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Rather than being upset about Kap’s socks, this is what really should PISS off San Jose residents. For the record, I do not in the least bit agree with Kap, but let’s place anger where it really belongs. He ain’t stealing from nobody, physically hurting anybody. Meanwhile, this BS is going on!

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Khanna played too nice in 2014 and as a result he came up just short.

This time around he has gone on the offensive regarding Honda’s shortcomings, while continuing to offer articulate economic proposals and stiff-arming the Honda camp’s tired lines about being backed by right-wing GOP millionaires and billionaires.

Both candidates are Democrats, and any suggestion to the contrary is just electioneering spin.

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Election 2016 KHANNA CAN After a close defeat in 2014, Ro Khanna has proven he is ready to lead.

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EW PEOPLE HAVE time to pay attention to 32 local ballot measures, three hotly contested council races, a couple of seats up for grabs in the state legislature and a congressional battle that will cost two candidates roughly $8 million when all’s said and done. This 2016 Election Guide is an attempt to help readers cut through the weeds. Fortunately, many of the choices at the local level are less distasteful than the ones playing out on the national stage.

Ro Khanna Ro Khanna has run an honorable, focused campaign in his rematch against Congressman Mike Honda, and it’s time to make a change.

Silicon Valley deserves better than the somnambulant, integrity-challenged representation it’s gotten under Mike Honda.

Now in his eighth term representing the South Bay, Congressman Honda

has consistently ducked and dodged questions about his ongoing ethics scandal, and as recent reports have documented, he continues to play fast and loose with rules that were, apparently, never designed to be taken seriously. About a quarter-million dollars of his campaign funds this election cycle have gone to lawyers defending him and his chief of staff from the ethics probe. Honda even

manipulated the timing of the legal defense fund reports to keep voters in the dark.

As shown in a 2015 report by the bipartisan Congressional Office of Ethics, there remains a “substantial reason to believe” that Honda’s campaign openly discussed and traded official access to big-dollar contributors. He had low-level staffers run personal errands for him on taxpayer-paid time. He created a list of elite donors to make fundraising easier and then went out of his way to champion their causes on the House floor. As Metro reported last month, his campaign has repeatedly—and falsely— claimed he still had the endorsement of President Barack Obama.

The single most important thing Honda has done since the scandal began was join a sleepover on the House floor to encourage a vote on gun control. It made for a glamorous photo-op that he has since trotted out on his official Facebook page and the campaign’s, again showing he and his people have no idea how to separate the business of Congress from the business of staying in Congress.

And then there are the public naps.

Ash Kalra and Madison Nguyen have resumes that would make either a qualified successor—and upgrade— to Nora Campos. Assembly District 27 has had six years of substandard representation, and a steady hand should allow constituents to receive the services they’re entitled to while casting significant statewide votes.

Kalra, currently a councilman for San Jose’s District 2, has been an ardent champion of labor causes, most notably in his opposition to Measure B pension reforms.

While in the minority, he consistently articulated Madison Nguyen his positions with passion and gravitas, and since that time has shown an ability to work with Mayor Sam Liccardo on policy proposals. His work on issues such as rent control and minimum wage increases started an important dialogue, and he has also championed conservation efforts as chair of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

Nguyen, who served as San Jose’s vice mayor up until the end of 2014, also has an impressive record of service that would place AD 27 in capable hands. She survived a recall challenge over the naming of a Vietnamese business district and went on to lead on issues such as affordable housing and economic development. She has bipartisan support that should help her weed through the political morass that can be the state legislature, and the persistence to make a difference. We recommend a vote for Nguyen.

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Council candidates Steve Brown and Sergio Jimenez are diametrically opposed on just about every issue— aside from their belief that crime is the city’s biggest problem and that it’s time to move on from the pension reform acrimony of recent years.

Both men come from humble, if not hardscrabble, beginnings, and these origins led them to develop vastly different views of the world.

Brown is a Republican who says he still hasn’t made up his mind on Donald Trump. In addition to using terms like “imperialist and elitist” when discussing rent control, Brown seems uncomfortably sure of his positions, including the stance that business owners should have the right to refuse service to LGBTQ customers.

Jimenez is a down-the-line union Democrat whose knowledge of local issues dates only a little further back than his campaign. He works as an investigator for the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office and says he has moved on from youthful indiscretions that included a few run-ins with the law and declaring bankruptcy. At least he seems to know what he doesn’t know.

The candidates split on issues such as rent control (Jimenez supports, Brown opposes); Measure E (same); medical marijuana (same) and their votes will almost certainly go with whatever the South Bay Labor Council (Jimenez) or San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce (Brown) are championing.

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Chapman retired after running a small business for 16 years and helping mentor youth for San Jose Unified School District. She has served on numerous city and neighborhood committees and chaired San Jose’s Parks & Recreation Commission.

Davis, a Stanford policy analyst by day, takes a methodical approach to every issue and has also served on a wide range of neighborhood committees, such as chairing the city’s Early Care and Education Commission. She has more conservative positions on rent control, minimum wage and Measure E, but these positions appear to be painstakingly researched without coming off as condescending.

One is unlikely to agree with the candidates on every issue, but at least constituents will know they’re listening and informing themselves.

District 8 Sylvia Arenas and Jimmy Nguyen finished first and second, respectively, in a tight primary. What makes their runoff so intriguing is that both candidates were encouraged to run by active council members.

Arenas has the backing of District 5’s Magdalena Carrasco, who mentored her fellow Latina for several months as an unpaid council intern after the pair worked together in the nonprofit sector.

A two-year Evergreen Elementary School District trustee, Arenas also has a master’s degree in public administration and has shown a sustained commitment to her community. She lands squarely on the side of labor on most issues (minimum wage, Measure E and Measure F), but she has yet to receive the endorsement of the labor council.

That’s actually a good thing. Arenas has a better chance to be independent.

Nguyen had his own recruiter in District 4’s Manh Nguyen (no relation), who lost a nailbiter primary to Lan Diep and is contesting the results in court. Manh had hoped to create a three-person coalition along with District 7’s Tam Nguyen (again, no relation) that could give the Vietnamese community an unprecedented bloc of representation. That could still happen if Jimmy prevails, but we have concerns about his allegiances. Unlike four years ago, when he lost a close race to incumbent Rose Herrera and had the SBLC and San Jose Police Officers’ Association’s backing, he’s now an outspoken Republican who rides shotgun with the Chamber.

Sylvia Arenas presents a better option for all of District 8’s voters.

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MEASURE E Called the “Opportunity to Work” initiative, Measure E would require San Jose businesses to offer extra hours to part-time workers before hiring new ones. The idea is to provide stability to low-wage employees who often juggle multiple part-time jobs to get by. Workers caught in the parttime grind lose out on retirement and health benefits. Measure E, backed by the South Bay Labor Council and opposed by the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce, would only apply to businesses with 35 or more employees. It would also exclude government jobs and allow companies to apply for a “hardship” exemption.

MEASURE F Senator Jim Beall State Sen. Jim Beall has proven to be an able legislator over the course of his career, while his opponent, Assemblywoman Nora Campos, has hopscotched from one embarrassing incident to the next since arriving in Sacramento. Beall has championed policy that protects the environment, people with mental illness and victims of sexual abuse. Campos has earned a reputation for terrorizing her own staffers and wasting precious resources that could help constituents. Meanwhile, her husband, former construction and trades union boss Neil Struthers, spends his days picking fist fights and receiving groin kicks from political opponents. See where this is going? Beall deserves another term and it’s high time Campos’ political career came to an end.

Local Measures MEASURE A The federal government’s longstanding failure to fund affordable housing has prompted states, counties and cities to take matters into their own hands. In Santa Clara County, the plan of attack comes in the form of a $950 million affordable housing bond called Measure A. If voters approve the measure this fall, it would become the South Bay’s largestever public investment in affordable housing. As proposed, the bond debt would build 2,000 households for the most vulnerable county residents— primarily the homeless, including veterans, seniors, the disabled and mentally ill, foster youth and abuse victims. To repay the debt, the county

will charge homeowners about $12.60 per $100,000 in assessed property value for 30 years. The measure also requires citizen oversight to make sure the county sticks to the spending plan.

MEASURE B With two transit-linked sales taxes still decades away from expiring, the Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority will ask voters to approve a third one this fall. Measure B’s 30-year half-cent sales tax would generate $6.3 billion for transportation projects. Forty percent of the revenue would pay for BART’s southward extension to San Jose as well as upgrades for Caltrain.

Another 30 percent would pay for highway expansions, 20 percent to repave local roads, 8 percent to

boost bus and light rail services and 4 percent to bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements. Public transit advocates have criticized the plan for carving out such a large percentage for freeway widening, which they say would induce more congestion instead of easing it.

MEASURE C Cupertino’s Measure C would limit development of the Vallco Shopping District. The initiative would impose new building height requirements and setbacks on busy thoroughfares.

MEASURE D A related initiative, Measure D would create a specific plan for Cupertino’s 58-acre Vallco Town

Four years after San Jose voters dialed down benefits for city employees, they will have the option of reversing some of those cutbacks by way of a compromise on the ballot as Measure F. The deal hammered out by the city and its unions earlier would replace Measure B, which triggered years of litigation and an exodus of police officers who defected to agencies with more generous benefits. Measure F proposes to “stop funding retiree health care for new employees, potentially reduce costs of supplemental pension payments [and] reinstate disability retirement provisions for injured police officers, firefighters and other city employees.” Critics claim the measure would hike city retirement contributions by 36 percent and give 1,000 city workers a retroactive pension bump. But proponents argue that restoring some of the benefits hacked away by Measure B in 2012 is the only way to make people—especially cops—want to work for San Jose. Even Mayor Sam Liccardo has come around, endorsing Measure F as a way to restore the city’s depleted police force.

Visit www.sanjoseinside.com for the full list of local measures.

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EVE 6

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Wed, 8pm, $25-$99.50 Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

Thu, 8pm, $18-$22 The Ritz, San Jose

Comedian, writer and actress Wanda Sykes started her career doing stand-up at night while working as a contracting specialist at the National Security Agency.

She got her big break when she joined The Chris Rock Show as a performer and writer in 1997.

In 1999 she won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Special. Since then, she’s appeared in films like Pootie Tang, Evan Almighty and the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine. The openly lesbian Sykes is also an avid LGBTQ activist and recipient of the 2010 GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award. (ST)

Eve 6 were all just juniors in high school when they got signed to RCA. Their first single, 1998’s “Inside Out,” topped Billboard’s alternative rock three times and spent nine weeks in the No. 2 spot.

Soon after graduating they went platinum. For many, “Inside Out” still captures that feeling of high school vulnerability—all tender hearts and what-could-havebeens. Since reuniting in 2011, the band has been touring regularly, largely in support of their first new album since breaking up, 2012’s Speak in Code. (MH)

CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS Fri, 8pm, $18-$50 Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose In this celebrated Sufi poem by Farid ud-Din Attar, the birds of the world unite in search of their king.

The wisest bird, the hoopoe advises they find the mythical Persian bird, Simorgh. As they embark on their journey and finally reach the home of Simorgh, all they find is a lake where they see their own reflections. Sangam Arts and Enacte Arts—two local organizations dedicated to Indian arts—bring this nearly 1,000-year-old work of literature to the stage with art, music and dance. This contemporary interpretation is based on the play

by Peter Brook and Academy Awardwinning playwright Jean-Claude Carriere. (ST)

LEOTA

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Fri, 7pm, Free Seeing Things Gallery, San Jose

Fri, 5pm, $10-$20 Courthouse Square, Redwood City

Named after their family’s matriarch, “LEOTA” showcases the latest work by artists Murphy Adams and Ivy Atoms.

The mother-daughter duo exhibit together for the very first time—unveiling their personal experiences as women who are related but from very different generations. Murphy Adams works with mixed media while Ivy Atoms is a painter and illustrator of both comic books and zines.

Their colorful and metaphorical compositions share a selfawareness that is capable of being critical of the world while also finding humor in the day-today. (ST)

What began as the wedding celebration of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen in Munich has since transformed into one of the most popular beer and food festivals around the world: Oktoberfest. Today, cities all over the world have replicated the brewfest, introducing it to new generations and keeping the tradition alive. Now in its third year, Redwood City’s Oktoberfest features live music from the AlpinersUSA Oktoberfest band, alongside German treats like pretzels, brats, sauerkraut and German potato salad. A variety of lagers, weizens and ales will also be on tap to fill even the largest stein.

The festival runs through Sun. (ST)

* concerts Sep 10 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

CARRIE UNDERWOOD

CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS

Sep 10 at SAP Center

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Sep 17 at SAP Center

DRAKE & FUTURE

Sep 24-25 at SAP Center

THE HEAVY

Sep 26 at The Ritz

BLINK-182

Sep 28 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

MEGADETH

Sep 29 at City National Civic

ODDBALL COMEDY FEST

Sep 30 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

GWEN STEFANI & EVE

Oct 8 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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Oct 14 at City National Civic

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Oct 17 at SAP Center

THE 1975

Oct 18 at SJSU Event Center

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Picking up their instruments only shortly after Black Flag and Bad Religion got started, the band, which featured legendary 408 shredder Steve Caballero, melded hardcore riffs with a skate-or-die attitude. All professional skaters, the Faction’s goal was to make the perfect soundtrack for carving bowls and grinding ledges. In the process they left a major imprint on punk music the world over. This will be the group’s first hometown show since 2014. (MH)

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Sat, 8pm, $55-$175 California Theater, San Jose

Sat, 12pm, Free Citadel Gallery, San Jose

Opera San Jose kicks off its season with Lucia Di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti. As in Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet, this tragedy centers around two young lovers from feuding families who face adversity as they fight for their love. Lucia Ashton and Edgar Ravenswood’s forbidden rendezvous becomes challenging when Lucia’s brother, Lord Enrico Ashton, forces his sister to marry the nobleman Arturo out of political necessity. The production contains one of the most famously difficult passages in all of opera. Known as “The Mad Scene,” when performed as written it pushes even the most talented and dexterous operatic singers to their vocal limits. (ST)

A number of local artists will deconstruct and reassemble work to create something completely new in real time at “Fuse—Cut and Thrust.” A critical conversation about their work and what new meanings surface from it will also be a major focus. Artwork by Joe Gegan and Trudy Levy will be highlighted. Gegan’s recent work focuses on the deconstruction of his and others’ paintings to create new collages. Levy’s pieces emphasize the impact that colors, vantage points, angles and framing all have on visual perception. The exhibit runs through Sunday. (ST)

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CHUCK RAGAN & THE CAMARADERIE Sun, 8pm, $15-$18 The Ritz, San Jose Hot Water Music remains one of the beloved punk bands of the ’90s and early 2000s. Since going solo, singer Chuck Ragan has taken his music in a more stripped-down direction, blurring the lines between punk and earlier forms of folk and protest music. The Camaraderie, his current group, fuses his work with the Revival Tour (which had punk musicians playing acoustic instruments alongside bluegrass and alt-country artists) and his Hot Water days. Backed by drums, electric bass, violin and lap steel guitar, Ragan’s recent work has been about mixing old and new, and expanding the accepted tonalities of punk rock. (MH)

Oct 22 at City National Civic

BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT

Oct 22-23 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Oct 31 at SAP Center

BRAND NEW & THE FRONT BOTTOMS

Oct 31 at SJSU Event Center

MARC ANTHONY

Nov 4 at SAP Center

CHARLIE PUTH

Nov 7 at City National Civic

BILL MAHER

Nov 12 at City National Civic

DREAM THEATER

Nov 20 at City National Civic

WAR

Dec 29 at City National Civic

TWENTY-ONE PILOTS Feb 10 at SAP Center

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Lonesome Killers SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau and Leon Czolgosz: just three of the demented narcissists portrayed in ‘Assassins.’

Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ finds fun, farce in fanaticism

BY TAD MALONE

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N THE REAL world, killing the president is high treason. But in Los Altos Stage Company’s latest production, Assassins, the murder—or attempted murder—of the Commander in Chief serves as a springboard into an an unlikely romp.

The Stephen Sondheim musical opens at a turn-of-the-century-politicalrally. Soft jazz and ragtime drift out of the wings, which are constructed as plank-like walls adorned with stars, as the cast sings the musical's best-known song, “Everybody’s Got the Right.”

This first song treats political assassination as something in which

anyone can participate—indeed, as an egalitarian and oddly patriotic activity. Regardless of content, all of the songs in Assassins are upbeat; Sondheim shrewdly creates cognitive dissonance in his audience. Some of the songs are soulful, others more wild and jazzy, but all are played with grace by the live (if hidden) band.

Each of the characters is first shown meeting a sly carnival barker—one assumes this is Satan— offering happiness, recognition and glory through the act of murdering an American president.

The first real scene opens into the aftermath of President Lincoln’s assassination. The assailant, John Wilkes Booth, is wounded in a barn and desperately trying to write a letter justifying his actions. But it’s too late—and as the barn burns, the narrator advances both mockery and compassion for Booth’s act, a

theme that grows larger throughout the production. Played by Chase Campbell, Booth has the deep, commanding baritone one would expect from a famous actor possessed by a romantically sinister obsession.

Next up is President James Garfield’s killer, Charles Guiteau. Played by Ken Boswell, Guiteau is splendidly self-important, with a delusional confidence that seems above the other players in this story—yet he’s still so deluded he recites a hackneyed poem during his execution.

Then, briefly, we meet Giuseppe Zangara, played by Anthony Stephens. Suffering from chronic stomach pains, which he blames on capitalism, Zangara attempted to shoot President Franklin Roosevelt in Chicago but missed, killing instead the city’s mayor, Anton Cermak.

Almost simultaneously the production introduces Leon Czolgosz, the son of Polish immigrants, who ended up killing President William McKinley. Played by Andy Cooperfauss, Czolgosz has the lifeless eyes and hair-trigger temper of an angry and dispossessed man, and

serves as one of the more ideological members of this ragtag gang.

Philomena Block gives the standout performance as Sarah Jane Moore. She’s sassy but square in her demeanor. A pathological liar, she is somehow endearing in her blatant fraudulence, and seemingly the most sane member of the Assassin’s group. And yet she is the quickest to fall into berserker mode.

Another standout performance is Todd Wright, as Samuel Byck, who intended to knock off Richard Nixon by crashing a hijacked plane into the White House. This alcoholic usedtire salesman, utterly bitter with the world, is played masterfully by Wright, who at moments makes one think he really is off his rocker.

Assassins ends with all of the actors together in the infamous Dallas school book depository, meeting Lee Harvey Oswald, doing everything in their power to tempt him to share their collective fate.

But what is that fate? As Sondheim details wonderfully, it is something akin to a being an uniquely American loser. But more specifically, the ineffectual and bitter people who are never willing to examine the failures in their own life before lashing out at another. By casting John Wilkes Booth as the ringleader, he illustrates a current of misanthropy and selfhatred fed by a Faustian pact between Booth and the others, wherein their absolute beliefs about themselves and society can only be reinforced by more assassins joining their ranks, giving their infamous status a sense of group camaraderie.

Ultimately, Assassins is an intellectualized farce—and, when it first premiered in 1990, it stretched the definition of what makes a musical. The good news is that the Los Altos Stage Company has taken an intricate, heady production and given full clarity to the ideas expressed—without sacrificing any element of the production. Just a month after John Hinckley Jr. was released from prison, Assassins is more timely than ever.

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SOURCE OF LIFE ‘California: The Art of Water’ continues to show at the Cantor Arts Center.

*stage COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV COMEDY

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

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*concerts LOS ALTOS FIRST FRIDAY Local bands and musicians take over the downtown streets of Los Altos. Free.

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MUSIC AT THE MARKET San Pedro Square Market.

San Jose.

TOSPS TUESDAYS

A weekly showcase of Bay Area’s budding music scene across all genres. Most Tuesdays, 7pm. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

OFF THE GRID

A rotating cast of food trucks and music acts characterize this Friday afternoon event.

Free. Computer History Museum. Mountain View.

*art MUSEUMS NUMU LOS GATOS

“Mitchell vs. Steinbeck.”Thru Oct 16. “Script & Scribble: The History and Art of Handwriting.”

Thru Oct 16. “Et in Arcadia Ego.” Thru Oct 2. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER

“California: The Art of Water.”

An exhibit exploring the way artists and photographers have portrayed California’s most precious resource.

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. Thru Oct 24. Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM

“The Amazing Castle.”

Created by the Minnesota Children’s Museum, visitors are transported to a magical place and time. San Jose.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM

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

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE

“The Wireless Age: Electric Entrepreneurs before Silicon Valley.” Thru Oct 27. “Tattooed and Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History” Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

LOS GATOS COMPANY

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

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

Artists in Residence: “San Jose’s 20th Century Vanguard.” Thru Sep 18. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES

Mike McNamara: “Wedding Ring Explosion.” Thru Oct 2.

“Wedding Dress: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow.” Thru Oct 8. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

“Color, Form and Memory”

by Susan Parker. Thru Oct 23.

Francisco “Pancho” Jimenez.

Thru Oct 30. Wendy Red Star.

Thru Oct 30. “Polarscapes: Sculpted by Wind and Water”

by Elaine Heron. Thru Nov 6.

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Rogemil Velasco, Sep 9.

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FILOLI

“Sculpture Exhibit in the Garden.” Thru Oct 16.

“Fashionable Filoli: Historic Costumes.” Thru Sep 25. “The Valley of Heart’s Delight: A Multiple-media Exhibit.” Thru Oct 23. Woodside.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE

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

San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

“NextNewPaper,” “This is Not a Book: Chapter 2.” Thru Sep 18. “Mary Ellen Bartley: Looking Between the Covers.”

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RACE RELATIONS Author and hip-hop historian Jeff Chang has a new collection of essays exploring race in America.

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Hip-Hop Healer LAST YEAR, AT the end of a Black Lives Matter protest in Cleveland, police arrested a 14-year-old African American, then pepper-sprayed the crowd that refused to let the officers leave. In response, the crowd erupted in chants of “We Gon’ Be Alright,” the hook to an activist anthem by Compton-bred emcee Kendrick Lamar. UC-Davis grad and hip-hop historian Jeff Chang used that chant to title a series of essays which examine America’s history of racial prejudice in a meaningful and productive way.

“I hope the book will help people turn down the volume a little bit and to try to have these conversations based on fact,” he says. “As opposed to ‘I feel this way, you feel this way, my feeling is just as good as your feeling.’

Well, no. My feelings are rooted in a different reality than yours are. And so let's talk about that. A lot of the debates we’re having now are not rooted in hard realities.”

We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation Sep 13, 7:30pm, Free Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park

In his book, Chang focuses on the overlooked issue of resegregation—the phenomenon of wealthy, mostly white gentrifiers pushing lower-income people of color from newly trendy, innercity neighborhoods into formerly white rural communities and suburbs, like Ferguson, Missouri. Today, many Americans live in homogenous enclaves, which only stifle cross-racial contact and understanding. But this process also captures our national interconnectedness, even if white communities are just now feeling the impact of drug addiction, deindustrialization and an increasingly militarized police.

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“All of this stuff has been happening in communities of color for years,” he says. “People who are poor, who are women, who are of color, who are queer, these are folks who feel things first and most. If you don't go to the root of it, then you have an analysis that doesn't allow us to move past just putting a bandaid on the situation. We're actually not fighting the full fight. We're getting set up to fight each other.”

Chang, an Asian American, also devotes a chapter to wrangling with how his own identity fits into the debate. He thinks non-black people must educate themselves, confront any implicit or explicit biases and join the push for racial equality.

“People can change. People do change,” he says. “And if you’re made more aware of the problem, then you can empower yourself to be a part of that change for the better. I’m not naive about [self-interest], but I think that if you give people a chance to be their better selves, they can, and often do, rise to the occasion.” —John Flynn

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GOOD OLD BOY Logan Lerman (left) plays an awkward college sophomore in ‘Indignation.’

Airless exposition, lack of resonance, cause dramatic ‘Indignation’

BY LISA JENSEN

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HAT’S A NICE Jewish boy doing in a movie like this?

The answer is that the often squirm-inducing Indignation is adapted from a novel by Philip Roth, in whose work nice Jewish boys are often cast far out of their comfort zones and into the wide, treacherous world.

Roth published the book in 2008, but the story looks back in anguish at the bad old days of social repression and paranoia in 1951.

The movie was written and directed by James Schamus, a veteran screenwriter and producer making his feature directing debut. Schamus is absolutely meticulous in recreating the stifling miasma of conformity closing in on the young protagonist, who leaves his hometown of Newark, New Jersey, for a fearsomely staid and homogenous Midwestern college. The challenges awaiting him there are extreme— sexual, spiritual and intellectual. But there’s nothing transcendent in this familiar story, not enough of a spark that would make it worth the long slog it takes to get where it’s going.

Logan Lerman stars as Marcus Messmer. A college sophomore, straight-A student, and only child who works summers in his father’s kosher butcher shop, Marcus decides to transfer away from home to an idyllic

but conservative college in Winesburg (yes, Winesburg, Ohio, American lit fans). His increasingly paranoid dad is convinced his son is hanging out with hoodlums (he’s not), and will come to no good out in the world.

Dorm life is unfortunate for Marcus: one roomie is sort of a lump, the other one keeps making goo-goo eyes at him, and the only campus fraternity that accepts Jews is hounding him to pledge, while Marcus prefers a quiet life of study.

Worse, every student, regardless of faith, is required to spend at least 40 Sundays a term at morning chapel as a requirement of graduation—and, yes, roll-call is taken—which Marcus, an avowed atheist, resents.

Pretty soon, the smarmy, odious, passive-aggressive Dean Caudwell (Tracy Letts) is literally breathing down his neck, demanding to know why Marcus doesn’t “fit in.” And, the wages of not fitting in are dire indeed: his college deferment is the only thing standing between Marcus and

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the Korean War. Letts may remind some viewers of the bygone character actor Edward Andrews, and his sense of overpowering menace fills the screen like the Blob—especially in the claustrophobic scene when he interrogates Marcus in his office.

But, like so many of the scenes setting up Marcus in opposition to college life, this one feels interminable, grinding on long past its expiration date. These airless segments are effective at first, but counterproductive as they slide into monotony. That we are made to feel so keenly how completely squelched young Marcus is by the dark forces of repressive conformity doesn’t make it any less grueling to sit through—or any more enlightening.

Meanwhile, Marcus has a close encounter with blonde patrician Olivia (Sarah Gadon), the typically beautifulbut-damaged dream girl of generations of literary male fantasies. Olivia exists in the story to confound Marcus with her sexual experience, sending him into long-winded attempts at psychoanalysis that slow things down even more. They share two or three scenes that are a little embarrassing, not because they’re too erotic (they’re not), but because they’re so stilted, in a weirdly antiseptic way. It doesn’t help that there’s so little genuine feeling generated between the actors or their characters in these supposedly key moments.

This is the final, fatal problem with the movie (beyond the consistently flat dialogue and protracted dramatic setups). Despite occasional (brief) flashes of resistance, when a personality threatens to surface, Marcus is so passive, he’s practically inert. Things happen to him, followed by long, navel-gazing monologues or voiceovers about the moral implications.

But we never connect to him as an individual to care about; he’s a stick figure created to bear the brunt of all the angst directed at the outsider in an unforgiving social order.

And without that investment in the character, the movie never rises above the level of mere indignity, instead of the tragedy it tries to convey.

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Because of the crumbling Detroit settings and the low-budget thrills, Don’t Breathe is being likened to It Follows. Fede Alvarez’s film is rather damned good—the camera work positively floats—but it doesn’t head out into the realm of the really uncanny. The spell that it casts breaks with the end credits. The plot is fairy-tale simple: in Detroit, three bad-off young people are in the business of robbing houses for fun and profit. The leader of the group is called Money (Daniel Zovatto), tattooed with a dollar sign on his neck so people will know his name. Money is marked for fast death by both dialogue (“Gangsta style, bitches!”) and by his white cornrows. His pal Alex (Dylan Minnette), the son of a burglaralarm company security guard, is in love with Money’s girlfriend Rocky (Jane Levy, a blonde, worn Kristen Stewart type.) The robbers get wind of the kind of score that could get them out of the rust belt for good.

There’s an old man (Stephen Lang) who is sitting on a pile of money from an accident settlement. He’s far better prepared for intruders than he seems; a blind ogre, fondling his stacks of cash, sniffing and listening for the three home invaders that he has trapped. Lang’s work here is impressive—watching him, you don’t think of a typical scarred grindhouse villain, you think of the Cyclops in The Odyssey. This shows so much more of what Lang can do than in his more famous role as the military thug in Avatar. Lang gives some denseness to this fine, slick thriller, including an unspoilable plot twist that links this cracked hermit to the Trans-Vaginal Probe wing of the Anti-Choice coalition.

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impresses most of all: we get to know this horror house thoroughly, from a basement containing a gagged captive, to an attic crawlspace with a foaming Rottweiler in it. In between floors, the camera travels in to take in a pegboard full of hammers, saws and hedge clippers. One reads that medieval torture sessions traditionally began with the interrogator in charge showing the prisoner the instruments that were about to be used. It certainly works as a cinematic strategy. (Valleywide) (RvB)

INTOLERANCE

Birth of a Nation was cinema’s first blockbuster. Even in 1915, there were those who objected to D.W. Griffith’s vile racism. If crowds mobbed this epic, there were sizable public protests, and cities that banned it outright. Birth of a Nation celebrated the Ku Klux Klan.

The film’s success legitimized those Christian conservative terrorists, who came to political ascendency in the 1920s. And yet the audacity and technical mastery demonstrated

by Griffith and his cameraman Billy Bitzer are thrilling. The collaborators pioneered the art of direction: pointing an audience’s attention to a single element in a crowded frame; winging them to several locations; giving them a sense of God’s-eye scope. It’s almost enough to overcome the stink of the material. This shadow over Griffith may be the reason why the Sept. 5 centennial of Griffith’s ambitious follow-up, Intolerance (1916), seems so little marked. Here was a multiplaned story of four chapters in world history, demonstrating the ruin caused by the human inability to tolerate differences. This epic pioneered dozens of cinematic innovations, from false eyelashes to the crane shot. It was executed with a camera that was little more than a wooden box and filmed mostly in natural light. “A Sun-Play of The Ages,” Griffith called this solarpowered masterpiece. It brackets the tales of Jesus’ Palestine, a 1916 labor rebellion, the fall of Babylon, and the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. It’s a mammoth epic, alive with sudden adroit surprises, such as the quite wrenching story of a selfsacrificing Babylonian woman warrior (Constance Talmadge). If Intolerance is sometimes quaint, it reminds one of what cinema might do at its most ideal. Griffith’s hopes for the movies are still stirring: “We have gone beyond Babel, beyond words.

We have found a universal language, a power that can make men brothers and end war forever.” (Video On Demand) (RvB)

EX MACHINA D’EUX Ostensibly a prequel to ‘Blade Runner,’ Luke Scott’s ‘Morgan’ scans as an ‘Ex Machina’ sequel.

Frankenhoodie IN ESSENCE, Morgan is a heinously overproduced student film, complete with a scad of actors who are too good for it, and a twist ending you’d guess even if director Luke Scott weren’t the offspring of Blade Runner’s Ridley Scott. A generous person could call Morgan as a prequel to that vaunted, cult sci-fi film from 1982. It’s about the creation of genetically altered replicants by the Evil Corporation.

The praiseworthy underactress Kate Mara gives her first boring performance as a “risk management” specialist from EvilCo. Power-coiffed and business-suited, Mara imitates Lindsay Crouse’s own numbness as she drives up to a remote forest lab in her Mercedes. While driving, she takes an info-dumping call from her boss (Brian Cox): “We don’t want another Helsinki … preserve the asset.”

The “L9 Asset” is Morgan (Anya TaylorJoy, The Witch) a depressed, greyish girloid in a hoodie being studied by the scientists who engineered her. Morgan has all but gouged out the eye of one of the researchers (Jennifer Jason Leigh, recovering from the assault, plays it stoned from heavy pain medication). Despite this security breach, the scientists conduct themselves slackly, coupling up, drinking in the evening, and

not giving Morgan the healthy distance the creature deserves. The cold Chinese physician (Michelle Yeoh) who runs Morgan the project floats over her co-workers, keeping to R; 92 Mins. herself the details of the Camera 12 Helsinki fiasco. Strangest of all this medical pack is Rose Leslie’s Amy, who can’t stop gaping at Morgan (her reflection on the bulletproof glass melts into Morgan’s face). What stimulates this trembling, unprofessional passion? You can’t tell if it’s maternal, or a lover’s interest.

It isn’t until a shrink (Paul Giamatti) arrives that the trouble really begins.

Giamatti’s snideness gives some juice to this desiccated thriller. Too bad his only dramatic function here is to be the peasant who waves the torch in Frankenstein’s face.

Morgan is an abject answer to Ex Machina. With a cast of characters determined to always put themselves in unnecessary danger—they keep doing what you yell at them not to do—and with the seriously brutal fight scenes to balance the mawkishness, Morgan seems created for the Svengoolie of the 2030s to mock.

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LUCHA LIBRE Rising San Jose alt-rock quartet Citabria play the SoFA Street Fair.

The SoFA Street Fair aims to stay free for fans, pay bands

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OFA STREET FAIR returns to San Jose’s South First Street arts, culture and nightlife district this Sunday for a day of music, food, beer, art and much more. It marks the fourth such event since festival organizer Fil Maresca brought the party back to life in 2014 after more than a 10-year hiatus.

As has been the case with the past three fall SoFA Street Fairs—and

2016’s inaugural spring event— the focus will be on local bands.

However, Maresca says, there is another focus he and his team have been devoting energy to this year: keeping SoFA Street Fair free and putting a little cash in the pockets of local artists.

“All the bands have always done SoFA Street Fair for free,” Maresca explains of the event he began back in in 1991. The festival remained free until 1995, but began charging a $5 cover from 1996 until 2001 to help cover the costs of running the show.

“We want to avoid that this time around,” Maresca says.

In order to avoid charging folks at the gate, the SoFA Street Fair team

have turned to the Silicon Valley virtual payment firm Square and their product “Square Cash,” which, like Venmo and other similar apps allows friends to transfer money wirelessly to one another for free.

This year’s SoFA Street Fair will be giving each band what Maresca is calling a “virtual tip jar.” So far 87 are slated to play on 16 stages, and every one of those bands will be assigned a “cashtag”—like a Twitter hashtag, only with a dollar sign preceding the band’s name, rather than a pound symbol.

“I’m really pleased with it,” Maresca says of the system, explaining that at each stage, a band’s cashtag will be displayed.

Attendees who have downloaded the Square Cash app, can then use a given band’s cashtag to tip them.

Minimum tips are $2, and one dollar from every tip goes to the SoFA

Street Fair. The rest goes to the band.

So, for example, Maresca explains, if someone donates $20 to a band, that group will get $20 and the festival will get $1.

This year’s festivities feature four outdoor stages—two for live music, with bands performing staggered set times so attendees don’t have to choose one act over another; one DJ stage, wedged between The Ritz and The Studio rock climbing gym; and, of course, the crowd-pleasing UGWA wrestling ring.

Some highlights of this year’s musical performers include David Brookings and the Average Lookings, who recently released an excellent self-titled LP. They play on the William Street Stage at 2pm. San Jose blues metal quartet ZED, who also recently released an excellent LP, Trouble in Eden, will also take the William Street Stage at 5:30pm, followed by ascendant alt-rock band Citabria at 6:30pm, and then rock-soul-funk sextet Sweet HayaH headlines the stage at 8pm.

Other clubs in town will be getting in on the action as well.

Craft cocktail bar Haberdasher will host Mark Arroyo jazzy rock trio at 5:30pm; and at 7:30pm Cafe Stritch will host psychedelic garage rockers The Gentle Cycle—led by local psych-rock celeb Derek See of The Careless Hearts, and, more recently, The Chocolate Watchband.

Scene veteran Chris Landon will perform at the SoFA Market at 3pm and Uproar, a new music and art space taking over the former space occupied by Zero1 will be hosting Wax Moon at 3pm, Mitchell Lujan at 6:30pm and Bird and Willow at 7:30pm.

As for art, The Exhibition District—the local non-profit responsible for putting up largescale murals all over downtown San Jose, including their most recent piece on the side of Hotel De Anza.

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But you don’t have to be from the Bay Area to understand the importance of the DKs. Case in point: Polish hardcore band, Government Flu. Taking their name from the opening track on the DKs’ second album, Government Flu play a thrashy, ’80s-style of punk reminiscent of Poison Idea and Minor Threat.

The Warsaw-based quartet come to San Jose in support of Vile Life, their third full-length record, which was released in July by Refuse Records. The 11-track album is streaming on the group’s Bandcamp and blows by in a blistering 14 minutes and 40 seconds. With only one track lasting longer than two minutes, the record is relentless.

In hardcore, there is an obvious cleavage between bands that use the genre’s intensity to address social issues, and those who just want to find outlets for violence; Government Flu clearly belong to the former. Though they can certainly thrash with the best of them, Government Flu uses its platform to call out despotism, abuse of power, toxic masculinity and xenophobia.

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AninoKo, Dead Pressure and Time to Kill share the bill. If socially positive ragers are your thing, this show is likely to be one of the best San Jose has seen in a while. —Mike Huguenor

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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.

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

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620309 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: My Car Auto Sport, 1011 Knox Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Quoc Anh Dai Nguyen, 1909 Senter Rd., Apt 251, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/10/16. /s/Quoc Anh Dai Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/10/2016. (pub Metro 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/07/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #620201 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)

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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 #620444 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JDS’s JUST......A 4/LETTER WORD, 6270 Valroy Dr.,

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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 #620291 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Haleh Pastry Shop, 2265 Winchester Blvd., Campbell, CA, 95008.This business is being conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/9/2016.Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/Hadi Farahani Manager, CEO#20116510027This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/09/2016. (pub Metro 8/31, 9/07, 9/14, 9/21/2016)

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Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/12/16. /s/Alejandro Rodriguez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/12/2016. (pub Metro 8/31, 9/07, 9/14, 9/21/2016)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Two seven-year-old girls showed me three tricks I could use to avoid taking myself too seriously and getting too attached to my dignity. I’m offering these tricks to you just in time for the letting-go phase of your astrological cycle. Trick #1: Speak in a made-up language for at least 10 minutes. Example: “Groftyp hulbnu wivgeeri proot xud amasterulius. Quoshibojor frovid zemplissit.” Trick #2: Put a different kind of shoe and sock on each foot and pretend you’re two people stuck in a single body. Give each side of you a unique nickname. Trick #3: Place an unopened bag of barbecue-flavored potato chips on a table, then bash your fist down on it, detonating a loud popping sound and unleashing a spray of crumbs out the ends of the bag. Don’t clean up the mess for at least an hour.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In accordance with

the astrological omens, I suggest you spend less energy dwelling in profane time so you expand your relationship with sacred time. If that’s of interest to you, consider the following definitions. PROFANE TIME happens when you’re engulfed in the daily grind.

Swarmed by a relentless flurry of immediate concerns, you are held hostage by the chatter of your monkey mind. Being in SACRED TIME attunes you to the relaxing hum of eternity. It enables you to be in intimate contact with your soul’s deeper agenda, and affords you extra power to transform yourself in harmony with your noble desires and beautiful intentions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): About 1.7 million years

ago, our human ancestors began using primitive hand axes made from rocks. This technology remained in use for over 60,000 generations before anyone invented more sophisticated tools and implements. Science writer Marcus Chown refers to this period as “the million years of boredom.”

Its slow pace contrasts sharply with technology’s brisk evolution in the last 140 years. In 1880, there were no cars, planes, electric lights, telephones, TVs, or internet. I surmise that you’re leaving your own phase of relatively slow progress, Gemini. In the coming months, I expect your transformations will progress with increasing speed—starting soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Prediction #1: You will attract truckloads of good luck by working to upgrade and refine the way you communicate.

Prediction #2: You will tickle the attention of interesting people who could ultimately provide you with clues you will need to thrive in 2017. #3: You will discover secrets of how to articulate complicated feelings and subtle ideas that have been locked inside you. Prediction #4: You’ll begin a vibrant conversation that will continue to evolve for a long time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You know you have a second brain in your gut, right? (If not, read this: http://bit.ly/ secondbrain.) During the past three weeks, I have been beaming telepathic instructions toward this smart part of you. Here’s an edited version of the message I’ve been sending: “Cultivate your tenacity, darling.

Build up your stamina, sweetheart. Feed your ability to follow through on what you’ve started, beautiful. Be persistent and spunky and gritty, my dear.” Alas, I’m not sure my psychic broadcasts have been as effective as I’d hoped. I think you need further encouragement.

So please summon more fortitude and staying power, you gutsy stalwart. Be staunch and dogged and resolute, you stouthearted powerhouse.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Is “Big Bang” the best

term we can come up with to reference the beginning of the universe? It sounds violent and messy—like a random, accidental splatter. I would much prefer a term that suggests sublime elegance and playful power—language that would capture the awe and reverence I feel as I contemplate the sacred mystery we are privileged to inhabit. What if we used a different name for the birth of creation, like the “Primal Billow” or the “Blooming Ha Ha” or the “Majestic Bouquet”? By the way, I recommend that you consider those last three terms as being suitable titles for your own personal life story in the coming weeks. A great awakening and activation are imminent.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The last few weeks have been fraught with rich plot twists, naked dates with destiny, and fertile turning points. I expect there will be

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further intrigue in the near future. A fierce and tender decision at a crossroads? The unexpected arrival of a hot link to the future? A karmic debt that’s canceled or forgiven? In light of the likelihood that the sweet-andsour, confusing-and-revelatory drama will continue, I encourage you to keep your levels of relaxed intensity turned up high. More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the magic and the opportunity to transform what needs to be transformed.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming days,

you will have more than your usual access to help and guidance. Divine interventions are possible.

Special dispensations and charmed coincidences, too.

If you don’t believe in fairy dust, magic beans, and lucky potions, maybe you should set that prejudice aside for a while. Subtle miracles are more likely to bestow their gifts if your reasonable theories don’t get in the way. Here’s an additional tip: Don’t get greedy. Use the openings you’re offered with humility and gratitude.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When my daughter Zoe was growing up, I wanted her to be familiar with the origins of ordinary stuff that she benefited from. That’s why I took her to small farms where she could observe the growth and harvest of organic food crops. We visited manufacturing facilities where cars, furniture, toys, and kitchen sinks were built. She saw bootmakers creating boots and professional musicians producing songs in recording studios. And much more. I would love it if you would give yourself comparable experiences in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’s an excellent time to commune with the sources of things that nurture you and make your life better.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Unless you were

brought up by a herd of feral donkeys, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to embark on your second childhood. Unless you’re allergic to new ideas, the foreseeable future will bring you strokes of curious luck that inspire you to change and change and change your mind. And unless you are addicted to your same old stale comforts, life will offer you chances to explore frontiers that could expose you to thrilling new comforts.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): These days, my dear, your eccentric beauty is even more unkempt than usual. I like it. It entertains and charms me.

And as for your idiosyncratic intelligence: That, too, is messier and cuter and even more interesting than ever before. I’m inclined to encourage you to milk this unruly streak for all its potential. Maybe it will provoke you to experiment in situations where you’ve been too accepting of the stagnant status quo. And perhaps it will embolden you to look for love and money in more of the right places.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m giving you an ultimatum, Pisces: Within the next 144 hours, I demand that you become at least 33 percent happier.

Fifty percent would be even better. Somehow you’ve got to figure out what you can do to enhance your sense of well-being and increase your enjoyment of life. I’m sort of joking, but on the other hand I’m completely serious. From my perspective, it’s essential that you feel really good in the coming days. Abundant pleasure is not merely a luxury, but rather a necessity. Do you have any ideas about how to make this happen? Start here: 1. Identify your four most delightful memories, and re-enact them in your imagination. 2. Go see the people whose influences most thoroughly animate your self-love.

Homework: Look in the mirror and tell yourself an edgy but fun truth you’ve never spoken. If you care to share, write Truthrooster@gmail.com.

Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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Jose, CA, 95127, Arnulfo L. Davalos. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein./s/Arnulfo Davalos This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/23/2016. (pub Metro 8/31, 9/07, 9/14, 9/21/2016)

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My boyfriend and I have been together for a year and a half, and we really love each other. His parents adore me and are thrilled that he might not die alone. After his mom saw us being all cuddly in the supermarket, she warned him that we may be getting in people’s way or annoying them by “hanging all over each other.” (We aren’t doing anything dirty or gross—just hand-holding, play wrestling, quick kisses.) She wondered whether we do this because one of us is insecure. I felt sort of offended. We’re just affectionate. Most people who see us smile.—Lovey-Dovey There’s being cuddly at the supermarket, and then there’s being cuddly in a way that says, “We usually do this with whipped cream.”

Even if what you’re publicly displaying is affection, not foreplay, there are a number of reasons it may make onlookers uncomfortable: It’s them. (They were raised to think PDA is not okay.) It’s their relationship. (The more warm, cuddly, and adorbs you two are the more you remind them that their relationship temperature is about 3 degrees above “bitter divorce.”)

It’s the wrong time and place. (They’re watching you do huggy headlocks at Granny’s funeral.)

You’re actually onto something by being so physically demonstrative.

Charles Darwin observed that expressing the physical side of an emotion—that is, “the outward signs,” like the yelling that goes with rage— amps up the emotion. Modern research

finds that he was right.

For example, clinical psychologist Joan Kellerman and her colleagues had total strangers do something lovers do—gaze deeply into each other’s eyes.

Subjects who did this for just two minutes “reported significantly more feelings of attraction, interest, warmth, etc. for each other” than subjects in the “control” condition who spent the two minutes looking down at each other’s hands.

Research on touch has found similar effects. The upshot? Act cuddly-wuddly and cuddly-wuddly feelings should follow.

Maybe you can science his mom into feeling better by explaining this.

Consider that she may just be worried that you two are going to burn yourselves out. If you think that’s part of it, you might clue her in on what the greeting cards don’t tell you: Love is also a biochemical process, and a year and a half in, you’re surely out of the hormonal hurricane stage.

I love my girlfriend, but the other night on the phone, I said something that really hurt her feelings. I was out with my guy friends, and one said, “Get her flowers. Girls love that stuff.” I ran around in the middle of the night looking for them. Obviously, there were no florists open. I had to hit a slew of 7-Elevens. I came home with a rose and told her about my treasure hunt to find it. She loved it, and all was forgiven. For a flower? I don’t get it.—Temporary Jerk suggests you’re either a natural-born idiot or so in love that it makes you droolingly dim.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The celebration began in 2015 and continues through 2017.

On the 18th of September, a grand gala unfolds on the property for $200 per person.

Unlike the Japanese Tea Garden in

Golden Gate Park or the Friendship Garden in Kelley Park, Hakone was originally constructed as a private estate. Philanthropists Isabel and Oliver Stine attended the 1915 PanamaPacific International Exposition in San Francisco and became so obsessed with Japanese concepts that they decided to buy vacation property outside of Saratoga and build their own garden.

Isabel went to Japan, where she discovered the town of Hakone and later commissioned gardeners, designers and architects to build out the estate.

Initially, the Stines used the property as a summer or weekend retreat.

“Back then, there were no wineries or tech companies,” says Shozo Kagoshima, Hakone’s executive director and a Westmont High School graduate.

As we sat in Kagoshima’s office, he explains that it was pointless trying to determine which exact moment the estate and gardens officially “began,” so the organization opted for a multiyear centenary celebration. In pure Zen fashion, there was no beginning.

Following the Stines’ stewardship, a few subsequent owners operated the property for decades until the city of Saratoga purchased Hakone Gardens in 1966 to be a city park. Kagoshima and I agreed that eastern cycles of life, to this day, affect every aspect of the property and its current situation.

This year is not only the centenary of the estate’s inception, but also the 50th anniversary of Hakone’s era as a public facility. Saratoga, as a city, likewise celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Major spacetime trajectories are thus converging in a triple-shot of present-time awareness.

I picked a great moment to borrow a car and drive back up to Hakone.

Kagoshima and I walked around

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the gardens to contemplate the beginningless and endless existence of this fabulous place, where Japanese foliage effortlessly dovetails with California native wonders, where tortoise shell bamboo exists side by side with coastal redwoods and live oaks. As with many Japanese gardens, every component of the landscape operates in harmony with each other.

Every piece of the composition seems to exist for a reason: the arrangement of the pond and the waterfall, the placement of each rock and shrub, the schemes in which the paths snake their way through it all.

Even the Cultural Exchange Center, built as recently as 1991, contributes to the property by regularly hosting business meetings, exhibits and private events. Architects in Saratoga’s sister city of Muko designed the structure as a replica of a Kyoto tea merchant’s house. In a pure example of peace through citizen diplomacy and global exchange, the structure was shipped in pieces from Japan to Saratoga, then assembled by local carpenters in the mortise and tenon method without nails.

What’s more, despite the relative lack of distinct seasons in Santa Clara Valley compared to Japan, the foliage at Hakone does indeed evolve.

Nothing is permanent.

“When we hit the cold snap last November, things changed dramatically,” Kagoshima says. “The colors on the deciduous trees, they really changed.”

To this day, every facet of the Hakone property still radiates vibes of peace and tranquility. Structures installed by the Stines remain.

Weddings take place every weekend from March to November. Public tea ceremonies unfold on a regular basis, embroidering the threads of philosophy, tea and gardening. When navigating the trails at Hakone, surrounded by the infinite wisdom of Japanese garden aesthetics, one feels nowhere near Silicon Valley.

After we completed a few trails, Kagoshima gave me the lowdown on a four-part future plan for Hakone, recently approved by the Saratoga City Council. Historical buildings will be renovated. A new visitors’ area and gift shop will emerge. The pond will be overhauled, making the water slightly deeper so the fish can swim lower and remain healthy during the summer heat.

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they were just OK, and lacked any real pizazz. The chocolate tasted like they poured Hershey’s syrup over vanilla ice cream, and the strawberry was “strawberry” in name only.

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Gastronomy We sampled several breakfast items at Mo’s Campbell, including the Mo’tatta ($11.50)—a nice, light breakfast with the arugula, parmesan and ground turkey. The definite highlight, though, was the Nutella + Bacon-Stuffed French Toast ($12). Few things in life really live up to the hype, and this one was pretty incredible. Mo’s Almaden has a bevy of creative burgers, but their Hangover Hamburger ($13.50) topped with bacon, chorizo, sunny-side-up egg and wrapped in a brioche-style bun is the kind of heart-stopping excess that calls to me in my dreams. MC: A MA: A

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ITH THE OPENING of the new Mo’s Breakfast + Burger Joint in Almaden Valley, I was given the task of seeing how it compares with Mo’s original Campbell location. After visiting both, and with the new school year upon us, I thought it only fair to break out the professor’s cap.

Full disclosure: I visited Mo’s Almaden (MA) for lunch and Mo’s Campbell (MC) for breakfast, so this won’t be a direct apples-toapples comparison, but as they say—my class, my rules.

Geography Hard to beat Mo’s downtown Campbell location. Their patio makes for terrific people watching.

Also, as an added bonus, diners are situated just a few feet from the much-vaunted Campbell Farmers’ Market on Sundays. The only real downside can be finding—and sometimes paying—for parking.

Mo’s Almaden is located in a shopping center deep in The ’Den with plenty of free parking, and it has a really cushy al fresco dining setup complete with padded patio chairs and a cozy fireplace. They also have a full bar setup that serves wine and all manner of spirits. The only drawback here is the interior can get quite deafening with a full house. MC: B+ MA: A-

Humanities Mo’s Campbell seemed to rely on much more of a team effort in serving patrons, and while there were no real faux pas, I did feel like I constantly had to flag someone down for beverage refills. Sabrina, our server at Mo’s Almaden, did a terrific job of making sure all our needs were met. MC: B- MA: A

Alchemy What better way to start out your day at Mo’s Campbell than with their signature Bottomless Mo’mosa ($14), which is a bit boozy. But after three or four sips I didn't mind much. Since everyone in our party ordered burgers for lunch at Mo’s Almaden, we thought it appropriate to compliment them with shakes.

Their real ice cream shakes come in only the classic vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. The shakes might have been the low-light of both meals as

Zoology Unlike his father, my 5-year-old had the foresight to order the exact same thing at both locations, Kid’s Chicken Tenders ($6). I’ve got to say the dishes at both places came out looking and tasting remarkably similar. Of course, for scientific reasons, I had to sample it as well.

The chicken tenders come fried up flawlessly crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. The price point on their kids’ menu is fantastic.

MC: A MA: A After crunching some numbers, both Mo’s Campbell and Mo’s Almaden come out with very solid GPAs of 3.4 and 3.6, respectively.

They both scored outstanding marks on the culinary portion, with Mo’s Almaden getting the slight edge for its stellar service. This new Mo’s will definitely be a welcome new addition to the culinary-starved area of Almaden Valley.

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The deep-fried shrimp was crispy but too salty, so this dish was OK overall.

For desserts, the menu is quite standard, though there is a donut shortcake. We chose the crème brûlée, which was sweet and smooth.

While dining, we noted the cooks working in the kitchen through a doorway behind the bar. The entrance seemed unintentionally open, as if there was no good way to fit a door there without obstructing the bar. In Specials Valid for Dine-in only. general, the layout of the restaurant is odd, something like a converted real 4pm-close. All day Sat. estate office in a “V” shape. The hostess table at the front could easily have been a receptionist desk in a former life, and the large leather chairs are very comfortable for the caboose but make the space look crowded. But this building’s past doesn’t matter because, at present, it functions just fine as a restaurant—one with top-notch food and intriguing cocktails. —Ngoc Ngo

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