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Fanny Pack Jack I saw you. Rather, I didn’t see you—I suffered you. Did I drop the black fanny pack on the floor or did you take it out of my shopping bag?

It’s sort of a reverse for a singer to have money taken while she’s singing instead of getting a tip. Maybe you didn’t like the song. But that was my month’s shopping money, and you didn’t even leave me a few bucks so I could buy a sandwich!

Although, the nice barista did offer to advance me food and have me pay next time.

At least you left the fanny pack where it would be found. Thanks for that.

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Eric will no doubt be surprised and happy to learn that the main tribal organization of the Amah Mutsun, led by Val Lopez, some years ago rejected an attempt by the then-owner of Sargent Ranch to use their tribe as a legal tool in order to build— wait for it—a casino resort. (Some other people purporting to represent the tribe supported the idea, but they seem to have gone away.) The more you know …

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THE FLY

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Mr. Popular State Assemblyman EVAN LOW, like many people, freaked on Election Night, as most states went red in favor of Presidentelect DONALD TRUMP. In a tweet that was kinda-sorta joking, Low suggested he would introduce legislation to begin California’s secession from the union. He has since come to his senses and dropped the #CalExit talk. Now, Low simply wants to abolish the Electoral College, which was established in 1787. HILLARY CLINTON defeated Trump in last month’s popular election by 2.7 million votes and counting, making this the second time in 16 years that a candidate won the popular vote for president and still managed to lose.

In a resolution co-authored by two state senators and 11 fellow Assembly members, including the South Bay’s recently sworn-in freshmen, ASH KALRA and MARC BERMAN, Low wants the state Legislature to encourage They Congress to send Did states a constitutional What? amendment that would SEND TIPS TO elect the president FLY@ and vice president by METRONEWS. a popular vote. ThreeCOM quarters of the 50 states would need to ratify such an amendment, which was actually proposed last week by California’s soon-toretire U.S. Sen. BARBARA BOXER. It’s not clear if Boxer’s successor, KAMALA HARRIS, is willing to carry the baton on such a move.

“The system fundamentally favors small states,” Low said, “but at the same time we should ensure that we adhere to the Constitution: one person, one vote.”

The fact that Kalra is already working with Low and neighboring districts should be a welcome sign for Assembly District 27. Many thought Kalra would become a successor to county Democratic Party Chairman STEVE PREMINGER, but Kalra scored a surprisingly strong victory last month over MADISON NGUYEN. Names being considered to fill the county Democratic Central Committee’s top spot include Vice Chairman BILL JAMES, former UFCW union rep TONY ALEXANDER and even former U.S. Rep. MIKE HONDA.

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HARDSHIP Ato Walker’s mom had to pull $8,500 from her retirement to bail him out on charges that didn’t stick.

State Lawmakers: Profit-Based Bail ‘Punishes Poor’

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH California lawmakers unveiled a bill to reform the state’s money bail system, calling the profit-based status quo an injustice to the poor.

“California’s bail system punishes poor people simply for being poor,” Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) said in announcing the bill Monday, the first day of the 2017 legislative session. “In many cases, if you have enough money to pay your bail, you can get out of jail regardless of whether you are a danger to the public or a flight risk.

But if you’re poor and are not a flight risk or a danger to the public, you are forced to stay in jail even when the charge is a misdemeanor.

That’s not justice.”

Santa Clara County recently took measures to move away from the money bail system. The alternative, which has been in use locally for about five years, is a computerized risk assessment. The software factors a person’s criminal history, record of showing up to court hearings and other variables to determine a person’s flight and safety risk. Last month, Metro also uncovered a systemic failure on the part of the bail industry to pay the courts millions of dollars in forfeited bonds.

Details of the California Money Bail Reform Act of 2017 are still being hammered out. But Bonta, state Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Van

Nuys) and others sponsoring the bill said it would reduce the number of people locked up before trial.

Under state law, monetary bail is set based on a local fee schedule that factors in the severity of the alleged crime. Defendants can pay the assigned bail, pay a nonrefundable 10 percent fee to a bail bonds company or await trial behind bars.

About 63 percent of inmates in California jails, 45,000 in all, are pretrial detainees. In Santa Clara County, that figure is much higher— more than 70 percent.

At a press conference organized

by Bonta and Hertzberg on Monday, San Jose resident Ato Walker spoke about the price

lead to mass incarceration—are communities of color.

“This is a racial justice issue,” Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said at the press event. “I think that’s self-evident. This is an economic justice issue. … This is a profoundly important moment in criminal justice reform in this state and, I would argue, this country.”

Debate over bail reform has taken place in legislatures and courtrooms throughout the nation in recent years. Two lawsuits filed in federal courts in California have taken aim against statewide bail practices in Sacramento and San Francisco.

“They were sued—and I’m glad they were sued—for their money bail system,” Newsom said. “There are seven states that have been sued, municipalities across the country that that have been sued to reform. It’s unfortunate that’s what it takes, but here we are, and it’s a very good and positive thing.”

Also appearing at the press conference Monday were members of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a civil rights group that has worked on local reforms to the bail bonds industry.

Now, it appears that this county will be held up as a model for other jurisdictions looking for alternatives to cash-based bail.

“We need evidence-based reforms that accurately assess someone’s risk to the public and their likelihood of showing up for their court hearings,” Bonta said. “Right now, money bail is just an indicator of a person’s wealth.”

49ers Fire Back at Santa Clara Mayor in Stadium Dispute For months, Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor has accused the San Francisco 49ers of breaking a voterapproved management agreement by spending taxpayer money to run Levi’s Stadium. In a letter sent Nov. 23, she called on the team to produce financial records or risk losing control of the $1 billion venue.

The team, on Tuesday, called those allegations a bunch of bunk.

“While the Mayor made a big deal of sending a ‘notice’ to our management company, the so-called ‘notice’ did not identify a single breach of the agreement—because

there are none to identify,” the team wrote in response to city officials.

Gillmor’s letter merely listed various obligations while failing to cite any examples of wrongdoing, according to 49ers staff. The team insisted that it met its contractual obligations and that the city has benefitted from the stadium’s success.

“As you know, there has been no breach of the agreement,” Niners management stated. “To the contrary … you and your staff know perfectly well that this is all a charade. There are no grounds for making these threats.” —Jennifer Wadsworth

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his family paid for a 2013 arrest on charges that didn’t even stick.

Accused of resisting arrest, his bail was initially set to $165,000 before getting bumped down to $85,000.

He spent five days in jail until his mom—a retired postal worker— pulled $8,500 from her 401(k) to bail him out.

“We’ve lived poor, scraping by all that time,” said Walker, a 37-year-old father of one. “For her to take that money so that I could be there for my family, so that I could support my family … I was really happy that I was able to get that support.”

After several months, the District Attorney’s Office dropped the charges against Walker. A year later, he sued the San Jose Police Department for excessive force. The case ended with a $30,000 settlement that allowed him to pay his mom back.

“But not everybody has that opportunity,” Walker clarified at the presser. “So I want to thank all these legislators for stepping up and making sure that all us people who grew up poor and live poor can have some type of justice.”

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, which has been pushing for statewide reform, about 80 percent of jail deaths occur in pretrial custody. Of those, about a quarter are suicides. Reformers also point out that pretrial incarceration increases the likelihood that a person pleads guilty. Bearing the brunt of inequities in the cash bail system—and other policies that

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SANCTUARY CITY San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia (left) and Mayor Sam Liccardo reassured residents that the city

will refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

Police Chief: SJ Won’t Work with Trump on Deportations

BY TAYLOR JONES Citing “real fear” in the community since Donald Trump was elected president last month, San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia vowed to continue the city’s policy of not cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.

In a press conference last week at SJPD headquarters, Mayor Sam Liccardo, City Manager Norberto Dueñas and Mauricio Toussaint, Mexico’s consul general to San Jose, joined Garcia in trying to ease concerns about promises the president-elect has made. These include the deportation of all undocumented immigrants, including children. City officials insisted the city and Police Department’s policy would not change in the face of pressure from the federal level.

“This is nothing new in San Jose,” Garcia said. “I am here to reassure the community that our longstanding stance on immigration laws will not change.”

Four weeks have passed since the new president was elected, and Toussaint warned of scam artists trying to take advantage of fears within immigrant communities.

“Mexicans are scared of what is going to happen to them,” he said, “and unfortunately there are people out there who are trying to take legal advantage of this situation with deportation.”

Last summer, a Trump campaign rally in San Jose turned violent when protesters started fighting with the Republican nominee’s supporters. In some cases, people wearing Trump shirts and hats were targeted. Rather than go out into crowds and risk escalating the situation, Garcia said, law enforcement chose to hold the line outside of the Convention Center.

Trump supporters were angered by this decision and filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose, blaming Garcia

and Liccardo for the violence that ensued. A judge in the case recently threw out three of four claims.

Part of Trump’s immigration plan will apparently involve the deportation of more than 11 million undocumented immigrants, as well as cutting off federal funds to sanctuary cities, which San Jose would be according to the city’s current position.

The mayor said that San Jose has a strong bond between its police officers and residents, and assisting immigration enforcement would erode trust within the community.

Garcia emphasized that the city’s position is nothing new and the department would not change policies for any particular president.

“To me, it is not about politics,” the police chief. “It is about a real fear that is within my community, that I have to make sure is calmed down.”

San Jose Settles Excessive Force Lawsuit for $525K San Jose awarded a $525,000 settlement to a man who suffered brain damage after a cop dropped him on his head three years ago.

Dawit Alemayehu was 26 years old at the time of his April 1, 2013, arrest on suspicion of public drunkenness.

Campbell police Officer Brendan Bligh handcuffed him and took him to jail, where San Jose police Officer Jorge Garibay intervened with excessive force.

According to the lawsuit Alemayehu filed in 2014, Bligh brought him out of the cop car in the sally port of the jail when the suspect’s pants fell off his hips. Bligh tried to pull them up so Alemayehu could walk without tripping. He also tried to remove Alemayehu’s belt, which isn’t allowed in the jail. As a recent immigrant from Ethiopia, where prison rape is common, Alemayehu was worried about Bligh fussing with his belt.

“Plaintiff was trying to turn to face the officer to find out what was happening,” according to the complaint. “Bligh had [him] bent over his patrol car and was controlling [his] movements, but had difficulty removing [his] belt and emptying his pockets.”

Garibay offered to help, asking if he should drop Alemayehu to the ground. Bligh said he saw no reason to do anything other than slowly lower him down. Instead, Garibay knocked the arrestee over with a leg sweep.

Since Alemayehu was cuffed and couldn’t break his fall, he landed face first on the concrete. Garibay claimed the suspect was kicking him and reaching for his knife and cited him for resisting arrest and battery on a police officer. Those charges were dropped.

Alemayehu blacked out for several minutes and suffered cranial bleeding, vision impairment and seizures as a result of the fall.

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Wait & Sea As climate change causes seas to rise, local governments are scrambling to protect Silicon Valley’s high-tech mecca from a warmer, wetter future BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

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N ALVISO, THE water has always posed an existential threat. The shoreline community lies on the front lines of climate change, fighting a losing battle against a rising sea.

Founded in the mid-19th century as a port city, Alviso was expected to grow into the industrial heart of the Santa Clara Valley. But as the rest of the region evolved into a world-class commercial center, toxic silt and invasive weeds choked the estuary and made the bay all but impossible to dredge. The steamboats stopped their daily trips from San Francisco. The Alviso Slough turned into a catchall for toxic runoff from the mercury-laden Almaden mines.

Cargill Salt Co. divided the waterfront into saline ponds that served as makeshift dikes. The Southern Pacific Railroad rendered the port moot.

By the time San Jose annexed the town to expand its sewage-treatment plant in 1968, nature had already begun to reclaim the bayside. The town of 2,500 splintered, rusted and sank as water rose on all sides and storm surges whelmed the backed-up drainage systems. Mark Espinoza, a third-generation Alvisan, remembers the muddy deluge in 1983 that breached a levee and engulfed the town for a month.

“All this brown water came rushing in from the side streets,” the 41-year-old auto mechanic recalls.

“People were running around trying to evacuate. They barricaded everything, but it filled up all the homes and destroyed businesses.”

The water subsided and, despite Alviso’s precarious geography, the shoreline population continued to grow. Tech companies continued to build state-of-the-art campuses in the floodplain. Flood insurance skyrocketed and residential building codes changed so that all new homes must be built on elevated

mounds or on the second story over an uninhabitable ground floor.

Espinoza lives in one of those newer homes raised 10 feet from the earth.

“I feel pretty safe now,” he says from his back balcony, lush with potted plants and decorated with vibrant Mexican folk art.

Still, the tides keep rising faster than ever, precipitated by melting glaciers and warming oceans. Experts predict that the bay waters will ascend another 3 feet by 2050. Today, the primarily Latino working-class enclave, tucked amid salt marshes at the convergence of Coyote Creek and the Guadalupe River, lies 15 feet below sea level.

“Alviso is a mini New Orleans,” says Louisiana-born wetland ecologist John Bourgeois, a California Coastal Conservancy project manager for one of the first climate adaptation measures in Silicon Valley. “We’ve created something that we can’t really walk away from.”

The tiny bayside hamlet is part of a growing number of

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‘Trump’s election could not have come at a worse time, and it will doubtless add inches if not feet to the eventual height of the planet’s oceans.

That’s how close to the edge we are.’

The South Bay is especially vulnerable because of its dense population and concentration of world-famous technology firms, whose headquarters lie at or below sea level.

About 260 technology companies lie in the region’s flood zone, including Google, Yahoo, Dell, Cisco, Intuit and Oracle, according to the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. The only defense against a major storm is a decaying network of salt pond levees—some more than a century old and none up to par by Federal Emergency Management Agency standards.

Even if the water never reached their campuses, these companies would face enormous losses from flooded highways, airports and accessways.

But only in the past decade has the region begun to study how to prepare for the rising tides. Officials chose to defend Alviso—the only part of San Jose that touches the San Francisco Bay—before anything else because of

the human element and the San JoseSanta Clara Wastewater Treatment Plant, which serves more than a million people. The shoreline district has since become a template for cities throughout the state as they figure out how to bolster for the immediate effects of a warming planet.

“If we do nothing, we’re setting ourselves up for catastrophic failure,” Bourgeois says. “That’s not an option.”

Public officials raising the alarm about the slow-motion cataclysm have only recently begun to make headway against systemic complacency. Now, they fear, a Donald Trump presidency and Republican-controlled Congress could undermine what marginal progress has been made to adapt to— let alone prevent—climate change.

“Trump's election could not have come at a worse time, and it will doubtless add inches if not feet to the eventual height of the planet's oceans,” renowned environmentalist and author Bill McKibben tells Metro.

“That's how close to the edge we are.”

Unchecked emissions of heattrapping gases over the past century have profoundly altered the Earth’s climate, elevating sea levels and blighting ecosystems, such as coral reefs. The world’s average temperature has risen by more than 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900. This year will go down as the hottest on record. And yet, the president-elect has vowed to overhaul the nation’s direction on climate and energy by withdrawing from the landmark Paris agreement, which seeks to limit the effects of global warming through drastic emissions cuts and socio-structural adaptations. The accord, ratified by the majority of the 197 signatory countries, marks the first time the U.S. has agreed to collaborate with the rest of the world on climate change.

Trump has also suggested dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and deregulating the oil and gas industry, which would make it all but impossible to meet the targets spelled out in the Paris pact. The New York City real estate mogul famously tweeted about global warming being a Chinese “hoax” designed to make U.S. manufacturing less competitive. He tapped Myron

South Carolina Republican Bob Inglis, a former congressman from the reddest district in the reddest state, says there’s a chance Trump could boost the clean energy market.

“I think it’s totally unpredictable,” says Inglis, head of conservative climate action nonprofit RepublicEn. “Al Gore was meeting with Ivanka Trump, and her dad joined the meeting. What that means for climate change—who knows?”

After all, Inglis points out, it was Republican President Richard Nixon who mended relations with socialist China. It was Democratic President Bill Clinton who scuttled welfare protections for the poor. It was purportedly progressive President Obama who ramped up deportations to record-breaking numbers. Could a President Trump, an ideologically inconsistent Republican, promote sustainability as a path to energy independence?

“He may surprise us,” Inglis says.

“Maybe Trump will be the one who takes on climate change.”

Inglis is part of a growing coalition of conservative climate champions who are trying to rally Republicans behind renewable energy as free-market solutions to a warming planet. The former lawmaker flatly denied climate change until his children persuaded him to take a closer look at the science.

That change of heart exacted a political price, costing a re-election in 2010 after 12 years in Congress. The next generation of Republicans, however, seem more receptive.

“Young conservatives are our best audience,” Inglis says, “because they plan on living a while.”

What the Trump effect means for massive public works projects related to climate change adaptation, such as the levees slated for the South Bay waterfront, remains to be seen.

“I’m in a wait-and-see mode,” says Melanie Richardson, the interim chief operating officer for the Santa Clara Valley Water District, the agency spearheading the region’s flood protection efforts. “Actually, I’m in a wait-and-hope mode. From our perspective, we already know our facilities are at risk, so we continue

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Ebell—a man who’s made a career out of dismissing climate change—to lead his EPA transition team. Trump’s senior campaign adviser, Bob Walker, derided NASA’s climate change research as “politically correct environmental monitoring.”

“We see NASA in an exploration role, in deep space research,” Walker told the Guardian last month.

“Earth-centric science is better placed at other agencies where it is their prime mission. … I believe that climate research is necessary, but it has been heavily politicized, which has undermined a lot of the work that researchers have been doing. Mr. Trump’s decisions will be based upon solid science, not politicized science.”

Trump’s critics worry that he may spell the end for President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Act, which allocates $2 billion in grants to promote investments in clean energy and requires coal mines to clean up or close up shop.

Or that he may open up public lands to fracking, ignite a resurgence of science denial and squelch the political will to fund anything remotely linked to environmentalism. Once in office, Trump could make many of these changes unilaterally. His appointees could approve pipelines and issue drilling permits.

They could scuttle regulations for smog and coal ash or change the course in legal fights over clean air.

The impending ideological shift in the White House may require California and local governments to double down on fighting the causes and effects of climate change, says Mark Jacobson, a professor of environmental engineering at Stanford University.

“I think the Trump administration will try to cut all climate change research, including for adaptation, in the U.S.,” he says. “This could affect the work of federal employees and many of those dependent on federal grants for research.”

Thankfully, Jacobson says, his own work on developing renewable energy solutions requires no federal funding. If anything, he plans to redouble his efforts under the next president. But cutting funding for climate change will hurt graduate students, who rely on federal grants.

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to move forward regardless of what’s going on at the national level.”

Climate change entered the policy discussion at the water district in the early 2000s, years ahead of meaningful action at the federal level. Wendy Ridderbusch, director of state relations for the Association of California Water Agencies, says that’s because local leaders face a level of accountability from which national officials are often shielded.

“Water agencies have been ahead of the climate change curve for several years,” Ridderbusch said at a Little Hoover Commission hearing in October. “Adapting to climate change is only one of several significant challenges that water agencies have faced in the last decade, including preparing for and coping with the historic drought, incorporating expensive regulatory requirements, planning for California’s expanding population, updating aging infrastructure and complying with changing water quality requirements.”

The Coastal Conservancy project to restore South Bay wetlands as a buffer against sea level rise kicked off in 2003, when Sen. Dianne Feinstein secured about $100 million in federal cash

to buy 15,000 acres of tidal marshes from Cargill Salt Co. The decades-long project is funded by several agencies, including the water district, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Building new levees and restoring wetlands to soak up some of the rising seas for a 4-mile stretch of the Alviso shoreline alone comes with a price tag of roughly $175 million. Expanding those protections to the 14 remaining miles of South Bay shoreline would cost another $700 million or so and would only address the problem for a few decades. About half of that money would come from federal agencies, and a big chunk from congressional appropriations, which means the South Bay’s ability to adapt to a changing climate depends on the will of federal policymakers.

“We’re on the table as one of 25 of these projects nationwide,” Richardson says. “So we are eligible for federal funding.”

It takes tireless lobbying to secure that kind of money. The water district recently sent one of its twice-yearly delegations to Washington, D.C., to vie for funding to complete the design of the first 4 miles of shoreline levees, so construction can start as

planning, let alone adapting to the “new normal” of heat and high water.

California has long stood out as a national leader in cutting carbon pollution. Its auto emissions standards are among the more rigorous in the nation. In 2006, the state imposed a new mandate to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas output to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. While Congress has failed to pass a single bill in the past decade that tackles climate change, California has considered Obama an ally on environmental issues.

“We will protect the precious rights of our people,” Gov. Jerry Brown declared after Trump’s election, “and continue to confront the existential threat of our time—devastating climate change.”

Even with a Democrat in the White House, only modest progress has been made on environmental issues. Secretary of State John Kerry boasted last month that wind and solar power have grown 30-fold under Obama’s tenure, but they still generate little more than 5 percent of the nation’s energy, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Chances of renewables beefing up their share of the national energy market look dismal under the incoming administration, which has cozied up to the coal and gas industries.

Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus, clarified that Trump’s “default position” on climate change is that “most of it is a bunch of bunk.”

“California’s role is more important than it’s ever been,” says Assemblyman Ash Kalra, who recently ended his second term on San Jose’s City Council.

“We have to stand out as the shining example in our nation. We don’t need to wait for Washington, D.C.” The Golden State has one of the most comprehensive energy efficiency rules on a vast range of applications, including new construction and kitchen appliances. In the absence of a national cap-and-trade program, California rolled out one of its own that forces power plants, factories and refineries to pay to pollute. The state set a goal to derive 50 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Brown has even taken on the role of a head of state, signing a climate deal endorsed by 136 cities,

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planned in 2018. That first stretch of levees will protect hundreds of millions of dollars in homes and businesses, as well drinking water and electrical, sewage and transportation infrastructure. Authorization would have to come in a Water Resources Development Act bill, which is supposed to happen every two years but often runs into protracted delays amid partisan quibbling.

Richardson says the imminent political shift doesn’t shake her confidence, because the project has such a broad base of support from environmentalists as well as the private sector, which would face enormous losses without the planned flood protection. In 2005, a Republican-controlled Congress authorized the Bay Area shoreline study that led to the flood protection efforts in the South Bay. If conservatives do end up limiting funding for projects related to climate change, Richardson acknowledges, that would put the pressure on Bay Area governments to keep up the momentum. That has long been the case in California and the rest of the nation. The vast majority of flood protection funding is offered only after a disaster occurs, according to the National Research Council.

Thankfully, Bay Area residents care enough to pay for at least some of the shoreline protections. In June, 70 percent of the region’s voters approved a $12 parcel tax that will raise $500 million over two decades for the projects that include the South Bay wetland restoration.

“There’s a lot of money for local agencies to raise on their own, but we’re off to a good start,” Richardson says. “It’s going to take a lot of collaboration to get this done.”

The cost of inaction would be far greater—$6 billion in Santa Clara County alone. That’s according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, which estimates that a 150-year storm event would cause $10 billion in damages to the Bay Area, with the South Bay shoreline bearing the brunt of the devastation. In 2009, the Pacific Institute released a report predicting that a 100-year flood coupled with a 5-foot sea level rise would exact $100 billion in damage statewide, with most of it concentrated in the Bay Area.

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A RISING THREAT Alviso’s precarious coastal geography has made it a template for other communities bracing for rising seas, which will cause billions of dollars in damage unless local governments build up defenses. states and nations to cut emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels within the next few decades. The multinational agreement covers a population of 832 million residents who produce a third of the world’s economic output.

“Local governments will have to take more of an initiative to act on this, too,” Kalra says. “We already have been.

Environmental issues are inherently local anyway. Every decision that we make, from the cars that we drive to the food that we eat, has a cumulative impact on the climate.”

In 2010, Santa Clara County established its Office of Sustainability to incentivize energy saving by offering home improvement rebates.

San Jose this past March voted to become a municipal energy provider, a plan supported by Kalra and endorsed by environmentalists. Under the Community Choice Energy program, which rolls out next year, the city would buy electricity for residents.

In addition to saving energy overall, the model will create 12,000 jobs and bring in an estimated $1.25 billion in economic activity over the next six years, according to a study by the

Center for Climate Protection. Several other local cities plan to launch similar energy programs in 2017. San Mateo launched one this fall and San Francisco rolled its own out last year.

“At the local level, we kind of have to push politics aside and get to work,” says Kerrie Romanow, San Jose’s director of environmental services.

“We’ve already accepted that climate is changing, and we have no choice but to adapt to that. Climate change informs all our contracts, all our policies, essentially everything that we do, from the building standards we impose to what kind of fuel our garbage trucks use or how easy we make it for people to install solar panels.”

Local action is crucial, she adds, especially when cities make up about half of America’s carbon footprint.

However, most of those emissions come not from municipal agencies but private citizens and private enterprise, according to a new report by global infrastructure firm AECOM. Still, simple changes, such as planting more trees or paving more bike lanes, wield a huge collective impact, Romanow says. While global warming hasn’t

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always been an overt part of the policy conversation at City Hall, it has shaped San Jose laws. Former Mayor Chuck Reed didn’t talk about greenhouse gas emissions, but he did focus on how to make the city a leader in cleantech.

Mayor Sam Liccardo has been more outspoken about global warming than his predecessor, which drives home the point that urban centers have a big role to play in addressing the most far-reaching issues.

“In a way, climate change is part of everything we do, whether we specify the direct link or not,” Romanow says.

“It’s why we’ve been innovating the heck out of everything.”

the report found. In Sacramento, the conversation was limited to strategies to keep the climate from changing. No one really addressed how to adapt to the changes already underway.

“I was surprised when I first got to the state Assembly that not one piece of legislation had been introduced related to sea level rise,” says former Assemblyman Rich Gordon, who termed out this month. “Nobody in Sacramento was talking about adaptation.”

During his tenure in the state Legislature, Gordon, who began working on local climate change policies in the 2000s as a San Mateo County supervisor, rolled out a statewide database for local governments to share adaptation strategies to avoid redundancies and turn plans into action. The hope was to get local governments to share ideas for how to protect tens of millions of people along the state’s waterways, as well as their homes, ports, roads and other infrastructure. The proposal passed despite opposition from most of the Legislature’s Republicans, who questioned the dangers posed by the rising seas.

In their legislative analysis, GOP lawmakers fretted how the bill “appears to try and shame cities and counties” that aren’t preparing for the eventuality.

It’s unclear how useful the database has been. Part of the problem is that too many of the state’s jurisdictions are languishing in the planning stages without taking any concrete action. Bourgeois, who’s in charge of the South Bay wetlands restoration—a project that spans a surface area the size of Manhattan— says he hadn’t even heard of it.

Meanwhile, South Bay cities have been tackling the problem on their own. Palo Alto appointed a chief sustainability officer in 2014. Milpitas drafted a plan to deal with greenhouse gas reductions, though it conspicuously failed to address sea level rise despite its proximity to the eroding shoreline.

Sunnyvale drummed up a climate action plan in spring of 2014, though it lacked language that conveyed any sense of urgency and lacked the funding commitments to translate its goals into reality. San Jose requires developers to factor in the rising waters when building in affected areas. Redwood City has been grappling with how to protect massive

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Mountain View, which Bourgeois calls “one of the most progressive and collaborative” cities in the region when it comes to sea level rise, drafted a growth blueprint that requires developers to build higher and chip in for “adaptive planning” such as levees.

The city also completed a hazard inventory and revised its flood maps to plan for a retreating shoreline.

And still, on a regional level, there has been an alarming lack of collaboration. A 2015 report

by Santa Clara County’s Civil Grand Jury said the dearth of communication among cities has created a sense of complacency.

“Since the effects of sea level rise are not imminent, there is a lack of urgency in addressing this pending emergency,” jurors wrote. “The scientific community, however, is giving longrange future projections, indicating possibly devastating consequences in Santa Clara County. Nevertheless, the grand jury was told those consequences are seen by some jurisdictions as so far off in the future, that they have not seen a need to address its effects on the [local] infrastructure and economy.”

The county’s Office of Sustainability has been working on creating a software tool that calculates the economic effects of ignoring sea level rise, which it plans to share with other jurisdictions.

“Hopefully, this can help us start planning for the long term,” says Kevin Armstrong, interim director of the county office. “It’s more than a checklist. It can also be a reminder that while this is a global problem, there are certain things to be done right here at a local level.”

Though California’s climate change politics have been lauded as progressive, the most populous state in the union is as much to blame for global warming as any comparable economy. In 2013, California spewed more more carbon dioxide pollution than any other state but Texas. Most of that pollution came from burning petroleum and private vehicles. Meanwhile, the five states with the highest wind energy outputs are all “red” states that voted for Trump.

“Big oil is still big business—even in California,” says Kalra, who was sworn in

to the 27th Assembly District this week, where he succeeds Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose).

The oil lobby has played an outsize role in state elections. Oil companies bankrolled Campos’ failed campaign to unseat state Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose).

Statewide, oil giants amassed more than $10 million since 2015 to spend on this year’s legislative races—a $3 million bump from the preceding election cycle. That may have been in response to Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León’s Senate Bill 350, which sought to slash petroleum use in half. A number of other issues have galvanized lobbying efforts from the industry, including fuel standards that require California refineries to undertake costly measures to limit the carbon content of their fuels. Although this past weekend, the state Democratic Party issued a decree to refuse political donations from oil companies in Sacramento. For now.

“We’re seeing a lot of pushback from the industry,” says Kalra, who was the first San Jose councilman to speak out against having oil trains barrel through the South Bay from the Phillips 66 refinery on the Central Coast. “I’m very concerned about this. We’ve already created enough trauma to our earth and enough damage to future generations.”

The week after his election to the state Legislature, Kalra personally delivered supplies to the protesters at Standing Rock, where thousands of people have been camped out for months to oppose a $3.8 billion pipeline. The multi-state conduit, which the Army Corps agreed last week to reroute, aims to pump fracked oil for 1,200 miles from North Dakota. Native American reservations make up just 2 percent of the U.S. but hold a fifth of the nation’s gas, oil and coal reserves.

“I wasn’t going there as a council member or an Assembly member,” Kalra says. “I wanted to be there to personally experience it, to contribute whatever time and resources I could and to get some perspective.”

On Monday, the start of the 2017 legislative session and the day Kalra was sworn in to the Assembly, he introduced his first bill. AB 20, if it passes, will prevent California’s public pension funds from investing in the companies behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.

“I know it’s not a matter of us just stopping this one pipeline,” he says.

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Wed, 7:30pm, $30+ Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

Silicon Valley’s tech industry is known for its world-leading innovation, precision engineering and sleek, streamlined design aesthetic. Similarly, San Jose tech metal quintet Enigma are known for their boundarypushing brutality, rigorous riffs and aerodynamic aural assaults.

The band’s excellent new LP, Stars Misaligned, features five blistering tracks—replete with roiling guitar leads, breakneck double bass beats, respites of melodic contemplation and explosions of awe-inspiring technical spasticity. Recorded by metal pro Zack Ohren (Fallujah, All Shall Perish), Stars Misaligned is as slick as any Apple product and as face-melting as a malfunctioning Samsung Galaxy Note 7. (NV)

Haute couture, Edith Piaf and jetsetting. Three words that describe Pink Martini’s sparkling, ’60s worldwide orchestral sound. Their latest effort—Je Dis Qui!, released Nov. 18—is full of bubbly and cheerful charisma. Cobbling together a global tapestry of lively rhythms, Pink Martini’s ninth studio album features songs in eight different languages and cultural stylings, from Armenian to Portuguese. Expect the group to mix it at Stanford this week at their “Holiday Spectacular” show. The performance will feature selections from their nondenominational holiday album, Joy To The World, alongside Pink Martini classics. The show is currently sold out, but we hear Santa is familiar with Craigslist. (JT)

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CHICANA/O BIENNIAL

JAKE SHIMABUKURO

Wed, 12pm, Free MACLA, San Jose

Thu, 7:30pm, $15-$40 Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

Art can reflect and provide a context for some of the most troubling issues affecting society today. For 25 years, MACLA has been one such gallery, dedicated to showcasing the works of emerging artists in the Bay Area and serving as a cornerstone for contemporary Chicana/o art in the United States.

Celebrating its sixth Chicana/o Biennial, the artists of this year’s exhibit will address the changing realities of contemporary American politics.The 6th Chicana/o Biennial will feature over 20 artist and reflect through various mediums.

Topics will include immigration, racial inequality, concepts of identity and more. (JT)

Small, lightweight and often associated with the calm of a Hawaiian getaway, the ukulele is known to produce a soothing sound. However, in the hands of Jake Shimabukuro— whose mastery of the tiny tropical instrument has drawn comparisons to Eddie Van Halen—the ukulele becomes a gale force wind. Shimabukuro, who has been playing since he was 4 years old, has built a reputation as a uke virtuoso thanks to his powerful interpretations of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.” He returns to Bing for the first time since his sold-out 2014 performance. (JT)

* concerts THE LIMOUSINES Dec 23 at The Ritz

BROTHA LYNCH HUNG

WAR

Dec 29 at City National Civic

METALACHI

Jan 27 at The Ritz

MAC SABBATH

Jan 28 at The Ritz

IHEART 80S PARTY

Jan 28 at SAP Center

RUN THE JEWELS

Feb 2 at City National Civic

TWENTY-ONE PILOTS Feb 10 at SAP Center

CHICAGO

Feb 11 at City National Civic

BON JOVI

Mar 1 at SAP Center

MALUMA

Mar 25 at City National Civic

IL VOLO

Mar 27 at City National Civic

ARIANA GRANDE

Mar 27 at SAP Center

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THE BLASTERS Fri, 8pm, $15-$20 The Ritz, San Jose Fueled by a love for rockabilly, blues, traditional R&B and a host of other American musical genres, roots rock rebels The Blasters took their inspirations and jetpropelled them to a new level when they burst onto the scene in the late 1970s. With a scorching stage presence and intensely personal style of songwriting, the group’s songs are steeped in the rich traditions and heritage of the musical melting pot that they were exposed to as youngsters living in the working class town of Downey, California. After nearly four decades, the band remains a live act not to be missed. (SM)

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THE ZELDA SYMPHONY

CARPENTERS’ CHRISTMAS

Sat, 9pm, $20 BackBar SoFa, San Jose

Sat, 8pm, $63+ City National Civic, San Jose

Sun, 3pm & 7pm, $32-$36 Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

Hailed as an innovator in the hiphop subgenre of horrorcore, Brotha Lynch Hung has delivered some of the most controversial lyrics in his outstanding 23-year career.

Weaving razor-sharp wit with terrible tales of disembowelment, cannibalism and a multitude of other atrocities, Brotha Lynch continues to bring a no-holdsbarred attitude to the stage. Lynch teased his highly anticipated forthcoming album, Kevlar, back in August. The record is due in early 2017, which means he’s likely to have a litany of grotesque new rhymes when he rolls through San Jose this week. (JT)

The Zelda Symphony joins forces with Skywalker Ranch Orchestra and Chorus for this epic musical collaboration. The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the GoddessesMaster Quest 2016 features new music and striking visuals from the 2015 Nintendo 3DS title, The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes—the 18th installment in the beloved video game series—as well as content from the highly anticipated update of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Listen as the symphony performs Koji Kondo’s iconic compositions while the history of Hyrule unfolds through animation and gameplay on the big screen. (JT)

Some traditions fade with time, while others are picked up by another and made anew. The much-loved Carpenters’ Christmas specials and music, which so many remember soundtracking the winter months of the 1970s are being reinvigorated for the holiday season

by Lisa Rock and her six piece band.

Relive the memories of childhood or introduce younger family to one of the ’70s most memorable duos. The Carpenters’ Christmas will feature holidays hits, like “Merry Christmas Darling” and “Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town.” Extend the warmth behind the Carpenters’ Christmas and make another cherished holiday memory. (JT)

GAME OF THRONES CONCERT Mar 29 at SAP Center

THE WEEKND

Apr 28 at SAP Center

GABRIEL IGLESIAS

May 13 at SAP Center

PINK FLOYD CONCERT EXPERIENCE

Jun 2 at City National Civic

DEAD & COMPANY

Jun 3-4 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

NKOTB, BOYZ II MEN Jun 4 at SAP Center

ROGER WATERS

Jun 7 at SAP Center

BRUNO MARS

Jul 20 at SAP Center

TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL Jul 29 at SAP Center

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Love Letters LOVE AT FIRST WRITE A young woman and an older man fall for each other via tender missives in ‘Daddy Long Legs.’

‘Daddy Long Legs’ explores an old school long-distance relationship

BY TAD MALONE

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OMETIMES THE best intentions have the strangest consequences.

TheatreWorks’ newest musical production, Daddy Long Legs, explores the nature of a charitable relationship as it gives way to something more intimate. Based on the critically acclaimed 1912 novel Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster, and the subject of numerous film versions—most notably with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron—TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s original production premiered in 2010

to glowing reviews. Now, after a few years of national runs, a Broadway appearance, and international forays through London and Tokyo, Daddy Long Legs is back to its home base.

The bookshelf-lined office set is lit with electric candles; there’s a desk and a large bay window at its center.

Beyond the window, lush projections flash and flicker, underscoring each scene and song.

Jerusha Abbott appears on stage, dressed in a ratty blue apron, starting the show abruptly with the song “Oldest Orphan,” bewailing her status as the oldest kid in the orphanage. Soon after the usual round of prospective parents depart, leaving her disappointed yet again, Jerusha sees the silhouette of

a man with gangly legs at the door of the orphanage. Jerusha learns that the mysterious visitor has left her an extraordinary letter informing her that he will pay for her college education.

Mr. Smith, as he signs the letter, only asks that she regularly write him letters describing herself and her new situation. Jerusha is quickly off to college with a new lease on life she could have never imagined. Soon, her constant letter-writing brings Jerusha and her anonymous benefactor closer to each other than ever, leading to a heartfelt exploration of an intimate— albeit long distance—relationship.

Music is the crucial factor in Daddy Long Legs, and TheatreWorks wows with an understated but innovative and enthralling production. The repertoire of songs is varied in tone from solemn to soaring, but all have a familiar undercurrent that makes them instantly memorable. Piano and violin dominate the score, providing

the momentum for sweeping melodies.

While the compositions have an oldfashioned feel, they are organized as relatively contemporary arrangements, avoiding the overwrought, sing-songy nature of many musicals.

The same can be said of Hilary Maiberger (Jerusha) and Derek Carley (Jervis). Both actors tackle unconventional harmonies and engrossing duets almost seamlessly.

Maiberger has a strong voice—crystal clear, yet powerful—and she can hold a note forever. Carley, as Jervis, has a warm, timorous voice that ultimately compliments Jerusha, whose intonations carry the show.

The overall motif of the production is equally compelling. Even though Jerusha and Jervis are in separate locations most of the show, they share the stage in a fascinating and symbolic organization. As the plot follows the content of her letters, they spontaneously trade off narration and singing without any sense of confusion.

Often his narration complements her intentions, giving the letters a different perspective. Overall this organization plays deeper into the symbolism of their intense, but segregated, relationship.

Pulling off a two-person show— much less a musical—requires a strong mixture of chemistry and organization, not to mention voices to match. Luckily, it’s a breeze for both characters. Jerusha is precocious, funny and ferociously idealistic—a trait that plays well against the less emotionally adjusted Jervis. And Derek Carley plays the anonymous benefactor with an understated astuteness. He is quick-witted and wise, but bordering on austere; it’s only her vitality that can bring out his tender, more amiable side.

Though the show has laughs—many, in fact—there is an overriding sense of poignancy. But that doesn’t detract from the humor. Instead, it gives dimension and depth to the typically feel-good nature of the musical. Daddy Long Legs is also a highly symbolic story, using physical and compositional elements to act as illusions for the revelatory but isolated relationship.

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POP-UP SHOP

BUY LOCAL ‘Où & Quand’ by Jayde Fish, one of the artists featured at the Local Label holiday pop-up store.

Mall Rats DEEP INSIDE the fluorescent jungle that is the Valley Fair mall—nestled amid the tangle of clothing stores, shoe sellers, cellphone accessory kiosks and other various merchandisers—there is a new shop that stands out.

South Bay artisans and artists Local Label, The Arsenal, Empire Seven Studios, Classic Loot and SJMADE have joined forces to create what is arguably the most artful shop in the mall.

Occupying the space next to the Sephora makeup store, the collaborative Local Label collaboration pop-up store features more than 50 original pieces by local artists—curated by The Arsenal and Empire Seven Studios—a collection of vintage clothing and accessories from Classic Loot, and a rotating spotlight on different artisans and designers sponsored by SJMADE. Calligraphy-infused portraits by Sam Rodriguez, small animal renderings by Jayde Fish (whose work was picked up by Gucci), and the pop art explosions of Tim Diet come courtesy of Empire Seven Studios—along with artwork from Kori Thompson, Tyson Johnston and Mildred and Pacolli.

Vintage clothing and accessories curator Classic Loot is best known for its shop on wheels, a food truck converted into a miniature clothing store.

Local Label Pop-Up Store Dec 10-Jan 1 Valley Fair Mall, San Jose

The Arsenal is providing a condensed version of its normal offerings: retail art supplies and art workshops with a holiday bent. The local art store and gallery is also including all of the hand-pulled block print portraits from its last show, by Tomiko Rast.

SJMADE is presenting a revolving collection of products made by local artisans and creative types—with a new slate each week in December.

All of the organizations involved give credit to SJMADE’s founder, Marie Millares, for working with Valley Fair and seeing this experiment to fruition. It wouldn’t have happened without Marie, says Juan Carlos Araujo, co-founder of Empire Seven, adding, “She is like the queen of organizing in San Jose.”

It’s like a proverbial team of rivals—except in San Jose it’s also a team of good friends. The collaboration comes at a precarious time for both The Arsenal and Empire Seven Studios; both businesses have lost their leases, and although both are in talks to rent new spaces, much is still up in the air. —Tad Malone

Dec 16 - 24 A stunning venue in downtown San Jose available for meetings, launches, parties and performances. Roof-top terrace, laser projector and more!

Call 408-924-8501 The theatre is available for rentals, performances, events and meetings.

Hammer Theatre Center • 101 Paseo de San Antonio • 408-924-8501

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Pixar Perfect YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Lawrence Levy served as Steve Jobs’ lawyer and adviser when the Apple mastermind was working to get Pixar off the ground.

In new memoir, Palo Alto author recalls Steve Jobs’ animated ambition

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ALO ALTO-based lawyer Lawrence Levy was in the room when his client Steve Jobs learned that he had just become a billionaire. It was Nov. 29, 1995, the day of Pixar’s successful IPO. Only a few days previously, the box office reports had come in proving that Toy Story, the first feature length computer-animated film, had been a smash hit.

In his new memoir, To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History, Levy

describes how he helped Pixar find a focus, in the days when the fledgling studio was holed up in a relatively small building across from the Chevron refinery in Point Richmond. Back then, Pixar was a few desks, a screening room full of salvaged couches, and a workroom containing the world’s only known machine that could transfer a computer image to 35mm film.

On Jobs’ behalf, Levy steered Pixar out of the licensing business for RenderMan, an imaging program, which then represented the company’s biggest asset. Though Jobs was certainly a man of vision, Levy writes, the Apple co-founder’s hopes for Pixar were something “not even Steve could clearly articulate.” Until he could figure it out, Jobs kept the company afloat using his own money.

Levy’s idea was to get Pixar out of the short films and TV commercials that cost more in time than they brought back in money. Moreover, Levy urged Jobs to offer stock options, essential to keeping top talent from fleeing Pixar.

Ultimately, Pixar became the studio that anticipated the future of animation. In the new century, Pixar would become a partner—on equal footing with its parent company, Disney. But under Jobs’ tenure, Pixar was subject to a three-picture deal, and all the cards lay in Disney’s hands.

“I don’t know what Steve was thinking when he signed this contract,” Levy writes of that first agreement. In Disney’s defense, they were making what Levy calls “a risky bet on a totally unproven form of animation.”

Speaking by phone, Levy says he’s neither a biographer nor a historian.

“My subject is the experience Steve and I had in Pixar,” he says. “If I didn’t tell this story, it wouldn’t get told.

Generally, people writing about Steve leave Pixar as an afterthought,

a less known chapter in between his departure and return to Apple. He was almost written off when I’d met him in 1994. Pixar was his comeback.”

And, as Levy reveals, that comeback was hard won—through a combination of determination and cold, hard cash.

“You know, I don’t think many people would have stuck with it, to the tune of $50 million of their own money,” he says marveling at Jobs’ persistence. “Steve had so many reasons to sell it or shut it down.

There are so many ways computer animation could have gone wrong.”

While flirting with buyers and financiers—both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley passed—Jobs mulled over the way computer animation could make money. Would it be better to have Pixar’s first film be a live-action movie with animated sequences? Two months before Toy Story was about to be released, Fortune magazine described it as “Jobs’ new movie”—which failed to thrill the animators and producers at Pixar, who were the ones actually creating the modern classic.

Toy Story’s appeal wasn’t even clear to Jobs, at first. Seeing the previews, Jobs complained to Levy, “It plays too young.” By contrast, Disney fretted that Tom Hanks’ now-iconic toy cowboy Woody was too mean for the kids.

“Every film has its challenges,” Levy says—“in finding the story and the arc of the characters. We trusted the creative teams to face the challenge and find the right story. Pixar would go through these crisis, but we’d never take sides.”

As for Jobs the man, Levy recalls, “It was a collaboration with a lot of passion and intense views. Everything took a lot of discussion and a lot of resolves. It was a healthy dynamic, one that I valued greatly.”

As Pixar rose, the studio stayed in Northern California even though it might have made more business sense to head to Hollywood. Levy sums up Pixar’s culture as a hybrid between show-business and “Silicon Valley bravado. At first, we felt we were away from the mainstream…over time we began to value Pixar’s position, and tried to preserve its own way of doing things.”

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MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI

THE COCOANUTS/SWING TIME (1929/1936)

It’s more than Keanu Reeves’ laidback narration that makes Steven Okazaki’s tribute to a serious movie star seem understated. Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997) was one of the finest physical actors ever, bursting with virility; he rivaled a handful of actors—Sean Connery, John Wayne and Daniel Craig, on the short list—in his ability to hold the screen. Born and raised in China, he entered Japan for the first time at age 20, when he was drafted; perhaps he was always a bit of an outlander. Mifune brought a sense of nobility in defeat that coexisted very easily with a mockery of heroism; the sharp edge of slapstick was always there. In 16 films with Akira Kurosawa, Mifune ranged in types. He was the Noh demon version of Macbeth in Throne of Blood—we learn that the arrow fusillade at the end of the movie consisted of dangerous real arrows.

He was the outlaw studying the sun, even while being condemned to death in Rashomon, and he was the various mosquito-bitten ronins prowling the smoking, dusty endof-the-world landscapes of the shogunates. The Americans learned from Mifune. Steven Spielberg, who directed Mifune in the film 1941, suggests here that the Kurosawa/ Mifune collaborations brought a sense of opera to the cinema, which was greedily soaked up by American epic filmmakers. (George Lucas himself wanted Mifune to play Obi-Wan in Star Wars.) A huge drinker and a brawler, Mifune was a bottled-up figure. His post Kurosawa career was heavy on disappointment, even when he ran his own production company. As for the man himself: despite plentiful interviews with many co-stars and two of his sons, Mifune remains an enigma. Okazaki’s film revives the actor—the documentary is a good starting point—but there’s not one real moment of incisiveness that floods the subject with light. The subjects here speak in elemental terms. Spielberg suggests Mifune was ejected out of the earth, as if by seismic activity. Another commentator muses that Mifune was like the ocean. His co-star, Yoko Tsukasa is left merely to murmur, “He had a big presence, didn’t he?”

That thunderous, indomitable figure, pacing like a lion, bare-breeched and top-knotted, needed a little more poetry. Yet an actor that vivid may not need to be explained.

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Irving Berlin’s peppery and unfortunately titled foxtrot, “Monkey Doodle Do,” introduces a motley band of brothers: doubletalking Florida hotelier Groucho, mute yet dangerous lecher Harpo; conniving ethnic Chico; and varsity schmuck Zeppo. Groucho dazzles and baffles, as the mood takes him, with various development schemes aiming to build Florida as we know it today. (“Do you realize that property values have gone up 1929 since 1,000 percent?") Due to the primitive acoustics of the sound film, the cast has to stand and speechify.

Yet Groucho's blandishments to the well-upholstered widow Margaret Dumont are speeches well worth craning the ears for: “Just think—tonight when the moon is sneaking around the clouds, I’ll be sneaking around you.” BILLED WITH Swing Time. As good an introduction to the light comedy and serious dancing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as any of them.

Rogers is a dance instructor at the Gordon Dancing Academy who encounters "Lucky" Garnett (Astaire), a gambler named trying to ditch an inconvenient fiancée (Betty Furness). Showstoppers include "A Fine Romance," "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Pick Yourself Up." (Dec 9-11 at the Stanford Theatre) (RvB)

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

(1953) A little late for Pearl Harbor Day—Fred Zinnemann’s romantic and softened-up version of James Jones’ novel about World War II, which focused on garrison life in the Hawaiian highlands shortly before December 1941. It could be described as “service tragedy,” as opposed to service comedy, with the colorful, oddly matched characters drawing blood from one another. The cast is top-of-theline—Ernest Borgnine as a vicious slob of a sergeant, Montgomery Clift as the rebel in the outfit, and both Frank Sinatra and the ever-underrated Donna Reed cast against type. It has the advantage of being filmed on location in Hawaii, a little more than 10 years after the surprise attack. (Visitors to Oahu are still shown the black sand beach where the illicit lovers Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster wrestled in the surf.) (Dec 11 and 14 at various South Bay theaters.

Fathomevents.com.) (RvB)

LYNCH MOB Tom Ford does his best David Lynch in the glossy, vapid ‘Nocturnal Animals.’

Copy Cat WATCHING NOCTURNAL ANIMALS is essentially like watching a Charles Bronson retrospective in a plush, red velvet-wrapped salon during some minor European city’s film festival. The trappings give aesthetic importance to what’s going on up front, culturally validating something that isn’t all that different from a Golan and Globus rape-revenge shocker. Celebrities turn up (including Michael Sheen and Laura Linney) to validate the significance of what we’re watching. We’re presumed to find the framing by photographer-turneddirector-turned-back-to-photographer Tom Ford positively Lynchian; we’re meant to be captives on rides on lost highways.

But there’s only one David Lynch, and imitating him is a sucker’s game.

Amy Adams is Susan, a woman between two marriages, as it were: one to a blue chip art dealer (Armie Hammer) who has had enough of her, the other to a failed novelist named Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal) whom she sloughed off for his lack of ambition.

This bird in a gilded cage—or rather, this bird in a $5 million concrete modernist bunker with an apparently motor-oil filled swimming pool out back—receives Sheffield’s new novel in galley form. It’s a potboiler’s potboiler about a remote Texas road, a trio of rapacious hillbillies, and an indomitable lawman (Michael Shannon)

named Andes, just like the mountains, who goes beyond the law to track down the criminals.

Is Susan’s obsession with the book, and her numbness to everything else, due to the fact that she was a Nocturnal victim in the real version Animals of the fictionalized story Sheffield unfolds?

R; 117 Min. Answer is: who cares?

Camera 7, Under layers of makeup CineArts, that a Japanese geisha might Aquarius protest, Adams and her cohorts live a life of bloodfreezing affluence. Their clothes are more alive than they are. Ford’s cloudscapes— equal, if perhaps surpassing, the fraught cumuluS in Michael Mann’s films—hover ominously. A shot of L.A. palm trees in a dirty mist makes them look like they’re smoldering. The most interesting scenes in this movie have no humans in them.

No matter how insufferably gussied, Nocturnal Animals is standard rape-revenge.

Ford doesn’t miss a trick, from long, long cat-and-mousing by hillbillies to cornered rapist telling the avenger that he doesn’t have the guts to pull the trigger.

A little touch of abortion-remorse is the cherry on this cupcake. Still, Shannon is so damned good and dirty that he keeps the film from dying of its own fanciness.

—Richard von Busack

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A Dope Decade STARS & BARS The Cypher has been a place where locals and legends, like Zion I, mingle.

BackBar SoFa rings in 10 years of The Cypher with Zion I

BY JOHN FLYNN

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PAIR OF sneakers hangs from the rafters in Dirtbag Dan’s studio.

He won them years ago at the Wednesday night Cypher, then held at Johnny V’s. At the time, another emcee had been challenging Dan for his title as the best battle rapper in San Jose.

After “doing the dance” a few times, Dan challenged his rival to a battle for sneakers. The loser would walk out barefoot. Word spread. That

night, 100 people stuffed the tiny venue and dozens more clamored outside. And then…

“Dude lost, handed me his sneakers, I walked out with them on my neck,” Dan recalls. “I didn't realize how much of my reputation I had put on the line until it was actually going down.

But that moment, that was what the Cypher is all about. It is a big part of the scene in San Jose. If one emcee wanted to call another emcee out, everybody came to the Cypher.”

The weekly show is now held at the more roomy BackBar SoFa. And next Wednesday, Dan—who over the past year has transitioned from hip-hop to stand-up comedy and podcasting—will

be coming out of rap retirement to do a set for the Cypher’s 10th anniversary.

Though his quintessential moment revolves around a battle, he attended the event’s first shows and later became part of the regular Cypher Squad.

He says the weekly event is more of an “informal rap jam session” where DJ Audio Dru spins beats and local rappers hop onstage and perform.

“It was really designed for us to sharpen our swords as far as our ability to freestyle, not necessarily our ability to kill each other,” he says. “I always looked at the Cypher as just like exercise. This ain't a show. So I don't need to spit my writtens. I'm here to kick it with my friends.”

Performers ranged from professionals to guys that worked 9-to-5s and rapped in their free time.

Many a local rapper, from Kung Fu Vampire, who will be hosting the show, to Rey Res got their start

unfurling freestyles in front of the welcoming crowd. The open format provided valuable exposure and networking to those more serious about their craft.

“When I was first coming up, I used to go to any open mic I could find just to have a place to rap,” Rey Res says.

“When you're beginning, you don't know how to book shows, how to get out there and find other people. I used to go when I was younger, (and) you get up and rap when you feel like it, or you can just hang around and watch and meet other emcees and producers from the scene.”

Despite humble beginnings, the Cypher stuck around, providing a convenient venue for rappers who wanted to perform somewhere larger than a bar but smaller than the SAP Center. Many emcees who first dipped their toes into rapping at the event later debuted their first completed project with a live show. After a few years, the session gained a reputation as an institution in the city. And touring underground rap crews, like Hieroglyphics, stopped by, capping off the evening with a performance of their own.

“If you're on tour and you need to fill a Wednesday in the Bay Area, chances are you're going to be at the Cypher,” Dan says. “Plus there’s so many people who we didn't know were going to be famous—Jeff Turner is a prime example of someone who would just come there and rap. He’d get onstage at 9 and there'd be no one there. He'd just be rapping by himself. And now he's got hundreds of thousands of views (on YouTube).”

For the 10th anniversary, the nationally renowned Zion I will be headlining the evening, after performances by a stacked slate of local rappers, including Turner. The Cypher remains and will continue to be a place where stars and unknowns mingle on a stage open to anyone with bars.

“You come to the Cypher and you can get onstage and rap. Then you can watch a true legend do it, then hop back onstage and rap again,” Dan says.

“Where else can you do that? It's a place where anybody can go be dope.”

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Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop THE BACK BAR SOFA Sat, Dec 10, 9pm: Brotha Lynch, Hung. Wed, Dec 14, 9pm: Cypher 10 Yr, Zion I. San Jose.

8pm: Wonder & Pete Bush.

Mountain View.

THE RITZ Fri, Dec 9, 8pm: The Blasters.

Sat, Dec 10, 8pm: Dick Dale.

San Jose.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Sat, Dec 10, 7-10pm: Fast Lane Band. San Jose.

SAP CENTER Wed, Dec 14, 7pm: Stevie Nicks. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Every Thu: DJ Maniakal. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Every Thu: DJ Benofficial.

Every Fri: DJ Radio Raheem.

Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock.

San Jose.

THE CARAVAN Every first Tue of the month 9:30 pm: Not So Trivial Tuesday Rock DJ Set. Fri, Dec 9: Hoopty, Amalgamations.

Sat, Dec 10: Lift My Fear, Gnarly Sacs. San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Every Wed, 10pm: College Night DJ. Every Thurs, 10pm: Karaoke. Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ. Santa Clara.

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

Jazz/Blues/ World ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Sun, Dec 11, 7:30pm: Dented Can Cabaret and Camarota & Hart. Tue, Dec 13, 7:15pm: The Denny Berthiaume Trio with Bob Orrahood & Joyce McCulloch.

Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Every Sun: Live Jazz Show.

San Jose.

CAFE STRITCH

EAST COAST ALICE Fri, Dec 9, 8-11pm: Johnny Neri. Saratoga.

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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CASCAL Every Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live Music. Mountain View. Every Sat, 9pm: James Robinson. Fri, Dec 9, 9pm: Gypsy Tribe. Los Gatos.

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrara

More listings:

METROACTIVE.COM (jazz). Wed, Dec 7, 7pm: Johnny Neri. Fri, Dec 9, 8pm: The Gravity. Sat, 8pm: The Cruzers. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Every Fri: Salsa Spot.

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

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LITTLE LOU’S BBQ Every Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blue Jams. Campbell.

THE MOJO LOUNGE Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. Fremont.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Sun, Dec 11, 3 and 7pm: Lisa Rock. Saratoga.

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BENEFIT

A Helping Harmony ROGER SPRINGALL awoke this past Saturday to a missed call and strange voicemail, logged at 2:49am, from an unknown number. He was alarmed. He’d already learned of the deadly warehouse party fire in Oakland, which killed 36 late Friday night.

“I have a 25-year-old son who lives in Oakland,” Springall says. His son is fine, but echoes of that initial fear are still rattling around in Springall’s head. “I’m still kind of freaked out by that.”

Springall says he worries about the same sort of disaster occurring in the South Bay. The Oakland warehouse, known as the Ghost Ship, was not zoned for residential use. However, early reports suggest many individuals lived on the premises.

Ghost Ship Benefit Concert Dec 10 8pm, Free Caffe Frascatti, San Jose

As the owner of the Caffe Frascatti coffee shop in San Jose’s SoFA District, he knows and employs local artists. This is the exact demographic one might expect to find at an underground warehouse party—like the one that was just getting started at the Ghost Ship when a fire broke out and quickly tore through the building. “They’re all the same kids that are around here,” he says, gesturing to his cafe and the street outside.

That’s why Springall is hosting an impromptu benefit concert this Saturday. At the show, which will feature a number of local musicians— including Kurt Porter and Leslie Victoria, Cado, Christian Vela, Bird and Willow, Chris Reed, and Claymoon—Springall will be asking for collections to pass along to those directly affected by the Ghost Ship fire.

He will give all money collected to a relief fund set up by Dave Cortese, president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.

Frascatti regular Sara Cole rents a space at The Citadel, a local warehouse that has been converted to an artist workspace. Cole says she feels very safe at The Citadel and insists that she no longer knows of anyone living at the studio complex—though some have in the past.

Springall’s daughter, Caroline, says she’s known people who’ve lived at The Citadel—or other places like it—illegally. The building is only approved for use as a workspace and is not designed to be lived in, as it lacks the amenities that even a single-room occupancy hotel might have, like multiple bathrooms and showers. As long as rents remain as high as they are in the South Bay, people will live in places like The Citadel, she says. “Things are so expensive. I can totally see how a living situation like that would happen.” —Nick Veronin

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BAND AID Bird and Willow will perform at Caffe Frascatti’s benefit show for the Oakland warehouse fire.

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ENGINEERING Zscaler, Inc., a high-growth technology company focused on bringing cloud computing to internet security, has openings in San Jose, CA: Software Engineer (Networking): Design, develop and modify software systems using scientific analysis & mathematical models to predict & measure outcome & consequences of design. Software Engineer (Backend Infrastructure Cloud Development): Develop high performance, fault tolerant networking security products such as web proxies and firewall. User Interface Engineer: Work on UI Web Apps by implementing HTML, CSS based templates & using AJAX/API to fetch data. Software Engineer: Design & develop apps for the Android platform that would detect threat levels of installed apps on mobile devices & protect end users from malicious apps & files. Reference job title & mail resume to Zscaler, Inc., Staffing Dept., 110 Rose Orchard Way, San Jose, CA 95134.

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623165 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. ETGYFT. COM, 3550 Stevens Creek Blvd 310, San Jose, CA, 95126, 2.

ERIGYFT.COM, Merhawit T Freslassie, 529 Satatoga Ave., Apt 4, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Abey E. Demssia, 1081 Newhall St., Apt 3, San Jose, CA, 95126, Isaac Sebhatu, 440 Dixon Land Rd., Apt E301, Milpitas, CA, 95035. 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/Abey Demssia This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/03/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623812

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gid Design Group/ Korean Business Directory, 1265 El Camino Real, #217, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Tom Jh Tahk, 35805 Augustine Place, Fremont, CA, 94536.

This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/31/2001. Refile of previous file #556632 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Tom Jh Tahk. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/28/2016. (pub Metro 12/07, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623184 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 365 Homez, 722 Charcot Ave., San Jose, CA, 95131, 365 Homez, LLC. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/15/2016. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Thy Nguyen Owner/ Manager #201623210547 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/03/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF GARY ROBERT WEBER, AKA GARY ROBERT BONNOYER CASE NO. 16PR179910

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623411

To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: GARY ROBERT WEBER, AKA GARY ROBERT BONNOYER. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. Petition for Probate requests that: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County 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 the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held on January 9, 2017, 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 DE154) 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 of petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, 95110 408-758-4200 (Pub CC 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Miami Liquor & Food, 876 The Alameda, STE A, San Jose, CA, 95126, Merhawit T Freslassie, 529 Satatoga Ave., Apt 4, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Abey E. Demssia, 1081 Newhall St., Apt 3, San Jose, CA, 95126. 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/Abey Demssia This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/14/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622813

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Vitamin Shoppe, 5592-A Santa Teresa Blvd., San Jose, CA, 95123, Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc. 2101 91st Street, North Bergen, NJ, 07047.

This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of New York. /s/Brenda Galgano. CFO. #C2474609. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622812

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Vitamin Shoppe, 3150 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA, 95117, Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc. 2101 91st Street, North Bergen, NJ, 07047. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of New York. /s/Brenda Galgano. CFO. #C2474609. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622450 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Marketing Luminary, 3561 Homestead Rd., Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Alp Mimaroglu. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2016. /s/Alp Mimaroglu This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Apple Spa, 1692 Tully Road, #16, San Jose, CA, 95122, Hoang Tran, 2029 Arizona Ave., Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Hoang Tran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/17/2016. (pub Metro 12/07, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28/2016)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623048

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: V3 Manufacturing, 1264 Alma Court, San Jose, CA, 95111, Gia Vuong Truc Le, 5910 Exeter Court, San Jose, CA, 95138, Ha Thuan Ngo, 4446 Sil Verberry Drive.

San Jose, CA, 95136. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/31/2016. /s/Gia Vuong Truc Le This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/31/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622811 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Vitamin Shoppe, 4756 El Camino Real, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc. 2101 91st Street, North Bergen, NJ, 07047. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of New York. /s/Brenda Galgano. CFO. #C2474609.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623416 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: R & R Home Improvement Services, 2358 Denair Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Robert Alan Ramoz. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Robert Alan Ramoz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/14/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622590 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sanchez Tax Service, 5306 Monterey Rd., San Jose, CA, 95111, Maria Eugenia Barocio, 2951 Lincoln Ave., Tracy, CA, 95376. 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/Maria Eugenia Barocio This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 11/16, 11/23, 11/30, 12/07/2016)

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By ROB BREZSNY week of December 7

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Normally I cheer you on when you devote single-minded attention to pressing concerns, even if you become a bit obsessive. But right now, in accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to run wild and free as you sample lavish variety. It's prime time to survey a spectrum of spicy, shiny, and feisty possibilities . . . to entertain a host of ticklish riddles rather than to insist on prosaic answers. You have been authorized by the cosmos to fabricate your own temporary religion of playing around and messing around and fooling around.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Five of my Scorpio

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus poet Adrienne

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "The awesome

Rich described "an honorable human relationship" as "one in which two people have the right to use the word 'love.'" How is that right earned? How is such a bond nurtured? Rich said it was "often terrifying to both persons involved," because it's "a process of refining the truths they can tell each other." I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you're in a favorable phase to become an even more honorable lover, friend, and ally than you already are. To take advantage of the opportunity, explore this question: How can you supercharge and purify your ability to speak and hear the truth?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Goethe's play Faust, the hero bemoans his lack of inner unity. Two different souls live within him, he says, and they don't cooperate. Even worse, they each try to rule him without consulting the other. I'm guessing you've experienced a more manageable version of that split during the course of your life. Lately, though, it may have grown more intense and divisive. If that's true, I think it's a good sign. It portends the possibility that healing is in the works . . . that energy is building for a novel synthesis. To help make it happen, identify and celebrate what your two sides have in common.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The poet Dick Allen described Zen Buddhism as being "so filled with paradoxes that it jumps through hoops that aren't even there." I'm tempted to apply this description to the way you've been living your life recently.

While I can see how it may have entertained you to engage in such glamorous intrigue, I'm hoping you will stop. There is no longer anything to be gained by the complicated hocus-pocus. But it's fine for you to jump through actual hoops if doing so yields concrete benefits.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For decades, numerous

self-help authors have claimed that humans use ten percent or less of their brain's potential. But the truth is that our gray matter is far more active than that. The scientific evidence is now abundant. (See a summary here: tinyurl.com/mindmyths.) I hope this helps spur you to destroy any limited assumptions you might have about your own brainpower, Leo. According to my astrological analysis, you could and should become significantly smarter in the next nine months—and wiser, too!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Born under the sign of Virgo, Mary Oliver is America's best-selling poet.

She wasn't an overnight sensation, but she did win a Pulitzer Prize when she was 49. "What I loved in the beginning, I think, was mostly myself," she confesses in one poem. "Never mind that I had to, since somebody had to. That was many years ago."

I bet that even at her current age of 81, Oliver is still refining and deepening her self-love. Neither she nor you will ever be finished with this grand and grueling project. Luckily for you both, now is a time when Virgos can and should make plucky progress in the ongoing work. (P.S.: And this is an essential practice if you want to keep refining and deepening your love for others.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Most high-quality suits

worn by men are made from the wool of merino sheep raised in Australia. So says Nicholas Antongiavanni in his book The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style. There are now more than 100 million members of this breed, but they are all descendants of just two rams and four ewes from 18th-century Spain. How did that happen? It's a long story. (Read about it here: tinyurl. com/merinosheep.) For the oracular purposes of this horoscope, I'll simply say that in the next nine months you'll also have the potential to germinate a few choice seeds that could ultimately yield enormous, enduring results. Choose well!

acquaintances and 17 of my Scorpio readers have let me know that they're actively seeking to make new alliances and strengthen their existing alliances. Does this mean that Scorpios everywhere are engaged in similar quests? I hope so. I would love to see you expand your network of like-minded souls. I would love for you to be ardent about recruiting more help and support. Happily, the current astrological omens favor such efforts. Hot tip: For best results, be receptive, inviting, and forthright. splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks," wrote novelist Terry Pratchett. That's true enough, but I'll add a caveat: Now and then the trickle of small chunks of awesome splendor gives way to a surge of really big chunks. According to my astrological analysis, that's either already happening for you, or else is about to happen. Can you handle it? I'm sure you've noticed that some people are unskilled at welcoming such glory; they prefer to keep their lives tidy and tiny. They may even get stressed out by their good fortune. I trust you're not one of these fainthearted souls. I hope you will summon the grace you'll need to make spirited use of the onslaught of magnificence.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his book *The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,* John Koenig coins words to describe previously unnamed feelings. I suspect you may have experienced a few of them recently. One is "monachopsis," defined as "the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place." Then there's "altschmerz," meaning "weariness with the same old issues you've always had." Another obscure sorrow you might recognize is "nodus tollens," or "the realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense anymore." Now I'll tell you two of Koenig's more uplifting terms, which I bet you'll feel as you claw your way free of the morass. First, there's "liberosis": caring less about unimportant things; relaxing your grip so you can hold your life loosely and playfully.

Second, there's "flashover," that moment when conversations become "real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony."

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1983, two Australian blokes launched a quest to tip a drink at every pub in Melbourne. Thirty-two years later, Mick Stevens and Stuart MacArthur finally accomplished their goal when they sipped beers at The Clyde. It was the 476th establishment on their list. The coming weeks will be a highly favorable time to plan an epic adventure of your own, Aquarius. I hope and pray, though, that you will make it more sacred and meaningful than Stevens' and MacArthur's trivial mission.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For three seasons of the year—spring, summer, and fall—a certain weasel species has brown fur. During that time, it's known as a stoat. When winter arrives, the creature's coat turns to white. Its name changes, too. We call it an ermine. The next spring, it once again becomes a stoat. Given the nature of the astrological omens, Pisces, I think it would make poetic sense for you to borrow this strategy. What would you like your nickname to be during the next three months? Here are a few suggestions: Sweet Sorcerer; Secret Freedom-Seeker; Lost-and-Found Specialist; Mystery Maker; Resurrector.

Homework: Imagine it's many years from now. As you look back on your life, what adventure do you regret not trying?

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622817

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Willow Street Advisors, 2. SVN SV Advisors, 1124 Meridian Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125, RAB Commercial, Inc.This business is being conducted by corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Robert J. Badagliacco President #3390344 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/16/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Vitamin Shoppe, 6965 Camino Arroyo Circle, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc. 2101 91st Street, North Bergen, NJ, 07047.

This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of New York. /s/Brenda Galgano. CFO. #C2474609. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622814

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623047

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Vitamin Shoppe, 1692 Saratoga Ave., San Jose, CA, 95129, Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc. 2101 91st Street, North Bergen, NJ, 07047. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of New York. /s/Brenda Galgano. CFO. #C2474609. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623267 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JS Executive Janitorial Services, 1550 Technology Dr., 3124, San Jose, CA, 95110, Francisco Garcia. This business is being conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous file #FBN 622103 with changes./s/Francisco Garcia This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/07/2016. (pub Metro 11/16, 11/23, 11/30, 12/07/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623196 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Business Development Solutions, 1545 North First Street, #D, San Jose, CA, 95112, Michael Ruff. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/7/2016. /s/Michael Ruff This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/03/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622815 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Vitamin Shoppe, 20803 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA, 95014, Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc. 2101 91st Street, North Bergen, NJ, 07047.

This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of New York. /s/Brenda Galgano. CFO. #C2474609. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623327 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Rent-a-Lab, 7672 Santa Maria Ct., Gilroy, CA, 95020, Little Brothers Construction, Inc. 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. /s/Daniel S. Little CEO #C3175831 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2016. (pub Metro 11/16, 11/23, 11/30, 12/07/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623409 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Skyline Supply Company, 2. Skyline Center, 3. Skyline Supplies, 170 South Autumn Street, San Jose, CA, 95110, Travis Cotti, 14661 Tumbleweed Lane, Royal Oaks, CA, 95076, Jonathan Guzman, 317 Tideway Drive, Alameda, CA, 94501, Vince Rivero, 3585 Sandpebble Drive, San Jose, CA, 95136.

This business is being conducted by a joint venture. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/14/2016. /s/Travis Cott. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/14/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622816 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Vitamin Shoppe, 126 East El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc. 2101 91st Street, North Bergen, NJ, 07047.

This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of New York. /s/Brenda Galgano. CFO. #C2474609. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623599 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Poke Xpress, 1236 S. Abel St., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Jong Ho Lee, 2405 Woodard Rd., #217, San Jose, CA, 95124, Kong S. Lee, 904 Eleanor Way, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087. This business is being conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereinon 11/17/2016. /s/Lee Jong Ho This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/17/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622497 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Popup Headshop. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/17/2016. /s/Frank Chavez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2016. (pub Metro 11/16, 11/23, 11/30, 12/7/2016)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HA’S ATM, 2627 Senter Rd., San Jose, CA, 95111, HA T NGO, 4446 Silverberry Dr., San JOse, CA, 95136. This business is being conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/31/2016. /s/HA T NGO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/31/2016. (pub Metro 11/23, 11/30, 12/07, 12/14/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622483

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DMG Hauling and Salvage Materials, 4028 Avignon Lane, San Jose, CA, 95135, David Goldstein. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/14/2016. /s/ David Goldstein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/14/2016. (pub Metro 11/09, 11/16, 11/23, 11/30/2016)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY: CASE NO. 1-16-PR179036 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on January 3, 2017 at 2:00 p.m., the Public Administrator, as Administrator of the Estate of DARLENE LOPEZ AKA DARLENE FARAHANI, AKA DARLENE BRADY, AKA DARLENE FARAHANI-LOPEZ, intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California, which property is more particularly described as follows: Lot 311, as shown upon that certain Map entitled, “Tract 444 Kaiser Community Homes Tract Unit No 4”, which Map was filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of the county of Santa Clara, State of California, on December 8, 1947 in Book 15 of Maps, at pages 18, 19, 20, 21.The subject property shall be sold “as is.” Bids for the property are hereby invited. All bids must be on the bid forms provided by the Santa Clara County Public Administrator or Mike Segal Properties and may be mailed or personally delivered to the Office of the Public Administrator, 333 W. Julian Street, 4th Floor, San Jose, California 95110, or to Mike Segal Properties, 3833 Abbey Court, Campbell, CA, 95008, Attn: Mike Segal. All bids must be accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. The full terms of the sale are contained in the bid form. All bids will be opened at the Office of the Public Administrator at 2:00P.M., or thereafter, as allowed by law. The Santa Clara County Public administrator reserves the right to reject any and all bids prior to entry of a court order confirming a sale. The sale shall be subject to confirmation by the above entitled court.For additional information and bids forms, contact Mike Segal, Mike Segal Properties, (408) 379-9039 or the Santa Clara County Public Administrator’s Office. /s/Petitioner JAMES R. WILLIAMS, County Counsel, MARK A. GONZALEZ, (SBN 178649) Lead Deputy County Counsel 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300 San Jose, CA 95113 Telephone: (408) 758-4200 Fax: (408) 758-4292 Attorneys for James J. Ramoni Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara (Pub CC 12/7, 12/14, 12/21/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623268 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Teriyaki Dude, 4112C Monterey Hwy, San Jose, CA, 95111, Shane Sik Ha, 967 Blue Jay Drive, San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/07/2016. /s/Shane Sik Ha. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/07/2016. (pub Metro 12/07, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623933 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Inspireducation, 1705 Hecker Pass Road, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Marisela Gomez. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/21/2016. /s/Marisela Gomez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/01/2016. (pub Metro 12/07, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #623834

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Blasian Image Apparel, 13891 Story Rd., San Jose, CA, 95127, Abby Jones, Michael Hoang. 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/Abby Jones.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/29/2016. (pub Metro 12/07, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28/2016)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #622591

The following persons(s) / registrants(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Sanchez Tax Services, 5306 Monterey Rd., San Jose, CA, 95111, Ramon S. Sanchez, 520 Florentine Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111. Filed in Santa Clara County on 01/13/2015 under file number 533189. This business was conducted by: An individual /s/ Ramon S. Sanchez Date filed with the clerks office: 10/18/2016 (pub dates 11/16, 11/23, 11/30, 12/07/2016

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I’ve been happily married to the same wonderful guy for 20 years. However, the longer we’re together the harder it is to remain faithful—surely for both of us.

Sex and skin are everywhere these days, and men are especially impacted by the barrage of provocative images. How does a woman realistically balance this with the desire to have a relationship that’s monogamous in body and mind?—Troubled A man can love you to pieces and count his blessings every day you two are together—and it won’t stop him from wanting to see your sister bend over.

Sure, it can sometimes happen that a man “only has eyes for you”—like if you and he are kidnapped and held hostage in a small, windowless room. Otherwise, because male sexuality is visually driven, his eyes are likely to scamper up any yummy mummy or big-booty Judy passing by. But there’s good news from neuroscience: Contrary to what most women believe, this—in and of itself—is not a sign of bad character.

Though you can have a monogamous relationship, our minds are anything but monogamous and, in fact, pretty much have minds of their own. As neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga explains, about 98 percent of our brain’s activity happens beyond our conscious awareness -- including some of the “reasoning” behind our choices and where our attention runs off to.

Key players in who and what we’re drawn to are our brain’s “reward circuitry” and the neurotransmitter dopamine, pushing us to pay attention to and go after stuff that will help us survive and pass on our genes.

Dopamine is ever on the lookout for this stuff—including hotties. In other words, dopamine-secreting neurons are the crass buddy in a man’s brain, going,

“Woo-wee, wouldja look at the Pointer Sisters on that broad!”

Understanding the neuroscience behind attraction is helpful—revealing that attraction is a physiological reaction, like being tired or hungry. If your husband wants a sandwich, you don’t take that personally. And no, I’m not saying “gettin’ some” outside your marriage is the same as gettin’ some lunch.

The problem is that it’s been seen as a shameful personal failing (instead of the biological predisposition it is) to merely feel an attraction to someone other than your spouse. This means that the “forsaking all others” business in the wedding vows is often the first and last time the subject gets discussed. However, the late infidelity researcher Peggy Vaughan explained that a couple are more likely to remain faithful if they admit that “attractions to others are likely (indeed inevitable) no matter how much they love each other.” This allows them to engage in “ongoing honest communication about … how to avoid the consequences of acting on those temptations.”

In other words, it’s by admitting that we have a problem that we can get cracking on how to solve it. So, no, monogamy sadly isn’t “natural.” However, on a hopeful note, neither are $300 Nikes, zero-gravity toilets, or messages that come by smartphone instead of by waving a loincloth over a fire.

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My boyfriend is very smart, but he curses. A lot. Even in front of my family. He says I shouldn’t try to curtail his free expression and mentioned some news report that said smarter people curse more. Am I being a tight-xxx? Or is he full of xxxx?—Upset When you ask your boyfriend to talk dirty to you, you shouldn’t need to specify, “Except at my grandma’s wake.”

And no, there’s no evidence that smarter people curse more—though that’s what popped up in headlines across Clickbaitville. The actual finding—by swearing researchers Kristin and Timothy Jay—is that people who can rattle off a lot of words (those who have “verbal fluency”) can also rattle off a lot of swearwords.

Quelle #&*@$ surprise.

I’m no priss about profanity. However, as I explain in (heh) “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,”“at the root of manners is empathy”—caring about the impact your behavior has on other people. Your parents are likely to see your boyfriend’s bratty insistence on talking however he effin’ pleases, no matter who’s in earshot, as a sign of disrespect.

It suggests an aggressive, narcissistic lack of interest in others’ feelings—including yours. Plus it could lead you to dread being around your family.

©2016, 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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Last Collect Call PATRON GOLD Ray Ashley was always good for an eccentric outfit and an art purchase or two.

Ray Ashley dedicated his life to supporting South Bay artists

BY GARY SINGH

T

HE SAN JOSE arts community has lost one of its most legendary benefactors.

As a collector, Ray Ashley probably owned more pieces of art than anyone in San Jose history. A disabled Vietnam veteran, Ashley was a fixture at gallery auctions for decades.

He’d show up at venues like MACLA, the San Jose Institute of

Contemporary Art, or WORKS, decked out in groovy paintsplattered attire, only to outbid much higher-rolling people.

Everyone either knew him or at least saw him at a gallery somewhere.

Ashley believed in supporting local artists and he gave everyone a chance.

“He was extremely democratic in his collection of art,” said Joe Miller, head honcho at WORKS. “He was definitely picky about what he would go for, as a collector. That was maybe his biggest influence on local arts, in that he owned something -- often more than one piece -- from just about all of us.”

Over the years, Ashley filled his

entire three-bedroom house in West San Jose with a few thousand pieces. Close friends said the inside of his home was literally covered— two or three layers deep in some places—with artworks collected throughout his adult life. Sometimes it was difficult to even walk through Ashley’s home, just from all the art sitting around. His collection, some of which was already shifting to the Triton Museum’s permanent holdings, could be understood as a literal catalog of South Bay art over the last several decades.

“Floor to ceiling, every room, had art on it,” Miller recalled. “The bedrooms he wasn’t using were stacked with art coming out from the walls, paintings stacked 10, 15, 20 deep that you could flip through. Some of them would still be wrapped from being at auctions.”

Since Ashley’s home was a veritable

museum, 10 years ago, when WORKS was located on Third Street, the gallery staged a riotous exhibit of his collection.

Titled, Ray's World: An Overwhelming Look at Ray Ashley's Passion for Art, the exhibit recreated the inside of Ashley’s house inside the WORKS gallery, complete with a bed and a few American flags, along with dozens of pieces on the wall. Visitors received a crazy glimpse into the life of a truly eccentric, one-of-a-kind collector with a fantastic eye for what he wanted.

Now that Ashley has left us, the Triton Museum will be taking the most of what’s left of his collection.

Years ago History San Jose was able to catalog some of the collection, but much still remains undocumented.

Above all else, Ashley was one of those characters who helped define an arts community. At WORKS, his financial contribution to the gallery via his myriad purchases over several decades was second only to the city of San Jose in terms of the gallery’s overall monetary support.

He was an authentic patron of the arts, he threw eclectic barbecues and he thrived on giving back.

“One of the cool things about Ray was his penchant for collecting not just fine art, but knick-knacks that he just loved,” said Al Preciado, a local artist and decades-long friend of Ashley’s. “One of the fondest memories I have is the empty plastic milk jugs that would float like swans in his backyard pool as the sun went down.”

Tamara Alvarado, executive director at the School of Arts & Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, previously ran MACLA for years and remembers Ashley’s constant presence at the annual Latino art auctions. He’d show up in psychedelic attire and subsequently outbid serious legends from the community like the Castellano family.

That was Ashley’s shtick.

“Ray had an aesthetic,” Alvarado said. “He always showed up in a get-up. But it was more than just a get-up. He had a signature look. And I always appreciated that. He had a consistency in his look and that’s what I liked about him.”

Ultimately, Preciado said, Ashley’s influence has been felt far and wide, throughout the scene: “He once gave me some good advice as a young artist: ‘It’s not about you, it’s about the entire community.’”

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Crawfish Fusion was actually received well by its patrons, which makes the change to Les Bizous surprising but also promising.

Quirky Bird FRENCH TO SPANISH Les Bizous specializes in fusing French cuisine with a variety of influences, perhaps in no more satisfying fashion than the Saffron Paella.

Eclectic influences at Les Bizous add French-inspired kiss to Palo Alto’s growing dining scene

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ISING LIKE A phoenix from the ashes, Palo Alto’s new French bistro, Les Bizous, is a strange bird. The restaurant was taken over by a relative of the owners of Crawfish Fusion, which recently closed. To go from serving finger-licking crawfish out of a plastic bag to delicate foie gras is quite the leap.

Some of the menu items seem to have an identity crisis like paella (Spanish), egg rolls (Chinese) and clam chowder (American), but this is a non-issue when they’re delicious.

The kitchen knows its way around these different cuisines. Just don’t consider Les Bizous to be strictly French fare, and the meal will be great. The restaurant has kept its seafood roots, with a strong number of offerings for appetizers and entrees.

For now, reservations are strongly advised, although this is not stated on the website. We still managed to get seats as a walk-in party of two on

My friend ordered the Saffron Paella ($26), which was a goopy scoop of goodness on a plate.

Remember when I said it doesn’t matter that a French restaurant serves Spanish paella? This is why.

It was teeming with clams, mussels, scallops, calamari and prawns, all cooked in a savory lobster broth flavored by saffron rice and littered with tomato chunks and peas. It was everything a paella should be.

a Saturday night. More than half the appetizer menu contains surf options like oysters, mussels, and Dungeness crab salad. The grilled octopus ($13) caught my attention. I’m in a phase.

Octopus is a must-have, and I can be particular about the texture, amount of char and seasoning. Generally, a minimalist approach with a high quality catch are best. Les Bizous passes the test with their cross sections of soft tentacles on a bed of lemony arugula and cherry tomatoes.

Our small seat by the sidewalk started getting heavy traffic around dinner time, when a reservation would definitely come in handy. The dimly lit dining room begins to fill and the noise level rises with the added chatter. The quaint ambiance gives way to a lively, vibrant setting, though the outside patio guests are somewhat removed from this. Just before the rush, we were served our first entree.

Venturing to turf territory, I ordered the Roasted Rack of Lamb ($24), my other current culinary obsession. The medium-rare cook on the lamb was a beauty. Beneath the lamb was a bed of ratatouilleinspired vegetable mix including zucchini, eggplant, red peppers, and nicoise olives in lamb jus. Overall, the lamb was a very satisfying dish that is one of the more Frenchleaning items on the menu.

Crawfish Fusion was actually received well by its patrons, which makes the change to Les Bizous surprising but also promising. Even if the website is not informative and the menu a bit off from traditional French, the food is very good.

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SAND-MAN Danny Orozco’s sandwich joint, Genuine Heros, keeps it simple and delicious.

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SANDWICH SHOP in the South Bay really needs something special to separate itself from the herd.

Danny Orozco, owner of Genuine Heros, thinks he has that something in the signature recipes he’s been developing the past 15 years.

In-house slow-roasted meats, house-made sauces and Italian sausage make the menu skew toward an East Coast Italian deli.

“Italian-American food has always been a part of me in some shape or form since I was a kid of 8 or 9 years,” Orozco says. “That is when I had my first heavenly bite of pepperoni.”

The menu is straightforward and the sandwiches are served simply: bread, meat and a minimal amount of toppings. There will be “no masking of our traditional offerings with crazy sauces, crazy ingredients, crazy combinations, crazy names, etc. for our sandwiches,” Orozco says.

With that in mind, the boys and I ordered up a nice selection that including the Roast Pork ($9.25); Roast Tri-Tip ($9.75); Meatball ($9.50) and the Italian Special ($8.25).

The tri-tip was tender and beefy, but it would’ve been nice if it had a bit of a crust. The au jus sauce was so delicious my cohort couldn’t help but slam it down like a shot of tequila when we were done. Homemade all-beef meatballs and marinara were an excellent pairing by themselves, but the creamy provolone and parmesan put the sandwich over the top. The Italian comes fully loaded with ham, soppressata, capicola and topped with mixed greens that are lightly drizzled in a balsamic dressing.

I was afraid that the balsamic would overpower the meat, but I found that it actually enhanced the sandwich, giving it a nice tang.

The real star of Genuine Heros was the Roast Pork, with its thinly sliced, herb-crusted, juicy layers of pork cloaked in a bed of wilted spinach. This sandwich is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. It also came with pork au jus that someone else may, or may not, have guzzled down.

Genuine Heros is still a new kid on the block, and they’ll be expanding their menu in the future with more vegetarian-friendly options, breakfast sandwiches and traditional deli items. Hours will also expand to Saturdays, as they’re currently only open Monday through Friday.

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