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The Long War Forty-two years after the Vietnam War ended, the quagmire continues to be a point of contention in San Jose’s political scene—especially depending on one’s generation and culture. Calling the conflict a pointless loss of life would be an accurate and relatively benign assessment for many Americans. More than 58,000 U.S. service members were killed in the 20-year conflict.

But for those who were forced to flee the war-torn country and saw firsthand the devastation—nearly 2 million Vietnamese civilians and 1.3 million soldiers (250,000 in the South) lost their lives—the term “pointless” could be seen as a personal affront. That was the case Sunday morning outside of Santa Clara County’s headquarters, as San Jose Councilman LAN DIEP spoke at an event commemorating the last day of the war. In unprepared remarks delivered in Vietnamese, Diep—who was born in the U.S.—enraged several attendees by noting that they were gathered “to mourn civilians, soldiers and refugees lost as a result of a pointless war.” In video of the event, a woman in the They Did crowd shouted down Diep while an older gentleman What? in a military uniform had SEND TIPS TO to be held back several FLY@ times from charging the METRONEWS. COM podium. Diep quickly apologized for his inartful choice of words, but that didn’t stop some observers from branding him a communist, a Molotov cocktail of terms that is all too quickly thrown out in Vietnamese political disputes. “For the Vietnamese community and those who fought in the war and signed up to defend their homeland, that is honorable,” Diep told Fly. “And I was trying to say that but got sidetracked.” The Vietnamese political scene is a tightrope many outsiders fail to appreciate, as the differences in experience for refugees and their first-generation offspring can create an emotional powder keg. “I feel bad for some of these young Vietnamese politicians,” a local politico acknowledged, asking not to be named. “It's almost like being a prisoner of your community.”

Deeper Roots THE TRUST Roots Community Health Center in San Jose—led by (from left) Alma Burrell, Aquil Naja and Dr. Noha Aboelata—is designed to build closer relationships with African-American patients.

County helps launch clinic focused on African-American needs

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IKE MANY AFRICAN Americans, Alma Burrell’s father didn’t like going to the doctor, so he avoided treatment for his diabetes.

Burrell recalls him saying, “If I'm sick, and I don't feel like my doctor understands me, I'll stay home, or else wait until it gets a lot worse before I go in.”

Watching him succumb to complications from the disease inspired Burrell to come out of retirement after only a month to

co-direct San Jose’s first clinic geared toward black people.

“I’ve seen too many of my people suffer like this, and I felt like I still have some juice left,” Burrell says.

The San Jose outpost of Roots Community Health Center will open in early May on The Alameda to provide culturally competent care for Santa Clara County’s AfricanAmerican population. About 200 potential patients have already set up appointments at the clinic, which will open initially for 30 hours a week.

A county-sponsored study in 2015 found that black people in the South Bay have disproportionately higher rates of HIV/AIDS, hypertension, Hepatitis C, diabetes, and cancer, and lower life expectancies than other groups. Inspired to take action, county

supervisors worked with the Black Leadership Kitchen Cabinet to bring Roots, which has been operating in East Oakland for four years, to San Jose.

“What our community said was we need our own health facility, because they didn’t feel public health facilities were serving their needs,” says Walter Wilson, a longtime San Jose community activist and Roots board member.

“At first, to be honest, I said, ‘Is there a lot of need down there? I think of it as a wealthy area,’” says Dr. Noha Aboelata, chief executive officer of the nonprofit clinic. But upon seeing data from the study and hearing about the county’s financial support, Aboelata says she “was pretty moved by that.”

One of the key findings in the study is that health care disparities for black people often stem from unfair treatment and discrimination— factors that are preventable. One of the first ways to counter these biases is to hire African Americans in the community.

“When you see people who look like you, when you encounter people who

Roots aims to break that cycle with “navigators,” or outreach workers who will connect patients with wraparound services beyond medical needs. “If we say the No. 1 reason our patients are not well is poverty, that means we have to do something about poverty,” Aboelata says.

Santa Clara County has offered support to Roots to the tune of $350,000, based on the clinic’s willingness to take on “high users of multiple systems,” including the 20 percent of county homeless residents who are black. “You know why they go [to the emergency room] if they break their toe or have a toothache, or get something in their eye? Because the emergency room will treat them,” says Wilson. The county has an interest in getting those patients to less-costly regular primary care doctors, which Roots will oversee.

However, Roots also expects to draw wealthier black professionals to the clinic as well. “I was going to take my Obamacare and transfer it to the community, but now I’ve got new insurance from my wife, so I’ve gotta figure out how I’m going to get in there,” Swilley says.

The clinic won’t be restricted to patients of African descent, so others looking for a change in health care are also welcome to join. “We'll never turn anyone away,” Burrell says. “But the services we offer are African-centered, and some people will be comfortable in that environment.” For Burrell, that means linking patients to a support system. “The focus is always about community. How can we connect you back to your people? You don’t have people? We’ll be your people.”

Silicon Valley’s challenge is the black community is less concentrated than at Roots’ clinic in the East Bay. “What’s great about Oakland is that most people of African descent are geographically in one area, and you can go and find a community of black folks in a particular radius,” Burrell says. “But here, we’re spread all through the county.”

To address the geographic sprawl, the clinic will be located on the heavily used 22 bus line right next to Ujima Adult and Family Services, which will partner with Roots to provide Afrocentric mental health care. Roots will also advertise on billboards, buses and radio while spreading the word at black churches and community events.

Burrell calls the clinic a labor of love.

“When you come to Roots, I want you to feel like you’ve just come home.”

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have been through what you’ve been through, that helps some of those barriers fall away,” Aboelata says.

Silicon Valley’s black population is small and shrinking, making up about 50,000 people, or 3 percent of Santa Clara County residents in 2012. That’s about the same size as the population of Gilroy, but the African-American community faces particular health challenges.

“Generally, as your income and education rate goes up, your health gets better, but it doesn’t happen like that in our community,” says the Rev. Reginald V. Swilley, a founding board member of the San Jose clinic.

The cumulative stress of inherent bias and racism can take a toll on black people’s health, and negative experiences with the medical system compound the problem, the 2015 study found. “You have people who would see doctors who didn’t want to touch them,” Wilson says.

Burrell recalls a particularly awful trip to the doctor when her children were little. “I have two sons. One is chocolate and one is butterscotch, because our kids come in a rainbow of colors,” she says. “This doctor was determined that something was wrong with my son because he was a different color than his brother.” The doctor tested the lighterskinned son for anemia, even though he’d come to the clinic for a sports injury.

Black patients “want to go to a place where they feel at home, where they feel welcome and people understand them and their culture, and they’re not getting that in San Jose or in the county overall,” Burrell says.

African Americans have experienced centuries of systemic racism and medical exploitation.

Examples span from the infamous Tuskegee Institute experiments, where doctors injected black men with syphilis, to the unauthorized use of Henrietta Lacks’ cancer cells for decades of research, to medications that are never tested on black people before gaining FDA approval.

These abuses and stories like those experienced by Burrell’s sons can create hesitancy to encounter the health care system. “If there’s not a trusting relationship between you and your provider, you’re not going to follow their advice,” Aboelata says. “Then the patient comes back and didn’t take their meds, and the doctor labels them noncompliant.” This could lead to a doctor pulling away from the patient, which only fuels the cycle of mistrust.

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An irresistibly danceable mix fuses punk and hip-hop to traditional Latin American beats

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ATEO GONZALES presses play and the track springs to life. The window on his laptop shows various layers of composition scrolling by. There’s a sample of Bobby Day’s “Rockin’ Robin.” The trilling whistle of the early rockabilly hit leaps from the small computer speakers, as do the more tinny rhythmic elements: the high hats and snare of a boom-bap beat are clearly audible, as is the scratchy güira, which plays a consistent shuffle. Less audible is the slouching bass that will ultimately help punch-up the song when Gonzales plays it for a crowd on a dancefloor with a decent subwoofer.

With this mashup, Gonzales, who makes music as Philthy Dronez, has pulled together three genres of music to produce a fourth.

Sometimes called “cumbia bass,” the style owes no small debt to the inclusion of the güira—the colanderlike percussion instrument that is played by scraping a spoon or stick along a corrugated metal cylinder.

It’s a familiar sound for those who grew up in the South Bay. Cumbia, a traditional form of Latin dance music, is a part of the sonic fabric of just about every country south of the Rio Grande.

From Mexico and the Caribbean

through Columbia—the genre’s country of origin—on down to Argentina, cumbia has been moving people for generations. While cumbia bass music is comprised of many long-extant sounds and musical styles, it’s new to the U.S., according to a number of tastemaking DJs and musicians who are actively producing the tropically inflected style in San Jose.

Here, in the cultural melting pot that is Silicon Valley, a generation of Latin-American musicians, like Gonzales, are helping to spread the sound through mashups, DJ sets and bands informed by the music of their

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ancestors, as well as what they grew up hearing on KMEL 106.1, Live 105 and Wild 94.9.

Two Worlds There’s an expression, Gonzales says: “Sus pies en dos lados.” Literally translated, “Your feet on both sides.”

In this context, it means being a part of two cultures at the same time.

Growing up, he explains, cumbia was everywhere. He heard it at home, at parties and on TV every time Selena came on. Banda, mariachi and corridos were also inescapable.

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But growing up in San Jose, hiphop, punk, R&B, rock & roll and soul were also ubiquitous. So was DJ culture. That Gonzales would ultimately seek to blend it all together may have been inevitable. Just ask Fernando J. Pérez and Roman Zepeda.

Two of the founding members of local Latino party-production collective Sonido Clash, the pair understand where Gonzales is coming from.

“Being Mexican-American you’ve got one foot on one side and the other foot on the other side,” Pérez says, echoing Gonzales. “We’re not from here, we’re not from there—so what are we?”

It’s a question that can lead to a very specific anxiety—which actor Edward James Olmos summed up so succinctly playing Abraham Quintanilla in the 1997 biopic of ’90s Mexican-American pop icon Selena: “I mean, we gotta know about John Wayne and Pedro Infante,” Quintanilla says, bemoaning his dual identity’s burden. “We gotta know about Frank Sinatra and Agustín Lara.”

He goes on to lament how “exhausting” it can be attempting to be “more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans.”

Whether this philosophical stance was imprinted on the young Selena Quintanilla explicitly, or whether the scene was the product of the writers room, it’s abundantly clear that the singer and her band sought to incorporate two worlds into their music. The same can be said for the music and events curated by Sonido Clash. Most recently, Sonido Clash threw a party in celebration of the late Selena’s 46th birthday. The sold-out bash at Back Bar in San Jose featured a lookalike contest, music from a local cumbia band and

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CULTURE CLASH Local party promotion and production collective Sonido Clash are leading the cumbia bass charge in San Jose. multiple Latin-inflected DJ sets.

Although the events Pérez and Zepeda produce with their partners—Thomas Aguilar, Angel Luna and Quynh-Mai Nguyen—all tend to have a dance and hip-hop bent, the influences extend to other avenues of culture. Over the course of an hour-long conversation, Pérez and Zepeda bounce around from the San Jose-based founder of Lowrider Magazine to local gutter punk and powerviolence acts. They reminisce about hunting for obscure music at the Berryessa Flea Market, spinning freestyle at house parties and listening to Los Tigres Del Norte in their childhood homes.

Pérez and Zepeda have been drawn to different sounds, from punk and metal to funk and soul.

However, of late, Zepeda says, the music he makes under his DJ moniker Turbo Sonidero, and as a member of Corazón Salvaje, there is one constant—cumbia.

“I was playing punk before,” Zepeda says. “I was doing hip-hop beats and rap beats and one day,

I was like, ‘I wanna make people dance.’” By incorporating a cumbia beat into his productions, he was able to find a middle ground between his family’s home state of Puebla, Mexico, and his home in San Jose.

Music Migration Jesus Covarrubias, a MexicanAmerican studies professor at San Jose State, says it’s inevitable that musicians will seek out new sounds, and those sounds will eventually find new listeners—and the process will repeat to form even newer styles. It’s the invention of migration.

When people leave one home to find another, they bring their instruments and their music.

According to Covarrubias, elements of what is today considered traditional Mexican music—the accordions and oom-pah-pah rhythms, for example—come as a result of the intermingling of German-American frontiersmen and Mexicans.

Similarly, cumbia’s rhythm and dance steps are said to have originated on the Caribbean coast of Columbia as a mixture of African and Latin sounds in the 1940s. From there, it spread to the north and the south— morphing as it moved. During the ’70s the music saw a surge in popularity in Peru, where it was fused with surf rock and psychedelia to create a cumbia subgenre known as “chicha.” In the ’80s, as disco gave way to house music and synthesizers became cheaper, cumbia was funneled through drum machines and electronic keyboards to create “technocumbia.” The merger of electronics and the shuffling dance was popular in many countries and circles, and it certainly influenced Selena, who even named one of her own songs “Techno Cumbia.”

By the 1990s, social upheaval in Argentina contributed to the birth of cumbia villa. Similar to the new gangster rap sounds emerging from places like Compton and New

York around the same time, the subgenre paired cumbia rhythms with tough lyrics about drugs, crime and street life.

As long as the U.S. and Mexico have been neighbors, there has been a cultural exchange, especially in states like Texas and California. Part of that exchange is Chicano music.

A movement that came to a head in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.

Bands like War and band leaders like Carlos Santana drew upon distinctly American musical modes—funk and psychedelia—while folding in their Latin heritage. In the process they invented something new.

“Just as much as you want to be able to respect what other people did, you want to find your own thing,” Covarrubias explains. “We have elements that come from continuity, meaning they don’t go away, what our grandparents listen to, what their grandparents listened to. But then there’s also change and evolution which is important, you want the freedom to be able to

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DIRTY DANCING A member of SuenaTron and a solo producer, Matt Gonzales merges hip-hop, soul, cumbia and more as Philthy Dronez.

This DJ

REPRESENT The beat for Rey Resurreccion’s “The Hometown,” produced

by DJ Cutso, brings a boom-bap beat together with radiant banda horns. say, ‘Now I’m gonna express it so it reflects what I am today.’”

In the face of widespread refugee crises, it’s certain that people will continue to migrate to new lands, and their respective cultures will

undoubtedly mesh with and influence new artists all over the world.

“Music knows no borders or boundaries,” Covarrubias says. In the digital age, this has never been truer.

“There’s no border here thanks to SoundCloud and Bandcamp,” says Pérez, of Sonido Clash.

He’s referring to two popular music streaming websites that allow for the instantaneous transmission of culture across oceans and continents.

Pérez and Zepeda are of a generation that not only grew up listening to hip-hop and punk—they also are digital natives. For them, digging through crates of secondhand vinyl or stacks of CDs are only two modes to discover music. They also have the ability to flip through YouTube videos and fall down click holes on Facebook, which have led them all the way to Peru.

Through social media, Sonido Clash linked with Dengue Dengue Dengue, a Lima-based cumbia bass duo who have been making waves in the Latin dance world since 2010.

Using online networks and oldfashioned interpersonal connections, last year Pérez and company were able to bring the internationally recognized pair to The Continental, while Dengue Dengue Dengue were on their very first U.S. tour.

The group pulls from widely divergent musical traditions— shuffling cumbia rhythms, the psychedelic and surf-influenced “chicha” tradition, and Amazonian tribal drumming—to create a unique and danceable sound.

The combination of styles blend seamlessly. In fact, cumbia seems to be unusually adaptable to blending with other forms of music. Chulita Vinyl Club is an all-female DJ collective started by Claudia Saenz, who moved to San Jose from Texas. The group, which only spins on vinyl, has grown to create chapters in seven cities across the country. “When I started DJing and messing with some of the mixing programs, they mix super

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Sound of the Street It is perhaps ironic, then, that this sound—the sound of the streets and the disenfranchised—seems on the verge of becoming the next big sound in pop music. Diplo, vilified by many as the great white cultural tourist, is already sniffing around the broader Latin bass scene.

A number of Diplo’s biggest hits— like Major Lazer’s “Watch Out For This (Bumaye)”—fall within the category of “moombahton,” which incorporates Caribbean sounds and textures. And Diplo contemporary Skrillex engineered Justin Bieber’s tropical bass banger “Sorry.”

Regardless of what you think about

the likes of Diplo, Skrillex and Bieber, it likely won’t be long before these navigators of pop culture find their way down through the gulf to the mainland of South America. The next “Hotline Bling” could come with a shuffling a güira scratching along in the beat.

“The whole tropical bass thing is huge right now,” says DJ Cutso, a local DJ and producer who spins regularly at Sonido Clash events and has created some of the best hiphop beats to come out of San Jose in recent years—in particular, Rey Resurreccion’s “The Hometown.”

The track is an ode to growing up in the 408 area code: “I grew up with my neighbors playing mariachi in the morning,” Rey raps over a triumphant horn sample and slapping beat. It’s one of Rey’s most popular songs on YouTube, verging on 200,000 views—and for good reason.

This is what life sounds like on the East Side, Custo notes. It’s where he grew up, and even though he and Resurreccion are of Pacific Islander descent, they were shaped by Latino influences. “Us being Filipino, growing up predominantly in San Jose neighborhoods, we would wake up to loud banda music.”

Resurreccion, Cutso says, had a gut feeling about the song. “He knew right when he heard it that it could be a San Jose anthem.”

“The Hometown” is not a cumbia bass song. The song samples a banda track. This genre of Mexican music has more in common with the kinds of brass marching bands that perform at college football games. Still, it underscores a point: in a region saturated with Latino culture, there’s bound to be a crosscultural exchange of creativity.

To this point, Cutso says, he’s been studying the cumbia bass movement.

And he has a front-row seat working with Sonido Clash. “I didn’t start hearing cumbia bass until the last three years, when Sonido Clash started,” he says.

“They’re in the front of the whole cumbia bass movement in the Bay Area.”

Though he’s not ready to incorporate any cumbia bass into his own sets—“I don’t want to be caught faking the funk,” he explains—Cutso is still fascinated by the sound.

“It’s almost kind of a punk rock movement in a way,” he says, “taking something that is very organic (cumbia) and mechanizing it.”

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easily (with cumbia),” says Maryela Perez, of Chulita Vinyl Club. Many cumbia recordings are at a similar tempo as hip-hop songs—somewhere around the 90 beats-per-minute mark.

“When you have a cumbia beat and if you put a basic drum beat behind it, like something you would find on an 808. It was like really cool how they go together so well.”

“It’s really easy to match with hip-hop,” Zepeda agrees, adding that modern production methods are allowing more producers to tinker with the emergent sound. “In Mexico in the mid-2000s, there was a shift,” Zepeda says, recalling what he saw on visits to family. “Kids were able to get computers and download software online and produce their own music. They didn’t have to form a band anymore.”

According to Zepeda, the egalitarian nature of desktop production software and the ability to publish music online fueled the kind of DIY ethos that propels punk rock. “A lot of these kids ended up embracing cumbia,” he says, adding that where he grew up “cumbia was always barrio music”— embraced by the socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods and shunned by the middle- and upperclass, which gravitated toward rock en Español when instruments were involved, and salsa when dancing.

In this way, cumbia-infused sounds have come to represent the underrepresented in the same way that punk and hip-hop have—a musical challenge to authority and the powers that be.

Cumbia Punks: Corazón Salvaje Jose Cervantes plays it fairly straight in the traditional cumbia band he started with his younger siblings and a best friend from middle school. All of the players in Corazón Salvaje are millennials, who grew up skateboarding and listening to punk and hip-hop. But instead of mashing everything up into a genre soup, they just allow their American influences work behind the scenes.

“It’s all in our background,” says Francisco Haro, a bassist for Corazón Salvaje and Cervantes’ best friend since middle school. “Our background is the reason why we’re making music like this. It’s what we grew up with, but we grew up listening to everything. It’s an interpretation of everything put together.”

Corazón Salvaje has played at several venues that don’t necessarily fit their mold including the The Gilman in Berkeley—where Propagandhi, one of Cervantes and Haro favorite punk bands, have played. More recently the group took the stage at the third annual Selena Tribute at Back Bar SoFA, which two days prior hosted Bay Area rapper Too Short.

“It’s so accessible to get into it right away,” says Cervantes (pictured).

“You can tweak it so much to have so many different subgenres of cumbia. It’s a lot like the blues that way. You can mess with it as many times as you can and each result is always beautiful in its own way.”

There’s another reason Cervantes and his band enjoy playing cumbia.

“It just gets everyone moving every time,” Cervantes says. “No matter where we play, whether it’s at a punk venue or Latin club.” —Vicente Serna

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Cinc’d Up ¡MUSICA! The mariachi bands will be out in force this Friday.

A guide to Cinco de Mayo fiestas, cultural events, concerts and food MUSIC Nipsey Hussle (May 6) San Jose Live, 8 S First St, San Jose Free-$15 San Jose Live is set for a night of hip-hop, as L.A. rapper Nipsey Hussle takes the stage Saturday. He’s been a frequent collaborator with West Coast rapper YG, most notably for their single FDT (a.k.a. “Fuck Donald Trump”). Sign up for the guest list to get in for free.

Cinco de Mayo with The Hitmen (May 7) Liquid Lounge, 32 S Third St, San Jose; $15 Strap up those dancing shoes because The Hitmen will keep the dance floor

groovin’ with a live set of ’70s classics, modern favorites and Latin hits.

Purchase an early bird ticket to get a BOGO special on your first drink order.

FOOD Taco Fest 2017 Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, noon, $25+ Featuring more than 30 food trucks and vendors, this Cinco celebration is a one-stop shop for any taco craving.

In addition to tacos, there will be drinks and dessert. Tickets available at exponetwork.org.

Armadillo Willy’s BBQ 2071 Camden Ave, San Jose Enjoy Texas Tacos, free chips and

Executive Chef Everardo Andrade will fire up some authentic Mexican cuisine in addition to his signature dishes at Olla Cocina’s Cinco de Mayo celebration.

Reservations are advised.

BARS & PARTIES Cinco de Mayo Tequila Party 368 Santana Row, San Jose El Jardin Tequila Bar & Restaurant will feature a live mariachi band and salsa music—and plenty of margaritas, mojitos and 100-percent blue agave tequila shots at this all-day Cinco de Mayo celebration.

Cinco de Drinko: The Saddle Rack 42011 Boscell Rd, Fremont With $5 off cover charge, $5 tequila shots and $5 bottles of Coronas, the Saddle Rack is slashing prices for their annual fiesta. This year’s party will feature live music by Diablo Road. The most festive Cinco de Mayo outfit will win tickets to see Lady Antebellum.

With a free all-you-can-eat taco bar from 7pm-9pm and 80-ounce fish bowls for $20, it’s safe to Tres is going all-in for their fiesta.

Chacho’s Restaurant 87 E San Fernando St, San Jose Chacho’s will have a live DJ spinning for customers, who can groove in between sips of the bar’s signature drink—the Hennchata.

Jack Rose Libation House 8840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos Live music from Son de Kali will get the party moving while guests enjoy a special cocktail and food menu.

The beer garden will also be.

CULTURAL EVENTS & FAMILY Hola 5k San Jose (May 6) Discovery Meadow 180 Woz Way, San Jose; 9am; kids $15 and adults $30 Bring the whole family for a Cinco de Mayo 5K run that begins and ends in front of the Children’s Discovery Museum, followed by a post-race fiesta. A separate kidfriendly run will be held for children ages 5-13. All participants will receive a finalist medal and commemorative T-shirt, and early registrants will get to choose between a free ticket to either the San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum or the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

First Friday Cinco de Mayo SPACES., 101 Jefferson Drive, Menlo Park; May 5th 5pm-8pm; Free Menlo Park’s First Friday event will offer a day of family fun that features a lowrider car show, authentic food and drink, art, music, games and crafts. The event is free but space is limited, so reservations are advised.

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An inside look at San Jose politics

WHAT’S YOUR SIGN? Protesters carried countless signs disparaging our dear leader.

Thousands Take to the Streets for May Day March

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Activists echoed a recurring theme at Silicon Valley’s march for International Workers Day: laborers’ concerns overlap with those of all marginalized people. Organizers of San Jose’s biggest May Day rally said Monday’s event also took on greater urgency because of President Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric and attacks on civil rights.

“Trump showed us that it’s so easy to play people against each other,” said Huy Tran, a 34-year-old attorney for the Justice at Work Law Group. “But I think this movement is a way to show that we’re all part of a bigger struggle.”

Huy joined thousands of activists who marched from the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose’s East Side to SAP Center downtown.

Before the procession took off down Alum Rock Avenue, people cheered and clapped as speakers, poets and dancers took turns on the stage.

The crowd responded periodically by chanting in unison: “Get up, get down, there’s a migrant movement in our town.”

Aztec dancers elaborately adorned in feathers led the way from the East Side to the heart of the city.

Trailing behind them, a parade of hundreds swelled into a conflux of about 3,000 as the evening wore on. One group of marchers carried a huge puppet-like effigy of Trump—orange face distorted in a wrinkled grimace, garish yellow hair, abnormally long red tie.

Outside City Hall, activists took sticks to “walls of alternative facts,” paper banners scrawled with falsehoods uttered by the Trump administration.

Throughout the day, protest signs, costumes and homemade T-shirts inspired countless selfies and snapshots.

Jayden Lee, 27, wore the transgender pride flag as a cape. A woman dressed

as the Statue of Liberty raised a torch in her right hand, and in her left a sign declaring that “no human being is illegal.”

Students from the Roberto Cruz High School Leadership Academy held up bright and bold-lettered handmade signs.

“Something smells bad in the White House,” one read. “We should flush it.”

Elsewhere, a poster took a shot at a tone-deaf commercial that tried to co-opt political resistance movements to sell soda. “We need papers, not Pepsi,” it read.

Rabbi Melanie Aron’s sign declared, “No human being is illegal.”

“For Jews, supporting immigrant rights comes partly from an identification with our history,” she said. “As a people, we have been refugees, we have been displaced and persecuted.”

City Manager of Milpitas Demands a Cool Million in Ageism Complaint Milpitas’ highest-ranking bureaucrat has threatened to sue his own city to defend his reputation, according to a document obtained exclusively by San Jose Inside. But in demanding a seven-figure settlement from the taxpayers who employ him, City Manager Tom Williams might be doing more to tarnish his record than one of his loudest critics— newly elected Mayor Rich Tran.

Attempts to obtain information about the potential lawsuit have been blocked by Williams, who on Friday morning sought a court order to prevent the city from releasing documents requested by reporters.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Mary Arand ruled in favor of his motion for a temporary restraining order, which prevents the city from disclosing information about his personnel record.

However, San Jose Inside preempted the ruling by publishing at least one document Williams sought to protect: a cease-and-desist letter sent to the mayor and the City Council. The April 13 missive, which was obtained from multiple sources, tells Tran to stop criticizing Williams in public or risk getting sued by the month’s end.

Williams said he would seek $500,000 for damages to his reputation, $500,000 for emotional distress and at least $15,000 for attorney’s fees.

The leaked letter claims that Tran— who at 32 is one of the youngest mayors in California—discriminated against the 53-year-old city manager because of his age. It also accuses the mayor of inappropriately disparaging Williams’ job performance to the public, to the press and to his face.

The lawsuit filed against the city, the Milpitas Post and Metro seems to indicate that Diaz was inclined to release the cease-and-desist letter and other personnel records.

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Metro has long discussed starting a podcast, only to turn our attention to other pressing concerns (usually lunch). But in an effort to better reach readers and tell our story—that is, the story of life, art and news in Silicon Valley—we’ve decided to take the long-overdue plunge.

Last week we launched the damn thing with a conversation between Josh Koehn, Metro’s managing editor, and Nick Veronin, A&E extraordinaire.

We plan to publish our next installment of the ’cast this Thursday. Join our discussion of the cover story, news and upcoming nightlife at activate. metroactive.com. (NV)

Fans of puns, Star Wars and cold beers, rejoice! San Jose’s best Star Wars-themed cantina, 7 Stars Bar & Grill, has figured out a way to extend the fun of May 4—better known as “May the Fourth be with you” among Star Wars fans. Namely, with more puns. On Thursday, use the Force to best all opponents in a round of Star Wars trivia. Then come back for a little hair of the wampa on Friday, “Return of the (May) Fifth,” and Saturday, “Revenge of the (May) Sixth.”

Watch out for Imperial traps and be sure to designate a pilot. (NV)

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ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE Fri, 6:30pm, $50 Gordon Biersch, San Jose San Jose Musical Theater is taking over one of downtown’s favorite brewpubs with a month of shows celebrating the life and music of country icon Patsy Cline.

Opening this Friday and running through May 28, the musical play will feature 27 of Cline’s biggest hits—including “Crazy,” “Walking After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces” and “Sweet Dreams.”

The performance also promises to give fans of Cline a nostalgic look back at her career, while also serving to inform those new to her legacy. Price of admission includes dinner and kids’ tickets are half price. (NV)

DANCE SERIES 02 Fri, 8pm, $31+ Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Fifty years ago, in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, the “Summer of Love” marked the beginning of a cultural shift, as tens of thousands of young adults adopted hippiedom and its dream for a more peaceful and harmonious future. To honor the semi-centennial anniversary of the Summer of Love, Smuin Ballet is delivering two world-premier works. Acclaimed choreographer Trey McIntyre will debut a dance piece titled Broken Open that pays homage to the seminal late-’60s movement, and The Poetry of Being by Nicole Haskins honors company founder Michael Smuin. Performances run from May 5-7. (BS)

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BACH & MAHLER Sat, 8pm, $45+ California Theatre, San Jose The penultimate performance of Symphony Silicon Valley’s season brings two of the greatest Germanic composers together under the same roof—bridging nearly 200 years of European orchestral tradition. Bach’s Chaconne was originally written for solo violin, but has since been rearranged for just about every instrument.

Symphony SV plays an orchestral version of the work. Composed in 1905, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 is a sprawling opus known for its epic and triumphant horns, as well as its opening nod to fellow Austrian Ludwig van Beethoven.

Director Tatsuya Shimono leads the ensemble. Saturday’s performance is follwed by a 2:30pm Sunday matinee. (NV)

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GABRIEL IGLESIAS

May 13 at SAP Center

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

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

LADY ANTEBELLUM

May 27 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

VOODOO GLOW SKULLS June 1 at The Ritz

PINK FLOYD CONCERT EXPERIENCE

Jun 2 at City National Civic

DEAD & COMPANY

Jun 3-4 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

NKOTB, BOYZ II MEN Jun 4 at SAP Center

ROGER WATERS

Jun 7 at SAP Center

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & PITBULL Jun 9 at SAP Center

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A LA CARTE & ART Sat, 10am, Free Castro Street, Mountain View For the 21st time, Mountain View’s Castro Street will close to traffic for two days of art, crafts, live music and handcrafted beer.

The A La Carte and Art festival will feature more than 200 West Coast artists who will set up colorful tents to showcase their handcrafted work. This openair festival is family-friendly with a Super Duper Funzone for children to play in while mom and dad check out the classic car show, “A La Car and Art,” and sip some wine. Also on display will be health and wellness booths, home and garden exhibits and a farmers market. Runs through Sunday. (BS)

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It’s a big day for fans of comic books.

Major publishers, including DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and IDW will be releasing free titles at independent comic book shops across the country. In the South Bay, comic collectors can get in on the action by visiting one of six locations: Spacecat and Hijinx Comics in San Jose, Illusive Comics & Games and Legends Comics and Games in Santa Clara, Heroes in Campbell, and Black Cat Comics in Milpitas. Be sure to look for Bongo Comics’ special Simpsons comic—written and illustrated by Matt Groening—as well as a Rick & Morty book and the first issue of the DC Universe Rebirth series on Wonder Woman. (NV)

Opening this Saturday and running for three consecutive weekends, Silicon Valley Open Studios returns for its 31st year of exposing the wide array of talented artists working in the region. Over the course of the event, painters, illustrators, sculptors and creatives of all stripes will open their studios in 28 Bay Area cities to art lovers and collectors alike.

The opening weekend, May 6-7, will focus on the northern half of the Peninsula, from Los Altos to South San Francisco. The following weekends—May 13-14 and May 20-21—will descend through Palo Alto on down to Gilroy. More information at svos.org. (NV)

Jun 10 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

FUTURE & MIGOS

Jun 15 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

TOOL

Jun 21 at SAP Center

MADE IN 1977 Sun, 11am, Free San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles When it was founded in 1977, the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles was the first of its kind.

Today, 40 years later, the museum continues to collect and display some of the best “fiber art” work from around the country and the world. This weekend, the museum celebrates making it over the hill with a number of great textile pieces, live music by Aki Kumar and Jon Lawton, interactive activities and the SJMQT’s artist in residence, Laurie Shapiro. New works will be on display alongside the museum’s permanent collection, which includes textiles dating back to the the 1800s. (BS)

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Jun 29 at SAP Center

BRUNO MARS

Jul 20 at SAP Center

ID10T MUSIC FEST

Jun 24-25 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL Jul 29 at SAP Center

NEIL DIAMOND

Jul 30 at SAP Center

SAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST Aug 11-13 in Downtown SJ

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Corporate Art ART SCHOOL How many students who sat in this Eames-designed desk knew that they were part of a work of art?

‘Creativity on the Line’ ponders artist-corporation relationship

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T WOULD BE criminal if the optics weren’t spot on for Creativity on the Line: Design for the Corporate World 1950-1975. Rest assured, no graduate student from The Stanford d.school or the California College of the Arts should be able find fault with the presentation. Cantor Arts Center’s new exhibit celebrates work created by both graphic and industrial designers.

As such, even the fonts on the wall text have been meticulously chosen.

The objects themselves have been thematically arranged in clear plastic boxes. There’s even a white porcelain

sink with a chrome faucet polished clean, a cheeky salutation, perhaps, to Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, which kicked off the dada movement 100 years ago. Stenciled in temperate colors, pull quotes from design heroes like Walter Paepcke adorn the back wall of the wide-open gallery. But the central question of theses past and theses yet to be remains the same: if design is made in service of, or in servitude to commerce, is it art?

The answer is varied. Take the post-World War II era of branding for companies like Mobil, IBM and Westinghouse. There are superlative examples on display of what we now call “design thinking,” the fine art of logo iterations, color chips (the precursors to Pantone fans) and creative briefs on the formation of corporate identities.

Without someone as talented as Eliot Noyes, a Harvard-trained architect and

designer, it’s arguable that the IBM brand would not have made such a deep impression on the American consumer.

It’s not much of a stretch to connect the emergence of instantly recognizable corporate names, humanized by advertising campaigns, with the 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the one that gave corporations the same rights as individual citizens. At the behest of management, designers make titans of industry appear benign with complementary, primary colors and friendly, rounded fonts. Creativity on the Line doggedly pursues the question, “Are corporate designers simply sell outs?”

The presence of Sarah Little Turnbull’s safety mask for 3M provides a resounding “no.” An example of one hangs next to a black and white corporate video explaining its ability to counter the inhalation of polluted air.

Other utilitarian objects of all varieties may be profitable for businesses solely seeking capital gains but that doesn’t make them any less useful or, in some cases, less beautiful to behold.

What makes the difference between something’s practical application and its aesthetic value is the addition of time.

A red drill, a black rotary telephone, typewriters, chairs: they all look like objets d’arts here mounted on stands or shining under white lights.

Creativity on the Line also considers interiors and exteriors, the physical spaces and rooms where designers employ their imaginations to do their jobs. If the workplace itself is uncomfortable or claustrophobic, then productivity might be hindered, or so the thinking goes. In the exhibit catalog, Louise A. Mozingo’s essay “Building Modernist but Not Quite Corporate Design in the Postwar Suburb” examines the migration of businesses to “suburban peripheries.”

The accompanying photographs feature immense office parks in quasi-rural settings built decades ago. The owners justify the monumental scale of the buildings as symbolic marriages between “capitalist commerce and beautiful landscapes.” It’s no wonder she draws parallels to the expensive, expansive campuses built by their contemporaries: Facebook, Google and Apple.

Corporate designers may be tethered to their bucolic grounds, bright orange Eames chairs and the lure of regular salaries, but the process of design itself can still continue to be playful and fun. At least according to the graphic designer Saul Bass.

His 1968 short film Why Man Creates attracted museum patrons and museum guards alike. In the film, Bass also makes clever use of the medium’s facility for quick edits. A pair of hands cracks open an eggshell.

Its albumen and yellow yolk fall out.

Cut to a second egg: this time black ink gushes out. Cut to a third egg: a dazed butterfly pauses then takes flight. There isn’t a better, or more delightful, metaphor for the evolution of an artist’s creativity. They take the everyday (an egg), apply their materials (ink, in this case) and, transformed, their work flies out into the world.

Unfortunately for corporate designers who are interested in paying their rent, the beautiful things they make may only help the rich get richer.

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riotous visual trip down punk rock memory lane.

Punk Rock Picture Show “Michael Jang is NO FUN” features more than 80 photographs from Jang’s time cavorting through the burgeoning scene in the 1970s.

Featuring everyone from Iggy Pop to David Bowie, and even photos from the last performance of the Sex Pistols, Jang’s collection of photos are truly rare (this is the first time the collection is being shown in America) and nostalgic. But beyond its rarity, the collection radiates an intense and intimate energy, providing unique glimpses into an oft-lionized, but rarely seen, fleeting cultural movement.

Originally from Marysville, California, Jang took his first picture at 9 years old—a snapshot of legendary Giants outfielder Willie Mays. Through high school he was involved with many light-show productions, which secured him a spot at CalArts in Southern California. But it wasn’t until well into his time there that he found his love for photography. “I was never good at school conventionally,” Jang says, “So when I found I could just take pictures and pass, I thought it was great.”

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Jang went on to attend graduate school at the San Francisco Art Institute, where the bulk of the photos in “NO FUN” were shot.

Employing a fake-it-till-you-make-it approach and a imaginative attitude, Jang managed to capture punk icons in both the heat of the musical moment and in quieter, composed displays.

“I thought, you know, photography is kind of primal,” he says. “In a sense it’s like hunting, where both use the verb to shoot. It could have been hunting, or I could have been a graffiti artist hunting for a wall after midnight. I just loved the hunt and the challenge.”

Unlike other photography shows, Jang doesn’t want visitors to be able to scan the walls in a few seconds and get the gist. “I want to draw you in, slow you down, and let you absorb it in a more thoughtful way.”

If anything “Michael Jang is NO FUN” is a bit of a misnomer. The joviality and warmth of the images is clear in his close-up and sometimes-chaotic punk portraits—suggesting anything but a lack of enjoyment. —Tad Malone

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The Floating World SURF’S UP An earthquake plunges Tides High into the water in the cheeky indie cartoon ‘My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea.’

‘Entire High School’ destroyed in endearing indie cartoon

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HE WITTIEST PROTEST sign Instagrammed during the recent Science March: “Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.”

Dash (voiced by Jason Schwartzman), the hero of Dash Shaw’s animated film My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, is cast by fate to be the person in the disaster movie whose warning goes unheeded.

The hard-hitting reporter from the Tides High Gazette, the Xeroxed

student newspaper, is commencing his sophomore year. The Gazette’s editor Verti (Maya Rudolph) is trying to split up the friendship between Dash and his best pal, Assaf (Reggie Watts)—even though Dash had been predicting great things for his writing partner in that interior monologue every adolescent has going inside their heads: “This is going to be a big year for our hero and his sidekick!”

Verti is trying to get Assaf for herself, under the cover of writing a dual restaurant review: “Don’t worry, I’ll bring a thesaurus… I’ve made a list of synonyms for ‘delicious.’”

Upset, Dash turns his attention to the new school auditorium and the apparent forged signature on the inspection permit. The place is dangerously unsound—built on a

precarious cliff over the ocean and ready to collapse at the first small temblor. It strikes, and 900 students are soon floating off to sea. Enraged by spilled blood transfusion bags from the nurse’s office, man-eating sharks pick off the kind of kids who no one can seem to remember and no one will miss. Meanwhile, Dash, Assaf, Verti, and their new nodding acquaintance Mary (voiced by Lena Dunham) make the torturous trip up to the higher levels, the inner sanctum where the seniors are cowering.

The school’s crisis produces a hero—Lunch Lady Lorraine (Susan Sarandon), a wise woman with a cross-hatched hair net and a tragic back story. She bucks the kids up, nurses a jellyfish sting by boiling the stung kid’s elbow, and kung-fus the school’s bullies when they try to push the bad situation into anarchy. (It’s touch and go: bananas fly during a food fight, victims are mercilessly dutch-rubbed, and, unseen by the rioters, a couple making out under a

table.) As in Rian Johnson’s Brick and TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the trick here is to make the seemingly lethal pain of high school actually lethal.

It’s a veritable Poseidon Adventure for a new century. The school may be wet, but Shaw’s writing style is dry, having the tang of brilliant, bored high school kid comedy to them. He’s made the art simple and then even simpler; certain images (as in a drawing of a Scout’s tent in the forest) that Shaw can draw well, and that he’s taking up the simple style of sketches made during school entrapment. Some of the passages are even illustrated on notebook paper, as if scribbled during an algebra class.

Shaw likes cross-sections; a halved school bus rolling down the road, the inside of an asthmatic’s lung, the alveoli shrinking… or dwindling to nothingness, when one victim drowns and turns into an x-eyed corpse.

Shaw works 2D, in the traditional celluloid and gouache style. Per the innovative UPA animation of the 1950s, the transparent plastic is laid over wallpaper sample style pattern fields, or bright colored construction paper. He sums up the life aquatic with watercolor resist over crayon, and psychedelic light shows. The figures move in a two-step dance of throbbing movement seen in Bill Plympton as well as today’s neoUPA-ists, such as Don Hertzfeldt.

That 2D throb of today’s funky hand drawn animation is as common as the metronome-timed bounce was in 1930s cartoons.

With amusing nonchalance, the graphic novelist turned animator keeps it small and funny. As a movie, it’s close to John Prine’s ballad of small-time disaster, “The Bottomless Lake,” about the car plunge of a nuclear family. Tracing the outline of a disaster movie, as Shaw does, picks up the central messages of the genre: there is no such thing as a tragedy that isn’t the result of corner-cutting.

Be stalwart, but also be nice. And the immutable wheel of fortune renders today’s shiniest and most important pig into tomorrow’s bacon.

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Seeking more evidence that Hollywood doesn’t understand the valley? Here it is. Mae Holland (Emma Watson) is a poor but honest cubicle dweller who gets a position at The Circle, the best company in the world, located somewhere in the marshes of the SF Bay. This Facebook/ Yelp/Google/YouTube medley is debuting its newest app: SeeChange, a series of superballsize cameras to be placed all over the world. Loyal little cypher that she is, Mae allows herself to be the spokesperson for a visible life; she becomes a cam girl with millions of followers. But as she gets famous, she’ll betray her working-class parents (Glenn Headley and the late Bill Paxton) as well as Mercer (Ellar Coltrane), the too-nice boy back home who loves her, and the Scottish BFF who mentored her (Karen Gillan, squandered). Is this movie about show business or high tech? It seems to be the former, an All About Eve knockoff transplanted to the Santa Clara Valley. Tom Hanks plays The Circle’s revered founder; his trustworthiness is meant to slow down the raised hackles we would get if this Dave Eggersbased glob of sci-fi and satire worked half as well as an episode of Black Mirror. The director, James Ponsoldt (The Incredible Now and, far more relevant to this movie, The End of the Tour), has skill. But he’s also got Eggers’ typically flat, glove-puppet characters to work with and a miscast lead. Even the names sound skimmed—Mae Holland as in conspiracy theorist Mae Brussels? Mercer, as in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Events transpire almost to the point where someone should hear the dark plot and say, “It all sounds like something out of a bad movie.”

(Valleywide.) (RvB)

THE DINNER

Some films you watch, thinking, “This is seriously never going to end.” The Dinner is more like, “This is seriously never going to begin.” Based on an international best seller by the Dutch novelist Herman Koch, director/writer Oren Moverman’s scolding anti-comedy features Steve Coogan as Paul, a bitter crank of a former high school history teacher. He loathes his brother Stan (Richard Gere), a congressman running for governor.

The two and their wives—Stan’s latest spouse (Rebecca Hall) and

Revivals MY FAIR LADY

(1964) The film of the beloved stage musical is oversized, but it boasts Rex Harrison as the snide elocutionist Professor Henry Higgins, who transforms a cockney flower peddler into a society lady.

Audrey Hepburn, no one's idea of a mudlark, co-stars as Eliza. There are some terrific songs: "I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face," "On the Street Where You Live" and "The Rain in Spain." Quite stiff and cautious, actually, but the old-time music hall star Stanley Holloway gives it a lift (as Liza's Doolittle's reprobate dad, who sings "Get Me to the Church on Time.") (May 5-6 at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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SECRET WMD He may be cute, but Baby Groot is prepared to go nuclear in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.’

‘Galaxy’ of Gleeful Violence SLOBS VS. SLOBS in space: our heroes in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, are pursued by the Sovereign. They’re a gilded, genetically engineered race of stuck-ups with a lot of money for bounty hunters.

Thanks to the light fingers of the thieving yet endearing Rocket Racoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) the gang is chased by a sky full of drones. The golden aristos operate them with arcade-like video game controls and vintage sound effects.

Rescue comes from an omnipotent old hippie called “Ego” (Kurt Russell), a selfdeclared “small-g god.” This omnipotent beardo is the real father of “Star Lord” Peter Quill (Chris Pratt). Ego owns a planet that looks like million-dollar vanart, with orderly little creeks and fountains.

Some ’70s stoners had posters like this. It all looks very 420 friendly.

The father-son bonding is interspersed with the continuing quarrel between space-princess Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and her evil sister Nebula (Karen Gillan), an iridescent creature with an enameled head.

There are a lot of morsels here—dozens, really—and it starts off the summer with a bang. The color is as wild as in Zhang Yimou’s costumed epics. As played by the improbably gigantic Dave Bautista, Drax is the funniest interstellar muscle since Adam Baldwin in Serenity. He gets the

best comeback in a movie full of them.

Peter tries to scoff off Drax’s fears about Ego: “You sound like an old woman.”

“Because I’m wise?”

Baby Groot, the simple little sprout, has to be coached through the process of planting an atom bomb. Pom Klementieff ’s frail empath Mantis has deep wet eyes and the supernatural smoothness of the young Diana Rigg.

But even with his newly acquired brawn, Guardians of the Chris Pratt has to do Galaxy Vol. 2 more heavy lifting as an actor than he can, PG-13; 137 Mins. sometimes. He has an Valleywide air of perplexity that mirrors the film’s uneven tone. The sequel shares the first Guardian’s taste for impalement, with a series of close-up reaction shots of the transfixed. The blue-bruiser Yondu (Michael Rooker) launches a fire arrow that makes glowing tracers as it speeds through the chests of a small army of men. Even if they’re murderous space pirates who deserve it, there’s an unsettling amount of barbaric glee in these movies. To enjoy them, you have to accept their argument that it’s not all about violence, but all about fireworks.

—Richard von Busack

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Paul’s wife (Laura Linney)—are to meet for a hideously expensive and pretentious dinner at a hot restaurant. It (eventually, very eventually) transpires that the meeting is about some bad trouble their sons got into together—a horrifying assault, now visible on social media. The family’s surname, Lohman, is likely supposed to recall the moral dramas of Arthur Miller—but between Paul’s tirades and Gere’s torpid acting, it’s a lot of wind, most of it prevailing from Paul’s direction. Paul calls his brother “an anthropoid,” but Gere doesn’t have that animal edge, even when he’s reduced to striking out at his goading brother. Paul is the kind of role a Wallace Shawn or a Paul Giamatti could nail; Coogan’s accent is fine, but his angst doesn’t compel us—he’s a smaller-than-life kind of actor in a role that ought to have a little menace to it, a little unintentional humor to the whine.

(Paul seems to be one of those people who got involved in the study of history because he thinks people had sturdier moral character in the old days.) Admittedly, the subject matter matches the rancid politics of today—particularly in the film’s road trip, a visit to the sad kitsch and genuine pathos of Gettysburg—but the movie doesn’t let us figure this out on our own. (For example, the crime committed by the cousins happens in front of the “Citizens United Bank.”) The great Bobby Bukowski’s photography keeps the movie from total enervation: Linney glows in a crimson gown in front of the restaurant’s fireplace. Otherwise, this is the most thorough-going bummer since We Need to Talk About Kevin. (Camera 3.) (RvB)

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Hyphy’s Heir BLING BLAOW With Mac Dre’s absurdist flow and E-40s elastic love of slang, Nef The Pharaoh has what it takes to be the next Bay Area hip-hop star.

Nef The Pharaoh aims to put Vallejo and the Bay back on the map

BY NICK VERONIN

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EF THE PHARAOH remembers the exact moment he decided he wanted to become a rapper. At the tender age of 4, the young Pharaoh—born Tonee Hayes in Vallejo—saw the surreal Hype Williams-directed video for Busta Rhymes’ 1997 track “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See.”

The cartoonish clip, featuring Busta and his Flipmode Squad cavorting around a mansion in black light-

reactive tribal paint—his spastic face blown-out in fisheye lens close-ups as he runs herky-jerky from an elephant— made an impression on Neffie.

“He was so crazy,” Pharaoh recalls.

“And I was always a crazy young little kid with an imagination. After seeing that video, I made my own rap.”

Listening to Nef ’s latest release, The Chang Project, it’s easy to hear the early connection he made with the far-out sounds and styles of late-’90s Busta. Pharaoh’s flow is buoyant and playful—often accented with upspeak, and very reminiscent of that other rapper from Vallejo that any rap fan from the Bay Area will know.

“Mac Dre played a very big part in my career, because he’s one of the artists

that made me become comfortable with myself and who I am,” Nef says, speaking on the role that the late, great Andre Hicks had in inspiring his own style. “Mac Dre could take the weakest beats possible and rap on them and make them tight.”

One imagines Nef is capable of the same, which is not to say any of the slappers on The Chang Project are weak. Case in point: “Lauryn Hill,” the 13th track from Nef ’s latest effort, finds the emcee bouncing all over a minimalist beat, pulling out layered metaphors and similes in such rapid succession that the brief song not only rewards multiple listens—it demands them.

The Chang Project also shows off a number Neffie’s mannerisms, which were doubtlessly informed by that other great Vallejo rapper, E-40. Up and down the record’s 15 songs, Pharaoh pulls out autotune-less warbles and demonstrates a knack for

inventive slang, as well as expressive onomatopoeia: “Look at my neck— bling blaow!” he exclaims on the appropriately titled “Bling Blaow.”

The jubilant track celebrates Pharaoh’s making it big enough to blow some serious cash on jewelry. But it is also a particularly Bay-centric celebration of the malleability of language. From the signature stretched-out “biiiitch” of Oakland emcee Too Short, to the “foshizzles” and “fo-sheezys” of Keak Da Sneak, Nef is quick to point out the innovative linguistic contributions Bay Area rappers have made to the hip-hop canon over the years.

And then there was the hyphy movement. Launched by Keak Da Sneak, Mac Dre, E-40 and others, the hyphy style—with its specific lingo, stripped-down beats, signature dance moves and uniquely absurdist, quasi-psychedelic worldview—was huge in the Bay Area. But outside of 40 Water’s “Tell Me When To Go,” hyphy made a much smaller impact on the national scene.

Fast-forward to 2010, however, and you’ll find all the trappings of hyphy’s sonic signature in the beats of L.A. producer DJ Mustard. Swipe left all the way to 2017 and take a closer look at the meteoric success of Atlanta trio Migos: the rap-game gonzo of Quavo, Takeoff and Offset is nothing new. It’s just a different twist on the thizz dance.

“This is ground zero,” Nef says. “We are the mecca. Hip-hop might have started in New York, but the Bay Area gave it its style. We gave it its slang.” And with The Chang Project and the soon-tobe-dropped The Big Chang Theory, Nef aims to underscore his assertion.

“I’m bringing it back to the Bay,” Nef says. And that’s more than your typical hip-hop bluster. Nef has scored tons of mentions in prominent music publications—including SPIN, Pitchfork, Noisey, and The Fader.

To put it bluntly—heh—fans looking for the next big thing in rap would do well to catch Nef The Pharaoh when he rolls through town this Saturday.

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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, May 4, 9pm: M.K.C., Simple Sinsation, Panhandlers Union. Fri, May, 5, 9pm: Rock N Roll Suicides, Lunacies, The Hass Beens. Sat, May 6, 9pm: Doctor Striker, Kenny Thomas and the Southern Baptists, Rebelskamp. San Jose.

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THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos. Wed, May 3, 7pm: Johnny Neri. Thu, May 4, 7pm: Isis and The Cold Truth. Fri, May 5, 8pm: Last Call. Sat, May 6, 8pm: Ruth Gerson. Los Gatos.

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HEDLEY CLUB Every 1st and 3rd Wed: Jazz Jam., San Jose.

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628607 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Theresa’s Custom Scrapbooks, 500 W. 10th St., #44, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Teresa Stefanisko. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/7/2017. /s/Teresa Stefanisko. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/07/2017. (pub Metro 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628366 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GI Auto Test And Repair, 36 Washington St., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Gurpal Singh, 1488 Lochner Dr., 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 4/03/2017. /s/Gurpal Singh. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/03/2017. (pub Metro 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #627293 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Good Ethic Movers, 2345 Sutter Avenue, #6, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, D. Castillo Priscilla. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/19/2016. Refile of previous file #624606 with changes. /s/Priscilla D. Castillo.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/07/2017. (pub Metro 4/05, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #627253 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Initiate Phresh Is Best, 3000 Mission College, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Michelle Butler, 4421 Reniassance Dr., #226, San Jose, CA, 95134. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/06/2017. /s/Michelle Butler.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/06/2017. (pub Metro 4/05, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628340 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Yuki Express, 1163 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Yuki Sushi 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 3/24/2017.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Nobuko Der. Managing Member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/30/2017. (pub Metro 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628564 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Boost Culture & Coaching Strategies, 38, N. Almaden Blvd, Unit 1818, San Jose, CA, 95110, Tonya J. Long. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/03/2017. /s/Tonya J. Long. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/07/2017/2017. (pub Metro 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NUMBER:17CV308230 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Ioana Dimitriu for decree changing names as follows: Present name: Ioana Dimitriu. Proposed name: Ioana Taropa. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: June 20, 2017 at 8:45 am, room Probate filed on: April 5, 2017 (pub dates: 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628616 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Peak Value Enterprises, 205 De Anza Blvde, #133, San Mateo, CA, 94402, James Crabtree, 3633 Copperfield Dr., #364, San Jose, CA, 95136.

This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/07/2017. /s/James Crabtree. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/07/2017. (pub Metro 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628581 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mountain Miles Mtn View, 1724 Miramonte Ave., Mountain View, CA, 94040, SDS Foods LLC, 3529 S. Bascom Ave., #N6, Campbell, CA, 95008. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Yadwinder Singh. Manager. #201705510102 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/07/2017. (pub Metro 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628626

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sam Plumbing Construction, 915 Green Wich Ave., Sunnyvale, Ca, 94087, Eung Sam Seok. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/14/1998.

Refile of previous #354891 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Eung Sam Seok. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/10/2017. (pub Metro4/19, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628414

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628400 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: El Paisano Insurance, 1201 E. Julian Street, Suite 2, San Jose, CA, 95116, Syed Ghayas, 38950 Blocow Rd., Suite E, Fremont, Ca, 94536.

This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/01/2017. /s/Syed Ghayas. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/03/2017. (pub Metro 4/19, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628584

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vankirk Electric, 9595 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 900, Beverly Hills, CA, 90212, Mon Arc Group, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/07/2008. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Paul Sanchez. Secretary. #2962277. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/20/2017. (pub Metro 4/19, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pristine Orthodontics, 750 Welch Road, STE 102, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, Jeffrey Hung-Yip Lee DDS, 215 Eucalyptus Ave., Hillsborough, CA, 94010. This business is being conducted by a corporation.

Registrant has not yet begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jeffrey Lee DDS. President. #C4001981. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/07/2017. (pub Metro 4/19, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628711

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628743

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Monika Rose, 1030 El Monte Ave., Apt 210, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Monika Rose Toves. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/06/2017.

Refile of previous file #627284 with changes. /s/Monika Rose Toves. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/11/2017. (pub Metro 4/19, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #627583 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Souvanny Consulting, 2893 Fallwood Lane, San Jose, Ca, 95132, Souvanny Keomahavong. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/15/2017. /s/Souvanny Keomahavong. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/15/2017. (pub Metro 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY: CASE NO. 16-PR-179677 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on May 9, 2017 at 2:00 p.m., the Santa Clara Public Administrator, as Administrator of the estate of ELZIE MAYFIELD AKA ELZIE MAYFIELD, JR., intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located in 3225/3227 Alma Street, in the City of Palo Alto, County of Santa Clara, State of California, which property is more particularly described as follows: ALL OF LOTS 34 and 35, Block 12, as shown upon that certain map entitled, “Stanford University Villa Tract,” which Map was filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, on November 12, 1912, in Book O of Maps, Page 15. APN: 132-27-081The subject property shall be sold “as is.” Bids for the property are hereby invited. All bids must be on the bid forms provided by the Santa Clara County Public Administrator or Alain Pinel Realtors and may be mailed or personally delivered to the Office of the Public Administrator, 333 W. Julian Street, 4th Floor, San Jose, California 95110, or to Alain Pinel Realtors, 750 University Avenue, Suite 150, Los Gatos, California 95032, Attn: George Montanari. All bids must be accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. The full terms of the sale are contained in the bid form. All bids will be opened at the Office of the Administrator on May 9, 2017 at 2:00 p.m., or thereafter, as allowed by law. The Santa Clara County Public Administrator reserves the right to reject any and all bids prior to entry of a court order confirming a sale. The sale shall be subject to confirmation by the above-entitled court.

For additional information and bids forms, contact George Montanari, from Alain Pinel Realtors, (408) 357-8808, or at the Santa Clara County Public Administrator’s Office. /s/Petitioner JAMES R. WILLIAMS, County Counsel, MARK A. GONZALEZ, (SBN 178649) Lead Deputy County Counsel 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300 San Jose, CA 95110 Telephone: (408) 7584200 Fax: (408) 758-4292 Attorneys for James J. Ramoni Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara (Pub CC 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #627612 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Duong So 7, 2. Dong Vui, 3. Tigon Cafe, 301 Santa Clara Street, Suite B, San Jose, CA, 95113, Tigon LLC, 772 N. 1 St Street, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/15/2017.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Marco Sudjita. Manager. #201706710696. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/15/2017. (pub Metro 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/03/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Equus Commercial Real Estate, 2005 De La Cruz Blvd., Suite 180, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Jose Inson Gorme Jr, 100 N. Whisman Rd., #3311, Mountain View, CA, 94043. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/12/2017. /s/Jose Inson Gorme Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/12/2017. (pub Metro 4/19, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628391 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TJ Performance Audio, 65 Keyes St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Blanca Gonzalez, Benjamin Vargas Gomez, 648 Jasper St., San Jose, CA, 95116. This business is conducted by a general partnership.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/03/2017. Refile of previous file #563990 with changes. /s/Blanca Gonzalez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/03/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628877 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Plotkin Ed Tech, 2489 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, Plotkin Education Technology Investment Advisory Service, LLC. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Hal Plotkin. Manager. #201707910542. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/17/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628785 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Legacy Real Estate Advisors, 1900 The Alameda , STE 510, San Jose, CA, 95126, Edwin Ryu, 1094 Marilyn Dr., Mountain View, CA, 94040. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/22/2001. Refile of previous file #542944 with changes. /s/Edwin Ryu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/13/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628905 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Giant’s Barber Shop, 1608 Alum Rock Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95116, Millard Hampton, 4801 Laguna Blvd., 105122, Elk Grove, CA, 95116. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/18/2017. /s/Millard Hampton. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/18/2017/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #628906 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Giant’s Barber Shop, 1608 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116-2429, Loretta M. Payne. Filed in Santa Clara County on 4/19/2012 under file no. 564032. This business was conducted by: an individual.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on 4/18/2017. /s/Loretta Payne. (pub dates 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

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NOTICE OF PETITION ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DOREEN LUELLA KEENE AKA DOREEN L. LAWSON KEENE CASE NO. 1-17-PR-180842 To all heirs beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Doreen Luella Keene aka Doreen L. Lawson KeeneA Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J Ramoni, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. A Petition for Probate requests that: James J Ramoni, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take-many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held on June 16, 2017, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in section 1250 of the California Probate Code. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, 95110 408-7584200 (Pub CC 4/26, 5/03, 5/10/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628943 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Independent Cyber Consultants, 1475 Bittern Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Michael Lynn Pendergrast. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael Lynn Pendergrast. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/18/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

NOTICE OF PETITION ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LUISA MORALES CASE NO. 1-17-PR-180843

To all heirs beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Luisa Morales.A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Guadalupe Morales, in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition of Probate requests that: Guadalupe Morales be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take-many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held on July, 12 2017 at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice form (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in section 1250 of the California Probate Code. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Michelle Noble McCain, 106 Central Avenue, Salinas, CA, 93901. (831) 772-8300 (Pub CC 4/26, 5/03, 5/10)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628542

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Crazy Chic Design, 2003 University Way, San Jose, CA, 95128, Amy Nicole Romero. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/01/2017. /s/Tonya J. Long. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/21/2017. (pub Metro 4/19, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Chic Design Interiors, 6529 Pajaro Way, San Jose, CA, 95120, Jennifer Marie Pena. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/05/2017. /s/Jennifer Pena. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/03/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628899 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. ZigZig Designs, 2. Designs by Christine, 19590 Black Road, Los Gatos, CA, 95053, Christine R. Groom. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/17/2015. Refile of previous file #608923 with changes. /s/ Christine R. Groom. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/18/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #629014 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Malone Hair Salon, 1109 Malone Rd., San Jose, CA, 95125, Huynh Nancy, 738 Hellyer Ave., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/01/2017. /s/ Tonya J. Long. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/20/2017/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #627968 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Posh Bagel, 1040 Grant Road, #185, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Hong Sok, 1774 41st Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94122. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Hong Sok. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/23/2017. (pub Metro 4/19, 4/26, 5/03, 5/10/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #629045 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Swenson Builder, 777 N First Street, 5th Floor, San Jose, CA, 95112, Green Valley Corporation. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Case Swenson. President. #0416311. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/20/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628936 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Beyond Ribbons, 856 Minnesota Ave., Unit 103, San Jose, CA, 95125, Diane Elieff. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/18/2017. /s/Diane Elieff. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/18/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #629066 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Tech College, Inc, 1900 Camden AVe., Suite 101, San Jose, CA, 95124, Silicon Valley Tech College, Inc, 615 Hamilton Lane, Santa Clara, CA, 95051. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/11/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Robert DR Heer. CFO. #4014319. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/21/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #629111

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Morgan Hill Taxi, 2. Morgan Hill Taxi Cab, 3. Morgan Hill Cab, 4.

Morgan Hill Airport Connector, 5. Morgan Hill Area Connector, 6. MHT, 7. MHHT, 8. Morgan Hill Transit, 9. Gotogo, 14763 Excaliber Dr., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Morgan Hill Transit 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 06/20/2011.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Diane Mahmoudi. President. #201408510327. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/24/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628511 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dindigul Thalappakatti, 252 Ranch Drive, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Heritage Biriyani Inc. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/28/2016. Refile of previous file #623994 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Somasundaram Kulanthaivel. Secretary. #C3948029. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/05/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #629055 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Acheron Consulting, 1647 Notre Dame Dr., Mountain View, CA, 94040, David Kenneth Vaughan. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/20/2017. /s/David Vaughan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/20/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628513 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Gentoo Swing, 2. Rockhopper Computational Consulting, 3. Hitched Without A Hitch, 4. Westie APP. 410 E. Santa Clara St., Unit 539, San Jose, CA, 95113, Sphenisciformes LLC. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Joanna Lankester. CEO. #201708110282. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/05/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628194 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dumpling Depot, 562 S. Murphy AVe., Dumpling Depot, 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 03/27/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kenny Qiu. President. #201708110499. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/27/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #629086 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Braise, 1185 Limcoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, 63 Squareback Inc., 1161 Cresent Dr., San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2014.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Joshua J Hanoka. CEO. #C3523619. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/21/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628879 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Carpe Diem Dogs, 25950 Soquel San Jose Rd., Los Gatos, CA, 95033.

This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/17/2017. /s/Ashley McClung. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/17/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628847 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Common Interest Management Services, 2. Common Interest Management, 3. Common Interest, 4. CIMS, 1500 Hamilton Ave., Ste 210, Campbell, CA, 95008, DNJ Property Management Services, Inc, 315 Diablo Rd., #221, Danville, CA, 94526. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Dan Nelson.

President. #C2388600. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/17/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Spyrolls Ice Cream, 2215 The Alameda, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Vu & Hoang, LLC, 5542 Monterey Hwy, Suite 316, San Jose, CA, 95138. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Cathy Hoang. Manager. #201707210394. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/24/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Weighin, 2. Michael Tierney MD, 3633 South Court, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Michael Tierney. This business is conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael Tierney.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/20/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

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TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Gleyneth Vidal decree changing names as follows: Present name: Gleyneth Rocafort Vidal. Proposed name: Gleyneth Rocafort Vidal-Perez.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: July 25, 2017 at 8:45 am, room Probate filed on: April 25, 2017 (pub dates: 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Key Analytics, 412 Humboldt Street, Santa Rosa, CA, 95404, C. Financial Investment Inc. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/16. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/R. Mark Epstein.

Managing Director. #1435282. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/12/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #629013 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PNC Photobooth, 1557 Orangewood Drive, San Jose, CA, 95121, Paul Castor, 125 24th Street, San Jose, CA, 95116. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/20/2017. /s/Paul Castor. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/20/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #629139 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Zen Space Solutions, Inc., 20964 Comanche Trail, Los Gatos, CA, 95033. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/13/2017. Refile of previous file #562499 with changes. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Trevor Taylor. CEO. #C3634882. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/24/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NUMBER:17CV309060

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628617 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mega Realty And Mortgage, 2003 Sullivan Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Mega Realty And Mortgage LLC. This business is being conducted by a limited liability company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Carolyn Yang. Mangager. #201708010394. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/07/2017. (pub Metro 5/03, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #628717

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fit Marketing, 487 Sinclair Frontage Road, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Kevin Thai Miguel, Rebakah Wai-Ling Chang-Miguel. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/11/2017. /s/Kevin Miguel. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/11/2017. (pub Metro 4/26, 5/03, 5/10, 5/17/2017) \

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Beware of feeling sorry for sharks that yell for help. Beware of trusting coyotes that act like sheep and sheep that act like coyotes. Beware of nibbling food from jars whose contents are different from what their labels suggest.

But wait! "Beware" is not my only message for you.

I have these additional announcements: Welcome interlopers if they're humble and look you in the eyes.

Learn all you can from predators and pretenders without imitating them. Take advantage of any change that's set in motion by agitators who shake up the status quo, even if you don't like them.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When poet Wislawa

Szymborska delivered her speech for winning the Nobel Prize, she said that "whatever else we might think of this world—it is astonishing." She added that for a poet, there really is no such thing as the "ordinary world," "ordinary life," and "the ordinary course of events." In fact, "Nothing is usual or normal.

Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it.

And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world." I offer you her thoughts, Taurus, because I believe that in the next two weeks you will have an extraordinary potential to feel and act on these truths. You are hereby granted a license to be astonished on a regular basis.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Would you consider

enrolling in my Self-Pity Seminar? If so, you would learn that obsessing on self-pity is a means to an end, not a morass to get lost in. You would feel sorry for yourself for brief, intense periods so that you could feel proud and brave the rest of the time. For a given period—let's say three days—you would indulge and indulge and indulge in self-pity until you entirely exhausted that emotion. Then you'd be free to engage in an orgy of self-healing, self-nurturing, and selfcelebration. Ready to get started? Ruminate about the ways that people don't fully appreciate you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In a typical conversation, most of us utter too many "uhs," "likes," "I means," and "you knows." I mean, I'm sure that . . . uh . . . you'll agree that, like, what's the purpose of, you know, all that pointless noise? But I have some good news to deliver about your personal use of language in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you'll have the potential to dramatically lower your reliance on needless filler. But wait, there's more: Clear thinking and precise speech just might be your superpowers. As a result, your powers of persuasion should intensify. Your ability to advocate for your favorite causes may zoom.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1668, England named John Dryden its first poet laureate. His literary influence was so monumental that the era in which he published was known as the Age of Dryden.

Twentieth-century poetry great T. S. Eliot said he was "the ancestor of nearly all that is best in the poetry of the eighteenth century." Curiously, Dryden had a low opinion of Shakespeare. "Scarcely intelligible," he called the Bard, adding, "His whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions that it is as affected as it is coarse." I foresee a comparable clash of titans in your sphere, Leo. Two major influences may fight it out for supremacy. One embodiment of beauty may be in competition with another. One powerful and persuasive force could oppose another. What will your role be? Mediator? Judge? Neutral observer?

Whatever it is, be cagey.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Just this once, and for a limited time only, you have cosmic clearance to load up on sugary treats, leave an empty beer can in the woods, watch stupid TV shows, and act uncool in front of the Beautiful People. Why? Because being totally well-behaved and perfectly composed and strictly pure would compromise your mental health more than being naughty. Besides, if you want to figure out what you are on the road to becoming, you will need to know more about what you’re not.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In addition to fashion tips, advice for the broken-hearted, midlife-crisis support, and career counseling, I sometimes provide you with more mystical help. Like now. So if you need nuts-and-bolts guidance, I hope you'll have the sense to read a more down-to-earth horoscope. What I

By ROB BREZSNY week of May 3

want to tell you is that the metaphor of resurrection is your featured theme. You should assume that it's somehow the answer to every question. Rejoice in the knowledge that although a part of you has died, it will be reborn in a fresh guise.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Are you ready for the genie's favors? Don't rub the magic lamp unless you are." That's the message I saw on an Instagram meme. I immediately thought of you. The truth is that up until recently, you have not been fully prepared for the useful but demanding gifts the genie could offer you. You haven't had the self-mastery necessary to use the gifts as they're meant to be used, and therefore they were a bit dangerous to you. But that situation has changed. Although you may still not be fully primed, you're as ready as you can be. That's why I say: RUB THE MAGIC LAMP! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may have heard the exhortation "Follow your bliss!" which was popularized by mythologist Joseph Campbell.

After studying the archetypal stories of many cultures throughout history, he concluded that it was the most important principle driving the success of most heroes. Here's another way to say it: Identify the job or activity that deeply excites you, and find a way to make it the center of your life.

In his later years, Campbell worried that too many people had misinterpreted "Follow your bliss" to mean "Do what comes easily." That's all wrong, he said. Anything worth doing takes work and struggle.

"Maybe I should have said, 'Follow your blisters,'" he laughed. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you are now in an intense "follow your blisters" phase of following your bliss.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The versatile

artist Melvin Van Peebles has enjoyed working as a filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, composer, and novelist. One of his more recent efforts was a collaboration with the experimental band The Heliocentrics. Together they created a sciencefiction-themed spoken-word poetry album titled The Last Transmission. Peebles told NPR, "I haven't had so much fun with clothes on in years." If I'm reading the planetary omens correctly Capricorn, you're either experiencing that level of fun, or will soon be doing so.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In what ways do you most resemble your mother? Now is a good time to take inventory. Once you identify any mom-like qualities that tend to limit your freedom or lead you away from your dreams, devise a plan to transform them. You may never be able to defuse them entirely, but there's a lot you can do to minimize the mischief they cause. Be calm but calculating in setting your intention, Aquarius! P.S.: In the course of your inventory, you may also find there are ways you are like your mother that are of great value to you. Is there anything you could do to more fully develop their potential?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "We are what we imagine," writes Piscean author N. Scott Momaday.

"Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine who and what we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined." Let's make this passage your inspirational keynote for the coming weeks. It's a perfect time to realize how much power you have to create yourself through the intelligent and purposeful use of your vivid imagination. (P.S. Here's a further tip, this time from Cher: "All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.")

Homework: Which of your dead ancestors would you most like to talk to? Imagine a conversation with one of them.

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

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Wall to Wall BOOK IT Not even a hint of the former Walmart building mars the new public library in McAllen, Texas.

Former big box store in South Texas offers library enlightenment

BY GARY SINGH

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N A RECENT rampage through McAllen, Texas, the anti-man-abouttown did not expect to witness such a landmark, epic, unprecedented transformation of abandonment into something productive.

To be more precise, an empty former Walmart was repurposed to become the largest one-story public library in the US. It opened six years ago, but the facility continues to evolve and

blow minds, especially the mind of this columnist, who grew up in libraries and reaped their benefits at an early age.

By the numbers, McAllen is a small city, just under 200,000, and only minutes from the Mexican border.

Eighty percent of the residents identify as Hispanic. It has a glorious frontier badlands kind of feel to it. Even though vast parcels of empty land appear everywhere, McAllen doesn't seem like the place you’d expect a Walmart to relocate down the street, abandoning an entire building in the process.

Thankfully, the structure is now a 123,000-square-foot library, more than double the space of McAllen's old public library building, with more than

355,000 items available for checkout.

There's an art gallery in the lobby, plus a coffee shop, a used bookstore and even a large genealogy section. The public computer lab contains 110 machines for the public to use. A separate outdoor area includes the Dewey Decimal Trail, where anyone can learn the system by walking along a guided path with 10 stations, one for each Dewey Decimal section—it’s refreshing these days, when many don't bother to learn such things.

“The first month, our circulation went up 200 percent and it's been steady,” says library marketing assistant Priscilla Suarez, who is McAllen’s official poet laureate and provided me a tour of the complex.

“We get 1,400 new users a month.”

The interior design elements are indicative of the region. All the warm colors one finds in South Texas are here. Iconography of mesquite trees, for example, appear throughout

the building, signifying wisdom and knowledge—perfect for a library.

Since the library is only one story and formerly a gargantuan chain retail monstrosity, the designers wanted to get away from any possible big-box look.

For instance, in the 40,000 square-foot children's area, patterns based on the Fibonacci sequence decorate the backs of chairs. Outside, mosaic murals in a patio-type area are dedicated to local community members and library supporters who are no longer with us.

Nothing remotely resembles a Walmart.

Inside, the technology doesn't seem to stop. The automated book sorter, one of only a few in the state of Texas, is separated from the children's area by floor-to-ceiling glass, allowing kids to stand against the glass and watch books come down the conveyor belt. In another room, 3D printers allow for all sorts of classroom and group experiments. A virtual reality system allows anyone to don a headset with controllers and navigate alternative landscapes—Silicon Valley transported right to South Texas.

In the main public space, the general stacks seem to go on forever.

The adult section is 6,400 square yards, the size of a football field.

“Some of our librarians were used to wearing heels,” says Suarez. “After moving in here, they had to change to flats.”

When we enter the separate 3,900-square-foot teen center, I meet the receptionist, Danica Salazar, who sings for the rock band DeZorah. They just played SXSW. I also learn that teenagers were specifically consulted as to what they wanted and needed for this room. Their voices were heard.

“Their main requests were that they could be away from the adults section and also away from the children's section,” explains Suarez, before leading me back out into the main space.

Eventually we make it to the employee areas in the back, which include break rooms, conference and meeting facilities, and even a small auditorium for presentations. As a whole, the staff area used to be the Walmart Garden Center and the auto shop. The Garden Center must have been huge.

As a result, the anti-man-about-town departed the McAllen Public Library fully empowered. If you experience abandonment, then fill up the blank spaces, learn the Dewey Decimal System, consult with other people and implement some redesign, you might even get 1,400 new readers a month.

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Surprisingly, it didn’t come with a sauce that really could’ve helped put it over the top.

While a lot of ramen broths can be a little one-note, the Tonkatsu Black had so many flavor variations that it kept my palate consistently activated

Beloved Broth THE CRAFT JINYA has received praise for its complex broth, which simmers for no less than 10 hours.

JINYA Ramen Bar proves a worthy contender for top ramen spot

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APANESE CULTURE applies rigorous precision to certain aspects of daily life. That can most certainly be said about the food. Ramen, for example, is a thoroughly thought-out dish, and every aspect—from the preparation of the soup to the way it’s eaten—is exceedingly deliberate.

This appreciation for detail is what makes JINYA Ramen Bar, the newest arrival in the South Bay ramen

scene, a dark horse candidate to take the local crown away from Orenchi Ramen, the Michelin-recommended, Zagat-rated and 2017 winner of a Metro readers’ pick Best Of award.

JINYA is the brainchild of Japanese restaurateur Tomonori Takahashi, and the chain’s first Northern California location is stationed just outside of Oakridge Mall. Takahashi takes every part of the craft seriously, as the broth simmers for no less than 10 hours and the handmade noodles are aged in-house for three days.

JINYA has also taken their décor and non-ramen menu items to the next level by offering up small plates, Japanese curry and local craft beers on tap. The interior is mostly communal

seating with a long, elegant wood bar that lends a view of the open kitchen, and a chic black stone table outside with a fire burning in the middle for chillier nights.

To prepare for my visit to JINYA, I made a pilgrimage to Orenchi the day before, so I could have a solid back-toback comparison of the two. After all, if you’re coming to play, you better be prepared to dance with the big boys.

Or is it eat? I digress.

We started out our meal with a couple of JINYA’s small plates, including the JINYA Bun ($4.50) and Brussel Sprouts Tempura ($6.85). The bun featured a slow-simmered hunk of pork chashu that would’ve melted in my hands had it not been for the pillow-soft steamed bun holding it together. Combined with their sauce and spring greens, it was quite a treat. The tempura was crispy and piping hot, but I found it a bit bland.

With appetizers out of the way, it was time for the star of the show to emerge: JINYA’s signature Tonkatsu Black ($13). As most ramen fanatics will note, it’s all about the broth. While a lot of ramen broths can be a little one-note, the Tonkatsu Black had so many flavor variations—thanks to the kikurage (wood ear mushrooms), garlic chips, black garlic oil and spicy sauce—that it kept my palate consistently activated.

The thick-cut chashu pork was delicious and buttery soft, and the soft-boiled egg was practically flawless, as the rich dark yellow yolk spread and encompassed all it touched. My only qualm came with the noodles, as they had an almost granular texture—it wasn’t bad, per se, but may just be a different type of noodle than I’m used to eating.

Is JINYA the new gold standard in Ramen? We’ll leave that up to readers, but I think JINYA can contend. The restaurant has a saying: No Ramen, no life.

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THE STAR Chef and restaurateur Ray Tang brings his expertise to Los Gatos with The Catamount.

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HE STARS ALIGNED in a coincidence of events to bring The Catamount to Los Gatos. In late 2016, the struggling California Café shuttered its doors after several attempts at a revival, leaving the space at 50 University Ave. empty after 31 years. Meanwhile, chef and restaurateur Ray Tang, of the popular Presidio Social Club in San Francisco, was scouring the Bay Area for the perfect location for his next venture.

He found what he was looking for in the spacious 10,000-square foot lot to execute The Catamount, which should be opening any day now.

An idea two years in the making, Tang plans to translate the success of Presidio Social Club to Los Gatos, where he notes the people are “settled, established and somewhat conservative, but still want to be wowed.” He will concentrate on providing a neighborhood feel to “keep things simple but done well—and add flair later after getting a feel for the crowd.”

In the category of Northern California cuisine, the menu aims to achieve “storytelling with what’s available to the area.” This means drawing from sustainable seafood purveyors in Santa Cruz, small pork producers nearby, and beef from Bay Area ranches. These ingredients will make up a menu of fresh seafood appetizers like oysters on the half shell and grilled octopus. Other offerings will include brie-stuffed beignets, The Catamount Burger, and a selection of entrees that feature the famed roasted half chicken, per the Presidio Social Club style.

The décor aims for “American colonial plantation” with a white and green color palette. Rooms are separated by glass walls, and windows with shutters add to the outdoor and indoor feel of a plantation. At the entrance, the focal point is the immaculate bar with subway tile backsplash and brass light fixtures. The Catamount plans to offer an early happy hour with an array of craft cocktails made to order. Private parties and banquets will also be a focus, as the kitchen is equipped to handle banquet orders simultaneously with regular dinner service. There are two sunrooms that can be booked together or individually for private parties.

Altogether, the restaurant can seat 230 people inside and 70 outside.

For someone who started his career as a math major at Cal State Fullerton and went on to study under Wolfgang Puck before opening two restaurants, Tang knows what people want. His team’s experience translates to specific choices on real estate, décor and menu, which should mean Los Gatos foodies are in for a treat. —Ngoc Ngo THE CATAMOUNT 50 University Ave, Los Gatos. 408.442.5533

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