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Unfriendly Wager In his bid for a San Jose City Council seat, STEVE BROWN brags about his entrepreneurial savvy. Founder of a security firm that put 120 people to work in four states, the District 2 candidate won the San Jose-Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce’s endorsement over his labor-backed opponent, SERGIO JIMENEZ. But Brown, who excused himself from day-to-day management at Echelon Security to focus on his election run, might want to reconsider boasting about his record as “a successful businessman,” to quote his campaign website. Records indicate that Echelon put the squeeze on employees by paying them as little as possible—sometimes violating the law. The California Labor Commissioner recently They ordered Echelon to pay Did a fired minimum wageWhat? earning bookkeeper, LINDA FAIRFIELD, more SEND TIPS TO than $58,000 in unpaid FLY@ METRONEWS. overtime. Last year, a COM security guard named DANIEL SULLIVAN won a $5,700 judgment for being denied meal breaks and having to report to work early without pay. JUSTIN ADAMS landed a $4,700 claim against the company in 2014, while OBADIAH LEWIS filed a wrongful termination lawsuit this past March. Onestar reviews on Yelp and employer review sites echo similar problems. Calls for comment went to Brown’s voicemail, but he texted back to say that while he remains a shareholder in Echelon, he is no longer “an active managing board member.” The regulatory actions, however, took place before he stepped down in October 2015. In a labor hearing on Feb. 9, 2015, Brown even appeared in person as Echelon’s president.

“There isn’t much I would know about any of that,” he insisted by text. “I can get updates at the next shareholders meeting.”

Brown’s election opponent, Jimenez, called the labor violations another expression of Brown’s “dangerous ideology,” referencing Brown’s well-documented meltdown over LGBTQ issues.

Up for Debate REAL TALK Kierra Jackson (left) and other students in the Silicon Valley Urban Debate League have found their voices thanks to instructors like Shauntrice Martin (right).

SV Urban Debate League develops next gen of lawyers, judges

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IERRA JACKSON, a high school junior at East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy, has always had the gift of gab. Whether it be with friends or family, she’s never had a problem saying what’s on her mind.

But socializing in school, speaking in class, these were places Kierra often silenced herself, despite excelling academically. It wasn’t until after eighth grade, while attending a summer camp, that Kierra found her voice.

At the Silicon Valley Urban Debate League summer camp, Kierra watched the film The Great Debaters, with Denzel Washington as the inspirational professor and debate coach Melvin B. Tolson. Almost immediately, she felt a desire to join a team of people as passionate as her.

“When you think of debate, you think of politicians. And when you think of politicians, you don’t think of people of color or speaking for yourself,” Kierra says. As a young black woman, she connected the experiences of the film’s characters to her own experiences and decided it was time to speak out on behalf of her community.

Debating facts and figures on pressing issues can be daunting or even tedious, but Kierra saw an opportunity to develop skills that would help her face tough situations. “Just being able to

think on spot is a good skill, and using knowledge of the outside world mixed with common sense to make arguments is something I’ve used in competition and in my life in general,” she says, adding that her debate partner, Blanca Valencia, who is Latina, has experienced the world in similar ways. “As women of color, we feel the last two years have taken a toll for the worst. Debate is an outlet to shine a light on important issues.”

A criminal justice system that disproportionately arrests, imprisons and kills people of color. A presidential candidate who has called for the mass deportation of immigrants, whether it be for the color of the skin or their religion. Corporate greed and the pillaging of the earth’s natural resources.

All of these topics are discussed by the student members and mentors of the Silicon Valley Urban Debate League (SVUDL), which is part of the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues, a national non-profit organization that reaches middle school and high schoolage students through debate to increase their engagement in academics.

when they enter a courtroom and the only person who looks like them is the defendant, Brown says, noting that her courtroom staff features different ethnic backgrounds from African American to Asian and Latino, from deputies and court reporters to herself on the bench.

“When you come in here [people see that] you can be the defendant if you want to, but you could be any one of these roles also,” Brown says.

Brown admits there is still not nearly enough diversity on the bench, but numbers for the overall criminal justice system are unknown. J.J. Kapp, a supervisor in the county’s Public Defender Office, says there is no formal process to track statistics of the racial or ethnic background of staff, as this is not part of the hiring criteria.

However, Kapp notes, 45 percent of county judges are women, 10 percent Asian, 7 percent African American and 11 percent Hispanic.

SVUDL’s legal career mentor program connects debaters to local lawyers who work with them through high school and college until their first day of law school. Because the program is only in its second year, Smith says, they haven’t had many high school seniors, but all 45 SVUDL graduates went on to college.

The debate league expands the concept of who can have a career in law, Martin says, and students begin to see themselves in the field, using the voice they developed through debate to make structural changes to the legal system.

“I treat my students like my kids— some of them call me mom,” Martin says. “It can get a little exhausting when they call me or text me all times of the day and night—I mean, I’ve had students get locked up or pregnant, really struggling in college—but those extra hours I work are worth it.”

Destiny Anderson, a MexicanAmerican alumna of SVUDL, is now a college freshman at San Jose State University. She plans to double major in psychology and political science. Her story is similar to Kierra’s, in that she also attended a summer debate camp before joining the SVUDL family.

“Our program director, Shauntrice Martin, was a like a parental figure,” Anderson says. “I loved knowing I was in a whole other support system.

Before SVUDL, I always considered family to be blood relatives. But when I joined the program, the word ‘family’ changed to mean the people who care about my well being. It felt like I had gained 30 family members.”

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SVUDL became a nonprofit after piloting two programs in 2014 at Eastside College Preparatory in East Palo Alto and Overfelt High School in East San Jose. It’s now reaching 150 students through their partnering schools, which include: Eastside College Prep, Overfelt High School, Oak Grove High School, Silver Creek High School and East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy. SVUDL offers an avenue to youth of color to develop their voice and articulate the inequities they see in society through research. In addition, the students seek to improve the criminal justice system.

“In a world like ours, people of color, people in lower socioeconomic circumstances and, as we see a repeat of history, those with different ideas from mainstream society, are shunned, isolated, oppressed and disenfranchised,” says Trinya Smith, SVUDL’s program director. “In both the legal and political world, our students are unrepresented.

SVUDL aims to help shift that.”

Both Smith, who goes by Ms. T, and Shauntrice Martin, founder of SVUDL, are black women with debate backgrounds. Smith was a student in the Baltimore Urban Debate League, which awarded her a full scholarship to attend Towson University. She was part of debate through college and traveled to Eastern Europe to discuss public policy.

She also traversed the U.S. to work with youth and develop public policy reforms.

“All of the program staff are former debaters, black women and people of color who have been through similar situations as a kid,” Martin says. “I’ve been homeless before and my mom was a janitor. I was the first to go to college and the way we engage with students is very different from how those from a different backgrounds would engage with our students.”

Martin became interested in debate as a student at the University of Louisville, where she faced a variety of hardships with few people to reach out to for help.

In her first year of college she was failing her classes and considered dropping out. Instead she joined the debate team and things began to turn around.

She received a scholarship and found community, as many of her peers were also first-generation college students.

After college, she took a job as a teaching assistant with the Oak Grove juvenile detention center in Virginia. During this time she began a debate project, developing curriculum for the youth to engage in community change.

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SOMETHING IN THE WATER Santa Clara Valley will soon fluoridate the public water supply, but activists are gearing up for a fight.

Activists Threaten to Sue over Water Fluoridation

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Seven decades since American cities began fluoridating public water supplies to prevent tooth decay, the South Bay remains something of a holdout. It’s the largest metropolitan region in the nation to not fluoridate its water.

That’s about to change, but not without some pushback. Activists have threatened to sue the Santa Clara Valley Water District—which provides flood control and drinking water to 1.9 million people—to prevent it from adding the mineral, which it plans to start doing in December.

The plaintiffs, groups called Safe Pure Water and Healthy Alternatives to Pesticides, protested the fluoridation at a water district meeting Tuesday night.

“Water district officials should stick to the agency’s legal charter and not masquerade as dentists prescribing fluoride to patients they have never even met,” said Brandi Madison, the group’s spokeswoman.

Two-thirds of the country drinks tap water treated with the chemical, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call one of the top public health achievements of the 20th century.

Although fluoridation is common, it has not been universally accepted. Detractors criticize the practice of adding it to the public tap as mass medication. Others take issue with the chemical itself, which they see as an environmental pollutant. A 2015 study linked fluoride with

the prevalence of attention deficit disorders in the U.S. Public health officials, however, say fluoridation is a boon for low-income communities who are unable to afford regular dental care.

Santa Clara Valley’s water district, which provides wholesale drinking water for 1.8 million people, debated the issue for years before deciding to jump on board with the other 75 percent of the country.

Marty Grimes, a spokesman for the district, said the agency has been raising money with help from local nonprofits. The Santa Clara County Health Trust donated $1 million for the cause, with another $900,000 coming from the First 5 California and $500,000 from the California Dental Association Foundation.

Inmates Suspend Hunger Strike Santa Clara County inmates last week called off a five-day hunger strike after a discussion with jail officials.

Hundreds of inmates, who say they went five days without food to protest excessive solitary confinement, broke their fast with pizza and a movie, X-Men: Apocalypse, 50-year-old inmate Larry Lucero told San Jose Inside.

“I feel like it was worth our effort and the pain that I’m feeling right now,” he said in a phone call from the jail.

Correctional deputies led Lucero throughout San Jose’s Main Jail to let others know that they could suspend their protest. In each unit, he said, he was met with applause.

The Sheriff ’s Office expressed relief about the strike ending. “We look forward to maintaining open lines of communication as we move ahead with reforms in the future,” sheriff spokesman Sgt. Richard Glennon said. He stressed that the conversation with inmates wasn’t a negotiation but a discussion about changes already set in motion.

The biggest change will have a huge impact on Lucero, who spent the past 1,500 days in solitary confinement while awaiting trial. Prosecutors accused him of being a high-ranking Nuestra Familia gang member. In 2013, he was indicted with 47 codefendants in what prosecutors have called the biggest gang case in South Bay history.

The county already plans to revise the jail classification system, which relegates inmates deemed high-risk to indefinite isolation without access to rehabilitative programs.

While the sheriff’s enforcement deputies came out in support of inmate demands, the union of officers staffing the county’s two jails condemned the strike. “It is unfortunate that some may want to try and score political points by trying to disrupt what has become a collaborative effort to improve our custody facilities,” said Lt. Amy Le, president of the Santa Clara County Correctional Peace Officers’ Association.

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HALLOWEEN GUIDE

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ALLOWEEN IS THE holiday when we become obsessed with the things that scare us. We watch more scary movies. We purchase scary costumes. We visit haunted houses. We put Donald Trump on the national ticket. Basically, we buy all the way in. But what truly frightens us isn’t a foul-mouthed Leprechaun, an anemic girl with a grudge or yet another Mike Myers movie—although a new Austin Powers or Shrek would be terrifying! It’s the mysterious places that never go out of season. Old hotels, shady restaurants and even a few hiking trails top the list of South Bay’s most notorious haunts. We tracked down the stories behind the region’s biggest urban legends. Most of these spots are open to the public, but enter at your own risk.

Agnews SANTA CLARA

The Great Earthquake of 1906, and the ensuing fires, decimated San Francisco. But the temblor also rocked the South Bay. The old Agnews State Hospital—originally knowns as “The Great Asylum for the Insane”—collapsed in the quake and more than 100 patients died in the catastrophe. Today, the rebuilt treatment building sits at the center of the historic Sun MicrosystemsAgnews complex in Santa Clara. It is recognized by the National Park Service for its architecture and history of pioneering modern mental health practices. Others recognize it as a

hotbed for paranormal activity. Also, Green Day recorded their “Basket Case” video here.

China Hole MORGAN HILL

One of the better and more demanding hiking trails in the South Bay, China Hole is a beautiful trail with a dark past. Many of its hikers try and stay as far away as possible from the creek. The story goes that a woman’s ex-lover drowned her here in the 1800s. Her angry spirit reportedly still haunts the creek, taking cheating men who visit the creek along with her.

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While many South Bay suburbs can feel desolate after dark, there is only one true ghost town in the region.

Founded in 1876 as an outpost along the South Pacific Coast Railroad, the town’s original inhabitants manned the two drawbridges at either end of Station Island. Over the ensuing

century the railway stop—located between Alviso and Fremont—drew many settlers, but the soggy marshland underneath the once-bustling town has swallowed up the 90 buildings that once stood there. Visitors are not allowed to see Drawbridge these days, though adventure seekers often trespass.

The best way to get a legal view is from the Altamont Commuter Express, the Capitol Corridor and the Coast Starlight trains that pass nearby.

Grandview Restaurant SAN JOSE

Overlooking the South Bay, high up in the foothills along Mt. Hamilton Road, the Grandview Restaurant treats patrons to good food, tasty libations, live music and an epic vista of Silicon Valley.

It’s also rumored that one guest returns more frequently than any other—the ghost of a young girl, gazing out at the hazy yellow glow of San Jose. People have tried to approach her in the past, but she vanishes before they can get close enough to grab her. Also, lights have been known to flicker erratically and turn on all by themselves.

FREMONT

Depending on your point of view, Joaquin Murrieta was either a heroic Robin Hood-like figure or a ruthless bandit. Though facts are hard to come by, Murietta was a Mexican national drawn to Northern California during the Gold Rush. Legend has it that he was driven from his lucrative claim by white men who raped his wife. After that, he became an outlaw, specializing in doling out vigilante justice. The Legend of Zorro may have been influenced by the tales surrounding Murrieta’s life and maybe—just maybe—his cabeza remains buried in a glass jar somewhere in the foothills between San Jose and Fremont. Happy head-hunting!

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Great America SANTA CLARA

No, we’re not talking about the amusement park’s annual Halloween Haunt, in which costumed staffers chase and ambush paid visitors. The ghosts who haunt Great America in Santa Clara trace back to the tragic deaths of people killed on the rides and the man who froze to death in the Roast Beef Shop’s walk-in freezer. A man’s ghost has reportedly flickered into view on security cameras by the Big Arcade and Drop Zone. Throughout the park, visitors have also reported inexplicable cold spots, taps on the shoulder and whispers of disembodied voices.

Hicks Road SAN JOSE

This dark myth is a golden oldie. The eerie Hicks Road in San Jose passes through a wild area of the county, thus making it a prime backdrop for a pervasive urban legend. It is said that albinos, or sometimes witches or recluses, angrily chase trespassers who wander (or deliberately joyride) through their territory.

Once important rail stops for loggers in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the towns of Lexington and Alma boasted stage stops, saloons, hotels and general stores. The remains of the once-bustling way station have long since been submerged beneath a murky reservoir. The underwater ghost towns just off of Highway 17

by Los Gatos were largely abandoned and demolished to make way for the James J. Lenihan dam built in 1950. When the water level falls low enough, remnants can be seen of roads and occasionally the specters of long-dead denizens.

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It’s become almost a rite of passage for Milpitas high school kids to seek out the ghost of murder victim Marcy Conrad, who was killed by her boyfriend on Marsh Road. Unlike the back stories of most urban legends, this murder was real and well-documented. The area of Marsh Road where the ghost is said to roam has long been closed off by law enforcement, so leave the Mystery Machine at home.

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Folks from all over the country are familiar with this quirky tourist trap in the Santa Cruz Mountains, thanks to its iconic bumper stickers. Tour guides are happy to explain how gravitational and magnetic anomalies are at play.

While inside the the wonky cabin— which is tilted at a severe angle at the top of a steep hill—balls appear to roll uphill. Standing outside the structure, people seem to grow and shrink before your very eyes. Scientists at Berkeley have explained these phenomena away as optical illusions, but people remain convinced that something supernatural is afoot among the towering redwoods.

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Back before it was used as a city building, the Gilroy Hotel was a safe haven for travelers going back and forth to the Bay Area. It housed families and lonesome strangers, some more sinister than others. According to a report, two ghosts, a little girl and an older woman haunt the building. One night a man came in

and killed them during their stay, leaving their souls trapped in the old hotel forever. Some say that they have seen the little girl looking out the window, while another patron reportedly had his neck touched by a passing spirit.

Peninsula School MENLO PARK

Before it became an elite private academy, Menlo Park’s Peninsula School housed happy newlyweds James and Carmelita Coleman. The much-older Mr. Coleman built the gleaming white mansion in 1880 as a gift for his new bride. But their honeymoon bliss was cut short by a stray bullet that fatally struck the newly minted Mrs. Coleman on a trip to San Francisco. Her bereaved husband sold the mansion and never returned. But his young bride’s spirit stayed in the house he made for her.

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There are several versions of the campfire story that involves the small pond in Santa Teresa Springs, but they all end the same way—a girl named Dottie is pulled under the water by a giant hand. Sometimes there is a subplot involving Dottie being angry at her parents and somehow mustering up the physical strength to hang them from the rafters in the nearby barn.

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Now a popular hiking destination, Mount Madonna’s Sprig Trail is also popular with undead spirits. Henry Miller, one of the most prosperous cattle farmers of the Gold Rush era, had a summer home at Mount Madonna County Park that he shared with his daughter, Sarah. At age 8, Sarah Miller tragically died in a horseriding accident.

To this day, hikers and campers have seen the little girl roaming around the ruins of her father’s mansion, as well as outside along the trail. She is identified by either the frilly white dress she wears, or is seen with the horse that ultimately killed her. Some campers have awoken in the morning to find small foot and hoof prints around their tent. People leaving the park have also reported seeing Sarah trying to hitch a ride on the side of the road or even sitting in the backseat of their cars.

Toys “R” Us SUNNYVALE

The spirit that haunts Sunnyvale’s Toys “R” Us lost his leg and his life nearly a century before the store broke ground along East El Camino Real in the 1970s. In one telling, a poor minister named Johnny Johnson was chopping wood while agonizing over unrequited love. The woman he secretly adored had married a wealthy lawyer far above Johnny’s station. In the throes of heartbreak, he swung the axe right onto his leg and slowly died in a puddle of blood and tears. Since Toys “R” Us erected its big-box shop over the scene of poor Johnny’s tragic demise, he’s said to stalk the aisles, flinging merchandise off the shelves and turning faucets on and off.

White Witch FREMONT

In the Niles Canyon foothills, a winding two-lane road that connects Fremont to Livermore and Pleasanton is said to be home to the White Witch.

Many say she is the ghost of a teen who was killed in a car accident on the way to prom. Most tellings follow the archetypal “vanishing hitchhiker” urban legend. A young girl, dressed in all white, will ask solitary drivers for a ride to San Francisco but vanish while being transported across the bay.

Others claim to have seen this spectre while walking along the railroad tracks cutting through the canyon.

Winchester Mystery House SAN JOSE

When gun magnate William Winchester died in 1881, he left his widow $20 million and the curse of being haunted by the ghosts of all the people killed by his eponymous line of rifles. Sarah Winchester tried to outrun them at a psychic’s behest, moving from New Haven, Conn., to San Jose, where she bought an old farmhouse and turned it into a rambling mansion. The Victorian-style home has 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, 47 fireplaces, 40 staircases, 13 bathrooms and nine kitchens—built, it is said, in an effort to protect its owner from the gun-slain spirits.

Preservationists recently discovered yet another room, which Sarah sealed after the 1906 earthquake, to trap the ghosts she thought caused the quake.

Since her death in 1922, it’s said that Sarah’s ghost haunts the labyrinth house of mystery.

Yoshihiro Uchida Hall SAN JOSE

It’s well-known that San Jose State University (SJSU) was used as a processing site for Japanese internees during WWII. Students and staff have long claimed to hear faint human crying and voices coming from this building, named after SJSU alum and judo coach whose parents and siblings were registered in the building before being sent to camps in the Imperial Valley.

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Rockin’ Halloween Parties at The Quarter Note OCT 27-29 Three nights of wild costumes, live

music, dancing and spooky drink specials. Costume Contest with $100 in cash and prizes. 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale

Winchester Mystery House Candlelight Tours OCT 28-31 New to the Winchester tours are the limited-edition candlelight voyages.

These spooky journeys go through 110 rooms of the world-famous—and supposedly haunted—mansion.

Nighttime tours are offered only on Friday the 13th and select nights in October. Tickets sell out fast, especially for Halloween.

525 S Winchester Blvd, San Jose

OCT. 28-29 Get freaky at Municipal Stadium this Halloween. Slurp 80-plus sudsy potions from regional breweries, feast on devilish dishes, show off your best scream at the photo booth, dress up for a costume contest, bob for apples, hunt for hidden treats, decorate pumpkins and more.

588 E Alma ave, San Jose

Scene! @ The Ritz featuring Rex Goliath OCT 28 Show!Time Productions will host their second annual Scene! @ The Ritz Halloween Party. Four local indie bands perform: Containher, Mothers Worry, Silent Pictures, and the indomitable Rex Goliath. Enjoy $1 PBRs till 10pm.

400 S First St, San Jose

Hip Hop Halloween at Back Bar SoFA Kicking it old school, Back Bar will have Yukmouth from the The Luniz performing the Saturday before Halloween, while the connected

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Halloween party at The Oxford OCT. 28, 29 & 31 Celebrate Halloween with live music Friday and Saturday. Specialty cocktails designed to thrill and shock the palate go along with an Instagram contest, where a special prize will be awarded to the most imaginative post using London walls as a backdrop. On Halloween night guests can get select cocktails for half off from 5-10pm.

195 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

Halloween Parties AT Britannia Arms OCT. 29 & 31 Britannia Arms has two San Jose locations, and they’re throwing multiple parties. On the Saturday before Halloween, Almaden Brit will have a live DJ, drink specials and a costume party with cash prizes. Two nights later, Downtown Brit’s bash will have DJ Raheem on the turntables, drink specials and $500 in costume prizes.

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1071 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

Halloween Party at Saddle Rack OCT 29 Live music will be performed by The County Cougars and Diablo Road, and there will be $2,500 offered in cash prizes, so come dressed to impress—scary or cute accepted. The night will also be hosted by KSFO DJ Katie Green.

42011 Boscell Rd, Fremont

Halloween Party at East Coast Alice OCT 29 WALKING DEAD Calvary Cemetary puts on one hell of a Dia de Los Muertos event.

Halloween at Woodhams Lounge OCT 29 Woodhams Sports Lounge gets a spooky makeover just in time for Halloween. There will be a potluck, karaoke, a cash prize costume contest and drink specials including $2 shots.

4475 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara

Halloween Dance Extravaganza at davids OCT 29 Burn off those candy calories at David’s Restaurant Halloween Extravaganza. Complimentary appetizers will be served as partiers dance to today’s hits with DJ Rawk.

Dress to impress because there will be prizes for the best costumes.

5151 Stars and Stripes Dr, Santa Clara

Halloween Party at Jack Rose OCT 29 Take a step back in time, dress up

and enjoy classic drinks at Jack Rose’s Halloween party. Best costume will win a $300 cash prize and DJ Dinero will spin live all night. $10 cover charge. 18840 Saratoga-Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos

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Halloween Dance Party at Steamer’ s Grillhouse

The San Jose Museum of Art celebrates Día de los Muertos with live folkloric dances, cultural arts and crafts and other family friendly activities. There will also be an altarbuilding demonstration to celebrate the lives of those who’ve passed away. Admission is free and the event runs 11am-5pm.

110 S Market St, San Jose

OCT 29 Steamer’s Grillhouse in Los Gatos has held an annual Halloween party 25 years running. Once again the party will provide great drinks, live music and dancing.

31 University Ave, Los Gatos

Drop Dead Sexy at charley’ s lg OCT 29 Charley’s LG was awarded Best Place to Dance in Silicon Valley for four years running, and this Halloween should be no different. The weekend will be packed with amazing costumes, and a live performance by DJ Jose Melendez of Wild 94.9.

15 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

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A truly spook-tacular Halloween Party features live music by Ric Hines of One Country. Enjoy tasty treats and creepy cocktail specials throughout the night. There will be door prizes and a costume contest.

Winner of best costume gets two tickets to see YES perform at City National Civic.

14560 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

The Ritz 2nd Annual Halloween Costume Contest OCT 29 Throw on your best costume for a chance to win $1,000 in prize money. DJ Basura will be hand spinning ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and favorites from today. 400 S First St, San Jose

I ZZ YOU Drinkers & Hell Raisers play Club Fox Oct. 29.

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Lynda Mortensen’s Bay Area Tributes Halloween Party OCT 29 Check out live music at Club Fox in Redwood City, featuring Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers, a ZZ Top tribute band and Joyride, a tribute to The Cars. An AC/DC tribute band will also play all the hits. 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

Trick or Treat Costume Party at The GlassHouse OCT 29 Spooky appetizers and specialty cocktails will be available at one of San Jose’s premiere event venues.

2 S Market St, San Jose

Halloween Rock ‘ n ’ Blues Bash OCT 29 Every year at Blinky’s Can’t Say, costumed partygoers let loose for a night of drinking, dancing and live music. The event includes a costume contest for cash and prizes. 1031 Monroe St, Santa Clara

Halloween Party/ Costume Contest at Court’ s Lounge OCT 29 & 31 Two Halloween parties and costume contests will take place, with a $200 costume contest winner named each night at 10pm. 2425 Bascom Ave, Campbell

7th Annual Día de Los Muertos OCT 29 & NOV 5 One of San Jose’s premier Day of the Dead events, Día de Los Muertos at Calvary Cemetery is a cultural and spiritual celebration that honors deceased ancestors. 2650 Madden Ave, San Jose

La Ultima Parada OCT 30 La Ultima Parada returns this year with traditional dances and musical performances to honor the living and the dead. There will be a “camposanto,” where visitors can honor iconic Latino artists and entertainers. 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose

Great America Halloween Haunt California’s Great America transforms into the fright fest Halloween Haunt. In addition to the regular roller coasters and rides, Halloween Haunt features eight horror-filled mazes, three spooky live shows and three “scare zones” between the attractions. It’s a little intense, so Halloween Haunt is not recommended for children under 13 and and the faint of heart. 4701 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara

Jacobs Farm Pumpkin Patch Martial Cottle Park will have a pumpkin patch, corn maze and family fun. Open seven days a week, 10am-7pm. 5283 Snell Ave, San Jose

Dead Time Dreams The Dead Time Dreams haunted house returns with “Grimm Fairy Tales” and “Fear-o-Phobia,” where imagination and fear becomes reality. Open Thursday through Sunday. 2501 Tully Rd, San Jose

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Wed, 7:30pm & 9pm, $15 Aquarius Theatre, Palo Alto For one night only, fans of “Wonderwall” and “Champagne Supernova” will unite under one roof for the premiere of Supersonic, the new documentary that chronicles the rise and fall of one of the U.K.’s most recognizable (and loathed) pop bands: Oasis.

Produced by the same team behind Amy, a 2015 documentary on Amy Winehouse, the film details the band’s career throughout the 1990s, starting with their modest beginnings playing pubs in Glasgow and ending with their Aug. 10, 1996, performance in Knebworth, England, in front of 250,000 fans. (AS)

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Wed, 9pm, Free Cafe Stritch, San Jose With 17 releases available for streaming on Bandcamp, singer and songwriter Joseph Demaree is certainly prolific. The traveling troubadour released his latest effort, Sleeping on a Cloud in Heaven, in November 2015. The collection of somber solo performances was recorded in Maui. The island’s name conjures sunshine and big surf in the minds of would-be tourists, but is actually one of the wetter climes in the entire U.S. Sleeping on a Cloud is rainy-day music, to be sure. Listen to Demaree’s mournful melodies and haunting acoustic arrangements at Cafe Stritch’s mid-week indie-rock hangout, Wax Wednesday. (TJ)

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Wed, 6:30pm, $8-$22 Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto

Thu, 8pm, $35-$50 San Jose Stage Theatre, San Jose

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Robert Lang has been studying and perfecting the centuries-old art of origami for more than 40 years. With his eye for precision and perfection, Lang has made over 500 design catalogues and diagrams showcasing his work. He uses multiple aspects of design, including engineering, mathematics and science to create his intricate paper figures.

Lang’s design theories have been used in other areas including airbag design, expandable space telescopes and medical devices.

His work has also been shown in some of the world’s most revered galleries. (TJ)

Plenty are familiar with this campy, cult classic. Milquetoast lovers Brad and Janet discover their wild sides after their car breaks down outside an eerie mansion inhabited by a transvestite doctor and his wacky entourage. Still, this forthcoming production promises to be unlike any you’ve ever seen. Through a mixture of virtual scenery and live acting, SJ Stage aims to breathe new life into the gender-bending antics of Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his guests. Get ready to dress up in your best Rocky Horror costume and do the “Time Warp,” while helping raise money for the St. Baldricks’ Foundation. The show runs from through Nov. 5. (TJ)

Barbara Undershaft is determined to give back to the poor through good deeds. Everything is going well until her estranged father, Andrew Undershaft, shows up—donating the profits from his weapons manufacturing business to Barbara’s beloved Salvation Army. This George Bernard Shaw play anticipated the devastation and destitution that mechanized warfare and the industrial revolution would soon bring to the world. At a time when our country’s politics are so poisonous and polarizing, Shaw's play serves as a reminder that we must always question the intentions of wealthy hucksters promising quick fixes. Major Barbara runs through Nov. 20. (TJ)

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STRANGER THINGS

BRAND NEW & THE FRONT BOTTOMS

Oct 31 at SJSU Event Center

THE STRUTS

Nov 1 at The Catalyst

MARC ANTHONY

Nov 4 at SAP Center

TONY BENNETT

Nov 5 at City National Civic

CHARLIE PUTH

Nov 7 at City National Civic

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Nov 10 at The Ritz

PRETTY LIGHTS

Nov 11 at City National Civic

BILL MAHER

Nov 12 at City National Civic

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STRANGER THINGS LISTENING PARTY Fri, 6pm, Free Streetlight Records, San Jose Stranger Things has garnered a dedicated audience of synth lovers and ’80s horror buffs since it first premiered on Netflix back in July. To celebrate the release of the show’s soundtrack on vinyl, Streetlight is hosting a listening party, complete with Christmas lights, Dungeons & Dragons, Eggo waffles and a Halloween costume contest. Grab your copy of the Moog-y, John Carpenter-esque score by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of the Austin band S U R V I V E. Streetlight will be carrying plenty of copies of the special edition vinyl box set. (AS)

MAKING CONTACT Fri, 11am, $6-$10 NUMU, Los Gatos Imagination is paramount at the Mountain View-based Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, or SETI. As such, the organization, which continually scans the heavens for signs of sentient life, established its Artists in Residence Program back in 2010 to create an open dialog between artists and scientists. Featuring pieces by these artists, “Making Contact” will feature works that explore the origins of our universe, our role as inhabitants, the nature and prevalence of life, and repurposed technology. The exhibit marks the first SETI AIR group show and promises to feature truly out-of-this world creativity. (JT)

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Fri, 8pm, $15-$40 The Tabard Theatre Company, San Jose

Sat, 7:30 pm, $15 Little Boxes Theater, San Francisco

The German Jewish philosopher Edith Stein converted to Catholicism after reading the works of the Carmelite Order and serving as a nurse during World War I. Through her gracious acts and love of the church, Stein was ordained as a novice and took the name of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Even after Stein and her sister were sent to the Netherlands for safety from the Nazis, both were arrested and taken to Auschwitz, where they died in the gas chambers. The play, which runs through Nov. 20, is a tribute to Stein and women of faith who put their beliefs first in times of turmoil. (TJ)

San Jose-based cellist, producer and artistic director Cellista (née Freya Seeburger) is a classical musician with deep roots in hip hop, metal, and electronic music. Her latest venture, Finding San Jose, is an ode to the city she calls home.

Cellista is now transforming her full-length album into theatrical form by interweaving film, dance and music in a one-night performance of Finding San Jose.

Choreographed and performed by burlesque dancer Mojo DeVille and Lilith Ransom, of Ransom Dance, and accompanied by pianists Peter Colclasure and Naomi Stine, Cellista will visually and aurally transport audiences from “St. James Park” to “A Conversation at Trial’s.” (AS)

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ALIENS FAR OUT Giorgio Tsoukalos, host of ‘Ancient Aliens’ became a bona fide internet meme, thanks to his wild hair and even wilder theories.

The inaugural Alien Con mixes science fact, fiction

BY SEAN MCCOURT

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RE WE ALONE in the universe? For millennia, humans have speculated about other worlds and the beings that might inhabit them.

From the priests of ancient Carthage to Carl Sagan, sages and scientists have long pondered the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

This question strikes at the heart of our desire to understand our own origins—propelling both earnest, academic inquiries and kitschy pop culture.

The inaugural Alien Con, an entire convention geared toward fans of the television show Ancient Aliens, aims to cover everything alien. The three-day event, which comes to the Santa Clara Convention Center this weekend, casts a wide net. With its tagline—“Science Fact.

Science Fiction. Science Future”— Alien Con will feature the latest in extraterrestrial science, sci-fi authors and actors, and plenty of speculation.

First aired as a one-off special in 2009, Ancient Aliens eventually morphed into a full-fledged series, drawing devotees who buy into far out theories—such as those espoused by Giorgio Tsoukalos, who has suggested that aliens may have visited and shared technology with ancient human civilizations—as well as those who just enjoy the show with tongue in cheek. The program just completed its 11th season on the cable channel HISTORY. Among the many guests scheduled to appear at the convention is Kevin Burns, the creator and executive producer of the show. Burns says the idea behind Ancient Aliens was to update Chariots of the Gods?, a 1968 book by Erich von Daniken, which proposed that the religions and technologies of ancient civilizations

could have been given to them by extraterrestrial beings.

“Why do archaeologists dig, why does humanity dig?” Burns asks. “The answer, to me, is we are looking for God, we’re looking for evidence of where we come from.

We are a species with collective amnesia. We do not know our origins. We have science and technology and archeology that attempts to tell us where we come from. And we have religion that attempts to tell us where we come from. But we really don’t know.”

In each episode, a variety of hosts and contributors are interviewed about ancient sites and stories. They then present possible explanations for each of them—including theories that aliens from another world helped influence life as we know it today.

“The beauty of the show is that the narrator presents some things that are absolutely fact, but everything else that the narrator presents is a question,” Burns says of Ancient Aliens. “In other words, ‘Could this be true?’ We allow the people with the theories to present their interpretations of things that are not known.”

In an attempt to broaden the convention’s appeal and scope, Burns has also invited scientists from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, comic book writers and illustrators, as well as many of the stars and creative minds behind hit science fiction franchises such as Alien, Lost in Space and Godzilla.

“I think the beauty of ‘Ancient Aliens’ is that we’re open-minded,” Burns says. “We’re not telling people that aliens came here. We’re saying: ‘What if something else explains the things that we cannot get an answer to?’ And I think that’s the joy of the show. I think that’s the reason people have come back to it over and over.

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WHO ARE YOU? Jose Antonio Vargas says most young, white Americans are disconnected from their heritage.

Race Relations DURING THE PRODUCTION of his first film, Jose Antonio Vargas came to the conclusion that a large segment of the population had no idea who they were.

An undocumented immigrant of Filipino descent, Vargas is hyperaware of his own heritage—as is much of the United States. The Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist made waves in 2011 after penning an essay for The New York Times Magazine, in which he publicly declared his A Conversation on undocumented status. That same year he founded Resegregation + Define American, a nonprofit organization that works The Movement for to raise awareness of immigration issues in the U.S. Racial Justice Vargas, who participates in a group discussion on racial Oct 27, $5-$20 equality at MACLA this week, says he realized in those MACLA, San Jose years that the group he hoped to reach with Documented— namely white Americans—were woefully ill-equipped to even think about the immigration issue, because they lacked the language to do so, and because most are so disconnected from their own immigrant past.

“When you ask white people to explain themselves, they have no idea how to do it,” he says. It’s a fact that is made painfully clear in Vargas’ follow-up to Documented, the MTV special White People. In clips from the program, we see a litany of young, white Americans who are uncomfortable talking about race, and who seem to know little or nothing of their European ancestry. When asked, “Where are you from?” many of the people interviewed for White People would give Vargas answers like, “I would just consider myself white” and “white is the default—it’s the default race.”

What too few realize, Vargas says, is that whiteness is a construction inexorably linked to immigration. “When Europeans came to the U.S., they weren’t ‘white,’” he observes. “They became ‘white’ when they came here.” With his new non-profit, EmergingUS.com, Vargas hopes to drill down further into this issue by asking, “In a country that is being remade by immigration, what is the emerging American identity?”

At MACLA, Vargas will be one of many on a panel engaging in “A Conversation on Resegregation + the Movement for Racial Justice Now.” Moderated by KQED’s Queena Kim, the discussion is connected to a new book by Jeff Chang, titled We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation.

Chang spoke with Metro about his book back in September. —Nick Veronin

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Eight Soundsuits along with three video works by Cave, as well as a recently completed documentary on the artist, titled “Here”. “Soundsuits” are full body-size sculptures made of everything from collected and repurposed buttons, to

wooden sticks, beaded baskets, doilies and sequined fabric.

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“Cement Prairie: The History and Legacy of the 1952 American Indian Urban Relocation Program.” An exhibition that explores the genesis, rollout and impact of the American Indian Relocation Program initiated by the U.S. government in 1952. Nov 4-Jun 25. Los Gatos.

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“Festivals of India.”The works featured in Festivals of India were created by over 90 artists ages 4–12 with media of their choice through the India Community Center’s (ICC) Annual Children’s Art Contest.

Thru Nov 27. “Día de los Muertos Altar Installation” by artist Lissa Jones.Built in the Oaxacan tradition in celebration. Thru Nov 6. San Jose.

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California History Exhibit always on display. “Coriolis and Torqueri: Bruce Beasley Recent Work.” Thru Dec 4.

“Crossing Cultures: Belle Yang, A Story of Immigration.”

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“De Anza & Foothill Faculty/ Staff Art Show.” Art and photography created by students at De Anza College.

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“The Wireless Age: Electric Entrepreneurs before Silicon Valley.” Thru Oct 27. “Tattooed and Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History” Thru Dec 31. “Painting the Town: The Work of Rey Giese.” Thru July 30. San Jose.

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“Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.” SJMA is the only West Coast venue for the latest global overview of design today, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s popular contemporary design triennial.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “The California Art Quilt Revolution: From The

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“Francisco “Pancho” Jimenez: Excavations and Interpretations.” Thru Oct 30.

Wendy Red Star. Thru Oct 30.

“Polarscapes: Sculpted by Wind and Water” by Elaine Heron.

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“Best of the Y2K16 Int'l Live Looping Festival,” featuring a Tribute to the Loopers of Mexico. Oct 19 to TBD. San Jose.

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“More the Merrier” featuring Avery Palmer, Monica Valdez, Dorit Elisha, Alexander Eischen, Alyssa Eustaquio, Steve Clark. Nov 4, 6-9pmDec 2, 6-9pm. San Jose.

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“If Looks Could Kill” by Adam Porwol. San Jose.

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“Love is Transitory” by Josh Marcotte. Photos of the shifting landscape of our everyday streets and the places that become home when the ones we love leave.

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“Turbo” by Hot Fudge. Oct 28. “Frida and Friends #2.”

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LITHGOW DIVIDED In ‘Raising Cain,” shot in Palo Alto and Mountain View, John Lithgow pulls multiple faces.

Collector’s edition of ‘Raising Cain’ provides new insights into film

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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E LIVE IN in an age allergic to magnificence in acting—we call it camp, we call it ham, when we ought to show similar skepticism to thespians who prefer a dull, “natural” demeanor. True, Samuel L. Jackson is one of the hardest working men in showbiz, and he loves flamboyance.

John Lithgow, currently in the hit The Accountant, is capable of reticent

performances; then again he went rich and strange in the multiplepersonality role of Dr. Carter Nix in Raising Cain (1992), probably the best movie ever made in Palo Alto.

Shout Factory’s Raising Cain: The Collector’s Edition includes both the released version and the recut version by the Dutch archivist and critic Peet Gelderblom. Gelderblom copied and rearranged Cain in accordance to the first version of Raising Cain’s script, titled Father’s Day. Director Brian De Palma had recut the film before release, sacrificing the dreamy, female-centric quality of the first draft in favor of a blunter coherence. It was forecast that film fans would be able to recut

favorite movies, back when digital editing first became popular. What’s surprising is that De Palma liked and endorsed the Gelderblom version when he saw it online.

As Gelderblom puts it, De Palma is a man with “an already divisive filmography” and Raising Cain is sometimes hard to defend. It’s a parody of helicopter parenting, with plot elements whisked out of Psycho and Peeping Tom. And it’s a remarkably aestheticized shocker of set pieces, dreams, and fantasies, leading to a crafty triple-level payoff at an El Camino Real motel’s parking lot during a sudden thunderstorm.

The hulking Lithgow is the benign pediatrician Nix, spurred into crisis by the discovery of the infidelity of his wife Jenny (Lolita Davidovich) on Valentine’s Day. The bad news worsens with the arrival Carter’s long-lost evil twin brother Cain, who has escaped from some place

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of confinement. While triggering a spree of murder and kidnapping, Cain brings news of their mutual father, Dr. Nix—Dr. No by another name!—a Scandinavian declared dead after the mad doctor “made a swan dive into a fjord.” The boys were raised in “a special environment” like B. F. Skinner’s patients. (“They were cages!” says a listener, aghast.)

Thus, the Nixes steal babies for a new generation of experiments.

The “Bay View” town cops (played

by Gregg Henry and Tom Bower) are beautifully useless—they mutter “this is getting out of hand!” at the news of more dead moms and kidnapped kids. A cancer-ridden Germanic psychiatrist, Dr. Waldheim (Frances Sternhagen), updates the police during one of De Palma’s most elaborate tracking shots ever.

We learn the secrets of the Nix family from Dr. Waldheim, as she and the cops walk through the corridors of Mountain View’s City Hall building, down Escher-like staircases, and into an elevator to the morgue. The walk ends with what could be called, as per Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, the “Large Marge” shot: (“And when they found her body, she looked like THIS!”).

On display is Lithgow’s amazing plasticity, the range from simperingly benign to seriously malicious. He certainly could have acted the part of Hannibal Lecter. He excels as both the emasculated pediatrician and sleazy Cain. (Cain comes on to a younger girl, assuring her he’s not too old for her: “It’s not the mileage, honey, it’s the make.”) Is there an actor around who could top Lithgow’s beatific smirk as he gives his two-timing wife the Desdemona treatment with a pillow?

One could speculate about the anxieties De Palma expressed in this tasty fantasy of toxic parenting, made shortly after the birth of the director’s first child. Watching it, you can speculate on the fun a director can have when he works out his primal terrors on film.

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Now Playing ANNUAL ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS

The 18th annual collection of top-drawer animated shorts from around the world, curated by Ron Diamond. Highlights include “Mirror,” a collaboration between Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Boy in the World), Ira Glass of This American Life, and John Kuramoto; “Piper,” the undoubted Oscar winner this year from Disney/Pixar, concerns a baby sandpiper learning to forage for himself (it was attached to Finding Dory). Also particularly fine is Cecilia Puglesi and Yijun Liu’s “Shift”—a poignant 3-D animation about a Victorian widow who encounters a nude nymph in her garden. Diamond will be on hand Oct. 28. (Opens Friday at Camera Cinemas.) (RvB)

Revivals THE MILPITAS MONSTER

(1976) The notoriously smelly town foals a towering hell creature spawned from the depths of its profusely equipped garbage dumps, and only some semi-stoned high school students can thwart it. The 40th anniversary of this grade-Z local claim to fame is celebrated at the Great Mall with a public screening of the director’s cut. Its ecological message is still valid (note the huge applause the vista of the unbuilt-up Milpitas of 1976 always gets). Sound effects by Ben Burtt (Star Wars, Wall-E) (Oct 30 at 7pm at the Cinemark Century Great Mall.) (RvB)

LA RONDE/OH, ROSALINDA!!

(1950/1955) “I don’t like little children, not at all. But big ones…!”—Max Ophuls. Arthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde has been filmed some 15 times, and this is the best version by far: Ophuls’ production tinctures the seriousness with nostalgia for Vienna 1900. The omnipresent host (Anton Walbrook), who winds the music boxes, supervises the revolving doors, and tends the carousel says, “Moi, I love the past. Far more restful than the present…and far more certain than the future.” It’s about romance as a class-leveler—which is why certain film versions of this play emphasize the way venereal disease pays it forward. Titled counts and low prostitutes, well-off bourgeoisie and hungry shopgirls, all couple and move on. It’s likely that every couple contains a lover and a love object, but Ophuls’ impeccably graceful direction gives all walks of life equal importance. “We

all have our pride,” says a girl who has traded a tryst for a good meal.

Ophuls is also quite acute about the way desire masks itself as something nobler. (Watch this and understand why Freud thought Schnitzler had achieved everything the doctor had learned about human self-deception, strictly through intuition.) The lies told are often the ones that sound the most responsible: “True love is only possible where there is truth and purity,” a cheating husband tells his cheating wife; the film is a masquerade, a civilized satire with blood in it. In our cinema, in which there’s no space made for anything between cataclysms and so-called chick flicks, Ophuls’ rigor and wisdom shows how love can be a matter more important than life and death. The cast includes Simone Signoret as the prostitute who gives a boorish soldier a knee-trembler up against the wall.

Simon Simone of Cat People is the maid who dallies with her master’s callow son during a heat wave, and Jean-Louis Barrault of Les Enfants du Paradis is the distracted, pompous poet. BILLED WITH Oh, Rosalinda!!

The eminent Michael Powell updates Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus to post-WWII-occupied Vienna, with all the usual frou-frou, choice Technicolor, Cinemascope and a good cast (Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, and Ludmilla Tcherina of The Red Shoes). (Plays Oct 27-28 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

SHADOW OF A DOUBT/ WALTZES FROM VIENNA

(1943/1934) One of the darkest gems Hitchcock left us—Joseph Cotten experiencing life during wartime in a booming Santa Rosa, California, crowded with soldiers and night-shift workers; he’s a killer from the east coast on the run hiding out with his provincial family. His best friend is his adoring niece and namesake (Teresa Wright), who only gradually understands what kind of monster is under her roof. It’s more thrilling and sadder than you’d expect—Cotten, who is peculiarly gifted at playing weaklings, brings pathos and a sense of waste to this fugitive who isn’t so very different from the people he hides among. (Hitchcock puzzles over one small-town character—a bloodthirsty fan of mystery novels played by Hume Cronyn, whose vicarious thrill in killing makes him, if anything, worse than the actual killer.) BILLED WITH Waltzes from Vienna. Unless you consider Psycho a musical, this was Hitchcock’s only foray into the genre—a story of the Strausses, as little-seen and as infrequently revived as any of his works. (Plays Oct. 29-30 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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WORKING WOMAN In ‘Certain Women,’ Kristen Stewart plays Beth, who commutes hours to a thankless job in an effort to raise her station.

That Uncertain Feeling MONTANA AT ITS most impassive: Certain Women sums up emotional conflict during the cold months, in the newest by Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff). It’s based loosely on short stories by Maile Meloy, looped lightly into a trilogy. The third tale tops it all, thanks to a sweet, tough performance by Lily Gladstone as Jamie, a stocky Native American stablehand. Lit up with love, Gladstone is as instantly likable as Brendan Fraser.

Laura Dern plays Laura Wells, a Livingston, Montana lawyer with a stubborn and disabled client (Jared Harris), who is unclear on the concept of settlements. It’s a part in which Dern never needs to raise her voice, even when held at gunpoint; the moral is that Dern doesn’t have to be in a cohesive movie to be fascinating.

Episode two reinforces the film’s contrast of the new money with the old timers.

Gina (Reichardt regular Michelle Williams) covets a pile of reclaimed sandstone blocks in the front yard of a half-senile neighbor (Rene Auberjonois); the old man isn’t sure he wants to part with the rocks, which have historic value. We’re supposed to sense ruthlessness in Gina, but we aren’t

allowed to see her side—old men can be frustrating, given to conversations that don’t Certain Women meet a person half way.

Certain Women is R; 107 Mins. ultimately Gladstone’s Camera movie. This becomes Cinemas clear in an episode that does everything Brokeback Mountain did, but in one-third the time and at a fraction of the budget. On a whim, Jamie (Gladstone) joins a halfdozen people attending a night school adult education class; she gets a serious crush on the harried, tired teacher Beth (Kristen Stewart) who commutes four hours each way to teach six people in a one stoplight town. Gladstone emotes that kind of helpless love so keen that you don’t even want to eat in front of the person you adore. Reichardt overemphasizes Jamie’s toil as a way of taking the Hollywood romance out of tending horses underneath snowy mountains. But when Jamie goes in search of Beth, it’s not only one of the most passionate sequences Reichardt has ever directed, it’s also the most poignantly funny. —Richard von Busack

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Goliath Returns YOU DON’T KNOW US Rex Goliath frontman Dominic Miranda says he is frustrated with a rise in racism and xenophobia in American culture.

San Jose political punks Rex Goliath celebrate new EP ‘No Body’

BY NICK VERONIN

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S THE VOCALIST in a politically charged rock band, one might assume that Dominic Miranda would be eager to put in his two cents as it relates to candidacy of Donald Trump. But that’s not really the case.

“I’ve tried to stay away from criticizing Trump,” Miranda says.

“It’s too easy and everybody else is doing it.”

But even if he isn’t addressing the GOP’s clownishly demagogic nominee directly, Miranda says

it’s hard to get away from what he represents. Ever since he descended his penthouse apartment high above Manhattan to bash Mexican immigrants and announce his candidacy, Miranda has seen Trump’s vitriol and regressive views spread like wildfire.

“I always knew it was there,” he says of the insidious racism that has long simmered just beneath the surface of polite public discourse in this country. “But now that you have Donald Trump as the figurehead, you have giant crowds applauding these bigoted statements. I feel we are at a weird time where people feel it’s OK again—they feel vindicated.”

Miranda recalls a recent Facebook exchange he had with an acquaintance. After suggesting that

states should pull the Confederate flag from displays in government buildings, Miranda was surprised by the overt nationalist sentiment thrown back in his face.

“I’ve dealt with more racism, especially in the last year and half, than I have in a while,” the singer says. “In my 30 years of life, I’ve never seen anything like this. I think people are more comfortable being racist—especially against MexicanAmericans.”

The San Jose punk outfit is preparing to release a pair of EPs. The first, No Body, is slated to drop in November or early December.

The second, No Death, will follow sometime next year. Together, they will represent a full-length No Body.

Miranda says No Death was inspired by the ending of Halloween—in which Michael Myers is shot and falls from a balcony, but his body is never recovered. The title also has political implications, Miranda says. “I liken

that to catching Osama Bin laden and throwing him out to sea.”

“This EP is focusing on what it means to be not Caucasian—not white—in America,” Miranda says, noting that people often assume he is a first-generation immigrant from Mexico. But Miranda is half-Irish, and his family has been living in California since WW I. The forthcoming albums were self-produced and engineered by the band’s new drummer, Damien Wendel, who joined Rex Goliath after the departure of the group’s previous percussionist, Anders Ericsson.

According to Miranda, Wendel comes to the band with a heavier but more detail-oriented approach than Ericsson’s. “He has a good concept of early hardcore and punk,” Miranda says. “He has good songwriting ideas.”

Two rough demos from the forthcoming No Body EP—“American Dream” and “Dome Son”—certainly hint at tighter, more melodic arrangements.

While Rex Goliath’s debut fulllength, No Magic, featured the feral intensity of another Latin punk band—Titus Andronicus—the San Jose band showed far less of the latter’s melodic subtlety. If these new tracks are any indication, Rex Goliath are working to embrace more harmony to balance out the driving dissonance.

While Miranda still delivers most of his lyrics in a raspy scream— cloaked in a thick coat of earlyStrokes vocal overdrive—he shows a willingness to sing at the end of “American Dream,” while “Dome Son” features a brief but energetic major key guitar solo, replete with soaring unison bends recalling J. Mascis and Jimmy Page.

Rex Goliath will celebrate the release of No Body and perform much of their new material at The Ritz on Friday. Part of the recurring Scene! series—organized by Cola frontman Cliff Rawson—the show will also feature Containher, Mothers Worry and Silent Pictures. Attendees in costume get in for $5.

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

Every Thurs: Fireball Thursdays with DJ Mist. Fremont.

NOMIKAI Live music every Fri and Sat. San Jose.

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

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Every Thu: DJ Benofficial. Every Fri: DJ Radio Raheem. Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

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Fri, Oct 28: The Roughies, The Reeds, Scarlina. Sat, Oct 29: Genocide Skin, Deadwar, Evisceration, Disvein. Tue, Nov 1, 8pm: Michale Graves (Misfits), The NERV, Enemy of my Enemy, Infinite Sleep. San Jose.

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Every Thu: Hosted by Tebo Pro Funk & Bluz Jam with Vicious Groove. Sunnyvale.

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Fri, Oct 28, 8pm: Fasiv.

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Fri, Oct 28, 8pm: The Original Wailers featuring Al Anderson, Yeshua & the Hightones. Sat, Oct 29, 8pm: The Ritz 2nd Annual Halloween Costume Contest w/DJ Basur a. San Jose.

SAN JOSE STATE EVENT CENTER Mon, Oct 31, 7pm: Brand New with The Front Bottoms and Modern Baseball. San Jose .

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Fri, Oct 28, 7pm: Chilindra, New Fossil, Da Stinky Baby, Randall Krieger, Jayde, Woodnote. Sat, Oct 29, 7pm: Sweet HayaH, 131ers, Serpents & the Sun. Cupertino.

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

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Every Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo, 9:30pm: DJ Norman. Every Sat: Las Mejores Bandas De La Bahia.

Every Sun: 4pm-8pm: Edith Del Sol. San Jose.

AGENDA LOUNGE Every Wed, 8pm: Salsa. Every Thu, 10:30pm: Banda Night.

Every Sun: Reggae Night. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Wed, Oct. 26, 7:30pm: The Swingmasons. Thu, Oct. 27 Marina Crouse. Fri, Oct 28, 8:30pm: Tony Saunders “Uptown Jazz” featuring Margo LeDuc. Tue, Nov. 1, 7:15pm: The Denny Berthiaume Trio with Special Guest Joan Minor. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Every Sun: Live Jazz Show.

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BLUE NOTE LOUNGE Every first Sat of the month, 9pm: First Saturdays party.

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

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

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. Thu, Oct 27, 8:30pm: Dmitri Matheny Quintet.

Sat, Oct 29, 8:30pm: Muziki Roberson & Sirius Bidness.

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Every Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night. First Saturday of the Month, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience.

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Every Tue, 4pm: Live Acoustic Music. Every Wed-Fri, and Sat, 5pm: Belly dancing. Every Sunday: Special Dinner Shows.

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Sun, Oct 30, 11am: Sangria Sunday with Santos Perdidos.

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Every Sun: Joe Ferrara (jazz).

Thu, Oct 27, 7pm: Ricky Torres Group. Fri, Oct 28, 8pm: The Honeywilders. Sat, Oct 29, 8pm: Cadillac Jack. Los Gatos.

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

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Every Tue, 6:30pm: Irish Seisiún.

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Sat, Oct. 29, 8:30pm: Kristen Strom. San Jose.

HUKILAU

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

JJ’S BLUES

Every Tue: MikeB Interactive Jam. Wed-Sun: Live Music. Every Fri: Latin Rock Nights. San Jose.

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Every Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blue Jams. Sat, Oct 29, 8pm: Scott Goldburg, D’mar and David Jones.

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LOUISIANA BISTRO

Every Thu, 6pm. Yoshi Senzaki Blues Band. Fri, Oct 28, 6pm: Jerry Sauceda. Sat, Oct 29, 6pm: Chaz. San Jose.

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Every Wed: Kevy Nova and Friends. Every Thu: WhiskeyHill Billys. Woodside. Fri, Oct 28, 9pm: The Hummers. Sat, Oct 29, 9pm: Buttheads. Woodside.

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Mountain View.

Thu, Oct 27, 7pm: The Cruistones.

Sat, Oct 29, 7pm: Sonic Blue ft.

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Every Wed, 7pm: Open Mic

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Thu, Nov 3, 8pm: Nemr. San Jose.

Every First and Fourth Tue, 7pm: Bi-Polar Bears. Every First Wed, 7pm: Dennis Dove. Every Second and Fourth Wed, 7pm: Scott Goldberg. Every Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blue Jams. Fri, Oct. 28, 8pm: Engine Room. Sat, Oct. 29, 8pm: Scott Goldburg, D'mar and David Jones. Campbell

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Ramos and Shae Fiol say they draw strength from their diversity.

Multicultural Mariachi TRADITIONALLY SPEAKING, mariachi as a musical form comes from a specific place. It is played on specific instruments, and its practitioners often limit performances to specific spaces within a specific region.

However, while the New York-based Mariachi Flor de Toloache certainly respect the traditions of their art, they are far from a traditional mariachi group.

Mariachi Flor de Toloache

The ensemble’s co-directors—founder Mireya I. Oct 30 Ramos and original member Shae Fiol—maintain a 4:30pm, Free rotating ensemble of all women, all from highly diverse Mexican Heritage backgrounds; infuse their western Mexican arrangements Plaza, San Jose with elements of rock, jazz and hip-hop; and are just as comfortable performing at a local cultural center as they are playing with Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach at the Bowery Ballroom.

“It’s been a challenge, in one way, to learn mariachi,” Fiol says of her group’s diversity. They currently perform with two American trumpet players—one from Indiana, the other of Dominican descent—their violinist was born in Korea, and they used to have an Australian in their midst. Because mariachi is such a regional art form, and because it is often passed down through families of players, it can be difficult to break into from the outside. And then there’s the matter of their touring the world, playing concert halls with Auerbach’s side project, The Arcs.

“I don’t think it’s very common for mariachis to tour” Fiol says, explaining that mariachi groups tend to stay in a given town—picking up gigs at quinceañeras and heritage festivals. As a result, Fiol says, “We’re reaching a way bigger audience than we anticipated.”

They are also connecting with that audience in a manner that straightforward mariachi acts likely couldn’t match. “We like to play fusion,” Ramos says. “That’s part of our vision. It allows us to be very fluid—going from mariachi to jazz and then another form of Latin music.” This dynamic is apparent during the band’s “Tiny Desk Concert,” available for streaming on the NPR Music website.

Moving from a jazzy arrangement with English lyrics and a soulful melody, to a mariachi with Spanish lyrics, the band shows its dexterity.

Mariachi Flor de Toloache are currently working on a follow-up to their Latin Grammy-nominated self-titled debut. The forthcoming LP will feature more originals and a more “mature” sound, according to Ramos. They perform in San Jose as part of San Jose Jazz’s fall concert series. —Nick Veronin

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NVIDIA Corporation, market leader in graphics & digital media processors, has engineering opportunities in Santa Clara, CA for a Computer Vision SW Engr (CVE02) Create features for camera applications; Sr Architect (ARC77) Develop algorithms and design hardware extending the state of the art in hardware support for computer graphics; Program Operations Engr (POE01) Responsible for new chip bring up in Chip Operations; Sr Systems SW Engr (SSWE408) Design, implement and optimize all of the multimedia drivers for NVIDIA’s processors; Dev Tech SW Engr (DTSE09) Research and develop techniques to GPU-accelerate leading applications in various scientific and engineering disciplines; and Sr Systems SW Engr (SSWE413) Design, prototype and implement costeffective system solutions to support the development of NVIDIA’s Game Streaming and Content Delivery services. If interested, ref job code and send resume to: NVIDIA Corporation. Attn: MS04 (J.Green).

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Engineering ThreatMetrix, Inc. seeks Sr. Sales Engineer to provide pre-sales technical engagement to sell ThreatMetrix’s digital identity authentification software product. Worksite: San Jose, CA. / Email resume to rwohler@threatmetrix.com attn: jobcode 15038957

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Mail resume to HSDI, 6201 America Center Dr, #220, San Jose, CA 95002

Engineering View, Inc. seeks Principal Software Engineer to develop software for Linux embedded systems. 2 open positions.

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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/Michael John Perazzo President #C39443143 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/13/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622523 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KT Dental Laboratory, 1333 Piedmont Rd., Ste #202, San Jose, CA, 95132, Thao Le Phong Nguyen, 3562 Peak Dr., San Jose, CA, 95127. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Thao Le Phong TranThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam, 979 Story Rd., #7087, San Jose, Ca, 95122, Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc Anh Nguyen, 608 Giraudo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by an married couple.Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. /s/ Nhu Thuan Lam This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621712 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Countrywide Carrier, 2947 Capewood Ln., San Jose, CA, 95132, Rajwinder Singh. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/01/2016. /s/Rajwinder SinghThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/22/2016. (pub Metro 10/19, 10/26, 11/02, 11/09/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621282 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Wedding Documentary LLC, 2. Vijay Rakhra Productions, 3. VR Productions, 16022 Rose Ave., Monte Sereno, CA, 95030, Wedding Documentary, LLC. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Aug 22, 2016.

Above entity was formed in the state of California /s/ Vijay Rakhra CEO/Owner #201616610283 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/09/2016. (pub Metro 10/05, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622719 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pal Transport, 260 Pamela Ave., Apt #1, San Jose, CA, 95116, Jagjit Singh. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Jagjit SinghThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/24/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622265 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dead Eye Gunsmithing, 179 N. 24th St., San Jose, CA, 95116, Scott Kent Blevins, Barry Allen Teigen. This business is being conducted by a general partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Scott Kent Blevins This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/07/2016. (pub Metro 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/02/2016)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #621794 The following persons(s) / registrants(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Captured Moments Videography, 5057 Impatiens Drive, Jose A. Diaz. Filed in Santa Clara County on 12/18//2016 under file number 517990. This business was conducted by: An individual /s/Jose A. Diaz Date filed with the clerks office: 9/26/2016pub dates (10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/02/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622442 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Poki Cali, 2080 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite C, Campbell, CA, 95008, Nam H. Nguyen, 593 Kings Cross Way., San Jose, CA, 95136. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein./s/ Nam H. Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/13/2016. (pub Metro 10/19, 10/26, 11/02, 11/09/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622203 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Solo Cholo Wear, 3804 Yerba Buena Ave., San Jose, CA, 95121, Joe Santiago.

This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Joe Santiago This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/05/2016. (pub Metro 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/02/2016)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WL Wellness, 5962 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA, 95120, Wenlong Li, 678 Mirada Ave., Stanford, CA, 94305. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Wenlong Li This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/23/2016. (pub Metro 10/05, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621837 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 40 Acres Soul Kitchen, 1373 Teakwood Drive, #77, San Jose, CA, 95128, Quiana Meeks. 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 #616733 due to publication requirement not being met on previous filing /s/Quiana MeeksThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/27/2016. (pub Metro 10/05, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621933 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lavo Realty, 500 E. Calaveras Blvd., Suite 218, Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is being 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 Refile of previous file #530349 after 40 days of expiration date due to publication requirement not met on previous filing. /s/Rada Nhem President #3257413 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/28/2016. (pub Metro 10/05, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621159 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Stanford Terrace Inn, 531 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Anthurium Landing Inc, 116 S. Hotel St., Suite 206C, Honolulu, HI, 96813. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #613487 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of Hawaii /s/Sophia Huang President #135694C5 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/02/2016.(pub Metro 9/28, 10/05, 10/12, 10/19/2016)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #621158 The following persons(s) / registrants(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Stanford Terrace Inn, 531 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Wild Range Inc.Filed in Santa Clara County on 1/29/2016 under file number 613487.This business was conducted by: A Corporation/s/Sophia HuangPresidentDate filed with the clerks office: 9/02/2016pub dates (9/28, 10/05, 10/12, 10/19/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621955 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tagz Boutique, 420 S. Bascom, San Jose, CA, 95128, Yoana Amador, Cetavia Durgin, 1276 Flickinger Ave., San Jose, CA, 95131. This business is conducted by a joint venture. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/8/15. /s/Yoana Amador This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/29/2016. (pub Metro 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/02/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621290 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Clever Electric, 409 Serenade Way., San Jose, CA, 95111, My Ngo. 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 #533874 after 40 day of expiration date./s/My Ngo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/09/2016. (pub Metro 10/05, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26/2016)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to fantasize about what your four great-grandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on November 1, 1930. What? You have no idea how to begin? You don’t even know their names? If that’s the case, I hope you’ll remedy your ignorance.

Your ability to create the future you want requires you to learn more about where and whom you came from. Halloween costume suggestion: your most interesting ancestor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At any one time, over

two million frozen human embryos are stored in tissue banks throughout Europe and North America.

When the time is right, their owners retrieve them and bring them to term. That’s the first scenario I invite you to use as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks. Here’s a second scenario: Scotch whiskey is a potent mind-altering substance. Any particular batch must mature for at least three years, and may be distilled numerous times. There are currently 20 million barrels of the stuff mellowing in Scottish warehouses. And what do these two scenarios have to do with you? It’s time to tap into resources that you've been saving in reserve—that haven’t been ripe or ready until now. Halloween costume suggestions: a woman who’s nine months pregnant; a blooming rose or sunflower; ripe fruit.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To create a bottle of

cabernet sauvignon, a winemaker needs about 700 grapes. Compare this process with rain-making. When water vapor that’s high in the sky becomes dense enough, it condenses into tiny pearls of liquid called cloud droplets. If the humidity rises even further, a million of these babies might band together to form a single raindrop that falls to earth. And what does this have to do with your life? I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have both an affinity and a skill for processes that resemble wine-making and rain-making. You'll need a lot of raw material and energetic effort to produce a relatively small marvel—but that’s exactly as it should be. Halloween costume suggestion: a raindrop or bottle of wine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some Brazilians eat the heads of piranhas in the belief they’re aphrodisiacs. In Zimbabwe, women may make strategic use of baboon urine to enhance their allure. The scientific name for Columbia’s leafcutter ant is hormiga culona, translated as "fatassed ant." Ingesting the roasted bodies of these critters is thought to boost sexual desire. Since you’re in a phase when tapping into your deepest erotic longings will be healthy and educational, you may want to adopt elements of the aforementioned love drugs to create your Halloween costume. Here are other exotic aphrodisiacs from around the world that you might be inspired by: asparagus, green M&Ms, raw oysters, wild orchids, horny goat weed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you know how to repair a broken zipper or patch a hole in your bicycle tire?

Are you familiar with the art of caulking a bathtub or creating a successful budget? Can you compose a graceful thank-you note, cook a hearty soup from scratch, or overcome your pride so as to reconcile with an ally after an argument? These are the kinds of tasks I trust you will focus on in the coming weeks.

It’s time to be very practical and concrete. Halloween costume suggestion: Mr. or Ms. Fix-It. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the film Terminator 2,

Arnold Schwarzenegger played a benevolent android who traveled here from the future. As a strong, silent action hero, he didn’t need to say much. In fact, he earned $30,000 for every word he uttered. I’m hoping your speech will pack a comparable punch in the coming days. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your persuasiveness should be at a peak. You'll have an exceptional ability to say what you mean and mean what you say.

Use this superpower with flair and precision!

Halloween costume suggestion: ancient Greek orator Demosthenes; Martin Luther King Jr.; Virginia Woolf; Sojourner Truth; rapper MC Lyte, Winston Churchill.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the prosperitybuilding phase of your cycle. Let’s celebrate! Let’s brainstorm! Are there rituals you can create to stimulate the financial lobes of your imagination, thereby expediting your cash flow? Here are a few

By ROB BREZSNY week of October 26

ideas: 1. Glue a photo of yourself on a $20 bill. 2. Make a wealth shrine in your home. Stock it with symbols of specific thrills you can buy for yourself when you have more money. 3. Halloween costume suggestions: a giant bar of gold, a banker carrying a briefcase full of big bills, Tony Stark, Lady Mary Crawley, Jay Gatsby, Lara Croft, the Yoruban wealth goddess Ajé.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During this Halloween season, you have cosmic permission to be a bigger, bolder, and extra beguiling version of yourself. I trust you will express your deep beauty with precise brilliance and imagine your future with superb panache and wander wherever the hell you feel like wandering. It’s time to be stronger than your fears and wilder than your trivial sins. Halloween costume suggestion: the superhero version of yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I won’t offer you the cliché "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Instead, I’ll provide alternatives. How about this, from the video game Portal: “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! Say, ‘I don't want your damn lemons!’” Or you could try this version, from my friend Barney: “When life gives you lemons, draw faces on them like Tom Hanks did on his volleyball in the movie Cast Away, and engage them in sexy philosophical conversation.” Or consider this Brazilian proverb: “When life gives you lemons, make caipirinhas.” (Caipirinha is Brazil’s national cocktail.) Suggestion: Play around with these themes to create your Halloween costume.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All of us are creators and destroyers. It’s fun and healthy to add fresh elements to our lives, but it’s also crucial to dispose of things that hurt and distort us. Even your body is a hotbed of both activities, constantly killing off old cells and generating new ones. But in my understanding, you are now in a phase when there’s far more creation than destruction. Enjoy the exalted buzz! Halloween costume suggestions: a creator god or goddess, like the Greeks’ Gaia or Prometheus; Rainbow-Snake from the Australian Aborigines; Unkulunkulu from the Zulus; or Coyote, Raven, or Spider Grandmother from indigenous North American tribes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1938, a chef named Ruth Wakefield dreamed up a brilliant invention: chocolate chip cookies. She sold her recipe to the Nestlé company in return for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Maybe she was happy with that arrangement, but I think she cheated herself. And so I offer her action as an example of what you should NOT do. During the next 10 months, I expect you will come up with many useful innovations and intriguing departures from the way things have always been done. Make sure you get full value in return for your gifts! Halloween costume ideas: Thomas Edison, Marie Curry, Hedy Lamarr, Leonardo da Vinci, Temple Grandin, George Washington Carver, Mark Zuckerberg.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Speaking on behalf of the cosmic powers, I authorize you to escape dull realities and go rambling through the frontier. Feel free to fantasize twice as hard and wild as you normally do.

Avoid literalists and realists who think you should be more like them. This is not a time to fuss over exacting details, but rather to soar above the sober nonsense and see as far as you can. You have permission to exult in the joys of wise innocence. Halloween costume suggestions: bohemian poet, mad scientist, carefree genius, brazen explorer.

Homework: Scare yourself with your exquisite beauty. Freak yourself out by realizing how amazing you are. Testify at Freewillastrology.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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To all heirs beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: ELZIE MAYFIELD, aka ELZIE MAYFIELD, JR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.The Petition for Probate requests that James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: November 18, 2016, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 10 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, 95110, Telephone: 408-758-4200 (Pub CC, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26/2016)

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Your advice—that “Torn” should just flip the bird at all of her boyfriend’s detractors—is the perfect solution for any woman who has a number of smelly, unsightly friends and family members cluttering up her life. I offer a similar redo of decluttering queen Marie “KonMari” Kondo’s advice that we should go through all our stuff and see what brings joy. Yawn. The AlkonMari method: “Strike a match and run.”

But, wait, you say. He supports her emotionally. That, you insist, should be enough. Should be. And though it’s reasonable to prefer that it would be, the late Albert Ellis, co-founder of cognitivebehavioral therapy, explained that “should” involves the irrational demand that the world manifest itself in an idealized way—the way it SHOULD be.

This keeps us from dealing with it as it is. For example, I should be writing this response to you in a villa in the south of France with servants, a helipad, and a moat. But here in the real world, unless I start moonlighting as a drug lord, I will continue writing from the cute shack in LA that I share with my dog and several million termites.

Likewise, in that magical land where children’s dentists send glitter instead of a

bill, the perfect husband could be a sweet man who splits his time between a lowstress part-time job and chillaxing on the couch with a doob. But women evolved to have emotional mechanisms pushing them to seek men who are willing and able “providers,” and a man’s ambition is a cue for that. Women can’t just yell at their genes, “Hey, it’s 2016, and I’m the VP of a successful startup!” As anthropologist Donald Symons explains, changing any “complex adaptation,” like those driving mating psychology, takes “hundreds or thousands of generations.” This is why—as I explained to “Torn”—research finds that women married to a Mr. Mom often end up resenting him, making those marriages more likely to end in divorce.

Should “Torn” stay or go? That actually isn’t for you or me to say, because our values aren’t her values and what works for us may not work for her.

That’s why I suggested she mull over the potential issues—over time—and make an informed decision about whether to go all in with her Laid-Back Larry. Yeah, I know—love should “conquer all.” And yes, in a perfect world, we could respond to utility company disconnect notices with a sweet note: “Please don’t shut my lights off ! XOXO!”

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Your response to “Torn” really missed the mark. She is the 35-year-old woman whose friends and family think her 43-year-old boyfriend is lazy and not good enough for her and will end up living off her. She has a full-time job with benefits, while he works part time and saves up when he wants to buy something. She says he supports her emotionally: “He…has my back to an unreasonable degree.” Yet, you contend that his lack of ambition may lead her to resent him. My advice to her: “If the relationship works for both of you, enjoy it. Nurture it. Keep the outside influences outside. And for crying out loud, woman, pull up your big-girl Underoos and tell your friends and family to take a deep breath and say a prayer to Saint Eff You.”—Better Idea

I’m a 32-year-old lesbian and an aspiring fiction writer. I use my life in my work, but my girlfriend gets mad when she shows up in it. I think she’s being unfair. Isn’t anything I experience fair game?—Storyteller right to control who gets to know what about their personal and private life.

You cross the line from fiction writer to privacy invader when a character is recognizable as a particular person. It isn’t that you can’t use anything at all from another person’s life. Publishing expert Jane Friedman says you can create a composite character “with traits and characteristics culled from several people.”

In other words, steal from the many instead of “the one.” Remember, it’s called an “intimate relationship” because it’s supposed to be between two people.

©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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There she is crying, and you’re rubbing her back, all “Baby, that’s terrible.” And then you duck out of the room and dictate everything you can remember into your phone.

Um, no. Think of the details of your girlfriend’s life like some stranger’s lunch.

The fact that their cheeseburger is within your reach doesn’t mean you get to grab it and be all “Mine! Yummeee!” As Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren explained in an 1890 Harvard Law Review article on privacy, unless somebody is a public figure, they have a right to privacy, meaning the

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EELING FROM ALLEGATIONS of sexual misconduct, Republican presidential contender Donald Trump recently tried to go on the offensive on drug policy.

But in a manner typical of his campaign, he touched only briefly on the topic before flying off on new tangents.

At a speech in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the GOP candidate claimed that Clinton was on performance-enhancing drugs before their last debate and suggested drug tests were in order.

“Why don't we do that?” he demanded, adding that Clinton was likely “getting pumped up” as she prepared for the debate.

Donald Trump's unfounded allegation that Clinton was on drugs during the last debate and his demand for a drug test grabbed media attention. But if Trump was attempting to turn a corner and shift the campaign's focus away from his peccadillos, his strange accusation only served to raise more questions about his temperament and suitability for the nation's highest office.

It also virtually smothered any discussion of actual drug policy proposals Trump made during the speech. While Trump has obliquely addressed the heroin and prescription opioid problem in the past, this speech was the first time he tried to put any flesh on his proposals for dealing with it.

Trump said he would block drugs from coming into the U.S. by— you guessed it—building a wall on the Mexican border. He also would seek to tighten restrictions on the prescribing of opioids and he would reinstitute mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders.

“We have 5 percent of the world's population but use 80 percent of the prescription opioids,” Trump said, eerily echoing former rival Jeb Bush.

That statistic is aimed at showing that the U.S. is over-prescribing narcotic painkillers, but according to the World Health Organization, the actuality is that much of the rest of the world is underprescribing them. In fact, WHO said that in more than 150 countries, with 83 percent of the global population, there is virtually no access to prescription opioids for relief of pain.

The undertreatment of chronic pain isn't just a problem in India, China and Africa. According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 50 million Americans suffer significant chronic or severe pain. An opioid policy that focuses only on reducing prescriptions without addressing the need for access to painkilling opioids for actual pain is only half a policy. Trump's drug policy is but a sketch, but even its vague outlines reflect outdated approaches and a quickness to resort to cheap demagoguery on the issue. —Phillip Smith Phillip Smith is editor of the AlterNet Drug Reporter and author of the Drug War Chronicle.

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The Many Mirrors ALLEY CAT San Jose has many different identities, and this shot of a downtown paseo is just one example in the inaugural This IS San Jose art project.

Photo challenge This IS San Jose extols city’s diverse identity

BY GARY SINGH

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ERE’S AN IDEA: If there’s one topic to unite everyone in San Jose, it’s that 100 percent of us are sick and tired of talking about San Jose’s identity.

Every year it comes up, with people having the same exact conversation. The way I see it, there is no such thing as any singular San Jose identity— never has been, never will be— so it’s a pointless, drab, ho-hum conversation.

This area explodes with a zillion

identities. The multiplicity and schizophrenia should be celebrated.

End of discussion. Forever. Can we just get on with more stimulating conversation? Please?

I’m only frothing about this because a heroic individual, Charles DiLisio, wants to rightfully lionize the multiplicities of San Jose via photography and photography contests. After putting the word out all year long, he helped curate a smorgasbord of photos from each City Council district as part of a contest, aptly titled This IS San Jose.

The goal is to promote the beautifully convoluted web of multiplicities emerging around here, in terms of both geography and psyche. Entries came in from all across the sprawling city

limits—245 photos to be exact, 50 of which will be displayed in the City Hall Rotunda during a blowout reception Thursday, Oct. 27, from 5:30-7:30pm.

The photos will stay there until next spring, when the contest starts all over again. Four major sponsors kicked in to support the whole shebang: Bay Photo, San Jose Camera, San Jose Water Co. and Rocky Nook Books.

As I would expect, all of the participating photographers are intrinsically curious people hell-bent on exploring the place in which they live. None of them seem embarrassed to be here. All of them are way too smart and mature to waste time making idiotic comparisons to landmarks in other cities.

But I digress.

DiLisio, a startup consultant with a side interest in photography, was already laboring away on his own, documenting the forgotten buildings of Silicon Valley, stuff like Shockley’s lab or the former Rolm headquarters.

From there, he began contacting every institution imaginable, suggesting a contest and/or establishing an elaborate network of image mavens that might someday help contribute to a yearly photo festival about all things San Jose.

He approached the Preservation Action Council and History San Jose. He showed up at high schools. He went to camera shops and bookstores. The way I see it, This IS San Jose came to fruition from the results of DiLisio’s curiosity about his home turf. It’s that simple. He should be applauded.

Perhaps the best thing, though, is that DiLisio convinced the city government—where people are even more sick of talking about San Jose’s identity—that the City Hall Rotunda is a worthy place to display the winning shots. Telling people to “photograph anything you think captures San Jose” might seem a little broad or unfocused, but I have a gut feeling this project will only get better with each yearly iteration. A lot of talented and creative people are coming out of the woodwork around here. You’d be surprised how many individuals are already pounding the pavement and transforming their everyday exploits into photography or other works of visual art. And especially for young people, to see one’s photo on display at City Hall is a rocking experience, let alone a great addition to a portfolio.

The breakdown of photographs by council districts is another interesting aspect of This IS San Jose. In 1980, the city carved itself up into what’s often lambasted as the “mini-mayor system,” 10 haphazard districts represented by 10 councilmembers with their own individual fiefdoms. Many large cities do this, but in San Jose’s case, it’s part of why the city feels less like a metropolitan area and more like a gaggle of small towns duct-taped together with vast numbers of people never exploring outside their own district.

Thankfully, this seems to be changing and This IS San Jose could be yet another creative project that alleviates some of the disjunct. Forget about trivial “identity” conversations.

Instead, let art unite the masses.

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