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical is now on tour across North America after soldout United Kingdom performances. With a cast and orchestra of 52, this is the largest “Phantom” production on tour. Sep 15-Oct 2.

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SEPT 17 10am-6pm SUNDAY

“THE SOUND OF MUSIC”

Directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien, the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical comes to the San Jose Center for Performing Arts. Songs like “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” and “Edelweiss” will all be performed. Nov 8-13.

SEPT 18 10am-5pm

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“ASSASSINS”

Hear the stories of the infamous assassins who tried and succeeded to kill the president.

The music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim blend with a panoramic story of our nation’s culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it. Sep 1-25.

“CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION”

The theater games soon create real-life drama when a group of different people sign up for Marty’s “Adult Creative Drama” class. This comedy landed on Top Ten lists of The New York Times and The New Yorker for 2010.

Nov 17-Dec 11.

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Adapted from the beloved fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen into one of Disney’s most popular animated films, the story of a young mermaid who yearns to walk and play with humans takes over the stage at the Lucie Stern Theater. The musical includes the award-winning score by Alan Menken with songs including “Part of Your World,” “Under the Sea,” and “Kiss the Girl.” Sep 16-Oct 2.

“THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK”

Based on Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, this new impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence. Nov 5-20.

“THE GUYS”

The real-life relationship between a New York City fire chief and a journalist who helps him prepare eulogies for men his firehouse lost on 9/11 is chronicled in “The Guys.” The play examines how creating and telling the story of grief helps ease the pain but also how those who report devastating news often feel powerless in the face of those events.

Aug 26-Sep 18.

“VEILS”

Two Muslim women pursue different things: one, an African American born in the U.S. who seeks to be less of an outsider by taking her college studies to Egypt, the other an Egyptian-born woman who craves the freedom and adventure she associates with Americans. Aug 26-Sep 18.

“MAJOR BARBARA”

George Bernard Shaw’s witty and thoughtprovoking look at human nature, morality, religion and social engineering asks some large questions directly relevant to our time, such as: which is a greater danger, the decline of morality and virtue or rampant poverty, sickness and deprivation? Oct 28-Nov 20.

“GEEKS VS. ZOMBIES”

Packed with action, gore and raunchy humor, this break from standard Christmas fare tells the story of four geeks who survive the zombie apocalypse by means of their video game skills and encyclopedic knowledge of zombie movies. Dec 1-18.

THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY Mountain View

“THE LIFE OF THE PARTY”

A musical revue in celebration of songs by renowned Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa that have appeared in Broadway hits like “The Addams Family,” “Big Fish” and “The Wild Party.” Aug 24-Sep 18.

“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR”

Family feuds and rustic fences have kept two eccentric, lovelorn neighbors apart since childhood, but in this passionate, compassionate Broadway hit it’s never too late to take a chance on love. Oct. 5-30.

“DADDY LONG LEGS”

Set in suffragette-era New England, a spirited orphan girl is sent to a prestigious college by

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wild frontier to his controversial reign in the White House. With the country divided into the rich and poor, Jackson begins his steady climb from military strategist to populist rabble-rouser to president of the United States. Nov 5-20.

WEST BAY OPERA Palo Alto

“LE NOZZE DI FIGARO”

Figaro and Susanna are engaged to be married but when Count Almaviva attempts to delay their marriage by using his “feudal right” on Susanna, Figaro along with the Countess and Susanna conspire to teach the skirtchasing Count a lesson. Oct 14-23.

WEST VALLEY LIGHT OPERA Los Gatos

“IN THE HEIGHTS”

Set in modern day New York, a vibrant community demonstrates the traditions it protects and the ones it leaves behind.

Nov-Dec.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY TAPS Stanford University a mysterious benefactor. Her heartwarming journey to independence, education and romance is chronicled in a wealth of letters and songs. Nov 30-Dec 31.

THE TABARD THEATER COMPANY San Jose

“MEMPHIS”

The Tony Award winner musical follows the story of a white 1950s DJ who wants to change the world and an up-and-coming black singer ready for her big break. Music and lyrics are by Bon Jovi’s David Bryan. Sep 23-Oct 16.

“EDITH STEIN”

German Jewish intellectual Edith Stein converted to Roman Catholicism after WWI, and after a deepening of her faith she decided to join a Cloistered Carmelite Convent in 1933. In 1942, she died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her journey is told in flashback scenes that bring to life the courageous choices she made. Oct 28-Nov 20.

“A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS MASHUP”

A modern re-telling of “A Christmas Carol” told through the eyes, imagination and references of 21st century youth. Dec 2-Dec 16.

CITY LIGHTS THEATER COMPANY San Jose

“DEMOCRATICALLY SPEAKING”

“OTHER DESERT CITIES”

The Wyeth’s family holiday reunion takes a turn for the worst when daughter Brooke announces she is publishing a memoir that brings up a tragic event from the family’s past. Sep 22-Oct 23.

BRAND NEW The New School Ballet, founded by Dalia Rawson, is off to a strong start.

“CALENDAR GIRLS”

To raise money for a new couch in a local hospital waiting room, two close friends gather a group of women to pose for a nude calendar featuring themselves doing ordinary chores.

Based on a true story and the hit 2003 film.

Nov 17-Dec 18.

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE Mountain View

ODDBALL COMEDY & CURIOSITY FESTIVAL

Funny or Die brings some of today’s biggest names in comedy to the Bay Area. Headlining this year is comedian and actor Dane Cook, whose 2006 comedy album Retaliation went platinum. He also co-starred alongside Jessica Simpson in the film Employee of the Month. Sebastian Maniscalco was one of four comedians featured in Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights—Hollywood To The Heartland. Also appearing this year is Nick Swardson, known for his recurring role as Terry Bernadino in the comedy series Reno 911! Sep 30.

STAGE 1 THEATER COMMUNITY THEATER Newark

“THE ADDAMS FAMILY”

The creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky Addams family is about to change when Wednesday Addams falls in love with a “normal” young man. Oct 1-16.

SUNNYVALE THEATER Sunnyvale

“SPRING AWAKENING”

The journey from adolescence to adulthood is explored with the help of a pop-rock score.

“Spring Awakening” is a powerful celebration of youth, rebellion and teenage self-discovery.

Sep 24-Oct 16.

“BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON”

The life of America’s seventh president is followed from his early days as a child on the

The voices of prominent thinkers and leaders on the meaning of democracy will come to life in this staged reading. Characters from the ancient philosophers Aeschylus and Plato, to Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau, to American statesmen Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, to modern leaders Nelson Mandela and Noam Chomsky— all will meditate on the meaning of “people power”—the idea at the root of democracy.

Oct 20-22, 8pm.

“SPRING AWAKENING, THE MUSICAL”

This pop-rock musical based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play tracks a group of teens grappling with sexuality, morality and adulthood. Winner of eight Tony Awards, the coming-of-age musical’s book and lyrics were written by Steven Sater and the music by Duncan Sheik. Oct 27-29, Nov 3-5, 8pm; Oct 30, 2pm.

SOUTH BAY MUSICAL THEATER Saratoga

“CITY OF ANGELS”

A creative combination of film noir detective story and a writer’s all-too-real battle for his integrity, both set to Cy Coleman’s jazzy score. Winner of three Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score. Sep 17, 23, 24, 30, Oct 1, 6-7, 8pm; Sep 18, 25, Oct 2, 2:30pm.

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HIT MEN Los Altos Stage Company performs the Stephen Sondheim musical ‘Assassins’ this fall.

“ALWAYS…PATSY CLINE”

Based on a true story about Cline’s relationship with a devotee from Houston named Louise Seger includes dozens of Patsy’s unforgettable hits such as “Crazy,” “I Fall to Pieces,” “Sweet Dreams,” and “Walking After Midnight.” Sep 25, 7:30pm; Oct 1, 2:30pm.

CHILDREN’S MUSICAL THEATER San Jose

“A CHRISTMAS CAROL”

The classic Charles Dickens tale of illtempered Ebenezer Scrooge and his dramatic transformation after the visitation of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future are recreated on stage just in time for the holidays. Nov 11-20.

“HAIRSPRAY”

When teenager Tracy Turnblad’s dream of dancing on The Corny Collins Show comes true, she becomes an instant celebrity and launches a campaign to integrate the show. Based on the 1988 John Waters film, “Hairspray” won eight Tony Awards including one for Best Musical in 2003. Dec 2-11.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

into an interactive experience when the We Players take the audience throughout Montalvo’s landscape as the tragic love story unfolds. Oct 6-7,13, 5pm; Oct 9,16, noon & 5pm.

SJDANCECO San Jose

“GODDESSES AND…”

A choreographic collaboration between sjDANCEco artistic director Maria Basile, longtime Ballet San Jose principal dancer Karen Gabay and artistic associate Rasika Kumar of Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose. Each choreographer creates movement motifs and thematic material that is shared with the other choreographers to create a fusion of three techniques while maintaining the integrity of each dance form.

Oct 14-15, 8pm.

SAN JOSE MUSICAL THEATER San Jose

“S’WONDERFUL”

The fundraising concert and gala celebrates the works of American composer and pianist George Gershwin with performances by some of the most talented entertainers in the Bay Area, as well as auctions and raffles. Sep 11, 7pm.

Saratoga

“ROMEO AND JULIET”

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DINKELSPIEL AUDITORIUM Stanford University

“DELINEATING BRAHMS: THE SAINT MICHAEL TRIO; ROBIN SHARP, VIOLIN; AND JULIE KIM, VIOLIN”

Known for their accessible, funny and informative performances, Silicon Valley’s Saint Michael Trio will bring to life the work of Brahms, a talented and tormented composer.

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“STATE OF DARKNESS”; “MALI”

Choreographer Molissa Fenley will present two dance pieces: “State of Darkness,” set to Igor Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps, which was choreographed by Fenley and will be performed by Ph.D. candidate Rebecca Chaleff; and “Mali,” choreographed by Fenley, who will also perform it, accompanied by original music from Laetitia Sonami. Oct 14-15, 8 pm.

BING CONCERT HALL Stanford University

FLINT CENTER Cupertino

“AUTUMN RAIN LIVE 2016 WITH YIRUMA”

Korean classical pianist Yiruma, whose pieces have more than one billion views online, will finish his 2015 World Tour at DeAnza College’s Flint Center. His pieces “River Flows in You,” “Kiss the Rain,” and “Maybe” infuse melodious Korean compositions with emotion. Sep 23, 8pm.

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“THE BRIDGE AND BRITTEN CELLO AND PIANO SONATAS PROJECT: PART TWO”

Longer summer hours means you have more time to enjoy your favorite exhibits and activities at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Get adventurous with Underwater Explorers Daily though September 7 In this unique program, we introduce kids to the underwater world through surface scuba diving. Guided by Aquarium dive staff in our Great Tide Pool, they’ll meet amazing animals while getting a fish’s-eye view of the wonders of the bay. No experience is necessary, only a sense of adventure! Ages 8-13.

Summer Nights Seashore Sleepovers 6 p.m. - 8:30 a.m. August 6, August 20 Enjoy the Aquarium after hours and sleep next to your favorite exhibit! With fun activities throughout the evening, you can explore the Aquarium on your own without the daytime crowds. End the evening with a light bedtime snack and start the next day with a continental breakfast in the Cafe. Ages 5 and up.

SAN JOSE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA San Jose

“CONCERTO NIGHT I”

Founded in 1991, the San Jose Chamber Orchestra formed out of the desire of local musicians for an opportunity to play chamber orchestra repertoire and explore music written by living composers. Oct 9, 7pm.

“TREATS AND TRICKS”

Father and son clarinetists Jon and Alec Manasse perform with the SJCO for a memorable All Hallows’ Eve. Oct 30, 7pm.

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A multi-genre event, the concert will begin with a selection of W.H. Auden poems read by Stanford professor Nicholas Jenkins. Following the readings, cellist Christopher Costanza and pianist Pedja Muzijevic will perform Benjamin Britten’s “Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 65.”

Oct 25, 7:30pm.

“THE DANISH STRING QUARTET”

These childhood friends grew into classical music celebrities by playing with unbridled energy and following one rule: Playing only music they love. That covers a wide range, from Janáček to Beethoven and Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin. Oct 13, 7:30pm.

“PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA”

Based in San Francisco, the renowned orchestra will open a series of three performances at Bing with a program of Beethoven classics. Harvard professor of musicology and fortepianist Robert Levin will make an appearance, playing “Concerto for Fortepiano No. 3” with the Orchestra.

Oct 19, 7:30pm.

“ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET”

Continuing their multi-year residency at Stanford, the quartet will give three Stanford Live concerts and two free events this year.

They will focus in particular on the works of acclaimed American composer John Adams, in honor of his 70th birthday. Oct 30, 2:30 pm.

OPERA SAN JOSE San Jose

“LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR”

The feud between the Ashtons and the Ravenswoods is further complicated when Lucia Ashton and Edgardo Ravenswood maintain a secret relationship. Dire consequences unfold as Lucia’s brother Enrico forces her into an arranged marriage. Oct 10, 15, 23, 8pm; Oct 11,18, 25, 3pm.

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“ICONS OF SOUND: HAGIA SOPHIA REIMAGINED”

Esteemed choir Cappella Romana teams up with Stanford’s Center for Computer Research

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110 South Market St. CLASSICAL THINKER Opera San Jose’s new general director, Larry Hancock, is making some bold changes. in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and the university’s Art and Art History department to bring an immersive, multi-sensory musical experience to listeners. CCRMA will “digitally imprint” the acoustics of the Hagia Sophia on Cappella Romana’s Byzantine chants, while faculty experts in art, music and technology will project images for the audience and guide them through the concert. Nov 4, 7:30pm.

“STANFORD SYMPHONIC CHORUS WITH PENINSULA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA” The Stanford Symphonic Chorus will collaborate with the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra to bring two nights of classical music to listeners. Nov 18, 7:30pm; Nov 20, 2:30pm.

OPERA SAN JOSE San Jose

“THE BARBER OF SEVILLE”

Determined to win the heart of the beautiful Rosina with charm and wit, rather than money, Count Almaviva enlists the help of Figaro, the barber of Seville, to steal her away from her guardian, Dr. Bartolo. Nov 12, 17 and 22, 8pm; Nov 13, 20 and 27, 3pm.

SAN JOSE SYMPHONIC CHOIR San Jose

“MAGNIFICAT”

The church hymn “Magnificat” is one the most recited canticles during Christian church services and it became the first major liturgical composition on a Latin text by Johann Sebastian Bach. Nov 26.

“DETTINGEN TE DEUM”

In June 1743, the British and its allies obtained victory at the Battle of Dettingen over the French. George Frideric Handel was commissioned to compose a Te Deum, or Christian hymn of praise, for the occasion and the “Dettingen Te Deum” was born. Nov 26.

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“CONRAD TAO”

Chinese-American pianist Tao will open the Peninsula Symphony’s season playing Robert Schumann’s “Piano Concerto in a minor, op.

54,” as part of a program that includes Carolyn Bremer’s “Early Light” and Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations, op. 36.” Nov 5, 8pm.

DECEMBER

SAN JOSE SYMPHONIC CHOIR San Jose

“YOU-SING-IT MESSIAH”

An annual event, this concert allows the audience to participate in singing the solos and choruses of Handel’s “Messiah” with the San Jose Baroque Orchestra. Carols in the Lobby by Vivace Youth Chorus. Dec 12, 7:30pm.

“SEASON OF HOPE”

A multicultural musical event done in collaboration with various arts organizations and the San Jose Cathedral Foundation’s Office of Social Ministry. Dec 19.

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“STAND-UP POET” HOST OF THE KITCHEN SESSIONS, THE BURNING TALE AT STUDIO BONGIORNO AND GO GO GONG SHOW AT CAFE STRITCH

“Mighty” Mike McGee is a Johnny Appleseed of sorts. Instead of planting apple trees, he travels the country starting Kitchen Sessions—potluck art shows in which local artists gather

comedy” in the South Bay. McGee also hosts two monthly shows at Cafe Stritch and Studio Bongiorno. But unlike other venues, where performers stand in front of strangers with high expectations, Kitchen Sessions invites attendees through word of mouth. The loose web of social ties between the artists breeds a highly attentive performance space.

“At most shows, you're not sure if everyone is listening,” he says. “But there's no question, at a Kitchen Session, every single person in the room is listening to every word you say. And people are straining their necks to get closer to hear you better.

It's just your voice in a still room.”

And that attentiveness is rewarded as McGee pushes for debuts of material that’s in its final stages of completion.

The sessions provide a low-stress laboratory for the area’s talent to experiment creatively before bringing their work to the general public.

“I really push for new shit,” he says.

“And I want new poems. I want new songs. I want new stories. People are being very vulnerable and the whole room knows it. It's almost like AA for artists. It's very welcoming and emotionally purging. And there's hella food.”

together in a house and perform for each other. After stopping in Western Massachusetts, Portland and Vancouver, McGee returned to his hometown and started the quarterly meetups to incubate a welcoming artistic environment.

“There's a difference between a public venue and someone's private sanctuary,” he says. “You can make yourself comfortable in a way that you couldn't do in a venue.

Especially when you're invited to bring food, there's this new level of welcome.

You want to contribute in any way you can, either by singing a song or bringing a casserole.”

He says the shows usually provide a “who’s who of poetry, music and

Email Mike McGee at mikemcgee (at) gmail.com to find out about the next Kitchen Session

LESLIE PATRON

FOUNDER, CHEERS FROM THE WASTELAND ZINE

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Leslie Patron grew up in Alum Rock Park. Like many creative types, she moved to the East Coast for college, earning an MFA in creative writing.

She dug the collaborative writing culture she encountered on the East Coast, but ultimately decided to move back to the town where she

was raised. Her artist friends were not exactly enthusiastic about her choice, telling her that San Jose was a “wasteland.” But instead of getting down on the city that raised her, she found inspiration in that derision— founding a digital zine, which she calls Cheers From the Wasteland.

“It's a play on the double meaning of the word,” Patron says.

“The journal is like a greeting, like ‘Hi, we’re here. We’re doing stuff.’

And also ‘Cheers!’ Like: exclamation, excitement.

I'm interested in work that engages the idea that San Jose is a wasteland, but also that counters it.”

Leslie Patron In the two issues of the zine she’s published so far, Patron showcases poetry and other short works, alongside photographs that depict San Jose’s unique beauty. She encourages contributions from writers with backgrounds that she feels are underrepresented in traditional journals. In doing so she provides a megaphone for voices that might otherwise not be heard.

“You don't have to be an established writer to write something beautiful or worthwhile,” she says. “You don't have to have a particular level of education. And so I want to consciously work outside of those kind of structures that have a tendency to make it so that only certain kinds of people's work gets praised.”

She’s also working on a project exploring the history of St. James Park, site of the last public lynching in California. In the same vein, a running feature of her site is the “Inspiration Map,” where contributors describe the importance that certain places in San Jose play in evoking distinct memories.

“The arts are on the cusp of flourishing right now,” she says, noting that while San Jose may have a reputation of being a “wasteland,” plenty of beauty can still be found here. “The stories change how you see the place that you're rushing through everyday.”

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WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH PRATT? Denzel Washington in this fall’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ reboot: OK. Chris Pratt? Not so much.

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EFT, PITH and ripeness are what the harvest season’s films promise viewers, as the Oscar race begins in earnest. But there’s a lot of escapist runoff from the summer as well. Meanwhile, in addition to a string of new releases below, the fall film festivals are imminent: the excellent UNAFF in Palo Alto and elsewhere (Oct. 20-30) promises some 60 documentaries about the state of the world.

WAR ALL THE TIME

HACKSAW RIDGE (Nov. 4) For once the “incredible true story” part isn’t wrong. In 2004, Cinequest ran The Conscientious Objector, a modestly budgeted documentary about the pacifist Private Desmond Doss.

While he refused to carry a weapon in World War II, Doss (here played

by Andrew Garfield) proved his rare heroism on the battlefield. What

a good Seventh Day Adventist like Mr. Doss would think about Teresa Palmer’s nightgown scene in the previews can be guessed. Directed by Mel Gibson (described in the trailer as “the director of Braveheart”). BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK (Nov. 11) Joe Alwyn in Ang Lee’s adaptation of Ben Fountain’s novel about a returning Iraq war vet asked to take the stage at a Dallas Cowboys game. TANK 432 (November) Nick Gillespie’s horror film is set in a sort of anywar/everywar background, as a group of mercenaries hide for cover in a haunted bulldog tank. ARRIVAL (Nov. 11) Colossal alien craft arrive, and the military sends interpreter (Amy Adams) to attempts to speak the tentacled beings’ language. It’s not an easy task, and the brass starts to think good thoughts about using weapons.

Based on Ted Chiang’s celebrated sci-fi short, Story of Your Life.

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SNOWDEN (Sep. 16) Oliver Stone directs this biopic with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the whistleblower who showed government data collection was far vaster than it

seemed. The excellent Melissa Leo plays Laura Poitras, the journalist Snowden contacted (see Citizenfour before you see this.) DEEPWATER HORIZON (Sep. 30) Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell headline Peter Berg’s film about the oil platform disaster. SULLY (Sep. 9) Clint Eastwood as the director, Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, the East Bay commercial pilot who made an emergency water landing on the Hudson River after takeoff.

A natural movie—what could go wrong? (Perhaps the decision to make it all about the government and the media getting into Sully’s grill). BLAIR WITCH (Sep. 16) A new expose based on the horrifying 100 percent true story. Can you prove it didn’t happen?

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DESIERTO (Oct. 14) If the film is as tight as the previews, we’ll have a minimalist thriller of a Mexican migrant (Gael Garcia Bernal) caught in the Sonoran desert. He’s pursued by a politically het-up nationalist maniac (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his kill-trained, if apolitical, dog. The

downside: it really looks like a job for Machete. KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES (Oct. 21) Suburban mom and dad (Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher) discover that the new arrivals in the neighborhood are Mr. and Mrs. Smith-style. super-spies. Director Greg Mottola has a fine track record (The Daytrippers, Adventureland, Superbad).

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (Sep. 23) A remake of the 1960s western, in turn a remake of Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai. A besieged frontier town plagued by bandits hires a team of mercenaries. The trailers are aiming for an easygoing pomo tone, which, in context of a Western, can sometimes look like moral idiocy. The downside (as always) is Chris Pratt; the upside is Denzel Washington reunited with one of his best directors, Antoine Fuqua (Training Day.) THE MECHANIC: RESURRECTION (Aug. 26) And speaking of remakes of Charles Bronson movies, the fabulous sequel to the 2011 movie with Jason Statham engineering Wile E. Coyote deathtraps for deserving victims. THE ACCOUNTANT (Oct. 14) What if Rain Man was an international assassin?

“He has more in common with Einstein or Mozart (or Ben Affleck) than us!” The autism awareness jigsaw puzzle logo is stolen for titles.

Affleck is a pocket protector-wearing bean counter hiding his identity as a rifle-wielding badass.

SUPERHEROES, AS ALWAYS

MOANA (Nov. 23) That Hawaiian Hercules, Maui himself (Duane Johnson) helps a pair of Polynesian teens find those paradisiacal islands by celestial navigation. It’s Disney’s animated holiday offering. DOCTOR STRANGE (Nov. 14) The walker between worlds! The watcher on the thin line between our green world and unimaginable interdimensional chaos! Strange, a surgeon disabled in an accident, is taught the art of astral projection by a nigh-immortal Celtic monk (Tilda Swinton). Strange’s antagonist is played by Chiwetel Ejiofor; we can hope that the Balroglike Dreaded Dormammu is lurking

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the most interesting category because the nominees have a range of styles and types and age groups. Moreover, favorites in this category don’t materialize until December, the last month of award season. There’s a new Kelly Reichardt film, Certain Women, that I’d like to see before doing any handicapping, but since the veteran actress Jeanne Berlin in Café Society was the voice of wisdom in that film, she may make it to this list.

BEST ANIMATED FILM It would be interesting to see an upset for the luminous Kubo and the Two Strings over the likely winner, Finding Dory; it would be even more unusual if the long-shot of the animated The Little Prince on Netflix won. And it may be that Zootopia—so brilliantly done but released relatively long ago in the spring—would win over all the films mentioned. Was Zootopia too much fun to have any real stature? On the other hand, its message of police/civilian strife certainly has zeitgeist in 2016.

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Teetering on a balance beam between punk rock and rockabilly, the Australian trio who broke out big in 2005 with the single “Prisoner of Society” and the ARIA-winning album, White Noise, are still going strong. Currently touring behind their latest album, 2016’s Shift, The Living End come to The Ritz with Wild Roses, a band who refuse to be defined by any genre, and San Jose natives Ghost Town Hangmen, who have strong psychobilly roots and often tour with Santa Cruz music veterans The Chop Tops. (MH)

LIFE OF THE PARTY Wed, 8pm, $35-$59 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts This potpourri musical showcasing the songcraft of Tony Awardnominated composer Andrew Lippa is making its American debut after a successful run in London. The medley of Lippa’s biggest musical hits includes songs from productions like The Addams Family, Big Fish, I am Harvey Milk and Lippa’s most acclaimed work, The Wild Party— which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, and which was recently produced by San Jose Stage Company. The show, which stars Lippa, runs through Sept.

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Thu, 8pm, $10 Art Boutiki, San Jose Featuring former members of The Parade, San Jose outfit Callsign craft fast-paced, highly melodic pop punk, packed to the brim with soaring harmonies and cutting lyrics. This is the kind of music you play at full volume while speeding down the freeway at night— cigarette in hand, singing along at the top of your lungs to every single song. These are tunes about breaking up, bottoming out and then living to see another day—if only out of spite for those who never believed you would amount to anything. Till I Fall and Spiller share the bill. (NV)

TOWER OF POWER Thu, 5:30 pm, $10 Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose Oakland-based purveyors of “urban soul music” Tower of Power have been in the game for a long time. And for nearly 50 years, their jams have remained upbeat and infectious. Known for their distinct, horn-driven sound and the pride they have in their East Bay home, they’ve been rocking crowds all over the world since 1968.

Regulars at outdoor Bay Area music festivals, TOP return to Plaza de Cesar Chavez to close out this year’s Music in the Park series.

They’ll be joined by San Jose’s very own jam band all stars, The Super Soul Bros. (DM)

ELSA NILSSON & TAMMY SCHEFFER Thu, 7 pm, Free Morocco’s Restaurant, Mountain View Talented young flautist Elsa Nilsson began her love affair with music at the age of two. Since then, Nilsson has built her reputation and unique style by pursuing the common thread she believes unites all of the world’s folk music traditions. Vocalist and composer Tammy Scheffer combines her impressive scat-singing abilities with technology—building beats and chord changes on a looping pedal, using only her voice as an instrument. The two come together this week to combine their skillsets. (DM)

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THE PUBLIC OFFERING Thu, 7pm, $20-$50 Social Policy, San Jose Enjoy a food and wine pairing prepared by one of San Jose’s rising culinary stars at this dinner hosted by Social Policy. Chef Marshall Reid— who has worked at San Jose’s Cafe Stritch and Alexander’s Steakhouse in Cupertino—captains the inaugural Public Offering, which will be a regular showcase of local chefs’ and entrepreneurs’ style, personality and creativity. Reid has planned a “Blue Collar Fine Dining” experience featuring Mariscos y Maiz (lobster polenta cakes), and a main act of fennel-and-coffee-crusted pork loin.

The dinner will be hosted by Veronica Ruckman, a San Jose native and co-owner of Social Policy, Kickback Coffee Roasters and B2 Coffee. (LS)

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DOGCATCHER Fri, 7:30pm, $10-$12.50 Art Boutiki, San Jose It’s been four years since we’ve seen a proper release from South Bay band Dogcatcher. Since then, they’ve relocated from Mountain View to San Jose and polished up their sound, adding more elements of soul to their catchy mixture of indie rock and Americana. The result is a seven-song self-titled set, Dogcatcher. The album’s lead single, “My Sunshine,” recalls bouncy, funked-up grooves of Minus the Bear and boasts stronger production values than their previous effort, It’s Easy. They play the Art Boutiki this Friday with Fialta, Cold Eskimo and Aisea Taimani. (NV)

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SILICON VALLEY PRIDE Sat, 6pm, $10-$100 Downtown San Jose Living in the age of 24-hour news cycles, it can be easy to forget that life is fun and that there are plenty of decent people in this world. The 2016 Silicon Valley Pride festival returns to the South Bay to celebrate diversity and show everyone that the world isn’t as bad as it seems. The party begins with an Electronic Dance Music Night, featuring DJ Sean Bass, DJ Buddy Mason and more. Bring your glow stick and get ready to shake it. The festivities continue on Sunday morning with a parade and festival. There will be video game booths, live performances and seven full hours of PokémonGo lures. (ST)

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POLARSCAPES Sat-Sun, 11am, Free Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara Elaine Heron’s LinkedIn profile details her work in drug development companies and life science tools. But in her free time, she is a shutterbug and nature enthusiast. A member of the Palo Alto Camera Club, Heron recently spent several days in the freezing waters, documenting windswept icebergs at the ends of the earth. Her new exhibit at Triton, “Polarscapes: Sculpted by Wind and Water” captures the majesty of these floating behemoths of ice and snow. Her images explore the transitory nature of these massive formations, reminding the viewer that one day soon they will melt into the world’s warming waters. (MH)

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DIESEL AND DUST Edward Burtynsky’s photograph, ‘Oil Fields #19b, Belridge, California’ is in the two-part SJMA exhibit, ‘Indestructible Wonder.’

‘Indestructible’ examines strained relationship of humanity, nature

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T FIRST BLUSH, the thematic connection between two new exhibits at the San Jose Museum of Art seems tenuous at best. But after spending time in both galleries, two sets of entirely different means and media unexpectedly complement each other. In one, we peer into the lives of an often unrepresented and invisible group of Americans: the working class. In the other, the scope expands, often abstractly, as several artists explore humanity’s relationship with nature.

Walking up the stairs, approaching the entrance to “Indestructible Wonder,” animal sounds spill out in all directions from one of the two galleries—the kinds of noises one hears in films about the jungle: the guttural howls of distant, unseen beasts. The distorted calls and muted shrieks are coming from Gail Wight’s Center of Gravity, 2008. About a dozen pillars of light hang from the ceiling, suspended above the floor, arranged in three fluid rows that form an oblong shape.

What Wight is trying to say is vague, but the artist does force us to look closely at something—and the feeling of interacting with the sound and light is transportive. Concrete meaning behind all of the artists’ works on display may be found in the central text guiding the curation of “Indestructible Wonder”: Rachel Carson’s seminal environmentalist text, Silent Spring.

In her groundbreaking work Carson wrote, “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Each artist here is asking the viewer for an act of attention—to look deeply into depictions of the natural world and to recognize its wonder—or, in some cases, to observe the destructive assault humanity has been waging on the planet. One work straddles the line between the two extremes. SJMA commissioned WaterTable (2016) by artist Evan Holm specifically for the exhibit. This interactive piece is a 24foot long table. It’s hollowed out and filled with water; a submerged stereo system plays 17 yards of cassette tape led through a voice recorder. Listening in on a pair of wireless headphones, the voice of W.S. Merwin, the 17th United States Poet Laureate, speaks; Merwin recorded two of his poems in collaboration with Holm.

Tiny aquatic plants—duckweed— circle on top of the water, turning in time with the cassette spools. Merwin recites from his poem, “The Search”:

“Around me birds vanish into the air/ shadows flow into the ground.”

This isn’t an innocuous depiction of nature. Someone has disappeared, and something else has frightened the birds away.

Walking across the hall into “Life and Labor: The Photographs of Milton Rogovin,” the everyday lives of ordinary people are transformed into a poetry of their own. Rogovin, who died in 2011, photographed a moving series of portraits of miners, steelworkers and the poor. All of the photographs are black and white, small enough that they also require time and attention.

The exhibit is divided into three sections: “Family of Miners,” “Working People” and “Lower West Side.” In the first two, most of the photographs are framed in pairs. At a glance, it isn’t immediately apparent that the same person is in both pictures. The one on the left is taken of the subject at work: a coal miner in a T-shirt, his skin and clothing covered in black dust; a steelworker in a bandana, jeans and a sweatshirt at her tool bench. The one on the right reveals the home life and family of the subject. It’s a remarkable and poignant transformation.

The photographs at work are uniformly darker; the ones at home contain smiles and light. The work is clearly punishing for both the body and the soul. Without commentary or analysis, Rogovin presents a group of people struggling to keep their personal lives intact. That the coal mining and the steel work appear to be harming the natural world and our relationship to it cannot be discounted.

It’s an uncomfortable shadowland sitting across the hall from “Indestructible Wonder.” Ideally, everyone could afford to be cognizant of how our actions, as part of the modern industrial era, affect nature. But the humanity Rogovin captures on film depicts an urbanized culture and class of people unintentionally distanced from their agrarian roots: they’re just trying to put food on the table.

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SEAFOOD IN DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE Scan this QR code with your smartphone or visit METROGIVEAWAYS.COM FOOD, FAMILY, FUN The 36th annual Italian Family Festa looks to the past for inspiration.

A Taste of the Old Country FOOD HAS ALWAYS been a great way to experience a different culture.

Behind every native dish there is a story being passed down from generation to generation. Some cultural festivals lose the thread of these stories in a maze of food trucks and activities, but not the Italian Family Festa, which for two full days this weekend celebrates the richness of Italian-American heritage.

“You can go to many festivals and order the food, but what I think is missing is the history” says Ken Borelli, chair of the Italian American Heritage Foundation, the Italian Family Festa organization which runs the annual gathering.

In the interest of focusing on culture, the 36th annual Festa will feature the world premiere of Pomodoro, a documentary by local filmmaker Michael LoVaglia, which sheds light on the dying culinary art of cooking up and canning tomato sauce at home.

Aug 27-28, 11am, Free History Park, San Jose

Even when making marinara from scratch, tomato sauce tends to be purchased at a local grocery store. But there was a time when the Italian American community would come together to produce homemade tomato sauces for use throughout the year. The screening includes the opportunity to talk with the director after the viewing.

The same stage showing Pomodoro will also host a workshop on maintaining a traditional Italian-American garden. Led by gardeners from the Emma Prusch Farm Park, the workshop will cover the many different types of vegetables found used in Italian-American kitchens. There will also be a special presentation by Mary Menniti, the director of The Italian Gardens Project.

Children can also join in on the fun with storytelling, coloring and singing at the Teatrino Di Bambini. The San Jose children’s cooking school, Cucina Bambini, will teach kids how to make a simple pasta dish while parents learn how to get them involved in the kitchen.

This year, the festival is taking place at History Park in San Jose, which Borelli is really excited about since it’s bigger and filled with picnic tables for families to gather around, eat and socialize.

“There are very few venues where you can get families together,” he says.

“A lot of times we have family reunions” —Stacy Torres

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Spirited Away MONKEYS AND KINGS The new Laika production ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ isn’t for kids, and that’s just fine with us.

‘Kubo’ a magical, mystical animated journey—for grown-ups

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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Kubo is a story of interlocked fictions, sometimes very sad, sometimes cryptic—not bad qualities in a cartoon. The act of storytelling is the titular character’s literal weapon against death, of preservation of lives otherwise forgotten. During a fight with a monster, young Kubo is told, “This isn’t one of your stories.” He responds, “How do you know?”

It begins with a tempest, in which a fleeing Japanese noblewoman is in an open boat with her baby. A wave wipes her out, and knocks her head against an undersea rock. Cut to some 10 years later, where her one-eyed son Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson) is a busking tale-teller in a small village. For coins, Kubo tells the marketplace the continuing story of a samurai questing for “the sword unbreakable, the breastplate

ANS ARE STARTING to look forward to a new Laika film the same way we used to look forward to a new Pixar release before Disney bought the digital production firm.

Kubo and the Two Strings is the newest 3-D stop-motion animation from the Portlandbased studio responsible for Coraline, Paranorman and The Boxtrolls. One scene has a backdrop of what looks like the famed Rashomon gate next to sequoia-sized trees; this ravishing, delicate story nods back to Kurosawa’s Rashomon, a film about the

impenetrable, and the helmet invulnerable.” He uses origami props to illustrate the tales. The money buys food for his mother, who is scarred, brain-damaged and mostly mute in a nearby cave. In a moment of lucidity, the mother (voiced by Charlize Theron) warns her son never to go out at night.

We’ve seen that this scarred mother had powers once: when she struck the chord on her samisen, the burst of sound sliced a killer rogue wave in half. And when she has nightmares, origami paper dances around the room, twisting itself into shapes. During the obon festival, the Japanese Halloween, Kubo inevitably stays out too late to see the lanterns. On his way home, he is attacked by his mother’s two terrible sisters, evil Taoist sorceresses.

Kubo’s mother transports her son to the land of the snows, to be cared for by a wary, ornery monkey (also Thereon), and their new friend, Beetle (Matthew McConaughey), a samurai trapped in the form of a stag beetle. Like the beloved nighunbreakable, nigh-impenetrable and

nigh-invulnerable cartoon character, The Tick, this Beetle is hearty, fearless and rather dumb. Like a real beetle, he ends up helpless on his back for a few moments.

Hidden parts of the story emerge in flashback as the quest continues.

Minds clouded by magic gradually clear. The warriors encounter a colossal crimson skeleton-demon.

They go undersea to get the weapons to fight Kubo’s spectral grandfather the pale Moon King (Ralph Fiennes), a wizard of tremendous power.

The arc of the quest, with battle and reunion at its end—that’s familiar in fantasy. What isn’t familiar in Kubo is the use of Buddhist imagery, with looming statues, and a strangely craggy Mt. Fuji watching over the odd band of questers. The talking monkey observes the chance of reincarnation: “The end of one journey is the beginning of the other.”

The Moon King, the puppet-show villain who becomes real, seeks possession of Kubo’s remaining eye.

At the risk of mixed metaphor, Kubo makes the eye not as the window of the soul, but the soul itself. It’s a symbol of the essence of humanity, being able to see others, to feel compassion and love for them.

Compared with other animation studios’ talking troll dolls and sausages—Kubo’s director, Travis Knight, aims for a film closer to Ugetsu than Ice Age—this is fairly dense and risky material. That’s one reason why it’s not a movie meant for young children, plus it’s far too scary for them. A good thing, then, Kubo glows with sensitivity and intelligence, with its porcelainmasked demons, its wise monkey and the imagery that recalls the heights of the fantasy era of Hong Kong—the various versions of Bride with the White Hair come to mind.

Laika Studios’ independence is rare in feature-length animation today— rather than topping a franchise, they seek emphasis on character, background, and the sharp wounding edge of a story.

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Roots, Rock, Heavy ZED’S NOT DEAD With ‘Trouble In Eden,’ San Jose rockers Zed prove they’ve got what it takes.

San Jose blues metal quartet Zed drop their best album yet

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OASTING AN AUDIO arsenal of thunderous riffs, heavy grooves and powerful vocals, San Jose-based quartet Zed have been making a name for themselves in the Bay Area hard rock scene, and beyond, for nearly a decade now.

The band showcased their formidable chops in front of an enthusiastic crowd on Friday at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill, where they celebrated the release of their new album, Trouble In Eden, out this week on independent label Ripple Music.

The 10-song collection—the group’s third record—features a thick, warm sound, which melds blues scales with seriously punched-up riffage, calling to mind bands like Black Sabbath, High on Fire, Mastodon and Every

Time I Die, without sounding too derivative. Zed still manage to put their own spin on things.

“It was important to us to have an organic feeling rock record,” says Zed bassist Mark Aceves. “There’s so many rock producers and engineers that take a lot from pop, and they have a really processed sound to them, and I don’t feel any heart and soul in it, personally.”

To help achieve the desired outcome, the band enlisted producer Tim Narducci, with whom they had worked on their previous album, Desperation Blues. Narducci’s background includes studying under Bob Rock, famous for producing, Metallica’s self-titled “Black Album,” among others.

“One of the things that Tim said

was that when you’re laying the foundation for a record, it’s good to get away rather than record close to home,” says singer and guitarist Pete Sattari—adding that making the effort to physically disconnect from home can aid in focus and innovation.

Taking this advice to heart, Zed were invited down to Southern California where they spent a week laying down drum tracks at the studio of Stone Temple Pilots drummer Eric Kretz.

“We worked with him and his engineer to fine-tune the drum sound,” says Aceves. “It’s a huge sound. It was fantastic to be there in his studio and hear his stories. You’re like, ‘I want to live this life!’”

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“We recorded on a Neve analog board for the drums—and the drum set that was used, with the exception of the snare, was the drum set on the first Stone Temple Pilots record, so it was really cool,” says Sattari.

After those sessions were finished, the band returned home to record the rest of the instruments and piece the project all together.

“I’m a big audiophile, so I insisted on recording in 24-bit, and that makes a big difference,” Sattari says.

“You get a lot of headroom in there, and the mixing approach is a little different, the way the guitars and bass are layered in there.”

The group is excited about the new album, which has already been garnering positive reviews. They performed much of it live on Friday at Bottom of the Hill, where they were met with roars of applause from a full house. After a couple of upcoming local gigs—including a stop at the Uptown in Oakland on Sept. 10, and the Caravan in San Jose on Oct. 3—Zed will hit some clubs in the Pacific Northwest and Southern California this fall.

With Trouble In Eden coming out on vinyl, CD and digitally, the band hopes to expand their scope of touring to Europe and the East Coast next year.

“The reception so far has been beyond my expectations,” says Aceves, who sees the release coinciding with somewhat of a renaissance in good, old fashioned rock & roll.

“My theory is that rock & roll will never die,” Aceves says. “It has its cycles, and it seems like every 20 years there’s a revival and then something else comes along, and it goes underground again. I’m seeing a lot of younger kids coming to shows and getting into it, it’s so encouraging because that’s the next generation, there’s going to be another Kurt Cobain out there somewhere, and that’s important.”

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There are those women who, in bringing some himbo home for a hookup, really go that extra mile—taking a lot of turns on the way so he’ll never again find his way back to their apartment.

So, no, Sex and the City’s Samantha isn’t a completely fictional character in how, after sex, she brushes men off herself like large, penis-equipped crumbs. However, in that column you mention, I referenced research from anthropologist John Marshall Townsend, who discovered that Samantha’s post-sex detachment is pretty atypical—that many women who intend to use and lose a guy often find themselves going all clingypants the next morning.

Understanding what allows the Samantha type to escape this takes separating the women who have casual sex from those who feel okay about it afterward.

Women have casual sex for various reasons. For some, it seems the feminist thing to do—to prove they can do anything a man can do, whether it’s working on an oil rig or dragging home strangers for a little nail-and-bail.

Townsend notes that women hook up because they aren’t ready for a relationship, because they’re trying to punch up their sex skills, or—as with rock groupies—to get some small piece of a guy they know is out of their league. Other women see hookups as the “free candy!” they can use to lure some unsuspecting man into the relationship van.

There’s a widespread belief, even held by some researchers, that higher testosterone levels in women mean a higher libido, but testosterone’s role in female desire is like that Facebook relationship status: “It’s complicated.” Research by clinical psychologist Nora Charles, among others, suggests that “factors other than … hormones” are behind which women become the Princess Shag-a-lots.

Personality seems to be one of those factors. In looking at what’s called “sociosexuality”—what sort of person has casual sex—psychologist Jeffrey A.

Simpson finds that extraversion (being outgoing, exhibitionistic, and adventureseeking), aggressiveness, and impulsivity are associated with greater willingness to have an uncommitted tumble.

However, once again, all the reasons a woman’s more likely to have casual sex don’t stop her from getting tangled up in feelings afterward. The deciding factor seems to be where she falls on what the late British psychiatrist John Bowlby called our “attachment system.”

According to Bowlby, how you relate in close relationships—“securely,” “anxiously,” or “avoidantly”—appears to stem from how well your mother (or other primary caregiver) sussed out and responded to your needs and freakouts as an infant.

If she was consistently responsive (but not overprotective), you’re probably “securely attached,” meaning you have a solid emotional base and feel you can count on others to be there for you. This allows you to be both independent and interdependent.

Being “anxiously attached” comes out of having a caregiver who was inconsistently there for you (perhaps because they were worn thin) or who was overprotective. This leads to fear and clinginess in relationships (the human barnacle approach to love).

And finally, being “avoidantly attached” is a response to a cold, rejecting caregiver, one who just wasn’t all that interested in showing up for you. Not surprisingly, perhaps to avoid risking all-out rejection by being too demanding, the avoidantly attached tend to adapt by becoming people who push other people away.

It’s avoidantly attached women who social psychologist Phillip Shaver and his colleagues find can have casual sex without emotional intimacy—and, in fact, tend to see their “discard after using” attitude as a point of pride.

Other women—those who didn’t have a really chilly caregiver—are likely to have that “sense of loss” you feel after casual sex.

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

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MARKETING Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. HPE is accepting resumes for the position of Product Specialist in Sunnyvale, CA (Ref. #HPECSUNMOPS1). Research marketing conditions and gather information to provide initial product/service/solution (PSS) design, pricing, value proposition, messaging, and/or whole product strategies, as well as forecasting through product introduction. Mail resume to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, 5400 Legacy Drive, MS H1-2F-25, Plano, TX 75024. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

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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)

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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)

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 #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)

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.

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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)

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)

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)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, I hope you won’t scream curses at the rain, demanding that it stop falling on you. Similarly, I suggest you refrain from punching walls that seem to be hemming you in, and I beg you not to spit into the wind when it’s blowing in your face. Here’s an oracle about how to avoid counterproductive behavior like that: The near future will bring you useful challenges and uncanny blessings if you're willing to consider the possibility that everything coming your way will in some sense be an opportunity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Oh how I wish you

might receive the grace of being pampered and nurtured and entertained and prayed for. I’d love for you to assemble a throng of no-strings-attached caretakers who would devote themselves to stoking your healing and delight. Maybe they’d sing to you as they gave you a manicure and massaged your feet and paid your bills. Or perhaps they would cook you a gourmet meal and clean your house as they told you stories about how beautiful you are and all the great things you’re going to do in the future. Is it possible to arrange something like that even on a modest scale, Taurus? You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you most need this kind of doting attention— and when you have the greatest power to make it happen.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I invite you to dream

about your true home, your sweet, energizing, lovestrong home, the home where you can be high and deep, robust and tender, flexible and rigorous, the home where you are the person that you promised yourself you could be. To stimulate and enhance your brainstorms about your true home, experiment with the following activities: Feed your roots, do maintenance work on your power spot, cherish and foster your sources and refine the magic that makes you feel free. Can you handle one more set of tasks designed to enhance your domestic bliss? Tend to your web of close allies, take care of what takes care of you and adore the intimate connections that serve as your foundation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’ll be one of those rapid-fire, adjust-on-the-fly, think-on-your-feet, go-with-your-gut times for you—a head-spinning, endorphin-generating, eye-pleasing, intelligenceboosting phase when you will have opportunities to relinquish your attachments to status quos that don’t serve you. Got all that, Cancerian? There’ll be a lot of stimuli to absorb and integrate—and luckily for you, absorbing and integrating a lot of stimuli will be your specialty. I’m confident of your ability to get the most of upcoming encounters with cute provocations, pleasant agitation, and useful unpredictability. One more tip: Be vigilant and amused as you follow the ever-shifting sweet spot.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): At the risk of asking too much

and pushing too hard, my Guerrilla Prayer Warriors have been begging God to send you some major financial mojo. These fierce supplicants have even gone so far as to suggest to the Supreme Being that maybe She could help you win the lottery or find a roll of big bills lying in the gutter or be granted a magic wish by an unexpected benefactor. “Whatever works!” is their mantra. Looking at the astrological omens, I’m not sure that the Prayer Warriors’ extreme attempts will be effective. But the possibility that they will be is definitely greater than usual. To boost your odds, I suggest you get more organized and better educated about your money matters. Set a clear intention about the changes you’d like to put in motion during the next 10 months.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Suggested experiments: 1. Take a vow that from now on you won’t hide your beauty. 2. Strike a deal with your inner king or inner queen, guaranteeing that this regal part of you gets regular free expression. 3. Converse with your future self about how the two of you might collaborate to fully unleash the refined potency of your emotional intelligence. 4. In meditations and dreams, ask your ancestors how you can more completely access and activate your dormant potentials.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope you are not forlorn,

shivery, puzzled, or obsessive right now—unless being in such a state will mobilize you to instigate the overdue transformations you have been evading. If

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that’s the case, I hope you are forlorn, shivery, puzzled, and obsessive. Feelings like those may be the perfect fuel—the high-octane motivation that will launch your personal renaissance. I don’t often offer this counsel, Libra, so I advise you to take full advantage: Now is one of the rare times when your so-called negative emotions can catalyze redemption.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): From what I can tell,

your vigor is peaking. In recent weeks, you have been sturdy, hearty, stout, and substantial. I expect this surge of strength to intensify in the near future—even as it becomes more fluid and supple.

In fact, I expect that your waxing power will teach you new secrets about how to wield your power intelligently. You may break your previous records for compassionate courage and sensitive toughness.

Here’s the best news of all: You’re likely to be dynamic about bestowing practical love on the people and animals and things that are important to you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The odds are higher than usual that you will be offered a boost or promotion in the coming weeks. This development is especially likely to occur in the job you’re doing or the career plans you’ve been pursuing. It could also be a factor at work in your spiritual life. You may discover a new teacher or teaching that could lift you to the next phase of your inner quest. There’s even a chance that you’ll get an upgrade on both fronts. So it’s probably a good time to check on whether you're harboring any obstacles to success. If you find that you are, DESTROY THOSE RANCID OLD MENTAL BLOCKS WITH A BOLT OF PSYCHIC LIGHTNING. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The cosmos seems

to be warming up to your charms. The stinginess it displayed toward you for a while is giving way to a more generous approach. To take advantage of this welcome development, you should shed any fear-based beliefs you may have adopted during the recent shrinkage. For instance, it’s possible you’ve begun to entertain the theory that the game of life is rigged against you, or that it is inherently hard to play.

Get rid of those ideas. They’re not true, and clinging to them would limit the game of life’s power to bring you new invitations. Open yourself up wherever you have closed down.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are any of your allies acting like they’ve forgotten their true purpose? If so, you have the power to gently awaken them from their trances and help them re-focus. Is it possible you have become a bit too susceptible to the influences of people whose opinions shouldn’t really matter that much to you? If so, now is a good time to correct that aberration. Are you aware of having fallen under the sway of trendy ideas or faddish emotions that are distorting your relationship with your primal sources?

If so, you are hereby authorized to free yourself from their hold on you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now would be a

favorable time to reveal that you are in fact a gay socialist witch who believes good poetry provides a more reliable way to understand reality than the opinions of media pundits—unless, of course, you are not a gay socialist witch, etc., in which case you shouldn’t say you are. But I do advise you to consider disclosing as much as possible of your true nature to anyone with whom you plan to be intimately linked in the future and who is missing important information about you. It’s high time to experiment with being more completely yourself.

Homework: What would the people who love you best say is the most important thing for you to learn? Testify at Truthrooster@ gmail.com.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Blue Construction, 163 Rancho Manor Ct., San Jose, CA, 95111, Jorge L. Gonzalez. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/8/16./s/Jorge Gonzalez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/08/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 8/31, 9/07, 9/14/2016)

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 LloydDavis. 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 Lloyd-DavisThis 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 #620472 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Olivar J.H., LLC, 1049-C El Monte Ave., Mountain View, CA, 94040, Olivar J.H., LLC, 1898 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/ Bryan G. OlivarManager #201612410288This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/15/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 8/31, 9/07, 9/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES 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 #619552 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Ono Poke, 2. Ono Poke Shop, 3. Ono Poke Taste of Hawaii, 894 Emory St., San Jose, Ca, 95126, Wyman Duong. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/17/16. /s/ Wyman Duong 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)

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619554

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Flambe : Asian American Grill, 2. Flambe, 894 Emory St., San Jose, Ca, 95126, Wyman Duong. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/03/15. Refile of previous file #616318 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing/s/Wyman Duong 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620587 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Perfect Score Driving School, LLC, 1202 Kifer Rd., San Jose, CA, 94086. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Alan Guy WongManager #201621610472 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/17/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 8/31, 9/07, 9/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620471 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Nexus Resource Services, 3003 Meadowlands Lane, San Jose, CA, 95135, Stacey Johnston. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Stacey JohnstonOwner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/15/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 8/31, 9/07, 9/17/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620470 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PEER Foundation, 3003 Meadowlands Lane, San Jose, CA, 95135, Evergreen Elementary Foundation. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Stacey Johnston President#C3301176This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/15/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 8/31, 9/07, 9/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620594 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Culinary Freestyle, 2. Pacific Island Kitchen, 469 Fullerton Ct., San Jose, CA, 95111, Olld Fellas, LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/1/16. Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Daniel Donguines Managing Member #201516110005 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/17/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 8/31 9/07, 9/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620596 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Rainbow’s Rockstar Rejuvenation Station, 2985 Kilo Ave., Lisa Rainbows, Jeremy Nelson. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Lisa RainbowsThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/17/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 9/31, 9/07, 9/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620608 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: U.S. Quality Ceramics, 394 Umbarger, Unit C, San Jose, CA, 95111, Tuan Van Nguyen, 4228 Crystal Hollow Place, San Jose, CA, 95121. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/18/16. /s/Tuan Van Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/18/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 8/31, 9/07, 9/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620337 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Natural Touch, 1702 Meridian Ave., Ste J, San Jose, CA, 95125, Ana Doriza Mampusti. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/22/11. Refile of previous file #555092 with changes/s/Ana Doriza Mampusti This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/10/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 8/31, 9/07, 9/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620663 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Glo Skin Care, 5289 Prospect Rd., San Jose, CA, 95129, Goeun Lee, 2170 Klassen Way, San Jose, CA, 95131. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/19/2016. /s/ Goeun Lee This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/19/2016. (pub Metro 8/24, 9/31, 9/07, 9/14/2016)

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This is not the place for a comprehensive critique of the DEA's ability to properly schedule—or more properly, deschedule—marijuana, but here we have a story that illustrates the relative dangers of marijuana compared to some other Schedule I drugs.

As the Omaha World-Herald reports deadpan, police were called to a house last week to investigate an accidental overdose. The victim, a 53-year-old man, had found and devoured four brownies left in the back seat of a car by his adult kids. The man’s wife told police he began feeling “bad anxiety” while watching TV, and she tried to call the kids to ask what was in the brownies, but got no answer. While police were at the scene, one of the children arrived and told them the brownies belonged to his siblings and he was “pretty sure it was just marijuana in the brownies.” Here's the meat of the story: Paramedics called to the scene who checked the man found his vital signs to be normal. But they noted that he was displaying odd behavior—crawling around on the floor, randomly using profanities and calling the family cat a “bitch.”

The man told paramedics he felt like “he’s trippin’.” He declined their offer to be taken to the hospital.

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The end. Well, not quite. The still anonymous victim has recovered fully and told the World-Herald in a followup article that even in the paranoid, delirious depths of his brownie poisoning, he realized that he wasn't having a stroke, a heart attack, or going insane. “Wowie,” he realized. “I am really, really high.”

Overdosing on marijuana may not be a laughing matter—it can involve panic attacks, paranoia, palpitations, severe anxiety, even hallucinations— but it isn't going to kill you. If you want a laughing matter, ponder placing marijuana in Schedule I, and keeping it there. —Phillip Smith Phillip Smith is editor of the AlterNet Drug Reporter and author of the Drug War Chronicle.

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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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Court has spoken on the issue as well, in Gonzales v. Raich (2005) 545 U.S. 1, 29: ... limiting the activity to marijuana possession and cultivation "in accordance with state law" cannot serve to place respondents' activities beyond congressional reach. The Supremacy Clause unambiguously provides that if there is any conflict between federal and state law, federal law shall prevail. It is beyond peradventure that federal power over commerce is superior to that of the States to provide for the welfare or necessities of their inhabitants, however legitimate or dire those necessities may be. Just as state acquiescence to federal regulation cannot expand the bounds of the Commerce Clause, . . . state action cannot circumscribe Congress' plenary commerce power.

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.

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Just Beat It TURN THE PAGE Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page (left) recently wandered into The Beat Museum to reminisce with Jerry Cimino.

New generation of tech bros forget Beat Generation’s imprint

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AST WEEK, I slithered back into the Beat Museum in San Francisco, arriving by sheer chance. Turns out the museum is currently angling to raise a cool few million so it can buy a new facility up the street.

Within minutes, director Jerry Cimino and I found ourselves venting— er, contemplating—the current generations of tech in San Jose, San Francisco and everywhere between, especially how they seem clueless to the

counterculture history of these parts.

“Silicon Valley, as we know it today, wouldn’t exist without The Beat Generation,” Cimino said. “In many ways, Beat Generation values became Bay Area values. One of the reasons so many young people want to live here is because the Bay Area is the leading edge and the Beats made it hip.”

Decades ago, Cimino worked at IBM on Cottle Road in San Jose.

After he was finished with the corporate world, he launched the first incarnation of the Beat Museum in Monterey in 2003, before relocating it to North Beach a few years later.

However, one doesn’t have to look very far to find local vibes and flavors these geniuses left behind. For example, Jack Kerouac first discovered

Buddhism by stealing a book from the San Jose Public Library. That was the early ’50s, when he often visited Neal and Carolyn Cassady, who lived on East Santa Clara Street, in a house that still exists. In addition to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg briefly lived in a detached flat out back. Cassady also bopped around Los Gatos and other backwaters of the South Bay, along with Ken Kesey and several troublemakers from the same circles of free spirits. In fact, Cassady’s son, John, still lives near these parts, as does Al Hinkle, immortalized as Big Ed Dunkel in Kerouac’s On the Road.

And then there’s Steve Jobs. When Steve and Dan Kottke tripped around India in the early ’70s, one of the books they carried with them was Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. The influence of Eastern perspectives on the psyche of Steve Jobs is more than well-documented.

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but there really wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley without counterculture, mindexpansion and Eastern mysticism.

Twenty-somethings and their blasted UX startups don’t realize this. Certainly, each 12-person party of obnoxious tech bros ordering glorified slurpee drinks that take five minutes to make, and then asking for separate checks and not tipping, don’t know their roots lie in compassion, altruism, Zen, poetry, green tea, antiestablishment intellectualism, ecological movements, bisexual orgies and everything else the Beats exemplified.

Which brings us back to the Beat Museum, chock-full of memorabilia, artifacts and former belongings of all the heavyweights, so much that even Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin also recently wandered in by chance.

According to Cimino, the guitarist gushed over the museum’s authenticity.

Alas, due to grotesque Bay Area rents, the only way to effectively operate such a museum is to own a building. So that’s the grand plan.

Thus the museum’s plight is a familiar one, but it should inspire the rest of the Bay Area if Cimino’s plan works out. Luckily, just a few blocks away sits an abandoned bank, two stories but zoned for four. Since the building is empty, no tenants would be displaced. As a result, Cimino has now orchestrated an elaborate network of outreach to celebrities, philanthropists and politicians, all of whom understand the massive historical significance and influence of the Beats on the Bay Area. Everyone involved is hip to the gravity of the gig. The goal is to raise five million smackeroos.

“The next group of people I want to approach are Silicon Valley movers and shakers,” Cimino said. “Because so many of them are following the same dream. They came out here, probably many of them not even knowing why they love this place. And I submit the reason the Bay Area is so magnificent to so many people is because the Beats made it what it is.”

Surely there must be some potential heroes here in the South Bay, maybe some Valley entrepreneurs or corporate donors, with a stash to spare. What a great way to give back.

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These ladies know Short Dog is a player.

Photos by Greg Ramar & Geoffrey Smith II A pair of Too Short fans enjoying themselves at the BackBar SoFa. Greg Ramar

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Sorry mom! A kiss from Ron Jeremy, who brought his new stand-up comedy act to The Quarter Note.

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DJ SoSuperSam packed The Ritz.

Fans of DJ SoSuperSam dancing at The Ritz.

On the lawn at Shoreline before Jason Aldean takes the stage.

Too Short at BackBar SoFa.

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