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THIS MODERN WORLD

By TOM TOMORROW

I SAW YOU

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ISawYou@metronews.com Send us your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen to I SAW YOU, Metro, 380 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email.

Feeling Gassy

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RE: “JUDGE PERSKY CLEARED IN STANFORD SWIMMER’S RAPE CASE,” SAN JOSE INSIDE, DEC. 21

Sorry, Jimmy, not this time.

It’s better to save your money. Maybe run in the next election, different district, or different office.

Best of luck. Stay cool.

The judge did his job. And continues to do so admirably. He is principled. Recall the selfinterested, family friend, professor who has never practised law. Where was she when the other alleged errors by the judge happened?

The recall is a waste of public money. And has a chilling effect on unpopular, but just decisions from ethical judges.

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I saw you balancing on the curb in the grocery store parking lot. You were wearing a Santa hat, hornrimmed glasses and a scruffy beard, and in your hand you held an empty red gasoline container. I could feel your eyes home in on me, and my first reaction was to say, “Eat it, Portlandia,” but then your voice quavered and you said you ran out of gas and needed help getting home for Christmas. I felt my inner Scrooge shrivel and dug out a fiver. You seemed genuinely shocked that someone finally bought the line, and I didn’t care if it was a con—I’d done my good deed for the holiday. But then I looked back and saw you were already back on the curb. It hit me that five bucks would get you all of 30 miles. I pulled up, waved you over and gave you the rest of my cash. It wasn’t much, but I hope it got you closer to home and a happy holiday.

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Currently there is a push by State Policy Network (part of the Koch network) to evade disclosing the donors of these nonprofit foundations … they ironically use a bombing of Planned Parenthood in their ads .... even though many of the donors seeking anonymity funnel money through these foundations to effect policy … one of which is defunding PP … nonprofit does not equal non-political, and plenty of those contracting with nonprofits make profits.

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THE FLY

Mayor O-bummer Move over, MELANIA TRUMP. The most gratuitous plagiarism of an Obama speech in 2016 no longer belongs to the spouse of the president-elect, who in a campaign speech cribbed the words of first lady MICHELLE OBAMA. No, the dubious achievement award belongs to recently elected Milpitas Mayor RICH TRAN, who, while wearing his hometown high school letterman jacket, gratuitously Rich Tran reappropriated President BARACK OBAMA’s historic 2008 election night victory speech on Dec. 13 at Milpitas City Hall. Tran, at 31 the youngest mayor in Silicon Valley, plagiarized most of the speech word for word, replacing the opening “Hello Chicago” with “Hello Milpitas” and then quoting the rest of the address nearly verbatim.

Tran tells Fly he’s an They “Obama fanatic” and Did grifted the speech as What? a way to honor the outgoing president.

SEND TIPS TO FLY@ “After the holidays METRONEWS. I’m going to put that COM speech on the Internet to go viral, because I’m a Millennial,” he says. “I’m not from the oldschool politics.” If that doesn’t sound a bit tone deaf, consider the parts of his speech in which Tran merely replaced mentions of Michelle with his mom, or even paid honor to his late pastor with nearly the exact same words then-President-elect Obama used to honor his deceased grandmother. Tran acknowledges that he did not tell the crowd his speech belonged to someone else, but he has no regrets. He plans on contacting the New York Times, Washington Post and other major media outlets to get the video into Obama’s line of sight. “Once things settle down and more coverage takes place, I think folks will see I did something really special,” Tran says. “I’m an indicator of what’s to come in the future, and I had to make a splash.”

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Higher Power SWEAR WORDS Gilroy Mayor Roland Velasco took the oath of office Dec. 21, and his landmark achievement has been met with a bit of indifference.

Gilroy’s first Mexican-American mayor looks beyond racial identity politics

BY JACK FOLEY

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ILROY MADE HISTORY last month when voters elected the city’s first Mexican-American mayor, Roland Velasco.

Sworn in Dec. 21, Velasco becomes the 34th person to hold the office since the city incorporated in 1870, and the first whose family hails from south of the Rio Grande.

Sixty percent of Gilroy, and more than 80 percent of its school students, are Latino, which one might suspect would prompt some celebration, such as when Cruz Bustamante brought the band Los Lobos and comedian Paul Rodriguez to Sacramento for a party to commemorate his inauguration of the state’s first Latino lieutenant governor. Instead, the

ascension of a Mexican-American to Gilroy’s highest political office seems to gone almost unnoticed.

“That is interesting,” Velasco says, when asked about his unique place in city history.

“If it’s true, I am proud of that, but the reality is that Gilroy has challenges and voters elected a person, regardless of race, to make the best decisions they can.”

Voting returns show the one-time Cold War Army intelligence analyst didn’t win just among Latinos in a city where non-Hispanic Caucasians make up about 30 percent of residents.

“I won every precinct except of Eagle Ridge (where) I came to within 9 or 10 votes,” says Velasco, referring to opponent Perry Woodward’s gated, golf course neighborhood.

Woodward, an attorney and former councilman, was appointed at the end of 2015 to complete the term of Mayor Don Gage, the former Santa

Clara County supervisor who abruptly resigned from his mayoral post after decades in city and county office. Despite the dearth of Latino representation in the mayor’s post, ethnic identity doesn’t seem to have been a factor in Velasco’s campaign strategy.

“We never talked about that, didn’t even think about it,” says Eleanor Villarreal, a leader in Democratic circles whose blessing has for years been sought by office seekers.

Race relations in Gilroy—where Cesar Chavez once overnighted in a “safe house”—have improved since 1980, when the United Farm Workers picketed the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

Today’s voters are focused on quality-of-life issues such as sidewalks, traffic jams and growth.

But the South County electorate has a decidedly conservative streak, and Velasco isn’t the typical MexicanAmerican politician. In an ethnic community that historically has allied itself with the Democrats, Velasco is an enthusiastic, unapologetic Republican. He won’t say for whom he cast his vote in November’s presidential election. “I did not vote

came from Texas at age 2 with eight siblings in 1948, so the family could be close to its men stationed at Fort Ord. She recalls how her older brother would be stopped in town by authorities “rounding up young Mexican men to deport,” and how he’d ask, “What do I have to do, carry my discharge papers with me?” before they let him go on his way.

“That was one of the things people had to put up with,” she says. “When I went to school at St. Mary’s, I was the only Hispanic in my class; I stood out like a sore thumb with all the Irish and Italian kids.”

Times have certainly changed, and it’s not clear how federal policy under a President Donald Trump will affect areas with large Latino communities like Gilroy. Last week, the council for neighboring Morgan Hill came out with a strongly worded statement vowing not to work with federal immigration enforcement. Velasco, for his part, seems less willing to strike a defiant tone against Trump and his proposed deportation forces.

“We need to know who’s here,” Velasco says. “We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation. There needs to be a legal process for people to come into the country and work.”

Still, Batrez sees Velasco’s election as part of a “transition,” from the days when Latinos were a small part of the population of migrant farmworkers to a majority with political might. The overwhelming passage of the growthcontrolling Measure H on Nov. 8 could be seen as a similar indicator of voter mood. In fact, the 66.55 percent of voters that elected Velasco almost mirrors the number that voted for H, 66.31 percent.

While neither mayoral candidate endorsed H, observers say Velasco was much less identified than Woodward with the kind of rapid residential growth that prompted Arellano, former Councilwoman Connie Rogers and others to launch the ballot measure.

Velasco, who serves as an aide to Santa Clara County District 1 Supervisor Mike Wasserman, seems intent on moving beyond the designation as Gilroy’s first Mexican-American mayor, as he enlists a little help from Bob Dylan and Martin Luther King Jr., in framing the historic election outcome.

“The times they are a-changing,” Velasco says. “People are seeing past skin color and are looking at the content of a person’s character.”

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for Clinton, and I did not vote for Trump,” he says, and leaves it at that.

From an English-speaking family that’s been in California at least two generations, Velasco says he doesn’t speaks Spanish “very well.” He learned the ropes from his early mentor, Gage, the city’s most savvy politician in recent years, and Sig Sanchez, a firstgeneration American whose parents emigrated from Spain and for whom a stretch of U.S. 101 is named. Now in his 90s, Sanchez is the only other Hispanic-surnamed Gilroy mayor in the last 146 years. Both were city councilmen and mayors before being elected to multiple terms as county supervisors and water district directors.

At the age of 50, Velasco has now made it to the second rung of that climb.

And while city elections are nonpartisan, a council veteran says Republicans have forever had a solid grip on the mayor’s seat, and she wondered aloud how many Democrats have held the position.

“I think it’s zero,” says Lupe Arellano, who served on the council with Velasco in the late 1990s and lost a mayoral bid after declining to change her Democrat party affiliation.

While she hadn’t thought about Velasco being the first MexicanAmerican mayor, she called it “another breakthrough (for Latinos), and that is always wonderful.

“I want to say it’s about time,” she adds, “especially since the majority of residents is Latino, but I think our community has gotten to the point where, and I say this with pride, we are looking at issues and what is best for the community and it won’t make a difference what color or race or religion (a person is), it’s how are you going to benefit the whole community?”

Arellano and others seemed to suggest that Velasco’s victory might have deeper significance among Latinos if he were perceived more as a traditional activist of the Democratic Party mold instead of being seen by many as a cog in the Republican political machine.

For Arellano, the more important milestones have been made by Latinos elected to the council a decade or two ago, herself, her brother, Dr. Peter Arellano, Pete Valdez and Charlie Morales, among others.

Today, more than half of Gilroy’s seven-member council, including the mayor, is at least part-Latino.

“It has been a long time coming,” says Velasco’s great-aunt, Irma Batrez, who

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YEAR IN REVIEW

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Maybe we can start this over again? Or return it like a holiday present we didn’t need?

Just as we thought self driving cars would free us from the tyranny of car insurance and $40 parking tickets, that humanity was heading towards this beautiful nirvana of artificial intelligence and ondemand pizza delivery drones, that mobile computing would allow us to spend our entire workdays in coffee shops … we were woken up by brutal reminders of our mortality: a never-ending parade of celebrity deaths and truck attacks, plus a warehouse fire and a firework market that exploded in flames. The beginning of the new American kleptocracy is upon us, run by oil executives, climate change deniers and a family that seems not to have heard of conflict-of-interest rules or feel a need for tax return disclosures.

Yes, 2016 was the gift that kept on taking. So let’s put it to rest and get on with 2017, because there’s going to be a lot more to write about in the new year. Can we pop that cork now?

JANUARY

Flushed Out

In the face of mounting criticism over an organizational culture that gave rise to conflicts of interest, shady contracts, broken bylaws and racist emails, Beau Goldie, the longtime CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Water District, slinked off to retirement at the board’s urging. Goldie often touted his conservation efforts during the drought, which made his send-off party at a water-guzzling golf course all the more fitting.

HE HAD PIZZA IN THE OTHER HAND Master Thich Duc Huy—an alleged pizza fanatic—went viral when a flap over construction of his Evergreen Hills temple caught the attention of The Late Show host Stephen Colbert. “A community in San Jose, California, is complaining that a local Buddhist temple is too noisy,” Colbert said in his monologue. “It makes sense. Just imagine the sound of all those one hands clapping.”

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Disappearing Mayor Santa Clara hosted Super Bowl 50 without a hitch, but less than a day after the game the city’s mayor, Jamie Matthews, shocked everyone by announcing his resignation with three years left on his term. Matthews cited his desire to spend more time with family, which anyone with family knows is a lie.

Greg Ramar

DICEY YEAR FOR DARCIE State Assembly candidate Darcie Green was a fast-rising star in county Democratic politics until her new husband’s past abuse of women came to light. She placed sixth in a field of seven in the primary with less than 6 percent of the vote, gave birth to the couple’s child and announced plans to sue her employer, Kaiser Permanente, for forcing her into an unpaid leave during the campaign, reportedly after the health care giant got a phone call from state Sen. Jim Beall.

FEBRUARY

Next Time We’ll Use a Spell Checker

Computer hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York but were foiled by a typo. (Memo to thieves: It’s “foundation,” not “fandation.”) Still, the initial $81 million they managed to transfer to the Philippines made it one of the largest known bank thefts in history.

White Makes Right

An arbitrator made the city of San Jose rehire police officer Phil White, who was fired in 2014 for tweeting about his “God given and law appointed right to kill you” in the aftermath of controversies over police shootings of unarmed black men.

Again, #nevertweet.

HATER FREE Three white students at San Jose State subjected their black roommate to racist taunts, hung a Confederate flag in the common area and restrained him by putting a U-shaped bike lock around his neck. Somehow a jury decided they were only guilty of boys being boys.

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Apple refused to help the FBI crack an encrypted iPhone that belonged to a terrorist in San Bernardino, though it turned out to be much ado about nothing, since Cellebrite of Petah Tikva, Israel was happy to step in and help. CEO Tim Cook defended the decision, saying it would’ve been “bad for America.”

Worse for America: Apple’s U2 album.

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SCPD Blues Four Santa Clara police officers have been arrested in the past two years, including a sergeant convicted in March of masturbating in the stockroom of Santana Row’s Annieglass boutique. As his trial was underway, SCPD was in the news again when Officer Tyson Green was charged with running a chop shop specializing in stolen Chevy Camaro ZL1 engines.

APRIL

One Cross Hombre Andrew DeFaria’s eyes were routinely assaulted by a “blatant religious symbol” during his commute near Memorial Cross Park in Santa Clara, so the avowed atheist filed a lawsuit demanding a 14-foot granite cross be removed from city property.

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Scared the Daylights

Assemblyman Kansen Chu of San Jose proposed a bill that would effectively kill daylight saving time in California. The legislation died in the Senate.

Last Dance After 30 years the nonprofit Silicon Valley Ballet made its final curtain call.

The company struggled to get funding and sustain relationships with big-time

corporations. The New Ballet School has stepped up to revive poetry in motion in the valley, and by December an unprecedented number of competing Nutcrackers graced local stages.

WRONG TRACK Enoch Garcia, an assistant track coach at Mt. Pleasant High, was accused of having sex with students—just one of an unsettling number of sex abuse cases involving teachers in the South Bay this year. A student crushing on a teacher: typical. The other way around? Detention.

After hearing a car crash and seeing a plume of smoke from an overhead freeway, Los Gatos CrossFit instructor Greg Pena scaled a 25-foot wall to help a mother and her children escape an overturned vehicle. Pena said he didn’t want to be called a hero, which is so hero.

Casino Royale

Former Assemblywoman Nora Campos accused state Sens. Jim Beall and Kevin de Léon of coordinating an attack on her husband at a casino

night fundraiser at the Fairmont.

That’s one side of the story. Enrique Arguello, head of laborers union Local 270, tells a different tale. He says Campos’ husband, Neil Struthers, actually picked the fight and called him racial and homophobic slurs.

Arguello defended himself by kicking Struthers “in the balls,” according to Campos. You read that right.

MAY

Blood Bankrupt Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes built a house of cards on baloney blood tests, and then it all fell down. A young scientist realized the company’s test results weren’t nearly as accurate as Theranos claimed to investors—helping it become valued as high as $9 billion—and blew the whistle to the Wall Street Journal. Holmes, who became the world’s youngest billionaire at 31 and was worth as much as $4.5 billion, remains CEO but has lost everything and faces multiple lawsuits.

THEIR CAMERAS ACTUALLY WERE WATCHING HIM Police say Raul Murillo Diaz, 30, fired a gun and threw Molotov cocktails at Google's Mountain View headquarters because he believed the search engine firm was “watching him.”

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Trumpsters Sue San Jose Donald Trump’s traveling circus came to San Jose and protesters threw eggs and water bottles at his campaign supporters, leading to fights on the street. Trumpsters filed a class-action lawsuit against the city and its police department, noting that violence is only encouraged inside the rallies.

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CRIME ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BARS Jail guards Phillip Abecendario and Tuan Le were charged with beating an inmate who was already shackled, leading to increased scrutiny on the beleaguered jail system. This incident, along with a 2015 beating that left an inmate dead, prompted the county to investigate its correctional arm and figure out how many criminals it employs.

What to do when a cop points a gun at you San Jose Councilman Raul Peralez, a former cop, revealed that a city police officer pointed a gun at him and

instructed him to put his hands up while responding to a silent alarm at Peralez’s home. “I complied,” the councilman said, advising members of the public that it’s always the best course of action under the circumstances.

JUNE

Mass Eviction San Jose made international headlines as a proposed development threatened to make 600 people homeless.

The Reserves apartment complex became an example of how not to redevelop the urban landscape and a case study for gentrification and

displacement. Other than that, the project was awesome.

Man Swindles 4-Year-Old Tri Van Nguyen was part of a South Bay identity theft ring that preyed on the elderly to pay for bills and breast implants. But they also stooped low enough to assume the identity of a 4-year-old boy. The poor kid told reporters he would have no choice but to start from scratch.

His Space

President Barack Obama huddled with Facebook CEO

Mark Zuckerberg for a Stanford entrepreneurship summit.

The POTUS joked that his 2008 volunteers suggested he use “this new thing called MySpace,” which made Zuck laugh longer and louder than anyone felt natural.

MICKEY MOUSE GAMES Seven contractors were caught accepting cash and plane tickets in a Palo Alto VA bribery scandal. One person even accepted a trip to Disneyland, the so-called “happiest place on Earth,” which is literally the exact opposite of the VA.

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Creepy Ass Clowns The spirit animal embodiment of 2016, people started dressing up as creepy ass clowns, weeks ahead of Halloween. Clown sightings rolled in across the country and people created maps to track their sinister movements. Eric and Donald Trump Jr. have since returned their costumes.

JULY

AUGUST

Idiots Abound

Gang of Thrones

Pokémon Go showed the world just how much fun loitering can be. From invasions of private property and traffic accidents to people walking off cliffs and abandoning their cars, the words “Gotta Catch em All” meant awkwardly traversing the natural world in search of digital life forms.

SJPD Honeytrap San Jose police officer Samuel Marquardt spent an inordinate amount of time trying to seduce gay men at a downtrodden park. His absurd focus put the department in the crosshairs of a civil rights lawyer, who promised to sue SJPD for discrimination as soon as the officer picked up his trousers.

San Jose police officer Derrick Antonio was arrested in a Vietnamese street gang bust dubbed “Gang of Thrones.” Along with huge sums of guns, drugs and cash, police took an alligator into custody. The motherfucker wouldn’t talk.

THE BIRDS San Jose adopted bird-safe building requirements after a report suggested millions of birds die in our riparian corridor every year from flying into walls and windows. Now they’re going to return the favor.

Empire 86ed In August, longtime Japantown art gallery Empire 7 announced it would close its exhibition space at Empire and Seventh

streets. They’re getting the boot from their current landlord as the earth is being bought up underneath them.

Instead of giving up, E7 co-founders Juan Carlos Araujo and Jennifer Ahn launched an ambitious Go Fund Me campaign (they’re seeking $1.5 million) to buy a new gallery space of their own—just a fraction of the massive sum developers will pay to raze the entire block to make way for a 92-unit luxury apartment complex.

SEPTEMBER

Spaced Out Mark Zuckerburg posted to social media after a SpaceX rocket blew up, destroying a Facebook satellite it was supposed to transport and deposit in space. The $200

million satellite would have provided internet service to millions of people in Africa. Zuck groused that he was “deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX’s launch failure destroyed our satellite,” while Musk went on Twitter and explained that, technically, it was “really a fast fire, not an explosion.”

Jacked Apple came out with its new iPhone 7 and people were furious about the lack of a headphone jack.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owners responded, “Well, at least it doesn’t explode in your pants.”

Maybe it was the meth For four months, a Blossom Hill neighborhood was terrorized by seven reports of a sniper firing at passing vehicles. Not a great shot, only one car was grazed and one was hit by flying glass. Michael James Lee Lewis, 30, was arrested on September 7 on multiple counts, including methamphetamine possession and attempted murder, after ballistic evidence matched a handgun found in his home.

OCTOBER

LESS THAN TREASURED TIMES Depending on whom you ask, the 10th and final Treasure Island Music Festival was either a wet and wild time or a total disaster.

Due to a massive construction project, the Noise Pop-produced music fest will have to move off the island next year. As if that weren’t a big enough bummer, torrential downpours and strong winds this year led to many artists cancelling their sets and upset fans demanding refunds. All this, plus a powerful gust, sent a vending machine toppling onto a patron, allowing her to skip the lengthy shuttle lines and catch a ride back in an ambulance.

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The county blinked and made concessions, and inmates celebrated over better treatment—until they saw mystery meat remained listed as the soup du jour.

New Law in Town Brock Turner’s sentence in the rape case heard ’round the world prompted California to revise its laws on sexual violence against women. Having sex with an unconscious person now earns even drunk Ivy Leaguers a mandatory prison sentence, instead of just jail time in a county clink that can be broken out of with saw blades and bed sheets.

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

THE GREAT ESCAPE

QUINCEAÑERA GOES VIRAL

A few days before Thanksgiving, two Santa Clara County Jail inmates escaped using bed sheets. Bed sheets! Rogelio Chavez and LaRon Campbell sawed their way out of their cell and climbed down using, did we say, bed sheets.

Chavez was detained after an eight-hour standoff with police while Campbell was captured after falling through the ceiling of his sister’s home in Antioch.

Cresencio Garcia just wanted to make sure his daughter’s quinceañera was special. He unwittingly succeeded in realizing every social media manager’s dream after the video he made to promote the birthday party was set to “public” and went viral. More than 1 million people RSVP’d and tens of thousands showed up to the small central Mexico town, creating gasoline shortages and driving up prices.

Pillow Pretense

A pillow manufacturer claimed its product could ease the symptoms of everything from migraines to fibromyalgia. Surprisingly, that was a bunch of bunk. Prosecutors from eight California counties—including Santa Clara County—sued MyPillow for failing to deliver. About $1 million of the settlement money went to South Bay nonprofits, including domestic violence shelters and other charities.

SEE, HUMANS CAN DO THINGS, TOO Robots have begun influencing our financial lives in invisible ways. This year, Stanford assistant professor Elizabeth Blankespoor and PhD candidate Christina Zhu analyzed the effects of computer-written articles on company earnings announcements. Trading volume increased by 38 percent for

companies that went uncovered back in the days when actual reporters picked which firms to write about.

Ever No! Cloud storage app maker Evernote scrapped its plans to modify its “privacy” policy to allow its employees to read customer data. The change would have facilitated new “machine learning” features but since those machines don’t always get it right, humans would check their work. Customers, many of whom store sensitive private information in their notes, started freaking out and cancelling their accounts. Hopefully Evernote “learned” from this experience.

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Billionnaire Boys Club President-elect Donald Trump summoned Silicon Valley billionnaires to Trump Tower for a deep and meaningful discussion about U.S. technology policy. Pictured here are Trump supporter Peter Thiel and Apple CEO Tim Cook, who defended his participation amidst much criticism.

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MEMORIES Clockwise from left: Natalie Cole during her Cinequest visit, Gene Wilder, David Bowie, Thom Steinbeck, Paul Kantner, Muhammad Ali and Prince.

The Departure Lounge W

E WERE SO traumatized by the deaths of DAVID BOWIE, PRINCE, MUHAMMAD ALI, LEONARD COHEN and GEORGE MICHAEL (maybe less so by FIDEL CASTRO’s) that passings which might have attracted attention in a normal year failed to get the attention they deserved. Like America’s greatest astronaut, JOHN GLENN, or the fifth Beatle, GEORGE MARTIN. Or GENE WILDER. Jazz great BOBBY HUTCHERSON died at his home in Montara, near Half Moon Bay. DAVID BUNNELL, the founder of PC, PC World, Macworld and Upside magazines, who helped shape the personal computing revolution, died in Berkeley. Author THOMAS STEINBECK, son of John, who presented awards annually at San

Jose State’s Steinbeck Center, had his ashes spread in Big Sur. San Jose’s retired planning director, JOE HORWEDEL, was remembered fondly, and with the demise of Santa Clara’s colorful exMayor EDDIE SOUZA, local journalists have less to write about. Monsignor EUGENE BOYLE was a longtime local champion of social justice.

Silicon Valley said goodbye to longtime Intel CEO ANDY GROVE and BILL CAMPBELL, who had run Intuit and filled key roles at Apple and its spinoff Claris. We lost the creator of email’s “@” symbol, RAY TOMLINSON, and HENRY HEIMLICH, who invented that maneuver.

Eye patch-wearing editor WARREN HINCKLE, who helped introduce gonzo journalism to the world, succumbed in San Francisco.

Fellow new leftie turned California politician TOM HAYDEN, who stopped

by Metro’s office for a chat when he ran for governor in 1994, slid off the coil in Santa Monica, the same place where Mexican musical treasure JUAN GABRIEL took his leave.

Also in that city, synthesizer great KEITH EMERSON exited the stage, followed by fellow band member GREG LAKE, leaving Carl Palmer as the sole survivor of the once formidable ELP. Nine Inch Nails keyboard player JAMES WOOLLEY died after a ladder fall, 25 years after his unforgettable Lollapalooza performance at Shoreline Amphitheatre. Parliament/ Funkadelic, Talking Heads and Mos Def keyboardist BERNIE WORRELL met the Great Spirit. And electronic synthesizer pioneer DON BUCHLA, who engineered the sound system for Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters’ Further bus, fell silent.

Other noteworthy musicians who played their final notes included ROB

WASSERMAN, bassist with Bob Weir’s Ratdog, Lou Reed and Elvis Costello, MERLE HAGGARD, who wrote Grateful Dead staple “Mama Tried” and PAUL KANTNER, who began his Jeffersonian journey in the South Bay. Crack-smoking former Toronto mayor ROB FORD died of cancer at 46 and HARAMBE THE GORILLA was fatally shot a day after his 17th birthday at the Cincinnati Zoo after he fished a three-year-old boy out of a moat.

NATALIE COLE, who had an unforgettable voice, came to San Jose for Cinequest four years ago and wanted to see the city’s nightlife.

After a doorman at Fahrenheit turned her away because it was past what San Jose considers late, er 11pm, we apologized as we walked a block in the chilly night to the only nearby open spot, The Loft. “That’s okay.

I’ve been thrown out of nicer places than that,” she graciously assured us.

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GABRIEL IGLESIAS

THE DEVIL MAKES THREE

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WAR & CON BRIO

SNOW SESSIONS

EL GUAPO

Thu, 8pm, $30+ City National Civic, San Jose

Thu, 8pm, $25 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz

Fri, 9pm, Free Caravan Lounge, San Jose

Like fine wine some bands just get better with age. The legendary band WAR rolls their hard funk artillery into town for the final leg of their national WAR is Music tour. Celebrating the international release of their entire catalogue with Sony and their top-selling compilation album Icon, WAR is determined to bring the house down. Along for the ride is special guest Con Brio. Formed in 2013, Con Brio is the talented offspring of seven local musicians who share a passion for the diverse funkadelic Bay Area scene. It promises to be an epic night for longtime fans and an opportunity to see the passing of the torch.

(JT)

Christmas is coming just a few days late for local hip-hop heads, as The Catalyst has one hell of a cypher planned this Thursday.

Snow Sessions features a cadre of Bay Area underground hiphop legends. Headliners include Del The Funky Homosapien—of Hieroglyphics and Deltron 3030— Yukmouth of The Luniz, and the inimitable Andre Nickatina. Also on the bill: Chali 2na A-Plus, Amp Live and San Jose’s very own Traxamillion, who had a very busy 2016—releasing his own full length, The Trapp Addict, and curating a mixtape of top San Jose talent, The Tech Boom. (NV)

Dealing out spastic bursts of heavy guitars and lively drums, the short bio on El Guapo’s Facebook page goes a long way toward explaining their aesthetic: “We were sent here by the gods of rock to destroy cities and melt faces.” Indeed. Formerly known as The Red Phantom, this San Jose experimental metal outfit bring the heat on their monstrous fulllength Bandcamp release, Whips Chains Whistles Yo-yo's, Dracula Riding Around on a Tricycle Giving me the Finger—which thrashes and bashes its way through nine Tera Melos-esque instrumental assaults, all punctuated by horror flick audio samples. (NV)

THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Fri, 8pm, $30 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Over the course of their nearly 15 years togethers, Santa Cruz altAmericana trio The Devil Makes Three have developed a brooding, rootsy sound—reminiscent of the kind of music Lead Belly and Hank III might make while holed up in some dimly lit roadhouse in the middle of nowhere, drinking warm whiskey and reminiscing about their bad old days. The group released its eighth fulllength album—Redemption & Ruin—in September. This two night homecoming show (Friday and Saturday) is already sold out, but Craigslist users and crafty locals can surely figure out a way to get in. (NV)

VERBAL ABUSE Fri, 8pm, $10-$13 The Ritz, San Jose They say that hardcore will never die. Judging from the 35-year career of Houston punks Verbal Abuse, that may be true. Verbal Abuse was born at the vanguard of the hardcore punk movement in 1981. Fifteen years later in 1996, the band was the beneficiary of an unexpected surge in interest after Slayer released a covers album featuring a handful of Verbal Abuse tracks, which the seminal SoCal thrash metal band identified as being highly influential in the development of their own sound.

The group is in the process of tracking a new record, slated for release in 2017. (NV)

* concerts Alex Stover

FAREWELL JOHNNY V’S

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

CHICANO BATMAN Mar 2 at The Ritz

MALUMA

Mar 25 at City National Civic

IL VOLO

Mar 27 at City National Civic

ARIANA GRANDE

Mar 27 at SAP Center

GAME OF THRONES CONCERT Mar 29 at SAP Center

THE SPAZMATICS Fri, 9:30pm, Free The Almaden Brit, San Jose These Bay Area geeks proudly cling to the ’80s—sporting helmets and neck braces, Revenge of the Nerds-style, while playing new wave and hair metal hits.

The Spazmatics make a point of knowing their favorite subject— rock & roll—backward and forward. In live fan videos posted on YouTube, the Spazmatics’ lead guitarist, Wayne, pulls off every Brian May lead during “Bohemian Rhapsody,” note for note. If you haven't heard “Come on Eileen” in a while, or if you want to see someone dressed up like a tennis player nail Slash's solos in “Sweet Child O' Mine,” you won’t want to miss this show. (TC)

SPILLER & THE FRENZYS Fri, 7:30pm, $10 Art Boutiki, San Jose The boys from Spiller draw from many disparate influences to craft their harmonically rich indie pop sound. On “I’m Sorry But Not That Much,” from their April 2016 release, the Tiny EP, the Oregon-based quartet sandwich bright ska upstrokes between noodly emo-math melodies, funky chicka-chickas and rapid, rolling, punk-rock drumming. Then, on “Happy Songs Sound Sad,” they slow things down with a strippeddown beat and a spiraling guitar line before launching into a jazzy, finger-tapped bridge. Opening the show is San Jose’s self-described “garage-funk” trio, The Frenzys.

(NV)

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GABRIEL IGLESIAS Sat-Sun, $100 The Improv, San Jose It’s been a long year. Laugh 2016 off at one of three sets from veteran comedian Gabriel Iglesias.

Easily one of the biggest Latino comedians on the scene today, Iglesias (a.k.a. Fluffy) has been performing since the mid-’90s, where he first made a name for himself on the Los Angeles stand-up scene. He is known for deploying silly voices and sound effects in his act—a talent which he’s spun into multiple voice acting roles in animated films, including Disney’s Planes and The Nut Job. He currently stars in his own reality TV show on Fuse, Fluffy Breaks Even. (NV)

FAREWELL, JOHNNY V’S

Tue, 9pm, Free Caravan Lounge, San Jose Many a teetotaler may have rejoiced when Johnny V’s abruptly shut its doors for good on Dec. 7.

But far more lamented the bar’s closing. After all, the long-running San Jose dive was an institution on the local music scene. In addition to pouring cheap, stiff drinks, Johnny V’s hosted DJs, shows and karaoke most nights of the week.

Johnny Van Wyk says bureaucratic red tape surrounding the renewal of his liquor license was to blame.

Whatever the case, it’s the end of an era and the good folks over at The Caravan are throwing the bar a going away party. Cheers! (NV)

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

NEIL DIAMOND

Jul 30 at SAP Center

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monster hit. Don Simpson, this is true, was so happy, he stood up, and climbed up onto his desk and put his hands on his hips and saluted the imaginary millions. We laughed and laughed. I, contrary to all the silliness written, got along great with Tom Cruise and had a ball with my crew—Rick Rossovich and all the young bloods playing all the want-to-be Top Guns.

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In other interviews, you’ve said you only did big studio projects to make money. Do you regret that choice?

I don’t have regrets. I’ve been blessed and so proud that my best work is before me. I am objective about my own acting and have been doing it, gulp, for 50 years.

A Life of Cinema BECOMING TWAIN Val Kilmer as Mark Twain in 'Citizen Twain,' his one-man show.

The actor will introduce a filmed version of his performance at San Jose Stage.

Val Kilmer talks about playing Twain, Morrison, Iceman

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N THE FILMED version of his one man show, Citizen Twain, Kilmer channels Mark Twain. The actor is scheduled to introduce two screenings of the film at the end of the month at San Jose Stage. Metro traded emails with Kilmer to pick the brain of one of cinema’s greatest contemporary shape-shifters.

Why do you admire Mark Twain?

His compassion for his fellow man. He is chronically addicted to the connection with the audience and the fact that he

just knows he is connecting to them, that he represents them because he has taken the time to view Americans from all angles and without judgement. And that he choses to laugh instead of cry.

When you played Jim Morrison, you spent a year preparing for that role. What’s it like getting so deeply into someone’s head? And, specifically, Jim Morrison’s?

It was satisfying, but not something you would wish on your friends.

He’s not the kind of guy you would introduce to your sister. Or girlfriend.

Or wife. Or mother…

Your portrayal of Doc Holliday in Tombstone is quite different from other gunslingers. Why

did you choose to make the character speak so gently and playfully?

That's how he was written, and how he was in real life. It was a real privilege to have such a well-constructed, inspired character all laid out. It's a love story between two very different men.

Men of honor and sharing a strange bond and respect for truth, amidst an extremely violent backdrop.

Top Gun got panned by critics for its dialogue and plot. Yet the film was the highest grosser of the year and has endured. Why do you think that is?

Tony Scott was inspired in his passion for the subject and talent as a visualist.

The casting was inspired. (Don) Simpson and (Jerry) Bruckheimer were perfect producers. The stars aligned. I made no bones about how absurd I thought the script was, but I literally ran from the screening to Don and Jerry’s office at Paramount and told them I was completely wrong and that they had a

You were rumored to be difficult to work with in the ’90s, were you? Why or why not?

I wasn’t very empathetic to my directors or those in control at studios, trusting, sometimes foolishly, that the work would speak for itself. I do wish I’d taken more time to be more polite, and I always apologize to anyone I meet who I worked with during those busy early days, as it was a part of being the lead I didn’t take responsibility for, and I should have.

You’re a very talented actor, what’s it like being in a movie that gets poor reviews?

I haven’t ever read the reviews since my first play. We got incredible reviews and the cast destroyed the play because they all believed we were the greatest thing since sliced bread, and I figured, “If this is what happens when the reviews are the best they can be, why run the risk or reading them?”

You’ve played such a broad array of characters, what about a role excites you?

Originality.

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CINEMA TWAIN San Jose Stage Company

Keeping It Real As technology changes we’re often told that earlier formats become obsolete. The tape replaced vinyl, the CD the tape, and the MP3 the CD. But this is always only part of the narrative—a part usually driven by those with a financial interest in the new technology. This past April, sales of vinyl records hit a 28-year-high. And though there will always be someone to say that the bubble is about to burst, sales of these circular slabs of plastic continue to buoy the careers of musicians everywhere.

At the intersection of Seventh and Santa Clara streets in San Jose, another format long assumed dead by technologists is still going strong.

Opened in November of 1987, Henry Chang’s photography store and lab, Foto Express, is coming up on its 30th anniversary, and judging by the store’s Yelp reviews, it is as vital as ever. Overwhelmingly, Chang’s customers rate the shop with five stars. Most mention Chang by name.

“I’ve been going to him for 15 years,” says Jai Tanju, photographer and owner of Seeing Things Gallery. “He’s always done a super good job, always has good information for me.”

Chang has watched other photo labs move from warehouse style mass printing, to 1-hour prints, to shuttering entirely. And with the closure of Keeble & Shuchat in Palo Alto this past October, Foto Express is one of the last of its kind in the region.

“We’re kind of, like, unique now,” Chang says. “I’ve found my niche.”

Much more than a novelty, Chang and Foto Express provide a very real service to San Jose’s photography community. Many students at SJSU, Santa Clara University, City College, Evergreen and others continue to cut their teeth with Chang’s help. And Josh Marcotte, a local photographer who posts online under the handle Lost San Jose, recently brought in a huge assortment of film he had purchased at the flea market for a piece he was working on.

“The film is expired, and I mean like 10 years plus expired,” Marcotte says. “The owner laughed a little but he didn’t send me away. For me, that was a big deal.”

“I encourage everyone to have at least one or two photo albums,” Chang says, pushing back against the idea that digital is always better. “Put good pictures in your photo albums, and share with your friends and relatives.”

Asked if he has anything else to add, Chang is sincere. “I just appreciate everybody’s support. So we can still survive here.” —Mike Huguenor

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Dark Times SERIOUSLY? Hey 2016: What the hell was that all about? Well, at least we got some good movies out of you—like ‘The Witch.’

Most of 2016’s best films hint at country’s deep divisions

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE PROBLEM of looking backwards at the year in film is that it involves looking backward at the year 2016, and who wants to do that? All the switches failed, all the canaries are gasping, all the sirens are sounding, and it’s hard to keep one’s eye on the screen in times of emergency. We’ve been through times like these before. As soon as someone can explain why we have to go through them again, it’ll be easier to function.

Times of fervor often spawn great films—which is why the end of year list

includes a film that could be dismissible as a dumbass blockbuster, instead of, say, some glacial tidbits from the avant-garde freezer, such as Elle, Neon Demon, The Lobster or, shudder, Nocturnal Animals.

How much unadulterated escapism was there in the latest adventure of Captain America? Consider what Robert Downey Jr. brings to the movie in the descending part of his arc as Stark. The Cracked.com writer David Wong wrote one of the best of the 900,000 essays published online this fall, seeking to explain what hit us in November. Wong suggested that if Trump was a pussy-grabbing rogue, it’s not like Tony Stark is more politically correct than all that, and we love him for it. (Lovable also is the glimpse of Stark and Marisa Tomei’s Aunt May shooting the breeze on a sofa—no one seems to have remembered that Tomei and Downey co-starred in a

highly kissy Roman caprice titled Only You, way back in the 1990s.)

A longtime movie-goer might be touched by the cracks Downey displays in Stark—the strange scene he makes demonstrating his new cybertherapy software at MIT; catching himself in the weirdness, he tries to cover up the oddity with gross Oprah-like largesse, donating scholarships for everyone in the room.

Captain America was quite possibly an unnecessary sequel with one fight scene too many. But the Russo brothers caught the sense of division, of blowback begetting blowback, of strength crumbling, of the schoolboy’s lesson in the Auden poem: “those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.” If only butthurt liberal snowflakes are threatening to get out of the U.S. now, what does it say that even noble Captain America decided to head for the hills?

Strange that with all the efforts to retrieve the magic of the studio-era film, in La La Land, Rules Don’t Apply, Café Society and Hail Caesar, that the most original pastiche was The Witch—which took cues from the Swedish classic Häxan a.k.a.

Witchcraft Throughout the Ages. The Witch’s

Georges de la Tour lighting and ingenious payoff worked its magic. Required relevance? Some Americans still believe in witches. Google “Hillary” and “pizza” to find out what they’re up today.

Made for TV it might have been, but the eight-hour OJ: Made in America took the long look at this hero’s plummet, and the way he allowed himself to be used as a palliative against America’s racism during the white backlash of the 1960s.

Here’s some intriguing speculation of what would have happened if Simpson had gone to SJSU and become a Spartan instead of a Trojan.

Zootopia, Loving and Moonlight—the last of these being perhaps the best film of the year—did justice to our reeling times in three different approaches to the subject of dangerous liaisons. Fences is a haunting film about how posttraumatic slave syndrome destroys a tough, ingenious man.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople seems like a movie that’ll find its niche during repeated viewings; it remains as the one film you can recommend to anyone, even during times of schism. The kinky and beautifully framed The Handmaiden describes the cost of snobbery, a subject we’ll be dealing with a lot in the coming years. And Hell and High Water’s splashy, sagebrush rebellion populism is less key to its quality than the way it treats— with wit and fierce excitement—the lives of outlaws.

TOP TEN Captain America: Civil Wars Fences The Handmaiden Hell and High Water Hunt for the Wilderpeople Loving Moonlight OJ: Made in America The Witch Zootopia

TERRIBLE TWO Yoga Hosers was, without a doubt, the worst film of the year. Seriously. Look it up.

Why search for a more dispiriting movie than Alice Through the Looking Glass, you ask?

It cost a fortune. It rubbished a great book. It posed as an event. And it had the last of Alan Rickman in it, as if to remind us of one more loss in a year of heavy losses.

Well, because while both featured Johnny Depp in ridiculous makeup, at least Yoga Hosers seemed acutely aware of just how bad it would be.

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Getting Lucky BROMANTIC VOYAGE When the boys from GTA got together, things just clicked—musically speaking.

DJ duo GTA scores big and fast with infectious, upbeat sound

BY JOHN FLYNN

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IKE AN EVER-increasing number of Americans, Matt Toth and Julio Mejia met online. Toth produced tech house and Mejia focused on hip-hopcentric dance music before a mutual friend introduced them on Facebook—linking them to each other’s SoundCloud pages. The day they met in 2010, the two took their first step towards becoming Good Times Ahead, or GTA, when Toth started playing a System of a Down CD.

“We knew every word,” Mejia says.

“We became really good friends, and he's even better to work with. We have the same thought process when it comes to producing.”

GTA achieved almost instantaneous success. Shortly after uniting, they sent off a collaboration to several studios for feedback. The song, which they had mostly laid down in their first session together, got the attention of Afrojack, a top Dutch DJ who wanted to release the song on his label.

“I honestly have no idea how that happened,” Mejia says. “They said it sounded professional. To us, that was crazy. We'd been together producing for four months. And before then, we hadn’t been producing for that much longer. But we just got lucky.”

After that, they became bona fide

by working with major names in the industry, like Diplo, A-Trak and Calvin Harris. In EDM, a genre with hundreds of acts jockeying for listeners on overstuffed streaming services, GTA saw these collaborations as an opportunity to expand their sound.

“There's a lot of competition because there’s a lot of people doing the same kind of thing,” Mejia says.

“So people are just trying to do it better, trying to do something different. We're getting both aspects: the cool underground thing that we love and then the epicness, and the melodic catchiness of Calvin Harris.”

Soon, the duo attracted the attention of Rihanna. She took them along as openers on her 2013 Diamonds World Tour. They went from playing a club show once every month to 70 shows over six months as they traveled from Montreal to Manila to perform in arenas that held up to 90,000 people. Toth calls it a “crazy, eye-opening experience.”

They improved as DJs, learned about global music tastes and incorporated

universally beloved songs into their hype-the-crowd set while still mixing “in a way that only GTA can.”

On their newest, eponymous release, they develop a singular vision of EDM that displays their versatility.

They get assists from Tinashe, Tunji Ige, Iamsu! and Vince Staples, weaving together the disparate up-and-comers who, unlike more established artists, were willing to experiment with their still-solidifying sound.

“We love the creation process of music,” Toth said. “We love trying to push music forward in our own ways. We just want people who have fresh minds and love to do something different, but not too weird, too crazy.

People who get how to do the right amount of different.”

The songs boast atypical rhythms and novel sounds. Some meander mellowly while others bounce with clubby fervor. The release straddles the intersections between pop, hip-hop, R&B and EDM. On the album’s biggest track, “Feel It,” they collaborate with What So Not to craft shimmering, super-sized synths, then they tap Tunji Ige for some cocky, nasally bars before letting the track breathe with an electro-ballad bridge.

On “Little Bit of This,” Staples bucks against his “activist” label, then lists what he likes: “big guns, fast whips, ass and tits, Mansions and white women, Mike Jackson shit.”

In this song and others, GTA seeks to go a bit deeper, lyrically speaking, than most EDM. After rising to prominence on the strength of their bangers, they want to tone down the adrenaline, so they can say something.

“The purpose of dance music is trying to go out and forget about all the hard times, trying to forget about life and all the real shit that's going on,” Toth says. “So it's hard to try to incorporate something that's really real and meaningful. But we had more experience with actually writing lyrics and working with other vocalists. So we're trying to figure out the right way to incorporate that into our more dancey stuff.”

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THE BACK BAR SOFA

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

Sat, Dec 31, 9pm: Sweet Hayah, Bangalore. San Jose.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Fri, 10pm: Quality Control (indie, rock and hip hop).

Every Wed, 10pm: Whiskey Wednesday. Every Thu, 10pm: The Weekend Warmup with DJ Sean Black. Fri, Dec 30, 10pm: DJ ONEMANARMY. San Jose.

Sat, Dec 31, 9pm: New Year’s Eve w/ Bridget Marie and Rob. Saratoga.

JOHNNY V’S Every Mon: ’50s, ’60s, ’70s Jam Night with Ben B and Sean Blak.

Every Tues: Hip Hop, EDM with Sean Blak, Bates & Crayola. Every Wed: Tooth N Nail with DJ Test.

San Jose.

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

Every Thurs: Fireball Thursdays with DJ Mist. Fremont.

NOMIKAI Live music every Fri and Sat. San Jose.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE 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. Thu, Dec 29, 8pm: Transcend The Realm. TBA. Fri, Dec 30, 8pm: El Guapo, Anever, Ghost Parade, Sentry. Sat, Dec 31, 8pm: Sweet Hayah, Rebelskamp, Tommy’s Atomic Blues Band.

San Jose.

CARDIFF LOUNGE

Every Thu night, 9pm: Shakin’ Not Stirred with Roger Moorehouse. Campbell.

CHARLEY'S LG

Open Mic night every Wed. Sat, Dec 31, 8pm: DJ Rich Era. Los Gatos.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

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

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

CITY NATIONAL CIVIC

Thu, Dec 29, 8pm: War with special guest Con Brio. San Jose.

EAST COAST ALICE

Fri, Dec 30, 8pm: Steve Siacotos.

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

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Every Wed: J.C. Jam.

THE QUARTER NOTE Every Mon: Live Music Jam with Dana’s Band. Every Wed: Live Music Jam Funk with Michael “B” Band. Every Thu: Live Music Jam Funk with Vicious Groove.

Every Sun: Live Music Jam with Michael “T”. Sunnyvale.

THE RITZ Thu, Dec 29, 8pm: Control w/ DJs Carlos C., Rogcon, Otrebo.

Fri, Dec 30, 8pm: Verbal Abuse, Sad Boy Sinister, Dead 77, Mokosos. Sat, Dec 31, 8pm: NYE Black & Red Ball.

San Jose.

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

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

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

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

Every Sun: Reggae Night. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Thu, Dec 29, 7:30pm: Marina Crouse.

Sat, Dec 31, 8:30pm: Touch of Class Band. Redwood City.

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

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

BLUE ROCK SHOOT Every Thu: Open Mic. Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase.

Every Sat: Live Featured Show. Every Sun: Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga.

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. Fri, Dec 30, 8:30pm: Carla Heimbrecht Quartet feat.

Leali. Sat, Dec 31, 8:30pm: The Dynamic Faye Carol Residency.

San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Every Tue, 7pm: Open Mic Night. Every Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night.

First Saturday of the Month, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. First Friday of the month, 8pm: Art Walk and Caffe Frascati Opera Night. San Jose.

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CAFE PINK HOUSE Every Sat, 2pm-3:30pm: Saturday Live Music Hangout.

Saratoga.

CASCAL Every Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live Music. Mountain View. Every Sat, 9pm: James Robinson.

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrara (jazz). Fri, Dec 30, 8pm: Honey Wilders.

Los Gatos.

CHARLEY'S LG Every Thu: Karaoke Night. Every Fri: Live Music. Every Wed Open Mic. Los Gatos.

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

Redwood City.

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YEAR IN MUSIC

RAY OF HOPE Although 2016 took some great musicians, it gave us plenty to be hopeful for—like Eric Victorino’s solo material.

A Look Back: Local Music THIS YEAR STARTED with a punch to the gut, as legendary singer-songwritersupernova David Bowie was taken from us. Then Prince died. Then Leonard Cohen gave up the ghost. Finally—as if playing the part of the unrepentant Grinch on its way out—2016 took George Michael from us on Christmas Day. But let’s not dwell on the past. There was plenty of good music news in 2016— especially of the local variety. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.

ANTWON THE ANTICON Antwon is one of the biggest hip-hop artists to come out of San Jose—and in February he dropped an excellent EP, Double Ecstasy, after signing to Anticon Records. His dark, sarcastic delivery found a perfect home next to left-field electronic experimenters like Baths, Daedelus and TOBACCO. SAN JOSE ‘IDIOT In a year chock-full of American idiots, Joey Pisacane was one to savor. City Lights Theatre brought Green Day’s “American Idiot” to San Jose, and the local musician and actor—playing the role of Johnny—stole the show night after night with his exuberant, vulnerable performance.

‘THE TECH BOOM’ Responsible for some of the hyphy movement’s best-known slappers, Traxamillion was all over 2016. In April, he dropped his first foray into trap music with The Trap Addict. Then, just a few months later, Trax returned to what he does best—curating great performances. August’s The Tech Boom compilation album featured some of San Jose’s most promising emcees, including City Shawn, Flammy Marciano and Ziggy.

CUKOO CUKUI For many years, San Jose-based Cukui streetwear partnered with the Island Music Festival at the county Fairgrounds. This year, Cukui launched an eponymous music festival with headlining sets from IAMSU! and J Boog.

VICTORINO GOES SOLO The frontman of Strata and one half of indie electronic duo The Limousines stepped out on stage all by himself for the first time in 2016. His first show was up in San Francisco at Popscene, but his second performance came at The Ritz during the C2SV music and technology festival. Despite no backing band and minimal instrumentation, he kept the small but devoted crowd rapt for his entire set.

THE MUMLERS REUNITE Will Sprott—co-founder and frontman of The Mumlers—got the band back together for a holiday show. It was just a one-off and there’s no talk of any new Mumlers music, but there is a new Sprott solo record on the way. Keep an eye out for that in 2017.

—Nick Veronin

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Jam. Wed-Sun: Live Music.

Every Fri: Latin Rock Nights.

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Every Thu: Acoustic Music Nights. Every Fri & Sat: Acoustic/Band Music Nights.

Campbell.

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ

PIONEER SALOON

Every Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blue Jams.

Campbell.

LOUISIANA BISTRO

Every Thu, 7pm: Yellow Bulb Sessions. San Jose.

THE MOJO LOUNGE

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

Every Sun, 4pm: Music Jam with Terry Hiatt and Brett Brown. Every Wed: Kevy Nova and Friends. Every Thu: WhiskeyHill Billys. Woodside.

THE SADDLE RACK

Thu-Sat, 9pm: Diablo Road. NYE: Red, White & Blue Bash. Fremont.

MURPHY’S LAW

Every Mon: Monday Night Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Every Wed night: J.C. Smith Jam. Los Gatos.

O’FLAHERTY’S

Every Tue, 6:30pm: Irish Seisiún.

San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/Sid Morris & Ron Thompson. Every Tue, 6pm: PHB Open Mic Night.

San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE

Every Mon, 7pm: Open Mic Night.

Mountain View.

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Thu, Dec 29, 7pm: Acoustic Madness. Fri, Dec 30, 7pm: Honey Wilders. Los Gatos.

Open Mic/ Comedy ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Every Tue, 7:30pm Open Mic. Hosted by Pete Sommer.

Redwood City.

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

Every Thu: Live country music and line dancing. Los Gatos.

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Every first and third Wed of the month, 6pm: Sidesaddle and Co. Every fourth Wed of the month, 6pm: Loganville. Wed, Dec 28, 6pm: Loganville. San Jose.

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Every Thu: Open Mic. Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase. Every Sat: Live Featured Show. Saratoga.

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Every Tue, 7:30pm: Irish music.

Fourth Sat, 10pm: Latin Party Night. Mountain View.

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

Every First and Fourth Tue, 7pm: Bi-Polar Bears. Every First Wed, 7pm: Dennis Dove.

PUBand DATE: Every Second Fourth Wed, 00/00/15 7pm: Scott Goldberg. Every Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blue Jams. Campbell.

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Thu-Fri, Dec 29-30: Mill Creek Ramblers. Fremont.

Sat, Dec 31, 6pm and 10pm, Sun, Jan 1, 7pm: Gabriel Iglesias. San Jose.

JJ’S BLUES

Mon-Fri, 5:30pm-9pm: Open Mic. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Tue, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE

Every Tue: Open mic. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

Every third Sat, 8pm: Comedians at Red Rock. Mountain View.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS

MOROCCO’S

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

Mountain View.

IMPROV

Every Wed, 9pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Thu, 7pm: Thursday night open mic. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI

Every Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Every Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night. San Jose.

CAMERA 3

Fri, 9pm, Sat, 7pm and 9:15pm: Comedy Sportz. San Jose.

CARAVAN

Every Wed: The Caravan Lounge Comedy Show with host Mr. Walker. San Jose.

CHARLEY’S LG

Every Wed, 7pm: Open Mic

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Sat, Nov 12, 8pm: Bill Maher. San Jose.

Thu, Dec 29, 8pm, Fri, Dec 30, 9pm: Home For The Holidays Comedy Showcase.

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7 STARS BAR & GRILL Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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San Jose.

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San Jose.

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Fri, 9pm: Karaoke w/DJ Rob. San Jose.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

Fri and Sat, 9pm: Karaoke Friday Nights. Santa Clara.

BLUE MAX

Fri: Karaoke Fridays. Sunnyvale.

BLUE PHEASANT

Tue, 8pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.

BOGART’S LOUNGE

Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

BOULEVARD TAVERN

Every Thu, 9pm: Karaoke w/Tony.

Los Gatos.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN

Every Wed, 10pm: Karaoke w/ DJ Hank. Every Sun, 10pm: Karaoke w/DJ Hank. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN

Every Wed: Karaoke w/Neebor.

San Jose.

Sun: Sunday Fun Day Karaoke with KJ Matt. Mon: Mandatory Monday Karaoke with KJ Nik. San Jose.

CHARLEY'S LG

Thu: 9:30pm: Karaoke with DJ Izzy.

Los Gatos.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

Wed-Sun 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

THE OFFICE BAR & GRILL

Tue, 9pm: Karaoke with TJ The DJ. Sunnyvale.

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Every Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

CARDIFF LOUNGE

Every Thu night, 9pm: Shakin’ Not Stirred with Roger Moorehouse. Campbell.

DIVE BAR

Tue, 9pm: Karaoke with DJ Rob. Santa Clara.

PIONEER SALOON

Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. Woodside.

Thu-Sat, 10:30pm: Rotating Guest DJs. San Jose.

COURT’S LOUNGE

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/07/2016. (pub Metro 12/14, 12/21, 12/28, 1/04/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622853 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: San Jose Benfica, 5822 Charlotte Dr., #2311, San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/9/2016. Refile of previous file #608789 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Monique Sousa. CFO. #3846046. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/27/2016. (pub Metro 12/21, 12/28, 1/04, 1/11/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #624260 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mk Auto Wholesale, 866 South First St., San Jose, CA, 95110, Michael Kahn, 706 Hollenbeck Ave., #1, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087. 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/ Michael Kahn. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/12/2016. (pub Metro 12/21, 12/28, 12/04, 12/11/2016)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 5 Star Spa II, 2435 S. King Rd., STE #60, San Jose, CA, 95122, Don Thanh Nguyen, 1694 Enesco Ave., San Jose, CA, 95121. This business is conducted by an individual.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #624323 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Electric Wolves, 6334 Camino Verde Drive, San Jose, CA, 95119, Brian Boockholdt. This business is owned by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/13/2016. /s/Brian Boockholdt. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/13/2016. (pub Metro 12/21, 12/28, 1/04, 1/11/2017)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #624310 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Red Chili Thai & Vietnamese Eatery, 2538 Berryessa Road, San Jose, CA, 95132, Red Chili Berryessa, 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 12/01/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Sunny Ho. Manager. #201633810096. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/13/2016. (pub Metro 12/28, 1/04, 1/11, 1/18/2017)

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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)

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)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Niji Sushi & Ramen, 5968 Silver Creek Valley Rd., San Jose, CA, 95138, Hsiu-Mei Hsu, 15210 Camden Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Hsiu-Mei Hsu This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/21/2016. (pub Metro 12/28, 1/04, 1/11, 1/18/2016)

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 #624656 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Tax Advantage, 1193 Burnham Drive, San Jose, CA, 95132, Theresa Anne Scott. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/21/2016. /s/Theresa A. Scott. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/21/2016. (pub Metro 12/28, 1/04, 1/11, 1/18/2016)

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.

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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)

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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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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)

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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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)

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)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Donatello was a renowned Italian sculptor. His favorite piece was "Lo Zuccone," a marble statue of the Biblical prophet Habakkuk. As Donatello carved his work-in-progress, he addressed it. "Speak, damn you! Talk to me," he was heard to say on more than a few occasions.

Did the stone respond? Judging from the beauty of the final product, I'd have to say yes. One art critic testified that "Lo Zuccone" is a "sublimely harrowing" tour de force, a triumph of "forceful expression," and "one of the most important marble sculptures of the 15th century." I suspect you will have Donatello-like powers of conversation in 2017, Aries. If anyone can communicate creatively with stones—and rivers and trees and animals and spirits and complicated humans, for that matter—it'll be you.

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Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, "A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect." Let's amend that thought so it's exactly suitable for your use in 2017.

Here's the new, Taurus-specific version: "A messy, practical, beautiful type of perfection can be realized through a patient, faithful, dogged accumulation of the imperfect." To live up to the promise of this motto, make damn good use of every partial success.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini gymnast

Marisa Dick has created a signature move that has never been used by any other gymnast. To start her routine, she leaps up off a springboard and lands on the balance beam doing a full split. The technical term for this bold maneuver is "a change-leg leap to free-cross split sit," although its informal name is "The Dick Move." The International Federation of Gymnastics has certified it in its Code of Points, so it's official. During the coming months, I expect that you will also produce one-of-a-kind innovations in your own sphere.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I hope you will be as well-grounded in 2017 as you have ever been —maybe even since your past life as a farmer. I trust you will go a long way toward mastering the arts of being earthy, practical, and stable. To do this right, however, you should also work on a seemingly paradoxical task: cultivating a vigorous and daring imagination—as perhaps you did in one of your other past lives as an artist. In other words, your ability to succeed in the material world will thrive as you nurture your relationship with fantasy realms— and vice versa. If you want to be the boss of reality, dream big and wild—and vice versa.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Even if you don't think of yourself as an artist, you are always working on a major art project: yourself. You may underestimate the creativity you call on as you shape the raw material of your experience into an epic story.

Luckily, I'm here to impress upon you the power and the glory of this heroic effort. Is there anything more important? Not for you Leos. And I trust that in 2017 you will take your craftsmanship to the highest level ever. Keep this advice from author Nathan W. Morris in mind: "Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece, after all."

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): French painter Henri

Matisse (1869-1954) turned out to be one of the supremely influential artists of the 20th century.

But he was still struggling to make a living well into his thirties. The public's apathy toward his work demoralized him. At one point, he visited his dealer to reclaim one of his unsold paintings. It was time to give up on it, he felt, to take it off the market. But when he arrived at the gallery, his dealer informed him that it had finally been bought—and not by just any art collector, either. Its new owner was Pablo Picasso, an artist whom Matisse revered. I think it's quite possible you will have comparable experiences in 2017, Virgo. Therefore: Don't give up on yourself!

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By ROB BREZSNY week of December 28

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance with

your astrological omens for 2017, I've taken a poem that Shel Silverstein wrote for kids and made it into your horoscope. It'll serve as a light-hearted emblem of a challenging but fun task you should attend to in the coming months. Here it is: "I've never washed my shadow out in all the time I've had it. It was absolutely filthy I supposed, so I peeled it off the wall where it was leaning and stuck it in the washtub with the clothes. I put in soap and bleach and stuff. I let it soak for hours. I wrung it out and hung it out to dry. And whoever would have thunk that it would have gone and shrunk, for now it’s so much littler than I."

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Walk your wisdom walk in 2017, Sagittarius. Excite us with your wisdom songs and gaze out at our broken reality with your wisdom eyes. Play your wisdom tricks and crack your wisdom jokes and erupt with your wisdom cures. The world needs you to be a radiant swarm of lovable, unpredictable wisdom! Your future needs you to conjure up a steady stream of wisdom dreams and wisdom exploits! And please note: You don't have to wait until the wisdom is perfect. You shouldn't worry about whether it's supremely practical. Your job is to trust your wisdom gut, to unleash your wisdom cry, to revel in your wisdom magic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As I was ruminating on your astrological omens for 2017, I came across a wildly relevant passage written

by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. It conveys a message I encourage you to memorize and repeat at least once a day for the next 365 days. Here it is: "Nothing can hold you back—not your childhood, not the history of a lifetime, not even the very last moment before now. In a moment you can abandon your past. And once abandoned, you can redefine it. If the past was a ring of futility, let it become a wheel of yearning that drives you forward. If the past was a brick wall, let it become a dam to unleash your power."

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Naturalist John Muir regarded nature as his church. For weeks at a time he lived outdoors, communing with the wilderness. Of course he noticed that not many others shared his passion. "Most people are on the world, not in it," he wrote, "having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them— undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate." Is there anything about you that even partially fits that description, Aquarius? If so, I'm pleased to inform you that 2017 will be an excellent year to address the problem. You will have immense potential to become more intimate and tender with all of the component parts of the Great Mystery. What's the opposite of loneliness?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Seven Chilean poets were frustrated by their fellow citizens' apathy toward the art of poetry. They sarcastically dramatized their chagrin by doing a performance for baboons. Authorities at the Santiago Zoo arranged for the poets' safety, enclosing them in a protective cage within the baboons' habitat. The audience seemed to be entertained, at times listening in rapt silence and at other times shrieking raucously. I'm sure you can empathize with the poets' drastic action, Pisces. How many times have you felt you don't get the appreciation you deserve? But I bet that will change in 2017. You won't have to resort to performing for baboons.

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I’m a 32-year-old guy, and I want a real relationship. I am good-looking and charming and can get girls into bed pretty early on, but I’m beginning to wonder whether that’s hurting me. I think I end up starting relationships based on sex instead of common interests, personality, etc. Does it pay to hold off on sex, and if so, how long?—Wanting It Real There are some wonderful committed relationships that started off with “I want to spend the rest of my boner with you!”

The reality is, those lovebirds probably got lucky (in getting it on with someone they happened to be compatible with). When you have sex right away, you’re prone to getting into a hormone haze—a sort of sex fog—that ends up blurring just about everything but the bed (and maybe the kitchen table, three or four times).

Though people are increasingly getting into relationships through hookups (“sex first/date later”), relationship researcher Dean Busby and his colleagues find that waiting to have sex seems to keep “feels so right!” from killing your ability to see whether it actually is. In their research, dating for at least a month before having sex was associated with higher relationship stability and satisfaction, better sex, and better communication.

Again, this isn’t to say that people who

have sex on—or even before—the first date won’t have satisfying relationships.

But as the researchers put it, “the rewards of sexual involvement early on may undermine other aspects of relationship development and evaluation”—for example, keeping partners from putting as much energy into “crucial couple processes” like hammering out communication. It can also prolong relationships that don’t work when both people are dressed and standing up.

You don’t have to set your sex clock according to the research: “Oh, look at the time—week four and a half; better get it on!” The point is to wait until you see whether you really like a person and click with them in all the essential ways.

Six months into a relationship, if you grab your partner and kiss them as if the world were ending, it should be because you love them that deeply, not because it’s the best way to get them to shut up that doesn’t involve jail time.

I’m a man in my 50s. I recently started seeing this fantastic lady. She’s my ideal woman except for one small thing: There is no sexual chemistry. However, I don’t plan on having more kids. Also, my body’s slowing down, and sex just isn’t at the top of my list anymore. I’m looking for my true best friend and partner.

Still, without any real chemistry, is this relationship doomed?—Seeking Okay, so you feel sex isn’t all that important to you now. Good to know… but not quite the same as donating a treasured artifact to the natural history museum with a plaque: “Harpoon for display purposes only.”

Your best friend whom you aren’t attracted to and don’t have sex with is your best friend. Sure, a relationship is a best friendship, but it’s more. The sexual part of it—sharing your body—makes for a deeper level of intimacy than, say, “Want a bite of my Reuben?”

Unlike checkers or “Words with Friends,” sex isn’t just an activity. It’s an activity that causes biochemical reactions—like a surge of the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin.

Though the research on these is in its infancy in humans, they seem to act as a form of emotional glue in some mammals that have been studied—in

the wake of sex, causing little rodent-y things called prairie voles to velcro themselves to that special someone.

As for this woman you’ve been seeing, think about how it must feel to have you about as sexually interested in her as you are in one of her end tables. Also consider that being in what sociologist Denise Donnelly calls an “involuntarily celibate relationship,” or wanting to have “shared erotic pleasure” (of some kind) but having a partner who refuses, extremely corrosive.

Beyond leading to affairs in 26 percent of those surveyed, it led to sexual frustration (79 percent), feelings of rejection (23 percent) and depression (34 percent).

The thing is (assuming she isn’t madly in love with you), if you two admit that the spark isn’t there, you can still spend your lives together—just not in the same bed.

Better to celebrate your best-friendiversary than mourn on your anniversary.

(c)2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com.

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Misery, Company ALLEY CATS Good people and good times were among the brights spots featured in this year’s anti-man-about-town musings.

Reminiscences on a rough 2016 and good times to come

BY GARY SINGH

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T LEAST IN the crowds I infiltrate, 2016 was considered a miserable year.

I don’t mean politics. I mean in terms of death and destruction. We lost too many heroes—Bowie, Prince and Leonard Cohen, just to name but a few, and lesserknown heroes seemingly expiring every other day throughout the year.

All in all, it makes me realize how lucky I am to still be writing this column, which has now reached approximately 613 installments in a row.

Over the past year, yet another zonked bouillabaisse of material spilled into this space. If you’re new to this racket, “alleys” refers to anything off the beaten path, creatively, geographically or psychically. More often than not, all three tend to overlap.

This is the eastern half of me talking, of course, but in my view, San Jose, as a city, is off the beaten path in every possible respect. It almost feels like a gigantic secret place, since all the interesting stuff goes completely unnoticed—even to those who live here.

And I’m not the only one saying this.

As a result, it often takes a childlike, Zen perspective to find beauty in the ugliness and vice-versa, which is how artists intrinsically operate anyway.

So at the end of every year, the columnist reflects back over his fave installments from the last 12 months, each one of which microcosmically reflects the past, present and future back toward each other, depending on how the columnist’s brain is shaping up that particular week. Get it?

Of course you do.

For example, 2016 began with the anti-man-about-town tromping through the wretched, sun-cracked asphalt parking lot at El Camino and Lawrence Expressway, on his way to the promised land of Bharat Bazar.

The decades-old Indian grocery store was getting slaughtered in favor of the condo-pocalypse, a common

occurrence in these parts. It felt almost Biblical, if not mythological, traipsing that rugged landscape to finally arrive at the exotic oasis of cardamom, ghee, moong dal and fenugreek seeds for one last time before the place imploded for good and the marauding real estate warlords wiped out the entire parcel.

What a way to begin the year.

Influence from the underbelly of the Indian subcontinent did not stop there, thankfully. William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns inspired more than one column, with ghosts from past businesses, buildings and even entire neighborhoods resurfacing in-between the cracks to share their stories. In another case, members of the 1947 Partition Archive threw a few events to raise awareness about the Partition of India and its long-lasting effects on the entire world. In still another scenario, veteran New York Times journalist Somini Sengupta came to town hawking her new book, The End of Karma, in which she documented India’s current youth generations and how they’re about to make an impact on the world. And in perhaps one of the most successful columns I ever wrote, at least based on the sheer number of people who told me they laughed out loud, the secret thrash metal past of Castro Street in Mountain View exploded back to the forefront of my consciousness when dining at an Indian buffet. Kerry King and Gary Holt of Slayer would be proud.

Continuing on the clash of past and present, mystic vibrations from San Jose’s connection to Irish revolutionary history, the city’s ties to professional soccer disasters of the ’70s, and even my old music professors—dead and alive—found their way onto this page.

Sometime I just wish I could just write something one-layered and linear, but my brain doesn’t work that way.

That said, since San Jose boasts a rich tapestry of ethnic identities, each one cross-stitched into the others while still retaining its uniqueness, many of those identities emerged in this column. U.S. Poet Laureate and San Jose legend Juan Felipe Herrera came back to town. The J-Town Film Festival once again offered a smattering of experiences, as did Hakone Gardens. On the Vietnamese front, the Ao Dai Festival once again ignited spectrums of color.

A final roll call would include Dada, Altamont and Jimmy Page, plus James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges and Don Buchla. Here’s to 2017!

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Game Recognize WINTER WONDERLAND It’s impossible to not see the game while having a drink at Rookies Sports Lodge.

Rookies gives downtown San Jose sports bar scene a shot in the arm

BY JOSH KOEHN

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HE FORMULA FOR a great sports bar is relatively simple: TVs, high-def and copious; a killer sound system, no more than couple games at one time and loud enough to drown out the dude at the end of the bar; a full bar in case the guy creeps or the game turns south; beers on tap, cold and local; good grub that doesn’t always require a grease bath; and an attentive, friendly staff.

In theory, it sounds simple. But like the games being played above the

din of curses and calls for shots, it’s all about execution. Rookies Sports Lodge in Willow Glen has already proven it’s capable of being a great neighborhood sports bar. A sleeker, sister location has now entered the downtown San Jose fray, replacing what used to be Billy Berks, and the early returns are promising.

As far as Silicon Valley sports bars go, one would be hard pressed to find more pixels per square foot than the new Rookies, open just a month and located on South First and San Fernando. Bigger than its predecessor, the joint has 32 flat-screens lining the sturdy brick interior walls. If there is a game being played on this planet, odds are it’s on one of the screens.

Mike Hobson, who I should disclose is a close friend, says he

picked the location despite usual objections over downtown’s transient nature, and so far business has exceeded expectations.

“We’re just trying to listen to staff and guests,” Hobson says. “Nobody is ever shy, especially downtown, telling you what they think of the place.”

Joined by his brother, Ricky, who manages operations and had downtown bona fides before he ran nightclubs in West Hollywood, the place has the distinct vibe of a family affair. That familiarity has carried over to both the front and back of the house, as Hobson brought over bartenders from his Willow Glen location to smooth out the transition. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, the only thing that has changed is the menu. Rather than start from scratch, Hobson chose to keep executive chef Enrique Pazos and rehire all of Billy Berks cooking staff. The eclectic menu now features fresh, locally sourced ingredients that can translate to traditional pub grub

or as high-end as signature steaks, like The Tomahawk, a 38-ounce cut of USDA beef served with grilled vegetables and seasoned potatoes.

Checking in at $65, the steak is probably the most expensive sports bar plate in the South Bay that doesn’t come with a money-back guarantee for finishing.

Other featured items include the 10-ounce skirt steak with chimchurri ($24) and the Fettuccine Alfredo Cajun Bowl ($18), which includes blackened chicken, Andouille sausage and prawns.

I ordered the blackened chicken sandwich ($14), which comes with seared chicken breast, pepper jack cheese, bacon, thick slices of avocado and a red pepper aioli that makes just about every sandwich better. Served with a side of fries or a salad, it’s the kind of sandwich you just don’t regret ordering. The wife went with a pan-seared salmon entrée ($24) that comes with a choice of two sides from 12 options. The grilled vegetables and garlic-mashed potatoes were delicious, while my Cajun fries didn’t disappoint.

The siren song that will call many names, no doubt, is the Juicy Lucy burger. Double patties are stuffed with double American cheese, diced pickles and onions, finished by a dollop of Thousand Island dressing.

At more than “a pound of goodness,” this $15 burger is a regional favorite of the upper Midwest, a triumph of American ingenuity and a glazed middle finger to the arteries. Just be careful—the name stems from the fact that the burger will literally squirt as one takes that big first chomp.

Like any bar and restaurant in its infancy, there will be hiccups, and some of the prices may seem high. However, Rookies has always been about top-notch service and sports—and aside from downtown’s Britannia Arms, no other sports bar in downtown San Jose comes close as a rival.

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HE BREAKFAST CLUB has a familiar ring, but that’s hardly the reason San Jose’s newest Midtown restaurant feels like a classic. Open just a few weeks, ownership has more than 30 years of restaurant experience, at local favorites such as Los Gatos Diner, Lou’s Coffee Shop and Opa! The Breakfast Club feels comfortable, like a movie we’ve been watching for years.

Located in the brand-new Meridian at Midtown apartment complex, The Breakfast Club sports a posh, refined interior with chic modern art, lighting and wood furnishings. The menu is classic All-American diner fare, ranging from burgers and patty melts to benedicts, omelets and even chicken and waffles.

The Breakfast Club also features a nice selection of “Bubbles and Marys” to help start the morning strong. The wife decided a Sweet Spiced Pear ($9) would be the right call for a Christmas Eve brunch, and she was on point. The SKYY Infusions Bartlett Pear vodka with sour, cinnamon and house sparkling wine was a terrific way to start the meal. Thirst quenched, it was time for some chow. After perusing the small, curated menu, the Chicken Fried Steak & Egg ($14) and Red Velvet Pancakes ($9) struck our fancy.

I’ve always felt like a Chicken Fried Steak (CFS) was the best way to judge the quality of a diner, and this might have been my favorite rendition yet. The steak came out with a Panko bread crust, tender yet crispy, and it had a nice, thick layer of classic white gravy dolloped on top.

I haven’t been this satisfied with a CFS in a long, long time.

The Red Velvet Pancakes are lumberjack-sized saucers topped with heavenly cream cheese drizzle. They’re also loaded up with chocolate chips and come with a side of cinnamon whipped cream, which really put the sensors on overdrive. After demolishing the CFS and pancakes we were both on a total food high, but I’m sure the vodka helped us on our way.

The South Bay’s breakfast scene has been a bit stagnant of late, but I can foresee The Breakfast Club shaking things challenging Midtown’s traditional players: Bill’s Cafe, Cafe Rosalena, The Mini Gourmet.

The Breakfast Club doesn’t aim to reinvent the wheel, but rather make the best damn wheel you can eat. For the record, there were no Ringwald or Emilio sightings. —John Dyke THE BREAKFAST CLUB 1432 W. San Carlos St, San Jose. 408.564.7150

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