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Fightin’ Words A rivalry between the city of Santa Clara’s only newspaper and an upstart blog has transfigured into an outright legal battle.

In a lawsuit filed Feb. 6, Santa Clara Weekly Publisher MILES BARBER accuses his former reporter ROBERT HAUGH of defamation, libel and trying to undermine the newspaper’s relationship with the city, which it relies on to buy legal ads. In his claim, Barber accuses Haugh of spreading “numerous false statements” via his website Santa Clara News Online, including that the Weekly isn’t authorized to publish legal notices, skips publication dates and fails to give advertisers a return on investment.

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Thin Raid Line VESTED INTEREST A Homeland Security agent takes a call after two undocumented immigrants were detained and processed Feb. 13.

Claims of inter-agency deceit follow ICE-led sting in Santa Cruz

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OLTED AWAKE BY the rumble of armored personnel carriers two weeks ago, a young mother says her family still hasn’t recovered from what’s being called an immigration raid disguised as a gang sweep.

“The hardest part was the stress it brought,” explains the woman, an undocumented immigrant who asked to remain anonymous. She refers to a raid that took place in her Santa Cruz

neighborhood at 4am Feb. 13, and has subsequently made national headlines.

“The helicopters woke us up, and now we can’t sleep because we are so scared ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) is coming back for us.

My 7-year-old son, who was born here, is afraid to walk around his own neighborhood.”

Five years ago, the Santa Cruz Police Department (SCPD) brought in Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) after receiving information that local residents’ family members in El Salvador were being threatened with extortion by the international gang MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha. The investigation culminated in the arrest of 12 people

who were classified as gang members, but the saga has since erupted into a war of words between HSI and SCPD. “The timing of this blows,” says Santa Cruz Deputy Chief Rick Martinez. “We knew that the timing coincided with immigration raids nationwide and that this was going to muddy the validity of our criminal investigation.”

A few weeks ago, SCPD officers worked alongside the HSI team, getting wind that gang members were planning a local homicide before a federal grand jury could secure indictments. City leaders and police say they participated in the operation only because HSI assured them that the operation was a criminal investigation and there was no immigration component.

In the aftermath of the militarized raid, Santa Cruz officials used an HSI news release to assure the public that a dozen gang members

“I have serious concerns about outside agencies coming into Sheriff ’s Office jurisdiction with SWAT teams and military-grade equipment and not communicating directly with me or my executive staff about what they are doing,” Hart says.

He stresses the importance of arresting violent criminals, but also questions the level of force involved in the operation.

‘This was a total bait and switch. This action violated our trust in (Homeland Security Investigations) and the local community’s trust in us’ “Did we really need over 200 officers, helicopters, MRAPs and Bearcats to arrest nine gang members?” Hart asks.

He suspects the display of force was intended to intimidate counties and cities with sanctuary status.

“We can do these operations without federal assistance,” Hart says. “I have 160 deputies, and we are willing to commit our resources to assist local agencies, rather than see a repeat of what HSI did.”

Concerns of immigration raids have spread throughout the country since President Donald Trump issued executive orders pertaining to undocumented immigrants. Most law enforcement agencies in the Bay Area have vowed not to assist ICE activities.

San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia held a joint news conference with the mayor in December to reassure residents that they would not coordinate with ICE. Last week, Garcia told Metro he was meeting with ICE officials at their Morgan Hill headquarters. Garcia said that he would inform the federal agents that San Jose would not sign up for the 287(g) program, which allows local law enforcement to be deputized by ICE. San Jose’s police chief has yet to report what was discussed in that meeting.

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had been taken off the streets and that no immigration enforcement activities took place.

Eyewitnesses told a different story.

By the afternoon of the operation, community members began reporting that Homeland Security agents were doing immigration checks. When SCPD Deputy Chief Dan Flippo asked the deputy special agent in charge about that claim, the agent reportedly denied it. But the next day, at a City Council meeting, enough people complained about immigration raids to alarm Flippo, who left City Hall and began an investigation before the meeting even ended.

On Feb. 13, SCPD learned, HSI ended up detaining an additional 10 people based on their immigration status. Six were taken to a facility in San Francisco for the day. Five of the 10 are now wearing GPS monitoring devices, and the rest were ordered to appear in immigration court. Police and city leaders were embarrassed and angered by the new information.

“If we had known this was going to happen, we would not have participated,” Martinez says.

HSI denied these allegations in a second news release, insisting that Santa Cruz police knew about the immigration aspect all along. But the police chief has held firm that the feds misled his department. “We were repeating misinformation supplied by HSI,” Flippo says. “We were lied to.”

“This was a total bait and switch,” Martinez explains. “This action violated our trust in HSI and the local community’s trust in us.”

At a news conference Thursday, SCPD Chief Kevin Vogel went a step further. “We will not collaborate with agencies we do not trust,” he said.

SCPD currently has three open cases with HSI involving human trafficking, child pornography and narcotics trafficking. Flippo says these cases have international connections, which extend their scope beyond SCPD’s jurisdiction. But given recent developments, it’s not clear how the agencies intend to cooperate.

ICE officials failed to respond to multiple requests for comment by deadline, despite saying twice it would provide answers.

Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart decided not to collaborate with HSI on the raids, even though six of the search warrants were within his jurisdiction.

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N THE FIRST day of the flood, Jose Villalobos had to get his 5-year-old sister to school. It was a few minutes after 8am, and Coyote Creek had already jumped its bank—the riverine surge creeping into the playground across the street and down the block.

Though alarmed by the encroaching waters, Villalobos, 20, persisted to stay on schedule. After dropping his sister off at Shirakawa Elementary School, he returned home to the apartment he shared with his mom, girlfriend and year-

old daughter to change for his 10am shift at Off the Wall, an indoor soccer complex. When he opened the front door for a second time that morning, the mud-thickened water looked deep enough to swim.

At a quarter-to-10, Villalobos slammed the door, clambered upstairs, stuffed whatever belongings he could find into a bag and raced back outside. Before loading up his car, he tried to warn a neighbor—an elderly man in the next unit—about the sudden deluge. Trying to outpace the panic and bring his girlfriend and toddler to dry land, Villalobos waded to his silver Volkswagen Passat, a car he scraped up $5,000 to buy after high school, and threw it into reverse.

The water had crept up past the hubcaps and seeped into the cab as he backed out. Villalobos made it no more than a few feet before the water hit the chassis and killed the engine. A neighbor offered to drive them out in a pickup, but the family would have to leave everything behind.

As the neighbor drove them toward Phelan Avenue, Villalobos saw firefighters and sheriff ’s deputies arrive on boats to rescue more than 300 people left stranded. Had he remained just minutes longer, Villalobos and his family would have needed rescuing, too.

“I’m angry because the city didn’t say nothing,” he said. “We got no heads-up. Nothing.”

Submerged Nearly 40,000 people in the heart of the 10th largest city in the nation were caught off guard by flooding Feb. 21 and 22 along Coyote Creek.

All told, 14,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in areas as economically diverse as Rock Springs, Naglee Park and three mobile home parks along Old Oakland Road. Another 22,000 were strongly advised to relocate until authorities deemed the creek’s flood zone safe. San Jose’s immense homeless population—one of the nation’s largest, with at least 4,000 people, including 1,500 or so who live along local waterways—was especially vulnerable. Some were

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How tens of thousands of homes in San Jose were evacuated due to heavy flooding and a tragic comedy of errors

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH AND JOSH KOEHN

Greg Ramar

forced to cling to trees to avoid being swept away in the rushing water.

Remarkably, there have been no reported fatalities.

The material toll, however, is staggering. Though inspectors determined that only three homes need to be torn down, nearly 500 others remain uninhabitable, and countless more need serious repair.

Financially speaking, the damage amounts to upward of $50 million for private property and $23 million for public, according to estimates submitted by the city in a petition for state and federal disaster aid.

The outlay in unincorporated Santa Clara County comes to something on the order of $22 million.

The city and the Santa Clara

Valley Water District, which supplies drinking water and flood control for 1.8 million people, have offered a variety of reasons for the flood: heavier storms than expected, spillover from Anderson Dam, potential obstructions that should have been cleared from Coyote Creek.

But the answer many residents are wondering: Why didn’t the public know sooner?

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has gone from suggesting Anderson Dam was poorly maintained to saying the city accepts full responsibility. In the immediate aftermath, however, he candidly blamed the district for giving bad information, leading to the city’s failure to notify the public.

“Those issues are very much linked,” Liccardo said. “I have been as clear as possible: there was a fundamental failure in relying on communication methods we had, everything from social media to the (county) alert system. I do not shy from the criticism that there should have been direct notification to those residents in all languages that they can understand. The question is, though: what would we have informed them about? That’s why these issues are so connected, because obviously we don't knock on doors citywide any time there is a big storm.”

It appears even more is at play, however, than the district giving vague warnings or the city lapsing in its legal duty to alert the public. In the past week, Metro has interviewed more

than a dozen high-level district and city sources in addition to reviewing emails that trace from years back up to the days and hours preceding the floods.

Over the past two decades, district officials have made key decisions that let Coyote Creek flood protection languish in favor of pet projects— one of which may have personally benefited the district’s interim chief operating officer, Melanie Richardson, who oversees Silicon Valley watersheds and flood control. Coincidentally, Richardson likely would have been one of the key people in charge of the district’s Emergency Operations Center during last week’s floods, except for one problem—she was on a ski retreat.

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STRANDED With no prior warning of the flood in Rock Springs, Jose Villalobos had no choice but to leave behind all his possessions.

‘What a Mess’ Jose Villalobos waited a day for the waters to recede before heading back to Rock Springs, a largely working-class Vietnamese and Latino neighborhood in San Jose’s East Side.

Some streets were still submerged in a foul lagoon of gasoline and raw sewage, others were covered in slippery muck, strewn with detritus— shredded plastic bags, a deflated Mylar Valentine’s Day balloon, a plastic doll, makeup bottles, sandals and sneakers and a waterlogged skunk carcass.

“See where that car is?” he asked, pointing toward a white SUV in the middle of the road. “They were trying to drive out, but that’s where the car died. They had to leave it right there.”

A block away from his apartment, Villalobos pulled two trash bags over each foot to protect his sneakers from the filth. He needed to retrieve some clothes, diapers and other necessities to bring back to his aunt’s house, where his family would stay for the time being.

The bright sun and blue skies seemed incongruent with the still-flooded streets, where several people were venturing back to recover whatever

they could from their homes. First responders marked neon orange and hot pink X’s on the buildings and cars to indicate they were clear of evacuees.

Dumpsters sat in the middle of the pitted street, having been swept out of place by the rush of water.

“What a mess,” Villalobos said, gingerly stepping through the slime.

When he opened the door to his unit, he reeled from the stench and pulled his shirt over his mouth and nose. He walked to the kitchen, leaving behind a trail of footprints on the muddy tile.

Pretty much everything on the first floor would have to go, he said—the couches, the tables, the drum set he cherished, his daughter’s toys.

“This is just sad” he said, glancing around the living room, where the watermark rose about a half-foot off the floor. “It’s not normal. I don’t even know what to take right now.”

At least the top floor was spared, he remarked. In his room—the one he shared with his daughter and girlfriend—he unfurled a plastic Target store tote and began filling it up with baby clothes. He stuffed a few more trash bags full of belongings and made sure to grab his girlfriend’s plastic makeup bin.

“Maybe it’s not the most important thing right now,” he said, with a laugh. “But it’ll make her happy. That’s what matters, right?”

Outside the apartment, his landlord, Luis Rascon, crossed his arms and shook his head while surveying the damage.

He wanted to start cleaning, he said, but had to wait on the insurance company.

“It’s hard to sit here and do nothing,” said Rascon, clad in jeans and black rubber boots. “I live here, too. My dad lives here. My daughter lives here. I want to get to work, but I can’t yet.”

This wasn’t his first flood since moving to San Jose as a young father 27 years ago, he said, but it was definitely the worst. During the Coyote Creek flood of 1997, Rascon lived in the same slate-gray building as a tenant. Back then, the city told them days ahead of time about the impending flood, which gave his family enough time to move their valuables to the second floor.

“This time we didn’t know,” he said. “It came too fast. I didn’t know about it until I got a call at work.”

By then, his building was submerged beneath four feet of water. His elderly father, who was on the second floor, didn’t even notice until Rascon told him to look out the window.

“Nobody told us it was coming,” he said. “We had to tell each other.”

Good Project?

In 2000, with the 1997 floods still fresh in their memories, Santa Clara County voters passed the Clean, Safe Creeks Initiative, also known as Measure B. The 15-year parcel tax included what was known as the Coyote Creek Flood Protection Project, which would earmark $32 million for flood mitigation along Coyote Creek.

The district taxed residents along the waterway and spent $10.8 million on planning and preliminary designs. But then something happened—or, to be more accurate, nothing happened. The project just stopped.

District officials say efforts were made to secure federal funding, but these overtures were denied and the district had no choice but to look for “better projects.” Another water parcel tax dubbed Measure B passed in 2012, and other projects became the priority.

One of these projects is Upper Llagas in South County.

According to internal district emails, Melanie Richardson, then a deputy operating officer in charge of watersheds, was told that $8 million to 10 million in Coyote Creek funds got redirected to the Upper Llagas project near Morgan Hill. What makes this decision concerning is that RMC, a contractor overseeing the Upper Llagas project, was partowned by Richardson’s husband, Tom Richardson. While $20 million sat untouched in the Coyote Creek fund, RMC—and by extension the Richardsons—stood to personally benefit from any rerouting of funds to Upper Llagas.

Starting in 2015, Metro began publishing a series of stories looking into conflicts of interest at the water district involving RMC, which has since been acquired by Woodard & Curran. Those reports found that Melanie Richardson, who was once the district’s former head of procurement, routinely came into contact with RMC business, despite claims from district executives that a “firewall” had been put in place. These reports prodded the water district’s elected board to successfully push for the resignation of

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FLESH PRESS As William Street Park flooded, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo briefly chatted with residents. district CEO Beau Goldie last year.

In a phone interview Tuesday, Melanie Richardson defended the firewall and denied being aware of any money moving away from Coyote Creek flood protection to other projects. “I am not aware of that,” she said. “I would have to look at those emails.” She promised to provide answers later in the day but failed to call back.

In the course of reporting stories on RMC and the district, Metro obtained emails that show Melanie Richardson and others were alerted to the Coyote Creek funding shifts by a subordinate from December 2014 to January 2015. RMC was initially selected to do the Coyote work, emails show, but the contract was canceled after the proposed Anderson Dam retrofit would have changed the scope of work. RMC also attempted to stick the district with project insurance costs, which is against the law.

Acting district CEO Norma Camacho defended Melanie Richardson, now the interim COO of watersheds, in a phone interview Tuesday, noting that her chief deputy may have known about money moving between RMC projects but didn’t have any control to transfer the funds herself.

“She wasn’t actually transferring the funds or the money,” Camacho said.

“These were discussions that we had in trying to prioritize the budget.”

Afshin Rouhani, a district unit manager for mid-Coyote Creek, says the flood protection voters asked for and funded—going on two decades—will simply need to wait.

“It’s waiting for a good project to build,” Rouhani said.

However, unless residents have been attending water district board meetings the last few years, they might not have realized they were sliding down the priority totem pole while still paying into the fund.

“We haven’t really had the community meeting,” Rouhani admitted.

‘Too Late’ When Sheila McGann-Tiedt heard about the flood coursing downstream last week, she had two hours to prepare.

But precious time was lost driving to the water district’s sandbag sites off Phelan Avenue. When the flood closed in around that site, she headed north off Mabury Road. Before the flood of ’97, McGann-Tiedt said, the water district dropped off a bunch of sandbags at

William Street Park, a block from her house. This time was different.

“We had no message from the city, no message from the water district about what was coming,” she said, standing outside her driveway as a neighbor hosed mud off the sidewalk.

“If it weren’t for all those posts on social media, we wouldn’t have known how bad it got.”

Their only official warning came from Councilman Raul Peralez, who went door to door in Naglee Park to tell people to flee their homes. As the waters spilled across the nearby park, volunteers—including Peralez and county Supervisor Cindy Chavez— began filling up sandbags.

“But honestly, it was too late by then,” McGann-Tiedt said.

Luckily, the water pinched off right before her house and flowed into her backyard, sparing the living quarters.

Damage to the basement, however, will cost a small fortune to fix.

“I feel bad for my neighbors,” McGann-Tiedt said, gesturing toward nearby houses, where volunteers were scrambling to tear up flooring and drywall in a race against the moisture-induced black mold. “They got the worst of it.”

One door down, Judy Georges

fought back tears while assessing the damage. She and her husband bought their home off 16th and William streets a few years after the 1997 flood.

“We had no frame of reference for this,” she said. “We didn’t really know what to do—not that we had time to do much anyway.”

She barely had a moment to think.

“We just went through the motions,” Georges said. “We didn’t have time to feel a lot. First, there was the scramble to save whatever we could, then numbness, and then shakiness. I didn’t have the luxury of freaking out.”

Two days after the flood tore through her yard and drenched all her belongings on the first floor, Georges stood on the sidewalk chatting with neighbors.

“People have been wonderful,” said Georges, a humanities professor at San Jose State University. “I can’t tell you how many times people—some of them absolute strangers—have stopped by and said, ‘I am so heartsick for you.’”

Because of the topography of the upscale Naglee Park neighborhood, some homes were unaffected— looking over the toxic loch from high ground. Midday, after the flood flushed Georges out of house and home, she joined a group of fellow evacuees for lunch at a neighbor’s house on high ground, where they shared stories about their loss.

“Lunch was for freaking out,” Georges said. “By dinnertime, we were all cracking jokes and laughing. I guess we needed some sense of normalcy. Maybe we were too exhausted to panic.”

But the anxiety crept back as she stood outside her torn-up home.

“I’m shaking again,” Georges said. “I think the reality of this is really hitting now, the reality of how much we’ve lost.” At least no one died, she added.

“That’s the perspective I need to keep.

We survived. We all survived.”

Silent Alarm District officials claim they sounded the alarm bells loud and clear to the city’s Emergency Operations Center just before 3am Tuesday. This should have left plenty of time for alerts and evacuations. At 2:47am, Jim McCann, a public information rep for the district, emailed Cheryl Wessling, a

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FLUSHED OUT Luis Rascon, a landlord in the Rock Springs neighborhood, remembers the city giving people more time to prepare for the 1997 flood.

spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement, to tell her that water levels along Coyote Creek had reached 6,000 cubic feet per second (CFS) hours ahead of district projections. The magic number for flooding was pegged around 7,000, so one might assume this change presented a clear and present danger.

Wessling asked, “Is this a minor or major change in what we were expecting?” McCann responded, “Relatively minor in that it’s a few hours earlier than previously forecasted.”

To the layman, this type of language would hardly indicate an impending crisis. But this appears to be one of many instances of insouciance on both the city and district’s part.

Rachael Gibson, a district spokeswoman who worked closely with the mayor’s office days ahead of the flood, routinely offered overly optimistic assumptions. She noted there was “no major update” as of 6:40pm Monday and the district expected peak flows by Tuesday afternoon. Two emails sent by the water district's public affairs team at 8:31am and 8:39am hinted at “incidental flooding along parks and access roads.”

As late as 9:41am Tuesday, Gibson told Alex Wilson, a deputy spokesman in

the mayor’s office, that nothing had changed from the night before. By then, Rock Springs was already underwater.

Rick Callender, the district’s communications director, dismissed McCann’s lack of urgency as a failure to read between the lines on the city’s part. He added that Gibson’s erroneous information was irrelevant because she was not in the water agency’s EOC and the mayor’s office had no formal role in evacuations or rescue operations. “If you're not in the EOC, then you really don’t know what was going on,” Callender said.

Vincent Gin, a deputy operating officer in charge of the district’s EOC from Monday evening until about 6:30am Tuesday, said the district was well aware of the “earlier shift” in water levels but didn’t expect flows to exceed 6,000 CFS. By the time Gin clocked off and left Jim Fiedler, COO of water utility, in charge of the district’s emergency command hub, he deemed the situation still manageable.

“We thought that it would be close because some of the channels could handle it,” Gin said. “I did not think it would be this widespread. That’s just my personal opinion.”

Perhaps even more distressing is that

the district drafted an emergency plan in December 2002 that could have prevented much of the damage in Rock Springs. A report compiled by a former district employee recommended triggering an alarm system when the water flow in Coyote Creek reached 4,000 CFS, which would have occurred early evening Feb. 20. The plan shows a flowchart on how to deliver sandbags to Rock Springs within two hours of the alarm. It appears, however, that the district never bothered to finalize the plan, for reasons unknown.

Just Us Rudy Rodriguez, a Franklin-McKinley School District trustee, fought back emotion when he spoke at a La Raza Roundtable meeting Friday night, where he went to tell people about the devastation at Rock Springs.

Families that already struggle to scrape by will have to start over.

“That was one of the hardest speeches I’ve ever made,” Rodriguez said. “I feel so much for the victims, for all our students.”

One of the emotions he felt was anger—anger toward the city for failing to tell families about the encroaching

danger. Councilman Tam Nguyen, whose district was hit the hardest, slammed the city for neglecting to disseminate information to Vietnamese residents. Rodriguez said he feels the same about the city’s outreach to Spanish-speaking households: that official outreach was vastly inadequate.

Despite joining more than a dozen conference calls with the county, water district, National Weather Service, Caltrans and PG&E before the first day of flooding, the city didn’t tell anyone to evacuate Rock Springs or Naglee Park. A full day before the Coyote Creek spilled its banks, the National Weather Service sent an urgent “flood watch” alert to phones throughout the South Bay. That same day, the county issued a flood warning to the cellphones of 282 residents of an unincorporated swath by highways 85 and 87 and one about a mudslide to 527 people west of Cupertino and Saratoga.

Days before the flood, virtually every agency in the South Bay knew that Anderson Dam was on the brink of spilling over. The legal onus was on San Jose to notify people within its well-documented floodways about the impending overflow. On the first day of the flood, around 7am, rescuers saved five homeless people stranded in the trees along Los Lagos Golf Course. Yet residents of Rock Springs and Naglee Park received no warning at all. At 9:40am—nearly three hours after the Los Lagos rescue, time that could have been spent sounding the alarm—Rock Springs was under four feet of water. By afternoon, so was Naglee Park. By the second day of the flood, the city finally asked the county to use its cellphone alert system as the dam-spilled torrent barrelled northward.

In a memo from the county that summarizes the actions taken by each agency to notify the public, it appears the city relied heavily on the emergency response plans of other agencies.

Though the county bought and operates the phone warning system, called AlertSCC, each municipality within the region has been trained to use the system independently. For some reason, the city asked the county to help to send those alerts.

County Executive Jeff Smith said in a county memo to the Board of Supervisors that “each city is responsible for emergency management within its boundaries,

17 than the city’s, Rodriguez added. Once administrators heard about the deluge, they activated a calling tree, began knocking on doors, emailed in Spanish and Vietnamese and started an online fundraising drive for the hundreds of students whose families were displaced.

Over the weekend, the school held a donation drive that drew about 150 flood victims and a dozen volunteers.

“A lot of people don’t know where to turn for help,” said Rodriguez, seated amid donated cans of food, diapers, first-aid kits and second-hand clothing in a room at Shirakawa Elementary on Saturday. “Some of our families are undocumented, and there’s this fear that prevents them from turning to other agencies. But they trust their school. This is where they find help.”

Ana, an undocumented woman who declined to share her full name, said the school has become a lifeline.

All together, her family lost four cars, she said. Their corporate property management company has offered nothing in the way of reassurance that they could move back, she added, and it’s unclear at this point what she’ll do for transportation or whether she’ll be able to keep her job as a nanny.

“It’s horrible, asking for help,” she said in Spanish, through a translator.

“I feel stressed. I feel desperate. I’m not sure what comes next.”

Her sister chimed in: “I need a car. I need a house. I may need a new job.”

Wets of Eden It wasn’t Katrina, but agencies failed and it could have been a lot worse

BY DAN PULCRANO

T

HE GREAT SAN JOSE Flood of 2017 came like a splash of cold water to the red faces of two sleepwalking local bureaucracies.

The wake-up call arrived in the center of the world’s technology economy, in one of America’s 10 biggest cities, one that seemingly hasn’t been able learn from its own history, despite decades of reports and studies and public meetings undertaken to prevent exactly what happened from happening.

This was the fourth urban flood

“Tell them they can count on the school,” Rodriguez said in English, instructing the translator to relay the message. Looking at Ana directly, he added: “We’re here for you.”

Crisis Control The #Spillgate blame game is just getting started. Mayor Liccardo has shifted for the high road, saying the city accepts total responsibility, although a fair number of surrogates are operating on background.

The water district, for its part, has taken an aggressive stance that its responsibility extends only so far as the information it provides—even if that information turned out to be inaccurate or incomplete.

In advance of a protracted legal battle, the district has not only placed a hold on the destruction of all documents, but also paid a $25,000 retainer to bring on PR crisis manager Sam Singer. His previous clients include former Congressman Mike Honda, who was was embroiled in an ethics scandal; the San Francisco Zoo, after a tiger escaped and mauled three teens; and the Oakland Children’s Hospital in the Jahi McMath case, when the young girl was declared brain dead.

None of this solves the question of how to stop Coyote Creek from flooding, which will inevitably happen

within San Jose’s city limits in the past 35 years. In 1983, the north San Jose community of Alviso was soaked with eight feet of water from the Coyote Creek, then contaminated by an asbestos levee built to prevent the water’s return. On March 10, 1995, the Guadalupe River flooded the Highway 85 Santa Clara Street underpass, creating a lake from the arena’s parking lots to the De Anza Hotel and submerging Henry’s Hi Life under four feet of water. The city’s tab: around $2.5 million in damages.

Less than two years later, the Coyote Creek overflowed again, destroying a handful of homes along the creek in a historic neighborhood east of downtown. After Arroyo Way resident Jeffrey Hare saw water fill his neighbor’s living quarters, the real estate attorney developed a simple

in coming years—and all the more frequently because of climate change.

Richard McMurtry, a civil engineer and board member for Friends of Coyote Creek, questioned the district’s contention that it released as much water as it could from Anderson Reservoir in the weeks leading up to last week’s floods. But perhaps even more important, he said, is the need to change the public’s expectations.

Watershed protections are designed to withstand a 100-year flood, which has a 1 percent chance of occurring in a given year. Last week’s storm didn’t even meet that threshold.

“What happens when we get a 200year storm?” said McMurtry. “The whole flood control mentality—you keep building flood mitigation projects and all the people downstream get flooded.”

The public is unlikely to relinquish their homes and make way for levees along Coyote Creek, similar to the concrete floodwalls that line the Los Angeles River, McMurtry said.

The alternative, he said, is to have all new structures built on stilts, like the ones in Alviso or any number of boroughs that lie in clearly mapped, federally designated floodways.

Until then, it might be wise to stop calling these events once-ina-generation floods and refer to what they truly represent: the new normal.

rule of thumb: “When Anderson Dam fills and groundwater saturates, we’re going to flood in Naglee Park.”

Hare says he can pinpoint floods by tracking the readings from the depth gauges upstream. “Naglee Park is 12 hours from Anderson Dam’s Madrone gauge, and six hours downstream from Hellyer. I started sounding the alarm Sunday morning when I noticed the creek going up two feet.”

He got a water district hydrologist on the phone and confirmed the readings, along with the flow rate of the water exiting the dam’s spillway. He checked a pole that had been placed in a neighbor’s creekside backyard after the 1997 flood. A graffiti marking on the San Antonio Street Bridge disappeared the creek’s surface. “It rose three feet with no rain,” he said.

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and the county is responsible for this role in unincorporated areas.” Agencies have to follow that protocol to qualify for state and federal disaster aid. The city apparently dropped the ball to such a degree that it may not even be eligible for relief funds.

“The city failed,” Rodriguez said.

“They screwed up. They didn’t warn anybody. What they should have done, even within a few hours of the flooding, was start knocking on doors.”

Had that happened, Rodriguez said, Villalobos would have had his car and some of his family’s prized possessions, like his drum set and his daughter’s toys. It’s unacceptable, Rodriguez noted, that some neighborhoods got multiple phone alerts to evacuate while others got none at all.

“The people in charge need to harness the way people communicate on the grass-roots level,” said Teresa Hernandez, a local schoolteacher and activist who lobbed online criticism against the city under the hashtag #Spillgate. “A lot of the people impacted by the flood don’t have smartphones, cellphones, internet, many don’t speak English and use public transit. So these so-called official communications don’t really get the word out to these communities. What happened here is the very definition of socio-economic injustice.”

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COYOTE UGLY Both the city and water district failed San Jose residents living near Coyote Creek.

Hare began furiously posting to Twitter and the neighborhood association’s online group list. He says he made calls on Sunday to urge the district to bring sandbags to William Park, to no avail. He called television stations and stopped by the local fire station. “They said they’d tell the captain,” he recalled.

He continued to sound alarms on Monday, but many offices were closed for the President’s Day holiday. He started telling his neighbors to start packing. Not everyone got the memo.

“We went to bed Monday night and we knew there was going to be a problem.”

Around 9:30am Tuesday, 911 calls started coming in from Rock Springs reporting that the neighborhood was under three to four feet of water.

While first responders rushed to Rock Springs, affluent Naglee and the less posh numbered streets east of the Coyote Creek were next.

Around noon notices started being posted to the neighborhood group list.

“Is anybody with a truck able to get more sandbags for the Heckmans?” asked one. “The Heckman house is in dire need of more sandbags,” posted another. “Can you ask the [neighborhood association] or parents list for people to deliver sandbags?”

Neighbors rushed to assist, but the district hadn’t brought sandbags to William Street Park as it did in 1997.

“They were bringing three, four, 10 at a time,” Hare said. “You need about 2000 to build a berm.”

The Senter Road sandbag distribution point became inaccessible due to flooded roads. The Mabury Road location three miles away had lines and shortages, and residents had to fill the bags themselves.

Eric Heckman eventually evacuated his home in a borrowed canoe as the bottom level of his house flooded. He estimates the uninsured portion of the damages could reach $50,000. He heard from the city three days later, “when they yellow tagged my home.”

Sometime around 3:30pm a tree came down and knocked power out to hundreds of homes. Forty-five minutes later, Mayor Sam Liccardo arrived at William Street Park. He stood at the park’s edge and glared at the water filling up the grassy expanse. Residents crowded around and Liccardo chatted and shook a few hands but had no information to share.

He jumped back in his car and left, and water continued to spill over the curb and onto the street.

Aside from a vague post “advising residents in neighborhoods in lowlying areas near the creek to evacuate their homes,” there was no official information from the city. Without power or internet and phones starting to lose their charges, residents had to guess as to how high the water would go, and whether to evacuate. Anecdotal information started to make the rounds.

The water is rising at a foot an hour, one said. Heckman heard the same reports I did. “It’s going to crest at 9. It’s going to crest at 12. It’s going to crest at 2.”

Rats frantically searched for dry land, exhausted from long swims. Ducks frolicked in newly created wetlands.

San Jose State students who had parked along the park’s edge returned to cars that were flooded to their headlights.

The sun went down. Helicopters, sirens and the crash of falling trees could be heard throughout the evening.

Across the creek, on the east side, the streets filled up with toxic water as residents stood in ankle deep puddles in their socks and sneakers. Families huddled in warehouse entrances and on apartment steps as streets turned into rivers. Police cars sat in the middle of flooded intersections, the reflections of their flashing, colored lights rippling across the mirrored surfaces of the newly minted lakes.

Sometime after 1am the power came back. By that time I’d bought life jackets and a boat and waded through knee-high water in newly purchased fly fishing boots with gas for a generator and pizza for the tots. I was lucky. Not once did the city contact residents on my flooded street. Other residents reported getting a 1:30am knock on the door.

The next morning, the mayor apologized for the notification failures, though the city’s communications director, David Vossbrink noted, “We posted to Nextdoor.com, to social media.” The shambolic tangle of mixed messages and misinformation, as well as the city’s reliance on multiple electronic systems during emergencies, illustrates a core problem. Nextdoor, for example, has only has 25 percent penetration in well-educated Naglee and no doubt much less in the poor neighborhoods that bore the brunt of the flooding.

Nonprofit executive Rick Holden looked at the floating cushions and chairs and toppled lacquered tansu cabinet in his once Sunset magazine picture-perfect Japanese garden.

More than a foot of brown water still remained in his downstairs rooms, and he wondered what happened to his foot-and-a-half long prize koi.

It took six dumptrucks and a pumping crew to clean up the mess, and he found two of the carp flopping around. They later died. Holden realized these were First World problems, having spent the night with his wife at the Fairmont hotel. He considered himself lucky and said he was most concerned about the neighbors on the other side of the creek, who had lost all of their possessions and spent their night on cots at the evacuation center.

More than seven years ago, in 2009, the Santa Clara Valley Water District published slick brochures and held neighborhood meetings to evangelize a plan to reduce the risk of Coyote Creek flooding in downtown and East Side neighborhoods. The initiative, which would have completed improvements in 2016, mysteriously vanished and follow-up meetings were never held.

Water district spokesperson Rachael Gibson said on Wednesday that Anderson Dam, which overflowed and dumped its excess water into the Coyote Creek, performed as designed.

“It’s the rain,” she said. “I want to be very clear about that.”

Relying on big capital expenditures and flawed digital systems is no substitute for common sense and basic tools: sandbags in the right places, distributing flyers with neighborhoodspecific information, keeping dinghies, generators and analog walkie-talkies on hand and going door-to-door.

The one positive outcome of the Flood of 2017 was the outpouring of goodness and generosity that it generated. Neighbors posted offers of rooms to strangers in online forums.

Nearly a million dollars in funds were contributed to relief coffers.

The mayor and two councilmembers led hundreds of volunteers in neighborhood cleanups.

The truth is San Jose dodged a much bigger disaster and things could have been much, much worse. There’s really no excuse for that in a region as enlightened and wealthy as Silicon Valley. Clearly there’s a better way for government agencies to behave than mis-spending money, running around with their heads cut off and repeatedly flooding the city’s poorest neighborhoods.

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Opened in late January, “Make Software: Change the World!” is the Computer History Museum’s newest exhibition. Featuring in-depth explorations of some of the biggest innovations in the history of software—from Adobe’s game-changing desktop publishing program Photoshop, to Wikipedia and the MP3—the exhibit provides historical context to some technologies that have now become commonplace and allows patrons to give coding a try in the Strata Family Foundation Software Lab. Whether you’re someone with an interest in the architecture behind the programs you use on a daily basis, or want to see if coding might be your thing, this exhibit is for you. (NV)

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Fri, 7pm, Free SoPo, San Jose

Fri, 8pm, $25+ Cubberley Theater, Palo Alto

San Jose-born photographer Ryan Consentino-Roush will show images taken in the Deer Park neighborhood on New York’s Long Island. Captured on a recent trip to visit family, the collection features photos taken in the summer of 2014 and the winter of 2015. Consentino-Roush spent his first visit with his grandfather and returned less than a year later after his sudden passing.

This two part series combines snapshots of suburban sprawl and family portraiture. Together the photographs deal with memory and nostalgia. Check out the collection during the First Friday art walk. (NV)

Based on a true story, Airport Insecurity follows the mishaps of a traveler who loses his identification papers at a German airport. The red tape of citizenship was also a problem for Tom Hanks’ character in The Terminal. But unlike Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film, Vikas Dhurka’s play doesn’t even allow his Indian protagonist to board a plane, let alone arrive back home in the United States. Despite his work visa, and a pregnant wife about to give birth in Silicon Valley, this tech worker is considered suspect because of his country of origin. By making the story recognizably human, the play is a timely reflection of American anxieties about difference and misguided travel bans. (JE)

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He brings his unique, progressive trance sound to Pure Lounge this Friday on one of the final stops on his 22-date Feels Trip Tour. (BS)

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While at the museum, check out participatory art installations, videos, speakers and an open forum for the public to actively speak and listen.

The roundtable is free with price of admission: $6.50 for students and seniors; $8 for adults. (BS)

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Mar 2 at The Ritz

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BILLY CRYSTAL

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Mar 25 at City National Civic

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May 13 at SAP Center

U2: ‘JOSHUA TREE’ TOUR

COMMUNITY MURAL BIKE RIDE Sat, 10am, Free Garden Community Center, San Jose Snap on your helmet and get active by cruising through San Jose on a bike tour of more than 10 local murals. Silicon Valley De-Bug and Empire Seven Studios host the cycling event—part of De-Bug’s “People’s 100 Days” project, which is aimed demonstrating a unified front against Donald Trump’s political agenda. Explore the art and history of San Jose and get some exercise with a 12-mile trek through San Jose’s downtown, Japantown, Mayfair, East Side and Gardner neighborhoods. It’s a bit of a ride for the novice cyclist, but the pace will be slow and steady with the goal of taking in the community’s vibes. (VS)

BASH & POP

*sun *tue NATURE SPEAKS

Sat, 8pm, $15+ The Ritz, San Jose

Sun, 2:30pm, Free San Jose City College Gallery

Tommy Stinson, former bassist for alternative rock pioneers The Replacements, has resurrected his debut solo project, Bash & Pop. The original early-’90s version of Bash & Pop faltered, leading Stinson to dissolve the group and join up with Guns N’ Roses.

Never one to rule anything out, Stinson is taking another crack at it. After pulling together a new cast of players and recording a PledgeMusic-funded full-length album, Anything Could Happen, he is taking the show on the road and enjoying positive reviews— including a 7-out-of-10 rating on Pitchfork, which praised Stinson for turning in “cathartic, shout-itout hooks” on the energetic, livetracked collection. (NV)

World-renowned artist Deborah Kennedy celebrates the natural world and addresses the current state of climate change in her latest exhibition and book, Nature Speaks: Art & Poetry for the Earth.

In 1989 Kennedy emblazoned the Berlin Wall with a copper and brass collage that depicted the hopes and fears of many Germans and Americans. In her current gallery, she questions why society turns away at the thought of climate change. Her eco installation titled “Changed Climate 2017” aims to connect viewers with the past and future of our pale blue dot. Live reading March 1; reception is March 5.

Show runs through March 23. (VS)

MATILDA THE MUSICAL Tue, 7:30pm, $43+ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

Winner of 50 international awards and Time Magazine’s No. 1 Show of the Year, Matilda the Musical is a journey into the mind of a 6-yearold girl with a vivid imagination and the gift of telekinesis. Born into a bozo family, her inept parents send her to an awful school run by a sociopathic principal. Matilda finds her only comfort in books and a kindhearted teacher, who helps her find the confidence to take charge of her own destiny. Based on the Roald Dahl children's novel of the same name, the production is adapted by Dennis Kelly and features music and lyrics by Tim Minchin. (DSJ)

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

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FUTURE & MIGOS

Jun 15 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Jun 29 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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Hands Off BODY IMAGE Curtains Cabaret’s forthcoming ‘Legislate This!’ burlesque and variety show is about protecting women’s rights.

‘Legislate This!’ burlesque show will support SJ Planned Parenthood

BY NICK VERONIN

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IEWED THROUGH THE reductive prism of the male gaze, burlesque might appear to be little more than a highly theatrical form of striptease, designed to titillate and arouse an audience. Certainly, this risqué offshoot of cabaret is about sex.

But, according to the organizers of the forthcoming Legislate This! South Bay, burlesque is about so much more.

For starters, it’s about feeling sexy as much as it is about arousing desire. Whether a performer is a straight white female, a trans woman of color, or has a body that isn’t mirrored in the mainstream media’s traditional depictions of beauty, they are all welcome on the Curtains Cabaret stage. Burlesque has the ability to empower and champion marginalized groups, according to DeeDee Queen, a performer and co-producer with Curtains, which is hosting Friday’s Legislate This!

“It comes from a perspective of celebrating inclusivity,” Queen says of burlesque. “It’s about celebrating

our bodies and what we do with our bodies. It’s about having the right to have control over our bodies.”

For this reason, burlesque is also an effective weapon in the social justice warrior’s arsenal.

The Legislate This! event will raise money for a local chapter of Planned Parenthood—San Jose’s Mar Monte Community Clinic.

Queen calls Planned Parenthood “a hugely important resource for so many people,” noting that while the clinic is perpetually in the crosshairs of anti-abortion activists, it provides all sorts of health services to both men and women. “Many people get routine health care from Planned Parenthood, because it can provide affordable access,” Conte adds.

“We have a federal administration that has become much more hostile toward women’s health in general,”

says Scarlet Conte, who works with Queen as a co-producer of Curtains Cabaret. “It’s really an open question at this point if and how much federal funding will remain available for Planned Parenthood.”

The event is a spinoff of a burlesque fundraiser first held in Austin by burlesque performer Ginger Snaps, following the passage of the controversial Texas bill HB2, which then Gov. Rick Perry signed into law in 2013, despite major protests and a marathon filibuster by state Sen. Wendy Davis.

In the aftermath of the passage of HB2—a so-called “TRAP” or “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers” law—Snaps was furious.

“I decided that since I couldn’t just follow Rick Perry around flipping him off, this was the next best thing,” she says of her decision to launch the inaugural Legislate This! show. This is the second time a Legislate This! program is being hosted by Curtains Cabaret.

In the whirlwind of executive orders rolling back progressive causes, Queen and Conte say they feel the way Snaps must have felt back in 2013, during the HB2 debate.

“I personally feel much more under attack,” Conte says. “I don’t have trust the powers that be will protect my gender.”

But in addition to promoting positive body image, raising money for a good cause and striking back at those who would strip women of their rights, Legislate This! is simply a good time, Queen says.

“It’s so easy to go online and be upset and scared and afraid,” she says, adding that the burlesque, magic and other circus acts at the upcoming Curtains Cabaret use art to effect positive change. “One of the things I love about art is that it’s been used as part of the democratic process. It’s a tool for democracy.”

Tickets can be found online by searching for “Legislate This! South Bay” at BrownPaperTickets.com, or at the Dragon Theatre box office at 2120 Broadway in Redwood City.

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Lone Wolf TRUE GRIT Hugh Jackman goes out strong, bidding farewell to the role of Wolverine in the moody ‘Logan.’

Ever stalwart, Wolverine fights the good fight his way in ‘Logan’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ET’S ASSUME THAT adamantium gives you heavy-metal poisoning, that it’s as bad for your system as depleted uranium. Even the uncanny healing powers of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) are breaking down from the things the government did to his skeleton. It’s not lupus. It might as well be.

Here we find Logan—a.k.a.

Wolverine, one of the most iconic of the X-Men—moonlighting as a limo driver, taking high school kids to their proms. The passengers act like swine,

sticking their heads through the sunroof, screaming “USA! USA!” at the Mexican migrants camped under a freeway offramp.

Logan is staying in an abandoned industrial compound in the Mexican desert as he saves up for a boat—tending Charles “Professor X” Xavier (Patrick Stewart), a most wanted fugitive. The seizures Xavier developed in old age caused his brain to be classified as a weapon of mass destruction. Now in his 90s, the professor has filaments of white hair sticking out of his once sprucely shaven bald head. He has a cataract in one eye. Shakespearean that he is, Stewart brings tragic grandeur to the part. Any director considering staging a modern dress production of King Lear should see Stewart zizzing around in an electric wheelchair, sleepless and raving. His head clearing, Xavier tells

Logan, “I always know who you are.

Sometime, I just don’t recognize you.”

It’s perhaps the most poignant line in the film, aside from the undelivered text message left by a woman Logan fails to rescue: “They here. Please.”

The movie is date-stamped by some future Michael Savage racket on the radio: “It’s 2029. Why are we still talking about mutants?”

The writing has pulp substance; the smirking Blackwater-ish thug Donald (Boyd Holbrook), with a tattooed neck and a prosthetic hand, introduces himself to Wolverine: “I’m looking for someone who’s looking for you.” That someone is a Mexican girl called Laura (Dafne Keen) who seeks safety in a probably non-existent Eden for mutants up north of the 40th parallel. This most meta of the X-Men movies suggest a clue published in an old X-Men comic book determines the future of mutantkind. But the comics are there for Logan’s contempt, as if he were a western gunslinger scorning a Ned Buntline dime novel.

The tangy script makes up for director James Mangold’s bent for over-emphasis. We glimpse the statue of liberty on a sign for a lowclass flophouse called the Liberty Motel—we get it, remembering the X-Men’s battle 17 years ago atop the torch. Mangold (Walk the Line) tries to provide Jackman’s Logan with Johnny Cash-worthy demonstrations of integrity, even ratifying that honorability with Cash’s classic Pentecostal song “The Man Comes Around.” It usually works, but Mangold leans on the buzzer.

(Seeing the statue of liberty on the sign, Wolverine stops and studies it— we see he remembers, too.) Logan’s allusions to Shane, an overblown Western classic from the 1950s, could have used a more delicate touch.

There are worse things than moral seriousness. Logan’s action comes hard and fast, with a savage car pursuit and various skirmishes on an Oklahoma farm and in a Northern forest. There’s magnificent action movie confidence in the moment where Logan steps into the full force of a Xavier psy-storm, strong enough to break windows blocks away.

Logan pulls himself to the center of the telepathic hurricane, bracing himself with his claws at every step.

With dignity and grace, Jackman says sayonara to this signature role. It’s clear how much physicality and humor he passed on to this mashup of comic book action and political allegory, in his portrait of the ronin with six swords.

These movies thrived on Jackman’s confidence, and one wonders what will replace it in upcoming installments.

Even a wretched prequel such as 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine wasn’t enough to damage what he brought to the saga.

The serious violence, and the proper R-rated language to describe it, might be a result of the success of Deadpool. But the heaviness goes beyond darker stories for aging X-Men fans. Logan has zeitgeist; the despair that makes us feel that the nation isn’t worthy of its heroes, and the premonitions of trouble that leave some looking toward Canada for escape.

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The Cats in the Cradle FILMING CATS IS likely tougher than herding cats, but Ceyda Torun’s positively enchanting Kedi (“Cat”) is an intimate portrait of a tribe of Istanbul cats—scads of calicos, gingers, even a few coon-cats escaped from Norse freighters. Kedi is also a look at what’s left of an old city of twisty pedestrian streets, surrounded by an ever-narrowing ring of office towers and skyscrapers. From cat’s eye camera to drone-view, Torun studies the city at all its levels.

It’s as if Istanbul were knitted together by the presence of unusually well-fed and well-tolerated municipal cats. They wander in and out at will, pilfering sardines from the waterfront fishmongers, or tangling with the rodents who have been a city problem since the reign of Justinian. Bystanders stress the unique personalities Kedi of the animals, from angel-with-tail to absolute psychopath.

Supposedly Mohammed’s favorite cat fell asleep on NR; 80 Mins. his arm when he was studying, and the prophet cut off Camera 3 his sleeve rather than wake the beast up. Nothing that fulsome is quoted in Kedi, but the tradesmen and artists here hit upon ideas about cats that I’d never been able to put into words. Take the difference between cats and dogs. We hear about a tradition that cats know about Allah. Dogs think their people are gods, but cats are not fooled by this canine gnosticism, understanding humans as we are, and looking at us without awe.

These alley cats bring out the philosopher in the people who care for them. One claims that tending a pack of ferals in the rocks by the harbor helped him recover from a breakdown. Another describes a mystical experience: when he needed money, a cat led him to a lost wallet stuffed with the exact sum he needed. A sign on a fresh water station for the cats has a curse on it: if you steal it, “you’ll be desperate for a drink of water in the next life.” In 80 minutes, the city and the cats never get stale. Torun’s marvelous film is capped with a soundtrack of ’60s Turkish rock, as if the cats were living the old hippie dream of life without responsibility and sustenance without work. —Richard von Busack

Hugely entertaining and absolutely ingenious, even if Jordan Peele of Key and Peele overlaid this stimulating social comedy on a sturdy Old Dark House template. Funny that people have been worrying online about bloggers revealing the surprise twists. I heard a suckling baby in the theater chuckling—was it because even he’d seen this kind of thing before? Photographer Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) goes out to the country with his girlfriend Rose (the Amanda Peet-like Allison Williams) to meet her parents. When he gets to their secluded estate, there something is more than slightly off: the black servants practically genuflect “as if they’d never heard of The Movement”. The psychiatrist mom (Catherine Keener, more alluring than ever in this witchy part) is eager to try out her hypnosis techniques on this new subject. Chris fails to heed the telephoned-in warnings of his best pal, a TSA agent (Lil Rel Howery)…and the film just percolates along from there. The casting wins throughout. The superb Betty Gabriel reveals almost David Lynch levels of uncanniness as the faithful maid, and Erika Alexander comes in strong in as comedy relief, as a detective listening to the wild tale so far. (Hitchcock famously said you don’t go to the police because it wouldn’t be fun: Peele makes it fun.) Soundtrack composer Michael Abels celebrates Bernard Herrmann’s legacy to cinema, which not only heightens the mood but keeps the awfulness of the tale from being overwhelming: the sinister old tune revived in the pre-titles is “Run Rabbit Run” by Flanagan and Allen, last heard in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Unusual Children). Get Out not only amuses, but it makes its important point with deftness: watch it, and see the too-white world as a member of a hunted minority would see it, listening to the idiot clichés flaunted to make you more comfortable. (Rose’s liberal dad, played with impressive beigeness by Bradley Whitford, even swears he would have voted for Obama a third time). Kaluuya ought to be a star for the tenderness and grit he brings to this part. It’s an unlikely success, and could have gone wrong in a hundred ways. (Valleywide). (RvB)

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Saroo Brierley’s true story of a childhood nightmare resolved with the sturdy help of Google Earth—and there is truth to the comment that the film is sort of a commercial for the search engine. Garth Davis directs this story of a rural Indian boy (played in youth by Sunny Pawar) who fell asleep as a stowaway on a train. The boy ended up a thousand miles away in Kolkata. He was a non-Bengali speaker in a city already full of street kids, and the name of the town he lived in drew a blank with the local authorities. Adopted by a couple from coastal Tasmania, Saroo grew up in affluence…still plagued by the thought of the family he left behind. Davis, primarily an Australian television director, seems to keep a loose hand on the actors, giving them room.

As the adult Saroo, the steadily rising Dev Patel holds the screen with ease. Commonly a pair of icebergs in the movies, Rooney Mara (as Brierley’s girlfriend in Melbourne) and Nicole Kidman (the adoptive mom) are unusually warm and touching. Kidman is at first the perfect kind of mom, who always knows how to say the right thing, but in one scene she reveals her own past and a William Blake-like vision she had when she was a child, and the performance

is complete: it’s like a trap door opening to reveal the mysteriousness of motherhood. Greig Fraser’s landscapes of Brierley’s two worlds are extremely handsome. One feels the remarkable story has been tarted up a little—there was enough Dickens in it already, before the scenes of how the boy Saroo narrowly evades being pimped out. Still, it’s an impressive tale that’ll get the mothers in the audience right in the brisket. (Valleywide). (RvB)

Revivals THEY MET IN THE DARK/TAKE MY LIFE

(1943/1947) Life during wartime: the patriotically named Commander Heritage (James Mason) is the victim of Nazis planting false information, and is kicked out of the service. The Naval officer does some investigating and finds, simultaneously, a Canadian visitor (Joyce Howard) and a murdered girl whose body vanishes before the police arrive.

A bit like The 39 Steps, and edited by Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher. Mason sighed years later, in The Films of James Mason, “The producer [Marcel Hellman] was very popular with the crews because he gave them a share of the profits, a splendid idea. I do not know how many of Marcel’s films ran into profits.” BILLED WITH Take My Life. A false accusation of murder leads to a breakneck trip to Scotland (speaking of The 39 Steps). Ronald Neame directs this speedy 79 minute thriller. (Mar 2-3 at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

“THE ‘CITIZEN KANE’ OF CAT DOCUMENTARIES!” - Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE

“DELIGHTFUL AND VISUALLY SPLENDID.” - Stephanie Zacharek, TIME MAGAZINE

“IT WILL SAVE US ALL. WHY ARE OTHER MOVIES EVEN MADE?” - Matt Prigge, METRO

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Heroic Funk FREE SPIRITS On their latest LP, ‘Freedom is Free,’ L.A.’s Chicano Batman harness the power of soul for good.

Chicano Batman still having a blast playing music for the people

BY DIANA SAN JUAN

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VERYBODY NEEDS A hero, according to Bardo Martinez. Not all wear red capes, sport spit curls and swoop in to save damsels in distress. Some have brown skin, wear frilly Austin Powers shirts and serve Mexicans, MexicanAmericans or Spanishspeakers all over America—or, as Martinez says, “La Raza.”

“We all look up to people,”

explains Martinez, frontman for the rising L.A.-based Chicano Batman.

Combining a sincere love and appreciation for their heritage with a transnational point of view, the quartet seamlessly meld pan-Latin flavors with grainy Detroit soul and dangerously smooth g-funk grooves and aim to play the hero in a world besieged by powerful villains.

With their third studio album, Freedom is Free, Chicano Batman celebrate their diverse backgrounds— the band’s collective heritage covers Mexico, Colombia and El Salvador— while also make a case for peace, love and good vibes in an increasingly globalized world.

“We are definitely Chicano, because we live in L.A.,” Martinez says. “We cannot negate the generations of Mexican-Americans that have definitely put their spin on the culture and the streets of Los Angeles.

But that continues to transform every day—over generations and generations—and we, Chicano Batman, are part of that change.”

In an effort to highlight that change—but also to remind listeners that working-class immigrants have long played a role in the American fabric—the band recently put their own spin on Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” switching some of the lyrics from English to Spanish.

The song was released in a timely fashion, on Jan. 19, the day before Inauguration Day. “Even though I didn’t write it, I still owned it because the more and more I would sing it, the more and

more I would feel the message within it,” Martinez says. “I was like, this is something I would write, you know?”

Freedom is Free, which drops this Friday, was produced by Leon Michels. A music industry veteran, the saxophonist, composer and producer has worked with The Black Lips, Jay-Z and Lana del Rey, among other well-known artists. He was a member several funk and blues rock groups, like The Arcs and The Mighty Imperials, before co-founding Big Crown Records and Truth and Soul Records. Using technology dating back to the ’60s and ’70s, Michels tracked Freedom is Free on analog tape and played horns on the album.

“He became a creative force with us,” Martinez says of Michels’ role in pulling the album together. “It was amazing, because half of the time, we saw eye to eye. It wasn’t like he was telling us to do something we didn’t want to do. We love the same type of music, you know?

It was an honor to work with him and be considered on the same playing field as him, somebody with amazing work like himself.”

Setting themselves apart from other artists, Chicano Batman always take the stage in unique uniform.

About eight years ago, bassist Eduardo Arenas suggested they don retro tuxedos found at a thrift store.

Since then, the suits—with their ruffled, Austin Powers shirts and bow ties—have been an integral part of the Chicano Batman calling card.

Martinez believes that the band’s style reflects their cohesive artistic taste and evokes a question within the crowd: “Why are they in uniform?” Though their outfits are reminiscent of Jerry Seinfeld’s puffy shirt, they are symbolic to the band’s growing credibility.

“It’s like when you dress up, it gives a particular air of officiality to what you’re bringing, the air of seriousness,” he says. “We’re definitely serious about our music.” The Dark Knight is serious about what he does as well, but he’s definitely not as fun.

If he were, he might consider adding some ruffles to his cape.

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Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop THE BACK BAR SOFA Every Wed, 9pm: Open Mic Cypher, feat. Hip-hop, Jungle, Soul, Reggae, Dubstep, Trap, BreakBeat, House and more.

Thu, Mar 2: Bar Con III. Fri, Mar 3: Bibster and Om3n. Sun, Mar 4: The Watchers and Zed. San Jose.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Fri, 10:30pm: Quality Control (indie, rock and hip hop). Every Thu, 10pm: The Weekend Warmup with DJ Sean Black.

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NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam. Every Thu: Back to Back. Los Gatos.

RED ROCK COFFEE Every Mon: Open Mic Night.

Fri, Mar 3, 8pm: Craig Marker.

Sat, Mar 4, 8pm: Eddy Shin.

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THE RITZ Thu, Mar 2, 8pm: Chicano Batman, Sadgirl and 79.5. San Jose. Fri, Mar 3, 8pm: Richie Ramone, OC45 and Can Toker.

San Jose. Sat, Mar 4, 8pm: Bash and Pop. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Every Thu: DJ Benofficial.

Every Fri: DJ Radio Raheem.

Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

THE CARAVAN Every Mon: Tooth and Nail DJ Night. Every first Tue of the month 9:30 pm: Not So Trivial Tuesday Rock DJ Set. Thu, Mar 2, 9pm: Glitter Stiletto DJ night with Miss London. Fri, Mar 3: Lord Howler, The Roxy Gunn Project. Sat, Mar 4: Bangalore.

Tue, Mar 7: Last Rites DJ Night with Robert and Rota. San Jose.

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

EAST COAST ALICE Live music every Fri and Sat. Saratoga.

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

BLUE ROCK SHOOT Every Thu: Open Mic. Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase. Every Sat: Live Featured Show.

Every Sun: Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga.

Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. Fri, Mar 3, 8:30pm: Howard Wiley and Extra Nappy. San Jose.

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Every Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. San Jose.

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

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

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SHERWOOD INN Every Wed: SJ Hank. Every Thu: DJ Maniakal. Wed, Mar 1: Evening With Bon Jovi. San Jose.

Night Blues. Every Fri, 8:30pm: Oldies. Every Sun: Jazz or Blues. Milpitas.

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THE X BAR Fri, Feb 10, 9pm: YD Creations DJ and R&B Music. Sat, Feb 11, 9pm: JR Productions Hip Hop Show.

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

Jazz/Blues/ World ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson. Thu, Mar 2, 7:30pm: Pamela Rose and her Swinging Band. Fri, Mar 3, 8:30pm: Singin’ and Swingin’ Featuring: Carol Luckenbach and her band. Sat, Mar 4, 8:30pm: Something Old; Something New. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Every Sun: Live Jazz Show.

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BLUE NOTE LOUNGE Every Tue, 8:30pm: Tuesday

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

Fri, Mar 3, 7:30pm: Don Olivet Quartet. Sat, Mar 4, 7:30pm: Scared of Spiders. Saratoga.

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

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrara (jazz).

Wed, Mar 1, 7pm: Johnny Neri. Thu, Mar 2, 7pm: Pro Rock Jam. Fri, Mar 3, 8pm: Hootenanny. Sat, Mar 4, 8pm: Honey Wilders. Los Gatos.

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

CITY NATIONAL CIVIC Sat, Mar 4, 8pm: Franco Escamilla. San Jose.

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

Wed, Mar 1, 6pm: Terry Hiatt & The Amazing Colossal Guys.

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TRIPPY TUNES The Gentle Cycle celebrate the release of their self-titled debut LP next week.

Home, Psychedelic Home SPEAKING WITH Derek See and Maxwell Borkenhagen, guitarists for local psych rock quartet The Gentle Cycle, it seems that place may be the chief bonding agent in their music’s winding lysergic chain.

Of course, as retro revivalists and old-school gear fanatics, they’ve always had plenty to talk about when they aren’t busy trading fuzzy, reverberant licks. But scanning their rehearsal studio—from the generations of equipment to the exposed brick and massive, smoke-stained windows overlooking South First Street—a broader aesthetic identity comes into focus.

See, a veteran songwriter and bandleader from San Jose (The Careless Hearts, The Bang), initially connected with Borkenhagen over vinyl. The two are the resident DJs at Café Stritch’s weekly Wax Wednesday party, which finds the pair spinning soul, psychedelia and more—all on LPs, 7-inches and 45s. From there, they moved on to “nerding out over vintage amps and guitars,” Borkenhagen The Gentle Cycle explains. Only upon completion of this elaborate hipster courtship ritual did the two endeavor to jam.

Mar 8, 8pm, Free Borkenhagen should know a thing or two about jamming.

Cafe Stritch, He grew up surrounded by jazz—an entire genre built San Jose upon improvisation and the ability to read the players around you. Now, as artistic director of Café Stritch, he plays an integral part in the family business, booking bands and running sound at the restaurant, bar and venue.

Speaking on the significance of their meeting at Stritch and their enviable downtown rehearsal space and recording studio, See touches upon his and Borkenhagen’s dedication to being a San Jose band. “It’s kind of a musicians sanctuary in an area where there is less and less emphasis on music.”

Tracked mostly live on an analog, reel-to-reel recording console, the energy of the room is palpable on The Gentle Cycle’s self-titled debut LP. “It’s instant vibe when we’re here,” See says. They celebrate the release of the record—a hazy pastiche of blissed-out ’60s psychedelia and soul— with a show next week at Stritch.

The Gentle Cycle is available for purchase on the group’s Bandcamp page and will be on hand at their upcoming show—on vinyl, natch. For those who wish to purchase the album with a good deed, See says he will accept proof of a donation to any number of progressive causes—Planned Parenthood, Doctors Without Borders, you name it. He’s not going to be as picky about your good deed as he is about his guitar tone. —Nick Veronin

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Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

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Every Tue, 6:30pm: Irish Seisiún.

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Wed, Mar 1, 8pm: American Me Comedy. Fri, Mar 3, 7pm and 10pm; Sat, Mar 4, 7pm and 10pm, Sun, Mar 5, 7pm: Mike Epps. San Jose.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that you will have earned the title of Master Composter no later than March 26. Not necessarily because you will have packed your food scraps, wilted flowers, coffee grounds, and shredded newspapers in, say, a deluxe dual-chamber tumbling compost bin.

But rather because you will have dealt efficiently with the rotting emotions, tattered habits, decrepit melodramas, and trivial nonsense that has accumulated; you will have worked hard to transform all that crap into metaphorical fertilizer for your future growth. Time to get started!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It's a good time

for you to wield your emotional intelligence with leadership and flair. The people you care about need more of your sensitive influence. Any posse or tribe you're part of will benefit from your thoughtful intervention. So get out there and build up the group morale, Taurus. Assert your healing ideals with panache. Tamp down the insidious power of peer pressure and fashionable nonsense. You have a mandate to wake up sleepy allies and activate the dormant potential of collective efforts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you were ever in

your life going to be awarded an honorary Ph.D. from a top university, it would happen in the next few weeks. If there were even a remote possibility that you would someday be given one of those MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grants, now would be the time. Likewise if you had any hopes of being selected as one of "The World's Sexiest Chameleons" or "The Fastest, Sweetest Talkers on Earth" or "The Planet's Most Virtuoso Vacillators," the moment has arrived. And even if none of those things happen, I'm still pretty sure that your reputation and status will be on the rise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You're wandering into places you've always thought you should be wary of or skeptical about. Good for you! As long as you protect your innocence, I encourage you to keep exploring. To my delight, you have also been fantasizing about accomplishments that used to be off-limits. Again, I say: Good for you! As long as you don't overreach, I invite you to dream boldly, even brazenly. And since you seem to be in the mood for big thinking, here are other revolutionary activities to consider: dissolving nonessential wishes; transcending shrunken expectations; escaping the boring past; busting irrelevant taboos.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I did a good job of raising my daughter. She turned out to be a thoughtful, intelligent adult with high integrity and interesting skills. But I'm not sure my parenting would have been as effective if I'd had more kids. I discussed this issue with Nathan, a guy I know. His six offspring are all grown up, too. "How did you do it?" I asked him. "Having just one child was a challenging job for me." "I'll tell you my secret," Nathan told me. "I'm a bad father. I didn't work very hard on raising my kids. And now they never let me forget it." In the coming weeks and months, Leo, I recommend that you pursue my approach in your chosen field, not Nathan's. Aim for high-quality intensity rather than scattershot quantity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her poem "Not

Anyone Who Says," Virgo writer Mary Oliver looks down on people who declare, "I'm going to be careful and smart in matters of love." She disparages the passion of anyone who asserts, "I'm going to choose slowly." Instead she champions those who are "chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable and beautiful and possibly even unsuitable." Here's my response: Her preferred formula sounds glamorous and dramatic and romantic, especially the powerful and beautiful part.

But in practice it rarely works out well—maybe just 10 percent of the time—mostly because of the uncontrollable and unsuitable part. And now is not one of those times for you, Virgo. Be careful and smart in matters of love, and choose slowly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The poet Rainer Maria Rilke bemoaned the fact that so many of us "squander our sorrows." Out of self-pity or lazy selfindulgence, we wallow in memories of experiences that didn't turn out the way we wished they would have. We paralyze ourselves with repetitions of

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depleting thoughts. Here's an alternative to that approach: We could use our sadness and frustrations to transform ourselves. We could treat them as fuel to motivate our escape from what doesn't work, to inspire our determination to rise above what demoralizes and demeans us. I mention this, Libra, because now is an excellent time to do exactly that.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It's time for the

Bliss Blitz—a new holiday just for you Scorpios. To celebrate it properly, get as buoyant as you dare; be greedy for euphoria; launch a sacred quest for pleasure. Ah, but here's the big question: Can you handle this much relief and release? Are you strong enough to open yourself to massive outbreaks of educational delight and natural highs? Some of you may not be prepared. You may prefer to remain ensconced in your protective sheath of cool cynicism. But if you think you can bear the shock of unprecedented exaltation and jubilation, then go ahead and risk it. Experiment with the unruly happiness of the Bliss Blitz.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his book The Horologicon, Mark Forsyth gathered "obscure but necessary" words that he dug out of old dictionaries.

One of his discoveries is a perfect fit for you right now.

It's "snudge," a verb that means to walk around with a pensive look on your face, appearing to be busy or in the midst of productive activity, when in fact you're just goofing off. I recommend it for two reasons: 1.

It's important for your mental and physical health that you do a lot of nothing; that you bless yourself with a healing supply of refreshing emptiness. 2. It's important for your mental and physical health that you do this on the sly as much as possible; that you avoid being judged or criticized for it by others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wish your

breakfast cereal came in boxes decorated with Matisse and Picasso paintings. I wish songbirds would greet you each morning with sweet tunes. I wish you'd see that you have more power than you realize.

I wish you knew how uniquely beautiful you are. I wish you'd get intoxicated with the small miracles that are happening all around you. I wish that when you made a bold move to improve your life, everyone greeted it with curiosity and excitement. And I wish you would let your imagination go half-wild with fascinating fantasies during this, the Capricorn wishing season.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "You're a different human being to everybody you meet," says novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Now is an excellent time to contemplate the intricacies and implications of that amazing truth—and start taking better advantage of how much freedom it gives you. Say the following statements out loud and see how they feel: 1. "My identity isn't as narrowly circumscribed as I think it is." 2. "I know at least 200 people, so there must be at least 200 facets to my character." 3. "I am too complicated to be completely comprehended by any one person." 4. "Consistency is overrated."

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your immediate future is too good to be true. Or at least that's what you, with your famous self-doubt, might be inclined to believe if I told you the truth about the favorable developments that are in the works. Therefore, I have come up with some fake anxieties to keep your worry reflex engaged so it won't sabotage the real goodies.

Beware of dirty limericks and invisible ladders and upside-down rainbows and psychic bunny rabbits. Be on guard against accountants wearing boxing gloves and clowns singing Broadway show tunes in runaway shopping carts and celebrities telling you classified secrets in your dreams.

Homework: What's the best surprise you could give yourself right now? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #626075 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pallo Auto Transport, 4122 Horizon Ln., San Jose, CA, 95148, Aguirre Fernando. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Fernando Aguirre. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/01/2017. (pub Metro 2/08, 2/15, 2/22, 3/01/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #625991 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lovely Hair Salon, 3535 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Yen Do, 2150 Monterey Hwy SPC 83, San Jose, Ca, 95112. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/05/2012. /s/Yen Do. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/01/2017. (pub Metro 2/08, 2/15, 2/22, 3/01/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #626106 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Dent Discount Mobile, 2. Discount Dent, 3.

Dent Discount Mobile & Body Shop, 230 Umbarger Road, San Jose, CA, 95111, Ken Clark. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/14/2017. Refile of previous of #574852 with changes. /s/Ken Clark. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/02/2017. (pub Metro 2/08, 2/15, 2/22, 3/01/2017)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #626285 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EZ Park Fly, 1740 N. 4th St., San Jose, CA, 95112, EZ Park Fly Inc. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/22/2012. Refile of previous file #562882 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Erimyas Tiku. CEO. #3731843. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/7/2017. (pub Metro 2/15, 2/22, 3/01, 3/08/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #625984 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Consortium Tech, 6195 Rocky Glen Court, San Jose, CA, 95123, Jonathan Sugimoto. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/01/2017. /s/Jonathan Sugimoto.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/01/2017. (pub Metro 2/15, 2/22, 3/01, 3/08/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #626469 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BUU Auto Repair, 912 W Evelyn Ave., #5, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Buu T Mai, 1031 Clyde Ave., #904, Santa Clara, CA, 95054. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/13/2017. /s/Buu T Mai. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/13/2017. (pub Metro 2/22, 3/01, 3/08, 3/15/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #626543 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eyewow Lash N Brow, 1230 Leigh Ave., 2, San Jose, Ca, 95126, Rae Love Microblading. LLC. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/31/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Laura Ordunez. CEO. #201703310528.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/15/2017. (pub Metro 2/22, 3/01, 3/08, 3/15/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Career Technical Center, 2. CTC, 1430 Tully Road, Suite 408, San Jose, CA, 95122, Viet-American Voters of Northern California. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/01/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/John Ngo. President. #3108136. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/03/2017. (pub Metro 2/08, 2/15, 2/22, 3/01/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Paradox Brand, 161 Jackson St., STE 1, San Jose, CA, 95112, Paradox Barbershop LLC, 1409 W. San Carlos St., San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/20/2017.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jeff Pham. Owner/CEO. #201510410211. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/21/2017. (pub Metro 3/01, 3/08, 3/15, 3/22/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MK Auto Wholesale, 900 sout First St., San Jose, CA, 95110, Michael Kahn, 706 Hollenbeck Ave., #1, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael Kahn. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/06/2016. (pub Metro 2/15, 2/2, 3/01, 3/08/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mute Specter Productions, 1427 Lujoso Ct., San Jose, CA, 95128, Marcel Toorians. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/20/2016. /s/Marcel Toorians. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/09/2017. (pub Metro 3/01, 3/08, 3/15, 3/22/2017)

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A year ago, the woman who pet-sits for me began inviting herself over for dinner. We started going out about three times a week. I always paid for dinner.

She never introduced me to her friends, wouldn’t let me pick her up at her apartment, and wouldn’t let me touch her. Even a genial “thank you” touch on the arm got a grim response. Her reason: She didn’t want a relationship. I kept hoping this would change. Recently, I went on Facebook and saw that she’s been in a relationship with another man. Her response? “Well, I’m not sleeping with him, so I can see whomever I want.” After a long, demoralizing year, I ended things. Did I do right by getting out?—Not A Game Player Having regular dinners with somebody doesn’t mean you’re dating. I have dinner with my TV several nights a week, but that doesn’t mean I should get “Samsung forever!” tattooed on my special place.

Consciously or subconsciously, this woman deceived you into thinking a relationship was possible—but she had help. Yours. To understand how you got tripped up, let’s take a look at selfdeception—through an evolutionary lens. Evolutionary researchers William von Hippel and Robert Trivers describe self-deception as a “failure to tell the self the whole truth” by excluding the parts that go poorly with our goals and our preferred view of ourselves. We do this through “information-processing biases that give priority to welcome

over unwelcome information”—or, in plain English: What we ignore the hell out of can’t hurt us.

Seems crazy, huh—that we would have evolved to have a faulty view of reality? However, von Hippel and Trivers contend that the ability to self-deceive evolved to help us be better at deceiving others—keeping us from giving off the cues we do when we know we’re putting out a big fibby. As Trivers explains in “The Folly of Fools”: “We hide reality from our conscious minds the better to hide it from onlookers.”

Knowing that we do this can help us remember to ask the right questions— the ego-gnawing kind—and drag the facts upstairs to consciousness and give them a long look.

I feel that my boyfriend brings out my best self: loving, sweet, productive.

In my failed marriage, my ex seemed to bring out my worst self: unstable, selfish, lazy. It’s almost as if I’m a different person with my boyfriend. But how different can I be?—In A Better Place

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OK, so you sometimes daydreamed about your naked ex and the things you’d like to do to him —like painting him all over with maple syrup and throwing him into a pit of starving fire ants.

To understand what’s different with your current boyfriend, consider that the relationship is an environment— one that influences your behavior just like a physical environment. (Alaska in January calls for a snowsuit, not a bikini and your rainbow unicorn water wings.)

There’s a term for the sort of relationship dynamics that bring out your best self—the “Michelangelo phenomenon”—coined by social psychologist Caryl Rusbult and her colleagues. The name was inspired by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo’s belief that there’s an ideal figure hidden within each block of stone and that it’s

the sculptor’s job to chip away the pieces around it until it’s revealed.

They find that in a relationship, two things foster your bringing out the best in each other. One is that your partner “affirms” your values—meaning that your partner is aligned (enough) with what you care most about. (This doesn’t mean they want exactly what you do; they just need to respect you for going for it.) Second, they engage in behaviors that encourage you to move toward your “ideal self.”

This might mean urging you to acquire new skills or, at a cocktail party, asking you about the dog-walking drone you invented while you’re standing next to that trustafarian with the tech-funding hobby.

Rusbult and her colleagues observe that when individuals in a relationship improve and grow— especially through their partner’s encouragement—it makes for a better relationship and happier partners.

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(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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Buckle Up THE REAL DEAL Kim Addonizio often endures questions about how much of her art—at turns sacred and profane—comes from real life.

Kim Addonizio brings intense new poetry collection to San Jose

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CCLAIMED POET, writer and articulator of the blues Kim Addonizio fortifies the classical poetic canon with glorious fusions of sacred and profane in her latest volume, Mortal Trash. Heraclitean Fire, internet dating, antidepressant medications and crappy ex-lovers appear and disappear, one after the other. She employs prosody and parody, elegy and eulogy, with equal intensity.

For this reason, Addonizio’s appearance 4-5pm Friday in the Steinbeck Center, on the fifth floor of San Jose State University’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, should make for a gala hoedown spectacular, free to the public. There will be a special cocktail hour and reading and conversation.

Addonizio’s second 2016 book, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life, was a memoir structured as an abstract series of essays that likewise threw a thousand emotions right in your face. Unlike poetry, you won’t need to irritate the bejeezus out of the poet by asking her which stuff is true, because it’s all true. Which brings us to Charles Bukowski, of course.

Apparently, some jealous critic tossed off Addonizio as “Bukowski in a Sun-

dress” and it stuck. Whether the bozo intended this as a compliment or a snide remark doesn’t matter. I’m glad it stuck.

As such, Bukowski in a Sundress contains more than one essay about the inquisitive prying buffoons who ask what is “real” in Addonizio's poetry, as opposed to the parts she just made up.

Many good poets seem to deal with this crap. It’s just part of being a poet. So, in one essay, “Pants on Fire,” she comes clean and rattles off a hysterical laundry list of various poetic dimensions, that is, which material she made up and what was real, or why clueless ex-boyfriends asked her stuff in the heat-of-the-fight, like, “Why do you go into things so much?” (Only a non-writer would ask that question.) Other than that, I won't spoil it for you. Probably doesn't matter anyway, because Bukowski in a Sundress is unspoilable, if that’s even a word.

Better yet, other essays in the book provide human advice for any would-be writing student who wants to know what “the life” is really like:

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drunken romps after boring academic writers’ conferences, receiving awards at the podium while hiding the selfdoubt that all writers have, or even teaching in remote backwater places and empathizing with the teenage students’ pain and isolation, as they use poetry as a way out of their misery. Addonizio also goes deep into the common pitfalls of the writer’s existence in regards to drugs, selfloathing, writer’s block, distraction, boredom, family guilt, isolation, loneliness, destitution, nomadic inclinations, escapism via alcohol, avoiding the actual writing at all costs, and dealing with overwhelming amounts of rejection from agents, magazines or commercial publishers.

You know this is part of the human condition, if you're a writer.

Thankfully, I can testify that Addonizio also writes high-quality manuals of the poetic craft. Her textbook, Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, is chockfull of exercises, meditations, discombobulations and expert lessons for grooming the practice. To make a long column short, that book was and remains a massive influence on me. Of the two dozen poems I’ve published in obscure journals, at least a third of them originated by doing exercises from Ordinary Genius. In fact, I still occasionally carry it around in my bag.

I might even owe it to Addonizio for even trying my hand at poetry on a serious level. When she came to SJSU in 2013, I bought another copy of the book and gave it to a friend of mine. In Room 255 of the main library, I stood there in the signing line with Scott Knies of the San Jose Downtown Association and Ted Gehrke, head honcho of the Fountain Blues Festival, both of whom also purchased a copy. (Poets are everywhere around these parts.)

Gehrke, right then and there, booked Addonizio to perform at the Blues Festival later that year, since she's also a killer harmonica player.

This Friday, a good branding consultant would say, “Bring your own blues.” It should be a rocking time.

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Easy Does It KITCHEN-SINK CUISINE Everyday ingredients make for some tasty okonomiyaki, Osaka style.

Santa Clara dining scene adds a new okonomiyaki favorite in Fugetsu

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OME OF THE most creative dishes are born out of the most desperate situations. The Japanese okonomiyaki is one of these comforting home-cooked dishes resulting from the need for affordable and filling food made from whatever was on hand during World War II, when rice was in short supply in the predominantly rice-based cuisine.

The ingredients are very much of the “kitchen sink” variety: shredded cabbage and other available vegetables, pork or beef cut into small pieces, noodles, then a batter made

of flour and eggs scrambled together like a large pancake. Then it’s topped with the notorious Japanese Kewpie mayonnaise and a sweet and viscous teriyaki-like sauce slathered all over, with more served on the side. Most households could make a version of this on clear-out-the-fridge night.

At Fugetsu, okonomiyaki is the main attraction. Originating from Osaka, Japan, Fugetsu was a small shop run by an older couple with a huge crowd of patrons. Now they have opened the first U.S. location in Santa Clara, taking over what was once another Japanese chain, Shabuway.

The red and black décor is still there, as are the heating plates and grills built into the tables; vents hang above each table. The dishes served at Fugetsu are already cooked by the kitchen staff so the grill just keeps the food warm.

Okonomiyaki here is served with a side salad and bowl of miso soup.

The half-and-half combinations are the best way to try different flavors. I ordered the pork okonomiyaki (half size) for a taste of the signature dish.

Not an overwhelming portion, there’s no noodle in this version and the sauces were sweet. I tasted mostly the cabbage and batter with the occasional piece of pork. I chose the slightly seared white tuna tataki salad as the other half of the combination for a total of $13.95. The salad was fairly standard, good quality tuna with fresh greens, tomatoes and probably a bottled but tasty sesame vinaigrette.

Both elements of my meal were satisfying for the light lunch I wanted.

Everything is made better by adding noodles, and this was especially true with the Negi Tsukimi ($13.95), which is the traditional pork okonomiyaki with noodles topped by chopped green onions and a runny egg. This dish came out buried under a mound of green onions. With the noodles, all the same flavors from the classic okonomiyaki were held together in noodle form and was much more filling. I definitely recommend this for those who want a heavier meal.

One item I can never pass up is yaki onigiri ($4.50), a grilled rice ball with tobiko inside, brushed with soy sauce and garnished with bonito flakes on top. It is a common comfort food in Japan and it’s not too difficult to make—but it’s very easy to distinguish great onigiri from the rest.

Fugetsu passes this test with flying colors. The dish comes as one large triangle instead of two smaller ones that other restaurants serve. The rice is cooked and molded perfectly.

Everything is made better by adding noodles, and this was especially true with the Negi Tsukimi Lunch doesn’t offer too many appetizer options and the hiyayakko ($4.50), chilled tofu with ginger and bonito flakes, sounded interesting enough. It turned out to be a disappointing dish of cold boxed tofu cut into cubes and sitting in a small pool of dressing that tasted like the same one used in the salads. While $4.50 is affordable, the dish was not worth ordering when it can be assembled easily at home.

Not all dishes from Japan will be exotic like sushi. Some are familiar and comforting like okonomiyaki.

Even for those who have never tried it before, it is easy to get on board with the concept of throwing delicious things on a grill and holding it together with batter. The space is quite small and lunch can get packed, and there were only a few front-ofhouse employees servicing a packed restaurant—but they did an excellent job. Overall, Fugetsu provides a pleasant new experience with tasty and filling food.

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2783 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

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Hapa’s Revels in Mixing It Up

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LANG FOR “MIXED” in Hawaiian, Hapa is a colloquial term used to describe people of mixed descent or heritage. It seems fitting then that Derek Tam and Brian Edwards are not only of mixed Asian-American heritage, but their new craft brewery and taproom, Hapa’s Brewing Company, also intends to mix classic brewing techniques with new flavors, appealing to beer geeks and amateurs alike.

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“Hapa’s is not only a play on words with hops, but the process of brewing beer also involves mixing together ingredients at different stages,” says Tam, who manages the business side of the operation. “So it all tied together nicely when we were thinking of a name.”

Along with Edwards, the brewmaster, the partners chose to quit their jobs in tech and finance to share their passion for beer with the South Bay. The taproom, located in an industrial cannery warehouse bordering light rail tracks, has an airy and inviting atmosphere that’s welcoming and adaptable to both large and small parties. Massive barn-style doors connect the indoor and outdoor spaces, offering plenty of communal-style seating, board games, a shuffleboard table and bean bag tosses. The space is set up for interacting and hanging out, and the two barside flat screen TVs make it comfortable for watching a Warriors or Sharks game. Best of all, the taproom joins a growing number of establishments that fall under BYOF: Bring Your Own Food. Food trucks also frequent the space on weekends, offering dishes like tacos and sliders.

Hapa’s currently has three beers on tap: Barbie’s Blonde, a blond ale; Hungry Dog, an India pale ale; and Little Angel, a mocha porter. While it’s a relatively short list, three beers go a long way in terms of taste and appeal.

Barbie’s Blonde ($5) is a softly carbonated, smooth ale with slightly sweet undertones and a refreshing aftertaste, making it a seriously drinkable beer for even the most casual beer drinkers. The Hungry Dog is golden in color with a complex and full bodied finish, and a must-try for any IPA fan. The mocha porter is the standout, however, and manages to balance rich and decadent coffee and chocolate flavors without being overpowering or acidic.

Patrons can try a flight of all three brews ($6) before deciding on a favorite, and can even take home a “crowler” of their favorite beer ($10-12). Tam and Edwards plan to expand the beer menu to five standard drafts and three rotating seasonal brews. —Avi Salem HAPA’S BREWING COMPANY 460 Lincoln Ave, Ste. 90. 408.982.3299

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