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

One-Night Stan Bro, we can totally tell you’re crushing it. In town on a business trip, chilling at a local bar, skeezing on women. Well, to be specific, a “Mexican” woman. The only problem is, not every dude you encounter is ready to be your compadre in misogyny—especially if we happen to know the woman you’re boorishly objectifying. So, next time you’re out in a strange place, maybe tone down the caddish BS and “I’m on a hall pass” talk.

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THE FLY

Big Payback The ghost of election past has come back to haunt former Milpitas Mayor JOSE ESTEVES, as state political watchdogs unearthed suspicious activity from his campaign coffers back in 2012. According to the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), Esteves and his wife transferred nearly $20,000 from the campaign to their personal bank accounts. The former They mayor also failed to Did keep records to back his What? claim that many of those transfers—some made SEND TIPS TO FLY@ by his wife, SUSAN— METRONEWS. were reimbursements COM for campaign expenses.

That’s two counts against Esteves and his campaign treasurer at the time, ARSENIO ILORETA. The proposed judgment for the violations: $6,000. The FPPC will vote on the order when it meets March 16. Iloreta and Esteves didn’t return calls by press time, so it’s unclear how they justify such an egregious lapse in bookkeeping. According to the FPPC, the investigation was prompted by a complaint about Esteves’ use of a donated campaign office space. During that probe, investigators uncovered some questionable account withdrawals. Esteves’ campaign statements from 2012 through 2014 reported a total of 98 expenditures. But he produced a receipt or invoice for only 19 of them. Many of his wife’s expenditures—reportedly for food, ads, door hangers and T-shirts, to name a few—were made in cash.

The FPPC noted in its stipulation that it couldn’t confirm whether each payment from the mayoral committee was indeed payback for campaign costs. On the flip side, however, it couldn’t confirm that the money was misused. So why doesn’t that rise to the level of a criminal investigation?

Fly couldn’t get the FPPC to give a straight answer. When deciding how big a fine to levy, the commission considers similar cases, whether or not the respondent has a record of flouting election law and how experienced they are as a candidate. Esteves had been running campaigns for more than a decade at the time of his alleged violations.

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Overdose Denied THE ANTIDOTE Public health officials are arming the public with a life-saving drug for heroin and painkiller overdoses.

County offers life-saving treatment to combat rise in opioid deaths

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AMIE FOBERG walked into the methadone clinic looking for something more productive to do than anxiously check her phone for signs of life. Her friend had confided in her about wanting to kick a heroin habit, which had already brought her several times to the brink of death. But early last month, her friend suddenly stopped calling.

“I’m really worried,” said Foberg, 31, a local activist and advocate for the homeless. “But that’s also why I’m here: to learn how to save her life, if it comes to that.”

In a small room at the central San Jose addiction clinic, she joined a handful of other attendees to find out how to administer Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, which blocks opioid receptors in the brain to reverse the effects of an overdose. Dan-Wen Tsai, the clinical nurse leading the training, opened a pink-and-white box and pulled out one of the applicators.

“What you do is use your two fingers like this,” she said, holding up one of the small plastic nozzles. “You insert into the nostril and push.”

Unlike the old naloxone kits, Tsai explained, the new ones are needle-free and easy to use. Up until a year ago, the overdose antidote came in glass ampules that had to be injected into a vein or muscle with a one-inch needle.

“Most people aren’t medically trained,” Tsai said, “so they might not be comfortable using a needle. But this is very easy.”

According to the Centers for Disease

Control, more than 52,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2015, which comes to roughly one person every 10 minutes. That’s the highest count on record. Driving the increase is the soaring abuse of prescription painkillers and heroin, a category of drugs known as opioids. Santa Clara County saw a 126 percent jump in the number of heroin poisonings from 19 in 2011 to 43 in 2015, according to the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Preliminary data from 2016 show a continued upward trend— and that’s just for heroin. The county has also seen an uptick in overdoses from other opioids, including fentanyl, which is 50 percent more potent than heroin.

The epidemic traces back to the boom in prescribed pain pills from the 1990s through early 2000s. Prosecutors didn’t start criminalizing physicians for overdose deaths until recent years.

In 2012, police arrested a Los Gatos doctor suspected of running a “pill mill.”

Dr. Jasna Mrdjen dispensed powerful painkillers with little regard for whether patients abused them or shilled them on the black market, according to prosecutors, who charged her with

state,” Parwiz said. “But it’s still a very serious problem. And the effects are primarily on the younger people. We’re seeing more and more young kids get addicted, and more of the elderly. The young kids, a lot of them play sports, get injured, get prescribed pain pills, and the next thing they know is that they’re hooked. It snowballs from there.”

Amy Cooper, who sat in on the Narcan training session with Foberg last month, said she wishes someone had been there to administer the treatment to her son, Jonathan Gottlieb. It was on a Fourth of July getaway in 2014 when she got the dreaded call from San Jose police. Her son was 26 years old when he died from a toxic cocktail of alcohol and Norco, which, as she found out later, was prescribed by a dentist.

“If it happened to my family, it could happen to any family,” said Cooper, who has since volunteered her time with the National Coalition Against Prescription Drug Abuse to raise awareness about the dangers of opioids. “We really need to spread the word, not only about the dangers of prescription painkillers, but also about this treatment that can basically bring people back to life during an overdose.”

Dr. Deborah Stephenson, who works for the county’s public health department and specializes in preventative and addiction medicine, urged anyone who uses opioids to never use alone.

“People tend to want to isolate when they go use,” she said. “That’s the danger, that they lose consciousness and there may not be anyone there to help. But what we’re seeing in other cities, including San Francisco, is that the people who are saving the most lives are people who have addiction issues themselves, because they know the signs and they’re around other users.”

Foberg said she’s also concerned about what happens after someone administers Narcan, which sends the user into sudden, gut-wrenching withdrawal. It may save their life, but because it empties the opioid receptors of their drug of choice, it also intensifies cravings.

“We need more places for people to detox,” Foberg said. “If people want to get clean, that’s such a narrow window and you want them to have somewhere to go or they’ll just use again.”

But relapse—often repeated relapse—is part of recovery for so many people, she added. And that shouldn’t be fatal.

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involuntary manslaughter. But until recently, pill mills operated with relative impunity. Throughout the nation, doctors paid by pharmaceutical giants relentlessly pushed brands like Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet and Norco.

Now, it’s up to local health officials to push the antidote.

Paramedics have carried naloxone kits since the medication was patented in 1961 and approved as an overdose treatment a decade later. But health and safety concerns kept it out of the hands of some frontline workers. Since the intranasal spray became available a year ago, however, local governments have been trying to get Narcan in the hands of as many people as possible.

Last fall, Santa Clara County began distributing the two-dose naloxone kits, which typically go for about $70 at pharmacy, free of charge to anyone who walks in for an hour-long training at one of a few local methadone clinics. In August, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District Police Department took a page from San Francisco and a growing number of other law enforcement agencies by requiring cops to carry Narcan while on duty.

“Anyone who comes into contact with people who use [opioids] should learn how to administer Narcan,” said Mira Parwiz, an addiction specialist and clinic director for Santa Clara County’s Department of Behavioral Health Services. “Police are often the first ones to arrive at the scene of an overdose, so we’re trying to spread the word that this treatment is available to them.”

As the number of pain pill prescriptions rose to new heights in the early aughts, so did their potency.

When states finally created prescription monitoring programs to crack down on unscrupulous doctors, patients who had become addicted turned to cheaper street drugs, like heroin. From 2014 to 2015, heroin deaths rose 23 percent to 12,989. Deaths from synthetic opioids, such as illicit fentanyl, ticked up 73 percent to 9,580. Prescription painkillers claimed the most lives—17,536—but saw the smallest increase at 4 percent.

By the latest count, opioids caused two-thirds of the nation’s drug overdose deaths. More people die from opioids than car crashes and guns. Although the toll is far worse in rural states and big cities, the South Bay has seen a steady uptick this past decade.

“It’s taking a little bit longer to come here compared to other parts of the

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Resistance is Fertile The revolution is being televised, tweeted, tattooed and Instagrammed by these South Bay artists and activists

BY TORI TRUSCHEIT

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ENNY O’HARA FLIPS through a stack of drawings on tracing paper and produces a recent piece: a protest sign on a wooden stake, surrounded by lilies. The time for peace, it seems, has come to an end.

An artist at Death Before Dishonor tattoo parlor in downtown San Jose, O’Hara, who uses they/ them pronouns, has received numerous requests for political ink in the last few months. Feminist tattoos like clothes hangers and burned bras, anti-fascist tattoos and trans-pride art. “Lots of people are wanting to have that conversation starter readily available and put it all out there,” O’Hara says. “If you care about something and you want to be expressing it to as many people

as possible, a tattoo is a much bigger commitment than a T-shirt.”

O’Hara is one of several local artists using ink, paint, pen or Sharpie to protest the Trump administration. Like the giant antiwar puppets of the 1960s or the “SILENCE = DEATH” posters of the AIDS activist movement, visual art can be a quick and powerful way to communicate dissent, and Silicon Valley artists are doing their part for the resistance.

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ALT-RIGHT IN THE KISSER White nationalist Richard Spencer and his Hitler hairdo call to mind the uniquely German word, “backpfeifengesicht,” or “a face that cries out for a fist.” Sure enough, he got his—live on CNN.

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THE FIRST STEP A simple line drawing with a simple message has galvanized anti-Trumpers.

O’Hara has drawn logos for Rise Up for Justice and STAND San Jose, anti-fascist stickers and 12 postcard designs intended for legislators.

Some postcards have messages like “Protect your people,” while others address topics such as deportation and reproductive rights.

“I don’t think that any social movement could have happened without a solid poster maker or a really good political cartoon,” says Saoirse Alesandro, a student at San Jose City College. She sees her art as a way to show solidarity and remind others that they’re not alone. “Conveying that with an image is important, and that creates feelings of safety when there maybe isn’t any institutionally.”

Before last year’s election,

Alesandro made comics about her experiences as a queer, mixed-race woman of color and a survivor of sexual assault. “Speaking clearly about that is a political act,” she says.

O’Hara’s experiences as a trans person and growing up in group homes influenced their art, as well. “Even if it’s not meant to be political, we live in a place where that’s a politicized identity,” O’Hara says.

But since Donald Trump was elected president, both Alesandro’s and O’Hara’s work has become more direct. “It’s a decision I make going into it now, whereas before, I took for granted that other people would see it that way,” O’Hara says. Alesandro also feels strongly about her purpose

in this new era. “We have to up our game,” she says. “There’s no room for apolitical art anymore.”

Juan Carlos Araujo, who co-owns Empire Seven Studios in Japantown, agrees with that sentiment, and he has a few projects brewing in response to current events. “It’s a matter of speaking up, and I think artists have a great tool to do that, because they can do it visually,” he says. “Art for me has always been something that can trigger awareness and create some kind of voice.”

Eric Victorino, a local musician and visual artist, is driven by a similar urge: “I had a friend on Facebook who said, ‘Get back to making art.

Stop letting Trump consume you.’

My response in my head was, ‘He’s

already consumed me.’ I can’t think about anything else.”

Victorino, who runs the Campbell chapter of the national activist group Indivisible, has turned his Trump obsession into an enterprise, selling more than 200 Sharpie drawings on watercolor paper of the president’s head with a quote inside, for $30 each. “I started to do these busts,” he says. “There’s something so dignified about that silhouette, and then I take something stupid that he said, that’s so not presidential, and juxtapose it.” He has a running list of quotations on his phone. “I can do them all day because you’re never out of material.”

There’s clearly a local thirst for resistance imagery. Jeremiah Harada,

Eric Victorino

whose paintings are on display at Local Color, found that his line drawings of the president have resonated with a surprising number of people, garnering more support than anything else he’s posted on Instagram. “It was cool to see something I just doodled in my bed while I was watching the election have so many people respond,” Harada says.

Resistance art can build momentum quickly on social media. Artists like Harada have an immediate gallery on their Instagram profiles. Damian B, who makes art “about people of color in the community,” using colored pencil, clay and wood, saw potential in the way online art can inspire millennials to fight back instead of isolating themselves behind a phone screen.

“Growing up, art inspired me to ignore the people who were trying to stomp on me,” the artist says. “As much as we’re exposing the alt-right, we’re also bringing in a whole new generation of people who were afraid to speak up.”

Others have used art to capture the public’s temperature. Leah Jay was struck by the creativity in signs she saw at the San Jose Women’s March, which drew tens of thousands of people. She wanted to recognize that outpouring of expression, so she collected 150 signs that had already been used at protests and lined them up against the wall of the San Jose

Museum of Art for what she called a “SignStorm” in February.

Jay intended to put the signs on the floor of the plaza, but the wind started to blow them away, so she moved them to the side of the museum. “People came up in and out of the museum and walked up and down the row of signs,” she says.

“It fit perfectly with my attitude: present it as an installation.” Jay wanted to highlight the grass-roots feeling of the protests. “Consider the signs themselves—the physicality,” she says. “Who made them? Are they in crayon, or on a pizza box? Think about what went into making them.”

Hoping for 250 signs, she put up a flyer at University Art in San Jose’s Midtown. “But an interesting psychological thing occurred,” she says. “People started falling in love with their signs.” Some wanted to keep their very first protest sign, and others planned to leave theirs inside the front door to bring to future events. Jay expects more clever, personalized art at the April 22 March for Science, and she’s putting together a “SignStorm” kit for others who’d like to replicate her idea.

“You may not be able to verbalize what you’re feeling until later,” Jay says. “But it’s the visual impression that sticks with you in your memory for a long time.”

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STANDing Tall WHAT’S YOUR SIGN? Resistance art has inspired all forms of activism in the South Bay.

Silicon Valley’s largest resistance group born out of pizza kegger

BY TORI TRUSCHEIT

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HE WEEK AFTER Donald Trump’s stunning election victory, Rosa Warren invited friends over to make a plan. “I was crying for two days, and then I said, I’m not gonna wallow in this— does anybody want to do anything?” Her husband got a couple of kegs and ordered pizza. Fifty people, many with children in tow, showed up at their house in Cupertino.

Over the next few months that humble house party turned into STAND San Jose, a new group leading the local resistance movement against Trump’s White House. Since Inauguration Day, the organization has focused on making activism accessible to everyone, and the results have been more promising than initially envisioned. On Feb. 11, a STANDorganized rally for Planned Parenthood drew 4,000 people to the sidewalks of San Jose’s The Alameda.

Across the country, rumblings of a resistance movement began as the final votes were being tallied. The Women’s March is considered by many to be the largest one-day nationwide demonstration in American history, with 3.7 million people rallying

across the country and more than 25,000 people packing the streets of downtown San Jose. When Trump rolled out a constitutionally challenged immigration ban Jan. 27, thousands of protesters and lawyers flocked to airports across the country to block traffic for departures and arrivals.

The list of reasons cited to protest the new administration is long and multiplying. Trump has filled his Cabinet with creatures from the very swamp he promised to drain: Wall Street fat cats and oil execs. His top adviser, Steve Bannon, has called for an end to the administrative state while giving an elevated platform to white supremacists, leading to the slaying of Indian immigrants, more than 100 bomb threats at Jewish community centers and mosques being set ablaze.

Multiple campaign and administration officials have lied or conveniently forgotten about their meetings with a Russian ambassador and, in the wake of governmental leaks, Trump has

demonized the press as an “enemy of the people.” He has banned major news outlets from briefings, rescinded Obamaera protections for transgender students, rolled back clean water regulations, spent a third of his time as president on vacation at his Florida resort—at an obscene cost to taxpayers—and, most recently, accused his predecessor in the Oval Office of illegally wiretapping Trump Tower during the election.

And No. 45 just celebrated his 45th day in office Monday.

Both new groups like STAND and longtime community activists are fighting back in Silicon Valley. “The only beautiful thing that has come from this disgusting administration is that people are really ready to do something,” says Warren, who began organizing parents in 2012 with her friend, Ato Walker.

“When Black Lives Matter stuff started happening, we were looking for a way for people with families to participate,” says Walker, who has a 3-year-old son.

The group eventually fizzled out, but the idea of inclusive organizing stuck, finding its new incarnation in STAND. Now, Warren and a core group of about 25 people—who have recruited nearly 1,700 followers on Facebook— organize monthly events with an eye toward making activism accessible.

This requires far more planning than flyers and, perhaps, permits.

“Folks from our team went and talked to every single business on that street and told them what would happen on that day,” Walker says. After the rally, organizers mailed handwritten thankyou notes with photos to every speaker.

At their first rally for health care in January, as well as at the Planned Parenthood event, organizers set aside an area for kids, with juice and crayons.

Specially trained care teams, loaded up medic kits, fruit and water, and kept an eye out for anyone in need of support.

“It was an extra aspect of the march to minimize having to call on police or firefighter intervention when it wasn’t necessary,” says Benny O’Hara, who led the trainings.

STAND has also made efforts to ensure the people most adversely affected by the Trump administration’s policies are leading the work. The group’s website notes that its leaders are “black, brown, trans, disabled, fat, immigrant, female/femme, and/or queer.”

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FIGHT THE POWER Benny O’Hara creates lasting art with tattoos.

“The more people we have organizing with us, the better,” Warren says. “We want to make it something that doesn’t feel scary, so people can join us and do what we need to do to stop the terrible shit that’s happening.”

The extra effort has not always been a smooth transition. The group’s web page is in both English and Spanish, but translators scheduled for the Planned Parenthood rally arrived late.

Weeks later, organizers were still adding names to their email list, as several thousand more people showed up than they’d expected. “We just didn’t have the infrastructure yet,” Warren says.

Eric Victorino, who co-founded the new Orchard City Indivisible (OCI) group in November, has a different approach to organizing. At weekly meetings at Campbell United Church of Christ, Victorino shows a PowerPoint presentation to his audience, which has grown to about 150 people. Watch groups, specializing in topics like healthcare or education, report back on national news, letting attendees know when to call or email representatives. OCI counts nearly 900 people on its private Facebook page.

“Our South Bay group is smaller than I’d like it to be,” Victorino admits, noting that most of the Campbell meeting attendees are white, and the majority are in their 40s and 50s. “I’m not sure why that is.”

He has distributed snowflake decals to eager activists, reclaiming a

symbol that the alt-right has used to skewer the left for oversensitivity. “At the same time, I think that’s part of our problem,” Victorino says. “We’re all being pussies. I hate that we’re so offended by a couple words.”

STAND’s leadership and OCI, while sharing opposition to Trump’s agenda, seem divided on this point.

“Marginalized people in this town have been out here doing the work, putting it all on the line,” says Vera Sloan, a STAND founding member who points to the diversity of a June 2016 protest when Trump’s campaign came to San Jose. “If someone looks at those insisting on solidarity with them as somehow lacking courage, I don't think I understand how they define that word, and I don't think they really understand San Jose.”

Silicon Valley De-Bug, now in its 16th year, has been a mainstay in documenting and advocating for social justice in the South Bay social, and the organization's resistance efforts have often fallen into its core mission.

A focus on helping undocumented immigrants didn’t start just because of Trump’s immigration orders.

“People are now thinking, ‘Oh, what can we do to stop ICE from coming into the community?’” says Liz Gonzalez, an editor at De-Bug. “We’ve been working on this effort for many, many years to keep ICE unentangled from our local Police Department.”

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De-Bug did, however, launch its own response to the Trump administration with the People’s 100 Days project, which hosts workshops on topics like direct action and writing as resistance. Many of the workshops have had a cultural focus.

“People really need more spaces to feel good right now,” Gonzalez says. “We’re afraid we’re gonna lose people and that folks will be deported. Our initial conversations weren’t, ‘Let’s call representatives,’ it’s ‘Let’s keep our families safe.’”

In advance of potential immigration raids San Jose and other South Bay cities, plans are in the works to create a rapid-response network, which would spread the word and deploy legal support to affected areas. Sacred Heart Community Service and San Francisco-based Pangea Legal Services will hold a legal-observer training 10:30am March 18 at Westminster

Presbyterian Church in San Jose.

STAND is planning a locally focused “sock hop” for housing on March 26, and the group held flood-relief volunteer days at the Billy DeFrank Center in February. Future ideas include a screening of 13th, the Oscarnominated documentary about mass incarceration. But Warren doesn’t want to overextend the group.

“I want to be able to go where we need to go. It’s an emergency state right now,” she says. “We’re trying to put bodies in places where things really need it, because there are so many being targeted.”

As demoralizing as it’s been to see Trump roll back progress made in the last eight years, his actions have inspired an even more diverse cast of people to get involved. “We have a critical tipping point right now,” Walker says.

“Everybody knows it. They can feel it.

It’s in the air.”

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FINGERS CROSSED? San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia huddled with ICE officials Feb. 22.

Last week the Santa Clara Valley Water District announced it was taking taking bold action by putting $22 million into “new flood control work” for areas near Coyote Creek. There’s just one one issue—the new work by the district will come from money it has been sitting on for 15 years. Voters approved $32 million in flood protection efforts for Coyote Creek as part of the Clean, Safe Creeks initiative, known at the time as Measure B. The district spent a third of of that money on planning and design, but a shovel never hit the dirt. Now, 15 years later, after Coyote Creek spilled its banks on Feb. 20, causing more than $100 million in total damage and forcing thousands of people to flee their homes—and in some cases be rescued— the district says it’s time to spend that money. So what has changed between then and now except the optics?

San Jose Police Chief: ICE Makes No Promises on Raids SJ Flood Hearing Set for Thursday

BY JOSH KOEHN San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia has acknowledged he can’t stop federal immigration agents from arresting undocumented immigrants in his city, so he did the next best thing: He got them on the record.

Last month, the top cop for the 10th largest city in the nation called up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and set up a meeting between himself and David Jennings, ICE’s San Francisco field office director, and Shannon McCall, ICE’s assistant field office director for Morgan Hill. SJPD Deputy Chief Anthony Mata also attended the meeting.

The goal of the Feb. 22 sit-down, Garcia said, was to reassure residents that San Jose police will have no role in immigration sweeps and detentions, as well as get a sense of what operations ICE could be planning in the South Bay.

“In light of everything that has happened in Santa Cruz, basically my main reason was to advocate for our community, to pass on the fears that our community is feeling and find out what their mission and their scope is,” Garcia said, adding that ICE told him there are no plans for raids in San Jose.

The chief ’s reference to Santa Cruz comes after police for the coastal city accused federal immigration officers of conning them into assisting a gang sweep that netted additional undocumented immigrants. ICE officials dispute these accusations.

The incident joins a growing number of reports in which ICE has been blamed for hurting a community’s trust in law enforcement.

Last week in Los Angeles, ICE staked out a grade school and detained an undocumented man who had just dropped off his daughter. A couple of

weeks earlier, ICE agents in El Paso, Texas, arrested an undocumented woman who had just applied for a protective order for domestic violence.

Garcia said ICE agents told him they are “not interested in enforcement of victims or witnesses of crimes, as a result of reporting an incident,” which would deviate from the aforementioned reports.

“It seems highly discretionary,” Garcia admitted, adding that “there are no assurances.”

James Schwab, a spokesman for ICE’s San Francisco office, declined to say whether San Jose will be targeted.

“We wouldn't really speak about our future operations publicly, because of security and safety concerns,” he said. The spokesman noted that ICE’s priority is to remove violent criminals, but all detentions are made on a “case-by-case” basis.

San Jose officials will hold a “postmortem” Thursday, March 9 to talk about the city’s awful response to last month’s flood, which caused upward of $100 million in damage.

New details should emerge on how authorities could have better dealt with the deluge that tore through creekside neighborhoods on Feb. 21 and 22.

Since the floods, Metro has learned that the Santa Clara Valley Water District repeatedly gave the city bad data about how much of Anderson Dam spillover Coyote Creek could handle before overflowing. However, Santa Clara County, the National Weather Service and a host of local agencies still gave residents more of a heads up than the city, which bears ultimate responsibility. A timeline of events found that many of the city’s warnings failed to reach their intended recipients. —Jennifer Wadsworth

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BEAU ROULETTE

Wed, 8pm, $35-$59 Lucie Stern Theatre, Mountain View

Thu, 10pm, Free The Caravan, San Jose

Thu, Mar 9, 10pm, $20-35 Pure Lounge, Sunnyvale

Fri, 12pm, Free Seeing Things Gallery, San Jose

Originally from Reno, but now based in L.A., the aptly named Sinicle clearly know a thing or two about debauchery and cynicism.

After more than a decade on the grind—and a number of EPs and demos—the boys have finally released their first proper LP, Angels & Demons. Combining elements of ’90s thrash with bluesy, Southern metal riffage, Sinicle have attracted positive reviews and shared the stage with metal legends Exodus, Ghoul and Otep. One wonders how often the band visits the Rainbow Bar & Grill on the Sunset Strip, former haunt of Lemmy Kilmister. They’d make an ideal backing band for the late Motörhead frontman. (NV)

Willem van Hanegem and Ward van der Harst came together in 2007 to form a Dutch production and DJ duo, transcending the boundaries of electro and house music. W&W combines elements of trance with the high energy of progressive house to create a sound all their own. In 2014, they topped the Beatport charts with No. 1 hit “Bigfoot,” which generated a massive amount of international plays on radio stations and carried them to festivals all over the world.

Championed by the likes of Hardwell, David Guetta and Armin van Buuren, W&W are a force to be reckoned with in the world of EDM. (BS)

Growing up in Los Gatos, in the shade of the Santa Cruz Mountains, the budding shutterbug Beau Roulette had plenty of picturesque views to train his camera lens on. But as a skater who came of age in the ’90s, he was less interested in shooting rolling hills and more into capturing heelflips. These days—in addition for shooting commercially for brands like Levi’s and Soylent—Roulette has rediscovered natural beauty, and merged it with what he learned documenting the urban jungle.

In this new show, “Subtle Tease,” Roulette juxtaposes the harsh light of lasers on the female form and angular, synthetic structures against natural landscapes. (NV)

Even the most impeccably drawn swatches of ink fade with time, but the beauty and grace of deft strokes are eternal. In appreciation of aging, Calligraphy tells the story of two estranged sisters and their two daughters— who must navigate the challenges of clashing cultures and their prideful mothers, as well as their own busy, modern lives. In an attempt to reunite their aging parents, who live on opposite sides of the Pacific, the two women confront tradition, prejudice and their tangled heritage. TheatreWorks stages this intimate and sensitive comic drama in Mountain View. (DSJ)

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Fri, 8pm, $35 The Pear Theatre, Mountain View Sheltering two illegal immigrants from postwar Italy comes with unexpected consequences for Eddie and Beatrice Carbone. Set in 1950s America, A View from the Bridge is a story of forbidden love and its endless fallouts, though it has timely ties to today’s immigration debate. As Eddie’s obsession with his wife’s niece, Catherine, grows beyond appropriate paternal concern and affection, he challenges Rodolpho, the undocumented immigrant she has fallen in love with—accusing him of using her to gain citizenship.

Eddie’s anger eventually ends up impacting his entire community in ways he never intended. (DSJ)

* concerts IL VOLO

Mar 27 at City National Civic

MEKLIT HADERO

ARIANA GRANDE

Mar 27 at SAP Center

GAME OF THRONES CONCERT Mar 29 at SAP Center

ZEPPELIN LIVE!

Apr 7 at City National Civic

THE WEEKND

Apr 28 at SAP Center

WWE PAYBACK

Apr 30 at SAP Center

ANJUNABEATS PRESENTS

May 12 at City National Civic

GABRIEL IGLESIAS

May 13 at SAP Center

MARIACHI VARGAS

May 13 at City National Civic

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

CHRIS BROWN

May 18 at SAP Center

PINK FLOYD CONCERT EXPERIENCE

JOHN 5 Fri, Mar 10, 8pm, $15+ The Ritz, San Jose As a solo artist, John 5 has recorded seven heavy metal guitar albums, working with the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ozzy Osbourne and Slash. He was also the guitarist for Marilyn Manson before becoming the guitarist for Rob Zombie, a heavy metal band known for weaving horror and suspense elements over complicated beats and killer storylines.

His music follows the simple formula of anger, death, sex, demons, drugs and satanic chaos.

With his hair-raising guitar riffs, Wes Borland-style face paint and tattoos from head to toe, John 5’s stage presence invokes the fear that keeps metalheads throwing those devil horns in the air. (BS)

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Jun 2 at City National Civic

DEAD & COMPANY

Jun 3-4 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

NKOTB, BOYZ II MEN Jun 4 at SAP Center

DASH BERLIN

BORIS GILTBURG

MEKLIT HADERO

Sat, 9pm, $45+ City National Civic, San Jose

Sat, 7:30pm, $30+ Trianon Theatre, San Jose

Sat, Mar 11, 8pm, $20 Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

With thumping bass, entrancing beats and a kaleidoscopic light show, the electronic dance music of Dash Berlin is scientifically calibrated to keep the dance floor packed. Ealke Kalberg, Sebastiaan Molijn and Jeffrey Sutorius comprise this Dutch DJ trio, though Sutorius often rocks shows on his own. The outfit first emerged in 2007 with “Till the Sky Falls Down.” Their 2014 album We Are: Part 1 climbed to No. 6 on Billboard’s Top Electronic/Dance Albums. Dash Berlin’s use of guest melodic vocals, paired with their trance productions, earned them the No. 15 spot on DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs list in 2010 and No. 8 in 2011. (VS)

His technical mastery and artistic sentiment will leave the audience in awe. You can see, hear and feel his dedication as he tickles the piano keys. And yet, Boris Giltburg makes it all look easy. Born in Moscow and raised in Israel, Giltburg honed his craft with the legendary Israeli classical pianist Arie Vardi.

His creativity and force earned him first place at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2013. He has played with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra, and now his classical tunes will soar in San Jose. (VS)

San Francisco-based Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-American singer and songwriter known for her soulful performing style and inspiring message of hope and self-empowerment. Her unique sound blends jazz, folk and East African influences. Outside of music, she has been a Senior TED Fellow since 2011, and a cofounder of the Nile Project with Egyptian ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis. Hadero has participated in two artist residencies with the Nile Project, uniting musicians from 11 countries all along the Nile Basin.

Returning to Bing Concert Hall for the first time since 2015, her sensuous, gentle sound will make for a stunning night. (BS)

ROGER WATERS

Jun 7 at SAP Center

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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Mar 25 at City National Civic

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Deep Thoughts RIGHT NOW ‘Sura’ by Jamie Brunson is one of several works featured in SJMA’s new exhibit, ‘Your Mind, This Moment.’

‘Your Mind, This Moment’ exhibit encourages quiet contemplation

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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OULD YOU DESCRIBE your museum-going habits as immersive or cursory? Are you checking things off your list as you rush through the galleries or resting on a bench to stroke your chin while contemplating the self-mythologizing efforts of artists?

Described as “an experiment”—in contrast to an exhibit, per se—“Your Mind, This Moment: art and the practice of attention” attempts to harness your inner sense of

peacefulness. Of course, therein lies an implicit challenge: it’s something of a test.

Turn your gadgets off and all you’ll be left with is art. Art and the sound of your monkey brain screaming for attention. If you’re an employee of Salesforce or SAP, you probably have a head start over the rest of us.

Several companies in Silicon Valley have already incorporated everyday mindfulness into the workday. A mindful employee is a productive employee! And, for this experiment, members of the American Leadership Forum-Silicon Valley participated in a “prototype” or first iteration. It’s their initial feedback that’s incorporated into the title graphics at the entrance of the show.

This inevitable overlap of art and commerce notwithstanding, any novice intent on seeing (not merely looking at) a painting will have the help of guided meditations. Four local meditation experts have pre-recorded soothing suggestions for beginning a practice of mindfulness. You can sample them ahead of a visit on SJMA’s website too. One of them—“Breathing with the Rose” by Amari RomeroThomas—is specifically tied to Andrea Ackerman’s Rose Breathing, 2003, a 3D animation loop that restarts every 34 seconds. Ackerman enlarges the rose to elephantine proportions, then ascribes a breathing motion to its pale pink petals. We watch them expand and contract, over and over, until the rose takes on the quality of some strange animal opening and closing an unidentifiable orifice.

You may be asking yourself: Is that all there is? Contemplation as an end to itself ? It’s something more than

that, even if that something remains grandiose and ineffable. The curator is encouraging a return to an age without a constant set of distractions. “Your Mind, This Moment” reminds us to fully engage with what we are looking at. The practice of attention broadens the capacity of our inner viewfinder.

That’s what allows you to fall in love with the painted details made by one specific hand. It is the beginning of a journey, an artistic odyssey, whereupon a work of art irrevocably alters the way you see the world, if, that is, the mind can stay within the moment.

Paintings, years, museums and cities apart, have begged me to wrest them from the wall so that I could take them home. Inside the Legion of Honor, the sight of Peapods and Insects by Jan van Kessel II still thrills me with its green microcosm of creeping things. At the Art Institute of Chicago, the woman draped in burnt orange from Joseph Stella’s A Vision transfixed me with her dreaming face. Or standing in front of Picasso’s Boy Leading a Horse at the Seattle Art Museum, admiring the depiction of self-confidence, an artist with invisible reins magically in command of his medium.

At “Your Mind, This Moment,” it was Eric Fischl’s watercolor Untitled, 2001. In the center of the gallery, a dozen Persian rugs jut up against each other to dampen sound, to inspire a sense of coziness. Chairs face out in every direction toward the walls. You’re meant to settle in for the duration. On that day, a rainy weekday afternoon, Fischl’s diluted figures, though faceless, seemed alive enough to step out of their frame and onto the floor in front of me. A man carries an unconscious woman (is she dead or merely asleep?) toward the viewer. They are characters from a forgotten myth, the purest distillation of the human form, all sinew and muscle. With only two bold colors, he’s painted a moving reverie on loss.

The experiment is now complete.

It’s up to you and your mind to figure out the results.

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AUTHENTIC PEACE Senegalese Sufi Muslims are the subject of new photo exhibit at Foothill College.

A Thousand Words NEGATIVE MISCONCEPTIONS about Muslims abound, especially in America. Ron Herman, a photography professor at Foothill College, challenges these stereotypes in his recent exhibit, Messengers of Peace, at the Krause Center of Innovation Gallery.

“Some people may feel threatened by diversity, or even hostile to it, resulting in the mistreatment of others,” Herman says in a news release for the show.

Herman spent four weeks in the West African country of Senegal, researching religious diversity between the nation’s Muslim majority and Christian minority as part of the Fulbright scholarship he received in 2016.

His photographs record the daily lives of the people of Messengers Muridiyya—one of four Sufi Muslim brotherhoods. This of Peace mystical sect is one of the most prominent in Senegal, which merges African customs and Islamic practices.

Thru Mar 30, Free His images titled Mame Ndiam with Hair Pin, Djily Foothill College, and Fajulie Sowe in the Kitchen show Senegalese men, Los Altos Hills women and children in front of chipped paint walls.

Their piercing gaze and calm sentiment draw the viewer in and encourage a connection—an understanding of shared humanity.

Their patched clothing, long dreadlocks, patterned necklaces and spartan living conditions provide a glimpse of a hardworking and pious lifestyle.

“We have a very narrow view of Islam, one that has been distorted by mainstream media,” Herman says. “We need to expand the range of visual representation of this massive religion and its diverse practitioners.”

As he traveled through the cities of Dakar, Kenia and many more within Senegal, he captured the people’s work life, religious practices and an essence of their day-to-day lives.

Herman provides an alternative narrative to the common mainstream portrayal of Muslims in the American media. “Because of the demographics of the local area, and to better prepare ourselves to be engaged citizens in our ever-changing global society, it is important that we all work toward intercultural understanding,” Herman says.

“How we treat people is largely based on how we see them,” he says, “and photography is the most popular form of representation in contemporary society.” —Vicente Serna

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Best of the ’Quest ARTISANAL COMIC Fred Armisen first blew up on ‘SNL,’ but he best known for his hipster satire sketch comedy show ‘Portlandia.’

Find something new at Cinequest: a guide to week two

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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INEQUEST WRAPS up this weekend with personal appearances by director Walter Hill, actress Jane Lynch, Garbo on the big screen at the 90-yearold California Theater, and a just-announced appearance

by Fred Armisen.

SNL vet Armisen’s best-known starring vehicle is Portlandia, a rubber joke-shop dagger aimed at the heart of the hipster. TV’s Portlandia defined so much alterna-culture, from compulsory man-bun to compulsive artisanal pickling. Such baseball

as The Rose City has today—RIP, the Portland Beavers—is because of a collegiate-league team called the Portland Pickles, in honor of a Portlandia sketch. In various wigs and guises, Armisen excels as a forlorn beta male in America’s most studiously tolerant town.

Lynch is similarly best known for her Emmy-winning appearance as the head meanie in charge on TV’s Glee. And artsy action director Hill helmed cult classic The Warriors and the ahead-of-its-time The Driver, a key influence on the Ryan Goslingstarring Drive. There’s a special place in movie Valhalla for B movies that are a lot better than they have to be, and Hill’s newest, The Assignment, is one such flick. Michelle Rodriguez brings a surprising amount of power

and feeling to this story of a gunman given an involuntary sex change by a villain. Likely, it’s not for the cisgendered to defend this movie, which has been attracting some Internet flack. But it needs defense: it’s not at all about transgenderism, and it is all about pulp fiction.

Also wrapping up the last weekend of Cinequest is Che and T, Tanuj Chopra’s comedy “about the only two brown [Desi, in this case] dudes in the Silicon Valley who have nothing to do with technology.” Sunkrish Bala of The Walking Dead and Dominic Rains of A Girl Walks Alone At Night as a pair of underachievers who misadventure their way through the hazards of their jobs, until family ties force them to man up.

Similarly, The Dunning Man, written and directed by Michael Clayton, features a loser (James Carpinello) given a job chasing money. He’s a rent collector at an Atlantic City apartment building, tangling with various weirdos: a pair of Chechen gangster/furries who

own a live tiger; a profane rapper (Langston Fishburne, Laurence’s son); and an attractive downstairs neighbor (Dawn Lyen-Gardner).

Clayton’s eye is sharp, and his speed is admirable, but it’s time to retire the device of hypertextual titles describing the characters, accompanied by a typewriter clacking sound (we ain’t watching Divorce Court here).

More trouble in a resort town: Ramsey Davison’s documentary, What Happened in Vegas, is a first-person account of the trouble he faced when he reported witnessing the brutality of LVPD officers.

At the first Shorts program, familiar faces include Marion Ross of Happy Days, Emily Mortimer (the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns) and Lili Taylor (Short Cuts, The Addiction). The order of the programming is smart—it juxtaposes two shorts about insurgent Islam, in which children are the pawns. In Pakistan (The School Bag by Dheeraj Jindal) and Palestine (Pierre Dawalibi’s Today They Took My Son) different sides of the Muslim/infidel violence are analyzed; Jindal takes a view of a tragedy from the soft interior views of a home, while Dawalibi captures the mania in the streets of Israeli-occupied lands. Sadly, neither one really worked, despite their value and seriousness.

Best in show by a mile—one of the best in the fest—is the Iranian short Limbo by Iran’s Ghasideh Golmakani.

Describing it makes it sound like yet another actor’s exercise: two men sort of trapped in a room. A colossally obese elder is being tattooed by a young, skeptical kid on a hot day; the fat man’s body is already inked, covered with the names of people he knew that were killed. It’s as if this stranger were swollen like a tick from all the blood he spilled, or perhaps he’s an evil spirit, materialized to intone the horror of war. Today, we generally know too much about a movie before we see it. Cinequest proves it’s still possible to discover a film, to walk in on something startling and new.

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GET OUT

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, something is more than slightly off: the black servants practically genuflect “as if they’d never heard of The Movement.” The

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MONSTER MASH ‘Kong: Skull Island’ is violent, fantastical and sometimes uproarious.

The Monkey’s Paw also had soul. This one, not so much. Kong is distracted from the romance; he turns his back on Mason after he rescues her.

The witty and energetic director Jordan Vogt-Roberts Kong: Skull Island corrals hallucinatory megafauna, who attack PG-13, 120 Mins. with viscera-splattering Valleywide violence. One of the surprises is a marooned and cracked old fighter pilot Hank (John C. Reilly) whose comic relief is positively eloquent. (K:SI has a great deal of fiery demolition, but Reilly’s F-bomb drop is probably the biggest explosion in the movie.)

Despite the speed, the epic critterwalloping and the feverish jungle—an arresting mix of Hawaii and Queensland— the movie’s rules wobble. The picky should have fun pointing out the contradictions; we’re told the gentle tattooed natives live without theft, and then a second later, that they cut off the hands of thieves. One needs no security system when protected by Kong: “He’s a pretty good king,” Marlow says. “Keeps to himself, mostly.” —Richard von Busack

HERA HILMAR

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. 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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IN IMAX 3D, Kong: Skull Island is a battle of gigantic scowls between Samuel L. Jackson and a 10-story gorilla. It’s an epic staredown, rivalling the squint-offs of Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood.

Jackson shows maximum indomitability as a Vietnam era officer called Packard, bitter over the course of the war. In 1973, Packard escorts a scientific expedition helmed by Bill Randa (John Goodman) seeking to explore Skull Island and bomb it a little in the name of scientific tests. This cursed isle, ringed by storms, is shunned by all sane mariners. Helicoptering in, Jackson roars out the legend of Icarus over the thunder; his attack force of fresh-outof-the-’Nam soldiers bring ammo, napalm and high caliber weapons. In their party is a Bondian British mercenary (Tom Hiddleston) and a photojournalist, Mason Weaver. She’s played by Brie Larson, whose attractive brown-eyed melancholy is just right for the part of the lady flirting with the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.

Online, it’s an article of faith that the 2005 Peter Jackson King Kong had crap digital dinosaurs, which misses the point: it

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Interstellar Metal STONED IN SPACE Cosmically minded stoner metalheads Mothership have a new LP and a persistent hope for humanity.

Mothership pilot new record, ‘High Strangeness,’ to SJ

BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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N 1969, DR. J. Allen Hynek delivered an address titled Twenty-one Years of UFO Reports to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In it, he developed the language that is still in use today to describe sightings of the unexplained.

“I divide the close encounter cases,” Hynek wrote, “into three subdivisions: the close encounter, with little detail; the close encounter with physical effects; and the close

encounter in which ‘humanoids’ or occupants are reported.” The latter case is what we now know of as a close encounter of “the third kind.”

These days Twenty-one Years of UFO Reports is a fairly obscure document, remembered only by ride-or-die believers like Fox Mulder, overshadowed by films like Fire in the Sky and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But for Texas metal band Mothership, it’s a document which retains an almost spiritual power.

“If there is an intelligence out there that is beyond ours, then I hope they come soon,” says bassist-singer Kyle Juett. “We are in some dark days.”

High Strangeness, the band’s upcoming third album (one of the

most relevant titles for an album released in 2017 possible) draws its name from a system of rating UFO encounters that Dr. Hynek created.

“They couldn’t explain why these people were feeling a certain way,” Juett says. “They couldn’t explain why these people believed they were abducted by aliens. And that’s kind of the basis of the album. High Strangeness is unexplained. It kind of comes out of nowhere.”

The album’s first single, “Crown of Lies,” premiered on Loudwire in late January and is heavy on the chugchugs. For the first 2½ minutes the song recalls the snarling melodicism of ’90s grunge, like Alice in Chains, before shifting suddenly. Mothership sound at times like Iron Maiden in an escape pod, bursting out of confinement into an empty and forbidding place. The band (fittingly) describe themselves as “supersonic intergalactic heavy rock.”

Mothership comes to The Ritz on March 12, a few days before their new LP’s release. Also on the bill: Slow Season, stoner metal locals Kook, and Fresno-based Beastmaker, whose love for obscure horror is truly something to behold. Oh, and speaking of high strangeness, the show is sponsored by local pot pharmacy Tru Pharms. When asked about the relation of metal and weed cultures, Juett is nonchalant.

“Some people use a little bit of marijuana to get in the zone, to get a little more creative, maybe to ease some pain they have, or just to get a little far out at a rock & roll show,” he says. “I definitely think getting behind the wheel after two bottles of booze is a lot more harmful than sitting at home or at a show and puffing a bit.”

Throughout the course of our conversation, Juett is adamant about the power of rock music to bring people together.

“The main message [of Mothership] is coming together and bringing back good rock & roll, what that movement was in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s,” he says. “It wasn’t rocket science.

It was a gathering of people. It was therapeutic. That’s what we’re trying to get back to.

“It goes a lot deeper than just a bunch of burnouts trying to hook up and hang out,” he continues. “In all honesty, right now I hope that there is something out there that can come and save us. I feel like we are a lot of lost and wandering souls, dividing from one another. There really is a loss of unity.”

As he goes on, I began to get a sense of how important the band’s name is to their whole identity, and to this heavy, transcendental trip the tour brings.

“We use our band as a platform to bring people together,” Juett says, a few minutes before the transmission ends. “We aim to be very primitive in the fact that you can be safe and feel at home when you’re on board with us. We like for people to come out and take a trip on the ship and just enjoy themselves.”

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

San Jose.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

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

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN

Every Wed: SJ Hank. Every Thu: DJ Maniakal. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

Every Thu: DJ Benofficial.

Every Fri: DJ Radio Raheem.

Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock.

San Jose.

THE CARAVAN

Every Mon: Tooth and Nail DJ Night. Every first Tue of the month 9:30 pm: Not So Trivial Tuesday Rock DJ Set. Thu, Mar 9, 9pm: Sinicle. Fri, Mar 10, 9pm: Gillbillies,The Infamous Swanks, Circus Runaways. San Jose.

CARDIFF LOUNGE

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

CHARLEY'S LG

Karaoke night every Thu. Los Gatos.

MANSON FAM Guitarist John 5 brings his solo project to The Ritz.

Every Sun, 7pm: Acoustic Jam. Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Band. Every Thurs: Fireball Thursdays with DJ Mist. Fremont.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE

NOMIKAI

Jazz/Blues/ World

Live music every Fri and Sat. San Jose.

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

Santa Clara.

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

THE QUARTER NOTE Every Mon: Live Music Jam with Dana’s Band. Every Tue: Karaoke / Open Mic Every Wed: Live Music Jam Funk with Michael “B” Band. Every Thu: Live Music Jam Funk with Vicious Groove. Every Sun: Live Music Jam with Michael “T”. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

Every Mon: Open Mic Night.

Mountain View.

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THE RITZ

Every Wed, 10pm: College Night DJ. Every Thurs, 10pm: Karaoke. Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ. Santa Clara.

Sat, Mar 11, 9pm: Dash Berlin.

San Jose.

Fri, Mar 10, 8pm: John 5 and the Creatures, Ikki Crane and Gundacker. San Jose.

Live music every Fri and Sat. Saratoga.

MOJO LOUNGE

Most Fri/Sat: Live Music.

AGAVE Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

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

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

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson. Thu, Mar 9, 7:30pm: Strictly Sinatra.

Sat, Mar 11, 8:30pm: Pete Escovedo & son Juan Escovedo – Latin All-Stars Celebrating Juan Escovedo's Birthday. Sun, Mar 12, 6:30pm: Hiram Kaailau Bell Hiram & The HUI. Tue, Mar 14, 7:15pm: The Denny Berthiaume Trio with Special Guests “WIZARD OF OZ” CD Release Party & Kellye Grey.

Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Every Sun: Live Jazz Show.

San Jose.

BLUE NOTE LOUNGE

Every Sun, 4pm: NovakNanni Duo. San Jose.

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

STREETLIGHT RECORDS

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

SHERWOOD INN EAST COAST ALICE

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

Fri, Mar 6, 6pm: Rock ‘n’ Roll Women: Rock Music History with Richie Unterberger. San Jose.

Every Thu: Open Mic. Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase.

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TIMELESS Playing jazzy versions of all the hits, No Water After Midnight are a modern-day house band.

Pop from the Past A GREAT SONG has the power to transcend time and space. A rich harmony, an infectious melody, a sick beat, a beautiful lyric: they all work together to move a listener—whether on the dancefloor, emotionally, or both.

Tara Alesia understands this. She and her band, No Water After Midnight, specialize in moving crowds with energetic, heartfelt and jazzed-up renditions of pop songs from yesteryear, yesterday and today. Inspired by the likes of Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z and D’ Angelo, the group plays cover songs from the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s, as well as original numbers—sometimes all together as a single funky medley. The result is a musical time machine, capable of taking listeners back or propelling them forward.

“You hear songs from back in the day and you’re like ‘Oh my God, I forgot about this song,’ you know?”

Alesia says. “‘I really loved this song at the time’ and so it takes them [the fans] back to a place in life when they were a little bit more carefree.”

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In this way, No Water After Midnight are a lot like the contemporary resident DJ. Only instead of playing back or remixing recordings, they put their own distinct spin on the hits, incorporating live singing and rapping, improvisation and innovative arrangements.

Being a house band in the age of the DJ gives No Water After Midnight a certain edge, according to Alesia. “What we do is a rarity in this area and a lot of the time people just stumble upon us and they connect,” she says, explaining that performing live results in an exchange of energy between the band and the crowd—something that can be harder to achieve working behind the turntable decks.

Alesia says that she and her bandmates have nothing against DJs. In fact, they often work with them in between sets. Still, she adds, there is just something about bringing out the guitars, keys, horns and drums, that makes No Water After Midnight special. “When you play music live, with live instruments, it’s timeless,” she says.

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Every Sun: Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga.

CAFE STRITCH

Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI

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

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

CAFE PINK HOUSE

LOUISIANA BISTRO

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

THE MOJO LOUNGE

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

MOROCCO’S

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

Mountain View.

MURPHY’S LAW

Every Mon: Monday Night Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.

O’FLAHERTY’S

CASCAL

Every Mon, 7pm: Open Mic Night. Mountain View.

Every Sun: Joe Ferrara (jazz).

Wed, Mar 8, 7pm: Bobby Love and Sugar Sweet. Thu, Mar 9, 7pm: Knee Deep. Fri, Mar 10, 8pm: The Rockafellas. Sat, Mar 11, 8pm: Vinyl Replay. Los Gatos.

CHARLEY'S LG

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/ Sid Morris & Ron Thompson.

Every Tue, 6pm: PHB Open Mic Night. San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Sat, Mar 11, 9pm: Deevah. San Jose.

ST. STEPHENS GREEN

Every Tue, 7:30pm: Irish music.

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

C&W/Folk BLUE ROCK SHOOT

Every Wed: Open Mic. Every Thu: Karaoke Night. Every Fri: Live Music. Every Wed: Open Mic. Los Gatos.

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

Saratoga.

CLUB FOX

CHARLEY'S LG

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

Wed, Mar 8, 6pm: Hot Roux.

Redwood City.

HEDLEY CLUB AT HOTEL DE ANZA

Every 1st and 3rd Wed: Jazz Jam.

HUKILAU

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

JJ’S BLUES

Every Tue: MikeB Interactive Jam. Wed-Sun: Live Music.

Every Fri: Latin Rock Nights.

San Jose.

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ

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

PIONEER SALOON

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

THE SADDLE RACK

Every Thu & Fri, 7:30-9pm: Country Style Dance Lessons.

Every Thu, Fri & Sat, 9pm: Diablo Road. Fremont.

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

Every Tue, 6:30pm: Irish Seisiún. San Jose.

THE CATS

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

Campbell.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY

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

Wed, Mar 8, 7:30pm: Scott Barnhill Group. Thu, Mar 9, 7:30pm: Latin Lingo. Fri, Mar 10, 7:30pm: Anya Malkiel.

Sat, Mar 11, 7:30pm: The Bad Ones. Sun, Mar 12, 6pm: The Quitters. Saratoga.

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

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE

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

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ

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

Every Second and Fourth Wed, 7pm: Scott Goldberg. Every Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blue Jams. Sat May 6, 8pm: Chris Bigford. Campbell

MISSION PIZZA

Every Thu from 7-9pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Every First Fri, 7-10pm: Cimmaron Rose Band. Every Second Fri, 7-10pm: Stampede. Every Last Fri, 7-10pm: Stragglyrs. Every Last Sat, 7-10pm: Beargrass Creek. Fremont

SAM'S BBQ

Every first Tue of the month, 6pm: Bean Creek. Every second Tue of the month, 6pm: Carolina Special. Every second Wed of the month, 6pm: Dark Hollow.

Every third Tue of the month, 6pm: Cabin Fever. Every first and third Wed of the month, 6pm: Sidesaddle and Co. Every fourth Wed of the month, 6pm: Loganville. Tue, Mar 7, 6-9pm: Bean Creek. San Jose.

SAP CENTER

Fri, Mar 10, 7:30pm: Blake Shelton. San Jose

Open Mic/ Comedy ANGELICA’S BISTRO

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

Redwood City.

BACK BAR

Every Wed, 9pm: Open mic.

San Jose.

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

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

CAFFE FRASCATI

Every Tue, 7pm: Open mic.

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

CAMERA 3

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

CARAVAN

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

CHARLEY’S LG

Every Wed, 7pm: Open Mic

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Quinones. Thu, Mar 9, 8pm: Rivest Dunlap. Fri, Mar 10, 7:30pm and 9:45pm; Sat, Mar 11, 7pm and 9:15pm: Heather McDonald. Sun, Mar 12, 7pm: Juicy Scoop Podcast with Heather McDonald.

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THE CARAVAN

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

Every Sun, 4pm: Spanish Karaoke. San Jose.

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Tue, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE

Every Tue: Open mic.

Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

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

BLUE MAX

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS

BLUE PHEASANT

Fri: Karaoke Fridays.

Sunnyvale.

Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Thu, Mar 9, 8pm: Mike E. Winfield. Fri, Mar 10, 9pm; Sat, Mar 11, 7pm and 9:30pm; Sun, Mar 12, 7pm: Emo Phillips.

Tue, 8pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Every Wed: Karaoke w/ Neebor. San Jose.

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

CHARLEY'S LG

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

Mountain View.

Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

Every Thu, 9pm: Karaoke w/ Tony. Los Gatos.

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

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

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

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

COURT’S LOUNGE

Mon, Thu & Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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I’m a 27-year-old guy, and I’m not very funny. I know women like a guy with a sense of humor, so I was interested in these “Flirt Cards” with funny messages that I saw on Kickstarter. You write your number on the back and give the card to a woman you’d like to meet. Good idea or bad for breaking the ice?—Single Dude Using a pre-printed card to hit on the ladies makes a powerful statement: “I’m looking for a kind woman to nurse me back to masculinity.”

Asking a woman out isn’t just a way to get a date; it’s a form of display. Consider that women look for men to show courage. The courage to unwrap a pack of cards doesn’t count. Mutely handing a woman some other guy’s humor on a card is actually worse than using no humor at all—save for extenuating circumstances, like if it were the Middle Ages and you’d had your tongue cut out for unseemly behavior with the earl’s livestock (again).

Consider evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller’s “mating mind” hypothesis: the notion that “our minds evolved not just as survival machines, but as courtship machines.” Miller explains that the mind acts as a “fitness indicator,” a sort of advertising agency for a person’s genetic quality (among other things).

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Anthropologist Gil Greengross, who studies humor and laughter from an evolutionary perspective, suggests that even a guy who’s lame at humor should at least take a run at being funny: “The risk of not even trying to make women laugh may result in losing a mating opportunity.” I disagree, though only in part. If you’re unfunny, trying to force the funny is like bragging, “Hey! I’m low in social intelligence!”

However, you shouldn’t let being unfunny stop you from hitting on a woman. What you can do is be spontaneously and courageously genuine.

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My girlfriend’s father is a famous actor, and I’m on my way up. I worry that if things go wrong in our relationship, he could put a big kibosh on my career.

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It turns out that there are two fundamental motivations for all lifeforms—from microbes to men. They are “approach” (going toward good, helpful, survival-promoting things) and “avoidance” (moving away from bad, dangerous, deadly things). Research by social psychologist Shelly Gable suggests that romantic relationships are happier when they’re driven by approach rather than avoidance motives.

So, say your girlfriend asks that you put food-encrusted plates in the dishwasher instead of leaving them out for the archeologists to find. An approach motivation means doing as she asks because you’re striving for a positive outcome—like making her feel loved— instead of trying to avoid a negative one, like having your fate in showbiz patterned after that first guy in a horror movie who gets curious about the weird growling in the basement.

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FREE FREE WILL WILL ASTROLOGY ASTROLOGY ARIES 21-April 19): As soon as you can, ARIES (March (March 21-April 19): As soon as you can, sneak away to a private place where you can be sneak away to a private place where you can be alone—preferably to a comfy sanctuary where alone—preferably to a comfy sanctuary where you can indulge in eccentric behavior without you can indulge in eccentric behavior without being seen or heard or judged. When you get there, being seen or heard or judged. When you get there, launch into an extended session of moaning and launch into an extended session of moaning and complaining. I mean do it out loud. Wail and whine complaining. I mean do it out loud. Wail and whine and whisper about everything that's making you and whisper about everything that's making you sad and puzzled and crazy. For best results, leap sad and puzzled and crazy. For best results, leap into the air and wave your arms. Whirl around in into the air and wave your arms. Whirl around in erratic figure-eights while drooling and messing up erratic figure-eights while drooling and messing up your hair. Breathe extra deeply. And all the while, let your hair. Breathe extra deeply. And all the while, let your pungent emotions and poignant fantasies flow your pungent emotions and poignant fantasies flow freely through your wild heart. Keep on going until freely through your wild heart. Keep on going until you find the relief that lies on the other side. you find the relief that lies on the other side.

TAURUS 20-May 20): "I've always belonged TAURUS (April (April 20-May 20): "I've always belonged to what isn't where I am and to what I could never to what isn't where I am and to what I could never be," wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888be," wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (18881935). That was his prerogative, of course. Or maybe 1935). That was his prerogative, of course. Or maybe it was a fervent desire of his, and it came true. I bring it was a fervent desire of his, and it came true. I bring his perspective to your attention, Taurus, because I his perspective to your attention, Taurus, because I believe your mandate is just the opposite, at least for believe your mandate is just the opposite, at least for the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where you are. You must belong to what you will always be. you are. You must belong to what you will always be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Nothing is ever as GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Nothing is ever as simple as it may seem. The bad times always harbor simple as it may seem. The bad times always harbor opportunities. The good times inevitably have a opportunities. The good times inevitably have a caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you'll caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you'll prove the latter truth in the coming weeks. On one prove the latter truth in the coming weeks. On one hand, you will be closer than you've been in many hand, you will be closer than you've been in many moons to your ultimate sources of meaning and moons to your ultimate sources of meaning and motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell had motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell had better take advantage of this good fortune. You better take advantage of this good fortune. You can't afford to be shy about claiming the rewards can't afford to be shy about claiming the rewards and accepting the responsibilities that come with and accepting the responsibilities that come with the opportunities. the opportunities.

CANCER 21-July 22): Seek intimacy with CANCER (June (June 21-July 22): Seek intimacy with experiences that are dewy and slippery and experiences that are dewy and slippery and succulent. Make sure you get more than your fair succulent. Make sure you get more than your fair share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages, saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages, the milk of human kindness and the buttery release the milk of human kindness and the buttery release of deep sex—and maybe even a sensational do-itof deep sex—and maybe even a sensational do-ityourself baptism that frees you from at least some yourself baptism that frees you from at least some of your regrets. Don't stay thirsty, my undulating of your regrets. Don't stay thirsty, my undulating friend. Quench your need to be very, very wet. Gush friend. Quench your need to be very, very wet. Gush and spill. Be gushed and spilled on. and spill. Be gushed and spilled on.

LEO 23-Aug. 22): Would you like to live to the LEO (July (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you like to live to the age of 99? If so, experiences and realizations that age of 99? If so, experiences and realizations that arrive in the coming weeks could be important in arrive in the coming weeks could be important in that project. A window to longevity will open, giving that project. A window to longevity will open, giving you a chance to gather clues about actions you can you a chance to gather clues about actions you can take and meditations you can do to remain vital for take and meditations you can do to remain vital for ten decades. I hope you're not too much of a serious, 10 decades. I hope you're not too much of a serious, know-it-all adult to benefit from this opportunity. know-it-all adult to benefit from this opportunity.

If you'd like to be deeply receptive to the secrets of If you'd like to be deeply receptive to the secrets of a long life, you must be able to see with innocent, a long life, you must be able to see with innocent, curious eyes. Playfulness is not just a winsome curious eyes. Playfulness is not just a winsome quality in this quest; it's an essential asset. quality in this quest; it's an essential asset.

VIRGO 23-Sept. 22): You're ripe. You're VIRGO (Aug. (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You're ripe. You're delectable. Your intelligence is especially sexy. I think delectable. Your intelligence is especially sexy. I think it's time to unveil the premium version of your urge it's time to unveil the premium version of your urge to merge. To prepare, let's review a few flirtation to merge. To prepare, let's review a few flirtation strategies. The eyebrow flash is a good place to start. strategies. The eyebrow flash is a good place to start.

A subtle, flicking lick of your lips is a fine follow-up.

A subtle, flicking lick of your lips is a fine follow-up.

Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly. If Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly. If there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Fondle nearby smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Fondle nearby objects like a wine glass or your keys. And this is very objects like a wine glass or your keys. And this is very important: Listen raptly to the person you're wooing. important: Listen raptly to the person you're wooing.

P.S.: If you already have a steady partner, use these P.S.: If you already have a steady partner, use these techniques as part of a crafty plan to draw him or her techniques as part of a crafty plan to draw him or her into deeper levels of affection. into deeper levels of affection.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Let's talk about a LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Let's talk about a compassionate version of robbery. The thieves who compassionate version of robbery. The thieves who practice this art don't steal valuable things you love. practice this art don't steal valuable things you love.

Rather, they pilfer stuff you don't actually need but Rather, they pilfer stuff you don't actually need but are reluctant to let go of. For example, the spirit of a are reluctant to let go of. For example, the spirit of a beloved ancestor may sweep into your nightmare and beloved ancestor may sweep into your nightmare and carry off a delicious poison that has been damaging carry off a delicious poison that has been damaging you in ways you've become comfortable with. A you in ways you've become comfortable with. A bandit angel might sneak into your imagination and bandit angel might sneak into your imagination and burglarize the debilitating beliefs and psychological burglarize the debilitating beliefs and psychological crutches you cling to as if they were bars of gold. Are crutches you cling to as if they were bars of gold. Are

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you interested in benefiting from this service? Ask you interested in benefiting from this service? Ask and you shall receive. and you shall receive.

SCORPIO 23-Nov. 21): Evolved Scorpios SCORPIO (Oct. (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Evolved Scorpios don't fantasize about bad things happening to their don't fantasize about bad things happening to their competitors and adversaries. They don't seethe with competitors and adversaries. They don't seethe with smoldering desires to torment anyone who fails smoldering desires to torment anyone who fails to give them what they want. They may, however, to give them what they want. They may, however, experience urges to achieve TOTAL CUNNNG experience urges to achieve TOTAL CUNNNG DAZZLING MERCILESS VICTORY over those who DAZZLING MERCILESS VICTORY over those who won't acknowledge them as golden gods or golden won't acknowledge them as golden gods or golden goddesses. But even then, they don't indulge in goddesses. But even then, they don't indulge in the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred. the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred.

Instead, they sublimate their ferocity into a drive Instead, they sublimate their ferocity into a drive to keep honing their talents. After all, that game to keep honing their talents. After all, that game plan is the best way to accomplish something even plan is the best way to accomplish something even better than mere revenge: success in fulfilling their better than mere revenge: success in fulfilling their dreams. Please keep these thoughts close to your dreams. Please keep these thoughts close to your heart in the coming weeks. heart in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "The noble SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "The noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world," art of music is the greatest treasure in the world," wrote Martin Luther (1483-1546), a revolutionary wrote Martin Luther (1483-1546), a revolutionary who helped break the stranglehold of the Catholic who helped break the stranglehold of the Catholic Church on the European imagination. I bring this up, Church on the European imagination. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you're entering a phase when Sagittarius, because you're entering a phase when you need the kind of uprising that's best incited by you need the kind of uprising that's best incited by music. So I invite you to gather the tunes that have music. So I invite you to gather the tunes that have inspired you over the years, and also go hunting inspired you over the years, and also go hunting for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously, for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously, and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate constructive mutation. Its time to overthrow constructive mutation. Its time to overthrow anything about your status quo that is jaded, lazy, anything about your status quo that is jaded, lazy, sterile, or apathetic. sterile, or apathetic.

CAPRICORN 22-Jan. 19): "Either you learn CAPRICORN (Dec. (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Either you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you'll be to live with paradox and ambiguity or you'll be six years old for the rest of your life," says author 6 years old for the rest of your life," says author Anne Lamott. How are you doing with that lesson, Anne Lamott. How are you doing with that lesson, Capricorn? Still learning? If you would like to get Capricorn? Still learning? If you would like to get even more advanced teachings about paradox and even more advanced teachings about paradox and ambiguity—as well as conundrums, incongruity, ambiguity—as well as conundrums, incongruity, and anomalies—there will be plenty of chances in and anomalies—there will be plenty of chances in the coming weeks. Be glad! Remember the words the coming weeks. Be glad! Remember the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: "How of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." we have some hope of making progress."

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lichen is a hardy AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lichen is a hardy form of life that by some estimates covers 6 percent form of life that by some estimates covers 6 percent of the earth's surface. It thrives in arctic tundra of the Earth's surface. It thrives in arctic tundra and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, on and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, on walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine environments. The secret of its success is symbiosis. environments. The secret of its success is symbiosis.

Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two very and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two very dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship that comprises a third organism. I propose that you that comprises a third organism. I propose that you regard lichen as your spirit ally in the coming weeks, regard lichen as your spirit ally in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You're primed for some sterling symbioses.

Aquarius. You're primed for some sterling symbioses.

PISCES 19-March 20): If you normally wear PISCES (Feb. (Feb. 19-March 20): If you normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I invite you not to do so for the next two weeks.

I invite you not to do so for the next two weeks.

Instead, try out an unembellished, what-you-seeInstead, try out an unembellished, what-you-seeis-what-you-get approach to your appearance. is-what-you-get approach to your appearance.

If, on the other hand, you don't normally wear If, on the other hand, you don't normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I encourage you to embrace such possibilities in a encourage you to embrace such possibilities in a spirit of fun and enthusiasm. Now you may inquire: spirit of fun and enthusiasm. Now you may inquire: How can these contradictory suggestions both How can these contradictory suggestions both apply to the Pisces tribe? The answer: There's a apply to the Pisces tribe? The answer: There's a more sweeping mandate behind it all, namely: to more sweeping mandate behind it all, namely: to tinker and experiment with the ways you present tinker and experiment with the ways you present yourself . . . to play around with strategies for yourself . . . to play around with strategies for translating your inner depths into outer expression. translating your inner depths into outer expression.

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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)

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #626681

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #626371 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #626079 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: World Furniture Gallery, 1815 Monterey Hwy., San Jose, CA, 95112, Johny Le, 2744 Norita Court, San Jose, CA, 95127.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #627124 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Forget Me Not Spa, 43 S. Park Victoria, Unit 712, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Charlie Hatfield, 2311 Meadowmont Dr., San Jose, CA, 95133. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/26/2016. /s/ Charlie Hatfield. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/02/2017. (pub Metro 3/08, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #626318 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MVP Contractor, 21 Salinas Rd., Apt #18, Watsonville, CA, 95076, Mario Valencia.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/31/2016. /s/Mario Valencia. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/08/2017. (pub Metro 3/08, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29/2017)

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PACK IT IN California Theatre has been especially busy for this year’s Cinequest film festival due to the closure of Camera 12.

Shuttered theatre leads anti-man to discover virtues of VR porn

BY GARY SINGH

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HE 2017 INCARNATION of Cinequest continues through this weekend.

So far, the anti-manabout-town is both inspired and disgruntled: inspired because of all the glorious unknown discoveries and eclectic characters Cinequest usually supplies are in full force; disgruntled because a huge portion of the festival is in Redwood City, due to the demise of Camera 12.

Opening night saw director Mark Pellington present his new dark comedy, The Last Word, in which

abrasive advertising tycoon Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine) railroads Anne (Amanda Seyfried), a young aspiring newspaper staffer, by having her write Harriet’s obituary before she even dies. In a downto-earth interview after the film, Pellington, also one of the most celebrated music video directors of all time, confessed on stage to having lost his wife several years back and also his own mother. Both events changed him in dramatic fashion and influenced the film's themes of loss and redemption.

With a thousand people in attendance, Pellington said he was blown away by the authenticity of the Cinequest crowd. He said—and I'm paraphrasing—that everyone seemed to be genuine film lovers

who really wanted to be there, as opposed to the business-marketing hounds and/or disinterested industry types at Sundance.

In Pellington, I saw a glorious example of what Cinequest is all about: A filmmaker explaining how he deals with his own suffering through his art. The audience is elevated and empowered as a result.

Unfortunately, seeing “SAN JOSE. REDWOOD CITY.” on all the promotional material was absurd.

During the snazzy opening sequence that announces how Cinequest attracts talent from all over the word, I automatically thought, “all over the world … AND REDWOOD CITY.” It was almost a bad drinking game.

I kept wanting to say, “ … AND REDWOOD CITY” after every goofy thing that happened.

This isn’t a criticism of organizers.

Not at all. After Camera 12 circled the drain for the final time, Cinequest had to do something. They couldn’t go down to two screens for

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a few hundred films. But it’s been frustrating. For example, I really wanted to see India in a Day, a poetic and masterful crowd-sourced adventure, in which zillions of people filmed their average selves for a day. Since I participated in an event running concurrently at the California Theatre screening, I would have had to take Caltrain to Redwood City—or sit in traffic for an hour—to see the film.

Thankfully, Uchida Hall at San Jose State University had what Redwood City didn’t: a panel session on pornography and horror in the VR industry.

Twenty audience members and three ushers showed up to watch. VR porn star Ela Darling, a former librarian (swoon!) who obtained a master’s degree at age 21 and is now the president of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, easily out-articulated the two dudes on the panel and talked about ways in which VR might improve the adult entertainment experience.

In the old days, Darling said, adult performers used to simply show up, do the gig and get paid. But as subsequent eras of tech innovation emerged, like home cams, the performers acquired more ability to generate their own content rather than work for a filmmaker. The same scenario is happening with VR. “I want to use software and hardware to empower the performers to create more content,” Darling said. “And democratize VR porn the way traditional porn has been democratized, so performers can enter that kind of space.”

VR is a less alienating technology and more helpful if you're socially inadequate, Darling said. VR gives viewers a closer sense of connection, giving lonely people a more comfortable space in which to open up and get accustomed to newer experiences. To wit, if you're badly withdrawn and feel like an emotional convalescent with no talent for social mingling, interactive VR systems can provide a much better way to practice people skills than mobbing the hors d’oeuvre servers at Cinequest soirees.

I learned all of this while sitting in Uchida Hall at SJSU, my alma mater, in a neighborhood where I still live. I didn’t need to go to Redwood City.

All of which proves Cinequest offers something for everybody. You just have to know where to look.

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Hot Market CLAM IT Al dente noodles and clams, mussels, prawns and scallops make the creamy seafood linguine a must-try.

The Pastaria & Market stands out in bustling Los Gatos scene

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OS GATOS SEEMS like a peaceful, sleepy town. That is until dinnertime, when all the good restaurants are impossibly packed and suddenly a reservation becomes a golden ticket.

Such was the case on my first non-reservation visit to The Pastaria & Market.

Upon entering, I was met with a wait time that would take all night. Reservations are strongly

recommended for this 40-seat, family owned restaurant, and luckily they are easy to make online.

Days later, I got in seamlessly with a reservation. The restaurant used to be a retail deli and pasta shop in 1995, but over the last two decades they began serving homemade pastas in a sit-down environment. However, there are still market options like fresh pasta by the pound, olive oil and bread dough. The family-owned vibe emanates from the décor of the small corner lot dining room. A hand-painted mural and strings of lights reflect the bright red ceiling, making the small space feel more compact. The décor could use a refresh, as it does little justice to

the space. The menu, on the other hand, is an Italian lover’s dream with a variety of pasta types, sauces and proteins. Many traditional pasta dishes can be found along with more exotic options.

My love affair with burrata is no secret, and I always relish the opportunity to order it at a restaurant. Fortunately, I have never come across a restaurant that dared to serve an unworthy burrata—Pastaria is no exception.

Their burrata ($12.95) comes in a large pillowy ball which cuts open like a poached egg. Served on dressed arugula with four crostini and a fruit mostarda (candied citrus and mustard flavored syrup), the creamy cheese also paired well with the complimentary fresh bread. The fruit mostarda was bitter, as it tasted like candied citrus peels, and could be replaced with more crostini to balance how much burrata was left.

Among all the interesting pasta dishes on the menu, the seafood linguine ($23.95) was described as housemade pasta with fruits from the sea in a creamy white wine sauce. This dish was marvelous. A bit heavy on the cream, but otherwise an excellent combination and great execution.

Fresh clams, mussels, prawns and scallops swam in creamy goodness with al dente linguine pasta.

Pastaria’s self-proclaimed “legendary” housemade meatballs ($8.95 for two) were a must try.

They were both huge and juicy with just the right consistency. It’s very easy to taste why Pastaria claims the meatballs as their legendary dish.

Unfortunately, they can’t all be winners. The mostaccioli pasta arrabiata ($15.95) dish sounded unique with imported Italian pasta, pancetta and an angry-style spicy tomato sauce.

Mostaccioli turns out to be like penne pasta and the sauce was too salty. I was at times underwhelmed by the ordinary shape of the pasta and at other times overwhelmed by the heat and salt combination.

Time can be the toughest food critic, and withstanding the test of time is the best indicator of success.

The Pastaria’s 22 years in business— and still a consistently packed house for dinner—speaks volumes about its staying power. The service here was friendly, and that is certainly part of the draw. From rescheduling the reservation twice due to my fussy toddler to making a mess to paying the bill, the staff was very accommodating. If the dishes I had were indicative of the rest of the enticing menu, any fan of pasta would be in for a treat.

The chefs were a bit heavy handed on the cream and salt on my latest visit, but the makings of a perfect dish were all there.

As with everything in Los Gatos, reservations are strongly encouraged, as is allowing plenty of time to hunt for parking.

ITALIAN

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$$

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HE HUMBLE SANDWICH is often taken for granted in the foodie world, as it is hardly the sexiest option when grabbing lunch. How can bread and sliced meat compare with enticing options such as poke or ramen or whatever else the kids are into these days?

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However, I submit that few things in this world are better than a proper sandwich. The latest evidence to back this claim: The Sub Hub. Situated neatly between Santa Clara University and the Caltrain Station on El Camino, Sub Hub draws hungry patrons with its locally sourced ingredients, fresh-sliced meats and bread delivered daily from San Jose’s iconic Roma Bakery. Aside from sandwiches, the eatery has quite a few other options including pizza, wraps, salads, soups and plenty of Veg Head-friendly items.

I kept it simple and ordered a few sandwiches: the 49ers Touch (grilled chicken breast, cilantro, chipotle-mayo, barbecue sauce and American cheese), Giant Curve (roast beef, roasted onions and Provolone cheese), The Bronco (grilled chicken breast, bacon and Swiss)—and we couldn’t resist the My Favorite (Pepperoni, Bacon and extra cheese) pizza. The fully-loaded 6-inch sandwiches and individual pizzas are reasonably priced at $7.75 each; they also have 9-inch versions of the sandwiches for an additional $3.

I think we can agree that bread makes or breaks a sandwich, and thanks to Roma’s fresh-baked bread, Sub Hub has this angle covered in spades. The whole wheat especially stood out; earthy, toothsome and just the right amount of softness, this is what all wheat breads should aspire to be. The meat and fillings were all tasty. I especially liked that the topround roast beef is served medium-rare and the grilled chicken breasts were juicy and cooked just right. Also, the chipotle-mayo on the 49ers Touch had a nice piquant kick.

As for the pie, I’m lucky I got a small taste, as my 6-year-old pizza expert gobbled it down with haste. It had a nice, crisp crust and plenty of meat and cheese to satisfy any pizza lover. The tomato sauce reminded me a bit of La Villa’s gravy, with its bright, well-rounded notes.

Sub Hub’s already got game with their current lineup, but they will soon be expanding their repertoire with an Indian Fusion menu featuring a Stephen Curry sandwich (curry sauce on grilled chicken breast) and a Tikka Pizza, as well as beer and wine to help quench one’s thirst. —John Dyke THE SUB HUB 495 El Camino Real, Suite 111, Santa Clara. 408.985.2253

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