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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.

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A documentary on this guy really could go viral, but I doubt the propaganda film he’s apparently pushing will get a warm reception online.

PRETTY_HILARIOUS VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE RE: “MILPITAS MAYOR VIOLATES BROWN ACT,” SAN JOSE INSIDE, JAN. 18

RE: “ALVISO SUES OVER TOPGOLF PROJECT,” NEWS, JAN. 18

RE: “WORKS/SAN JOSE CELEBRATES 40TH ANNIVERSARY,” SILICON ALLEYS, JAN. 18

Looks like this kid is going to embarrass and ruin the city during his tenure as Milpitas Mayor. Get him out of there before your city is in ruins.

If this passes, then this will no longer be a small town.

Thanks for writing this Gary! Tess and I started going there in the mid 80s and have never stopped. Joe Miller, you are an amazing man with endless energy and talent. Thanks for all you do.

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I saw you up there on the balcony, watching me and 30,000-plus friends as we took to the streets to show our opposition to the new president. We stood up for the vulnerable: immigrants, LGBTQ, the poor, students, women—everyone who will be negatively affected by the Trump administration. We were a peaceful, loving avalanche of snowflakes and there you were, a troll under a bridge. Actually, you were a Nazi on a balcony, flying a handkerchief-sized swastika flag and flipping us off. We saw you, and you saw us. And that’s important: you were small and scared, hiding on your perch under a hat and sunglasses. We were large and proud, our boots on the ground, faces free for the world to see.

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There is a very good chance that Topgolf will not be able to realize its expected revenue in Alviso, leaving San Jose with a development that has no re-use potential and a huge deficit in the city’s anticipated tax revenue. This entire project is not well thought-out; it’s very high risk.

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THE FLY

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The best players play, regardless of skin color. But it wasn’t always that way, so on Tuesday some of the nation’s most hallowed sportsmen came together at Hammer Theatre to discuss how far the nation has come, and how far we still have to go. Hosted

by San Jose State, which announced a new Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change, the half-day event featured HARRY EDWARDS—an SJSU alumnus and founder of the 1968 Olympic Project for Human Rights—convening a panel with football Hall of Famer JIM BROWN, all-time NBA scoring leader KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR, former 49ers players ANQUAN BOLDIN and TAKEO SPIKES, NBA and Fab Five alum CHRIS WEBBER and track and field gold medalist TOMMIE SMITH, whose black-gloved fist changed the course of history. In an enlightening, at times humorous, discussion on sports and society, Brown talked about his recent meeting with President DONALD TRUMP—despite voting for HILLARY CLINTON—and the need to build bridges. Much of the discussion centered on 49ers QB They COLIN KAEPERNICK’s Did kneeling during the What?

National Anthem, and how to take the next SEND TIPS TO step from words to FLY@ action—ironically, scant METRONEWS. COM attention was paid to Kap suggesting voting is for suckers, or that the event didn’t include athletes or media who identify as Latino, Asian or LGBTQ. Abdul-Jabbar was insightful on athletes leveraging their newfound wealth into economic initiatives, but not everyone was so eloquent. Brown, in saying African Americans shouldn’t be “pigeonholed” to stereotypes, suggested black people take a cue from another stereotype.

“Sometimes you look at your culture and what it can do,” Brown said. “You look at the Jewish community and the principles they applied and look at the power they have.” The audience, hypnotized by the collective athletic achievements, inexplicably applauded the backhanded compliment.

Unseen Benefits BRING THE PENA Gloria Pena says nonprofit 4Cs Council, which receives $44 million a year in taxpayer money, has yet to pay out a penny of her pension since she retired six months ago.

Santa Clara County’s top nonprofit child care provider clams up over missing pension payments

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

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LORIA PENA retired to become a full-time grandmother—just as she had promised her daughter. The whole family planned around the day, which came July 29, 2016, a few months after Mateo’s birth. The timing felt perfect.

After 90 days of maternity leave, Pena’s daughter, Leticia, wanted to resume her post as associate director of a local nonprofit, and Pena was ready to end three decades of work—the last 10 years as receptionist at the Community

Child Care Council of Santa Clara County, called the 4Cs Council for short.

She planned to spend the rest of her days with her growing family. But one part of that dream never fell into place. “My pension,” Pena says. “I worked all these years to save and I haven’t seen any of it.”

When she announced her retirement last summer, Pena was surprised to learn that she qualified for a supplemental pension as long as she chose to disburse payments from her main account over two decades, rather than taking it as a lump sum. This would bump her collective pension from $50,000 to about $84,400, so she opted for the monthly installments. But six months since her last day on the job at 4Cs, the 67-year-old retiree has yet to receive a single pension check.

“It’s been really draining, emotionally,” she says. “I have really bad nights, barely sleeping, thinking about how long my daughter can support the household with me not contributing.”

Apparently, Pena’s not alone in her predicament—although just how many of her former 4Cs colleagues have been affected remains to be seen.

Five have been identified so far. But the holdup is only the latest sign of dysfunction at the South Bay’s largest publicly funded nonprofit, which provides subsidized child care for more than 5,500 low-income children and resource and referral services for more than 20,000 families.

Employees who have been fighting to unionize for more than 16 months now—an inordinate amount of time for an agency with only 130 on staff—say 4Cs is plagued by widespread incompetence and mismanagement.

Metro’s reporting in September last year confirmed those claims. Persistent struggles to meet enrollment targets and regulatory standards have put some of the 4Cs Council funding in

“This is our future at stake,” Pena says.

“We want answers.”

4Cs employees compare the situation to the high-profile pension scandal at another local nonprofit, the Mexican American Community Services Association (MACSA). In 2012, prosecutors charged MACSA executives with illegally diverting $1 million in pension funds to salaries and other costs. Pena and several of her former co-workers want the 4Cs Council to open its books in a show of good faith to assuage their fears.

“It’s hard not to assume the worst,” she says. “But that’s where my mind goes, in light of all these other problems.”

4Cs employees voted to unionize with SEIU Local 521 in August 2015, which is when they began requesting information to negotiate better pay and benefits. Five months later, the nonprofit shared a summary description for one retirement option, a qualified “before-tax” plan that accounts for the lion’s share of the nonprofit’s pension funds. Last August, a full year after union negotiations kicked off, employees discovered that they were eligible for an additional account, a non-qualified “after-tax” plan. But there was no mention of this supplementary pension in the personnel handbook.

“As soon as we realized this disconnect, we began asking questions,” says one employee, who asked to withhold his name for fear of retaliation. “We want to know what kind of retirement we have. When will I be qualified? We asked those questions so many times for months now and they still cannot explain. I’m trying to understand how there’s this disconnect.”

The union has had a bit more success finding answers on behalf of workers. In December, SEIU Local 521 sent a letter to 4Cs Council attorneys demanding written assurances that no pension funds would be distributed to anyone in management positions at the nonprofit—especially Villaseñor, who’s listed as the sole trustee on at least the primary pension account. Union officials say they’ve already unearthed proof of inaccurate calculations of some workers’ years of service. There are also concerns that the nonprofit failed to notify people about the secondary pension, preventing people from claiming money to which they were potentially entitled.

“Based on what is known at this time,

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jeopardy, resulting in canceled contracts and shuttered daycare centers. Ben Menor, who helms the nonprofit’s board of directors, faced allegations of bilking hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money more than a decade ago and continues to ignore Metro’s inquiries about 4Cs. All the while, attempts to negotiate a labor contract have been met with retaliatory discipline, intimidation and harassment, current and former employees say.

“That’s not very reassuring,” Pena says.

“To think that I can’t access the money I worked for and can’t get any answers from them when I know about all these problems going on behind the scenes.”

Despite receiving roughly $44 million a year in taxpayer money, administrators at the 4Cs Council remain oddly evasive. Its board of directors either feigns ignorance or admits having little knowledge of the inner workings of the nonprofit. CEO Alfredo Villaseñor defers media inquiries to a private lawyer.

“We are looking into it,” says Allyson Hauck, the fifth attorney 4Cs has hired to negotiate with its union.

“What I can tell you is that one of the pension plans is on hold right now and that they’ve hired a firm to make sure there is legal compliance.”

The firm 4Cs hired—San Franciscobased Trucker-Huss, which specializes in employee benefits—declined a request for comment, directing media inquiries back to Hauck. Logan Group Securities, the company that manages 4Cs Council pensions, has yet to return calls and emails asking for more details about the retirement accounts. Hauck says that only the supplemental pension account has been frozen, but that doesn’t explain why Pena hasn’t been able to access her primary account. A source inside the nonprofit says the main pension account holds something on the order of $12 million while the supplemental has about $1.2 million.

Employees have had no luck finding answers, they tell Metro. Attorneys only recently began investigating whether the 4Cs Council adheres to its written personnel policies. It’s another question entirely whether those policies comply with federal laws governing employee benefits. Earlier this week, Pena asked the U.S. Department of Labor to review her case since her former employer has been stonewalling her and other concerned employees. The District Attorney’s Public Integrity Unit has reached out to the union’s attorneys to look into the matter.

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COLOR GUARD Tens of thousands of people joined the Women’s March in San Jose.

San Jose ‘United’ in Anti-Trump Women’s March

BY DIANA SAN JUAN Stacy Brobst stood against a green barricade that blocked incoming foot traffic and, from the other side of the fence, all that was visible was her face, the tears she wiped away—and the pink ears of her hat.

“I watched [Donald Trump’s inauguration] speech, but I didn’t watch anything else,” said Brobst, a San Jose resident. “And I only watched that because my son has taught me that we need to listen. We need to listen so that we know what we’re fighting against.”

In one of the largest political demonstrations in San Jose’s history, Brobst joined more than 25,000 people Saturday for a nationwide day of protest known as the Women’s March. People wore pink hats, also referred to as “pussy hats,” in support of women and carried signs during a march that began at San Jose City Hall and shut down streets and paseos

on the way to Plaza de Cesar Chavez.

Millions of people protested Trump across the globe—including all seven continents—and the main march, in Washington D.C., brought out an estimated 676,000 people, far more than the number of people who attended Trump’s swearing-in ceremony.

“I’ve seen signs that say ‘I’m here for’ whatever the reason is. One sign is not enough,” San Jose resident Esther Ynzunza said. “We need all of these people that are here to take action, and I’m here to start.”

At Plaza de Cesar Chavez, guest speakers, live music and food trucks awaited. City Council members, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, state Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) and a host of community organizers and activists spoke to the crowd, sharing pride over the turnout and hope for the future. In his comments, Liccardo thanked the man who made

Saturday possible: President Donald Trump. Followed by booing from the crowd, the mayor reminded everyone of the reason they gathered.

“We are united,” Liccardo said.

“Here in San Jose, we are united.”

The march was a family affair for many, as husbands and children accompanied wives and mothers.

Women held signs that read “Nasty Women Unite” and men wore shirts that read “Bad Hombres.”

“I stand here as a man, as a husband, as a father, as a brother, as an uncle. I stand here for the women in my life, for every woman,” said Ignacio Cortes, of Milpitas. “Now more than ever we need to support each other and stand united.”

Standing next to his wife and three children, one boy and two girls, Cortes added, “It is an honor for me to take part in something so moving and so important.”

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it appears both plans are substantially underfunded and mis-administered in violation of numerous [federal laws],” the union’s Dec. 14 letter reads.

The missive continues: “There is an immediate concern that Mr. Villaseñor may make an attempt, with the aid and cooperation of [Kevin Logan, of Logan Securities Group], to remove assets from either or both plans in his own interest.”

The letter accuses Logan of blaming the pension freeze on workers’ decision to unionize, noting that such remarks may constitute a breach of fiduciary duties to act in the best interest of his clients. As a fiduciary, Logan is legally obligated to prevent and solve problems for his clients, says Jean Ackerman, regional director for the San Francisco office of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration.

As head of the agency that sponsors the retirement plan, Villaseñor is beholden to those same standards.

And yet, employees have fought for months for these answers, and they have doubts that these obligations are being met.

“When I called [Logan], he made it seem like it was the union’s fault that we’re having these problems,” Pena says. “But actually, it’s because of the union that we even found out these problems exist.”

A Jan. 10 memo sent from the 4Cs Council to its employees downplayed the problem by indicating that very few people are affected by the supplementary pension plan undergoing a legal review. For those who are affected, however, that attitude only adds insult to injury.

Pena’s retirement savings may seem paltry in the scheme of an agency with a $44 million annual budget, she says, but it’s all she has besides family support. Thankfully, her daughter has been able to pick up the slack. The two share a home in San Jose’s East Side with Leticia’s boyfriend and baby, Mateo. But money’s been tight. When Gloria’s son, Leticia’s brother, gave her $300 in cash for Christmas, they used it to pay the PG&E and water bills.

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But while atmospheric rivers have washed out roads and tested our will to venture outdoors, the weather hasn’t daunted Silicon Valley creators, nor will it prevent visits by some of the hottest tickets of 2017.

Cirque du Soleil is back. The French-Canadian psychedelic circus is throwing up its big tent in San Jose. The current touring show, Luzia, draws inspiration from the scenery, weather and culture of Mexico. A portmanteau of “luz” and “lluvia”—light and rain en español—Luzia features high-flying acrobats, contortionists and a massive “rain curtain.” City Lights Theater takes on the darker side of Silicon Valley with its latest production, Ideation, a play about the insidious power of corporations in the information age. And Twenty One Pilots bring their charttopping blend of pop, alternative and hip-hop to SAP Center on their “Emotional Roadshow” tour.

All this and amazing dance, side-splitting stand-up, San Jose Jazz Winter Fest and a run of literary events for the bookworms who hate to get wet. And for the truly aquatically averse, there’s a glut of great TV—from Netflix’s take on Lemony Snicket to America’s Next Top Model, featuring this week’s cover models and San Jose natives, Tash and Cody Lee. So strap on those rubber boots, invest in a decent umbrella and be careful behind the wheel. It’s time to take in some art. —Nick Veronin

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Models and identical twins Tash and Cody Lee double down BY VICENTE SERNA In the world of modeling, setting oneself apart from the crowd is the name of the game. Unless you're twin sister modeling duo, Tash and Cody Lee. In their case, their sameness made them famous.

Thanks to their unique take on modeling—namely, working together as a pair—and a winning social media strategy, the Lees have piloted their 2-for-1 brand into the national spotlight, landing two coveted spots on the cast of the current season of America’s Next Top Model.

Even while attending George Miner Elementary School in South San Jose, the Lee sisters knew they weren’t meant for a regular nine-to-five. “We always knew that we would be in the entertainment industry,” Cody says “We didn’t want to be regular.”

Tash and Cody have worked hard building their distinct brand and have remained loyal to their trademark style, which riffs on society’s assumptions about twins. “People expect you to be the same, they expect you be into the same things and dress the same,” Tash says.

It’s something that the two struggled with when they were children, but they’ve since embraced the expectations—turning an annoyance into an asset. They now conduct joint photoshoots and share the same Instagram and Tumblr accounts.

That isn’t to say that the sisters have abandoned their individuality. They’re still true to themselves and their own personal aesthetics.

One vision they do share is highlighting arts and culture in their

13 DOUBLE TROUBLE San Jose natives Tash (right) and Cody Lee got their modeling start on Instagram and Tumblr before heading to ‘America’s Next Top Model.’

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hometown. Growing up in San Jose, Tash and Cody realized that Silicon Valley’s reputation as a tech mecca often overshadowed local creatives.

When Next Top Model scouted them for the latest season, the girls saw it as an opportunity—not only for their careers—but to champion their city.

Still, technology has played a major role in the twins’ lives. Their status as successful Instagram models— and their aptitude for DIY selfpromotion—was definitely a factor in the ANTM producers’ decision to bring them on to the cast.

“They were looking a for a new age model,” Tash says, referring to the show, its new host, Rita Ora, and its new panel of judges. “It’s so different now with social media and being able to build your brand on sites like that.

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You have models who are working and making money without agencies.”

Many of the connections the two have made in their time modeling have been through social media.

“We reach out to photographers through Instagram and Tumblr,” Cody says. A healthy online following has advanced their careers through collaborations and connections.

A social media presence is a requirement in today’s modeling industry, Tash and Cody explain— and they’re increasing their online presence every day. During a photoshoot with Metro, the twins posted several selfies, including one with a fan who was just passing by and happened to recognize them.

“We’re still trying to figure out that science,” Tash says. Regardless, the two

have still made quite an impression.

They’ve racked up more than 19,000 followers on Instagram alone.

“What’s kept me going is believing in what I’m putting out there,” Tash says.

“If I do something and I’m like, ‘This is fire!’ I don’t care how many likes I get or don’t get, this is just good. If you believe that and you give it time, those likes start to accumulate.”

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CANTOR ARTS CENTER Stanford University

A MUSHROOM PERSPECTIVE ON SACRED GEOGRAPHY

FRAGILE WATERS Mar 17-Aug 6 Featuring photographs by Ansel Adams, Ernest H. Brooks II and Dorothy Kerper Monnelly, Thru Jan 15 this exhibit encourages dialog about water conservation. The photos on display will all be in black and white and cover an entire century spent documenting the majesty of our most precious resource.

Feb 8-May 15

Featuring work from the Cantor’s collection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, this exhibition highlights humanity’s connection with objects believed to hold sacred power.

In this case, the mushroom—sometimes delicious, sometimes poisonous, sometimes psychedelic—is the focus of the work.

CREATIVITY ON THE LINE April 26-Aug 21

From electric drills to spartan school desks, good design merges form and function. This show takes a look at the creation and manufacture of midcentury modern designs.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM Santa Clara

A GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE Apr 7-June 17 An exhibit of work by Santa Clara University students—all of them mentored and inspired by the work of Anna Deavere Smith, the Frank Sinatra Scholar-Artist-in-Residence.

SOURCE OF LIFE In the new Cantor Arts Center exhibit, the story of American waterways is told through black and white photos.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM Cupertino

JUSTICE FOR ALL? Feb 1-Mar 23 History comes with unconscious biases that affect our everyday lives. In “Justice for All?” artists call for empathy-driven actions as they face injustices despite our collective past. The Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca Collective are among the featured artists

The Tiny Screen

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK THE NOMINEES have been announced, and theaters all over the country will be screening Oscar hopefuls like Moonlight, La La Land and Manchester

By The Sea. And then, after all the golden statues are passed out, and we all begin seriously putting off our taxes, that’s when the horror begins. Like, bad horror. Rings recycles a killer clip for the third time, the Fifty Shades franchise ignores the consent conversation and forces itself upon us all over again and then there’s Trainspotting 2. Um… Why?

With the exception of a few titles, winter 2017 at the multiplex looks rather dull. Fortunately, there’s plenty to stream. So, stay home for a spell and work that Roku remote. Here are some of the more promising shows on tap:

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

Woe to the Baudelaire children, orphaned and given over to the custody of a moldy actor (Neil Patrick Harris) who only wants their money. Diving for the wreck, director Barry Sonnenfeld (The

visitors will have the chance to participate in a guided audio meditation session—all created

by Bay Area mindfulness teachers.

SJ MUSEUM OF ART San Jose

YOUR MIND, THIS MOMENT Feb 17-Aug 27 Museums have always been spaces designed for quiet reflection. But during this exhibit, subtitled Art and the Practice of Attention,

SO UNFORTUNATE Neil Patrick Harris plays bad old Uncle Monty in the new Netflix adaptation of ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events.’

Addams Family) and author Daniel Handler adapt the latter’s series of poignant books for arch children. A vocabulary-builder, to be sure, but an adult schooled in Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl may feel that they’re listening to the Baby Einstein version of those worthies. (Netflix)

SCHITT’S CREEK

A millionaire (Eugene Levy) of majestic cluelessness, Moira, his former soap opera actress wife (Catherine O’Hara), and their two drastically spoiled offspring are reduced to life in a motel in a small town with an unfortunate name. Here are two of the best comedic actors alive, harmonizing as only they can. Levy is aging into agelessness, like Johnny Cash, if the Man in Black wore starched boxers. O’Hara is still magnificently self-obsessed, the voice getting more molasses-y with money, fermenting into a well-bred nasal quack.. (CBC, on Amazon Prime).

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bringing contemporary wood and linoleum block prints and large-scale graffiti murals.

Leslie Bohem’s promising series about an overreaching suburban patsy (Jeffrey Donovan), his bisexual wife, and the ruthless family of gypsies who oversee his fortune-telling racket.

After a blow to the head, he becomes a real psychic. Isabella Rossellini can’t pepper-up this

San Fernando Valley-based goulash much as the silky matriarch. It’s a bit over done and lines like, “Am I your first trip down Lesbo Lane?” don’t help. But give it a go. (Hulu)

THE TICK

Wally Pfister, who shot Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, directs this gritty relaunch.

The nigh-invulnerable Tick first migrated from independent comic books to one of the last good Saturday morning cartoons (1996), and then, later, to live-action on Fox in 2002 (in a show that sought to be Seinfeld for superheroes). In this telling, small, meek Arthur (Griffin Newman) is horribly traumatized in youth by a seemingly long-dead supervillain The Terror.

Enter The Tick (Peter Serafinowicz), a warrior in the battle against “Light and darkness, up and down.” Is he just a Harvey-like figment from Arthur’s tormented imagination? Hopefully not, since his jovialness is needed in this era of tragic superhero glut. The Tick laughs at a machine gun fusillade, bellowing “Enough of your hot little bullets!” (Amazon Prime)

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ELEMENTAL TAPESTRY: EARTH, AIR, FIRE AND WATER Thru Mar 5 Taking on mother nature, this exhibit of work by members of Tapestry Weavers West interprets classic elements in abstraction and realism. See volcanic hills, forest floors and flowing rivers brought to life—in woven cloth.

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ODE TO THE SUN Cirque du Soleil’s latest production, ‘Luzia,’ pays homage to the suns and rains of Mexico.

It’s Raining Acrobats The recent onslaught of storms that has been moving through the Bay has many of us ready for a little sun.

But don’t put your umbrella away too quickly. The creators of Cirque du Soleil’s newest production, Luzia, is bringing the rain indoors.

Inspired by the rich culture and traditions of Mexico, Luzia features the usual splendor and high-flying performance that has made Cirque du Soleil an international hit for decades.

This year’s tour features more than 40 artists, athletes and acrobats from 15 countries—all under a custom big-top equipped with the power of rain.

The name Luzia is a mash up of the Spanish words for light (luz) and rain (lluvia), both of which loom large in the performance, thanks to a talented design team and a 360 degree rain

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Using their recipe of fun, surprise, excitement and a pinch of danger, Adam

curtain that hovers over a rotating stage. The curtain plays a key role in four of the eleven individual acts, which range from a parched clown’s quest to capture a precious sip of water to an incredible rain-soaked game of soccer.

Each act represents a specific artistic impression of Mexico. “For a lot of Mexico, rain is something you deal with on a daily basis,” says Mark Shaub, the show’s artistic director. “It gives us the color and experience of Mexico.”

Incorporating rain into a traveling big top has been no small feat. The curtain and its accompanying pool require 6,000 liters of water, which are continually being treated, heated, and recycled. “It was a big technical and design challenge to integrate [water] and make it both feasible and artistically meaningful,” Shaub

Savage of MythBusters has teamed up with YouTube star Michael Stevens to cook-up and serve a giant batch of magical brain candy to rescue your mind from boredom.

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says of the show’s R&D. “The whole process is full of things that you try.”

Creating the curtain was one kind of challenge. Integrating it was another.

“We’ve gotten extremely creative in how to dry the stage,” Shaub says, noting that this process occurs throughout the show and had led to the creation of new acts. Use of the curtain also requires that set pieces, equipment, and costumes be durable and waterproof.

For trapeze artist Enya White and Cyr wheel performer Rachel Salzman, the challenge of working with water was two fold. “It was not just integrating water but using a new piece of equipment,” says Salzman, who had to relearn the art she’d been honing for the past three years at Montreal’s National Circus School.

Inspired by winter biking, the new “waterproof” Cyr wheel is more of a thick treaded tire, which alters the timing and angle at which Salzman

colorful dance and world music.

CITY LIGHTS THEATER COMPANY San Jose

FRANKENSTEIN Mar 23 - Apr 23

Think you’ve seen Frankenstein? Think again! This world-premiere is an adaptation to Mary Shelley’s classic cautionary tale of a science student

can spin as the water pours down from above. Salzman and White compared working on a wet stage to performing on ice or running in high heels. “In the beginning I was really bad,” Salzman says. “My partners called me ‘butter feet.’ I’d say it was at least 100 shows before I felt [really comfortable].”

Learning to work with water has also been rewarding. “When I’m doing my tricks and the water comes in the show, it’s really a magical moment for the audience and also for us,” says White. “It’s like a relief.”

“Our act is supposed to be set in the desert and yet it’s raining,” says Salzman. “The premise was the idea that the water is an impossibility— this thing you hope for and wish for, but might all be in your imagination, like a mirage.”

“The whole show is really a magical experience,” White says. “[Both] being inside and also watching it from outside.”

Water is just one of the many aspects of Mexican culture that Luzia celebrates and explores. Yet, of all the artistic and technical trappings that the show features—a rotating stage, two massive treadmills, original compositions, giant puppets, impossible contortions—it may be the most magical.

In an age of advancing technology, Luzia reminds us that there are some forces we cannot control and recalls the deep gratitude and great pleasure that can come from something as simple as a shower of rain. —Amanda Kuehn Carroll

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ECONOMY OF IDEAS In ‘Ideation,’ a group of high-paid consultants are given an ethically dubious task.

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FROM LIGHTS UP to the final blackout 90 minutes later, Bay Area playwright Aaron Loeb’s Ideation takes you through an array of emotions in a fast-paced, dark comedy addressing the notion of powerful people making decisions that directly change the world. All too familiar to the Silicon Valley, the play skewers the consulting business when a team of highpowered, intelligent management consultants are dealt with an ethically questionable, top-secret assignment.

“Many decisions that affect the rest of the country—and the world—are made in conference rooms similar to the one depicted in this play,” says Lisa Mallette, executive director of City Lights Theater Company.

The savvy deconstruction of modern consulting begins as the team of five come together in a nondescript meeting room to begin work on a mysterious project. Hannah, played by Mallette, struggles to find control as the only female and the leader of four men.

The rest of the team consists of the handsome but nauseatingly confident Brock (George Psarras); a civil engineer and family man, Ted (Tom Gough); an industrial engineer and the youngest consultant, Sandeep (Sunny Moza); and the incompetent young intern, Scooter (Max Tachis). Directed by Mark Anderson Phillips, the cast does an excellent job of balancing nervous hilarity with serious debate.

As the dismal specifics of Project

Senna unfold, the meeting devolves, with each character growing increasingly suspicious and resentful of the others in the room. As the play progresses, it becomes apparent that the team’s task involves designing a system to dispose of millions of bodies without leaving a trace. When the team starts spinning together design ideas, it slowly dawns on them that they are possibly being asked to assist a governmental body in genocide.

The conspiracy theories reach a fever pitch as each member of the team accuses another of connivance with J.D.—their consulting firm’s CEO and the only character not seen onstage.

“It’s quite a thrill ride of a play, and it’s performed in real time (90 minutes of your life, 90 minutes of the characters’ lives), so it really makes you feel like you’re part of it,” Phillips says.

In the end, the audience is left with a series of unanswered and thorny ethical questions. “I think it’s always good to remind ourselves that with great power comes great responsibility; to remember that some of the decisions these companies make can have widereaching implications,” Phillips says.

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Wonka gives five lucky golden-ticket winners a tour of his factory, a lifetime supply of candy and, unbeknownst to them, the chance to take over his business. With greedy Augustus, bratty Violet, rude Mike, spoiled Veruca and honest Charlie, the musical is full of adventure and mischief.

HAMMER THEATRE San Jose

THE DEEP BLUE SEA Jan 26

A funny, savage and vulgar fairy tale about a frightening but incredibly fascinating relationship of two loners afraid of love. Perhaps these two damaged and low-spirited people can escape the harsh realities that’s defined their past. A part of the National Theatre Live simulcasting series.

AMADEUS Feb 23

Lucian Msamati (Luther, Game of Thrones) plays Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, broadcast live from the National Theatre, and screened at The Hammer Theatre.

HISTORIC HOOVER THEATRE San Jose

GEE’S BEND Feb 18

A story about faith, determination and the resilience of the human spirit, Gee’s Bend depicts the turbulent history of African-Americans during the 20th century. Winner of the 2008 American Association Award, the soulful story takes place in the now-famous community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama.

LOS ALTOS STAGE COMPANY Los Altos

YELLOW FACE Thru Feb 19

When an author accidentally casts a white actor in the Asian lead role, the author finds himself in the ironic position of stripping down political correctness.

Discussing cultural identity and family politics, this wildly hilarious satire examines casting in the theater industry.

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Set in a mental hospital, this riveting and devastating story based on the 1960s novel by Ken Kesey follows the life of the inhabitants within. Narrated by a half-Indian patient diagnosed with schizophrenia, this play explores sanity and conformity for survival.

NORTHSIDE THEATRE COMPANY San Jose OLEANNA Feb 9 - Mar 5

A two-character play about the struggle between a college professor who is on the verge of being granted tenure and a female student who accuses him of sexual exploitation. Broken up into three acts, the final meeting turns violent, leaving each of them physically and emotionally distraught.

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SILENT NIGHT Feb 11 - 26

Amid the trenches on the Western Front, Silent Night recounts the story of a spontaneous cease-fire between Scottish, French and German troops during World War I. When a German soldier begins to sing a carol, floating softly over no-man’s land, a temporary truce is brokered as long white flags wave.

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MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT Apr 29 - May 14 Based on the film classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this hilarious musical comedy tells the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they journey through England to embark on their quest for the Holy Grail. Spamalot brings a night full of beautiful showgirls, handsome knights and satirical comedy.

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NEW WORKS PROGRAM

SJDANCECO FESTIVAL

The New Ballet School’s company dancers will perform a series of new works by local and national choreographers as a part of the young organization’s New Works Program. The pieces include two works created during the Rawson Project Choreographer’s Residence, initiated by NBS founder Dalia Rawson. Also on the bill, a piece

by Francisco Preciado—a local dancer formerly of the Silicon Valley Ballet.

Kicking off their 15th season and celebrating National Dance Week, sjDANCEco hosts this free, daylong program of dance. Featuring more than 60 dancers of all different styles and from all over the Bay Area, the festival showcases the diversity and power of the dance community.

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FEET DON’T FAIL ME NOW Feb 11 | Oshman Family JCC

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Witness an eclectic mix of work as the South Bay and East Bay come together, presenting a shared bill of contemporary choreography. Emerging company choreographers of sjDANCEco have teamed up with with guest company Diablo Ballet to marvel a night of romance, humanity and imagination.

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Internationally touring dance show Rhythmic Circus brings its acclaimed program, Feet Don’t Fail Me Now, to the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto. Fun for the whole family, the show features an a cappella group, a swinging tap-dance number and a red-hot seven-piece band.

BRAND NEW Dancer Rachel Winter will perform in the New Ballet Studio Company’s New Works Program.

THE MEMORY STICK Apr 5 - 30

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illegal immigrants in postwar Italy.

As a relationship grows between Eddie’s niece and one of the Italians, Eddie becomes uneasy and jealous.

Accusations of inappropriate love surface, ending in tragedy for the immigrant community.

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DISGRACED Feb 1 - 26

Can anyone ever truly escape their past? Disgraced elegantly harps on the perception of Muslim identity in the West through the life of Amir Kapoor.

This riveting play will rile up audience members with fixed ideological beliefs and enjoins us to deeply reflect on an escalating global debate.

Mystical Native American and Irish history blends magic, politics and realism in this suspenseful world premiere of The Memory Stick, an examination of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Cultures collide when Bridget, a young Chicagoan, meets a Lakota Sioux and a fellow American from Jersey on an Army base in Afghanistan.

TABARD THEATER San Jose

THE CEMETERY CLUB Feb 17 - Mar 12

Put all cadavers away and don’t let the title fool you. The Cemetery Club is a romantic comedy filled with lightness and charm. The stage play features three widowed best friends who share the struggles and joys of their new single lives, proving that there is a life after death.

THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS, THE MUSICAL! Apr 7 - Apr 30

With entirely original music and lyrics,

this five-part cabaret-style musical parodies and pays homage to famous Broadway musicals and their creators.

This witty production is performed with four all singing, all dancing musical theater “characters” accompanied by piano, with minimal sets, props and costumes.

THEATREWORKS Mountain View CALLIGRAPHY Mar 8 - Apr 2

Set in Los Angeles and Tokyo, past and present, this comedic drama follows two continents, two cultures, two estranged sisters, and the two cousins devoted to merging the gap despite all odds.

Calligraphy examines the relatable yet complex idea of merging generational cultures.

RAGS Apr 5- 30

This inspirational musical follows the voyage of Jewish immigrant Rebecca and her son leaving Europe and struggling to make a life in the New World. Told with

passion and humor, Rags shows the struggle of staying true to one’s ethnic culture despite going against the grain.

WEST BAY OPERA Palo Alto

IL TRITTICO Feb 17 - Feb 26

Love, religion and greed take center stage in the three one-act operas that make up Il Trittico. Il Tabarro focuses on a sailor’s wife’s passionate love affair, Suor Angelica centers on religious redemption and greedy relatives are the focal point in Gianni Schicchi.

Composed by Giacomo Puccini.

WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA San Jose

TCHAIKOVSKY’S SWAN LAKE SUITE Feb 3

The Winchester Orchestra kicks off its winter concert season with one of the Russian master’s best-known compositions.

BOB SAGET

Jan 27-29 | San Jose Improv Most of America knows Bob Saget as the wry host of America’s Funniest Home Videos or the understanding father from Full House. To put it mildly, his standup—full of debaucherous tales heavily peppered with expletives—is a vast departure from his family-friendly image.

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Feb 10-12 | San Jose Improv A year after his first open mic, Bobby Lee was opening for Pauly Shore.

He rose to fame on Mad TV, doing impressions of Kim Jong Il and John McCain, then stole scenes in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Pineapple Express and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

GILBERT GOTTFRIED Feb 24-26 | San Jose Improv

The screechy observationalist is a comic’s comic. His commitment to bits may be a bit too fringe for massive fame, but for the comedy connoisseur, he reigns among the living greats as the finest teller of the intricately filthy The Aristocrats joke.

DON MCMILLAN

Feb 23-26 | Rooster T. Feathers For 10 years, Don McMillan was an engineer. After helping invent the first 32 bit microprocessor, he won a comedy contest and put his master’s from Stanford to different use. His best bit is a dynamite roasting of improper PowerPoint techniques—delivered on PowerPoint. It’s way funnier than it sounds.

GREG BEHRENDT

Jan 26-29 | Rooster T. Feathers Greg Behrendt came up in the San Francisco Improv scene alongside

CRYSTAL CLEAR Nine-time Oscar host Billy Crystal returns to San Jose.

Margaret Cho, David Cross and Patton Oswalt. He wrote the book-turnedmovie “He’s Just Not that Into You” and provided the straight male consultation for Sex in the City’s writing room.

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Feb 9-12 | Rooster T. Feathers Matthew Broussard understands that ’80s movies have trained us to hate people with his “hair and bone structure.” His uncommon-for-comedy handsomeness aside, he’s a very funny man who informed the audience on Conan that most female body parts are named after affluent male doctors, dubbing that “vaginal imperialism.”

BILLY CRYSTAL

Mar 2 | San Jose Center for the Performing Arts Billy Crystal has hosted the Oscars nine times, starred in a tip-top romantic comedy, When Harry Met Sally, and provided immortal vocal work as Mike Wazowski in Monsters Inc. His new show blends standup with sit-down, reminiscing on choice moments in his expansive body of work. —John Flynn

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A can’t-miss for fans of true crime pulp.

David Kulczyk discusses his collection of lurid and bizarre tales—plucked right from the police blotter—of the Golden State’s most fed-up, violent women. See: chemist Larissa Schuster, who dissolved her husband in acid.

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The acclaimed Bay Area writer and longtime host of KQED’s Forum Michael Krasny will discuss his latest book Let There Be Laughter—an exploration into the importance of levity in Jewish culture.

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Former policy director and senior counsel to one of the Democratic Party’s last best hopes, Ganesh Sitaraman is an associate professor of law at Vanderbilt. Recently, Sitaraman has focused on America’s shrinking middle class. His latest work, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, comes out in March. Hear him discuss the future of economic equality—or the lack thereof—at this talk. —Nick Veronin

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LEARNING TO FLY Twenty One Pilots play the SAP Center in February. It’s just one of several great shows coming to town next month.

A Fabulous February The new year is off to a strong start, musically speaking

RUN THE JEWELS

BY MIKE HUGUENOR

THE WINTER MONTHS mean most concerts are relegated to indoor spaces. And in the South Bay, that can translate into fewer big-ticket shows—since Shoreline Amphitheatre and the Mountain Winery don’t open their doors until the skies clear. Still, if February is any indication, 2017 is bound to be a great year for local shows. Here are 10 of the best bets for the second month of the year.

BILL CALLAHAN

Feb 1 | Don Quixote’s, Felton For the past 20 years, Bill Callahan has been adored critically for his lyrics and distinctive voice. The Guardian

the bay,” and “It’s our anniversary. I leave it ajar.” His Oakland show is already sold out, but he is also playing Felton, which seems like the perfect place to catch him.

has described him as not so much a songwriter, but a poem singer, and for good reason. His lyrics have an almost Buddhist simplicity that can often catch a listener off guard—with lines like, “the rain ripped the lips off the mouth of

Feb 2 | City National Civic, San Jose If they were boxers, both El P and Killer Mike would be the two guys no one would dare get in the ring with.

Individually, both have been on top of their game since at least the turn of the millennium, and since joining forces as Run the Jewels in 2013, they’ve been on an absolute tear. Every song they’ve released as RTJ has felt like a touchdown dance—from their opening volley, “Run The Jewels,” to the chillsinducing, Zach de la Rocha-featuring “A Report to the Shareholders / Kill Your Masters.”

CAMILA

Feb 4 | Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose Chances are you know someone who loves Camila—their first two records topped the charts in both Mexico and the U.S. The smooth and ultra-romantic rock en Espanol group comes to town in early February. The group’s setlist promises to be feature songs from 2014’s Elypse (their first album since stripping down to just frontman Mario Domm and multi-instrumentalist Pablo Hurtado), but they’re sure to play the hits as well. That includes “Todo Cambio”—antes que te ame más, escucha por favor! Consider this an early Valentine’s Day present.

LANAYAH, DREAMSPOILER,MOIRAI Feb 5 | Local Color, San Jose

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SINCE OFFICIALLY TAKING the reins at SJ Jazz last March, director Arturo Rivera has been bringing a wide variety talent to the South Bay. This is partially due to his open and accepting interpretation of the genre.

A few months back, Rivera told Metro that he drew the boundary according to one simple rule. Jazz, he says, is “music that requires improvisation.”

The genius of this definition is not only its simplicity, but its accuracy.

Try to define it any other way and you’ll find exception after countless exception. The one thing that binds all jazz musicians is improvisation.

This fact is on clear display in the SJ Jazz Winter Fest lineup.

The biggest name on the bill is undoubtedly Roy Ayers. The massively influential vibraphonist and pianist, now in his sixth decade of touring, plays the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto on Feb. 2. The list of people who look up to Ayers is long and staggering.

Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder, Tupac, Mary J. Blige—all of them have cited Ayers’s music as influence. The dude has a stranglehold on cool, and it really only takes one listen to “Everybody

Loves the Sunshine” or “The Third Eye” to see why.

Equally experienced and steeped in lore are the members of The Cookers, who play Cafe Stritch on Feb. 16.

The septet might have just formed in 2007, but don’t let that fool you.

Between them, the members have played with Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, and countless others. This is a band of heavyweights.

Then there are the young cats.

Reva DeVito is a rising R&B singer from Portland. She plays The Continental’s weekly alt-soul party, The Changing Same, on Feb. 23. The following evening, Feb. 24, futurefunk outfit Troker bring their offkilter jams to MACLA. The Mexicobased sextet craft tunes that sound something like a hip-hop-inspired side project of The Mars Volta’s horn and keys section. After Troker wraps their show, head over to Stritch for a set from The Huntertones—a brassand reed-driven band from Brooklyn with mad beat-boxing skills. Think “slappin’ de bass,” only on the tuba.

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heavy and pensive. In touch with the current movements of metal, they would fit nicely on a bill with Boris, Torche or Deafheaven, as they respect the impossible hugeness of metal music, without all the macho BS. With Lanayah at Local Color is San Jose’s Dreamspoiler, who have that name for a reason. Fans of extreme music should not miss Dreamspoiler’s potent mix of doom, black metal, dark ambient and thrash.

TWENTY ONE PILOTS Feb 10 | SAP Center, San Jose

Does this band even need an introduction? Twenty One Pilots are almost impossibly big, especially considering how strange they are. With their Bauhaus red-and-black wardrobe, frontman Tyler Joseph’s painted hands and neck, and an enigmatic logo they refuse to explain, the Ohio duo have stormed the charts—delivering six chart-topping singles (three platinum singles and three gold). Those are Michael Jackson numbers.

CHICAGO

Feb 11 | City National Civic, San Jose Formed in the early ’70s—when too many rock bands decided to name themselves after major metropolitan areas—and shimmering walls of vocal harmonies were demonstrating the possibility of multitrack recording, Chicago are best known for the cryptically named track “25 or 6 to 4.”

Recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band is currently in the midst of a nationwide tour and are the subject of a brand new documentary, Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago.

SJ ZINECON

Feb 12 | Local Color, San Jose It’s hard to overstate how important zines have been for up-and-coming writers, artists, poets and thinkers over the years, largely because of how communityminded the culture is. The Bay Area has always been well represented in the vibrant global zine community, and in recent months San Jose has been host to a growing number of zine events. SJ ZineCon looks to be the biggest and best-

23 organized yet. The event has an open call for zinesters looking to table, with a special emphasis on people of color and LGBTQ folk. Come and meet creative folks in your community.

SURFER BLOOD

Feb 14 | The Catalyst Atrium, Santa Cruz If 2016 was an Empire Strikes Back year, Surfer Blood represent the hope we all have that 2017 will be a Return of the Jedi year. The Florida indie rock group comes to the Catalyst Atrium this Valentine’s Day, touring on their first album since their original guitarist’s tragic death last year. Surfer Blood play what might be considered “classic” indie rock at this point—which is to say they would have fit in nicely during the early ’90s. They keep the formula simple and strong: a little Pavement, a little Echo & the Bunnymen and a lot of hooks.

RIFF RAFF

Feb 15 | The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Though he wasn’t the inspiration for James Franco’s character from Spring Breakers (that dubious honor goes to Florida’s Dangeruss), RiFF RAFF is often compared to Franco’s Alien, the corn-rowed white-guy party rapper in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers. In reality, RiFF RAFF is an incredibly hard worker who came up hustling homeburned CD-Rs in Houston and turning himself into a viral craze through numerous avenues—including MTV’s G’s To Gents and on the now-defunct micro-vlogging app Vine.

BADBADNOTGOOD

Feb 22 | The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Though they are divisive among jazz traditionalists, BadBadNotGood are putting a lot of work into keeping the genre alive and relevant in the 21st century.

The Canadian quartet is like a dilated pupil, bringing in the light of countless contradictory genres and musical movements and processing them all at once. They’ve worked with rappers like Ghostface Killah and Earl Sweatshirt, and jazz experimentalists like Colin Stetson.

This is a group of hard-hustling, actively touring musicians exploring new spaces.

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ALAN CUMMING

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ALAN CUMMING: SAPPY SONGS

HELENA LEGEND & KENNEDY JONES

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

Fri, 10pm, $10+ Pure Lounge, Sunnyvale

Sure, he’s starred in Hamlet and a one-man adaptation of MacBeth, but he’s only human, after all. The Scottish actor and longtime host of PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery also has a passion for sappy songs.

Hence, the title of his touring show, in which he sings songs like “Why”

by Annie Lennox, “Dinner at Eight”

by Rufus Wainwright, “Somewhere Only We Know” by Keane, and “Goodnight Saigon” by Billy Joel. Oh yeah. And then there’s his medley of hits by Adele, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, titled “Someone Like the Edge of Firework.” Well played, Alan. Well played. (NV)

Rising EDM talent Helena Legend rolls through Pure Lounge with the versatile and fuzzy-faced producer Kennedy Jones on The Beauty and The Beard Tour. Legend recently inked a deal with the SPIN Artist Agency—home to Avicii, Oliver Heldens and Armin Van Buuren. Jones dropped a collection of remixes a few months back.

Both have rocked festival stages all over the world—including Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival and EDC Las Vegas. Together they promise to lead a night of highenergy, bass-heavy and twerkinducing tunes. (BS)

BOB SAGET

LOCASH

Fri, 7:30pm, $27+ San Jose Improv

Fri, 7pm, $15 Club Rodeo, San Jose

When it comes to family-friendly comedy, Bob Saget is the jackof-all-trades. Well known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ABC classic sitcom Full House, Saget is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, director, producer and game show host. However, as a Grammynominated stand-up comedian for over 30 years, he’s found success through edgy humor and vulgarity, paradoxical to his role as the father in Full House. The former host of America’s Funniest Home Videos will be sharing all of his uproarious and uncensored jokes at the San Jose Improv, with multiple sets this weekend. (BS)

Kickin’ up dust and cranking out hits, LoCash knows how to throw a party. This country duo started off behind the scenes, writing hit songs for Keith Urban and Tim McGraw. Now, they’re celebrating their very own success. Last year’s certified gold single, “I Love This Life,” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard’s Country Airplay chart and their 2016 album, The Fighters, debuted at No. 16 on the Top Country Albums chart. With swinging electric guitar interludes and twangy, banjo-driven songs, LoCash are hitting all the right marks. (VS)

KEV CHOICE ENSEMBLE Fri, 8:30pm, Free Cafe Stritch, San Jose A classically trained pianist with a love for hip-hop and a master’s degree in jazz, Kev Choice is redefining the modern archetype for musicians. Fresh out of grad school, he joined Lauryn Hill on tour as her musical director. But he’s more than a member of the band. After years of working with artists, Choice dropped his first full-length album, 88 Steps to Eternity, in 2016. On the record, he spins together jazzy hip-hop arrangements with a killer flow.

The Oakland-based pianist, emcee and producer rolls through the South Bay this weekend. (VS)

* concerts ORGY

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

BILLY CRYSTAL

Mar 2 at SJ Center for the Performing Arts

BLAKE SHELTON

Mar 10 at SAP Center

MALUMA

Mar 25 at City National Civic

IL VOLO

Mar 27 at City National Civic

ARIANA GRANDE

Mar 27 at SAP Center

GAME OF THRONES CONCERT Mar 29 at SAP Center

THE WEEKND

*sat BATTLE OF THE ZAE 7

Sat, 1pm, $20 BackBar SoFa, San Jose

Be there for the rap battle! It’s going to be inter-spectacular.

Fantabulous. It’ll blow your socks off. But seriously. Deltron 3030 references aside, the seventh annual Battle of the Zae is bound to be lit. This Dirtbag Dan-founded competition features some of the best battle-tested emcees around—all going head-to-head over dope beats. The stakes are high: BOTZ serves as a farm league for aspiring rhymesayers. Rappers from all over the country fly in for a shot at the crown and greater recognition. Be there! Battle of the Zae 7. It’s instupituous! (NV)

MAC SABBATH Sat, 8pm, $18+ The Ritz, San Jose Steal a hamburger at this show and your soul will be cast into eternal damnation. Talk shit about Grimace’s weight and Ronald Osbourne (Mac Sabbath’s hellish Ozzy Osbourne/Ronald McDonald-hybrid frontman) will bite your head off like a damn Fruit Bat McNugget. If you haven’t heard of Mac Sabbath yet, you should just stop reading now and YouTube “Frying Pan”—their take on Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” The McDonald’s-themed Black Sabbath cover band is known for their way-over-the-top live shows, and recommended if you enjoy things like “fun” and “having a good time.” (MH)

IHEART80S PARTY Sat, 7:15pm, $48+ SAP Center, San Jose If you live in constant fear of being Rick Rolled, watch out! The man himself, Rick Astley, will be at the SAP Center as part of the iHeart80s tour, hitting the Shark Tank this weekend. Astley will be joined by a long list of ’80s pop icons—including New Kids on the Block, UB40, Eddie Money, Night Ranger (“Sister Christian”), Starship (“Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”) and Colin Hay of Men at Work. That is, without a doubt, the strangest tour package this writer has seen, but there’s no denying that it has something for anyone who loves the ’80s. Uhhhh…

Dayglo! Shoulder pads! Miami Vice! Reagan! (MH)

*sun

ORGY

Sun, 7pm, $20+ The Ritz, San Jose The Set to Stun Tour features two space-aged alt-metal acts.

The Boston-based Powerman 5000—led by Rob Zombie’s younger brother and lead vocalist, Spider—mixes sci-fi movie camp with industrial metal electronics and made a big splash around 1999 with their album Tonight the Stars Revolt! San Francisco-byway-of-L.A. death pop outfit Orgy scored their biggest hit covering the retrofuturistic sounds of “Blue Monday,” by New Wave visionaries New Order. Both bands have toured with nü-metal legends like Korn, Limp Bizkit and the rest of the Family Values Tour cohort. (BS)

Apr 28 at SAP Center

GABRIEL IGLESIAS

May 13 at SAP Center

U2: ‘JOSHUA TREE’ TOUR May 14 at Levi’s Stadium

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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EXHIBIT Featuring • Company Choreographers • Diablo Ballet of Walnut Creek • Nilan Ho Project of Sacramento

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Artisitic Directors • Gary Masters • Maria Basile

WTF In this polaroid shot from 1986, Andy Warhol captures a rarely documented candid moment of model Grace Jones.

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ANDY WARHOL took photographs that made the paparazzi turn emerald green with envy. He had something they would never possess—access. A photographer could snap a shot of an actress leaving a nightclub, but he’d never capture the sultry, unashamed expression of Debbie Harry, nude but thoughtfully cropped, the way that Warhol does in one of his many polaroid portraits. In “Warhol Unframed,” a small exhibit at the Cantor Arts Center, some of the artist’s lesser known photographs, contact sheets and silkscreen prints are currently on display.

The recurring story that emerges from the exhibit is that he lived, worked and played with and amongst celebrities. Warhol embraced these cultural luminaries, oftentimes his friends, and transformed them with his documentarian tendency to record every minute of his life.

Warhol Unframed Thru May 1, 2017 Cantor Arts Center, Stanford

Grace Jones, the singer, actress and former model, appears in a 1986 gelatin print at the SchwarzeneggerShriver wedding reception. She’s watching “a Kennedy” submerge his fingers, and an unidentifiable object, into a water glass. Her furlined hat is cropped to the top edges of the frame. Jones, who has been photographed hundreds if not thousands of times for public consumption, seldom if ever displays bewilderment.

Before the advent of social media, before celebrities talked back to us, Warhol infected his art with glamor and exclusivity. His eye persuades the viewer that there is world of difference, and distance, between the beautiful people dancing inside the wedding tent and the rest of us, who simply gaze at the pictures in a glossy magazine while sitting on the fubsy sofa.

This vision that Warhol once cast holds true—you’re still not invited to the party—but the audience has grown numb and indifferent to his message. Because the message, like some radical self-replicating spore, has long since outgrown the medium, saturating every aspect of American culture, pop or otherwise.

There is no greater example of this saturation point than the silkscreen print of the late actress Elizabeth Taylor in Liz, 1964, also part of the exhibit. What reality show star doesn’t have those Warholian portraits of themselves, in garish primary colors, hanging on their living room wall? It doesn’t matter if you’ve accomplished anything other than being on TV. What matters is that you can afford the appearance of accomplishment. Appearance for appearance’s sake, it’s the winning endgame of reality stars everywhere. —Jeffrey Edalatpour

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HUSTLING HAM ‘The Founder’ chronicles the man who sold the world McDonald’s—Ray Kroc—played by Michael Keaton.

Great actors only serve to highlight a sub-par script in ‘The Founder’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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IRECTOR JOHN LEE Hancock (The Alamo) has gone from Davy Crockett to Ray Kroc—arguably a lesser kind of American hero.

Kroc was the burger baron who franchised McDonald’s from the original owners, a pair of idealistic restaurateurs from San Bernardino. The McDonalds’ “Spee-dee” assembly line method revolutionized the way Americans and a lot of the world eat. Making the Golden Arches an interstate phenomenon, Kroc created the fast food nation we live in today.

Exuding gall and desperation, Michael Keaton plays Kroc with a Midwestern honk to his voice and a never-ending line of patter. Watching him get a series of doors slammed in his face, and seeing him taking solace with a hip flask, it’s like Beetlejuice died and went to hell.

Keaton’s helmet-like forehead and barely repressed snarl suggests a deeper conception of Kroc’s climb than the movie allows. We’re supposed to grudgingly admire the nerve of the blinkered man, with his devotion to homilies. Alone in his motel room, Kroc listens to an LP of the “Press On” speech. Rah-rahing attributed to Calvin Coolidge, the speech hung on the wall in the Nixon White House.

Watching Kroc hustle ought to be compelling, but the way he’s presented, he’s kind of a grind—a

square whose energies are so tunnelvisioned that we can never really respond to his innovations. The way it’s laid out, his post-war hustle is contrasted with the Depressionera burger joint operators. The McDonalds are played by John Carroll Lynch and Nick Offerman, the latter being the most authentic 1950s face in this period piece. They’re good cop and bad cop, respectively—Offerman having to take the hard line against Kroc’s increasingly high-handed decisions, up to the point where Kroc announces “Contracts are like hearts— they’re made to be broken.”

The heart Kroc breaks is Ethel (Laura Dern), Kroc’s first wife, left alone in an empty bed while her husband works his territory, plaintively hoping to be taken to dinner at the country club when he gets back home. You couldn’t ask for a better actor in the role than Dern.

She looks right in the Eisenhower-era wardrobe, expressing ladylike anxiety with every gesture. Dern demonstrates something: an actor can be so much

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better than their part that all their effort only serves to reveal the thinness of the script.

Krock’s new love, Joan (played by Redwood City’s Linda Cardellini), gets to put a little heat into this picture, teasing Kroc over a glass of reconstituted milkshake, or sharing a duet of “Pennies from Heaven” at the piano as her current husband (Patrick Wilson) begins to worry a little. The hardworking Cardellini—who carries herself a bit like Maria Bello—deserves a bigger name, but it’s not clear if she’s terrific here, or almost the only face in this male, head-butting atmosphere.

The movie is a symphony of false notes, with very little atmosphere of the times or the places. (Hancock’s 1950s San Bernardino is a tree-lined Midwestern paradise and racially harmonious, unlike that railroad town back in the day.)

The Founder buys Kroc’s patter about how America needed golden arches to knit it together. But the wishy-washy conception of this business giant makes it look as if McDonald’s corporate headquarters had approved every scene in Robert D. Siegel’s script. Given the tepid material, it’s odd how choice the soundtrack is. Carter Burwell overlays solo piano for the small town scenery. A Penguin Café Orchestra track is overlaid over the “burger ballet” Taylorism studies of the McDonalds employees in a mock restaurant floor plan, making phantom hamburgers in a model restaurant outlined in chalk on a tennis court.

The McDonalds’ system and personalities seem to lead more to In-N-Out Burger than the McDonald’s of today—granted, inexpensive food and good Wi-Fi—that keeps the poor from starving. There probably was a good movie in this story, but it’s not on screen. Those who have a bit of PTSD about the time they spent toiling at McDonald’s will shudder involuntarily every time they hear the mantra, “If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.” They, among all, will be hardest pressed to admire the ingenuity and persistence of the creditgrabbing hustler Kroc.

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There is weight in the charming 20th Century Women—seriousness that keeps it from blowing away like a load of Styrofoam peanuts in the wind. That weight comes from the realization of how remote the seemingly near past actually is. Mike Mills’ third and best film (after Beginners and Thumbsucker) is also the closest to his models in the French New Wave. This fictionalized memoir recalls Louis Malle, the least radical of that assemblage of 1960s French filmmakers, and the one who turned out to have the warmest and longest view of all of them. Mills’ Beginners was a memorial to a father who came out of the closet in his 70s.

20th Century Women honors Mills’ mother as a woman whose life was bounded by the last century. The title isn’t too lofty: the film commemorates the time’s ideals, fascinations and naivete. Mostly the film is sweet on the past, in this transition from hippie twilight to the kind-of-sort-of dancing at punk rock clubs. The movie earns its needle drops: Talking Heads, DEVO, the Buzzcocks and The Clash. Inadvertently, Mills ends up commemorating the death of Bowie—who passed after filming wrapped—through the use of “DJ,” a Berlin-era track that didn’t get overplayed when the musician died last year. Godard-wise, it quotes from texts as different as “Our Bodies, Ourselves”, Judy Blume’s novels and President Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech. It may not be the movie about the cusp of the ’70s and the ’80s, but it gets so much so right that it’s immersive: a bittersweet reminder of a lost world.

(Valleywide.) (RvB)

A MONSTER CALLS

Like the fairy-tale creature he is, the title character in A Monster Calls brings a challenge. In accordance with the Law of Threes, he will tell three stories. You, in return, must tell him one true tale. Emerging from a massive yew tree, unfolding into a gnarled figure of some twenty feet in height, he’s like the warrior ents in Lord of the Rings or a more frightening and better spoken Groot.

The rumbling voice belongs to Liam Neeson, pitched down, and all the fiercer for it. The animation in the three stories that this monster tells is as gorgeous as Kubo and the Two Strings—forests and villages unfold like paper blossoms, or spiral out into the multicolored fractals of weton-wet watercolors. J. A. Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible) centers his touching film on the emotions of the monster’s companion. Conor (Lewis MacDougall) an English

schoolboy, has a mother who is slowly dying, and he’s pitilessly bullied at school. The mother is Rogue One’s Felicity Jones, in perhaps her best performance.

Most likely, Conor’s future home will be with his loveless grandmother (Sigourney Weaver, using a selfconscious British accent she probably could have done without).

Conor is hoped to be spared a life with this cold woman, when his father arrives from his current home in the U.S. But the man is useless.

Dad’s idea of consolation begins and ends with his repeating the old English expression, “Worse things happen at sea.” It seems Patrick Ness’ source novel would be most mind-blowing to younger readers: the revelation that a story that starts with witches and handsome princes may finish in a different way than the Grimm Brothers wrote it down.

However, A Monster Calls retrieves its essential keenness in its finish, in the story Conor must tell, and yet cannot bring himself to say. This hard-edged fantasy reveals honest, unsentimental feelings… the sort of feelings many will recall from the ordeal of tending doomed lovers or parents, after some monstrous disease called upon them. (Plays Valleywide.) (RvB)

Revivals THE WICKED LADY/THE LADY VANISHES

(1945/1938) Lady Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) a bored aristo of the English restoration, turns highwaywoman for a lark, but then she encounters a serious professional (James Mason). BILLED WITH The Lady Vanishes. Hitchcock’s ticket to Hollywood was this brilliantly crafted yet essentially no-frills danger-ona-train story. On the transcontinental line heading west from the Balkans, a gentle old lady (Dame May Whitty) turns up missing. As a folk-music student (Michael Redgrave) and a tourist (Lockwood) search for her, they look down a list of their fellow travelers—maybe, literal Fellow Travelers, from an unnamed but obviously Nazi threat. Suspects include a too-chipper brain surgeon (Paul Lukas), a heavily accented baroness (Mary Clare)… The balance of humor and thrills is perfect; the comic relief

by Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford led to work in plenty more British films, especially their scene as golfers in Dead of Night. As Orson Welles claimed to have seen this 11 times, The Lady Vanishes had its mark on The Third Man and elsewhere. (Jan 27-29, Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

REVIEW REVIEW

BAD HAIR DAY In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ a father attempts to reconnect with his daughter—with the help of a wig.

Dad’s Alter Ego LOVEABLE IF NOT ordinarily hilarious, Toni Erdmann explores both sides of a situation familiar to many. Winfried (Peter Simonischek) is “Dude” Lebowski’s German cousin, a shaggy joker retired from something or other. After his elderly dog dies, he’s at loose ends. So he decides to surprise his daughter Ines (Sandra Huller) at her job in Bucharest. She works as a consultant—which is to say, she’s a hatchetwielder looking for potential layoffs.

Ines in the middle of some delicate business and has little time to haul her father around the capitol’s sites. The two spat, and he heads home…or so it seems.

When Ines is having dinner with some female colleagues, her zany father reappears, fright-wigged and posing as an important businessman called “Toni Erdmann.”

The style recalls the Romanian wave of a few years back, when one brilliant movie after another was arriving from that nation. It’s long, and heavy on procedural material. Yet Toni Erdmann is often as an acute exploration of business anxieties as we’ve seen since Michael Clayton, depicting the world of nervous sweat, double-talk and ugly pantyhose.

Ines dismisses her father as a Green-

party weirdo, but we see her side of it—he’s so exasperating that he provokes her to a howled out version of the affirmation-heavy song “The Greatest Love of All” at a party. An ordinary practical joker seeks the humiliation of his victims—the rare kind seeks to enlighten.

In this disguise as a capitalist, Winifiried Toni Erdmann is trying to nudge his daughter, making her R; 166 Min. realize what she’s doing: Camera Cinemas colluding with greedy businessmen who are making Romania worse.

Everyone who’s had a sudden guest during a rough patch at work will know how she feels, and it’s easy to respond to the wrongness of Winfried blurting out “Are you really a human?” to his overbooked daughter. He has the advantage of a man who feels he belongs everywhere, from a country farmhouse to a business class hotel bar. Director Maren Ade is raunchy but tender about the body’s needs, and sentimental about the small good things—wooden Easter eggs and a bag of apples from a peasant’s farm.

—Richard von Busack

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SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Fri, Jan 27, 7pm: Spill The Wine: Live Music. Sat, Jan 28, 7pm: Otilia Donaire: Live Music. San Jose.

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Wed, Jan 25, 10pm: DJ Hank “Karaoke.”Thu, Jan 26: DJ Local Dj Drink Specdials. Fri, Jan 27: Department of Rock Live Band.

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

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

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Sat, Jan 28, 8pm: Honey Wilders.

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A Hip-Hop Rhapsody WHEN BLACK VIOLIN’S Kev Marcus was mistakenly placed in an orchestra class during his freshman year of high school, he didn’t realize until years later that it was based on a bet between two music teachers.

“I didn’t find this out until 2012 when we had our own show on Broadway and our former orchestra teacher came out to see us perform,” Marcus, a violinist, explains with a laugh. “He told me that he had a bet going with the band teacher over a round of golf and whoever won would have me in their class. Obviously, he won.”

Marcus, whose given name is Kevin Sylvester, makes up one-half of the classical hip-hop fusion duo Black Violin. Along with violist Wil B (Wilner Baptiste), the two have created a distinctive and energizing sound that blends the rhythmic and Black Violin soulful roots of hip-hop with many of the trappings of classical music. As part of the first leg of their Black Violin Unity Tour, the two will take the stage Friday and Saturday at Stanford’s Bing Auditorium.

Together they aim to change perceptions and break stereotypes on what it means to be black in a space that’s historically been white.

Jan 27-28 7:30pm, $15-$30 Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

While classical music didn’t play a role in the environments they grew up in, the duo hopes to introduce Bach and Debussy—alongside Biggie and Dr. Dre—to tell stories and inspire audiences to contemplate the narratives and dialogues behind both styles of music. “When you can tell a story through your music, you’ve gotten me, whether or not it’s my style,” Marcus says. “If I can honestly feel your story within your music, I’m listening.”

Since forming 13 years ago, part of Black Violin’s story has been its conscious effort to introduce its music to younger audiences: the duo have performed for over 100,000 students in North America and Europe in the past year alone. When Marcus noticed awe-inspiring reactions from kids, he realized Black Violin possessed a uniqueness that was “almost like a superpower” and decided to act on it.

“We felt obligated to reach out to the community and schools to empower kids with what we have, something that comes very naturally and easy to us,” Marcus explained. “When we started seeing we had that kind of power, we said that whenever we have the opportunity to engage and talk to kids we have to take that chance.” —Avi Salem

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I’m a 27-year-old woman, dating again after a six-year relationship. I slept with a guy on the third date and was dismayed when he didn’t spend the night. It didn’t feel like just a hookup, and it wasn’t a work night. Is this just how people date now—going home immediately after sex—or does this mean he’s not serious?—Confused There are two ways to solve this problem. One is to say, “Hey, I’d really like you to stay the night.” The other is to hide his shoes and keys.

The “half-night stand”—avoiding the early-morning walk of shame, often via middle-of-the-night Uber—is being proclaimed the new one-night stand.

The truth is, the just-post-sex adios isn’t exactly a new phenomenon; it’s probably just more prevalent, thanks to how easy smartphones make it swing office supplies, Thai food and sex partners right to your door.

As for why this guy left, it’s hard to say. Maybe he’s gone for good, or maybe he just wasn’t sure you wanted him to stay. Maybe he sleepwalks, sleep-carjacks, or can’t fall asleep in a strange bed. Or maybe he’s got some early-morning thing—seeing his parole officer, walking the goat, or (more likely) making the bathroom smell like 12 dead goats.

Your fretting about what the deal is suggests you might not be as comfortable as you think about having sex before there’s a relationship in place.

You may unconsciously be succumbing to a form of peer pressure—peer pressure that mainly exists in your own mind—called “pluralistic ignorance.”

This is social psychologists’ term for when many people in a group are

personally uncomfortable with some belief or behavior but go along with it anyway—incorrectly concluding that most people are A-Okay with it and thinking they should be, too. (Basically, “monkey assume/monkey do.”)

Consider how the millennial generation is supposedly “Generation Hookup.” Looking at survey data from Americans ages 20 to 24, psychologist Jean Twenge actually found that people born from 1990 to 1994 (millennials) were “significantly more likely” than those born from 1965 to 1969 (Gen Xers) to say they’d had zero sex partners since the age of 18. (Fifteen percent of millennials went sexless, versus 6 percent of Gen Xers.)

And if millennials were clued in on pluralistic ignorance, the number in the “no sex for now” column might be even higher. For example, biological anthropologist Chris Reiber finds that women seriously overestimate other women’s comfort level with “hookup behaviors” (from “sexual touching above the waist” to sex) in situations “where a more traditional romantic relationship is not an explicit condition of the encounter.”

Figure out what actually works for you emotionally, whether you can just say ”whatevs!” if a guy goes all nail-‘n’-turn-tail or whether you might want to wait to have sex till you've got a relationship going.

Resolve an argument, please. How often should married people be having sex to have a happy marriage?—Married Person It is kind of depressing if the last time you screamed in bed was two months ago when your husband rolled over in his sleep and elbowed you in the eye.

However, consider that more of a good thing is not always better. For example, having more in the boobage area is generally great—unless that means having three. Well, according to social psychologist Amy Muise and her colleagues, once you’ve got a relationship going, sex works kind of the same way. They find that having sex once a week is associated with greater happiness; however, more sex than that doesn’t make for more happiness, and it can sometimes make for less.

The researchers explain that many people are exhausted and feel overwhelmed, so “the pressure to engage in sex as frequently as possible may be daunting and even stressful.”

But, interestingly, comparisons with one’s peers—positive or negative—also color how people feel. Sociologist Tim Wadsworth finds that, beyond simply having sex, what really makes people happier is thinking they’re having more of it than everybody else.

Having sex just once a week can keep the spouse with a stronger sex drive feeling satisfied enough while keeping the less lusty spouse from feeling like a sexual pack mule.

(c)2017, 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 (advicegoddess.com).

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Engineering /Technology NVIDIA Corporation, market leader in graphics & digital media processors, has engineering opportunities in Santa Clara, CA for a Sr Architect (ARC78) Design hardware accelerator and processor architectures that enable cutting-edge machine learning and data analytics algorithms and applications on NVIDIA’s next-generation mobile, embedded and datacenter platforms; Systems SW Engr (SSWE420) Develop, debug and implement software for platform support including kernel, driver support and tools development; Sr Mechanical Engr (SME07) Design the architecture of automated and customizable mechanical design flows; Sr Mixed Sig Des Engr (MSD29) Architect and design CMOS highspeed chip interfaces and other analog functions; Sr Systems SW Engr (SSWE414) Work with cutting-edge mobile computing technologies built around the Tegra SoC; Tech Product Mktg Mgr IV (TPMM01) Without any direct reports, develop effective positioning and messaging for NVIDIA products; Sectional Systems SW Mgr (SSWM05) Manage a team of system software engineers to drive new feature development and general support for GPU device drivers; Sr Mixed Sig Des Engr (MSD27) Develop validation test methods for new designs from the Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Group; and Mgr, HW Engr (MGRHW04) Without any direct reports, drive the creation of desktop, notebook, professional, and server products, based on NVIDIA GPUs from pre-silicon to mass production. If interested, ref job code and send resume to: NVIDIA Corporation. Attn: MS04 (J.Green). 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050. Please no phone calls, emails or faxes.

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Engineer: Logistics Assist with the design and optimization of logistics, operational procedures and solutions for production and procurement. BS or equiv. degree in Comp Sci, Comp Eng, EE, Eng or equiv. field. Knowledge of Logistics planning & control principles for complex, multidisciplinary products; Supply chain principles as related to logistics & sourcing for a wide range of materials including optics, electronics, sheetmetal & precision machined parts; Lean facilities planning & design using floor planner software; Strategic & logistics cost management; Inventory logistics management & just-intime purchasing. Jobsite: San Jose, CA. Mail resume to: Stratedigm, Inc. 6541 Via Del Oro, Suite A, San Jose, CA 95119 Ref. Position IB012017

Engineering/ Technology Dolby Laboratories, Inc., market leader in innovative sound, imaging and voice technologies, has openings in Sunnyvale, CA for Senior QA Engineer (EQA03): Conduct early project scoping including collaboration with research, marketing, and development teams, review of proposed technologies, development of test strategies and contribution of proposals for testability; and Senior Software Engineer, Image Technology (SWEIT02): Develop software that enables the next generation video technologies. Ref job title and send resume to Dolby, Attn: HR, T.W., 1275 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

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Manager. #E0011262017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/11/2017. (pub Metro 1/18, 1/25, 2/01, 2/08/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #625123 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Beauty Spa Salon, 20059 Woodard Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Tiep Tk Hoang, 3328 Arqueado Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Tiep Tk Hoang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/09/2017. (pub Metro 1/18, 1/25, 2/01, 2/08/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #625260 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sterling Inn, 2234 The Alameda, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Vallabh Patel, Kumud Vasanji, Ketaw Vasanji, Hema Vasanji. 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/Ketan Vasanji. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/12/2017. (pub Metro 1/18, 1/25, 2/01, 2/08/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #625459 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Haven Capital Partners, 593 Kings Cross Way, San Jose, CA, 95136, Nam H. Nguyen, Sai Nin Lee, Tiffany Nguyen, 584 N. Hill View Drive, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Kevin Nguyen, 2075 Tiny Street, Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is conducted by a general partnership.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Nam H. Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/18/2017. (pub Metro 1/25, 2/01, 2/08, 2/15/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #625441 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Health 4 U, 1669 Hollenbeck Avenue, Suite 2, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Roshan Bedi. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/17/2017. /s/Roshan Bedi. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/18/2017. (pub Metro 1/25, 2/01, 2/08, 2/15/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #625517 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Star Tea, 8650 San Ysidro Ave., #102, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Anthony Ding, Oanh Hoang Phan, Chau Bao Phan, 3978 Black Butte Cir., Stockton, CA, 95209. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/19/2017. /s/Bijan Zargham. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/19/2017. (pub Metro 1/25, 2/01, 2/08, 2/15/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #625042 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Unident/ Unimed (USA) LTD., DMJ Enterprises, Inc., 1879 Lundy Avenue, Suite #163, San Jose, CA, 95131. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/19/11. Refile of previous file #559349 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/David Gordon. Chief Operating Officer. #3429756. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/04/2017. (pub Metro 1/25, 2/01, 2/08, 2/15/2017)

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The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Stanford Terrace Inn, 531 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Anthurium Landing Inc., 116 S. Hotel St., Suite 206C, Honolulu, HI, 96813. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 9/2/2016 under file No. 621159. This business was conducted by: A Corporation. Filed on: 12/13/2016. /s/Sophia Huang. (pub dates: 1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2/01/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lifestyle Service, 150 Dale Dr., San Jose, CA, 95127, Lucero E. Lance. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/16/2016. /s/Lance Lucero. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/29/2017. (pub Metro 1/25, 2/01, 2/08, 2/15/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DubClinic, 1300 Norman Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Tag Industries Corporation.

This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/15/2016. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Bernard Tansey Jr. CEO. #C3957831. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/15/2016. (pub Metro 1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2/01/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 10T Equity, 1085 Tasman Drive, SPC 283, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Bijan Zargham. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/03/2017. /s/Bijan Zargham. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/04/2017. (pub Metro 1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2/01/2017)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Westward Ho! is the name of a village in southwestern England. Its name is impressive because of the exclamation point. But it's not as dramatic as that of the only town on earth with two exclamation points: Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, which is in Quebec. I invite you Aries folks to be equally daring. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have a cosmic mandate and poetic license to cram extra !!!!s into all your writing and speaking, and even add them to the spelling of your name! Why? Because this should be one of the most exciting and ebullient phases of your astrological cycle—a time to risk showing just how enthusiastic and energetic you are!!!!!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The New York Film

Critics Circle named Casey Affleck the Best Actor of the year for his role in the film Manchester by the Sea. In his acceptance speech at the award ceremony, Affleck gave a dramatic reading of quotes by David Edelstein, a prominent critic who has criticized his work. "Mumbly and mulish," was one of Edelstein's jabs about Affleck. "Doesn't have a lot of variety," was another. A third: "Whenever I see Affleck's name in a movie's credits, you can expect a standard, genre B picture—slowed down and tarted up." I suspect that in the coming weeks, Taurus, you may get a vindication comparable to Affleck's. I suggest you have wicked fun with it, as he did.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The roulette wheels

at casinos in Monaco have 37 pockets. Eighteen are black, 18 are red, and one is green. On any particular spin, the ball has just less than half a chance of landing in a red or black pocket. But there was one night back in August of 1913, at the Casino de MonteCarlo, when probability seemed inoperative. The little white ball kept landing on the black over and over again. Gamblers responded by increasingly placing heavy bets on red numbers. They assumed the weird luck would soon change. But it didn't until the 27th spin. (The odds of that happening were 136,823,184 to 1.) What does this have to do with you? I suspect you're in a comparable situation—the equivalent of about 20 spins into an improbable streak. My advice: Don't bet on the red yet.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Born to a religious mother on July 8, 1839, John D. Rockefeller amassed a fortune in the oil industry. Even in comparison to modern billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, he's the richest American who ever lived.

"God gave me the money," he said on numerous occasions. Now I'm going to borrow the spirit of Rockefeller's motto for your use, Cancerian. Why? Because it's likely you will be the recipient of blessings that prompt you to wonder if the Divine Wow is involved. One of these may indeed be financial in nature. (P.S.: Such boons are even more likely to transpire if you're anchored in your sweet, dark wisdom and your holy, playful creativity.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What influence do you need most in your life right now? Are you suffering because you lack a particular kind of help or teaching? Would you benefit from having a certain connection that you have not yet figured out how to make? Is there a person or event that could heal you if you had a better understanding about how you need to be healed? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get useful answers to these questions—and then take action based on what you discover.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The next two weeks will be a favorable time to kiss the feet of helpful allies, but not to kiss the butts of clever manipulators. I also advise you to perform acts of generosity for those who will use your gifts intelligently, but not for those who will waste your blessings or treat you like a doormat. Here's my third point: Consider returning to an old fork in the road where you made a wrong turn, and then making the correct turn this time. But if you do, be motivated by bright hope for a different future rather than by sludgy remorse for your error.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the beginning was the wild cabbage. Our ancestors found that it had great potential as food, and proceeded to domesticate it. Over the centuries, they used selective breeding to develop many further variations on the original.

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the 15th century, cauliflower had been created.

Broccoli came along a hundred years later, followed

by Brussels sprouts. Today there are at least 20 cultivars whose lineage can be traced back to the wild cabbage. In my astrological opinion, you Libras are in a wild cabbage phase of your long-term cycle. In the coming months you can and should do seminal work that will ultimately generate an abundance of useful derivatives.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1733, workers

finished building the New Cathedral in Salamanca, Spain. But if you go there today, you will see two seemingly modern elements on one facade: carvings of a helmeted astronaut and of a gargoyle licking an ice cream cone. These two characters were added by craftsmen who did renovations on the cathedral in 1992. I offer this vignette as metaphor for your life, Scorpio. It's a favorable time to upgrade and refine an old structure in your life. And if you do take advantage of this opening, I suggest you add modern touches.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will be afforded opportunities to bend the rules in ways that could make life simpler, more pleasurable, and more successful—or all of the above. To help you deal with the issue of whether these deviations would have integrity, I offer you these questions: Would bending the rules serve a higher good, not just your selfish desires?

Is there an approach to bending the rules that may ultimately produce more compassionate results than not bending the rules? Could you actually get away with bending the rules, both in the sense of escaping punishment and also in the sense of being loyal to your own conscience?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I don't necessarily guarantee that you will acquire paranormal powers in the coming weeks. I'm not saying that you will be able to foretell the future or eavesdrop on conversations from a half-mile away or transform water into whiskey-flavored coffee. But I do suspect that you will at least tap further into a unique personal ability that has been mostly just potential up until now. Or you may finally start using a resource that has been available for a long time. For best results, open your imagination to the possibility that you possess dormant magic.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A London-based think tank does an annual study to determine which of the world's countries offers the most freedom.

The Legatum Institute measures indicators like civil liberties, social tolerance, and the power to choose one's destiny. The current champion is Luxembourg.

Canada is in second place. France is 22nd, the U.S. is 26th, and Italy 27th. Since I'm hoping you will markedly enhance your own personal freedom in the coming months, you might want to consider moving to Luxembourg. If that's not an option, what else could you do? The time is ripe to hatch your liberation plans.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I love to see dumpsters that have been decorated by graffiti artists. Right now there's one by the side of a busy road that I often drive down. Its drab gray exterior has been transformed into a splash of cartoon images and scripts. Amidst signatures that look like "Riot Goof" and "Breakfast Toys" and "Sky Blooms," I can discern a ninja rhinoceros and a gold-crowned jaguar and an army of flying monkeys using squirt guns to douse a forest fire. I suspect it's a perfect time to for you to be inspired by this spectacle, Pisces. What dumpster-like situation could you beautify?

Homework: Say "I love you" at least 25 times a day for the next seven days. Report your results to Truthrooter@gmail.com.

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Colorful Collision JUST THE SNIP Last week’s ‘Journey of Tao’ celebration in San Jose featured 12 straight hours of artistry.

Lively week of art events blends San Jose’s cultural brew

BY GARY SINGH

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HAT BEGAN with a one-day Vietnamese journey to San Jose City Hall will continue this weekend, as numerous local arts organizations join together, throw parties, raise funds and make their city a better place to live. The entire week already feels inspiring, so a round-up column becomes necessary.

On Friday, Jan. 20, “The Journey of Tao: A Year-End Celebration of Vietnamese-American Artists”

took over the City Hall Rotunda, showcasing numerous local and internationally renowned visual artists, both young and old. As with many Vietnamese events, color reigned supreme. Organized by Jenny Do, who once operated the Vietnamese-themed Green Rice Gallery in downtown San Jose, the one-day exhibit celebrated Tao, the popular Vietnamese deity whose domain is the kitchen, symbolizing the hearth and home. Toward the end of the lunar year, Vietnamese people offer Tao a send-off party before he reports back to the Celestial Palace.

After a boisterous ribbon-cutting ceremony, numerous emcees took the stage, as if they were the kitchenmasters of the whole event. The

exhibiting artists posed for pictures left and right. Food was served, and the tea was strong. After a Tet dance, a zither performance and some karaoke-style wackiness, Do officially announced the formation of SJ VietArts, a new cultural organization representing Vietnamese people. The single downside of the show was that it lasted only 12 hours. The journey ended, seemingly, before it even began.

“Even though time was not our friend, I tried to convince all the artists that we could do a good show, even though it was just for one day,” Do said, adding that she hopes to bring back the Green Rice Gallery in some capacity. “The Vietnamese are 12 percent of San Jose's population.

We've been here 42 years, but we never go to the art museum.”

SJ VietArts isn’t the only organization adding color to the city, of course. This Friday at the San Jose Scottish Rite Center, the annual Arts Panorama fundraiser will explode with numerous local organizations

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musicians, artists and performers all taking the stage, one after the other. This time, the South Bay Guitar Society and the Noon Arts & Lecture Series conspired to sponsor the whole thing. The roll call will include members of Firebird Chinese Orchestra, Lyric Theater, Chamber Music Silicon Valley and previews of Lyric Theatre’s production of Princess Ida. Local legend Mighty Mike McGee will join other performers in the lobby, including visual artists and members of San Jose Youth Shakespeare. Yes, there shall also be a silent auction.

The Silicon Valley Arts Coalition normally throws the whole shebang together at Le Petit Trianon, but this time around the event transports to the Masonic spheres of influence in the secret societal dimensions between Highway 87, Almaden Expressway and Curtner.

As the masons might tell you, traveling is a good thing.

One component will not change, thankfully. The ebullient emcee, one Ms. Susannah Greenwood— aka Princess of Artsalot, who also penned the book 100 Things to do in San Jose Before You Die, in which this very event is mentioned—will master the ceremonies.

“This will be my third time as emcee of the Arts Panorama,” Greenwood said. “It’s one of my favorite events. I’m just there really as a super cheerleader for these groups and for the arts in San Jose.”

But the good life doesn't conclude with the Masonic Temple. A week’s worth of color will continue this Sunday—not a resting day by any stretch—as the San Jose Chamber Orchestra’s “La Dolce Vita” Fundraiser takes over the Silicon Valley Capital Club. This one is fancy but not elite.

Classical musicians, as well as their benefactors, will congregate for yet another dazzling gala hoedown spectacular. The theme for the evening takes its inspiration from Federico Fellini’s legendary film, La Dolce Vita, in which a manabout-town columnist searches for happiness by infiltrating many different societal events all in one week. What a concept.

After all is said and done, San Jose will have had the Vietnamese, the Freemasons and the Italians all supporting the arts. Now that's diversity.

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Their tentative menu has traditional deli favorites, from Turkey Avocado ($11) and an Italian sub ($14) to vegetarian options such as the Balsamic Portobello Mushroom ($9). Sides, for now, are limited to bagged chips.

“We are still tweaking things trying to get a feel for what people like,” says Toasted, Craft Sandwiches server Joan Dao. “We definitely want to add a soup and some salads in the future.”

For a small yet flavorful portion to savor, try the shop’s Pastrami ($11).

Though the corned beef and pepperoni offer bold flavors, the Swiss cheese and pickles give a needed twist to each warm bite enclosed in slices of warm, buttery sourdough. It’s a small sandwich, which will either help those who lack portion control or leave the ravenous with little choice but to longingly gobble up the side pickle.

Those looking for a cold alternative should try the Turkey Avocado, which is packed with a layer of avocado as thick as a moist layer of Salsalito turkey. Served on a soft ciabatta bread smeared with spicy mustard and mayo, the sandwich comes with Swiss cheese, red onions, sprouts and Kumato tomato.

Prices per sandwich vary, as the Italian Sub is the most expensive at $14. Featuring spicy mustard and mayo on a soft baguette, the sub includes black forest ham, mortadella, salami, Swiss cheese, arugula, red onions and kumato tomato. The variety of meat in the sandwich made for a flavorful treat, and the condiments gave it a savory finish.

Despite the hefty cost for modestly sized portions, Toasted, Craft Sandwiches seems like a strong fit with the variety of tastes SoFA Market offers.—Benjamin Siepak and Diana San Juan TOASTED , CRAFT SANDWICHES 387 S. First St, San Jose. 408.809.5747

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That said, a line to the door is a small feat at Demiya, a diminutive shop in a strip mall on the north side of Saratoga Avenue and north of Interstate 280. Despite the sparse décor, the interior is warm and inviting with a wood overlay and modern lighting. The smell of Japanese curry fills the air and immediately begins to make one forget the cold, dreary weather. After a short wait, we placed our order at the register and grabbed one of the few remaining tables. We decided to go with the Miso Beef Onigiri ($3.90), Chicken Katsu Curry ($13.50), and Ton-Katsu Curry ($13.50) with a sunny-side up egg ($1.50).

The Miso Beef Onigiri came out first, and it consisted of a delicious ball of rice filled with well-seasoned, tender bits of beef; I especially liked the nori (seaweed) wrapper, which gave it a delightfully salty crunch.

After what seemed like a long wait, the Katsu Curry dishes came out and looked and smelled heavenly. For the uninitiated, Japanese curry is generally less spicy, sweeter and thicker—almost like hearty gravy—but there’s no denying the smell. When combined with deep-fried, pankocrusted cutlets of perfectly cooked pork or chicken, it is the ultimate Japanese comfort food, and Demiya’s rendition was spot-on. The tender, fluffy white rice is also an excellent vehicle for the curry, as it helps one taste the boldness and rich, deep flavors of the sauce. We ordered the “hot” and “extra hot” variations of the curry and didn’t find either to be mindblowingly hot, but they did give our sinuses a nice cleansing. By the end of the meal, I was really hoping for some bread to sop up the last remaining bits of curry that remained on my dish. Fingers would have to do.

Despite the fast-casual feel, Demiya is fast in name only, as almost everything is prepared fresh and made to order. Don’t expect a quick meal here, but the reward is a succulent feast of meaty, saucy goodness.

After all, the line never lies. —John Dyke DEMIYA 375 Saratoga Ave, Suite G, San Jose. 408.564.5503

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